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A Form of consecration or dedication of churches and chappels together with what may be used in the restauration of ruined churches and expiation of churches desecrated or prophan'd.
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in Ex Psalmis 127. 84. vain to build it except the Lord keepeth the city the watchman waketh but in vain 2. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy ways 3. They go from strength to strength every one of them in Sion appeareth before God 4. How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of Hosts 5. My soul longeth ye even fainteth for the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God when shall I come and appear before the presence of God 6. The sparrow hath found her an house and the swallow a nest for her self where she may lay her young even thy altars O Lord of Hosts my King and my God 7. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be always praising thee 8. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness 9. For the Lord God is a Sun and a shield the Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly 10. O Lord of hosts blessed is the man that trusteth in thee Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then shall the Bishop go to the vault appointed in the Church for the burial place in case there be any or else standing in the most open pavement of the Church the Archdeacon shall read this lesson ¶ The Lesson in the Coemetery ANd when the Inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard of 1 Sam. 31. 11. that which the Philistims had done to Saul all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the walls of Bethshan and came to Jabesh and burnt them there And they took their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh and fasted seven days And they told David saying that the men of Jabesh 2 Sam. 2. 4. Oilead were they that buried Saul And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh Gilead and said unto them Blessed be ye of the Lord that ye have shewed this kindness unto your Lord even unto Saul and have buried him And the son of David King Solomon said If a man Eccless 6. 3. beget an hundred children and live many years so that the days of his years be many and his soul be filled with good and also that he have no burial I say that an untimely birth is better than he And so I saw the wicked buried who had come and Eccless 8. 10. gone from the place of the Holy and they were forgoten in the city where they had so done But let a man remember the days of darkness for they chap. 11. 8. shall be many For the dust shall return to the earth as it was and the chap. 12. 7. Spirit shall return unto God that gave it ¶ Then the Bishop standing in the same place shall pray O Almighty God with whom do live the spirits of them that die in the Lord grant unto all thy servants whose bodies shall be buried in this dormitory that they may lie down with the righteous and their souls may be gathered unto their Fathers in the bosom of Christ and their bodies may rest in peace unto the latter day and when thy holy Son shall come to judge both the quick and the dead they may hear the sentence of the right hand and may have their perfect consummation and bliss in thine eternal and everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Bishop with the Clergy attending shall go to the Font and the Verger or Clerk presenting pure water to him he shall pour the water into the Font. ¶ Then shall the senior Priest read this Lesson ¶ The Lesson at the Font. ANd Jesus came and spake unto them saying All power Mat. 28. 18. is given unto me in heaven and in earth Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things which I have commanded you and lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the world Amen Then shall the Bishop pray O Eternal God Fountain of all Purity bless and sanctifie the waters which thou hast ordained and constituted for the mystical washing away of sin and grant unto all those who shall come hither to be presented unto thee and be washed in this Lavatory that they may receive the baptism of the Spirit and may have a title and portion in repentance remission of sins and all the promises of the Gospel that they may not onely have the washing of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God that they dying unto sin and being buried with Christ in his death may live unto righteousness and become thy Disciples in an unreproveable faith and a perfect obedience and at last may partake of the Resurrection of thy Son to life Eternal through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Bishop shall go attended as before to the Pulpit and laying his hand upon it shall appoint one of the Priests to read the following Lesson The Lesson at the Pulpit I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus 2 Tim. 4. 1. Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom Preach the Word be instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine For the time will come that they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou Tit. 3. 8. affirm constantly that they who have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works these things are good and profitable unto men But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the Law for they are unprofitable and vain But let the man of God watch in all things endure afflictions 2 Tim. 4. 5. do the work of an Evangelist and make full proof of his Ministery ¶ Then shall the Bishop pray O Almighty God who by thy Word and by thy Spirit dost instruct thy servants and teach them all truth and lead them in the way of salvation Grant that this place may be always filled with wise and holy persons who may dispense thy word faithfully according to the ability thou givest and the charge which thou imposest and the duty thou requirest giving to every one their portion in due season and feeding the flock of God not of constraint or of necessity but willingly and cheerfully not for filthy lucres sake but readily and of a good mind O
