Go not farre from me, O God: my God hafte thee to help me.

Let them be confounded and perish, that are against my foul: let them be covered with fhame and dishonour, that feek to do me evil. As for me,I will patiently abide alway: and will praife thee more and more.

My mouth fhall daily speak of thy righte oufneffe and falvation: for I know no end thereof.

I will go forth in the ftrength of the Lord God and will make mention of thy righte oufneffe onely.

Thou, O God, haft taught me from my youth up untill now: therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

Forfake me not, O God, in mine old age; when I am gray-headed; untill I have fhewed thy ftrength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come. Thy righteoufneffe, O God, is very high: and great things are they that thou hast done: O God who is like unto thee?

Owhat great troubles and adverfities haft thou fhewed me! and yet didst thou turn and refresh me: yea, and broughteft me from the deep of the earth again.

Thou haft brought me to great honour: and comforted me on every fide.

The Communion of the fick.

Orafmuch as all mortall men be fubject to many fudden perils, diseases, and ficknesses, and ever uncertain what time they shall depart out of this life: therefore to the intent they may be alwayes in areadineffe to die whenfoever it shall pleafe Almightie God to call them, the curates fhall diligently from time to time, but fpecially in the plague time, exhort their parishioners to the oft receiving (in the church) of the holy communion of the body and bloud of our Saviour Christ: which if they do, they shall have no cause in their fudden vifitation to be unquiet for lack of the fame. But if the fick perfon be not able to come to the church, and yet is defirous to receive the communion in his house, then he must give knowledge over night, or elfe early in the morning, to the curate, fignifying alfo how many be appointed to communicate with him: and having a convenient place in the fick mans house where the curate may reverently minifter, and a good number to receive the communion with the fick perfon, with all things neceffary for the fame, be shall there minister the holy communion.

The collect.

Lmighty everliving God,
maker of mankinde, which

doft correct those whom thou doft love, and chaftifeft every one whom thou doft receive: we beseech thee to have mercie upon this thy fervant visited with thine hand, and to grant that he may take his fickneffe patiently, and recover his bodily, health (if it be thy gracious will) and whenfoever his foul fall depart from the bodie, it may be without fpot prefented unto thee, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Y

The epiftle.

Mh fonne, defpife not the correction of Hebr.12.5

the Lord,neither faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth,him he correð yea, and he scourgeth every fonne whom he receiveth,

The gospel.

Erily verily Itay unto you, He that hea John 5.24
reth my word, and beleeveth on him
thit fent me, hath everlafting life, and fhall
not come into damnation, but paffeth from
death unto life.

At the time of the diftribution of the holy fa
crament, the priest fhall first receive the com-
munion himself,& after minister unto them
that be appointed to communicate with the
fick.
¶ Buz

¶ But if a man either by reason of extremitie
of fickneffe, or for want of warning in due
time to the curate, or for lack of companie
to receive with him, or by any other juft im-
pediment, do not receive the facrament of
Chrifts bodie and bloud: then the curate
fball instruct him, that if be do truly repent
bim of bis finnes, and ftedfaftly beleeve
that Jefus Chrift bath fuffered death up-¶
on the croffe for him, and fbed his bloud
for bis redemption, earnestly remembring the
benefits be bath thereby, and giving him
beartie thanks therefore, he doth eat and
drink the body and bloud of our Saviour
Chrift profitably to his fouls health, al-

when the fick perfon is vifited,and receiveth
the holy communion all at one time, then
the priest, for more expedition, fhall cut off
the form of the vifitation at the pfalme (In
thee, O Lord, have I put my truft) and go
ftraight to the communion.

In the time of plague, fweat, or fuch other
like contagious times of fickneffes or difea-
fes, when none of the parish or neighbours,
can be gotten to communicate with the fick
in their boufes for fear of the infection,
upon Speciall request of the difeafed, the
prieft may alonely communicate with him.

¶ The order for the buriall of the dead.

The priest meeting the corps at the church-
file,fball fay, or else the priest and clerks
Shall fing, and fo go either into the church,
or towards the
grave.

Am the refurre&tion and
the life (faith the Lord)
he that beleeveth in
me, yea, though he were
dead, et fall he life.

And whofoever liveth,
and belceveth in me,

fhall not die for ever.

I

Know that my Redeemer liveth, and that I fhall rife out of the earth in the last day, and fhall be covered again with my skinne, and fhall fee God in my flesh; yea, and I my felf fhall behold him, not with other, but with thefe fame eyes. Tim.6.7. E brought nothing into this world, neither may we carrie any thing

1,31,

W
out of this world The Lord giveth, and the
Lord taketh away. Even as it pleafeth the
Lord, fo come things to paffe: bleffed be the

name of the Lord.

when they come to the grave, while the
corps is madeready to be laid into the earth,
the priest shall fay, or the priest and clerks
fball fing.

