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An Hymn to be used at the COMMUNION.

At Whitfuntide.

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Through Jefus Chrift our Lord, according to whofe Promife the Holy Ghost came down as at this Time from Heaven with a fudden great Sound, as it had been a mighty Wind, in the Likeness of fiery Tongues, lighting upon the Apostles, to teach them, and to lead them to all Truth, giving them the Gift of fpeaking divers Languages, and alfo Boldness with fervent Zeal neceffary to preach the Gofpel to all Nations; by which Spirit we have been brought out of Darknefs to Light, and from Error, to the Truth, and to the Knowledge of Thee, O God, and of Jefus Chrift whom Thou haft fent: Therefore with Angels, &c.

Or this.

Through Jefus Chrift our Lord, who after his glorious Refurretion, afcended above all the Heavens, and was placed upon the Throne of thy Glory, and is fet at thy Right-hand, from whence He has fhed abroad the Holy Spirit upon the Apofties, and upon the Children of thy Adoption: Wherefore all the Earth rejoices, and we offer Thee our Praises, faying with the Angels, ..

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At the September Communion.

Becaufe Thou haft fent thy Son Jefus Chrift into the World; because Thon haft delivered Him to Death, to redeem us from our Sins and because He fhall come again from Heaven on the Day of his glorious Appearance: Who has alfo inftituted the holy Supper, and has commanded us to eat of this Bread and to drink of this Cup, to the end, that as often as we fhall do it, we may fhew forth his Death until his coming again.

After thefe proper Prefaces or Praises, add:

Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the Hofts of Heaven, we laud and magnifie thy glorious Name, we fing a Hymn to thy Glory, faying, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hofts, Heaven and Earth are full of thy Glory, O God moft high. Amen.

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The Hymn called Te Deum; which is to be read upon all Feftivals.

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E praife Thee, O God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord. All the Earth doth worship Thee, the Father Everlasting. To Thee all Angels cry aloud, the Heavens, and all the Powers therein.

The Cherubims and Seraphims continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hofts: Heaven and Earth are full of the Majefty of thy Glory.

The glorious Company of the Apostles, of the Prophets, and of the Martyrs, celebrate thy Praises.

The holy Catholick Church throughout all the World doth acknowledge Thee, who art the Father of an infinite Majefty; with thy only and adorable Son, and the Holy Ghost our Comforter.

Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father.

When Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver Man, Thou didst not abhor the Virgin's Womb. When Thou hadft overcome the Sharpnefs of Death, Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all Be

lievers.

Thou fitteft at the Right-hand of God, in the Glory of the Father. We believe that Thou shalt come to be our Judge. We therefore pray Thee help thy Servants whom Thou haft redeemed with Thy precious Blood. Make them to be numbred with thy Saints in Glory everlasting.

O Lord fave thy People, and blefs thine Heritage. Govern them and lift them up for ever. Day by Day we magnifie Thee: And we worship thy Name ever World without end.

Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this Day without Sin. O Lord have Mercy upon us. Let thy Mercy lighten upon us, O God, as our Trust is in Thee. O Lord, in Thee have we trufted, let us never be con-founded.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

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An Hymn for the Days of Communion, or for the following Day.

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E will praife Thee, O God, and we will celebrate thy Name ever: For all

thy Glory, and of thy Mercy.

Blefs the Lord, O my Soul, and all that is within me praise his holy Name. 'Tis He that pardoneth all thy Sins, and heals all thy Infirmities.

The Lord is merciful and gracious, flow to Anger, and of great Goodness. He does not deal with us as our Sins have deferved, nor has He done to us according unto our Tranfgreffions.

For as far as the Eaft is from the Weft, and as high as the Heavens are above the Earth, fo far does his Mercy and Goodness furpafs our Sins. As a Father pities his Children, fö has God Compaffion upon us.

For when we were his Enemies, and when we were in our Sins,, He gave his only Son for us, to the end that we might have Life in Him.

'Tis He that hath given us his Flesh and his Blood, for our Nourishment, and that hath brought us to Life by his Death.

He is the Lamb of God, the Propitiation for our Sins, the perfect and only Pledge of his Grace..

