COMMON PRAYER,

AND ADMINISTRATION OF

THE SACRAMENTS,

AND OTHER

RITES AND CEREMONIES

OF

THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

TOGETHER WITH

THE PSALTER,

OB,

PSALMS OF DAVID.

STEREOTYPE EDITION.

BALTIMORE:

PUBLISHED BY E. J. COALE & CO

New-York, Sept. 9, 1817. I DO hereby certify, that this Edition of the Book of Common Prayer, and

Administration of the Sacraments, &c. (having been compared with a standard Book, and corrected by the same) is permitted to be published as an Edition duly compared and corrected by a suitable Person appointed for that purpose, as the Canon directs.

JOHN HENRY HOBART,

Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York.

GODLE!

20 SEP 1923

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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1 The Ratification of the Book 16 The Ministration of Baptism

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 Scriptures 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.

to such as are of Riper Years,

and able to answer for them-

selves.

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.

7 Tables and Rules for the

Moveable and Immoveable

Feasts, together with the 20 The Order for the Visitation of

Days of Fasting and Absti- the Sick.

19 The Form of Solemnization

of Matrimony.

the Dead.

nence throughout the Year. 21 The Communion of the Sick.

8 Tables for finding the Holy-22 The Order for the Burial of

Days.

9 The Order for Daily Morn-23 The Thanksgiving of Women

ing Prayer.
after Child-Birth, commonly

called, The Churching of Wo-

10 The Order for Daily Evening

Prayer.

men.

11 Prayers and Thanksgivings up- 24 Forms of Prayer to be used at

on several Occasions, to be

Sea.

used before the two final 25 A Form of Prayer for the Vi-

Prayers of Morning and Even-
ing Service.

12 The Collects, Epistles, and

Gospels, to be used through-

out the Year.

13 The Order for the Adminis-

sitation of Prisoners.

26 A Form of Prayer and Thanks-

giving to Almighty God, for

the Fruits of the Earth, and

all the other Blessings of his

merciful Providence.

tration of the Lord's Supper, 27 Forms of Prayer to be used

or Holy Communion.

in Families.

14 The Ministration of Public 28 Selections of Psalms, to be

Baptism of Infants, to be used

in the Church.

15 The

Ministration of Pri-

used instead of the Psalms for

the Day, at the Discretion of

the Minister.

vate Baptism of Children in 29 The Psalter, or Psalms of Da-

Houses.

vid.