Man that is born of a woman, hath but
fhort time to live, and is full of miferie.
He cometh up and is cut down like a flower:
he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never con
tinueth in one ftay. In the middeft of life, we
be in death: of whom may we feek for fuc-
cour, but of thee, O Lord, which for our
finnes juftly art difpleafed? Yet Lord God
moft holy, O Lord moft mightie, O holy and
moft mercifull Saviour, deliver us not into the
bitter pains of eternall death. Thou knoweft
Lord the fecrets of our hearts, fhut not up thy

mercifull eyes to our prayers: but fpare us
Lord moft holy, O God moft mightie, O ho-
ly and moft mercifull Saviour, thou moft wor-
thy judge eternall, fuffer us not at our laft
houre for any pains of death to fall from thee.

Then while the earth fhall be caft upon the
body by fome frauding by,the priest fball fay.
Orafmuch as it hath pleafed Almightie
FGod of his great mercie to take unto him

felf the foul of our deare brother here de-
parted: we therefore commit his body to the
ground, earth to earth, afhes to afhes, dust to
duft, in fure and certain hope of refurrection!
to eternall life, through our Lord Jefus Chrift,
who fhall change our vile body, that it may be
like unto his glorious body, according to the
mightie working, whereby he is able cofubdue
all things to himself.

Then fhall be faid or fung.

Heard a voice from heaven, faying unto Revel, 14.13.

Ime, Write, From henceforth bleffed are the
dead which die in the Lord: even so faith the
Spirit, that they reft from their labours.

a

Then fball follow this leffon taken out of the"
15 chapter to the Corinthians, the first
epistle.

the fir-fruits of them that fleep. For by
Hrift is rifen from the dead, and become 1.Cor.15.10.

man came death, and by a man came the
refurre&tion of the dead. For as by Adam
all die, even fo by Chrift fhall all be made
alive, but every man in his own order. The
firft is Chrift, then they that are Chrifts at his
coming. Then cometh the end, when he hath
delivered up the kingdome to God the Fa-
ther, when he hath put down all rule
and all authoritie and power. For he mut
reigne till he hath put all his enemies
under his feet. The laft enemie that shall
be deftroyed, is death. For he hath put all

thing

things under his feet, But when he faith, Ali
things are par under him, it is manifeft that he
is excepted which did put all things under
him. When all things are fubdued unto him,
then fhall the Sonne alfo himself be fubje&t
unto him that put all things under him, that
God may be all in all.Elfe what do they which
are baptized over the dead, if the dead rife not
at all? Why are they then baptized over them?
yea, & why stand we alway then in jeopardy?
By our rejoycing which I have in Chrift Jefu
our Lord,I die daily. That I have fought with
beafts at Ephefus after the manner of men,
what advantageth it me, if the dead rife not
again? Let us eat and drink,for to morrow we
fhall die. Be not ye deceived, Evil words cor-
rupt good manners. Awake truly out of fleep,
and finne not. For fome have not the know-
ledge of God. I fpeak this to your shame. But
fonie man will fay, How arife the dead? With
what body fhall they come? Thou fool, that
which thou foweft,is not quickened except it
die. And what fowest thou? thou foweft not
that body that fhall be, but bare corn, as of
wheat or fome other: but God giveth it a bo-
dy at his pleasure, to every feed his own body. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

For the trump fhall blow, and the dead fhall
rife incorruptible, and we shall be changed:
for this corruptible muft put on incorruption,
and this mortall must put on immortalitic.
When this corruptible hath put on incorrupti-
on, and this mortall hath put on immortality,
then fhall be brought to paffe the faying that
is written, Death is swallowed up into victory:
Death, where is thy fting? Hell, where is thy
victory? The fting of death is finne, and the
ftrength of finne is the law; but thanks be un-
to God, which hath given us victorie through
our Lord Jefus Chrift. Therefore my deare
brethren, be ye stedfaft and unmoveable, al-
wayes rich in the work of the Lord,forafmuch
as ye know how that your labour is not in
vain in the Lord.

All flesh is not one manner of flefh: but there is one manner of flesh of men, another manner of flesh of beafts, another of fishes, ano

The leffon ended, the priest shall say,
Lord have mercie upon us.

