be sent auto you to correct and amend in you whatfcever doth offend the eyes of your heavenly Father; know you certainly, that if you truly repent you of your fins and bear your fickness patiently, truiting in God's mer cy, for his dear Son Jefus Christ's fake, and render unto him humble thacks for his fatherly vifitation, fubmitting your elf wholly unto his will; it fhall turn to your profit, and help you forward in the right way that leadeth unto everlasting life.. If the Perfon vifited be very fick, then the Curate may end bis Exhortation in this place, or else proceed. { TAKE therefore in good part the chafifement of the Lord: For (as St. Paul faith in the twitch Chapter to the Hebrews) whem the Lord loveth he chateneth, and scourgeth, every fon whom he receivethe If ye endure chaftening, God dealeth with you as with fons; for what fon is he whom the fathe chafteneth not? But if ye be without chaft fement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye baftards, and not ions. Further more, we have had fathers of our fle fh, which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: fhall we not much rather be in fubjection unto the Father of Spirits, and live ? For they ver:ly for a few days chattened us after their own pleasure ; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holinefs. Thefe words, good bre ther, are written in holy Scripture for our comfort and inftruction, that we should patiently, and with thankf giving, bear our heavenly Fathers correction, whenfoever by any manner of adversity it thalt pleate his grá cious goodness to vifit us. And there fhould be no greater comfort to Chriftian pertons, than to be made like unto Chrift, by fuffering patiently adverfities, troubles, and fickneffes. For he himieli went not up to joy, but firft te fuffered pain; he entered nct his glory before he was crucified. So truly our way to eternal joy is to fuffer here with Chrift; and our door to enter into eternal life is gladly to die with Chrift: that we may rife again from death, and dwell with him in everlasting life. Now therefore taking your fickness, which is thus profitable for you, patiently, I exhort you in the Name of God to remember the profeffion which you made unto God in your Baptifm. And forafmuch as after this life there is an account to be given unto the righteous Judge, by whom all must be judged without refpect of perfons; I require you to examine yourself and your cftate, both toward God and man; to that accufing and condemning yourself for your own faults, you may find mercy at our heavenly Fathers hand for Chrifl's fake, and not be accufed and condemned in that tearful judgment. Therefore I fhall rehearse to you the Articles of our Faith, that you may know whether you do believe as a Chriftian man should, or no. Here the Minifter fhall rehearse the Articles of the Faith, faying thus, OST thou believe in God the Father Aimighty, Maker of Heaven and earth? And in Jefus Chrift his only begotten Son our Lord? And that he was conceived by the Holy Ghoft; born of the Virgin Mary; that he fuffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified dead, and buried; that he went down into Hell, and allo did rife again the third days that he afcended into Heaven, and fitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; and from thence hall come again at the end of the world, to judge the quick and the dead? And doft thou believe in the Holy Ghoft; the holy Catholick Church; the Communion of faints; the Remiffion of fins; the Refurrection of the tiefh; and everlasting life after death? - All this I ftedfastly believe. The fick Perfon fhall answer, Then fhall the Minister examine whether he repent him truly of his fins, and be in charity with all the world: exbonting him to forgive, from the bottom of his heart, all perfons that have offended him; and if he bath offended any other to ask them forgiveness; and where he hath doneinjury or wrong to any man, that he make amends to the utmost of his power. And if he bath not before dypojed of his goods, let him then be admonished to make bis Will, and to declare his Debts, what he oweth, and what is owing unto him, for the better discharging of his Con fcience, and the quietness of his Executors. But men should often be put in remembrance to take order for the jet• tling of their temporal eftates whilft they are in health. These words before rehearsed, may be Jaid before the Minifter begin bis Prayer, as he shall fee caufe The Minifter should not omit earnestly to move fuch fick perfons as are of ability to be liberal to the poor to and ag Here fhall the fick perfon be movea to make a special Confession of his fins, if he feel pis Confcience troubled with any weighty matter. After which Confeffion, the priest fail abfolve sim (if he humbly and beartily agfire it) after this fort: Ο UR Lord Jefus Chrift, who hath left power to his Church to abfolve all finners who truly repent, and be lieve in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences: And by his authority committed to me, I abfolve thee from all thy fins, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. And then the Prieft fhall Jay the following Colle, Let us pray... MOST merciful God, who according to the multitude of thy mercies, doft fo put away the fins of thofe who truly repent, that thou remembereft them no more; Open thine eye of mercy upon this thy fetvant, who moft earnestly defireth pardon and forgiveness. Renew in him, moft loving Father, whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the devil, or by his own carnal will and frailnefs; preferve and continue this fick member in the unity of the Church; confider his contrition, accept his tears, afwage his pain, as fhall feem to thee most expedient for him: and forafmuch as he putteth his full tuft only in thy mercy, impute not! urto him his former fins; but ftrengthen him with thy bleffed Spirit; and when thou art pleafed to take him hence, take him unto thy favour thro' the merits of thy most dearly beloved Son Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then