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up in victory. O death, where is thy fting? O grave, where is thy victory? The fting of death is fin, and the ftrength of fin is the law. But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye ftedfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forafmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Then shall they go to the grave, the Priest and Deacon walking before the Corps; who as they go along, Shall fay or fing,

I Saw a great white throne, and him that fat on it,

from whofe face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, ftand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the fea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades delivered up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every man according to their works. Rev. 20. 11, 12, 13.

When they are come to the grave, while the Corps is made ready to be laid into the earth, the Prieft Shall fay,

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AN that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of mifery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower, he fleeth as it were a fhadow, and never continueth in one ftay.

In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for fuccour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our fins art justly displeased?

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Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, and thou O holy and moft merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.

Thou knoweft, Lord, the fecrets of our hearts; fhut not thy merciful ears to our prayers: but fpare us, O Lord moft holy, O God moft mighty; and thou O holy and merciful Saviour, the moft worthy judge eternal, fuffer us not at our laft hour for any pains of death to fall from our hope in thee.

Then the Priest cafting earth upon the Corps, fhall fay, I Commend thy foul to God the Father Almighty,

and thy body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to duft, in fure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Chrift, who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to fubdue all things to himself.

Then shall the Priest and Deacon fay or fing,

I Heard a voice from heaven, faying unto me, Write; From henceforth, bleffed are the dead who die in the Lord: even fo faith the Spirit; for they reft from their labours. Rev. 14. 13.

Then fhall the Deacon fay,

Let us pray.

Pr. Lord, have mercy upon us.

Anfw. Christ, have mercy upon us.

Pr. Lord, have mercy upon us.

Then

Then fhall the Priest and People fay the Lord's prayer. OUR Father, who art in heaven; Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from the evil For thine is the kingdom, and the power,

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and the glory, for ever and ever.

Amen.

Pr. Enter not into judgment with thy fervant, O Lord;

Anfw. For in thy fight shall no man living be juftified.

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Pr. Deliver his foul, O Lord,

Anfw. From the gates of hell.

Pr. I believe to fee the goodness of the Lord

Anfw. In the land of the living.

Pr. O Lord, hear our prayer;

Anfw. And let our cry come unto thee.

Then fhall the Deacon fay,

ET us pray for this our brother departed in the faith of Chrift; that God, the lover of mankind, who hath taken his foul out of this world, * This is not to be [* would forgive him all his fins voused for fuch children luntary and involuntary, and] of his as the Priest in his dif- great mercy would graciously place not capable of commit him in the region of the juft, who ting actual fin. reft in the bofom of Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, with all those who have pleased him and

cretion fhall think were

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done his will from the beginning of the world, in the place whence forrow, grief, and lamentation are banished away. Let us commend our felves and one another to the Eternal God through the Word who was in the beginning.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Then the Priest fhall fay the three following prayers.

Thou, who art by nature immortal and ever

lafting, from whom every thing mortal and immortal deriveth it's Being; who madeft thy rational creature Man the inhabitant of the world mortal in his conftitution, but didft promise him a refurrection to eternal life; who didft not fuffer Enoch and Elias to undergo the fentence of death: O God of Abraham, God of Ifaac, God of Jacob, who art the God of men, not as they are dead, but as they are living; because the fouls of all live unto thee, and the fpirits of the righteous whom no torment fhall touch in any degree, are in thy hand, all who are fanctified being under thy peculiar cuftody: Do thou now look down upon this thy fervant, whom thou haft taken out of this world, and removed to another ftate, [* and pardon all his tranf- *This is not to be greffions voluntary and involuntary;] used for fuch children, give thy holy angels charge over cretion fhall think were as the Prieft in his difhim, and place him in the region of not capable of committhe Patriarchs, Prophets, Apoftles, ting actual fin.

and all who have pleafed thee from the beginning of the world; the region, in which there is no forrow, grief, or trouble, but which is a calm and quiet place of peace to the godly, and an haven of reft to the just, who therein behold the glory of thy Chrift; through

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whom to Thee in the Holy Ghost, be glory, honour, and worship, thanksgiving, and adoration, now, henceforth, and for evermore. Amen.

Merciful God, Father of our Lord Jefus Christ, who is the refurrection and the life, in whom whofoever believeth fhall live though he die, and whofoever liveth and believeth in him shall not die eternally; who hath also taught us by his holy apoftle Saint Paul, not to be forry as men without hope, for them that fleep in him: We give thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this finful world ; meekly befeeching thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of fin to the life of righteousness, that when we shall depart out of this life, we may rest in Christ, as our hope is this our brother doth: And we humbly pray thee, that it may please thee of thy gracious goodness fhortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to haften thy kingdom, that at the general resurrection at the last day, both we and this our brother departed receiving our bodies again to glory then made pure and incorruptible, and rifing again in thy moft gracious favour, may be found acceptable in thy fight, and with all thofe who are of the mystical body of thy Son, may all together be fet on his right hand, and hear that his most joyful voice; Come, ye bleffed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Grant this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, for the fake of Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen.

O Lord,

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