Chrift bave mercie upon us.
Lord have mercie upon us.
Our Father which art in heaven, &c.
And lead us not into temptation.
Answer.

The priest.

Lmightie God, with whom do live the

ther of birds. There are alfo celeftiall bodies, Afpirits of them that depart hence in the

and there are bodies terreftriall. But the glory of the celestiall is one, and the glory of the terreftriall is another. There is one manner glory of the funne, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the ftarres: for one starre differeth from another in glorie. So is the refurrection of the dead. It is fown in corruption, it rifeth again in incorruption: it is fown in difhonour, it rifeth again in honour: it is fown in weakneffe, it rifeth again in power: it is fown a naturall body, it rifeth again a fpirituall body. There is a naturall body, and there is a fpirituall body: as it is alfo written, The firft man Adam was made a living foul, & the laft Adam was made a quickning fpirit. Howbeit that is not firft which is fpirituall, but that which is naturall, and then that which is fpirituall. I he first man is of the earth, earthie: the fecond man is the Lord from heaven,heavenly. As is the earthie, fuch are they that be earthie. And as is the heavenly, fuch are they that are heavenly. And as we have born the image of the earthie, fo fhall we bear the image of the heavenly. This fay I brethren, that flesh and bloud cannot in. herit the kingdome of God,neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I fhew you a myfterie. We shall not all fleep, but we hall all be changed, and that in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, by the last trump,

Lord, and in whom the fouls of them that be elected, after they be delivered from the burden of the fleth, be in joy and felicitie: we give thee heartie thanks for that it hath pleafed thee to deliver this N. our brother out of the miferics of this finfull world,befeeching thee, that it may please thee of thy gracious goodneffe, fhortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to haften thy kingdome: that we with this our brother, and all other departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect confummation and bliffe both in body and foul, in thy eternall and everlasting glory. Amen.

The collect.

Mercifull God, the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, who is the refurrection and the life, in whom whosoever beleeveth, fhall live though he die, and whosoever liveth and beleeveth in him, fhall not die eternally, who allo taught us (by his holy apostle Paul) not to be forie as men without hope,for them that fleep in him: we meekly beseech thee, Father,to raise us from the death of finne unto the life of righteoufneffe, that when we fhall depart this life, we may reft in him, as our hope is this our brother doth: and that at the generall refurre&tion in the last day we may be found acceptable in thy fight, and re

ceive

ceive that bleffing which thy welbeloved
Sonne fhall then pronounce to all that love
and fear thee, faying, Come ye bleffed chil-
dren of my Father, receive the kingdome

prepared for you from the beginning of the
world: grant this, we beseech thee, O mer-
cifull Father, through Jefus Chrift our Me-
diatour and Redeemer. Amen.

The thanksgiving of women after childe-birth, commonly called,
The churching of women.

The woman shall come into the church, and
there fhall kneel down in fome convenient
place, nigh unto the place where the table
ftandeth, and the priest ftanding by her,
Shall fay these words or fuch like, as the
cafefball require.

Orafmuch as it hath pleafed Almighty God of his goodneffe to give you fafe deliverance, and hath preferved you in the great danger of childe-birth: ye shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God and

pray.

Then fhall the priest fay this pfalme.
Have lifted up mine eyes unto the hills:
Ifrom whence cometh my help.

My help cometh even from the Lord:
which hath made heaven and earth.

He will not fuffer thy foot to be moved:
and he that keepeth thee, will not fleep:
Behold, he that keepeth Ifrael: fhall nei-
ther flumber nor fleep.

The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord
is thy defence upon thy right hand.
So that the funne fhall not burn thee by
day nor the moon by night.

The Lord fhall preferve thee from all evil:
yea, it is even he that fhall keep thy foul.

Lord have mercy upon us.
Chrift have mercy upon us.
Lord have mercy upon us.
Our Father which are in heaven, &c.
And lead us not into temptation.
Answer.

But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Priest.

OLord fave this woman thy fervant.
Which putteth her truft in thee.
Anfwer.

Prieft.

Be thou to her a strong tower.
Answer.

From the face of her enemy.
Prieft.
O Lord heare our prayer.
Answer.
And let our cry come unto thee?
Priest.

Let us pray.

woman thy fervant from the great pain Almighty God, which haft delivered this and peril of childe-birth: grant we beseech thee, moft mercifull Father, that the through thy help, may both faithfully live,and walk in her vocation, according to thy will in this life prefent, and alfo may be partaker of everlafting glory in the life to come, through Je fus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Lord fhall preserve thy going out and thy coming in: from this time forth for ever-The woman that cometh to give her thanks,

more.

