reth for ever. To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever. To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever. The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever. (Ps. cxxxvi. 1 to 9, 26.)

ALL thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power. To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that are bowed down. The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. My mouth shall speak the praise of the

Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. (Ps. cxlv. 1 to 21.)

My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.-[The two next verses to be chanted by the women only.] For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things, and holy is his name.Now all the people join.] And his mercy is on them that fear him, from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty away. He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy. As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed for ever. (Luke i. 46 to 55.)

Then may be said or sung, the following
Doxology.

Minister. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. (Ps. lxxii. 18.)

People. And blessed be his glorious name for ever. (Ps lxxii. 19.)

Here the Minister reads the Decalogue, as follows, the people still standing.

HEAR, O Israel, the statutes and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. (Deut. v. 1, 2, 3.)

And God spake all these words, saying,

(1.) AM the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

(2.) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain,

(3.) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the

Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath-day, and hallowed it.

(4.) Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

(5.) Thou shalt not kill.

(6.) Thou shalt not commit adultery. (7.) Thou shalt not steal.

(8.) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

(9.) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's

house.

(10.) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. (Exod. xx. 1 to 17.)

THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Mat. 37 to 40.)

People. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes. O let me not wander from thy commandments. (Ps. cxix. 5, 10.)

Or the Ten Commandments from Deut. v. 6 to 21, may be occasionally read, instead of the above.

The Minister then proceeds as follows, the people still standing.

THESE are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you: that thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee; thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. (Deut. vi. 1, 2.)

Ye shall observe therefore to do as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand, or to the left. (Deut. v. 32.)

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul? to keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes which I command thee this day for thy good? (Deut. x. 12, 13.)

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou