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	The Proposed Book of Common Prayer (1689)

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THE
Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed Place of the
church, Chapel, or Chancel; except it shall be otherwise determined by
the Ordinary of the Place. And the Chancels shall remain as they have
done in times past.
Whereas the Surplice
is appointed to be used by all Ministers in performing Divine Offices,
it is hereby declared, That it is continued only as being an ancient and
decent Habit. But yet if any Minister shall come and declare to his Bishop
that he cannot satisfy his Conscience in the Use of the Surplice in Divine
Service, in that case the Bishop shall dispense with his not using it,
and if he shall see cause for it, he shall appoint a Curate to officiate
in a Surplice.*
THE ORDER FOR
MORNING
PRAYER
DAILY
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
¶ At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minister shall read with a
loud voice one or more of these Sentences of the Scriptures that follow.
And then he shall say that which is written after the said Sentences.
WHEN
the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed,
and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Ezek. 18. 27.
I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is ever
before me. Psalm 51. 3.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Psalm 51. 9.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken
and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psalm 51. 17.
Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto
the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and
of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel 2. 13.
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness,
though we have rebelled against him; neither have we obeyed the voice
of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us. Dan.
9. 9, 10.
O Lord, correct me, but with judgement; not in thine
anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. Jer. 10.24. Psalm 6.1.
Repent ye; for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. St.
Matt. 3.2.
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto
him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no
more worthy to be called thy son. St. Luke 15. 18, 19.
Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O Lord; for
in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Psalm 143. 2.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,
and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 St. John 1. 8, 9.
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 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 acknowledge
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 that are requisite and necessary,
as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as
many as are 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, all kneeling.
ALMIGHTY
and most merciful 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 health in us: But thou, O Lord,
have mercy upon us, miserable offenders; Spare thou them, O God, which
confess their fault, Restore thou them that are penitent, According to
thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord: And grant,
O most merciful Father, for his sake, That we may hereafter live a godly,
righteous, and sober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen.
¶ The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest alone, standing: the people
still kneeling.
ALMIGHTY
God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of
a sinner, 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 that truly repent, and unfeignedly
believe his holy Gospel. Wherefore let us 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 here, and at the end of all other prayers, Amen.
¶
Then, the Minister shall kneel, and say the Lord's Prayer with an audible
voice: the people also kneeling, and repeating it with him, both here,
and wheresoever else it is used in Divine Service.
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.
For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, For ever and ever.
Amen.
¶
Then likewise he shall say,
O Lord, open thou our lips.
Answer. And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Minister. Enlighten our minds, O Lord.
Answer. That we may understand the great things
of thy law.
Minister. O God, make speed to save us.
Answer. O Lord, make haste to help us.
¶
Here all standing up, the Minister shall say,
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;
Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.
Minister. Praise ye the Lord.
Answer. The Lord's Name be praised.
¶
Then shall be said or sung this Psalm following: Except on Easter
Day, upon which another Anthem is appointed: and on the nineteenth
day of every month it is not to be read here, but in the ordinary course
of the Psalms.
Venite,
Exultemus Domino. Psalm 95
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 show ourselves glad in him with psalms.
For the Lord is a great God : and a great King above
all gods.
In his hands 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 hand.
To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts
: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness;
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 the Psalms in order as they arc appointed. And at the end
of every Psalm throughout the Year, and likewise at the end of the 148th
Psalm, the 100th Psalm, Benedictus, The 8th Psalm, Magnificat,
The 134th Psalm, shall be repeated,
Glory be to the Father
and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost;
Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.
¶
Then shall be read distinctly with an audible voice the First Lesson,
taken out of the Old Testament, as it is appointed in the Calendar: Except
there be proper Lessons assigned for that day: He that readeth so standing
and turning himself, as he may be heard of all such as are present. And
after that, shall be said or sung, in English, the Hymn called Te Deum
Laudamus daily throughout the year.
¶
Note that before every Lesson, the Minister shall say, Here beginneth
such a Chapter, or Verse of such a Chapter, of such a Book:
And after every Lesson, Here endeth the First, or, the Second
Lesson.
Te
Deum Laudamus
WE
praise thee, O God : we acknowledge 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,
Holy, Holy, Holy : Lord God of Hosts;
Heaven and earth are full of 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 acknowledge
thee;
The Father : of an infinite Majesty;
Thy true and thy : only begotten Son;
Also the Holy Ghost : the Comforter.
Thou art the King of Glory : O Christ.
Thou art the everlasting Son : of the Father.
When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man : thou didst
humble thyself to be born of a Virgin.
When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death : thou
didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.
Thou sittest at 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.
¶
Or Psalm 148.
O
PRAISE the Lord of Heaven: praise him in the Height.
Praise him, all ye Angels of his: praise him, all his
Host.
Praise him, Sun and Moon: praise him, all ye Stars
and Light.
Praise him, all ye Heavens; and ye Waters that are
above the Heavens.
Let them praise the Name of the Lord: for he spake
the Word and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.
He hath made them fast for ever and ever he hath given
them a Law which shall not be broken.
