Then he may read:

THESE

THESE SE words spake JESUS, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said:

ATHER, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that

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thy Son also may glorify Thee: as Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true GOD, and JESUS CHRIST, whom Thou hast sent. I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do. And now, O FATHER, glorify Thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.

I have manifested thy name unto the men whom Thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and Thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou hast given me are of Thee: for I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from Thee, and they have believed that Thou didst send me. I pray for them I pray not for the world, but for them whom Thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

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:

OLY FATHER, keep through thine own name those whom Thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name.

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest

keep them from the evil. They are not of the world,

even as I am not of the world. thy truth. Thy word is truth.

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Sanctify them through

ATHER, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which Thou hast given me : for Thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous FATHER, the world hath not known Thee: but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it; that the love wherewith Thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.— John xvii.

One of the following Selections may then be sung-80: "Alleluia; 119: "Behold, the Tabernacle of God;" or 120: "The bread of God."

¶ Then may be offered the following Prayer:

LORD JESUS CHRIST, by whose mercy we have

been fed with heavenly gifts: we thank Thee for this thy goodness toward us: beseeching Thee to let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve us, defending us from all evil and nourishing us in all goodness. Abide with us, O LORD, now that we go hence let us depart in peace, and in thy name. Direct thou our way: uphold our going in thy paths and give us grace so to keep thy commandments henceforth, that we may abide in thy love forever. Glorify thyself in us, O LORD, that we also may glorify thee. Amen and Amen.

The Minister shall then dismiss the people with one of the following Benedictions:

THE HE LORD bless you and keep you: the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you: the LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. Amen.

J his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you:

EHOVAH bless you and keep you; JEHOVAH make

JEHOVAH lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. Amen.

RECEPTION

INTO A

SOCIETY OF THE NEW CHURCH.

At a convenient time—either before the Communion Service, or at its close, before the Benediction-the Candidate coming forward, the Minister may say:

You

OU have been baptized into the LORD's New Church, and have declared your faith in its doctrines, and your desire and intention to live according to them: do you with that intention now desire to become a member of this Society?

Ans. I do.

¶ The Minister, then approaching him and taking him by the hand, may

say:

E freely receive you into our Society, we acknowledge you as a member of it, and as having a

right to all the privileges which we enjoy.

MARRIAGE.

FOR

INSTRUCTION.

those who desire love that is truly conjugial, the LORD provides similitudes; and if they are not granted on earth He provides them in the heavens.

None can be in love truly conjugial but they who receive it from the LORD; who are those who come directly to Him, and from Him live the life of the Church. The reason is, that, viewed from its origin and its correspondence, that love is heavenly, spiritual, holy, pure, and clean, beyond every other love that exists among the angels of heaven and among the men of the Church; and these its attributes cannot be given except to those who are conjoined to the LORD, and are consociated by Him with the angels of heaven. For, these shun those loves which look to union with others than one's own consort as the loss of the soul; and so far as consorts shun such conjunctions, even as to the evil desires of the will and intentions from them, so far this love is purified in them, and gradually becomes spiritual,— first while they live on earth, and afterwards in heaven.

In the heavens marriage is the union of two into one mind So far as a married pair are in such a union, they are in conjugial love; and so far they are also in intelligence, wisdom, and happiness. For, Divine good and Divine truth, from which is all intelligence, wisdom, and happiness, flow principally into conjugial love. Consequently, conjugial love is the very plane of Divine influx, because it is at the same time the marriage of truth and good.

The love of dominion of one over the other entirely banishes conjugial love and its heavenly delight; for conjugial love and

its delight consist in the fact that the will of the one is that of the other, and this mutually and reciprocally. This the love of dominion destroys in marriage; for he who domineers wishes that his will alone should be in the other, and none of the other's reciprocally in himself. There is, therefore, nothing mutual, and accordingly no communication of any love and its delight with the other, and no reciprocal return; yet this communication, and the consequent union, is the very interior delight which is called blessedness in marriage.

They who are in love truly conjugial look to what is eternal, because there is eternity in that love. And its eternity is from the fact that love increases with the wife and wisdom with the husband to eternity; and in this increase or progression the married pair enter more and more interiorly into the blessedness of heaven. C. L. 229, 71; H. H. 366–370, 380; C. L. 216.

The Laws respecting Matrimony, whether by publishing the Banns or by License, being different in the different States, every Minister is left to the direction of those Laws in every thing which regards the civil contract between the parties.

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The persons to be married standing before the Minister, he may read:

ND JEHOVAH GOD said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. * And JEHOVAH GOD brought the woman unto the man. And the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh.-Gen. ii. 18, 22-24.

JESUS said, He who made them at the beginning, made them male and female; and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Matt. xix. 4-6.