powers of darkness; that we may walk before God in the light of the living.

O Lord, enlighten our eyes, lest we sleep the sleep of death. Amen.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Because thy loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips;

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.-Ps. lxiii.

Here the Lesson from the Old Testament may be read; and a Psalm may be sung.

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Let us pray.

IGHTEOUS art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments.

Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.

Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

Great peace have they that love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to thy word. -Ps. cxix.

O LORD, our Heavenly Father, who hast revealed thine eternal power and godhead in the creation of the world, and dost continually display thy glory in upholding and governing the same, we thank thee for that more perfect revelation of thy character and will, which thou hast given us in thy word.

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that we, upon whom thou hast made the beams of thy grace and truth to shine, may walk worthy of our high vocation, and adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour, living soberly, righteously,

and godly in this present world; not being weary in well-doing, or fainting when we are chastened of thee; that when Christ who is our life shall appear, we may be found worthy to stand before the Son of Man, and be made partakers of glory, honour, and immortality. Amen.

UNTO thee will I cry, O Lord, my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: there

fore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.Ps. xxviii.

GRANT, O Lord, that we, whom thou hast made rational creatures, may, through thy grace, be delivered from dead works, and serve thee, the living God, in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life upon earth; that in due time we may be partakers of the everlasting glory which thou hast promised to them that love thee: through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.

Then may be read the Lesson from the New Testament, and a Psalm may be sung; after which may follow the Sermon: or, The Psalm with the Sermon and such prayers as may be appropriate, may come after the Lord's Prayer.

Let us pray.

ETERNAL GOD, our Heavenly Father, who didst in the beginning create man in thine own image, and who, when we were dead in sins, didst send forth thy Son into the world, that we might live through him; we magnify thy great name, that, by faith of thy Christ, we are born again to a lively hope, and are made heirs of thine incorruptible inherit

ance.

Do thou, who art the inexhaustible fountain of light and life, and who, as on this day, didst bring again from the dead the Lord Jesus; grant that we, who have been baptized into his death, may be quickened and raised up through the mighty power of thy Spirit; that being made free from sin, we may serve thee, the living God, continually in newness of life, presenting our bodies living sacrifices, holy and acceptable, which is our reasonable service: through the same Jesus Christ, who, in the power of the Eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot unto thee, and is our great High Priest and Advocate in the Heavenly Temple. Amen.