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From the Book of Common Praper.

MORNING PRAYER. General Confession. We have offended against thy holy laws;...... EVENING PRAYER. The second Collect. .....Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments;......

LITANY. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy commandments ;...

COLLECT for the Circumcision of Christ. Almighty God, who madest thy blessed Son to be circumcised, and obedient to the law for man ;.

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For the fourth Sunday after Easter.....Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing that thou commandest;

For the first Sunday after Trinity. O God, the strength of all them that put their trust in thee, mercifully accept our prayers; and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments, we may please thee both in will and deed, through Jesus Christ our Lord; .

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For the eleventh Sunday after Trinity.... Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy gracious promises ;....

For St. Andrew's Day.....Grant unto us all, that we being called by thy holy Word, may forthwith give up ourselves obediently to fulfil thy holy commandments, ......

For St. James the Apostle...........So we forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments,....

COMMUNION.

MENTS.

The TEN COMMAND

Collect after the Offertory. O Almighty Lord, and everlasting God, vouchsafe we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern both our hearts and bodies in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments ;.....

PUBLIC BAPTISM OF INFANTS. Then shall the Priest speak unto the Godfathers and Godmothers on this wise;

Wherefore after this promise made by Christ, this infant must also faithfully for his part, promise by you that are his sureties, (until he come of age to take it upon himself,) that he will renounce the devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy Word, and obediently keep his commandments.

Minister. Wilt thou then obediently keep God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of thy life?

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Answer. I will.

Exhortation to the Godfathers and Godmothers. Ye are to take care that this child he brought to the Bishop, to be confirmed by him, so soon as he can say the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, in the vulgar tongue, and be further instructed in the Church-Catechism set forth for that purpose.

CATECHISM. Question. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you?

Answer. They did promise and vow three things in my name: ......thirdly, that I should keep God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.

Quest. You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you, that you should keep God's Commandments: Tell me how many there be?

Answ. Ten.

Quest. What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandments?

Answ. I learn two things: My duty towards God, and my duty towards my neighbour.

Catechist. My good child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace; which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer:..

From the Thirty-nine Articles.

ARTICLE VII.

Of the Old Testament.

The Old Testament is not contrary to the New; for both in the Old and New Testament, everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and man, being both God and man. Wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign, that the old fathers did look only for transitory promises. Although the Law given from God by Moses, as touching ceremonies and rites, do not bind Christian men, nor the civil precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any common-wealth; yet, notwithstanding, no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called Moral.

From the Homilies.

BOOK I.

HOMILY 5. Of Good Works.

CRANMER'S CATECHISM.

Wherefore, if you fear God, and have a desire to be occupied in godliness, then learn the Ten Commandments, whereby God hath taught us what pleaseth and what displeaseth him, what thing is good, and what is evil. And if you learn these lessons perfectly, then thereby you shall purchase unto you the beginning of true and godly wisdom; which is such wisdom, that many men, well stricken in years, do not attain to it. And yet this wisdom and knowledge of the Ten Commandments is but only the beginning of sapience, for it is the teaching of the Law. But when the doctrine of faith in Christ is taught unto you, then you learn a greater and higher wisdom, the which the ungodly or unfaithful do not understand nor perceive: but God only doth give it down from heaven to make us fear him and believe his holy Word. Wherefore, good children, learn now diligently the beginning of wisdom, that is to say, the holy Ten Commandments, and give so good ear unto them, that you may learn them without book, and rehearse them, when you come home....

To the intent, good children, that you may the better understand the Law of the Ten Commandments, you must first of all know, that God gave to Moses the Ten Commandments, written in two tables of stone: wherefore they be divided in two parts. In the first table were written the three

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