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come again in his glorious Majesty to judge, both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.h

For the keeping of the Church in true Religion.

O LORD, we beseech thee to keep thy Church and household continually in thy true religion; That they who do lean only upon the hope of thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

For Succour in the Hour of Death.

IN the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased?

Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful

First Sunday in Advent.

iSixteenth Sunday after Trinity.

Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts: shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not at our last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee.'

Thanksgiving for those who are departed in the true Faith of God.

ALMIGHTY GOD, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity: We give thee hearty thanks for all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, that it hath pleased thee to deliver them out of the miseries of this sinful world. And we beseech thee to grant us grace, so to follow thy blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those un

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speakable joys, which thou hast prepared for them that unfeignedly love thee; and together with them have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.*

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.

* Burial Service and all Saints' Day.

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FRIDAY MORNING.

The Litany, to be said by the Master and Family: the Master beginning the four first Sentences, or Invocation, and the Family accompanying him therein; the Family also taking their part audibly, as marked out for them, in the following Supplications, Petitions, and Responses.

O God the Father, of heaven: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O God the Father, of heaven: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O God the Son, Redeemer of the world: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O God the Son, Redeemer of the world: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from

the Father and the Son: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three Persons and one God: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three Persons and one God: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God; and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee, in righteousness and holiness of life, thy Servant, WILLIAM, our most gracious King and Governor ;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith, fear, and love, and that he evermore have affiance in thee, and ever seek thy honour and glory;

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We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
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