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THE

BOOK OF 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 OR PSALMS OF DAVID.

NEW YORK.

NEW-YORK BIBLE AND COMMON PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY.

New York, June 1, 1832.

I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that this edition of the Common Prayer Book, Book of Offices, &c., (having been compared with the standard books, 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.

BENJAMIN T. ONDERDONK, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in

the State of New-York.

PIERCY & REED, Printers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Mist
Miss Clara Burnett

8-21-1929

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 ap-
pointed to he 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 Absti-
nence throughout the year,
8 Tables for finding the Holy.
days,
9 The Order for Daily Morn-
ing 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 through-
out the year,

13 The Order for the Administra-
tion 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,

Page.

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16 The Ministration of Baptism
to such as are of Riper
Years, and able to answer
for themselves,

131

135

717 A Catechism; that is to say,
an Instruction to be learn-
ed by every person before
he be brought to be con-
firmed by the Bishop,
18 The Order of Confirmation,
or Laying on of hands upon
those that are baptized and
come to years of discretion, 138

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10 19 The form of Solemnization of