the Minifter shall say the 7ft Pfalm. Adding this g Saviour of the world, who by thy crofs and precious blood haft redeemed us, Save us, and help us, we humbly befeech thee, O Lord. Then feall the Prieft fay, HE Almighty Lord, who is a moft strong tower to all them that put their trust in him; to whom all make thee know and feel, that there is none other Name under heaven given to man, in whom, and through. whom thou mayeft receive health and falvation, but only the Name of our Lord Jefus Christ. UN And after that fall fay, NTO God's gracious mercy and protection we commit thee: The Lord bless thee, and keep thee; The Lord make his face to fhine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee; The Lord lift up his coun tenance upon thee, and give thee peace, both now and evermore. Prayer for a fick Child. Amen. Almighty God, and merciful Father to whom alone belong the iffaes of life and death: look down from Heaven, we beseech thee, with the eyes of mercy upon this Child now lying upon the bed of fickness: vifit him, O Lord, with thy falvation, deliver him in thy good appointed time from his bodily pain, and fave his foul for thy mercies fake. That if it fhall be thy pleasure to prolong his days here on earth, he may live to thee, and be an instrument of thy glory, by ferving thee faithfully, and doing good in his generation or elfe receive him into thofe heavenly habitations, where the fouls of them that fleep in the Lord Jefus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity. Grant this, O Lord, for thy mercies fake, in the fame thy Son our Lord Jefus Chrift, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost; ever one God, world without end. ⠀ Amen. A Prayer for a fick Perfon, when there appeareth Small hope of recovery... of comfort, of eat fuccour in behalf of this thy fervant, here lying under thy hand in great weakness of body. Look graciously upon him, O Lord; and the more the outward man decayeth, ftrengthen him, we beseech thee, fo Given him unfeigned repentance much the more continually with thy grace and Holy Spirit in the inner man. for all the errors of his life past, and stedfast faith in thy Son Jefus, that his fins may be done away by thy mercy, and his pardon fealed in heaven, before he go hence, and be no more feen. We know, O Lord, that there is no word impoffible with thee; and that if thou wilt, thou canst even yet raife him up, and granthim a longer continuance amongst us. Yet, forafmuch as in all appearance the time of his diffolution draweth near, fo fit and prepare him we beseech thee, against the hour of death, that after his departure hence in peace, and in thy favour, his foul may be received into thine everlasting kingdom, through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift thine only Son, our Lord and Saviour. Amen. A commendatory Prayer for a fick person at the point of departure. Almighty God, with whom do live the fpirits of juft men made perfect, after they are delivered from their earthly prifons; we humbly commend the foul of this, thy fervant, our dear brother, into thy hands, as into the hands of a faithful Creator, and moft merciful Saviour; moft humbly befeeching thee, that it may be precious in thy fight. Wash it, we pray thee, in the blood of that immaculate Lamb, that was flain to take away the fins of the world; that whatfoever defilements it may have contracted in the midst of this miferable and naughty world, through the lufts of the flesh, or the wiles of Satan, being purged and done, a it be prefented pure and without fpot before thee. And teach us who furvive, in this and other likeway, may daily fpectacles of mortality, to fee how frail and uncertain our own condition is, and fo to number our days, that we may ferioufly apply our hearts to that holy and heavenly wifdom, whilft we live here, which may in the end bring us to live everlafting, through the merits of Jefus Chritt, thine only fan our Lord. Amen. A Prayer for Perfons troubled in mind or in conftience. Blelled Lord, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comforts, we beseech thee look down in pity and compaffion upon this thy afflicted fervant. Thou writest bitter things against him, and makeft him to poflefs his former iniquities; thy wrath lieth hard upon him, and his foul is full of trouble: But, O merciful God, who haft written thy holy Word for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of thy, holy Scriptures might have hope; give him a right understanding of himself, and of thy threats and promifes, that he may neither caft away his confidence in thee, nor place it any where but in thee. Give him ftrength against all his temptations, and heal all his diftempers. Break not the bruited reed, nor quench the fmoaking Bax. Shut not up thy tender mercies in difpleature; but make him to hear of joy and gladness, that the --bones' which thou haft broken may rejoice. Deliver him from fear of the enemy, and lift up the light of thy countenance upon him, and give him peace, through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift our Lord.. Amen, The Collect. ALMIGHTY of core entry upon this thy fervant, vifited LMIGHTY everliving God, maker of mankind, who doft correct those whom thou doit love, and with thine hand and to grant that he may take his ficknefs patiently, and recover his bodily health (if it be thy gracious will) and whenfoever his foul fhall depart from the body, it may be without spot prefented unto thee, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epifile. Hebr. 12. 5. MY fon, defpife not thou the chattening of the Lord, nor faint when thou are rebuked of him." For VER whom the Lord loveth, he chafteneth; and fcourgeth every fon whom he receiveth. The Gospel. S. John 5, 24. ERILY, verily I fay unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that fent me, hath everlatting life, and fhall not come into condemnation, but is paffed from death unto life." Here is to be noted, *The Order for the Burial of the DE AD. That the Office enfuing is not to be used for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent bands upon themselves. The Prieft and Clerks meeting the Corps at the entrance of the Church-yard, and going before it, either into the' Church, or towards the Grave, fhall fay or fing, Am the refurrection and the life, faith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet fhall he live. And whofoever liveth and believeth in me, fhall never die. S. John 11. 