present) shall let them depart with this Blessing.

THE

HE peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord: and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always. Amen.

BU

Upon Easter-day, and seven days after.

UT chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious Resurrection of thy Son Jesus 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, &

TH

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 dark-
ness and error into the clear light and true knowledge of thee, and
Therefore with Angels, &c.

of thy Son Jesus Christ.

Upon the Feast of Trinity only.

7HO art one God, one Lord; not one only Person, but three Persons in one Substance.

WH

glory of the Father, the same we

For that which we believe of the

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

TH

or said,

"HEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and 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.

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EXHORTATIONS TO COMMUNICATE.

¶ When the Minister giveth warning for the celebration of the holy Communion, (which he shall always do upon the Sunday, or some Holy-day, immediately preceding,) after the Sermon or Homily ended, he shall read this Exhortation following.

DEARLY beloved, on

day next I purpose, through God's assistance, to administer to all such as shall be religiously and devoutly disposed the most comfortable Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ; to be by them received in remembrance of his meritorious Cross and Passion; whereby alone we obtain remission of our sins, and are made partakers of the Kingdom of Heaven. Wherefore it is our duty to render most humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God our heavenly Father, for that he hath given his Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, not only to die for us, but also to be our spiritual food and sustenance in that holy Sacrament. Which being so divine and comfortable a thing to them who receive it worthily, and so dangerous to them that will presume to receive it unworthily; my duty is to exhort you in the mean season to consider the dignity of that holy mystery, and the great peril of the unworthy receiving thereof; and so to search and examine your own consciences, (and that not lightly, and after the manner of dissemblers with God; but so) that ye may come holy and clean to such a heavenly Feast, in the marriage-garment required by God in holy Scripture, and be received as worthy partakers of that holy Table.

The way and means thereto is; First, to examine your lives and conversations by the rule of God's commandments; and whereinsoever ye shall perceive yourselves to have offended, either by will, word or deed, there to bewail your own sinfulness, and to confess yourselves to