Page:Withgodbookofpra00las.djvu/196

 When he  says  Benedictus,  etc.,  he  signs  himself  with the cross.

The following  Preface  is  said  on  every  Sunday  in the  year  that  has  no  special  preface  of  its  own.

T IS  truly  meet  and  just, right and  available  to salvation,  that  we  should always and  in  all  places give thanks  to  Thee,  O holy  Lord,  Father  almighty, eternal  God. Who, together  with  Thy only begotten  Son  and the Holy  Ghost,  art  one God, one  Lord:  not  in  the singleness of  one  Person, but in  the  Trinity  of  one substance. For what  we believe  of  Thy  glory,  as Thou  hast  revealed  the same, we  believe  of  Thy Son, and  of  the  Holy Ghost, without  any  difference or  distinction. So that in  the  confession  of the  true  and  eternal  Godhead, we  adore  a  distinction in  the  Persons,  unity in Essence,  and  equality in Majesty. Whom the angels and  archangels,  the cherubim also  and  seraphim, do  praise;  who  cease not, day  by  day  with  one voice crying  out,  to  repeat: