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I TABLES and RULES for the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts ; together with the Days of

Fasting and Abstinence through the whole Year.

RULES,
To know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-Days begin.
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which happens upon, or next after, the twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Fuli Moon happen upon a Sunday, Easter-Day is the Sunday after.

Advent Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew, whether before or after. Septuagesima

Nine
Sexagesima
Quinquagesima

Sunday is

Eight Weeks before

Seven aster.
Quadragesima

Six
Rogation Sunday

Five Weeks
Ascension-Day

Forty Days
is

After Easter.
Whitsunday

Seven Weeks
Trinity Sunday

Eight Weeks

A TABLE OF FEASTS,

To be observed in this Church, throughout the Year. AU Sundays in the year.

St. Bartholomew the Apostle. The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. St. Matthew the Apostle. The Epiphany.

St. Michael and All Angels.
The Conversion of St. Paul.

St. Luke the Evangelist.
The Purification of the Blessed Virgin. St. Simon and St. Jude, the Apostles.
St. Matthias the Apostle.

All Saints.
The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin. St. Andrew the Apostle.
St. Mark the Evangelist.

St. Thomas the Apostle.
St. Philip and St. James, the Apostles. The Nativity of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.
The Ascension of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. St. Stephen the Martyr.
St. Barnabas.

St. John the Evangelist. The Nativity of St. John the Baptist. The Holy Innocents. St. Peter the Apostle.

Monday and Tuesday in Easter-Week. St. James the Apostle.

Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-Week.

A TABLE OF FASTS.

Ash-Wednesday.

Good-Friday. Other Days of Fasting ; on which the Church requires such a Measure of Abstinence, as is more

especially suited to extraordinary Acts and Exercises of Devotion. 1st Forty days of Lent. 2d. The Ember-Days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, and December 13.

3d. The three Rogation Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lord.

4th. All the Fridays in the Year, except Christmas-Day.

In addition to the above, the first Thursday in November, (or if any other day be appointed by the civil authority, then such day) shall be observed as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all other Blessings of his merciful Providence.

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any given year of our Lord, 15 consisting of entire hundred 16

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years betwixt that and 17 the next hundreth year fot 17 lowing, look in the second co18 lumn of Table II. for the giv18

en year, consisting of entire 19 huodreds; and note the num19

her or cypher which stands 19 against it in the third coluton; 20 then in Table III. look for the 21 same number in the column 20

under any given Golden Num21 ber, which when you have 22 round, guide your eye side23 ways to the left hand, and in 22 the first column you will find 23 the month and day to which 24 that Golden Number ought 24

to be prefixed in the Calen24 dar, during that period of one 25

hundred years. 25 The Letter B prefixed to 26 certain hundreth years in Ta26

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the other hundreth years are 28 to be accounted only common 29

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MORNING PRAYER.

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1 The Minister shall begin the MORNING PRAYER, by reading one or more of the following Sentences

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HE Lord is in his holy temple; judgment; not in thine anger, lest

let all the earth keep silence thou bring me to nothing. Jer. x. before him. Hab. ii. 20. 24. Psal. vi. 1.

From the rising of the sun even Repent ye; for the kingdom of unto the going down of the same, heaven is at hand. St. Matt. iii. 2. my name shall be great among the I will arise, and go to my father, Gentiles; and in every place in- and will say unto him ; Father, I cense shall be offered into my have sinned against heaven, and name, and a pure offering: for my before thee, and am no more worname shall be great among the thy to be called thy son. St. Luke heathen, saith the Lord of hosts. xv. 18, 19. Mal. i. 11.

Enter not into judgment with Let the words of my mouth, thy servant, O Lord; for in thy and the meditation of my heart, be sight shall no man living be justialway acceptable in thy sight, o fied. Psal. cxliii. 2. Lord, my strength and my Re- If we say that we have no sin, deemer. Psal. xix. 14.

we deceive ourselves, and the truth When the wicked man turneth is not in us; but if we confess our away from his wickedness that he sins, God is faithful and just to hath committed, and doeth that forgive us our sins, and to cleanse which is lawful and right, he shall us from all unrighteousness. 1 save his soul alive. Ezek. xviii. 27. John i. 8, 9.

1 Then the Minister shall say, sions and my sin is ever before Dhe

scripture moveth us, in I

, me. Psal. li. 3.

Hide thy face from my sins; sundry places, to acknowledge and blot out all mine iniquities. and confess our manifold sins and Psal. li. 9.

wickedness, and that we should The sacrifices of God are a bro- not dissemble nor cloak them beken spirit; a broken and a contrite fore the face of Almighty God, our heart, O God, thou wilt not des- heavenly Father, but confess them pise. Psal. li. 17.

with an humble, lowly, penitent, Rend your heart and not your and obedient heart; to the end garments, and turn unto the Lord that we may obtain forgiveness of your God; for he is gracious and the same, by his infinite goodness merciful, slow to anger, and of and mercy. And although we

, great kindness, and repenteth him ought, at all times, humbly to acof the evil. Joel ii. 13.

knowledge our sins before God; To the Lord our God belong yet ought we chiefly so to do, when mercies and forgivenesses, though we assemble and meet together, to we have rebelled against him; nei- render thanks for the great benefits ther have we obeyed the voice of that we have received at his hands, the Lord our God, to walk in his to set forth his most worthy praise, laws which he set before us. to hear his most holy word, and to Dan. ix. 9, 10.

ask those things which are requiO Lord, correct me, but with site and necessary, as well for the

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