Ofpare me a little, that I The days of our age are may recover my strength; threefcore years and ten; and before I go hence, and be no though men be so strong-that maradeen ۱۹۹۳۴ ung sot od they come to fourscore years, Lord, thou hast been our yet is their strength then but refuge, from one generation labour and forrow fo foun tonanother dostopaffethit away, and we are Before the mountains were gone, brought forth, or or ever the So teach us to number our Thou turneft man to de struction; again thou sayeft, Come again, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy fight are but as yesterday; Teeing that is past as a watch in the hight. 1.1 " Glory be to the Father, Then shall follow the Lefsson, 1 Cor. xv. 20. OW is Chrift risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that As foon as thou scattereft them, they are even as a leep, and fade away fuddenly like the grafs. oat In the morning it is green, sand groweth up; but in the slept. For fince by man came evening it is cut down, dried death, by man came alfo the zupsdand withered..... refurrection of the dead. For Hot Fortwe: confume away in as in Adam all die, seven fo 9 thy difpleasure; and are afraid in Christ shall all be made at thy wrathful indignation. alive. But every man in his Thou hast set our misdeeds own order: Chrift the firstbefore thee; and our fecret fruits; afterward they that fins in the light of thy coun- are Chrift's, at his coming. tenances 16hen cometh the end, when yath For when thou art angry, he shall have delivered up the all our days are gone: We kingdom to God, even the bring our years to an end, as it werfojo tales that is told. Father, when he shall have : must reign till he hath put all that which thou sowest, thou enemies under his feet. The fowest not that body that shall last enemy that shall be de, be, but bare grain; it may stroyed is death: for he hath chance of wheat, or of fome put all things under his feet, other grain. But God giveth it But when he faith all things a body as it hath pleased him, are put under him, it is mani- and to every feed his own bofeft that he is excepted which dy. All flesh is not the fame did put all things under him. flesh; but there is one kind And when all things shall of flesh of men, another flesh be fubdued unto him, then of beasts, another of fishes, shall the Son also himself be and another of birds. There. fubject unto him that put are also celestial bodies, and all things under him, that bodies terrestrial: But the God may be all in all. Else glory of the celestial is one, what shall they do which are and the glory of the terreftrial baptized for the dead, if the is another. There is one dead rise not at all? Why glory of the fun, and another are they then baptized for the glory of the moon, and anodead? And why stand we in ther glory of the stars For jeopardy every hour ? I pro- one ftar differeth from another teft by your rejoicing, which star in glory. So also is the I have in Christ Jesus our refurrection of the dead.It! Lord, I die daily. If after is fown in corruption; ithis the manner of men I have raised in incorruption: It is fought with beasts at Ephefus, sown in dishonour, it is raised what advantageth it me, if in glory: It is sown.in weak-1) the dead rife not? let us eat ness; it is raised in power: Ic and drink, for to-morrow we is sown a natural body it is die. Be not deceived: Evil raised a spiritual body. There communications corrupt good is a natural body, and there is manners. Awake to righte- a spiritual body. And fo it is oufness, and fin not: for fome written, The first man Adam have not the knowledge of was made a living foul, the God. I fpeak this to your last Adam was made a quickshame. But some man will ening spirit. Howbeit, that fay, How are the dead raised was not first which is spiritual, up? and with what body do but that which is natural; and they come? Thou fool, that afterward that which is fpiriwhich thou sowest is not tual. The first man is of the quickened, except it die. And earth, carthy: The second man 1 When they come to the grave, man is the Lord from heaven. of the Lord; forafinuch as ye As is the earthy, fuch are they know that your labour is not that are earthy: and as is the in vain in the Lord....... heavenly, fuch are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I fay, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incor- short time to live, and is full woman, hath but a ruption. Behold, I show you of mifery. He cometh up, a mystery: We shall not all and is cut down like a fleep, but we shall all be flower; he fleeth as it were a changed, in a moment, in the shadow, and never continutwinkling of an eye, at the eth in one stay. laft trump: