THE

CHRISTIAN

Common Prayer Book,

OR

Univerfal Liturgy:

Founded on the true

GOSPEL PRINCIPLES

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CHARITY, BENEVOLENCE, and LIBERTY

And adapted to the

General Public Ufe of

Every Society of Chriftians.

Keep thy Foot, when Thou goeft to the House of God; —Be
not rafh with thy Mouth; and let not thine Heart be hafty
to utter any Thing before God. Eccles. v. 1, 2.

I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the Under
Standing alfo. 1 Cor. xiv. 15.

Pure Religion and undefiled before God, even the Father, is
this; to vifit the Fatherless and Widows in their Affliction,
and to keep Ourselves unspotted from the World; to love the
Lord our God with all our Hearts, and our Neighbor as
Ourfelves; and to live foberly, righteously and godly in this
prefent World. James i. 27. Mat. xxii. 34- 40.

Tit. ii. 12.

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand, and
W. JOHNSTON in Ludgate Street.

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The Most Reverend the ARCHBISHOPS;

то

The Right Reverend the BISHOPS;

AND

To the Reverend the CLERGY Of various ORDERS and DEGREES in the CHURCHES of ENGLAND and IRELAND,

AND

ALL the PLANTATIONS and COLONIES

thereunto 'belonging,

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Conforming to the LITURGY

by Law established:

AND TO

The Very Reverend and Honorable The MINISTERS and ELDERS

Of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Of the CHURCH of SCOTLAND:

ALSO

ALSO

TO THE

LAITY and DISSENTERS

Of every RANK or DENOMINATION

in these DOMINIONS:

The following PLAN of CHRISTIAN PUBLIC WORSHIP, calculated to promote a fincere rational and Gofpel Union in Faith and Practice, most defireable and requifite, among all the ferious and true Worshippers of GOD, and the Followers of JESUS CHRIST, is with the greatest Deference and Humility

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And may the Gop of Patience and Confolation grant Us to be like-minded one towards another, according to Christ Jesus; That We may with one Mind and one Mouth glorifie GOD, even the Father of our Lord JESUS CHRIST!

Rom. xv. 5, 6.