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009 - Burial of the dead · Book of Common Prayer, 1662- selections

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  Speaker 1: The Order for the Burial of the Dead from the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Common Prayer sixteen sixty two. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain recording by Michael Max. The
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  Speaker 1: Order for the Burial of the dead. Here is to
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  Speaker 1: be noted that the office ensuing is not to be
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  Speaker 1: used for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have
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  Speaker 1: laid violent hands upon themselves. The priest and clerks, meeting
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  Speaker 1: the corpse at the entrance of the churchyard, and going
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  Speaker 1: before it either into the church or towards the grave,
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  Speaker 1: shall say or sing, I am the Resurrection and the Life,
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  Speaker 1: says the Lord, he that believeth in me, though he
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  Speaker 1: were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and
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  Speaker 1: believeth in Me, shall never die. Saint John eleven, verses
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  Speaker 1: twenty five hundwenty six. I know that my Redeemer liveth,
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  Speaker 1: and that he shall stand at the latter day upon
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  Speaker 1: the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body,
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  Speaker 1: yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I
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  Speaker 1: shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, And
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  Speaker 1: not another job nineteen verses twenty five, twenty six, and
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. We brought nothing into this world, and it
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  Speaker 1: is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord one Timothy, verses six and seven, Job one,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty one. After they are come into the church,
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  Speaker 1: shall be read one or both of these psalms. Following
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  Speaker 1: Psalm thirty nine Dixie Costodium, I said, I will take
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  Speaker 1: heed to my ways that I offend, not in my tongue.
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  Speaker 1: I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle,
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  Speaker 1: while the ungodly is in my sight. I held my
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  Speaker 1: tongue and spake nothing. I kept silence, yea, even from
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  Speaker 1: good words. But it was pain and grief to me.
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  Speaker 1: My heart was hot within me, and while I was
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  Speaker 1: thus musing, the fire kindled. And at the last I
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  Speaker 1: spake with my tongue. Lord, let me know mine end
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  Speaker 1: and the number of my days, that I may be
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  Speaker 1: certified how long I have to live. Behold, thou hast
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  Speaker 1: made my days as it were, a span long, and
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  Speaker 1: mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee.
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  Speaker 1: And verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man
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  Speaker 1: walketh in a vain shadow, and disquietus himself in vain
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  Speaker 1: he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them.
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  Speaker 1: And now, Lord, what is my hope? Truly, my hope
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  Speaker 1: is even in THEE. Deliver me from all mine offenses,
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  Speaker 1: and make me not a rebuke. Unto the foolish, I
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  Speaker 1: became dumb, and open not my mouth, for it was
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  Speaker 1: thy doing take thy plague away from me. I am
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  Speaker 1: even consumed by means of thy heavy hand. When Thou
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  Speaker 1: with rebukes dost chasten man, for sin thou makest his
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  Speaker 1: beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth
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  Speaker 1: fretting a garment. Every man therefore is but vanity. Hear
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  Speaker 1: my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling.
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  Speaker 1: Hold not thy peace at my tears, for I am
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  Speaker 1: a stranger with THEE, and a sojourner as all my
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  Speaker 1: fathers were. O, spare me a little that I may
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  Speaker 1: recover my strengths before I go hence and be no
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  Speaker 1: more seen. Glory be to the Father, unto the Sun,
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  Speaker 1: and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen
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  Speaker 1: some ninety domine refigium. Lord, thou hast been our refuge
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  Speaker 1: from one generation to another, before the mountains were brought forth,
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  Speaker 1: or ever the earth and the world were made. Thou
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  Speaker 1: art God from everlasting and world without end. Thou turnest
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  Speaker 1: man to destruction again, Thou sayest, come again, ye, children
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  Speaker 1: of men, for a thousand years in thy sight are
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  Speaker 1: but as yesterday, seeing that is past, as a watch
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  Speaker 1: in the night. As soon as thou scatterest them, they
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  Speaker 1: are even as sheep and fade away, suddenly, like the grass.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning it is green and groweth up, but
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  Speaker 1: in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
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  Speaker 1: For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid
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  Speaker 1: at thy wrathful indignation. Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee,
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  Speaker 1: and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
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  Speaker 1: For when thou art angry, all our days are gone.