25, 26. Know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall ftand at the latter day upon the earth. And, though after my skin worms deftroy this body; yet in my flefh fhall I see God: whom thall fee for myfelf, aud mine eyes fhall behold and not another. Job 19. 25. 26. 27. E brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, Wnd the Lord hath taken away, bleffed be the name of the Lord. 1 Tim. 6. 2. Job 1. 21. WE N After they are come into the Church, hali be read, Pf 39. or Pf. 9o. OW is Chrift rifen from the dead, and become the firft-fruits of them that flpt. For fince by man came death, by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even fo in Chri fhall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Chrift the first fruits; afterward they that are Chrifts, at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the father; when he fhall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. For he must reign till he bath put all enemies under his feet. The laft enemy that fhall be destroyed is death: For he hath put all thing, under his feet. But when he faith all things are put under him, it is manifeft that he is excepted which did parall things under him. And when all things fhall be fubdued unto him, then hall the fon alfo himfelf be fubject unto him, that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Eife what fhall they do which are baptized for the dead, the dead rife not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? And why ftand we in jeopardy every hour? I' proteft by your rejoicing which I have in Chrift Jefus our Lord, I die daily. If after the manner of men I have fought with beafts at F.phefus, what advantageth it me it the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to mor row we die. Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners Awake to righteoufnefs, and in uot; for fome have not the knowledge of God: I fpeak this to your fhame. But fome man will say, How are the dead raised up and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou fowelt is not quickened except it die. And that which thou fowell, thou foweit not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of fome other grain. But God giveth it a body, as it hath pleafed him, and to every feed his own body. All flesh is not the fame flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another another of fishes, and another of birds. There are alfo celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of ourth of beats, the celeftial is one, and the glory of the ter eftrial is another. There is one glory of the fun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the itars; for one ftar differeth from another far in glory. So alfo is the refurr &tion of the dead: It is fown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; It is fown in difhonour; it is raised in glory; it is fown in weakness; it is raifed in power: It is fown a natural body; it is raised a fpiri. tual body. There is a natu al body, and there is a fpiritual body. And fo it is written, The firft man People ought to be careful that the defign of this Office be not mistaken. For tho' it is very commendable for a fick Perfon thus publickly to profefs his Faith in Chrift, and his Communion with the Church yet it ought by no means to be looked upon as a Popish Viaticum; o as that it may be fuppofed the receiving it will make a full Atonement for a Life of Iniquity, and procure a fate Paffage to Heaven. This Office feems to be very properly adapted to the ferious occafion for which it is defigned. 'Tis highly folemn and affecting, fublime and comfortable. For whilft it raifes : Adam was made a living foul, the faft Adam was made a quickening fpirit. Howbeit, that was not fi:ft which is fpiritual; but that which is natural, and afterward that which is fpiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy the fecond man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, fuch are they that are earthy and as is the heavenly, fuch are they alfo that are heavenly. And as we have born the image of the earthy, we shall alfo bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I fay, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth corruptfon inherit incorruption. Behold, I fhew you a mystery: We fhall not all fleep, but we fhall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the laft trump; (for the trumpet shall found and the dead thall be raise incorruptible and we shall be changed) For this corruptible muft put on incorruption, and this mortal mult put on immortality. So when this corruptible fhall have put on incorrup tion, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, thea fhall be brought to pass the fay ng that is written, Death is Iwallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy fting? O grave, where is thy victory? The fting of death is fin, and the ftrength of fin is the law. But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye fted faft, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forafmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the the Lord. When they come to the Grave, while the corps is made ready to be laid into the earth the Priest shall say, or the Prieft and Clerks fhall fing, M AN that is born of a woman, hath but a fhort time to live, and is full of mifery. He cometh up, and In the midft of life we are in death: Of whom may we feck for fuccour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our fins art justly difpleased? Yet, O Lord God mott holy, O Lord moft mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.. Thou knoweft, I ord, the fecrets