EVENING PRAYER,

DAILY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

At the beginning of Evening Prayer the Minister shall read with a loud voice some 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 wickednefs that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall fave his foul alive. Ezek. xviii. 27.

I acknowledge my tranfgreffions, and my fin is ever before me. Pfalm li. 3.

Hide thy face from my fins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Pfalm li. 9.

The facrifices of God are a broken fpirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not defpife. Pfalm li. 17.

Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, flow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel ii. 13.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveneffes, though we have rebelled against him: neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he fet before us. Daniel ix. 9, 10.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgement;

not in thine anger, left thou bring me to nothing. Jer. x. 24. Pfalm vi. 1.

Repent ye; for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. St. Matth. iii. 2.

I will arife, and go to my father, and will fay unto him, Father, I have finned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy fon. St. Luke xv. 18, 19.

Enter not into judgement with thy fervant, O Lord; for in thy fight fhall no man living be juftified. Pfalm cxliii. 2.

If we say that we have no fin, we deceive ourfelves, and the truth is not in us: but, if we confefs our fins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our fins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteoufnefs. 1 St. John i. 8, 9.

DEARLY

EARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in fundry places to acknowledge and confefs our manifold fins and wickednefs; and that we should not diffemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confefs them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgivenefs of the fame, by his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our fins before God; yet ought we most chiefly fo to do, when we

affemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to fet forth his most worthy praise, to hear his moft holy Word, and to afk those things which are requifite and neceffary, as well for the body as the foul. Wherefore pray and befeech you, as many as are here prefent, to accompany me with a pure heart, and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me;

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¶ A general Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister, all kneeling.

LMIGHTY and moft merciful Father; We have erred, and ftrayed from thy ways like loft sheep. We have followed too much the devices and defires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone thofe things which we ought to have done; And we have done thofe things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miferable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confefs their faults. Reftore thou them that are penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Chrift Jefu our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his fake; That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and fober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen.

¶ The Absolution, or Remission of sins, to be pronounced by the Priest alone, standing; the people still kneeling.

LMIGHTY God, the Father of our

A Lord Jefus Chod, the defireth not the

death of a finner, but rather that he may turn from his wickednefs, and live; and hath given power, and commandment, to his Minifters, to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the Abfolution and Remiffion of their fins: He pardoneth and abfolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gofpel. Wherefore let us befeech him to grant us true repentance, and his holy Spirit, that thofe things may please him, which we do at this prefent; and that the reft of our life hereafter may be pure, and holy; fo that at the last we may come to his eternal joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then the Minister shall kneel, and say the Lord's Prayer; the people also kneeling, and repeating it with him.

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UR 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 trefpaffes, 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.

Anfwer. And our mouth fhall fhew forth thy praise.

Prieft. O God, make speed to fave us. Anfwer. O Lord, make hafte to help us.

¶ Here all standing up, the Priest shall say,

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost;

Anfwer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever fhall be: world without end. Amen.

Prieft. Praise ye the Lord.

Anfwer. The Lord's Name be praised.

Then shall be said or sung the Psalms in order as they are appointed. Then a Lesson of the Old Testament, as is appointed. And after that, Magnificat (or the Song of the blessed Virgin Mary) in English, as followeth.

Magnificat. St. Luke i.

MY foul doth magnify the Lord: and my fpirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded: the lowlinefs of his hand-maiden.

For behold, from henceforth: all generations fhall call me bleffed.

For he that is mighty hath magnified me : and holy is his Name.

And his mercy is on them that fear him : throughout all generations.

He hath fhewed strength with his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the imagination

of their hearts.