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The Psalter

According to the English Revised Version, arranged for

Morning and Evening Worship

Together with

Portions from the Prophets

for Advent and Lent

NOTE

As far as the English version and the exigencies of Responsive Reading permit, the Psalter and the Selections from the Prophets are arranged in accordance with the principle of Hebrew poetry, the minister taking one member of the parallelism and the people taking the other.

The slight and infrequent deviations that are made from the text of the English Revision follow either its marginal readings or the American Revision or the Ancient Versions.

The Psalter is arranged in accordance with the days of the month to aid in securing familiarity with all the Psalms that lend themselves to public worship. The Selections from the Prophets are intended to aid those churches which hold Lenten services and which emphasize the Christmas Season.

GENERAL PRAYERS

TO BE SAID IN UNISON

THE LORD'S PRAYER

Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. AMEN.

A GENERAL CONFESSION OF SIN

Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep; we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts; we have offended against Thy holy laws; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us. But Thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare Thou those, O God, who confess their faults. Restore Thou those who are penitent, according to Thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus, our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for His sake, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name. AMEN.

This confession was added by the English Reformers to the Book of Common Prayer in 1552. It is modelled upon the confession in the order of worship in use in a congregation of French Presbyterian refugees in Glastonbury, and published by their pastor, Valerand Pullain, in Latin in 1551; and upon the confession in use in another congregation of exiles from the Continent worshipping in London and published by their pastor, John a-Lasco. Both these ministers were followers of John Calvin, whom Pullain had succeeded as pastor of the Church of the Strangers in Strasburg, and their forms of worship were based upon Calvin's.

A GENERAL THANKSGIVING

Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we, Thine unworthy servants, do give Thee most humble and hearty thanks for all Thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men. We bless Thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all, for Thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech Thee, give us that due sense of all Thine mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we may show forth Thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to Thy service, and by walking before Thee in holiness and righteousness all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, world without end. AMEN.

This prayer was written by Edward Reynolds, D.D., in 1661. Dr. Reynolds was a leading Presbyterian minister in London, a frequent preacher before the Long Parliament, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford under the Commonwealth, and a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, where he served on the committee which prepared the Catechisms. After the Restoration he was a

member of the group of Puritan ministers who asked for a revision of the Book of Common Prayer, and in this connection wrote this general thanksgiving. He decided to accept the overtures of Charles II to enter the reorganized Church of England, and became Bishop of Norwich.

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