good Lord, deliver us. To this end thou didst both die, and rise, and revive, that thou mightest be Lord both of the dead and of the living, and that, whether we wake or sleep, we might live together with thee. Perfect in us, we bessech thee, by thy mighty power, the glorious work which thou hast undertaken, in dying for our sins, and rising again for our justification.

As thou hast loosened the pains of death, because it was impossible that thou shouldst be holden of them; so let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us, who are tied and bound with the chain of our sins. Grant unto us that perfect liberty wherewith thou makest thy people free. Do thou make us free, and we shall be free indeed. May we know thee, and the power of thy resurrection; and so put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth.

And may it please thee, O Lord God, the God of peace, thyself, who didst bring from the dead the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, to make us perfect in every good work, to do thy will, working in us that which is well pleasing in thy sight.

Vouchsafe thy special blessing to us this morning. Put into our minds good desires; and enable us to bring the same to good effect.

May the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from

the dead dwell in us, and quicken us in all the duties of this day. Raise our thoughts from the things of this world, and fix them upon those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at thy right hand. Help us fervently to join the prayers and praises of thy people in the courts of thy sanctuary.

[And since Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast. And give us grace so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us.]

Grant, also, unto those who shall assemble with us, that they may be plenteously endued with all heavenly graces, and be prepared, with meek heart and due reverence, to hear and receive thy holy word, [and to be meet partakers of thy holy mysteries.]

Pour down thy Spirit from on high on the ministers of thy blessed Gospel: and while they preach Jesus and the resurrection, let thy word, in their mouth, be as life from the dead; that so they who are sleeping in their sins, may awake, and arise from the dead, that Christ may give them life.

And grant unto all, grace to consider that the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of man, and

shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.

Grant these our requests, for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Our Father, &c. Grace, mercy, and peace, &c.

FOR EASTER-DAY.

EVENING.

MOST merciful God and Father, we, thy humble servants, beseech thee to receive our hearty thanks for thy great goodness vouchsafed unto us.

We have been favoured with the advantages of another day of sacred rest. We have been permitted to assemble together in the courts of thy house, [and around thy holy table.] We have once more commemorated thy wonderful love to us, and to all mankind, in giving thy Son not only to die for our sins, but to rise again for our justification; that having overcome the sharpness of death, he might open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.

We bless thee that thou hast not suffered us to follow a cunningly devised fable, but that all things which before thou hadst showed by the mouth of all thy prophets, thou hast so fulfilled. Our hearts rejoice, and our tongue is glad; because thou hast not left his soul in hell, neither

didst thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption; but hast declared him to be the Son of God with power, by his resurrection from the dead, saying, This is my beloved Son; to-day have I begotten

him.

The Lord liveth, and blessed be our strong Helper! And praised be the God of our salvation! The Lord liveth; and is alive for evermore; and hath the keys of hell and death.

Our souls do magnify the Lord, and our spirit doth rejoice in Christ our Saviour.

Hosanna to the Son of David! Hosanna to the Prince of Peace! With his own right hand, and with his holy arm, he hath gotten to himself the victory.

By his glorious resurrection, good Lord, deliver us. Deliver us, and take away our sins, for the honour of thy name. Justify us freely by thy grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

And grant, that, as he was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also may walk in newness of life; reckoning ourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. May we follow his example, and be made like unto him; and as he died and rose again for us, so may we, who are baptized unto his death, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness, continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.

Help us always to remember that our Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and that, though after our skin worms shall destroy this body, yet in our flesh we shall see God; whom our eyes shall behold, and not another.

Grant, that whenever this vile body shall be committed to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, it may be in sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection to eternal life, and may be changed like unto Christ's glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. Thus do thou ransom us from the power of the grave: redeem us from the second death. Say unto death, I will be thy plagues, and to the grave, I will be thy destruction: that so we may rise from the dead, to die no more; being thy children, O God, and the children of the resurrection.

Hear us, O God of mercy, in behalf of our fellow-creatures.

Grant that the Sun of Righteousness may arise with healing in his wings upon all nations that are sitting in darkness and the shadow of death; and dispose them to come to the light of his beams, and to the brightness of his rising.

Have mercy on the house of Israel; and let them know assuredly, that thou hast made that same Jesus whom their forefathers crucified, both Lord and Christ.