be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. 1 John v. 20. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true: and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 1 John iv. 13. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. From the Book of Common Praper. MORNING PRAYER. Absolution. Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...... Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance, and his Holy Spirit;....so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Here all standing up, the Priest shall say, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Te Deum. Apostles' Creed. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore. Amen. CREED OF ST. ATHANASIUS. LITANY. O God the Father of Heaven,.. O God the Son, Redeemer of the World,.... O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son,....O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three Persons and one God, have mercy upon us miserable sinners. COLLECT for the Third Sunday in Advent. O Lord Jesu Christ....who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. COLLECT for Christmas Day. Almighty God,....Grant that we being regenerate and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit, through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. COLLECT for Trinity Sunday. Almighty and everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy Servant's grace, by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity; we beseech thee that thou wouldest keep us stedfast in this faith, and evermore defend us from all adversities; who livest and reignest, one God, world without end. Amen. THE COMMUNION. Nicene Creed. Exhortation. And above all things ye must give most humble and hearty thanks to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, for the redemption of the world by the death and passion of our Saviour Christ, both God and Man.... Preface upon the Feast of Trinity only. Who art one God, one Lord; not one only Person, but three Persons in one Substance. For that which we believe of the Glory of the Father, the same we believe of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost without any difference or inequality. The Blessing. The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you, and remain with you always. Amen. PUBLICK BAPTISM OF INFANTS. N. I baptize thee, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. CATECHISM. Quest. What dost thou chiefly learn in these articles of thy belief. Ans. First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who hath made me, and all the world; Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me, and all mankind; Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctified me, and all the elect people of God. CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS. Veni Creator Spiritus; or this, Come, Holy Ghost, eternal God....(throughout.) From the Thirty-nine Articles. ARTICLE 1. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity. .....And in unity of this Godhead there be three Persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.. ARTICLE VIII. Of the Creeds. The three Creeds; Nicene Creed, Athanasius's Creed, and that which is commonly called the Apostles' Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and believed; for they may be proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture. From the Homilies. BOOK II. HOMILY 12. Of the Nativity (passim.) CRANMER'S CATECHISM. And it is your bounden duty, good children, diligently to learn this lesson. And although these things pass all men's capacities, and is a doctrine hard for you to learn, yet in time to come you shall hear more of this matter. In the mean season bear away (I pray you) this one lesson, that there is one true and everlasting God, and yet three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And this we call the Trinity, |