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church in the USA . BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER,

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AND

ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS,

AND

OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF

THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

IN

The Onfted States of America :

TOGBTHBR WITH

THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID.

NEW-YORK:

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL PRESS.

MDCCCXXXV.

X do hereby certsfy, that this edition of the Common Prayer Book, Book of Offices, &c., (having been compared with the standard books, and corrected by the same,) is permitted to be published as an edition duly compared and corrected by a suitable person appointed for that purpose, as the canon directs.

BENJAMIN T. ONDERDONK.

Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the

State of New York.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page.

Page. 1 The Ratification of the Book 16 The Ministration of Baptism to of Common Prayer,

4 such as are of Riper Years, 2 The Preface,

5 and able to answer for 3 The Order how the Psalter is

themselves,

166 appointed to be read,

717 A Catechism; that is to say, an 4 The Order how the rest of the

Instruction to be learned by Holy Scripture is appointed to

every person before he be be read,

7 brought to be confirmed by 5 Tables of Lessons of Holy Scrip

the Bishop

171 ture, to be read at Morning 18 The Order of Confirmation, or and Evening Prayer through

Laying on of hands upon out the year,

8 those that are baptized, and 6 The Calendar,

10 come to years of discretion, 175 7 Tables and Rules for the Movea- 19 The form of Solemnization of ble and Immoveable Feasts,

Matrimony,

177 together with the days of 20 The Order for the Visitation of Fasting and Abstinence

the Sick,

179 throughout the year,

1621 The Communion of the Sick, 185 8 Tables for finding the Holy-days, 17 22 The Order for the Burial of the 9 The Order for Daily Morning

Dead,

186 Prayer,

21 23 The Thanksgiving of Women 10 The Order for Daily Evening

after Child-birth, commonly Prayer,

29 called, The Churching of 11. Prayers and Thanksgivings

Women,

190 upon several occasions, to be 24 Forms of Prayer to be used at used before the two final

Sea,

192 prayers of Morning and 25 A Form of Prayer for the VisitaEvening Service, 39 tion of Prisoners,

198 12 The Collects, Epistles, and 26 A Form of Prayer and ThanksGospels, to be used throughout

giving to Almighty God, for

44 the fruits of the earth and all 13 The Order for the Administra

the other blessings of his tion of the Lord's Supper, or

merciful providence,

205 Holy Communion,

145 | 27 Forms of Prayer to be used in 14 The Ministration of Public Bap

Families,

207 tism of Infants, to be used in 28 Selections of Psalms, to be used the church,

158 instead of the Psalms for the 15 The Ministration of Private

Day, at the discretion of the
Baptism of Children in

Minister,

211 houses,

162 | 29 The Psalter, or Psalms of David, 228

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the year,

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