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darkness and error, into the clear fect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblalight and true knowledge of thee, tion, and satisfaction, for the sins of and of thy Son Jesus Christ: There-the whole world; and did institute, fore with Angels, &c. and in his holy gospel command us ¶ Upon the Feast of Trinity only, may be said, to continue a perpetual memory of W not out only person, but three until his coming again: For in the WHO art one God, one Lord; that his precious death and sacrifice persons in one substance: For that night in which he which we believe of the glory of was betrayed (a) the Father, the same we believe of he took bread; and was betrayed (a) the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, when he had given without any difference or inequali- thanks, (b) he ty: Therefore with Angels, &c. brake it, and gave Or else this may be said, the words [Holy Father] being retained in the introductory Address. it to his disciples, NOR the precious death and saying, Take, eat,

Fmerits of thy Son Jesus Christ (c) this is my Bo

into his hands.
(a) Here the Bishop

is to take the Paten

(b) And here to break the Bread.

(c) And here to lay his hands upon all

(d) Here he is to

hands.

(e) And here he is to lay his hands upon

WHEREFORE,

The Oblation.

our Lord, and for the sending to us dy, which is given the Bread. of the Holy Ghost the Comforter; for you; Do this who are one with thee in thy eter- in remembrance of nal Godhead: Therefore with An- me. Likewise, afgels, &c. ter supper, (d) he Then shall the Bishop, kneeling down at the Lord's took the cup; and take the Cup into his Table, say, in the name of all those who shall receive the Communion, this Prayer following: when he had given W E do not presume to come to thanks, he gave it this thy Table, O merciful to them, saying, Lord, trusting in our own right- Drink ye all of this, eousness, but in thy manifold and for (e) this is my great mercies. We are not wor-Blood, of the New every Vessel, in which thy so much as to gather up the Testament, which there is any Wine to crumbs under thy Table. But thou is shed for you, and be consecrated. art the same Lord, whose property for many, for the remission of sins: is always to have mercy: Grant Do this as oft as ye shall drink it, in us therefore, gracious Lord, so to remembrance of me. eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean heavenly Father, according to the by his body, and our souls washed institution of thy dearly beloved through his most precious blood, Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, we, and that we may evermore dwell thy humble servants, do celebrate in him, and he in us. Amen. and make here before thy divine When the Bishop, standing before the Table, hath Majesty, with these thy holy gifts, with the more readiness and decency break the which we now offer unto thee, the Bread before the People, and take the Cup into memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance A LL glory be to thee, Almighty his blessed passion and precious God, our heavenly Father, for death, his mighty resurrection and that thou, of thy tender mercy, glorious ascension; rendering unto didst give thine only Son Jesus thee most hearty thanks for the Christ to suffer death upon the innumerable benefits procured unto cross for our redemption; who us by the same. And we most made there (by his one oblation of humbly beseech thee, himself once offered) a full, per-O merciful Father. to

so ordered the Bread and Wine, that he may

his hands; he shall say the Prayer of Consecration, as followeth :

The Invocation.

And the Bishop, delivering the cup, shall say,
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THE Blood of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which was shed for

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hear us; and, of thy AlmightyHE Body of our Lord Jesus TH goodness, vouchsafe to bless and Christ, which was given for sanctify, with thy Word and Holy thee, preserve thy body and soul Spirit, these thy gifts and creatures unto everlasting life: Take and eat of bread and wine; that we, re- this in remembrance that Christ ceiving them according to thy Son died for thee, and feed on him in our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy in-thy heart by faith, with thanksstitution, in remembrance of his giving. Death and Passion, may be partakers of his most blessed Body and Blood. And we earnestly desire thy fatherly goodness, mercifully thee, preserve thy body and soul to accept this our sacrifice of praise unto everlasting life: Drink this in and thanksgiving; most humbly be- remembrance that Christ's blood seeching thee to grant, that by the was shed for thee, and be thankful. merits and death of thy Son Jesus ¶ Christ, and through faith in his blood, we, and all thy whole Church, may obtain remission of our sins, and all other benefits of his passion. And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls, and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sa

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If the consecrated Bread and Wine be spent be

fore all have communicated, the Bishop is to consecrate more, according to the Form before prescribed; beginning at-All glory be to thee, Almighty God-and ending with these wordsPartakers of his most blessed Body and Blood. When all have communicated, the Bishop shall return to the Lord's Table, and reverently place upon it what remaineth of the consecrated Elements, covering the same with a fair linen Cloth.

