THE ORDERING OF PRIESTS. According to thy promise, Lord,
Thou givest speech with grace; That thro' thy help God's praises may Resound in every place.
O Holy Ghost, into our minds Send down thy heav'nly light; Kindle our hearts with fervent zeal,
To serve God day and night. Our weakness strengthen and confirm, ( For, Lord, thou know'st us frail;) That neither devil, world, nor flesh, Against us may prevail.
Put back our enemy far from us, And help us to obtain
Peace in our hearts with God and man, ( The best, the truest gain;)
And grant that thou being, O Lord, Our leader and our guide, We may escape the snares of sin, And never from thee slide.
Such measures of thy powerful grace Grant, Lord, to us, we pray; That thou may st be our Comforter At the last dreadful day. Of strife and of dissension
Dissolve, O Lord, the bands, And knit the knots of peace and love Throughout all Christian lands. Grant us the grace that we may know The Father of all might, That we of his beloved Son
May gain the blissful sight; And that we may with perfect faith Ever acknowledge thee, The Spirit of Father, and of Son, One God in Persons Three. To God the Father laud and praise,
And to his blessed Son, And to the Holy Spirit of grace, Co- equal Three in One.
And pray we, that our only Lord
Would please his Spirit to send On all that shall profess his Name, From hence to the world's end. Amen.
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eternal praise of thy holy Name: For these so great benefits of thy eternal goodness, and for that thou hast vouchsafed to call these thy servants here present to the same Office and Ministry appointed for the salvation of mankind, we render unto thee most hearty thanks, we praise and worship thee; and we humbly beseech thee, by the same thy blessed Son, to grant unto all, which either here or elsewhere call upon thy holy Name, that we may continue to shew ourselves thankful unto thee for these and all other thy benefits; and that we may daily increase and go forwards in the knowledge and faith of thee and thy Son, by the Holy Spirit. So that as well by these thy Ministers, as by them over whom they shall be appointed thy Ministers, thy holy Name may be for ever florified, and thy blessed kingdom enlarged; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Holy Spirit, world without end Amen.
When this Prayer is done, the Bishop with the Priests present shall lay their hands severally upon the head of every one that receiveth the Order of Priesthood; the Receivers humbly kneeling upon their knees, and the Bishop saying,
ECEIVE the Holy Ghost for the
Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained. And be thou a faithful Dispenser of the Word of God, and of his holy Sacraments; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
T Then the Bishop shall deliver to every one of them kneeling, the Bible into his hand, saying,
That done, the Bishop shall pray in T
this wise, and say,
TAKE thou Authority to preach the
Word of
holy Sacraments in the Congregation, where thou shalt be lawfully appointed
thereunto.
Let us pray.
A ther, who, of thine infinite I: ve and when this is done, the Nicene Creed
goodness towards us, hast given to us thy only and most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ, to be our Redeemer, and the Author of everlasting life; who, after he had made perfect our redemption by his death, and was ascended into heaven, sent abroad into the world his Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Doctors, and Pastors; by whose labour and ministry he gathered together a great flock in all the parts of the world, to set forth the
shall be sung cr said; and the Bishop shall after that go on in the Service of the Communion, which all they that receive Orders shall take together, and remain in the same place where Hands were laid upon them, until such time as they have received the Communion.
The Communion being done, after the last Collect and immediately be