Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth unto the house of God;

In the voice of praise and thanksgiving among such as keep holyday.

Why art thou so full of heaviness, (O my soul): and why art thou so unquiet within me? Put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance.

My God, my soul is vexed within me therefore will I

remember thee concerning the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermonim.

One deep calleth another, because of the noise of thy waterpipes all thy waves and storms are gone over me.

The Lord hath granted his loving-kindness on the day-time: and in the night season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?

my soul): and why art thou so disquieted within me?

O put thy trust in God: for

I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

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.

Collect.

O MERCIFUL God, the Father of our Lord Jesu Christ, who is the resurrection and the life; in whom whosoever believeth shall live, though he die; and whosoever liveth, and believeth in him, shall not die eternally; who also hath taught us (by his holy apostle Paul) not to be sorry, as men without hope, for them that sleep in him; We meekly beseech thee (O Father) to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness; that, when we shall depart this life, we may sleep in him, (as our hope is this our brother doth ;) and at the general resurrection in the last day, both we, and this our brother departed, receiving again our bodies, and rising again in thy most gracious favour, may, with all thine elect saints, obtain eternal joy. Grant this, O Lord God, by the means of our Advocate Jesus Christ:

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which, with thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth one God for ever. Amen.

The Epistle. 1 Thess. iv.

I WOULD not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as other do which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so them also which sleep by Jesus will God bring again with him. For this say we unto you in the word of the Lord, that we which shall live, and shall remain in the coming of the Lord, shall not come ere they which sleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the voice of the archangel, and trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall arise first: then we which shall live (even we which shall remain) shall be caught up with them also in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort yourselves one another with these words.

The Gospel. John vi.

JESUS said to his disciples and to the Jews, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and he that cometh to me I cast not away. For I came down from heaven, not to do that I will, but that he will

which hath sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I shall lose nothing, but raise them up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day.

The Order of the Purification of Women.

The Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth, commonly called the Churching of Wo

men.

The woman shall come into the church, and there shall kneel down in some convenient place, a nigh unto the quire door; and the Priest, standing by her, shall say these words, or such like, as the case shall require.

FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance, and your child baptism, and hath preserved you in the great danger of childbirth; ye shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God, and pray.

Then shall the Priest say this Psalm.

Levavi oculos. Psalm cxxi.

I HAVE lifted up mine eyes

my help.

unto the hills: from whence cometh

My help cometh even from the Lord: which hath made heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved : and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.

Behold, he that keepeth Israel : shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand;

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b safe deliverance, and

So that the sun shall not burn thee by day : neither the moon

by night.

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil : yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.

The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in : from this time forth for evermore.

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

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever &c.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

Christ, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

dOur Father which art in heaven, &c.
And lead us not into temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from evil. Amen.
Priest. O Lord, save this woman, thy servant;

Answer. Which putteth her trust in thee.

Priest. Be thou to her a strong tower;

Answer. From the face of her enemy.

Priest. Lord, hear our prayer.

Answer. And let our cry come to thee.

Priest. Let us pray.

O ALMIGHTY God, which hast delivered this woman thy servant from the great pain and peril of childbirth; Grant, we beseech thee, (most merciful Father,) that she, through thy help, may both faithfully live and walk in her vocation, according to thy will, in this life present; and also may be partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord.