An Order for Matins daily through the Year. The Order where Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used and said. ¶The Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in such place of the church, chapel, or chancel, and the Minister shall so turn him, as the people may best hear. And if there be any controversy therein, the matter shall be referred to the Ordinary, and he or his Deputy shall appoint the place, and the chancels shall remain as they have done in times past. And here is to be noted, that the Minister at the time of the Communion, and at all other times in his ministration, shall use neither alb, vestment, nor cope: but being archbishop or bishop, he shall have and wear a rochet: and being a priest or deacon, he shall have and wear a surplice only. ¶An Order for Morning Prayer daily throughout the Year. At the beginning both of Morning Prayer and likewise of Evening Prayer, the Minister shall read with a loud voice some one of these Sentences of the Scriptures that follow. And then he shall say that which is written after the said Sentences. fice to God: despise not, (O Rend your hearts, and not Joel 2. To thee, O Lord God, be- Daniel 9. longeth mercy and forgiveness, for we have gone away from thee, and have not hearkened to thy voice, whereby we might walk in thy laws, which thou hast appointed for us. Correct us, O Lord, and yet Jerem. a. in thy judgment, not in thy fury, lest we should be consumed and brought to nothing. Amend your lives, for the Matt. 3. kingdom of God is at hand. I will go to my father, and Luke 15. say to him, Father I have sinned against heaven and against thee; I am no more worthy to be called thy son. Enter not into judgment with Psalm 142. thy servants, O Lord, for no flesh is righteous in thy sight. If we say that we have no sin, 1 John 1. we deceive ourselves, and there DEARLY beloved brethren, the scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before a Morning Prayer 1552 passim. I the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to knowledge our sins before God; yet ought we most chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy word, and to ask those things which be requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as be here present, to accompany me with a pure heart, and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me; A general Confession, to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister, kneeling. ALMIGHTY and most merci. ful Father; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no The Absolution, to be pronounced by the Minister alone. ALMIGHTY God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which desireth not the death of a sin ner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness, and live; and hath given power, and commandment, to his Ministers, to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins: he pardoneth and absolveth all them which truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy gospel. Wherefore we beseech him to grant us true repentance, and his holy Spirit, that those things may please him, which we do at this present; and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure, and holy; so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. The people shall answer, Amen. The Priest being in the quire, shall begin with a loud voice the Lord's Prayer, called the Paternoster. Then shall the Minister begin the Lord's Prayer with a loud voice. OUR 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 against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen. Then likewise he shall say, Priest. O God, make speed to save me. Answer. O Lord, make haste to help me. ¶Then likewise he shall say, 0 Lord, open thou our lips. Answer. And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise. Priest. O God, make speed to save us. Answer. O Lord, make haste to help us. Priest. 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. Praise Amen. ye the Lord. And from Easter to Trinity Sunday, Then shall be said or sung, without any Then shall be said or sung this Psalm following : Psalm xcv. O COME, let us sing unto the Lord : let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving : and shew ourself glad in him with Psalms. : For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it : and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship, and fall down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is (the Lord) our God and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands. Ta day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as |