Then shall the Bishop say the Lord's Prayer, the People repeating after him every petition.

crifice unto thee; humbly beseech-OUR Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ing thee, that we, and all others Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will who shall be partakers of this Holy be done on Earth, as it is in Communion, may worthily receive Heaven; Give us this day our daithe most precious Body and Blood ly bread; And forgive us our tresof thy Son Jesus Christ, be filled passes, as we forgive those who with thy grace and heavenly bene- trespass against us; And lead us diction, and made one body with not into temptation; but deliver him, that he may dwell in them, us from evil: For thine is the King. and they in him. And although we dom, and the Power, and the Gloare unworthy, through our mani- ry, for ever and ever. Amen. fold sins, to offer unto thee any sa- After which shall be said as followeth: crifice; yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and ALMIGHTY and everliving God, we most heartily thank service, not weighing our merits, thee, for that thou dost vouchsafe but pardoning our offences; through to feed us, who have duly received Jesus Christ our Lord; by whom, these holy Mysteries, with the spiand with whom, in the unity of the ritual food of the most precious Holy Ghost, all honour and glory Body and Blood of thy Son our be unto thee, O Father Almighty, Saviour Jesus Christ; and dost world without end. Amen. assure us thereby of thy favour Here shall be sung a Hymn, or Part of a Hymn, and goodness towards us; and that from the Selection for the Feasts and Fasts, we are very members incorporate Then shall the Bishop first receive the Commu- in the mystical body of thy Son, nion in both kinds himself, and proceed to deliver which is the blessed company of all

&c.

the same to the Bishops, Priests, and Deacons,

in like manner, and, after that, to the People faithful people; and are also heirs also in order, into their hands, all devoutly kneel- through hope of thy everlasting kingdom, by the merits of the most

ing: and when he delivereth the Bread, he shall say,

precious death and passion of thy takest away the sins of the world, dear Son. And we most humbly have mercy upon us: Thou who beseech thee, O heavenly Father, takest away the sins of the world, so to assist us with thy grace, that receive our prayer: Thou who sitwe may continue in that holy fel-test at the right hand of God the lowship, and do all such good works Father, have mercy upon us. as thou hast prepared for us to walk For thou only art holy; thou in, through Jesus Christ our Lord; only art the Lord; thou only, O to whom, with thee and the Holy Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art Ghost, be all honour and glory, most High in the Glory of God world without end. Amen. the Father. Amen.

¶ Then shall be said or sung, all standing, Gloria in ¶ Then the Bishop shall let them depart with this Excelsis, or some proper Hymn from the Selection. blessing.

LORY be to God on high,HE peace of God, which GLO and in earth peace, good will TH passeth all understanding, towards men. We praise thee, keep your hearts and minds in the we bless thee, we worship thee, knowledge and love of God, and we glorify thee, we give thanks of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord: to thee for thy great glory, O Lord And the blessing of God Almighty, God, heavenly King, God the Fa- the Father, the Son, and the Holy ther Almighty.

O Lord, the only begotten Son Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, who takest away the sins of the world,

Ghost, be amongst you, and remain with you always. Amen.

If any of the consecrated Bread and Wine remain after the Communion, it shall not be carried out of the Church; but the Bishop and other Communicants shall, immediately after the Bless

have mercy upon us: Thou who ing, reverently eat and drink the same.

Here endeth the Order for the Administration of the Holy Communion.

THE FORM OF

Consecration of a Church or Chapel,

According to the Order of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, as established by the Bishops, the Clergy, and Laity of said Church, in General Convention, in the month of September, A. D. 1799.

The Bishop is to be received at the entrance of the Church or Chapel by the Church-wardens and Vestrymen, or some other Persons appointed for that purpose. The Bishop and the Clergy who are present, shall go up the aisle of the Church or Chapel, to the Communion Table, repeating the 24th Psalm alternately, the Bishop one verse, and the Clergy another.

Psalm xxiv.

nor sworn to deceive his neighTHE earth is the Lord's and bour.

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all that therein is the com- 5 He shall receive the blessing pass of the world, and they that from the Lord, and righteousness dwell therein. from the God of his salvation.

2 For he hath founded it upon 6 This is the generation of them the seas, and prepared it upon the that seek him; even of them that floods. seek thy face, O Jacob.

3 Who shall ascend into the hill 7 Lift up your heads, O ye of the Lord, or who shall rise up in gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting door: and the King of Glory shall come in.

his holy place?

4 Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart; and that hath

8 Who is the King of Glory?

not lift up his mind unto vanity, it is the Lord strong and mighty,

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even the Lord mighty in battle.name to offer up their praises and 9 Lift up your heads, O ye supplications unto thee; vouchgates; and be ye lift up, ye ever-safe, O Lord, to be present with lasting doors and the King of us, who are here gathered together, Glory shall come in. with all humility and readiness of 10 Who is the King of Glory? heart, to consecrate this place to even the Lord of hosts, he is the the honour of thy great name; seKing of Glory. parating it henceforth from all un¶ The Bishop shall go within the rails, with such hallowed, ordinary and common

of the Clergy as can be there accommodated.

