As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Observation 2.-Before you begin to say the prayers, meditate a short time on the text which is set before them. This will place the subject of each prayer clearly before your mind, and enable you to pray with greater devotion.

At Evening Prayer.

Text." Who His Own Self bare our sins in His Own Body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by Whose stripes ye were healed."-1 St. Peter ii. 14.

I give Thee humble and most hearty thanks, O God our heavenly Father, for all Thy goodness shown to me and all men: but above all, for the wondrous love and mercy which sent Thine only Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, to suffer death upon, the cross for our redemption.

And praised be Thy Name, O Lord, for Thy regard to our infirm forgetful hearts, which moved Thee to ordain a perpetual memory of that His precious death, until His coming again.

Give me grace to remember that my sins were the cause of those sufferings, and make my longing and desire after the Sacrament of His death as great as I feel and confess my need of it to be.

But how shall a sinner such as I am approach Thy holy feast? How shall I dare to eat the children's bread, who am not worthy to gather up the crumbs that fall under Thy table?

O Lord, my guilt makes me fear to come, and yet makes me not dare to stay away; for where else can I be cleansed from all my sins?

Yes, I will come to Thee, O Lord, for those who come to Thee, Thou wilt not, I know, cast out.

Grant to me, therefore, gracious Lord, that I may so remember before Thee the death and sufferings of Thy Son, that they may avail to the remission of my sins. Grant that I may so eat the flesh of Thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and drink His Blood, that my sinful body may be made clean by

His Body, and my soul washed through His most precious Blood, and that I may evermore dwell in Him, and He in me. And this I beg for his merits' sake. Amen.

Here say Psalm cxlii. (in which we may consider that we hear Christ speaking in the days of His humiliation, and prophesying (in verse 9), that all who were worthy should believe in Him when His sufferings were accomplished.)

Our Father, &c.

[At special seasons the proper Collect.]

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, be with me, and with mine, now and at the hour of death.

Amen.

THE TUESDAY BEFORE.

COMMEMORATION OF THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST.

At Morning Prayer.

Text.-" From the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, My Name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto My Name, and a pure offering.-Mal. i. 11.

O Lord, our heavenly Father, Whose wellbeloved Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, did offer up Himself to Thee upon the altar of the cross, a full, perfect, and sufficient Sacrifice for the sins of the whole world, and did ordain a pure, unbloody offering of bread and wine as a memorial before Thee forever, of that most precious Sacrifice;

Grant unto me, I beseech Thee, and to all who with me shall approach Thine altar, that we may come before Thee with clean thoughts and pure hearts; with bodies undefiled, and minds sanctified; and may perform a service acceptable to Thee, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

All things are Thine, O Lord, which are in heaven and which are in earth; yet with this offering, which Thou hast ordained, I desire to make another.

Lord, in the sincerity of my heart, I offer unto Thee myself, to serve and obey Thee all the days of my life.

Accept me, O Lord, unholy though I am,

for the sake of that Holy Life once offered on the cross.

O send out Thy light and Thy truth, that they may lead me, and bring me to Thy holy hill, and to Thy dwelling, that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness, and give thanks unto Thee, O God, my God, forever; through Jesus Christ. Amen.

Say Psalm cx. (which is prophetical of the everlasting priesthood of Christ, ver. 4; of His humiliation and glory, ver. 7. Melchisedek was a type of Christ, Heb. v.; his offering, like that ordained by Christ, was of bread and wine.-Gen. xiv. 18.)

Our Father, &c.

[The proper Collect.]

God the Father, God the Son, &c.

For reading, see No. III. in Appendix II.

At Evening Prayer.

Text." The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord; but the prayer of the upright is His delight." "-Prov. xv. 8,