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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. / 1 2 3 4 5 6 c Bein FORM OF PRAYER, TO BE USED On Friday, the 7th day ofBecemher, 1838 ; Being the day appointed by proclamation for the observance of a General Fast and Humilia- tion for obtaining pardon of our sins and for averting the continaance of those evils and dan- gers by which, through the just judgment of God, the Province has been visited. &■- BY AUTHORITY* VRINTBD AND SOLD BY ROBERT WEIR, JUN. MONTREAL. f : , 1838. 1 i - f -H > ( - i ■:■■-; ^ ' -^r*- f The service shall be the same with the usual office fm- Sundatf^t ejxept where it is hereinajter otherwise ajypoinled. MORNING PlilAYKil. ^ Morning Prayer shall begin with iftese sentences : " To the Lord our God belong mercies and for- givenesses, though 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. I Instead of Che Venite Exult emus. Hear our prayers, O God ; and hide not thyself from our petitions. Take heed unto us and hear us : how we mourn in our prayer and are vexed. Unto Thee will i cry, O Lord, my strength : think no scorn of me ; lest, if Thou make as though Thou hearest not, I become like them that go dowa into the pit. Turn Thee, O Lord, and deliver my soul : O save me Jor thy mercies sake. Nevertheless tho* I am sometime afraid ; yet put I my trust in God. lie veriti/ is our strength and our solvMion : He is our defence, so that we shall not greatli/Jall. O put yoiu' trust in Himalway, ye people : pour out your hearts before Him, for God is our hope. As for the children of men theij are but vanity: the children of men are deceitful upon the xveights ; they are altogether lighter than vanity itself. •1 ! •<-%'' 1i •it t: :■ O 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 Jar from me, O God : my God, liaste Thee to help me. Glory be to the Father, &c. Proper Psalms, 25, 38, 57. Proper Lessons, \&t,l%B\2ih, Srj, 2d, Luke, 21. • % This Collect shall be used instead o/ the Collect oj the day. 05 Ip^ 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 the Gospel, and the many wonderful deliverances, which Thou, in Thy great goodness, hast vouchsafed unto us. O Lord, shouldest 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 mer- cies, and our other numberless off(?nces, 'J'hou niightest justly inflict upon us the severity of Thy wrath, and visit us with renewed and heavier cala- 5ive not set not r vain is and our re Thee ste Thee he Collect ive, Thy re Thee» e mercy, tions, we 3r a prey joiirge of :h sorrow inder the and the 1, in Thy O Lord, IS for our r heresies business, /orld, our and mer- !s, 'J'hou y of Thy vier cala- mities. But there is mercy with Thee ; and there- fore slialt Thou be feared : Thou art the Lord God, tender and full of compassion, not willing that any should perish, but that all should repent and live. Look down, therefore, we beseech Thee, with an eye of pity and lovingkindness upon Thy ser- vants, who, with contrite hearts, here bewail their transgressions and their wickedness. Let us, in this time of trouble, still enjoy the light of Thy countenance, and the blessings of Thy bountiful hand ; and.so work upon our hearts and minds, by the influence 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 ever> lasting Kingdom, in that which is to come, through the merits of Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen^ f The Prayer in time of fVar and Tumults (which shall always be used during the continuance of the present troubles) shall be used in its proper place, ajter which, and immediatelij he/ore the General Thanksoivinfi;, the people shall say this that /ollowelh ujler the Minister : rWlU RN Thou us, O j^ood Lord, ?m\ so ^WaW wc be -* turned. Be fiivourable, () Lord, be favom able to Thy people, who turn to Thee in weeping, fasting and praying. For thou art a merciful God, full of compassion, long-suflering, and of great j)ity 1]'*^" sparest when we deserve punishment, and in Thy wrath thinkest upon mercy. Spare Thy people; goo.l 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 mer- cies look upon us; through the merits and niediation of Thy blessed Son, .Jesus Chii^t our Lord. Amen. ■ 1^ ^f In the Communion service^ instead of the Collect for tlie dayt shall this which folhweth be used : d^ ALMIGHTY God, who rulest over all the ^-^ nations of the earth, and on whose glorious providence they depend evermore for preservation and prosperity : Extend, we beseech Thee, Thine accustomed goodness to the people of these Pro- vinces ; who, looking up to thee, as the author of all blessings, and their sure safe-guard and Almighty Deliverer in all dangers and difHculties, do now im?; plore 1 hy watchful care and protection. O Lord, Thou hast before wonderfully delivered us : if Thou hadst not been on our side when men rose up against us, they would have swallowed us up ; Con- tinue thy mercy and cast not out the prayer of Thy people who call upon Thee. Defeat the counsel of the A^icked ; Open the eyes of the de- luded ; 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 hdst ordained that they should visit us, give us grace tliat we may humbly and patiently sumbit to Ti)y correction, and, alter having been exercised thereby, may bring forth the peaceable fruits of righteousness, to the praise and glory of Thy name, through Jesus ('inist our Lord. Amen, The Epistki Isaiah 58, verse I. CRY aloud, spare not ; lift up thy voice like a trumpet ; and shew my people their trans- gression, and the house of .Jacob their sins Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my »vays, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the oriiinance of their God : they ask of me the M, a orcUnunces oi justice ; they take ileliglit in ap- proaching to God. Wherefore have we lasted, say they, and thou seest not ? wherefore have we atHicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge ? Behold, in the day of your fast you finil pleasure, and exact all your labours. Beiiold 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 ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down hig head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? Is not this the fast that 1 have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burthens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? 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 thy own flesh ? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily ; and thy righteousness shall go before thee : the glory of the Lord shall be thv reward. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord will answer ; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. The Gospel, Matt. chap. 3. IN those days came John the Baptist, preachhig in the wilderness of Judea. And saying Repent ye : for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esias, saying, the voice uf one crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye 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 .• 8 his loin3 : ami his meat was locusts and wild honey. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan. And were baptized of hf>ii in Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he saw many oi' the Pharisees and Sad- ducees come to his baptism, he said unto them» O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to conie ? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance And think not to say within yourselves. We have Abraham 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 fi'uit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire. & EVENING PRAYER. Proper Psalms, 7, 64, 86. Proper Lessons, 1st, Joel, Jjf. 2d, 1st Peter, 4. The two Collects appointed for the occasion in the Morning Prayer and in the Communion-qffice, shall both be used instead of the Collect qfthe day. Immediately before the General Thanksgiving shall he used the prayer in the time of War and lumults, (^ which shall always be used during the continuance of the present troubles.) ii^ A iii^^^n V.r '.? {,/i*-- trjrtfi I'N ley, lea, ere ins. >ad- ,o flee fore say our lese Ind les: ;oud 1 • !■ like shall shall \ulis, ance M ri^lsW