NEW-YORK BIBLE AND COMMON PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY,
COOPER UNION, FOURTH AVENUE.

M.DCCC.LXXIX.

CERTIFICATE.

I DO hereby certify that this Edition of the Common Prayer Book, the

Articles, Offices, and Metre Psalms and Hymns, having been compared and corrected by the Standard Book, by a Presbyter duly appointed, as the Canon directs, is permitted to be published accordingly.

NEW YORK,

April 8th, 1869.

HORATIO POTTER,

Bishop of the Diocese of New York.

BX 5943

,Al 1779

London :-Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1.

2.

THE

HE Ratification of the Book of Common Prayer.

The Preface.

3. The Order how the Psalter is appointed 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 and Abstinence throughout the Year.

8. Tables for finding the Holydays.

9. The Order for Daily Morning Prayer.

10. The Order for Daily Evening Prayer.

11. The Litany.

12. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several Occasions, to be used before the two

final prayers of Morning and Evening Service.

13. The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, to be used throughout the Year.

14. The Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion.

15. The Ministration of Public Baptism of Infants, to be used in the Church.

16. The Ministration of Private Baptism of Children, in Houses.

17. The Ministration of Baptism to such as are of Riper Years, and able to answer for

themselves.

18. A Catechism; that is to say, an Instruction to be learned by every Person before

he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop.

19. The Order of Confirmation, or Laying on of Hands upon those that are baptized,

and come to years of Discretion.

20. The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony.

21. The Order for the Visitation of the Sick.

22. The Communion of the Sick.

23. The Order for the Burial of the Dead.

24. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called, The Churching of

Women.

25. Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea.

26. A Form of Prayer for the Visitation of Prisoners.

27. A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the earth,

and all the other Blessings of his merciful Providence.

28. Forms of Prayer to be used in Families.

29. Selections of Psalms, to be used instead of the Psalms for the Day, at the discre

tion of the Minister.

30. The Psalter, or Psalms of David.

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