'And the next prayer begins thus:
'We commend into thy hands of Mercy, most merciful Father, the soul of this our brother departed: … that when the judgment shall come which Thou hast committed to Thy well beloved Son, both this our brother and we may be found acceptable in Thy sight, and we may receive Thy blessing,' &c.
"The next prayer stands thus:
'Almighty God, we give Thee hearty thanks for this Thy servant, whom Thou hast delivered from the miseries of this wretched world, from the body of death and all temptation; and as we trust, hast brought his soul, which he committed into Thy holy hands, into sure consolation and rest. Grant, we beseech Thee, that at the day of judgment, his soul and all the souls of Thy elect, departed out of this life, may with us and we with them fully receive Thy promises, and be made perfect altogether, through the glorious resurrection of thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.'
"After the second Lesson, 'Lord have mercy upon us,' &c. and the Lord's Prayer, the Priest says,
'Enter not, O Lord, into judgment with Thy servant:
'Ans. For in Thy sight no living creature shall be justified.
'Pr. From the gates of hell,
'Ans. Deliver their souls, O Lord.
'Pr. I believe to see the goodness of the Lord,
'Ans. In the land of the living.
'Pr. O Lord, graciously hear my prayer,
'Ans. And let my cry come unto Thee.'
"Then follows this prayer:
'O Lord, with whom do live the spirits of them that be dead, and in whom the souls of them that be elected after they be delivered from the burden of the flesh, be in joy and felicity: grant unto this Thy servant that the sins which he committed in this world be not imputed unto him, but that he, escaping the gates of hell, and pains of eternal darkness, may ever dwell in the regions of light, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the place where is no weeping, sorrow, nor heaviness; and when that dreadful day of the resurrection shall come, make him to rise also with the just and righteous, and receive this body again to glory, then made pure and incorruptible. Set him on the right hand of Thy Son Jesus Christ, among Thy holy and elect, that there he may hear with them these most sweet and comfortable words, Come to me, ye blessed.' &c.…
"At the Burial of the Dead, there is an order for the Communion, I shall only mention what is particular to the occasion. First, the 42nd Psalm is said by way of introduction. The Collect is now used at burials: it begins thus: 'O merciful God, the Father,' &c. The epistle is taken out of 1 Thess. [iv.?] 13, and