of our hearts, fhut not thy merciful ears to our Prayers; but fpare us, Lord molt holy, O God moft mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, fuffer us not at our last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee F Then while the earth fhall be caft upon the body by fame ftanding by, the Prieft fall fay, ORASMUCH as it hath pleafed Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the foul of our dear bother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, afhes to ashes, dult to duft, in fure and certain hope of the refurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, who fhall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to fubdue all things to himself. Then shall be faid or jung. Heard a voice from heaven, faying unto me, Write; From henceforth bleffed are the dead which die in the I UR Father, which art in Ο earth as it is in heaven. them that trefpafs against us. ben ball the Prief jay, Lord, have mercy upon us. Chrift, bave mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. heaven; Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen. Priest. whom the fouls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the fleth, are in joyand fewith licity; We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleafed thee to deliver this our brother out of the miferies of this finful world; befeeching thee that it may pleafe thee of thy gracious goodnefs, ihortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to halten thy kingdom; that we, with all thofe that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect confumation and blifs, both in body and foul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The Collect. MERCIFUL God, the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift who is the refurrection and the life; in whom whofoever believeth, shall live, though he die; and whofoever liveth and believeth in him, fhall not die eternally; who also hath taught us (by his holy Apostle Saint Paul) not to be forty as men without hope, for them that fleep in him; We meekly befeech thee, O Father, to raife us from the death of fin unto the life of righteoufnels that when we shall depart this life, we may reft in him, as our hope is this our brother doth, and that at the general refurrection in the last day we may be found acceptable in thy fight, and receive that blefling which thy well-beloved Son fhall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee, faying, Come, ve in us an humiliating fenfe of our Mortality; it infpires eternal Life through Jefus, Chrift.. us with the joyful hopes of a bleffed Refurrection to K blefied children of my Father receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Grat this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, through Jefus Chrift our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen. HE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Gholl, be with us all evermore. Amen. TH The Thanksgiving of Women after Child birth, commonly called, The Churching of Women. The Woman at the ufual time after her Delivery, fhall come into the Church decently apparrelled, ard there fall Excel dawn in fome convenient place, as hath been accustomed, or as the Ordinary shall direct: And then the Prieft fall Jay unto her, ORASMUCH as it hath pleafed Almighty God of his goodness to give you fafe deliverance, and hatk preferved you in the great danger of Child-birth, you fall therefore give hearty thanks unto God, and fay, all the Prieft fay the 116 or 127 Pfalm. Then shall the Prief fay, Let us play, Then Lord, have mercy upon us,.. Chrift have mercy upon us ̧ Lord have mercy upon us. OUR Father, &c, Minifer. O Lord, fave this woman thy fervant ; Anfw. Who putteth her trust in thee. Minifter. Be thou to her a strong tower, 103, 11 Minifter. Lord, hear our prayer, Anfw. And let our cry come unto thee. Minister. Let us pray, ALMIGHTY God, we give thee humble thanks for that thou haft vouchsafed to deliver this Woman thy fervant from the great pain and peril of Child birth Grant, we beseech thee, molt merciful Fa that the through thy help may both faithfully live, and walk according to thy will in this life prefent, and allo • may be pattaker of everlasting, glory in the life to come, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Woman that cometh to give her thanks, must offer accustomed offerings; and if there be a Communion, it is convenient that he receives the holy Communion. + A COMMINATION, Or Denouncing of GOD's Anger and Judgements against Sinners, with certain Prayers to be used on the first Day of Lent, and at other times as the Ordinary fhall appoint.a Afur Morning Prayer, the Litany ended, according to the accustomed manner, the Priest hall, in the Reading. Peau, or Pulpit, fay, BRETHREN, in the notorious hn, were put open penance, and punithed in this world, that their RETHREN, in the primitive Church there was a godly difcipline that at the beginning of Lent, fuch per fouls might be faved in the day of the Lord; and that others admonished by their example, might be the more afraid to offend. Inftead whereof (until the faid difcipline may be reftored again, which is much to be wifhed,) it is thought good, that at this time, in the prefence of you all, thould be read the general fentences of God's curing a gainft impenitent finners, gathered out of the feven and twentieth Chapter of Deuteronomy, and other places of Scripture; and that ye fhould answer to every Sentence, Amen: To the intent, that being admonished of the great indignation of God againft finners ye may the rather be moved to earnest and true repentance ; and may This Office feems to bear fome Relation to the Purificand the Bed undefiled; yet fo fignal a Deliverance from ation of Women after Child-birth, as appointed by the Law Danger feems juftly to call for a thankful acknowledgment, →of Mofes. And tho the Ceremonial Part of that Law is in Publick, as well as Private. abolished, tho's Marriage is honourable among all Men, + This Office must be allowed to have a very nkfalten |