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  Speaker 1: We bring our years to an end, as it were
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  Speaker 1: a tale that is told, the days of our age
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  Speaker 1: are three score years and ten. And though men be
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  Speaker 1: so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is
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  Speaker 1: their strength zen. But labor and sorrow so soon passes
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  Speaker 1: it away, and we are gone. But who regard us
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  Speaker 1: the power of thy wrath? For even thereafter, as a
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  Speaker 1: man fears, so is thy displeasure. Oh, teach us to
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  Speaker 1: number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last, and be
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  Speaker 1: gracious unto thy servants. Oh, satisfy us with thy mercy,
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  Speaker 1: and that soon so shall we rejoice and be glad
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  Speaker 1: all the days of our life. Comfort us again now
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  Speaker 1: after the time that thou hast plagued us, and for
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  Speaker 1: the years wherein we have suffered adversity, Show thy servants
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  Speaker 1: thy work, and their children thy glory, and the glorious
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  Speaker 1: majesty of the Lord our God. Be upon us. Prosper
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  Speaker 1: thou the work of our hands upon us, O, prosper
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  Speaker 1: thou our handiwork. Glory be to the Father and to
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  Speaker 1: the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning, is now and ever shall be world
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  Speaker 1: without end. Amen. Then shall follow the lesson taken out
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  Speaker 1: of the fifteenth chapter of the former epistle of Saint
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  Speaker 1: Paul to the Corinthians One Corinthians fifteen, verse twenty. Now
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  Speaker 1: is Christ risen from the dead and became the first
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  Speaker 1: fruits of them that slept, for since by man came
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  Speaker 1: death by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
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  Speaker 1: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ
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  Speaker 1: shall all be made alive. But every man in his
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  Speaker 1: own order Christ the first fruits. Afterwards they that are Christ's.
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  Speaker 1: At his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall
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  Speaker 1: have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father,
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  Speaker 1: when he shall have put down all rule and all
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  Speaker 1: authority and power. For he must reign till he hath
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  Speaker 1: put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that
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  Speaker 1: shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all
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  Speaker 1: things under his feet. But when he saith, all things
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  Speaker 1: are put under him. It is manifest that he is accepted,
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  Speaker 1: which to put all things under him. And when all
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  Speaker 1: things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the sun
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  Speaker 1: also himself be subject under him that put all things
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  Speaker 1: under him, that God may be all in all? Else?
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  Speaker 1: What shall they do which are baptized for the dead?
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  Speaker 1: If the dead rise not at all? Why are they
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  Speaker 1: then baptized for the dead? And why stand we in jeopardy?
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  Speaker 1: Every hour? I protest by your rejoicing which I have
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  Speaker 1: in Christ, Jesus, our Lord, I die daily, if after
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  Speaker 1: the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus.
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  Speaker 1: What advantages it me if the dead rise not? Let
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  Speaker 1: us eat and drink, for to morrow we die. Be
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  Speaker 1: not deceived, evil communications, corrupt good manners, awake to righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and sin not, for some have not the knowledge of God.
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  Speaker 1: I speak this to your shame. But some man will say,
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  Speaker 1: how are the dead raised up? And with what body
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  Speaker 1: do they come? Thou fool, That which thou so'est is
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  Speaker 1: not quickened except it die. And that which thou sowest
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  Speaker 1: thou so'est not that body that shall be but bear grain.
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  Speaker 1: It may chance of wheat or of some other grain.
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  Speaker 1: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him,
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  Speaker 1: and to every seed his own body. All flesh is
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  Speaker 1: not the same flesh. But there is one kind of
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  Speaker 1: flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes,
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  Speaker 1: and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies and
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  Speaker 1: bodies terrestrial. But the glory of this celestial is one,
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  Speaker 1: and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is
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  Speaker 1: one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon,
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  Speaker 1: and another glory of the stars. For one star differeth
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  Speaker 1: from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is
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  Speaker 1: raised in incorruption, it is sown in dishonor, it is
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  Speaker 1: raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is
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  Speaker 1: raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it
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  Speaker 1: is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body,
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  Speaker 1: and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written,
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  Speaker 1: the first man, Adam, was made a living soul. The
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  Speaker 1: last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was
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  Speaker 1: not first which was spiritual, but that which is natural,
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  Speaker 1: and afterwards that which is spiritual. The first man is
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  Speaker 1: of the earth earthy. The second man is the Lord
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  Speaker 1: from heaven, and is the earthy, such as they that
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  Speaker 1: are earthy, and is the heaven such as they also
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  Speaker 1: that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image
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  Speaker 1: of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of
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  Speaker 1: the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
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  Speaker 1: blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Neither doth corruption
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  Speaker 1: inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall
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  Speaker 1: not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in
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  Speaker 1: a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the
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  Speaker 1: last trump, For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead
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  Speaker 1: shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. This
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  Speaker 1: corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put
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  Speaker 1: on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,
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  Speaker 1: and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall
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  Speaker 1: be brought to pass the saying that is written, death
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  Speaker 1: is swallowed up in victory O death. Where is thy
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  Speaker 1: sting O grave? Where is thy victory? The sting of
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  Speaker 1: death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
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  Speaker 1: But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory
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  Speaker 1: through our Lord, Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be
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  Speaker 1: ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: for as much as she know that your labor is
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  Speaker 1: not in vain in the Lord. When they come to
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  Speaker 1: the grave, while the corpse is made ready to be
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  Speaker 1: laid into the earth, the priest shall say, or the
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  Speaker 1: priests and clerks shall sing. Man that is born of
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  Speaker 1: a woman hath but a short time to live, and
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  Speaker 1: is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut
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  Speaker 1: down like a flower. He fleeth as it were a shadow,
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  Speaker 1: and never continues in one's stay in the midst of life.
