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which Father, Ο heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs againit us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Minifter. O Lord, fave thy fervant, and thy handmaid;

Answer. Who put their trust in thee.

Minister. O Lord, fend them help from thy holy place;

Answer. And evermore defend them.

Minister. Be unto them a tower of ftrength;

Answer. From the face of their enemy.

Minister. O Lord, hear our

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0 Ifaac, God of Jacob, blefs thefe thy fervants, and fow the feed of eternal life in their hearts; that whatsoever in thy holy Word they thall profitably learn,

they may indeed fulfil the fame. Look, O Lord, mercifully upon them from heaven, and blefs them. And as thou didst send thy bleffing upon Abraham and Sarah, to their great comfort; fo vouchfafe to fend thy blefling upon these thy fervants, that they, obeying thy will, and alway being in fafety under thy protection, may abide in thy love unto their lives' end, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. This Prayer next following shall be omitted, where the Woman 15 past Child-bearing.

MERCIFUL Lord and heavenly Father, by whose gracious gift mankind is increased; We befeech thee, affift with thy bleffing these two perfons; that they may both be fruitful in procreation of children, and alfo live together so long in godly love and honefty, that they may fee their children chriftianly and virtuoufly brought up, to thy praife and honour, through Jefus

Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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GOD, who by thy mighty power haft made all things of nothing, who alfo (after other things fet in order) didft appoint, that out of man (created after thine own image and fimilitude) woman fhould take her beginning; and knitting them together, didft teach that it fhould never be lawful to put afunder those whom thou by Matrimony kadft made one: O God.who haft confecrated the flate of Matrimony to fuch an excellent myftery, that in it is fignified and reprefented the fpiritual marriage and unity betwixt Chrift and his Church; Look mercifully upon there thy fervants, that both this Man may love his Wife, according to thy Word, as Chrift did love his fooufe the Church; who gave himfelf for it, loving and cherishing it even as his own fleth: and alfo that this Woman may be loving and amiable, faithfuland obedient to her Huiband and in all quietness, fobriety, and peace, be a follower of holy and

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LL ye that are married, or that intend to take the holy eftate of Matrimony upon you, hear what the holy Scripture doth say, as touching the duty of husbands towards their wives, and wives towards their hufbands.

Saint Paul, in his Epistle to the Ephefians, the fifth chapter, doth give this commandment to all married men; Huíbands, love your wives, even as Christ alfo loved the Church, and gave him felf for it; that he might fanctify and cleanfe it with the wathing of water, by the Word; that he might prefent it to himself a glorious Church, not having fpot, or wrinkle, or any fuch thing; but that it thould be holy, and without blemith. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own fleth, but nourisheth and cheritheth it, even as the Lord the Church: for we are members of his body, of his fleth, and of his bones. For this cause fhall a man leave his father and mother, and thall be joined unto his wife, and they two thall be one fleth. This is a great mystery: but I fpeak concerning Chrout and the Church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular fo love his wife even as himself.

Likewife the fame Saint Paul, writing to the Coloffians, speaketh thus to all men that are married; Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Hear also what Saint Peter, the Apoftle of Chrift, who was himfelf a married man, faith unto them that are married; Ye hufbands, dwell with your wives according to knowledge; giv. ing honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker veffel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Hitherto ye have heard the duty of the husband toward the wife. Now likewife, ye wives, hear and learn your duties toward your husbands, even as it is plainly fet forth in holy Scripture.

Saint Paul, in the aforenamed Epiftle to the Ephefians, teacheth you thus; Wives, fubmit yourselves unto your own hufbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the 'wife, even as Chrift is the head of the Church and he is the Saviour of the body. Therefore as the Church is fubject unto Chrift, fo let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. And again he faith, Let the wife fee that the reverence her husband.

And in his Epifile to the Coloffians, Saint Paul giveth you this thortleffon; Wives, fubmit your. felves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Saint Peter alfo doth inftruct you very well, thus faying; Ye wives, be in fubjection to your own husbands; that if any obey not the word, they alfo may without the word be won by the converfation of the wives: while they behold your chaste converfation coupled with fear. Whote adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel, but let it be the hiiden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the fight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women alfo, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in

subjection unto their own hul bands; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whofe daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

moft merciful God and Saviour; extend thy accustomed goodness to this thy fervant, who is grieved with fickness: Sanctify, we beseech thee, this thy fatherly correction to him; that the fenfe of his weakness may add strength to his faith, and feriousness to his repentance: That if it shall be thy good pleafure to restore him to his former health, he may lead the refidue of his life in thy fear, and to thy glory: or elfe, give him grace fo to take thy vifitation, that after this painful life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlasting, through Jesus Chrift our Lord.

Amen. Then shall the Minister exhort the fick Perfon after this forms or other like.

dead, and buried; that he went down into hell, and alfo did rife again the third day; that he afcended into heaven, and fitteth, on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; and from thence fhall come again at the end of the world, to judge the quick and the dead?

And doft thou believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Catholic Church; the communion of faints; the remiffion of fins; the refurrection of the fleth; and everlasting life after death

The fick Perfon shall answer, All this I ftedfastly believe. Then shall the Minister examine whether he repent him truly of his fins, and be in charity with all the world; exhorting him to forgive, from the bottom of his heart, all perfons that have offended him: and if he hath of fended any other, to ask them forgiveness; and where he hath done injury or wrong to any wan, that he make amends to the uttermost of his power. And if he hath not before disposed of his goods, let him then be admonished to make his Will, and to declare his debts, what he oweth, and what is owing unto him; for the better difcharging of his conscience, and the quietness of his executors. But men should often be put in remembrance to take order for the fettling of their temporal estates whilst they are in health..

These words, before rehearsed, may be faid before t the Minifter begin his Prayer, as he thall fee cause. The Minister should not omit earnestly to move fuch fick Per fons, as are of ability, to be liberal to the poor.

Here shall the fick Perfon be moved to make a special Confeffion of his fins, if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter. After which Confef fion, the Priest shall abfolve him (if he humbly and heartily defire it) after this fort:

UR Lord Jefus Chrift, who hath left power to his Church to abfolve all finners who truly repent, and believe in

him; of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences: and by his authority committed to me, I abfolve thee from all thy fins, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. Amen. Andthen the Priest shall say the Collect following.

Let us pray.

MOST merciful God, who

of thy mercies, dost so put away the fins of those who truly repent, that thou remembereft them no more; Open thine eye of mercy upon this thy fervant, who moft earnestly defireth pardon and forgiveness. Renew in him, most loving Father, "whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the devil, or by his own carnal will and frailnefs; preferve and continue this fick member in the unity of the Church; confider his contrition, accept his tears, affwage his pain, as thall seem to thee moft ex. pedient for him. And forafmuch as he putteth his full truft only in thy mercy, impute not unto him his former fins; but ftrengthen him with thy bleffed Spirit; and when thou art pieased to take him hence, take him unto thy favour, through the merits of thy most dear beloved Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. Then shall the Minister say this

Pfalm.

Pf. lxxi. In te Domine, speravr. IN N thee, O Lord, have I put my truit; let me never put to confufion but rid me, and deliver me in thy righteouf ness; incline thine ear unto me, and fave me.

Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may alway refort: thou haft promifed to help me; for thou art my house of defence, and my castle.

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope, even from my youth.