MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER.

( 1) O come let us worship, and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation,( 2) and 2. Heb. 3.7. as in the day of temptation in the wilder­

ness;

( 3) When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and saw my works;

3. The Psalmist speaks in the person

us to beware of dis­

Forty years long was I grieved with this of Jehovah, warning generation, and said: It is a people that do obedience. err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways.

Unto whom I sware in my wrath: that they should not enter into my rest.( 4)

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.

T Then shall follow the Psalms in order as

they are appointed. And at the end of every Psalm throughout the Year, and like­wise at the end of Benedicite, Benedictus, Magnificat, and nunc dimittis shall be re­peated,

( 0) Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;( 5)

1. These verses are sung by the re­sponding semi­chorus.

Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

T Then shall be read distinctly with an audible voice the First Lesson,( P) taken out of the Old Testament, as is appointed in the Calen­

4. Because of its cer­tain punishment. Deut. 32. 15.

5. We declare our

faith in the blessed Trinity, making it the subject of our Praise.

o. A hymn of praise, paraphrased upon the song of the Sera­phim, Isa. vi. 3. giving equal worship to every person of the Trinity, in opposition to the Arian heresy. The western church added" As it was in the beginning," to shew that this was the primitive faith.

P. Having according to the exhortation set forth God's most 7