Praise the Lord upon earth: ye Dragons, and all Deeps;
Fire and Hail, Snow and Vapours: Wind and Storm fulfilling
his Word;
Mountains and all Hills: Fruitful Trees and all Cedars;
Beasts and all Cattle: Worms and feathered Fowls;
Kings of the earth and all People: Princes and all
Judges of the world;
Young Men and Maidens: old Men and Children;
Praise the Name of the Lord: for his Name only is excellent,
and his Praise above Heaven and Earth.
He shall exalt the horn of his People; all his Saints
shall praise Him: even the Children of Israel, even the People that serveth
Him.
Glory be to the Father, &e.
As it was in the beginning, &c.
¶ Then
shall be read in like manner the Second Lesson, taken oat of the New Testament.
And after that, this Psalm, Jubilate
Deo, Psalm 100: "O be joyful in the Lord, &c. Amen." Or
the following Hymn; except when that shalt happen to be read in the Chapter
for the Day, or the Gospel on St. John Baptist’s Day.
Jubilate
Deo. Psalm c.
O
BE joyful in the Lord, all ye lands : serve the Lord with gladness, and
come before his presence with a song.
Be ye sure that the Lord, he is God : it is he who
hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of
his pasture.
O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and
into his courts with praise : be thankful unto him, and speak good of
his Name.
For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting
: and his truth endureth from generation to generation.
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.
Benedictus.
St. Luke 1. 68
BLESSED
be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people;
And he hath raised up a mighty salvation for us, in
the house of his servant David;
As he spoke by the mouth of his holy Prophets, which
have been since the world began;
That we should be saved from our enemies, and from
the hand 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 forefather
Abraham : that he would grant us;
That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies
: might serve him without fear;
In holiness and righteousness before him : all the
days of our life.
And thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the
Highest : for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his
ways;
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people : for
the remission of their sins,
Through the tender mercy of our God : whereby the day-spring
from on high hath visited us;
To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in
the shadow of death : to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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 be said the Creed commonly celled the Apostles’ Creed, by the Minister
and the People, standing: except only such days as the Creed commonly
called St. Athanasius’ Creed is appointed to be read.
I
BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; Who was
conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius
Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; The third
day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth
on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come
to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholick Church;
The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of
the body; And the Life everlasting. Amen.
¶ And
after that these Prayers following, all devoutly kneeling: the Minister
first pronouncing with a loud voice,
The Lord be with
you;
Answer. And with thy spirit.
Minister. Let us pray.
Lord, have mercy upon us;
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us;
¶ Then	*
the Minister, Clerks, and People, shall say the Lord’s Prayer, when there	This Note was added on the interleaf, without direction to show whether
is neither Litany nor Communion.	it was to be inserted as part of the Rubric.
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 the Priest standing up shall say,
O Lord, show thy mercy upon us;
Answer. And grant us thy salvation.
Minister. O Lord, save the King and Queen.
Answer. And mercifully hear us when we call
upon thee.
Minister. Endue thy Ministers with righteousness;
Answer. And make thy chosen people joyful.
Minister. O Lord, save thy people;
Answer. And bless thine inheritance.
Minister. Give peace in our time, O Lord;
Answer. That we may serve thee without fear
all the days of our lives.
Minister. O God, make clean our hearts within
us;
Answer. And take not thy Holy Spirit from us.
¶ Then
shall fallow these Collects; the first of the Day, which shall be the
same that is eppainted at the Communion; the second for Peace; the third
for Grace to live well. And the two last Collects shall never alter, but
daily be said at Morning Prayer throughout all the Year,
as followeth; all kneeling.
¶
The Collect, for the Day is not to be used in the Morning Service,
when there is either Litany or Communion Service with it.*
¶
The Second Collect, for Peace
O
GOD, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of
whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; Defend
us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely
trusting in thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through
the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
¶ The Third Collect, for Grace.
O
LORD, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely
brought us to this day; Defend us in the same with thy mighty power; and
grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of
danger; but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do
always that is righteous in thy sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
¶
In Quires and Places where they sing, here followeth the Anthem.
¶ Then
these Prayers following are to be read here, except when the Litany is
read; and then only the two last are to be read, as they are there placed.
¶ Prayer for the King and Queens Majesties.
O
LORD our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords,
the only Ruler of princes, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers
upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our
Sovereign Lord and Lady, King William and Queen Mary; and so replenish
them with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that they may alway incline to
thy will, and walk in thy way; Endue them plenteously with heavenly gifts;
direct all their counsels to thy honour and glory; bless all their righteous
undertakings; grant them in health and wealth long to live; and that after
this life, they may attain everlasting joy and felicity; through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.
¶ A Prayer for the Royal Family
ALMIGHTY
God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to bless Catherine
the Queene Dowager, The Princess Anne of Denmark, and all the Royal Family;
Endue them with thy Holy Spirit; enrich them with thy heavenly grace;
prosper them with all happiness; and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
¶ Prayer for the Clergy and People.
ALMIGHTY
and everlasting God, the giver of all spiritual gifts; Send down upon
our Bishops, Pastors, and Curates, and all Congregations committed to
their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they may truly
please thee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing. Grant this,
O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
¶ A Prayer commonly called St. Chrysostom's.
ALMIGHTY
God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our
common supplications unto thee; and dost promise that when two or three
are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests: Fulfill
now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most
expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth,
and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen.
2
Cor. xiii. 14..
THE
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship
of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.
¶
Here endeth the Order of Morning Prayer throughout the Year.

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