LORD, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace : according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen : thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared : before the face of all people; : To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel. 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 the suffrages before assigned at Matins, the Clerks kneeling likewise; with three Collects. First of the Day; second of Peace; third for Aid against all Perils, as here followeth : which two last Collects shall be daily said at Evensong without alteration. Or else this Psalm. Deus misereatur. Psalm lxvii. GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us. That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O God: yea, let all the people praise thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, O God let all the people praise thee. : Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing. God shall bless us, and all the ends of the world shall fear him. Glory be to the Father, &c. ¶Then shall follow the Creed, with other Prayers as is before appointed at Morning Prayer after Benedictus. And with three Collects: first of the Day; the second of Peace; third 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 Evensong. 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 e Jesu 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, fJesu Christ. Amen. In the feasts of Christmas, the Epiphany, Easter, the Ascension, Pentecost, and upon Trinity Sunday, shall be sung or said immediately after Benedictus, this Confession of our Christian Faith. In the feasts of Christmas, the Epiphany, Saint Matthias, Easter, the Ascension, Pentecost, Saint John Baptist, Saint James, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon and Jude, Saint Andrew, and Trinity Sunday, shall be sung or said immediately after Benedictus, this Confession of our Christian Faith. Quicunque vult, &c. 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 Substance. 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 co-eternal. 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. 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 uncre ated but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible. : So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty: and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties: but one Almighty. So the Father is God, the Son & God and the Holy Ghost h 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. i And in this Trinity none is afore, nor after other : none is greater, nor less than other; k But the whole three Persons be co-eternal together and coequal. So that in all things, as it 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. 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; g is God 1552. h is God 1552. i or 1552. k another 1552. 1 it om. 1552. 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 mdead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies: and shall give account n of 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. |