THE ORDERING OF PRIESTS.
After this, the Congregation shall be desired, secretly in their Prayers, to make their humble supplications to God for all these things for the which Prayers there shall be silence kept for a space.
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T After which shall be sung or said by the Bishop( the persons to be Ordained Priests all kneeling) Veni, Creator Spiritus; the Bishop beginning, and the Priests, and others that are present, answering by verses, as followeth.
COME,
NOME, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,
And lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost thy seven- fold gifts impart. Thy blessed Unction from above, Is comfort, life, and fire of love. Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight. Anoint and cheer our soiled face With the abundance of thy grace. Keep far our foes, give peace at
home:
Where thou art guide, no ill can come. Teach us to know the Father, Son, And thee, of both, to be but One. That, through the ages all along, This may be our endless song; Praise to thy eternal merit, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Or this:
COME
NOME, Holy Ghost, eternal God, Proceeding from above, Both from the Father and the Son, The God of peace and love;
Visit our minds, into our hearts Thy heavenly grace inspire; That truth and godliness we may Pursue with full desire.
Thou art the very Comforter In grief and all distress; The hear'nly gift of God most high, No tongue can it express; The fountain and the living spring Of joy celestial;
The fire so bright, the love so sweet, The Unction spiritual.
Thou in thy gifts art manifold, By them Christ's Church doth stand:
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In faithful hearts thou writ'st thy law, The finger of God's hand. 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 dissention
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.