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EASTER-MONDAY.

EVENING PRAYER.

All standing, the head of the family (or the priest or deacon, if present) says:

. Turn Thou us, O God our Saviour. Ry. And let Thine anger cease from us. . O God, make speed to save us. Ry. O Lord, make haste to help us. . Glory be to the Father, &c.

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Ry. As it was, &c.

Then he says the following Psalm :

PART OF PSALM 118, v. 14. HE Lord is my strength, and my song and is become my salvation.

The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass.

The right hand of the Lord hath the pre-eminence: the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass.

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I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord.

The Lord hath chastened and corrected me but He hath not given me over unto death.

Open me the gates of righteousness that I may go into them, and give thanks unto the Lord.

This is the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall enter into it.

I will thank Thee, for Thou hast heard me and art become my salvation.

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The same stone which the builders refused: is become the headstone in the corner.

This is the Lord's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes.

This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Help me now, O Lord: O Lord, send us now prosperity.

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord: we have wished you good luck, ye that are of the house of the Lord.

God is the Lord who hath shewed us light bind the sacrifice with cords, yea, even unto the horns of the altar.

Thou art my God, and I will thank Thee Thou art my God, and I will praise Thee.

O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious and His mercy endureth for ever.

Then all say,

BELIEVE in God, &c.

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MAY

Then he says,

AY the reading of the Holy Word (or Holy Gospel) be unto us salvation and protection. Amen.

Then he reads the short chapter following:

From St. Paul's Epistle to the

Ephesians.

RETHREN, God, who is rich

grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ

Bi merey, for His great love Jesus, that in the ages to come He

wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quick

might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward

ened us together with Christ, (by us through Christ Jesus.

Then he says,

V. Let us bless and praise the Lord.

Ry. Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

. O Lord, keep us this night, without sin.

Ry. And evermore mightily defend us.

Then all kneeling, say the following Confession:

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, graciously vouchsafe to

hear the prayers of Thy servants, who confess and bewail the innumerable offences which we have most grievously committed against Thee, by thought, word, and deed; and as by Thy only Son Thou hast opened unto us the gate of eternal life, through His victory over sin and death, we beseech Thee to forgive us our sins, and so to confirm us by Thy grace, that we may walk like those who have been redeemed from sin; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then continue with the usual Monday Evening Litany, beginning, "O God, the Father of heaven" (page 72), to the end of the Monday Evening Prayers.

1 Ephes. ii. 4.

EASTER-TUESDAY.

MORNING PRAYER.

All standing, the head of the family (or the priest or deacon, if present) says:

. O Lord, open Thou our lips.

Ry. And our mouth shall shew forth Thy praise.

. O God, make speed to save us. Ry. O Lord, make haste to help us. . Glory be to the Father, &c.

Ry. As it was, &c.

Then he says the following Psalm:

PSALM 2.

HY do the heathen so fu

WHY riously rage together and

why do the people imagine a vain thing?

The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His Anointed.

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I will preach the law, whereof the Lord hath said unto me: Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee.

Desire of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for Thy possession.

Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron and break them in

Let us break their bonds asun-pieces like a potter's vessel. and cast away their cords

from us.

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Be wise now therefore, O ye kings be learned, ye that are judges of the earth.

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Then all say,

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Then he says,

[AY the reading of the Holy Word (or Holy Gospel) be unto us salvation and protection. Amen.

Then he reads the short chapter following:

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. Let us bless and praise the Lord.

Ry. Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

. O Lord, keep us this day without sin;

Ry. And evermore mightily defend us.

Then all kneeling, say the following Confession: ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, graciously vouchsafe to

hear the prayers of Thy servants, who confess and bewail the innumerable offences which we have most grievously committed against Thee, by thought, word, and deed; and as by Thy only Son Thou hast opened unto us the gate of eternal life, through His victory over sin and death, we beseech Thee to forgive us our sins, and so to confirm us by Thy grace, that we may walk like those who have been redeemed from sin; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then continue with the usual Tuesday Morning Litany, beginning, "O God, the Father of heaven" (page 47), to the end of the Tuesday Morning Prayers.

1 Colos. ii. 9.

EASTER-TUESDAY.

EVENING PRAYER.

All standing, the head of the family (or the priest or deacon, if present) says:

. Turn Thou us, O God our Saviour.

Ry. And let Thine anger cease from us.
. O God, make speed to save us.
Ry. O Lord, make haste to help us.
. Glory be to the Father, &c.

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Ry. As it was, &c.

Then he says the following Psalm :

PSALM 114.

HEN Israel came out of Egypt and the house of Jacob from among the strange people, Judah was His sanctuary and

Israel His dominion.

What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest and thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams: and ye little hills, like young sheep?

Tremble, thou earth, at the preThe sea saw that, and fled : Jor- sence of the Lord at the presence dan was driven back. of the God of Jacob;

The mountains skipped like rams : and the little hills like young sheep.

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Who turned the hard rock into a standing water and the flintstone into a springing well.

Then all say,

I BELIEVE in God, &c.

MAY

Then he says,

AY the reading of the Holy Word (or Holy Gospel) be unto us salvation and protection. Amen.

Then he reads the short chapter following:

From the First General Epistle of

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just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by which also He went and

1 1 St. Pet. iii. 18.

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