Shew yourselves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands: sing, rejoice, and give thanks. Praise the Lord upon the harp: sing to the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving. With trumpets also and shawms: O shew yourselves joyful before the Lord the King. Let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is: the round world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord: For mine eyes have seen: thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared: before the face of all people; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles: and to be the glory of thy people Israel. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. Or else this Psalm; except it be on the Twelfth Day of the Month. DEUS MISEREATUR. Psalm lxvii. OD be merciful unto us, for he cometh to judge the G and bless us: and shew us earth. With righteousness shall he judge the world: and the people with equity. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. ¶ Then a Lesson of the New Testament, as it is appointed. And after that, Nunc dimittis (or the Song of Symeon) in English, as followeth. NUNC DIMITTIS. St. Luke ii. 29. the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us: That thy way may be known upon earth: thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O God: yea, let all the people praise thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, O God: yea, let all the peo LORD, now lettest thou thy ple praise thee. servant depart in peace: according to thy word. Then shall the earth bring forth her increase: and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing. God shall bless us: and all the ends of the world shall fear him. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. Then shall be said or sung the Apostles' Creed by the Minister and the people, standing. BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: I And after that, these Prayers following, all The Lord be with you. UR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass aAnd lead us not And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suf-gainst us. fered under Pontius Pilate, into temptation; But deliver Was crucified, dead, and bu- us from evil. Amen. ried, He descended into hell ; ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say, The third day he rose again O Lord, shew thy mercy upon from the dead, He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on us; the right hand of God the Fa-Answer. And grant us thy sal vation. ther Almighty; From thence Priest. I believe in the Holy Ghost; Queen. with righteousness. Priest. Give peace in our time, hearts within us. Then shall follow three Collects; the first of the Day; the second for Peace; the third for Aid against all Perils, as hereafter followeth which two last Collects shall be daily said at Evening Prayer without alteration. THE SECOND COLLECT AT EVENING PRAYER. O desire from whore THE THIRD COLLECT, FOR AID and by thy great mercy de- A PRAYER FOR THE QUEEN'S LORD our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen VICTORIA; and so replenish her with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that she may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: Endue her plenteously with heavenly gifts; grant her in health and GOD, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy command-wealth long to live; strengthen ments, and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen. her that she may vanquish and overcome all her enemies; and finally, after this life, she may attain everlasting joy and felicity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A PRAYER FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY. blessing. Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator, Jesus Christ. Amen. ALM LMIGHTY God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to A PRAYER OF ST. CHRYSOSTOM. bless Albert Edward Prince of Wales, the Princess of LMIGHTY God, who hast Wales, and all the Royal Fagiven us grace at this mily: Endue them with thy time with one accord to make holy Spirit; enrich them with our common supplications unthy heavenly grace; prosper to thee; and dost promise, them with all happiness; and that when two or three are gabring them to thine everlast-thered together in thy Name ing kingdom; through Jesus thou wilt grant their requests: Christ our Lord. Amen. A PRAYER FOR THE CLERGY AND AL PEOPLE. LMIGHTY and everlasting God, who alone workest great marvels; Send down upon our Bishops, and Curates, and all Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they may truly please thee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen. 2 Cor. xiii. Jesus Christ, and the love HE grace of our Lord of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. Here endeth the Order of Evening Prayer throughout the Year. Upon these Feasts; Christmas-day, the Epiphany, Saint Matthias, Easter-day, Ascension-day, Whitsunday, Saint John Baptist, Saint James, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Saint Andrew, and upon Trinity-Sunday, shall be sung or said at Morning Prayer, instead of the Apostles' Creed, this Confession of our Christian Faith, commonly called The Creed of Saint Athanasius, by the Minister and people standing. QUICUNQUE VULT. Son uncreate: and the Holy HOSOEVER will be Ghost uncreate. W Hoved: before all things The Father incomprehen it is necessary that he hold sible, the Son incomprehen the Catholick Faith. sible and the Holy Ghost Which Faith except every incomprehensible. one do keep whole and undefiled without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholick Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; The Father eternal, the Son eternal: and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals: but one eternal. As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated: but one uncreated, Neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the and one incomprehensible. Substance. : For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son: and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son: and such is the Holy Ghost. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty: and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties: but one Almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God: and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods: but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord: and the The Father uncreate, the Holy Ghost Lord. |