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intended.

For the order to kneel to say the Litany, we must refer back to the
rubric at the head of the Collects in Morning Prayer, where the words,
_all kneeling_, were added in 1662 (see p. 130).

The place of the Faldstool may have been suggested by Joel ii. 17, _Let
the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the
altar_.

Structure of the Litany.

The Litany is a series of prayers addressed mainly to God the Son. It
has two breaks, or interruptions, which consist of prayers addressed to
God the Father. Thus there are five sections.

Section i. from the beginning, to _O Christ, hear us_.

Thirty petitions to Jesus under the title _Good Lord_, with invocation
of Holy Trinity at the beginning, and urgent entreaty at the end.

Section ii. from _Lord, have mercy upon us_, to _world without end_.
Amen.

Earnest appeal to the Father, with _Lesser Litany_ as preface to the
Lord's Prayer.

Section iii. _From our enemies_, to _O Lord Christ_.

Eight Antiphonal prayers to Christ.

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Section iv. _O Lord, let thy mercy_, to end of occasional prayers and
thanksgivings.

One fixed, and other variable, prayers for urgent needs.

Section v. The Prayer of S. Chrysostom, addressed to Christ, and the
Benediction 2 Cor. xiii.

NOTES.

i. The Invocation of the Holy Trinity in the 1st Section is very full,
and should be compared with the Invocation which is used in Section ii.
as a preface to the Lord's Prayer.

The words, _Good Lord_, are spoken to Jesus: as we may easily infer
from the words, _whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood_;
and from, _By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation, By thine Agony and
bloody Sweat_ &c. _Son of God, O Lamb of God, O Christ_.

ii. The Lesser Litany is to be repeated, verse by verse, by the
congregation; copying, in this respect, the setting of the Invocation
at the beginning of Section i. The beginning of the Section being thus
marked, the end of it is marked by the _Gloria Patri_.

iii. We shall show that these eight verses are probably intended for
Antiphonal singing.

iii. and iv. The Sarum Litany had here 10 couplets of versicles and
seven collects. Of these seven collects we may mention, _O God, whose
nature and property_ &c., _the Prayer for Clergy and People_, and the
2nd Evening Collect, _O God, from whom_ &c.

The substitution of the two sections, as they now stand, may be quoted
as an example of the improvements