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Collect for the third Sunday in Lent. We beseech thee, Almighty God, look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants, and stretch forth the right hand of thy majesty to be our defence against all our enemies.

Collect for the Sunday before Easter Day. Almighty God sent our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility.

First Collect for Good Friday. Almighty God, we beseech thee to behold this thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to suffer death upon the cross.

Third Collect for Good Friday. O merciful God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor wouldest the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live.

Collect for Easter Day. Almighty God, we humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect.

Collect for the second Sunday after Easter. Almighty God, who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin, and also an

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ensample of godly life, give us grace that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit, and also daily endeavour ourselves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life.

Collect for the fifth Sunday after' Easter. Grant unto us, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good.

Collect for the Sunday after Ascension Day. Send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us.

Collect for Whitsunday. Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things.

Collect for the first Sunday after Trinity. O God, because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and deed.

Collect for the seventh Sunday after Trinity. Lord of all power and might, graft in our hearts the love of thy name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same.

Collect for the ninth Sunday after Trinity. Grant to us, Lord, the spirit to think and to dỏ always such things as be rightful, that we who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will.

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Collect for the eleventh Sunday after Trinity. Grant unto us such a measure of thy grace.

Collect for the fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. Keep, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy church with thy perpetual mercy; and because the frailty of our nature without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful.

Collect for the seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. Lord, we pray thee, that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works.

Communion Service. The only begotten Son of God for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven. Nicene Creed.-Above all things we must give most humble and hearty thanks to God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, for the redemption of the world. Exhortation before the Communion.-Almighty God hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them that with hearty repentance, and true faith, turn unto him. Absolution in the Communion Service.-Christ, the very Paschal Lamb, was offered for us, and hath taken away the sin of the world. Preface to the Communion on Easter-Day.-Almighty God, of his tender mercy, did give his only Son, Jesus Christ, to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption; who made there, by his one oblation of himself once offered, a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice

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sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. Prayer of Consecration.-The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee: the blood, which was shed for thee. At the Delivery of the Bread and Wine.-Humbly beseeching thee, that all we, who are partakers of this holy communion, may be fulfilled with thy grace. We most heartily thank thee, that thou dost assure us, that we are heirs through hope of thy everlasting kingdom by the merits of the most precious death and passion of thy dear Son. Prayer and Thanksgiving after receiving the Sacrament.

Publick Baptism of Infants. All men are conceived and born in sin :-None can enter intothe kingdom of God, except he be regenerate and born anew of water and of the Holy Ghost. I be'seech you to call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that, of his bounteous mercy, he will grant to this child that thing which by nature he cannot have; that he may be baptized with water and the Holy Ghost; and received into Christ's holy church; and be made a lively member of the same. We beseech thee, that thou wilt mercifully look upon this child, wash him, and sanctify him with the Holy Ghost:-We call upon thee for this infant, that he, coming to thy holy Baptism, may receive remission of his sins by spiritual regeneration that the old Adam may be so buried,

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that the new man may be raised up in him.-Ye

have brought this child here to be baptized, ye have prayed that our Lord Jesus Christ would vouchsafe to receive him, to release him of his sins, to sanctify him with the Holy Ghost, to give him the kingdom of heaven and everlasting life. Ye have heard also, that our Lord Jesus Christ hath promised, in his Gospel, to grant all these things which ye have prayed for; which promise he, for his part, will most assuredly keep and perform.-Seeing now that this child is regenerate, and grafted into the body of Christ's church, let us give thanks unto Almighty God for these benefits. We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy church. And humbly we beseech thee to grant, that he,

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and living unto righteousness, and being buried with Christ in his death, may crucify the old man, and utterly abolish the whole body of sin.

Private Baptism of Infants. This child, being born in Original Sin, and in the wrath of God, is now by the laver of regeneration in Baptism received into the number of the children of God, and heirs of everlasting life.

Baptism of such as are of riper years. Foras.

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