Glory be to the Father, and to the &c.
As it was in the beginning, is now, &c.

must offer ber accustomed offerings: and if
there be a communion, it is convenient that
fhe receive the holy communion.

A commination against finners, with certain prayers to be
ufed divers times in the yeare.

After morning prayer,the people being called
together by the ringing of a bell,and affem-
bled in the church, the English Letany fhall
befaid after the accustomed manner: which
ended, the priest fball go into the pulpit, and
fay thus.

that others admonished by their example might be the more afraid to offend.

In the ftead whereof, untill the said difcipline may be restored again (which thing is much to be wifhed) it is thought good, that at this time (in your prefence) should be read the generall fentences of Gods curfing against impenitent finners, gathered out of the 27 chap. of Deuteronomie and other places of fcripture and that ye fhould answer to every fentence, Amen: to the intent that you ing admonished of the great indignation of God against finners, may the rather be called to carneit and true repentance, and may walk

be

more.

Deut.27.15.

Deut.27.16.

Deut.27.17.

Deut. 17.18.

Deut.27.19.

Deut.37.24.

more warily in thefe dangerous dayes, fleeing
from fuch vices, for the which ye affirm with
your own mouthes the curfe of God to be

due.

Curfed is the man that maketh any carved or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craft man, and putteth it in a secret place to worfhip it.

Amen.

And the people fhall answer and fay,

Minifter.

Ow

*

Minifter

Now feeing that all they be accurfed (as
the prophet David beareth witneffe)
which do erre and go aftray from the com- * Pfal, 119
mandments of God, let us (remembring the 1.
dreadfull judgement hanging over our heads,
and being alwayes at hand) return unto our
Lord God, with all contrition and meekneffe
of heart: bewailing and lamenting our finfull
life, knowledging and confeffing our offences,
and feeking to bring forth worthy fruits of
penance. For now is the ax put unto the *Mast.3.16

Curfed is he that curseth his father and mo- root of the trees, fo that every tree which

bringeth not forth good fruit,is hewen down
and caft into the fire.

*It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands *Heb.10.3

Curfed is he that removeth away the mark of the living God: he hall poure down rain of his neighbours land.

upon the finners, * fnares, fire and brim- *Pfal.11.
ftone, form and tempeft, this shall be their
portion to drink. For lo, the Lord is comen *Ifa. 26.-
out of his place, to vifit the wickednesse of

Curfed is he that maketh the blinde to go fuch as dwell upon the earth. But who may * Malac.3 out of his way.

abide the day of his coming? Who shall be
able to endure when he appeareth? * His * Matt. 31.
fanne is in his hand, and he will purge his
floore, and gather his wheat into the barn:
but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable
fire. The day of the Lord cometh as a thief Thef.:
in the night, and when men fhall fay, Peace,
and all things are safe, then fhall fudden de-
struction come upon them, as forrow cometh
upon a woman travailing with childe, and
the wrath of God in the day of vengeance,
which obftinate finners through the ftub-
bornneffe of their heart have heaped unto
themselves, which defpifed the goodneffe,

Curfed is he that Imiteth his neighbour fe- they fhall not escape. Then * fhall appeare *Rom.2.4

cretly.

Amen.

Levit 20.10.

Deut.27.25

Jerem.17.5.

Matt.25.41.

Answer.

Minister.

Curfed is he that lieth with his neighbours patience, and long fufferance of God, when

he called them continually to repentance.
*Then thall they call upon me (faith the *Prov.1.
Lord) but I will not heare; they shall seek 29,30.
me early, but they fhall not finde me; and

Curfed is he that taketh reward to flay the that because they hated knowledge, and re

Curfed are the unmercifull, the fornica1.Cor. 6.9, tours, and adulterers, and the covetous perfons, the worshippers of images, flanderers, Galat.5.19, drunkards, and extortioners, Anfwer.

10.

20,21.

Amen.

ceived not the fear of the Lord, but abhor-
red my counsel, and defpifed my correction.
Then fhall it be too late to * knock,when the * Matth
doore shall be shut, and too late to cry for 10,11,1
mercy, when it is the time of juftice. O ter-
rible voice of moft juft judgement, which
fhall be pronounced upon them, when it thall
be faid unto them, *Go ye cursed into the * Matth
fire everlafting, which is prepared for the de- 41.
vil and his angels!

*Therefore brethren, take we heed be- *1.Cor.
time, while the day of falvation lafteth,
for the night cometh, when none can * John
work: but let us, while we have the light, * John
belceve in the light, and walk as the children 35,36.

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