For the trumpet MAN, that is born of a shall found, and the dead shall In the midst of life we are be raised incorruptible, and in death: Of whom may we we shall be changed. For seek for fuccour, but of thee, this corruptible must put on O Lord, who for our fins art incorruption, and this mortal justly displeased ? muft put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall holy, O Lord most mighty, Yet, O Lord God moft have put on incorruption, and O holy and most merciful this mortal shall have put on Saviour, deliver us not into immortality, then shall be the bitter pains of eternal brought to pass the saying that death. is written, Death is fwallow ed up in victory. O death, Thou knowest, Lord, the where is thy sting? O grave, fecrets of our hearts: Shut where is thy victory? The not thy merciful ears to our sting of death is fin, and the prayers; but fpare us, Lord strength of fin is the law. But most holy, O God moft thanks be to God, which giv- mighty, O holy and mereth us the victory, through ciful Saviour, thou most our Lord Jesus Chrift. There fore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfaft, unmoveable, al ways abounding in the work 4 worthy Judge eternal, fuffer Then, : i Then, while the Earth Shall come Thy Will be done on be caft upon the Body by fome Earth, passat ishin Heaven af Standing by the Minister shalt Give us this day tour daily -day ads arise τοτε και bread ; and forgive us our DORASMUCH as it hath trespasses, as we forgive those Estrellas en in his wife Providence, to take lead us not into temptation out of this world the Soul of But deliver us from evil. Amen. our deceafed Brother, we there Then the Miniften shall fay fore commit bis Body to the irone on both of the following ground; earth to earth, ashes i Prayers, wat bis difcretions to to ashes, dust to dust look- ALMIGHTY God, with ing for the general Refurrec- A whom do live the spie tion in the last Day, and the rits of those who depart hence life of the World to come, in the Lord; and with whom through our Lord Jesus the fouls of the faithful, afChrift; at whose second com- ter they are delivered from the ing in glorious Majesty to burthen of the flesh, are in judge the world, the Earth joy and felicity; we give thee and the Sea shall give up their hearty thanks, for the good Dead, and the corruptible examples of all those thy ferBodies of those who fleep in vants, who, having finished him shall be changed, and their course in faith, do now made like unto his own glo- rest from their labours And rious Body; according to the we beseech thee, that we, mighty working whereby he with all those who are depart is able to fubdue all things unto himself. Then shall be faid, or fung, Heard a voice from heaven, faying unto me, Write, ed in the true faith of thy holy Name,may have our perfect confummation and bliss, both in body and foul, in thy eternal and everlasting From henceforth bleffed are glory, through Jesus Chrift the dead who die in the our Lord. Amenovich Is Lord even fo faith the Spir Merciful God, the Farit; for they rest from their ther of our Lord Jesus labours. Rev. xiv. 1881 Chrift, who is the refurrection Then the Minister shall fay and the life, in whom whozeither Lardis Prament I foever believeth, shall live, though he die; and whofo ever liveth and believeth him, hall not die eternally; UR Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name: Thy Kingdom 1 in who acceptable in thy fight; and love of God, and the fellowreceive that bleffing, which ship of the Holy Ghost, be thy well-beloved Son shall with us all evermore. Amen. THANKSGIVING OF WOMEN AFTER CHILD-BIRTH sodt avigan COMMONLY CALLED, THE CHURCHING OF WOMEN. 1 This Services or the concluding Prayer alone, as it stands bnamong the Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings, may be used vat the discretion of the Minister. Tbe Woman, at the usual Time after her Delivery, shall come Hinto the Ghurab decently apparelled, and there shall kneel down in fome convenient place, as bath been accustomed, or as the OrdiLannary Mail dinect: And then the Priest shall fay unto bers FORASMUCH as of my prayer it hath Dilexi, quoniam pleased Almighty God, Am well pleased that the of his goodness, to give you Lord hath heard the voice fafe deliverance, and to prebabit ferve you in the great danger "That he hath inclined his of Child-birth; you shall ear unto me: Therefore will therefore give hearty thanks I call upon him as long as I unto God, and say, bus divelas 190 797901 I found trouble and heavi Then shall the Minifter fay ness, and I called upon the the following Hymn, taken Name of the Lord; O Lord, I from the 116th Pfalm.dbeleech thee, deliver my foul. Gracious |