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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:

STANFORD AND SWORDS, 137, BROADWAY.

It is hereby certified 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.

On behalf, and by order of the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese of New-York.

NEW-YORK, April 15, 1852,

WILLIAM BERRIAN,

President of the Standing Committee.

BENJAMIN I. HAIGHT,

Secretary.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1. The Ratification of the Book of Common Prayer.

2. 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 through-

out the year.

8. Tables for finding the Holy-days.

9. The Order for Daily Morning Prayer.

10. The Order for Daily Evening Prayer.

11. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several Occasions, to be

used before the two final prayers of Morning and Evening

Service.

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

Year.

13. The Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper, or

Holy Communion.

14. The Ministration of Public Baptism of Infants, to be used in

the Church.

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

16. The Ministration of Baptism to such as are of Riper Years,

and able to answer for themselves.

17. A Catechism; that is to say, an Instruction 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 baptized, and come to years of Discretion.

19. The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony.

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 merci-

ful Providence.

27. Forms of Prayer to be used in Families.

28. Selections of Psalms to be used instead of the Psalms for the

Day, at the Discretion of the Minister.

29. The Psalter, or Psalms of David.