1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer: Churching of Women · The 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer: Front Matter

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	The Book of Common Prayer for Scotland (1637)

The thankesgiving of women after
Childe-birth, commonly called,
The Churching of women.
¶
The woman shall come into the Church, and there shall kneel down
in some convenient place, nigh unto the place where the Lords Table
standeth, and the Presbyter standing by her, shall say these words,
or such like as the case shall require.
FORasmuch
as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodnesse to give you safe
deliverance, and hath preserved you in the great danger of childe-birth
: ye shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God and pray.
¶
Then shall the Presbyter say this Psalme following, Or else Psalme
the 27.
	Psal.
I	121.
Will lift up mine eyes unto the hils from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven
and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved : hee that
keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel: shall neither slumber
nor sleep.
The Lord is thy keeper : the Lord is
thy shade upon thy right hand.
The sunne shall not smite thee by day ; nor the moon
by night.
The Lord shall preserve thee from. all evil : he
shall preserve thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming
in, from this time forth and even for evermore.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Sonne : and to
the holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall
be : world without end. Amen.
Lord have mercie
upon us.
Christ have mercie upon us.
Lord have mercie upon us.
OUR Father which art in heaven, &c.
And leade us not into temptation.
Answer.
But deliver us from evil. Amen.
Presbyter.
O Lord save this woman thy servant.
Answer.
Which putteth her trust in thee.
Presbyter.
Be thou to her a strong tower.
Answer.
From the face of her enemie.
Presbyter.
O Lord heare our prayer.
Answer.
And let our cry come unto thee.
Presbyter.
¶
Let us pray.
O
ALmighty God, which hast delivered this woman thy servant from the
great pain and perill of Child-birth : 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 glorie in the life to come;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
¶
The woman that cometh to give her thanks, it is convenient that she
receive the holy Communion, if there be any at that time.

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