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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 m ^-^ 0' %^ 1^ FORM OF PRAYER, TO BE USED ON FRIDAY, THE 14™ OF DECEMBER, 1838, APPOINTED BY PROCLAMATION FOR A DAY OF PUBLIC FASTING AND HUMILIATION BEFORE ALMIGHTY GOD; AND TO SUPPLICATE HIS MERCY, THAT HE WOULD BE GRACIOUSLY PLEASED TO PUT AN END TO THE TROUBLES WHICH AGITATE THE PROVINCE, AND RESTORE TO IT THE BLESSINGS OF PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY. iJfi ^ttttorCtg, TORONTO: R. STANTON, PRINTER TO THS QUEEN's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. [ w ^p • 11 ^ The Order for Morning Prayer, •|[ The Service shall be tk ith the usual Office for Holydays, except where same wiffi the usual it is in this Office otherwise appointed. ^ Lei him thai Ministereth, read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture ; and after them the Exhortation, Dearly Beloved Brethren, &fc. TO the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, thongh we have rebelled against him: neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us. In my trouble I will call upon the Lord, and complain unto my God. So shall He hear my voice out of His holy temple; my complaint shall come before Him. ^ Instead of the Venite Exultemus. HEAR our Prayer, O God : and hide not thyself from our Petition. Take heed unto us, and hear us: how we mourn in our Prayer, and are vexed. Unto Thee will I cry, Lord, my strength: think no scorn of me, lest if Thou make as though Thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the Pit. Turn thee, Lord, and deliver my soul : O save me for thy mercies* Nevertheless though I am sometime afraid: yet put I my trust in God. He verily is our strength and our salvation: He is our defence, so that we shall not greatly fall. O put your trust in Him alway, ye people : pour out your hearts before Him, for God is our hope. • As for the children of men, they are but vanity : the children of men are deceitful upon the weights, they are altogether lighi^er than vanity itself. 4 Morning Prayer. trust not in wrong and robbery; give not yourselves unto vanity : if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. Be Thou, O God, our help in trouble : for vain is the help of man. Deliver, Thou, our souls from death, and our feet from falling: that we may walk before thee in the light of the living. Go not far from me, O God : my God, haste Thee to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. ^ Proper Psalms. XXV. XXXVIIT. LVII. First Lesson, Isaiah 37. ^ Jifter the First Lesson shall follow Te Deum Laudamus, in English, Second Lesson, Luke 21. H Then Benedictus, the Creed, Sfc. ^ This Collect to be used, instead of the Collect of the day, ©LORD, most good and powerful, we, Thy sinful people, here assembled before Thee, acknowledge it to be of Thine unspeakable mercy, that for our manifold and heinous provocations, we are not utterly consumed, and given over for a prey to the fury of our enemies, or other scourge of Thine avenging hand. We confess, with sorrow and confusion, our long unfruitfulness, under the means of grace, the light of Thy Gospel, and the many wonderful deliverances, which Thou, in Thy great goodness, hast vouchsafed unto us. Lord, shouldst thou enter into judgment with us for our sins, for our profaneness and infidelity, our heresies and schisms, our exclusive pursuit of the business, or inordinate love, of the pleasures of the world, our forgetfulness alike of Thy past judgments and mercies, and our other numberless offences, Thou mightest justly inflict upon us the severity of Thy wrath, and visit us with renewed and heavier calamities. But there is mercy with Thee, therefore shalt Thou be feared : Thou art the Lord God, tender and full of compassion, not willing that any should M Morning Prayer. S perish, but that all should repent and Uve. Look down, therefore, we beseech Thee, with an eye of pity, and loving-kindness, upon Thy ser- vants, who, with contrite hearts, here bewail their transgressions, and their wretchedness. Let us, in this time of trouble, still enjoy the light of Thy countenance, and the blessing of Thy bountiful hand ; and so work upon our hearts and minds, by the influences of Thy Holy Spirit, that being turned from the error of our ways, and created to newness of life, we may walk before Thee, in righteousness and holiness, in this world, and inherit Thine everlasting Kingdom, in that which is to come, through the merits of Jesus Christ, our only mediator, and advocate. Amen. ^ Then shall follow the Second and Third Collects at Morning Prayer ^ and after these the Litany, ^ The Prayer ** In time of War and Tumults," (which shall always be used during the continuance of the present troubles)^ shall be used in its proper place, after whichf and immediately before the General Thanksgiving, the People shall say the two following Prayers, after the Minister : TURN Thou us, good Lord, and so shall we be turned. Be favourable, O Lord, be favourable to Thy People, who turn to Thee in weeping, fasting, and praying. For Thou art a merciful God, full of compassion, long-suffering, and of great pity. Thou sparest, when we deserve punishment ; and, in Thy wrath. Thou thinkest upon mercy. Spare Thy People, good Lord, spare them, and let not Thine heritage be brought to confusion. Hear us, O Lord, for Thy mercy is great, 'and after the multitude of Thy mercies look upon us, through the merits and mediation of Thy Blessed Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O ALMIGHTY Lord, and Everlasting Father, who, in the Gracious exercise of Thy providential government, hast been pleased to grant to the Counsels and the Arms of our Sovereign, a recent