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Almighty; From thence he fhall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the holy Spirit; the forgiveness of fins, the refurrection of the dead; and the life everlasting. Amen.

Then fhall be read three Collects; the first of which shall be one of thefe following, at the choice of the Minifter, unless where there is one appointed to be used on Some particular occafion: the fecond, for peace: the third, for grace to live well.

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LESSED Lord, who haft caused all holy fscriptures to be written for our learning; grant that we may in fuch wife hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digeft them; that by patience and comfort of thy holy

word,

word, we may embrace and ever hold faft the bleffed hope of everlafting life, which thou haft given us in our Saviour Jefus Chrift. Amen.

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LMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we defire or deferve: Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our confciences are afraid, and giving us thofe good things which we are encouraged to afk through thy great mercies in Chrift Jefus our Lord, Amen.

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ELIVER, O Lord, we befeech thee, thy faithful

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and guide them by the continual direction of thy holy Spirit; that they may plenteously bring forth the fruits of good works, and of thee be plenteously rewarded, according to thy gracious promifes in Christ Jefus our Lord. Amen.

The nativity of our Lord; or the birth-day of Christ, commonly called Christmas-day.

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LMIGHTY God, who at the first coming of thy Son our Lord Jefus Chrift, didft fend a meffenger to prepare his way before him; Grant, we beseech thee, that the Minifters of thy word may likewife fo prepare and make ready his way, that at his fecond coming to judge the world, we may be found an acceptable people in his fight; and may by

him be prefented faultlefs before the throne of thy glory, there to reign with him world without end. Amen.

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Good-Friday.

LMIGHTY God, we beseech thee graciously to be hold thy household the church, for which our Lord Jefus Chrift was willing to be given up into the hands of wicked men, and to fuffer death upon the cross: And as thou fparedft not thine own Son, but deliveredft him up for us all, we confide in thy great mercy that thou wilt with him alfo freely give us all things that thou knoweft to be good for us, now and for ever. Amen.

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Eafter-day.

LMIGHTY God, whofe

A only begotten Son Jefus

Chrift, hath overcome death and opened unto us the gate of everlafting life; Grant us to rife from the death of fin to the life of righteoufnefs, that when Chrift, who is our life, fhall appear, we alfo may appear with him in glory. Amen.

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Afcenfion-day.

RANT, we beseech thee,
Almighty God, that like

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as we do believe thy only-begotten Son, our Lord Jefus Chrift, to have afcended into the heavens; fo we may also in heart and mind thither afcend, and feek thofe things which are above, where Chrift fitteth at thy right hand for evermore. Amen.

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