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the knowledge of the same, laying aside the study of the world and the flesh?

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:

WILL you be diligent to selves, where thou art guide, no ill can come.

and fashion your own and your families, according to the Doctrine of Christ; and to make both yourselves and them, as much as in you lieth, wholesome examples and patterns to the flock of Christ? Answer. I will apply myself there­to, the Lord being my helper. The Bishop.

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;

Anarver. I will endeavour myself so to do, the Lord being my helper. The Bishop.

Praise to thy eternal merit, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Or this:

WILL you maintain and set for, Proceeding from above, as in you,

Both

Son,

The God of peace and love; Visit our minds, into our hearts

quietness, peace, and love, among all Christian people, and especially among them that are or shall be committed to your charge? Answer. I will so do, the Lord being my helper.

Thy heavenly grace inspire; That truth and godliness we may Pursue with full desire.

The Bishop.

WILL you reverently obey your

Ordinary, and other chief Mi­nisters, unto whom is committed the charge and government over you; following with a glad mind and will their godly admonitions, and sub­mitting yourselves to their godly judgements?

Answer. I will so do, the Lord being my helper.

Then shall the Bishop, standing up, say,

ALMIGHTY God, who hath

given you this will to do all these things; Grant also unto you strength and power to perform the same; that he may accomplish his work which he hath begun in you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. A­

men.

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. 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. NOME, Holy Ghost, our souls in­

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spire,

And lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art,

Who dost thy seven- fold gifts impart.

eternal God,

Thou art the very Comforter In grief and all distress; The heav'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:

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 through thy help God's praises

may Resound in every place.

O Holy Ghost, into our minds Send down thy heav'nly light; Kingle 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.