THE BOOK OF

COMMON PRAYER,

AND ADMINISTRATION OF

THE SACRAMENTS;

AND OTHER

RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE

Protestant Episcopal Church,

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

TOGETHER WITH

THE PSALTER, OR PSALMS OF DAVID.

NEW-YORK:

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

Philadelphia, June 7, 1815.

1 do hereby certify, that his edition of the Common Prayer Book, the Arücles, Offices, and Metre Psalms and Hymns, has been duly compared with a Standard Book, and corrected, by a Presbyter of this Diocese, appointed by the Standing Committce thereof

BENJAMIN DORR,

President of the Standing Committee of the
Diocese of Pennsylvania.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

L. The Ratification of the Book of Com-16. The Ministration of Baptiem to such as

mon Prayer.

2. The Preface.

3. The Order how the Psalter is appoint-

ed to be read.

4. The Order how the rest of the Holy

Scripture is appointed to be read.

5. Tables of Lessons of Holy Scripture,

to be read at Morning and Evening

Prayer throughout the Year.

6. The Calendar.

7. Tables and Rules for the Moveable

and Immoveable Feasts, together with

the Days of Fasting und Abstinence

throughout the Year.

8. Tables for finding the Ho ydays.

9. The Order for Daily Morning Prayer

10. The Order for Daily Evening Prayer.

11. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon sev-

eral Occasions, to be used before the

two final prayers of Morning and

Evening Service.

12. The Collecte, Epistles, and Gospele, to

be used throughout the Year.

3. The Order for the Administration of

the Lord Supper, or Holy Commu-

nion.

4. The Ministration of Public Baptism of

Infants, to be used in the Church.

are of Riper Years, and able to answer

for themselves.

17. A Catechism; that is to say, an In-

struction to be learned by every Person

before he be brought to be confirmed

by the Bishop.

18. The Order of Confirmation, or Laying

on of Hands upon those that are bap-

tized, and come to years of Discretion.

19. The Form of Solemnization of Matri-

mony.

20. The Order for the Visitation of the

Sick.

21. The Communion of the Sick.

22. The Order for the Burial of the Dead.

23. The Thanksgiving of Women after

Child-birth, commonly called, The

Churching of Women.

24. Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea.

25. A Form of Prayer for the Visitation

of Prisoners.

26. A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving

to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the

earth, and all the other Blessings of his

merciful Providence.

27. Forms of Prayer to be used in Families.

28. Selections of Psalms, to be used in-

stead of the Psaims for the Day, at the

discretion of the Minister.

15. The Ministration of Private Baptismo 29. The Psalter, or Psalms of David.

Children. in Houses.

THE RATIFICATION OF

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.

By the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Convention, this Sixteenth Day of October, in the Year Lord one thousand seven hundred and

our

of
eighty-nine.

THIS Convention having, in their present session, set forth A Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, do hereby establish the said Book: And they declare it to be the Liturgy of this Church: And require that it be received as such by all the members of the same: And this Book shall be in use from and after the First Day of October, in the Year of our Lor one thousand seven hundred and ninety.

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