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  Speaker 1: We are in death, of whom may we seek for succor,
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  Speaker 1: but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins are
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  Speaker 1: justly displeased. Yet, O Lord God, Most Holy, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: most Mighty, O Holy and most merciful Savior, deliver us
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  Speaker 1: not into the bitter pains of eternal death. Thou knowest Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the secrets of our hearts shut, not thy merciful ears
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  Speaker 1: to our prayers. But spare us, Lord, May Holy, O God,
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  Speaker 1: most Mighty, O Holy and most merciful Savior, Thou most
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  Speaker 1: worthy judge eternal Suffer us not at our last hour
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  Speaker 1: for any pains of death to fall from thee. Then,
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  Speaker 1: while the earth shall be cast upon the body by
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  Speaker 1: some standing by, the priest shall say, for as much
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  Speaker 1: as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy,
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  Speaker 1: to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother
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  Speaker 1: he departed, We therefore commit his body to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in
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  Speaker 1: sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life
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  Speaker 1: through our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile
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  Speaker 1: body that it may be like unto His glorious body,
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  Speaker 1: according to the Mighty Working, whereby he is able to
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  Speaker 1: subdue all things to himself. Then shall be said, or sung,
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  Speaker 1: I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me. Right
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  Speaker 1: from henceforth. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Even so saith the Spirit, for they rest from their
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  Speaker 1: labors Revelation fourteen, verse thirteen. Then the priest shall say, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: have mercy upon us, Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: have mercy upon us, our Father, which art in Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom. Come, Thy will be
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  Speaker 1: done in earth as it is in Heaven. Give us
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  Speaker 1: this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses,
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  Speaker 1: as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead
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  Speaker 1: us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen, Priest,
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  Speaker 1: Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them
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  Speaker 1: that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the
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  Speaker 1: souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the
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  Speaker 1: burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity. We
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  Speaker 1: give THEE hearty thanks for that It hath pleased THEE
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  Speaker 1: to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of
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  Speaker 1: this sinful world, beseeching THEE that it may please THEE
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  Speaker 1: of thy gracious goodness shortly to accomplish the number of
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  Speaker 1: Thine elect and to hasten Thy kingdom, that we, with
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  Speaker 1: all those that are departed, in the true faith of
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  Speaker 1: Thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss,
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  Speaker 1: both in body and soul, in Thy eternal and everlasting
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  Speaker 1: glory through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen, the collect O
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  Speaker 1: Merciful God, the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who
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  Speaker 1: is the Resurrection and the Life in Him, whomsoever believeth,
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  Speaker 1: shall live though he die, and whosoever liveth and believeth
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  Speaker 1: in Him shall not die eternally. Who also hath taught
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  Speaker 1: us by his Holy Apostle Saint Paul, not to be
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  Speaker 1: sorry as men without hope. For them that sleep in Him.
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  Speaker 1: We meekly beseech thee O Father, to raise us from
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  Speaker 1: the death of sin unto the life of righteousness, that
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  Speaker 1: when we shall depart this life, we may rest in
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  Speaker 1: Him as our hope is this our brother doeth, and
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  Speaker 1: that at the General Resurrection in the last day, we
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  Speaker 1: may be found acceptable in Thy sight and receive that
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  Speaker 1: blessing which thy well beloved son, shall then pronounce to
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  Speaker 1: all that love and fear THEE, saying, come, ye, blessed
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  Speaker 1: children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning of the world. Grant this we beseech
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  Speaker 1: THEE O Messful Father, through Jesus Christ, a mediator and redeemer. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love
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  Speaker 1: of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be
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  Speaker 1: with us all evermore. Amen. And of the order for
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  Speaker 1: the burial of the Dead.