instruments of donation and endowment, if there vice, for reading thy holy word, The Bishop, sitting in his chair, shall have the uses, and dedicating it to thy serany presented to him, and then standing up, for celebrating thy holy sacra

be

and turning to the Congregation, shall say,

Dorasuch as devout and holy EARLY beloved in the Lord;ments, for offering to thy glorious Majesty the sacrifices of prayer men, as well under the law as un- and thanksgiving, for blessing thy der the gospel, moved either by people in thy name, and for the perthe express command of God, or formance of all other holy offices: by the secret inspiration of the accept, O Lord, this service at our hands, and bless it with such sucblessed Spirit, and acting agreeably to their own reason and sense of cess as may tend most to thy glory, the natural decency of things, have and the furtherance of our happierected houses for the public wor-ness both temporal and spiritual, ship of God, and separated them through Jesus Christ our blessed from all unhallowed, worldly, and Lord and Saviour. Amen. common uses, in order to fill¶ After this the Bishop shall stand up, and turning his face towards the Congregation, shall say, men's minds with greater reve

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rence for his glorious Majesty, and REGARD, O Lord, the supaffect their hearts with more de- plications of thy servants, and votion and humility in his service; grant that whosoever shall be dewhich pious works have been ap; Baptism, may be sanctified by the dicated to thee in this house by proved of and graciously accepted by our heavenly Father: Let us Holy Ghost, delivered from thy not doubt but that he will also fa- wrath and eternal death, and revourably approve our godly pur-ceived as a living member of pose of setting apart this place in Christ's Church, and may ever resolemn manner, for the perform-main in the number of thy faithful

ance of the several offices of religious worship, and let us faithfully and devoutly beg his blessing on this our undertaking.

¶ Then the Bishop kneeling, shall say the following

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children. Amen.

Grant, O Lord, that they who at this place shall in their own persons renew the promises and vows which they made, or which were made for them by their sureETERNAL God, mighty ties at their Baptism, and therein power and of majesty in- upon shall be confirmed by the comprehensible, whom the hea- Bishop, may receive such a meaven of heavens cannot contain, sure of thy Holy Spirit, that they much less the walls of temples may be enabled faithfully to fulfil made with hands; and who yet the same, and grow in grace unto hast been graciously pleased to their lives' end. Amen. promise thy especial presence, Grant, O Lord, that whosoever wherever two or three of thy faith-shall receive in this place the blessful servants shall assemble in thy ed sacrament of the body and

blood of Christ, may come to that servants, to appropriate and devote holy ordinance with faith, charity, this house to thy honour and worand true repentance; and being ship; and grant that all who shall filled with thy grace and heavenly enjoy the benefit of this pious benediction, may, to their great work, may show forth their thankand endless comfort, obtain remis-fulness, by making a right use of sion of their sins, and all other it, to the glory of thy blessed benefits of his passion. Amen. name, through Jesus Christ our Grant, O Lord, that by thy holy Lord. Amen. word which shall be read and T After this the Minister appointed is to read the service for the day.

preached in this place, and by thy PROPER PSALMS, 84----122 Holy Spirit grafting it inwardly in

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verse 22 to verse 63.

the heart, the hearers thereof may FIRST LESSON. 1 Kings 8th, both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and may have power and strength to fulfil the same. Amen.

Grant, O Lord, that whosoever shall be joined together in this place in the holy estate of matrimony, may faithfully perform and keep the vow and covenant between them made, and may remain in perfect love together unto their lives' end. Amen.

SECOND LESSON. Heb. 10th,

verse 19 to verse 27. Morning Prayer being ended, there shall be sung from the Book of Psalms in metre, Psal. xxvi. verse 6, 7, 8, with the Gloria Patri. The Bishop shall then proceed to the Communion Service. The following shall be the Col

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lect, Epistle, and Gospel, for the occasion. The Collect. MOST glorious Lord, acknowledge that we are not worthy to offer unto thee any Grant, we beseech thee, blessed thing belonging unto us; yet we Lord, that whosoever shall draw beseech thee in thy great goodness, near to thee in this place, to give graciously to accept the dedication thee thanks for the benefits which of this place to thy service, and to they have received at thy hands, prosper this our undertaking; reto set forth thy most worthy praise, ceive the prayers and intercesto confess their sins unto thee, and sions of all those thy servants, who to ask such things as are requisite shall call upon thee in this house; and necessary as well for the body and give them grace to prepare as for the soul, may do it with their hearts to serve thee with resuch steadiness of faith, and with verence and godly fear; affect them such seriousness, affection, and de- with an awful apprehension of thy votion of mind, that thou mayest Divine Majesty, and a deep sense accept their bounden duty and ser- of their own unworthiness; that vice, and vouchsafe to give what-so approaching thy sanctuary with ever in thy infinite wisdom thou lowliness and devotion, and coming shalt see to be most expedient for before thee with clean thoughts them: all which we beg for Jesus and pure hearts, with bodies undeChrist's sake our most blessed filed, and minds sanctified, they Lord and Saviour. Amen. may always perform a service acThen the Bishop sitting in his chair, the sentence ceptable to thee, through Jesus

of Consecration is to be read by some person ap

Christ our Lord. Amen.

pointed by him, and then laid by him upon the The Epistle. 2 Cor. vi. verse 14

Communion Table,-after which the Bishop

shall say,

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to verse 17.

ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for fellowship hath righteous

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