BURIAL OF THE DEAD. When the Procession is entering the Church, the Minister shall utter these Sentences. I KNOW that my Re LORD, make me to deemer liveth, and that he know mine end, and the shall stand at the latter measure of my days, that I day upon the earth. And may know how frail I am. though after my skin, Behold thou hast made worms destroy this body, my days as it were a span yet in my flesh shall I see long, and mine age is even God. Job, xix. 25, 26. as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every WE brought nothing in man living is altogether to this world, and it is cer vanity. tain we can carry nothing For man walketh in a out. The Lord gave, and vain shadow, and disquithe Lord hath taken away ; eteth himself in vain; he blessed be the name of the heapeth up riches, and men. cannot tell who shall gath- everlasting to everlasting, er them. thou art God. And now, Lord, what is Thou turnest man to my hope? truly my hope destruction ; and sayest, is even in thee. Return, ye children of I became dumb, and opened not my mouth ; for For a thousand years in it was thy doing. thy sight are but as yesterTake thy plague away day when it is past, or a from me ; Í watch in the night. by the blow of thy heavy As soon as thou scatterhand. est them, they are even as When thou with rebukes a sleep, and fade away dost chasten man for sin, suddenly like the grass ; thou makest his beauty to In the morning it is consume away, like as it green, and groweth up; were a moth fretting a gar- but in the evening it is cut ment; surely every man is down, dried up, and withvanity. ered. O The days of our age Lord, and with thine ears are threescore years and consider my calling; hold ten; and though men be not thy peace at my tears. so strong, that they come For I am a stranger with to fourscore years, yet is thee, and a sojourner, as all their strength then but my fathers were. labour and sorrow; O spare me a little, that soon posseth it away, and I may recover my strength, we are gone. before I go hence, and be So' teach us to number our days, that we may ap ply our hearts unto wisPSALM 90. dom. SO no more seen. Then shall follow these Se lections from 1 Cor. xv. LORD, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from NOW is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of those who slept. For man Burt mar thou turnool-To dust since by man came death, death is sin, and the came also the strength of sin is the law; honla he to God, the victory, even so in Christ Suan an Lord Jesus be made alive. Christ. in the morning Show coniest him away, as wrih afloods founishith and Shitetto spittime that in the arning is cut doo, and withered. The deg for life ever thone sanjam Hud, b'sensorlofstorugtt, may he four seneguas, wiarness and sorrow; For it raniških owiftty, and we fly away. 70 years and ten O death, wnere is lny and merciful Father, most worthy Judge etei cannot tell who shall gath- everlasting to everlasting, er them. thou art God. And now, Lord, what is Thou turnest man to my hope? truly my hope destruction ; and sayest, is even in thee. Return, ye children of Now out bur Lord Jesus Chnst himself, and Goajeron Father, which hath loved us, and hath guion ho certasting condition, and good hafic Thomgh gore, trompet your hearts, and establish you ine every good , ood word and work. 2-4 Wheo. II. 16, 11.16,17 shail say, never since by man came death, death is sin, and the by man came also the strength of sin is the law; resurrection of the dead. but thanks be to God, For as in Adam all die, who giveth us the victory, even so in Christ shall all through our Lord Jesus be made alive. Christ. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory Then the Minister, either of the moon, and another at the Grave, or in the glory of the stars; for one body of the Church, star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the MAN who is born of a resurrection of the dead. woman, hath but a short It is sown in corruption, it time to live, and is full of is raised in incorruption; misery. He cometh up, it is sown in dishonour, it and is cut down like a is raised in glory; it is flower; he fleeth as it sown in weakness, it is were a shadow, and raised in power; it is sown continueth in one stay. a natural body, it is raised In the midst of life we a spiritual body. are in death; of whom Now this I say, breth may we seek for succour, ren, than flesh and blood but of thee, O Lord, who cannot inherit the kingdom for our sins art justly disof God; neither doth cor pleased ? ruption inherit incorrup Yet, O Lord God most tion. For this corruptible holy, O Lord most mighty, must put on incorruption, o holy and most merciful and this mortal must put Father, deliver us not into on immortality. So when the bitter pains of eternal this corruptible shall have death. put on incorruption, and Thou knowest, Lord, this mortal shall have put the secrets of our hearts; on immortality, then shall shut not thy merciful ears be brought to pass the say to our prayers; but spare ing that is written, Death us, Lord most holy, o is swallowed up in victory. God most mighty, O holy O death, where is thy and merciful Father, thou sting? O grave, where is most worthy Judge eternal, thy victory? The sting of suffer us not at our last |