thee and what is the place of thy rest that we can furnish out for thee Surely every place is too little and too low for thee who dwellest on high and thy glory is above the Heavens And yet thou humblest thy self to behold the things that are in heaven and earth and thy delight is to be with the sons of men Thou speakest our words thou compliest with our weaknesses thou acceptest our services and wilt be worshipped and ador'd according to what thou hast put into our power Thou therefore hast been pleas'd in all ages to meet with thy servants in places separate for thy worship and for the invocation of thy holy Name In Paradise there was a proper place which thy servant Moses called The presence of the Lord and thy servant Abraham called on thy Name in the place of the Altar And thou didst meet the Patriarch Jacob Gen. 13. 4. at Bethel and he consecrated a stone for thy memorial and it became dreadful and venerable the House of God and the Gate of Heaven and Rebekah had a proper place Gen. 28. 17. whither she went to inquire of the Lord. Thou also didst fill the Tabernacle with thy presence and the Temple with thy glory and when the fulness of time was come thou by thy most holy Son didst declare that thou wilt be present in all places where two or three are gathered in thy Name and that amongst all Nations for ever Thy house shall be called the house of prayer and by thy Apostle hast signified to us that our dwelling houses are to eat and drink in but that we must not despise the Churches of God For thou art a jealous God and wilt not endure that thy Temples should be defiled Our God is a consuming fire and he that defiles a Temple him will God destroy Therefore in confidence of thy goodness in expectation of thy favours in full assurance of thy promises in obedience to the manifold declaration of thy pleasure and in imitation of the piety of thy servants who in all the generations of the world have separated places and houses for thy service and left great monuments of their piety for our comfort and example that we may come together into one place * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Ignat. Epist ad Magness and by a joyn'd prayer wrastle with thee for blessings and not depart thence till thou hast blessed us We thy servants walking in the steps of their most holy faith partakers of the same hope fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God are this day met together in thy fear and love to dedicate a house to thee and to the glories of thy Name that we may not neglect the assembling of our selves together but meet here to implore thy mercies to deplore our sins to deprecate thy anger to magnifie thy goodness to celebrate thy praises to receive thy Sacraments to bless thy people and to perform all ministeries of Salvation Be pleased therefore most gracious Lord and Father to accept the devotion and oblation of thy servants admit this place and house into a portion of thine own inheritance Let it be a resting place for thy feet and the seat of thy Graciousness Depute thy holy Angels to abide here to defend thy servants and to drive away all the power of the Enemy Place thy mercy-seat among us also Let thine eyes and thine ears be open towards this house night and day and hear the prayers of thy people which they shall make unto thee in this place granting to them all the graces which they shall need and ask And whensoever in humility and contrition they shall confess their sins unto thee be thou more ready to hear than they to pray forgive them all their sins encrease and perfect their repentances remove thy judgements far from them and let them feel and rejoyce in thy mercies and loving kindnesses for ever and ever Grant this for his sake who is the King of the Saints and the Head of the Church the great lover of souls and our High Priest who continually makes intercession for us our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen III. O Almighty God who art the Father of the faithful and a gracious God to all that call upon thee in truth and love thou hast taught us by thy holy Apostle that every thing is sanctified by the word of God and prayer Attend this day and ever to the prayers of thy servants be present with thy grace in all our ministeries of the Sacraments and Sacramentals and bless all the labours and accept all the religious duties and satisfie all the holy desires of them who in this thy house shall make their supplications before thee And let the dew of thy Divine blessing descend and abide for ever upon this house which by invocation of thy holy Name and to the honour of the Lord Jesus and the Ministeries of thy servants we though unworthy consecrate and dedicate unto thee Spare all the penitents relieve the distressed comfort the comfortless confirm the strong and strengthen the weak Ease the afflicted heal the wounded and the sick provide for the widows and be a Father to the fatherless and unto all them whose consciences being accus'd for sin come with confidence to the Throne of Grace Give help in all the times of their need that whensoever thy Name is called upon thy blessings may certainly descend Let thy Eternal peace be to this house and to them who in this house come to thee to be eased and refreshed Here let thy Priests be cloth'd with righteousness and let thy Saints sing with joyfulness Here let thy people make their prayers and perform their vows and offer thee freewill offerings with a holy worship Here let the weight of their sins that so easily besets them be laid aside here let the chains of their corruption and the chords of vanity be broken Let the lapsed be restored let the sick be cured let the blind eyes and hearts be inlightned with the lanthorn of thy Word and the light of thy Spirit Here let the power of Satan be lessened and destroyed and let thy servants find a cure for all their wounds a comfort for all their sorrows a remedy to all their inconveniences that all who shall enter this house now dedicated to thy service may obtain all their desires and triumph in the Name of the Lord our God who hath perform'd all their petitions Preserve their souls from sin their eyes from tears and their feet from falling for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with thee O Father and thy most Holy Spirit be all honour and glory praise and thanksgiving love and obedience for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then the Bishop and the Congregation arising from their knees the Bishop attended by his Clergy shall go in Procession round about the Church within and say this Hymn alternately HYMN I. 1. EXcept the Lord build the house they labour