in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilder

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When your fathers tempted me proved me, and saw my

works.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said : It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways.

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

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 follow certain Psalms in order as they a been appointed in a table made for that purpose, except there be proper Psalms appointed for that day. And at the end of every Psalm throughout the year, and likewise in the end of Benedictus, Benedicite, Magnificat, and Nunc Dimittis, shall be repeated,

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, &c.

¶ Then shall be read two lessons distinctly with a loud voice, that the people may hear. The first of the Old Testament, the second of the New; like as they be appointed by the Calendar, except there be proper Lessons assigned for that day: the Minister that readeth the Lesson standing and turning him so as he may best be heard of all such as be present. And before every Lesson, the Minister shall say thus: The first, second, third or fourth chapter of Genesis or Exodus, Matthew, Mark, or other like, as is appointed in the Calendar. And in the end of every chapter, he shall say,

¶ Here endeth such a chapter of such a book.

And (to the end the people may the better hear) in such places where they do sing, there shall the Lessons be sung in a plain tune, after the manner of distinct reading and likewise the Epistle and Gospel.

¶ After the first Lesson shall follow Te Deum Laudamus, in English, daily throughout the year, except in Lent, through the whole year. all the which time, in the place of Te Deum, shall be used Benedicite omnia Opera Domini Domino, in English as followeth :

Te Deum Laudamus.

We praise thee, O God : we knowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee: the Father everlasting. To thee all angels cry aloud: the Heavens, and all the Powers therein.

To thee Cherubim, and Seraphim: continually do cry,

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Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Sabaoth;

Heaven and earth are a replenished with the Majesty of thy Glory.

The glorious company of the Apostles: praise thee.

The goodly fellowship of the Prophets : praise thee.

The noble army of Martyrs : praise thee.

The holy Church throughout all the world: doth knowledge thee.

The Father of an infinite Majesty;

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Thy honourable, true and only Son;

b The Holy Ghost: also being the Comforter. Thou art the King of Glory: O Christ.

Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father.

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When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb.

When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death: thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.

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Thou sittest on the right hand of God in the Glory of the Father.

We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge.

We therefore pray thee, help thy servants: whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.

Make them to be numbered with thy Saints in glory everlasting.

O Lord, save thy people and bless thine heritage.
Govern them : and lift them up for ever.

Day by day we magnify thee;

And we worship thy Name: ever world without end.
Vouchsafe, O Lord : to keep us this day without sin.
O Lord, have mercy upon us : have mercy upon us.

O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee.
O Lord, in thee have I trusted : let me never be confounded.

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BLESSED be the Lord God of Israel: for he hath visited and redeemed his people;

And hath a lifted up an horn of salvation to us: in the house of his servant David;

As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets : which hath been since the world began;

That we should be saved from our enemies and from the hands of all that hate us;

To perform the mercy promised to our fathers: and to remember his holy covenant;

To perform the oath which he sware to our dfather Abraham : that he would give us;

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