Quicunque vult 2. First of the day: the second of peace. third1 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 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. The third Collect, for aid against all perils. LIGHTEN 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. ¶ In the feasts of Christmas, the Epiphany, Saint Mathie, Easter, the Ascension, Pentecost, Saint John Baptist, Saint James, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Mathew, Saint Simon and Jude, Saint Andrew, and Trinity Sunday, shall be sung or said, immediately after Benedictus, this confession of our Christian faith. WHOSOEVER will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith. 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 sub stance. 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. : The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate and the Holy Ghost uncreate. [Grafton, thyrde the for. 1596, The third for.] The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible : and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal: and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals: but one eternal. As also there be 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 they3 are not three almighties: but one almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet are they 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 be 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, nor less than an other. 6 But the whole three persons: be coeternal together and coequal. 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 in the Incarnation of our Lord Jesu Christ. [Grafton, are not there. 1596, are they not.] [ 1596, or.] [an, not in Grafton.] : 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, 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 person. 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, God Almighty from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies: and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good, shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic faith which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved. 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. Thus endeth the order of Morning and Evening prayer, through the whole year. ['Grafton, is but.] [1596, throughout.] Here followeth the Litany to be used upon Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and at other times, when it shall be commanded by the Ordinary. O GOD the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O3 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. Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers, neither take thou vengeance of our sins: spare us, good Lord, spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever. Spare us, good Lord. From all evil and mischief, from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the devil, from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation. Good Lord deliver us. From all blindness of heart, from pride, vain glory, and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharita bleness. Good Lord deliver us. [3 Grafton abbreviates the first four responses.] From fornication and all other deadly sin, and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh and the devil. 2 Good Lord deliver us. From lightning and tempest, from plague, pestilence and famine, from battle and murther, and from sudden death. Good Lord deliver us. From all sedition and privy conspiracy, from all false doctrine and heresy, from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment. Good Lord deliver us. By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation, by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision, by thy baptism, fasting and temp tation. Good Lord deliver us. By thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross and pas sion, by thy precious death and burial, by thy glorious resurrection and ascension, and by the coming of the Holy Ghost. Good Lord deliver us. In all our3 time of tribulation, in all time of our wealth, in the hour of death, and in the day of Judgment. Good Lord deliver us. We sinners do beseech thee to hear us (O Lord God,) and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy church universally 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 Elizabeth our most gracious Queen and governour. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule her heart in thy faith, fear and love, and that she may evermore have affiance in thee, and ever seek thy honour and glory. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be her defender and keeper, giving her the victory over all her enemies. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. [ Grafton, Euening prayer.] [ Grafton, lightninges and tempestes.] [3 Grafton and 1596, time of our.] [and, not in Grafton.] |