COMMON PRAYER,

AND ADMINISTRATION OF

THE SACRAMENTS,

AND OTHER

RITES AND CEREMONIES

OF

THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

TOGETHER WITH

THE PSALTER,

OR,

PSALMS OF DAVID.

STEREOTYPE EDITION.

BALTIMORE:
PUBLISHED BY E. J. COALE & CO.

1822.

New-York, Sept. 9, 1817. I DO

DO hereby certify, that this Edition of the Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, &c. (having been compared with a standard Book, 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.

JOHN HENRY HOBART,
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church

in the State of New-York.

20 SEP 1923 OXFORD

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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

to such as are of Riper Years,

2 The Preface.

and able to answer for them-

3 The Order how the Psalter is selves.

appointed to be read.

17 A Catechism; that is to say,

4 The Order how the rest of the an instruction to be learned

Holy Scriptures is appointed by every person before he be

to be read.

brought to be confirmed by

5 Tables of Lessons of Holy the Bishop.

Scripture, to be read at 18 The Order of Confirmation, or

Morning and Evening Prayer Layingon of Hands upon those

throughout the Year.

that are baptized, and come

6 The Calendar.

to Years of Discretion.

7 Tables and Rules for the 19 The Form of Solemnization

Moveable and Immoveable of Matrimony.

Feasts, together with the 20 The Order for the Visitation of

Days of Fasting and Absti the Sick.

nence throughout the Year. 21 The Communion of the Sick.

8 Tables for inding the Holy- 22 The Order for the Burial of

Days.

the Dead.

9 The Order for Daily Morn- 23 The Thanksgiving of Women

ing Prayer.

after Child-Birth, commonly

10 The Order for Daily Evening called, The Churching of Wo-

Prayer.

11 Prayers and Thanksgivings up-24 Forms of Prayer to be used at

on several Occasions, to be Sea.

used before the two final 25 A Form of Prayer for the Vi.

Prayers of Morning and Even sitation of Prisoners.

ing Service.

26 A Form of Prayerand Thanks-

12 The Collects, Epistles, and giving to Almighty God, for

Gospels, to be used through the Fruits of the Earth, and

out the Year.

all the other Blessings of his

13 The Order for the Adminis merciful Providence.

tration of the Lord's Supper, 27 Forms of Prayer to be used

or Holy Communion.

in Families.

14 The Ministration of Public 28 Selections of Psalms, to be

Baptism of Infants, to be used used instead of the Psalms for

in the Church.

the Day, at the Discretion of

15 The Ministration of Pri the Minister.

vate Baptism of Children in 29 The Psalter, or Psalms of Da-

Houses.

vid.

men.