That the Lord our God may place his soul where all the just repose.
Choir. Lord, have mercy, thrice.
The mercy of God, the kingdom of heaven, and repose among the Saints, for him and for ourselves let us ask of Christ, our immortal King and God.
Choir. Vouchsafe, O Lord.
Priest. Let us pray to the Lord.
Choir. Lord, have mercy.
Priest.
O Lord Jesus Christ our God, who hast promised to bestow the kingdom of heaven upon them that are born again of water and of the spirit and in a blameless life are translated onto thee, and hast said, Suffer the children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven; we humbly beseech thee to grant, according to thine undeceiving promise, the inheritance of thy kingdom unto thy servant, the blameless babe, name, now removed from us; and count us worthy to continue and end an unblamable and christian life, and to be stablished in heavenly abiding-places with all thy Saints.
And he exclaimeth,