O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three Persons and one God: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three Persons and one God: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers, neither take thou vengeance of our sins: spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed

"Redeemed," not "redeem'd."

with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever.

Spare us, good Lord.

From all evil and mischief, from the crafts and assaults of the devil, from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation,

The voice ought not to fall here, as the sentence is not finished until the people repeat, Good Lord, deliver us.

This is seldom attended to, although the meaning of the whole depends upon its ob

servance.

From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy,

Speak them all very deliberately, and distinctly mark the comma's between each.

from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness,

Here the voice preserves the same level as in the last sentence, (and many that follow are directly similar,) the period being brought to a close by the congregation.

Good Lord, &c.

From fornication and all other deadly sins; and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil,

Again the same,

Good Lord, &c.

Begin the next line with a full, strong tone.

From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death,

Again,

Good Lord, &c.

From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism;

I have heard more than once the last word pronounced at the desk as it is spelt. It is hardly necessary to say that the proper way is that as if the orthography of it were "sism."

from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment,

Still keeping up the voice for the concluding words.

Good Lord, &c.

By the mystery of thy holy incarnation; by thy holy nativity and circumcision; by thy baptism, fasting, and temptation,

Good Lord, &c.

*

Mr Garrick used to vary, in a most successful manner, his mode of beginning these sentences, in order to prevent a repetition of the same word from sounding unpleasantly and wearisome to the ear*.

A musician knows how to vary his melodies without destroying, or even lessening, their expressive power. The skilful reader must vary his melodies in this part of the service, and yet fully effect the required expression. The means are too extensive to be described in a note.-R. C.

By thine agony and bloody sweat; by thy cross and passion; by thy precious death and burial;

Mr Garrick called it "burial," the u long, instead of the way often made use of, as if it were spelt "berrial." His mode seems better adapted for the service*.

By thy glorious resurrection and ascension; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost,

Good Lord, &c.

In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our wealth; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment,

Good Lord, &c.

The Litany appears, in general, to be very long in the reading, and some skill and management are necessary to hinder it from growing tiresome by its great identity of expressions. Mr Garrick always recommended at this part a considerable stop, as if in fact one prayer

* This word is now pronounced berrial, and it would be affectation to change it to burial, as Mr. Garrick read it: besides solemnity is expressed by the tones of voice and not by differing from the common pronunciation of a word.-R. C.

was brought to a conclusion, and that you But the same

were going to begin another.

devoutness, gravity, and deliberation, must be preserved as before, for the least diminution in any one of them would be faulty*.

We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God, and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord†.

That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee, in righteousness and holiness of life, thy servant VICTORIA, our most gracious Queen and Governor;

We beseech, &c.‡

*The congregation's prayer for themselves is here brought to a conclusion, at least for the present, for they immediately begin a series of prayers for public objects, as the Church, the Sovereign, &c.

At the end of each prayer of the series the voice ought to come to a cadential repose, to indicate conclusion, and thus prepare the mind for the next of the series.-R. C.

+ This prayer, which includes the response, is for the right government of the universal Church.

This is the beginning of a series of prayers for the Sovereign. I have changed the name of the Sovereign, &c. to suit the present reign.-R. C.