New-York, Sept. 4, 1823. I Do hereby certify, that this Edition (a the Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, &c. (having been compared with a standard book, and corrected by the same is permitted to be published as an Edition duly compared and corrected by a suitable Person appointed for that purpose, as the Canon directs. JOHN HENRY HOBART, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York. THE RATIFICATION OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. By the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopat Church in the United States of America, in Convention, this 16th Day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and cighty-nine. TH THIS Convention having in their present Session, set forth A Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, do hereby establish the said book: And they declare it to be the Liturgy of this Church; and require, that it be received as such by all the Members of the same: And this Book shall be in use from and after the first Day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety. 7 Tables and Rules for the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts, together 20 with the days of Fasting and absti- 8 Tables for finding the Holy-Days. The Order for Daily Morning Prayer. 23 The Order for Daily Evening Prayer. 1 Prayers and thanksgivings upon seve- ral Occasions, to be used before the 24 two final Prayers of Morning and 25 2 The Collects. Epistles, and Gospels, 26 to be used throughout the Year. 13 The Order for the Administration of 14 The Ministration of Public Baptism) of Infants, to be used in the Church 28 as are of Riper Years, and able to an. A Catechism; that is to say, an In. struction to be learned by every Per son before he be brought to be con The Order of Confirmation, or Laying on of Hands upon those that are bap- The Order for the Bunal of the Dead. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth. commonly called, The Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea. A Form of Prayer for the Visitation A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Fruits of the Earth, and all the ther Blessings Forms of Prayer to be used in Fami lies Selections of Psalms, to be used in stead of the Psaims for the Day, a |