Since God has given us his only Son, and has delivered Him to Death for us, He will refufe us nothing elfe, but He will fhew us Grace and Mercy.

Let then my Heart and my Mouth declare the Praises of the Lord, and exalt Him. And let all Men celebrate for ever his Goodness and Mercy through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, c..

The END of the HYMNS.

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The Manner of receiving the CATECHUMENS, according as it is obferved in the Churches of the Principality of Neufchatel and Vallangin, by the Society of Minifters.

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ACH of the Catechumens having been instructed for Six Weeks by their Minifter, and having, for fome Days, been publickly examined upon all the Parts of the Catechifm; the laft Time that they appear in the Face of the Congregation, they make this Promife, one of them faying in the Name of the rest:

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E ratifie and confirm our Baptifmal Vow; We renounce the Devil and his Works, the World and its Pomp, the Flesh and its Lufts. We promise to live and die in the Chriftian Faith; and to keep the Commandments of God all the Days of our Life.

After this is faid, they are asked: Do you all promife this before God and his Church?

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The Minifter fays: God give you Grace to fulfil this Promife.

The Minifter goes on thus: After this Promife thus made, and in hopes that you will religiously perform it, I receive you into the Number of adult Believers, and in this Quality I give you Liberty to partake of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper. And you, Chriftians, who are here prefent, I call you to bear Witnefs of the Promise which these Young Perfons have made; and I exhort you to look upon them hereafter as your Brethren, who are Partakers of the fame Grace with you, to render them all the Duties of Christian Charity, and to pray to God for them.

This being done, an Exhortation is addreffed to the Catechumens, the Form of which is left to the Discretion of the Minifter; and when it is finished, the Catechumens fall down upon their Knees, and The Minifter reads the following Prayer.

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The Manner of Receiving CATECHUMENS..

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Almighty God, we thank Thee, for that. Thou hast been pleased

to call us to the Knowledge of Thee, and particularly for that. having granted to thefe Children, the Blefling of being born in thy Church, and of being admitted into it by Baptifm: Thou haft permitted them to arrive to Years of Difcretion, and to pafs this Day from the State of Children, into that of adult Believers. We befeech Thee, that as they have now dedicated themfelves to Thee, by Confirming the Vow made at their Baptism, and are now admitted to a Participation of the Sacrament of the Death of thy Son; that Thou wilt ratifie in Heaven, what we have now done in thy Name and in thy Church. Receive them, O Lord, and bless them, and let thy Grace be with them now and for ever. Amen.

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OST Gracious God, Father of Mercy, grant that they may conftantly perfevere in the Holy Profeffion whereinto they have now entred, that being made Chriftians by their Birth and Baptifm, they may be fo henceforward by Knowledge and Choice. They have here now renounced the Devil and his Works, the World and its Pomp, the Flesh and its Lufts. Let not then the Prince of this World have any Share in them: Grant that from their Youth upwards, their Faith may be victorious over the World, the Flesh, and all its evil Defires.

Holy Father, keep them in thy Name, and preferve them from Evil: Sanctifie them by thy Truth, thy Word is the Truth: Preferve them from the Contagion of this Age. Do not suffer the Instructions which they have received, nor the Promises which they have made to Thee, ever to be blotted out of their Memories. Do not fuffer thefe good Purposes. which Thou haft put into them, ever to be destroyed by the evil Communication of the World. Encrease them more and more, and grant that thefe young Plants may grow and bring forth Fruit abundantly, in Knowledge, in Faith, in Holiness, and in Confolation, all the Days of their Life. Grant that this new Generation may be better than their Fathers, and that thy Children, after having in this World ferved the Designs of thy Providence, may by thy Mercy obtain everlasting Salvation

Amen.

for all the Youth of this

Church. Blefs the Inftructions which are given them, preferve them from Corruption, and fanctifie them, to the End that our Children may, one Day, become Ornaments to thy Houfe, and Heirs of thy Kingdom.

Grant to us all, to the Young and to the Old, to the High and to the Low, that we may throughly confider what it is to be Chriftians, and may bear in Mind continually, what a Vow, what Promifes, and what a folemn Profeffion we have all made to Thce by our Baptifm, as well as by Communicating in the Holy Sacrament. Amen. AL

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