The Second Collect at Evening Prayer. 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 commandments, 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. L' The Third Collect, for Aid against all Perils. IGHTEN our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. Then follow the Apostles' Creed, the Versicles, the Lord's Prayer, and the Versicles after it, printed at full length, as in the Order for Morning Prayer. GOD, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works proceed; Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, 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. L' The Third Collect, for Aid against all Perils. IGHTEN our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. 3 2 These Prayers are all printed at full length in [1662.] Here endeth the Order of Evening Prayer Thus endeth the Order of Morning and throughout the Year. Evening Prayer throughout the whole AT MORNING PRAYER. Upon these Feasts; Christmas-day, the W Quicunque vult. HOSOEVER will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith except one do keep 'whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons: nor dividing the 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 co-eternal. : : Such as the Father is, such is the Son and such is the Holy Ghost. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate and the Holy Ghost uncreate. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible Holy Ghost incomprehensible. 2 and the The Father eternal, the Son eternal: and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals: but one eternal. Pasch or Easter [S. L.] our Christian Faith, the Presbyter and all the people standing. [S. L.] 3 The Rubrics prefixed to this Creed, in all the Editions of the Liturgy prior WHOSOEVER will be saved, WHOSOEVER will be saved, &c. Thus endeth the Order of Morning and Thus endeth the Order of Matins and W HOSOEVER will be saved: before all things it is Which Faith except every one do keep holy and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons: nor dividing the 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 co-eternal. : Such as the Father is, such is the Son and such is the Holy Ghost. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate and the Holy Ghost uncreate. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible Holy Ghost incomprehensible. : and the The Father eternal, the Son eternal : and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals: but one eternal. to [1662,] are given above, as they occur at the end of the Order for Evening Prayer. Saint passim [1552] 4 holy [1604] 6 No Latin title. [1559] As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated : but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible. 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 Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords: but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity: to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion: to say, there be three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none: neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone: not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son : neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons : one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other none is greater, or less than another. But the whole three persons are co-eternal together and co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved: must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation : that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds: and Man, of the Substance of his Mother, born in the world; : Perfect God, and perfect Man of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead and inferior to the Father, as touching his Manhood. Who although he be God and Man: yet he is not two, but one Christ; One; not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the Manhood into God; : One altogether; not by confusion of Substance: but by unity of Per son. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man : so God and Man is one Christ. Who suffered for our salvation: descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father, 1 be not [1604] 3 would be saved: let him thus think of the Trinity. [S. L.] 2 be [1604] in the [1604] as omitted [1604. S. L.] 6 so he who is God and man is one Christ. [S. L.] |