¶ Then shall the Priest say, Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all that truly turn to him. 'OME unto me, all that travail and are heavy Cod xi. 28. So God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, to the end that all that believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. St. John iii. 16. Hear also what Saint Paul saith. This is a true saying, and worthy of all men to be received, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Tim. i. 15. Hear also what Saint John saith. If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the propitiation for our sins. I St. John ii. 1. ¶After which the Priest shall proceed, saying, Lift up your hearts. Answer. We lift them up unto the Lord. Priest. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. Answer. It is meet and right so to do. ¶Then shall the Priest turn to the Lord's Table and say, ng all times, and in all places, T is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, [Holy Father give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy These word Father, Almighty, Everlasting God. must be omitted on Trinity Sunday. ¶Here shall follow the Proper Preface, according to the time, if there be any specially appointed: or else immediately shall follow, HEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, Tand with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: Glory be to thee, O Lord most High. Amen. PROPER PREFACES. Upon Christmas-day, and seven days after. ECAUSE thou didst give Jesus Christ thine who, by the operation of the Holy Ghost, was made very man of the substance of the Virgin Mary his mother; and that without spot of sin, to make us clean from all sin. Therefore with Angels, &c. Upon Easter-day, and seven days after. Christ our Lord: for he is the very Paschal Lamb, which was offered for us, and hath taken away the sin of the world: who by his death hath destroyed death, and by his rising to life again hath restored to us everlasting life. Therefore with Angels, &c. Upon Ascension-day, and seven days after. HROUGH thy most dearly beloved Son glorious Resurrection manifestly appeared to all his Apostles, and in their sight ascended up into heaven to prepare a place for us; that where he is, thither we might also ascend, and reign with him in glory. Therefore with Angels, &c. ΤΗ Upon Whit-Sunday, and six days after. HROUGH Jesus Christ our Lord; according to whose most true promise, the Holy Ghost came down as at this time from heaven with a sudden great sound, as it had been a mighty wind, in the likeness of fiery tongues, lighting upon the Apostles, to teach them, and to lead them to all truth; giving them both the gift of divers languages, and also boldness with fervent zeal constantly to preach the Gospel unto all nations; whereby we have been brought out of darkness and error into the clear light and true knowledge of thee, and of thy Son Jesus Christ. Therefore with Angels, &c. WHO stance. Upon the Feast of Trinity only. WHO art one God, one Lord; not one only Person, but three Persons in one SubFor that which we believe of the glory of the Father, the same we believe of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, without any difference or inequality. Therefore with Angels, &c. ¶ After each of which Prefaces shall immediately be sung or said, THEREFORE the company of heaven, we 'HEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: Glory be to thee, O Lord most High. Amen. ¶Then shall the Priest, kneeling down at the Lord's Table, say in the name of all them that shall receive the Communion this prayer following. TE do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen. ¶ When the Priest, standing before the Table, hath so orderea the Bread and Wine, that he may with the more readiness and decency break the Bread before the people, and take the Cup into his hands, he shall say the Prayer of consecration, as followeth. A LMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the Cross for our redemption; who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction Priest is to take for the sins of the whole world; and did institute, and in his holy Gospel command us to continue, a perpetual memory of that his precious death, until his coming again; Hear us, O merciful Father, we most humbly beseech thee; and grant that we receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine, according to thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers of his most blessed Body and Blood: who, in the same night that he was betrayed, (a) took Bread: and when he had (a) Here the given thanks, (6) he brake it, and the Paten into gave it to his disciples, saying, his hands: Take, eat, (c) this is my Body which (6) And here is given for you: Do this in remem- Bread: brance of me. Likewise after (c) And here supper he (d) took the Cup; and, upon all when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this; for this is my Blood of the New Testa- (d) Here he is to take the Cup ment, which is shed for you and into his hand: for many for the remission of sins: || And here to Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, upon every veslay his hand in remembrance of me. Amen. to break the to lay his hand Bread. the sel (be it Chalice or Flagon) in which there is any Wine to be consecrated. |