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Contents
 
         
        Publication Details
         
        The Preface
        Concerning the Service of the Church
        Concerning Ceremonies, why some be abolished, and some retained
        Rules to Order the Service
        The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read
        The Order how the rest of Holy Scripture is appointed to be read
         
        A Table of Proper Lessons and Psalms
        The Calendar, with the Table of Lessons
        [Revised tables of Lessons (1922)]
        Tables and Rules for the Feasts and Fasts through the whole year
         
        The Order for Morning Prayer
        The Order for Evening Prayer
        The Creed of St Athanasius
        The Litany
        Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several occasions
         
        The Collects, Epistles and Gospels, to be used at the Ministration of the Holy Communion, throughout the Year
        This provision is supplemented by A Lectionary and Additional Collects for Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer)
         
        The Order of the Ministration of the Holy Communion
         
        The Order of Baptism both Publick and Private
        The Order of Baptism for those of Riper Years
        The Catechism
        The Order of Confirmation
         
        The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony
         
        The Order for the Visitation of the Sick, and the Communion of the Sick
         
        The Order for the Burial of the Dead
         
        The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth
         
        A Commination, or denouncing of God's anger and judgements against Sinners
         
        The Psalter
         
        Forms of Prayer to be used at sea
         
         
        The Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons
         
         
        Forms of Prayer for the Anniversary of the day of Accession of the Reigning Sovereign
         
         
   
  Articles of Religion
         
         
   
  A Table of Kindred and Affinity
         
        Text from The Book of Common Prayer, the rights in which are vested in the Crown,
are reproduced by permission of the Crown's Patentee, Cambridge University Press.