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We adore thy majesty; we extol thy wisdom, thy power, and thy goodness, which appear with such brightness in the marvelous works of creation and redemption. We acknowledge thy tender love in the manifold favours, spiritual and temporal, which we continually receive at thy hand; but we praise thee more especially, with all Christians who are assembled this day, that thou didst send thy Son into the world to save us, and that he rose from the dead for our justification. We bless thee that thou hast given us, by his glorious resurrection, so lively a hope of everlasting life.

O God! thy glory is great in all thy churches, and the praise of thy name is heard in all the assemblies of thy saints! May our thanksgivings ascend unto thy throne! Make us worthy to be partakers of the resurrection of the just, and of the glory of the kingdom of heaven, whither Jesus Christ hath entered as our forerunner; where he liveth and reigneth; where he is adored and glorified, with thee and the Holy Ghost, God blessed forever. Amen.

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God! who hast given thy Holy Scriptures for our instruction, we beseech thee to enlighten our minds and purify our hearts, that we may worthily read, hear, and meditate upon them, and may understand and receive, as we ought, the things which are therein revealed. Enable thy ministers to declare thy word with purity and clearness, with simplicity and zeal. Render their preaching effectual, through the influence of the Holy Spirit,

so that the good seed may be received into our hearts, as into ground well prepared, and bring forth fruit in abundance. Grant that we may be not only hearers, but doers of thy word; and that, living conformably with its divine instructions during the time of our sojourning here, we may attain unto eternal salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Here may be sung a Psalm or Hymn.

Then the Minister shall say,

EAR with reverence, the Ten Commandments of the Law of God, as they are written in the 20th chapter of the Book of Exodus.

Here the People rise.

OD spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord

GOD

thy God, who brought thee out of the land of

Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

I.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

II.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers. upon the children, unto the third and fourth gene

ration of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

III.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

IV.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work; thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

V.

Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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IX.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

X.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife; nor his manservant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass; nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

HEAR

EAR also what our Lord Jesus Christ saith, in the 22d chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew.

THO

HOU shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

DEARLY beloved!

If God enter into judgment with us, in his sight shall no man living be justified. Psalm cxliii., 2.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. I. John, i., 8.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I. John, i., 9.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a

broken and a contrite heart he will not despise. Psalm, li., 17.

The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom., vi., 23.

Him that cometh unto me, saith the Lord, I will in no wise cast out. St. John, vi., 37.

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Let us therefore, humbly confess our sins.

LORD God! Eternal and Almighty Father!

we confess before thy Divine Majesty that we are miserable sinners, born in corruption and iniquity, prone to evil, and of ourselves incapable of any good. We acknowledge that we transgress in various ways thy holy commandments, so that we draw down on ourselves, through thy righteous. judgment, condemnation and death. We are, O Lord! under heartfelt sorrow for having offended thee; and we implore thy grace to relieve our wretchedness. Vouchsafe, O most gracious God and merciful Father! to have compassion on us, in the name of thy Son Jesus Christ, our Lord. Pardon our sins, give us the graces of the Holy Spirit, and increase them day by day; to the end that, heartily acknowledging our unworthiness, and forsaking our sins, we may be filled with that godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation, and may bring forth fruits of righteousness acceptable to thee; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

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