instance of most signal and unexampled success ; and hast checked the designs of ungodly men, in a daring attempt to disturb the peace of this Province : accept for these, and all Thy other Mercies, the tribute of our unfeigned thank- fulness and praise. We humbly and devoutly acknowledge that we owe 6 Communion Service* ici ric ma/^ end this, and every other good, entirely to the overflowing abundance of Thy free and unmerited kindness. To Thee therefore, virith one accord of heart and voice, we ascribe all the glory : we laud and magnify and extol Thy great and adorable Name. And while, humbly prostrate before Thy Throne, we express in this public manner our gratitude with our lips, give us grace that we may feel it deeply in our hearts, and display it out- wardl}> in our lives. Grant that as we further experience both in public and in private the Blessings of Thy protecting providence, we may ever rise in our feelings of devout affection towards Thee, of zeal for Thy Glory, and reverence for Thy Holy Name, and may grow in all those Graces which adorn the true Christian character. These praises and prayers we humbly offer up to Thy Divine Majesty, in the Name, and through the mediation, of our only Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen. The Communion Service. ^ After the Prayer for the Q^uecn, and the Lieutenant Governor^ shall be read the Colltct which here folloivcth : O ALMIGHTY God, who rulest over all the Nations of the Earth, and on whose gracious Providence they depend evermore for pre- servation and prosperity; extend, we beseech Thee, Thine accustomed goodness to the people of these Provinces ; who, looking up to Thee, as the Author of all Blessings, and their sure Safeguard and mighty Deliverer in all dangers and difficulties, do now implore Thy watchful care and protection. O Lord, Thou hast before wonderfully delivered us: if Thou fiadst not been on our side when men rose up against us, they would have swallowed us up : continue Thy mercy and cast not out the prayer of Thy people who call upon Thee. Defeat the counsel of the wicked ; open the eyes of the deluded ; strengthen the hands of our defenders ; grant to our Rulers a spirit of wisdom and firmness, and give to them and to all of us a spirit of faith and prayer. Stretch forth the right hand of Thy Majesty to save and defend us from the evils with which we are threatened. But if, in Thy wisdom. Thou hast ordained that they should ance of Thy ne accord of ify and extol J before Thy vith our lips, isplay it out- 3th in public nay ever rise Thy Glory, those Graces i prayers we through the Amen. all be read the 3f the Earth, nore for pre- accustomed to Thee, as ity DeUverer Pul care and I us: if Thou f would have le prayer of the wicked ; r defenders; 3 to them and fight hand of vhich we are t they should -^f Communion Service. 7 visit us, give us grace that we may humbly and patiently submit to Thy correction, and, after having been exercised thereby, may hring forth the peaceable fruits of Righteousness, to the praise and glory of Thy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, ^ Then shall follow^ for the Epistle, Isaiah Iviil. v. 1, to the words "here I am,'* inclusive in Verse 9. CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God : they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take deUght in approaching to God. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and Thou seest not? Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast, ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen I a day for a man to afflict his soul 1 is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himi wilt thcu call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord I Is not this the fast that I have chosen 1 to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yokel Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him : and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall, go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He shall say, Here I am. The Gospel. Matthew iii. ver. 1 to ver. 11. IN those days came >John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, Repent ye : for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that^vas spoken of by the Prophet Esaias, saying, the voice ^T 8 Evening Prayer. of one crying in t^e wilderness, prepare ve the way of the Lord, make His paths straight. And the same John had his raiment of Camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and alJ the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing tlieir sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his Baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come 1 Bring forth therefoi-e fruits meet for re- pentance : And think not to say within yourselves, we have Aoraham to our father : for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees : therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Tf Then shall follow the Nicene Creed : and after thai the Sermon. Evening Prayer. Introductory Sentences, as in Morning. Proper Psalms, VII. LXIV. LXXXVI. First Lesson, Joel 2. Then the Magnificat. Second Lesson, 1st Peter iv. Then the Psalm, "God be merciful," S^c. [The two Collects appointed for the occasion in the Morning Prayer, and the Communion Office, shall both be used instead of the Collect of the day.'] Before the Prayer for the queen's Majesty, the People shall say this that followeih, after the Minister, "Turn Thou us," ^c. ; and the Prayer commencing, " O Almighty Lord, and Everlasting Father," ^c. p. 5. Immediately before the General ThanJcsgiving, shall be used the Prayer, «* In the time of War and Tumults,'' --(which shall always be used during the continuance of the present troubles.)