Prayer 1

The Order for Evening Prayer 18

The Creed of St Athanasius 3l

The Litany 35

Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several occasions 44

The Collects, Epistles and Gospels to be used at the Ministration
of the Holy Communion, throughout the Year 68

The Order of the Ministration of the Holy Communion both Scottish
and English 271, 302

The Order of Baptism both Public and Private 332, 341

The Order of Baptism for those of Riper Years 348

The Catechism 358

The Order of Confirmation both English and Scottish 366, 369

The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony 373

The Order for the Visitation of the Sick, and the Communion of the
Sick 385, 396

The Order for the Burial of the Dead 398

The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth 416

A Commination, or denouncing of God's anger and judgements against
sinners 419

The Psalter 428

Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea 619

The Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of
Bishops, Priests, and Deacons 634

Forms of Prayer for the Anniversary of the day of Accession of
the reigning Sovereign 677

A Table of Kindred and Affinity 688

Articles of Religion 689

THE PREFACE

It hath been the wisdom of the Church of England, ever since the
first compiling of her Public Liturgy, to keep the mean between
the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too
much easiness in admitting any variation from it. For, as on the
one side common experience sheweth, that where a change hath been
made of things advisedly established (no evident necessity so
requiring) sundry inconveniences have thereupon ensued; and those
many times more and greater than the evils, that were intended to
be remedied by such change: So on the other side,