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Then shall the Minister, and the People with him, say the Lord's Prayer.

With pity behold the sorrows of our hearts. Mercifully forgive the sins

people.

of they Favourably with mercy hear our prayers.

OUR Father, who art in Hea-
ven, Hallowed be thy Name;
Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will
be done on Earth, as it is in Hea-
ven; Give us this day our daily
bread; And forgive us our tres-on
passes, as we forgive those who
trespass against us; And lead us
not into temptation; But deliver
us from evil. Amen.

Min. O Lord, deal not with us according to our sins.

Ans. Neither reward us according to our iniquities.

Let us pray.

GOD, merciful Father, who

O' Son of David, have mercy upus.

Both now and ever, vouchsafe to hear us, O Christ.

Graciously hear us, O Christ; graciously hear us, O Lord Christ. Min. O Lord, let thy mercy be showed upon us;

Ans. As we do put our trust in thee.]

¶ Let us pray.

despisest not the sighing WE humbly beseech thee, O

Father, mercifully to look a contrite heart, nor the desire off upon our infirmities; and, for the such as are sorrowful; merciful-glory of thy name, turn from us ly assist our prayers which we all those evils that we most justmake before thee in all our trou-ly have deserved; and grant bles and adversities, whensoever that, in all our troubles, we may they oppress us; and graciously put our whole trust and confihear us, that those evils which dence in thy mercy; and everthe craft and subtilty of the devil more serve thee in holiness and or man worketh against us, may, pureness of living, to thy honour by thy good providence, be and glory, through our only Mebrought to nought; that we, thy diator and Advocate, Jesus Christ servants, being hurt by no per-four Lord. Amen. secutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thy name's sake.

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A General Thanksgiving.

ALMIGHTY God, Father of all

mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to GOD, we have heard with us, and to all men. We bless thee our ears, and our fathers for our creation, preservation, have declared unto us, the noble and all the blessings of this life; works that thou didst in their days, but, above all, for thine inestimaand in the old time before them. ble love in the redemption of the O Lord, arise, help us, and de-world by our Lord Jesus Christ; liver us, for thine honour.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; Ans. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.. Amen.

From our enemies defend us,

O Christ.

Graciously look upon our afflic

tions.

for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we may show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness

and righteousness all our days, quests; fulfil now, O Lord, the through Jesus Christ our Lord; desires and petitions of thy serto whom, with thee and the Ho- vants, as may be most expedient ly Ghost, be all honour and glory, for them; granting us in this world without end. Amen. world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life

TA Prayer of St. Chrysostom.

ALMIGHTY God, who hast

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given us grace at this time, with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt grant their re- Amen.

Here endeth the Litany.

PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS
UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,

To be used before the two final Prayers of Morning and Evening Service.

PRAYERS.

A Prayer for Congress, to be used during their Session.

promised to all those who seek thy kingdom, and the righteous

1 For Fair Weather.

MOST gracious God, we nutne ness thereof, all things necessary bly beseech thee, as for the to their bodily sustenance; send People of these United States in us, we beseech thee, in this our general, so especially for their necessity, such moderate rain and Senate and Representatives in showers, that we may receive the Congress assembled; that thou fruits of the earth to our comfort, wouldest be pleased to direct and and to thy honour, through Je prosper all their consultations, to sus Christ our Lord. Amen. the advancement of thy Glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of thy People; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their enALMIGHTY and most merci. ful Father, we humbly bedeavours, upon the best and seech thee, of thy great goodness, surest foundations, that peace and to restrain those immoderate happiness, truth and justice, reli- rains, wherewith, for our sins, gion and piety, may be estab- thou hast afflicted us: And we lished among us for all genera-pray thee to send us such seasontions. These, and all other ne-able weather, that the earth may, cessaries for them, for us, and thy in due time, yield her increase, whole Church, we humbly beg in the name and mediation of Jesus Christ, our most blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

T For Rain.

GOD, heavenly Father hot
by thy Son Jesus Christ, hast

for our use and benefit; and give us grace, that we may learn, by thy punishments, to amend our lives, and for thy clemency to give thee thanks and praise, through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen

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. In Time of Dearth and Famine..

both by their life and doctrine GOD,heavenly Father,whose they may show forth thy glory,

¶ Or this.

and the earth bring forth her in-all men, through Jesus Christ our crease; behold, we beseech thee, Lord. Amen.. the affictions of thy people; increase the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly benediction; and grant that the scarcity and dearth which we now most justly suffer for our sins, may, through thy goodness, be mercifully turned into plenty, for the love of Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for

ever. Amen.

T In Time of War and Tumults.

ALMIGHTY God, the giver of all good gifts, who of thy di vine providence hast appointed divers orders in thy Church; give thy grace, we humbly beseech thee, to all those who are to be called to any office and adminis tration in the same; and so replenish them with the truth of thy doctrine, and endue them with innocency of life, that they may faithfully serve before thee,to the

ALMIGHTY God, the su-glory of thy great name, and the benefit of thyholy Church, through preme Governor of all things, whose power no creature is able Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. to resist, to whom it belongeth In Time of great Sickness and Mortality. justly to punish sinners, and to be merciful to those who truly repent; save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory, through the merits of thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For those who are to be admitted into
Holy Orders, to be used in the Weeks
preceding the stated times of Ordi-

nation.

ALMIGHTY God, the Lord of life and death, of sickness and health; regard our supplications, we humbly beseech thee; and, as thou hast thought fit to visit us for our sins with great sickness and mortality, in the midst of thy judgment, O Lord, Have pity remember mercy.

upon us miserable sinners, and withdraw from us the grievous sickness with which we are afflicted. May this thy fatherly correction have its due influence up

For a Sick Person.

ALMIGHTY God, our heaven- on us, by leading us to consider ly Father, who hast purchas-how frail and uncertain our life ed to thyself an universal Church, is; that we may apply our hearts that heavenly wisdom, by the precious blood of thy dear unto Son; mercifully look upon the which in the end will bring us to same, and at this time so guide everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. and govern the minds of thy servants, the Bishops and Pastors of thy flock, that they may lay hands suddenly on no man, but faithful ly and wisely make choice of fit persons, to serve in the sacred ministryof thy Church. And, to those who shall be ordained to any holy function, give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that

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FATHER of mercies, and

God of all comfort, our only help in time of need; look: down from heaven, we humbly beseech thee, behold, visit, and relieve thy sick servant, for whom our prayers are desired. Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy; comfort him

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For a Person under Affliction.

with a sense of thy goodness; preserve him from the temptation of MERCIFUL, God, and hea the enemy; give him patience under his affliction; and, in thy good us, in thy holy Word, that thou venly Father,who hast taught time, restore him to health, and dost not willingly afflict or grieve enable him to lead the residue of the children of men; look with his life in thy fear, and to thy glo-pity, we beseech thee, upon the ry: Or else give him grace so to take thy visitation, that, after this painful life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

sorrows of thy servant, for whom our prayers are desired. In thy wisdom thou hast seen fit to visit him with trouble, and to bring distress upon him. Remember him, O Lord, in mercy; sanctify thy fatherly correction to him; endue and merciful his soul with under his

For a Sick Chikt.

A Father, to whom alone belong affliction, and with resignation to

For Malefactors, after Condemnation.
Or else the Prayer in the Visitation of
Prisoners, beginning, "O Father of
Mercies," &c. may be used.

the issues of life and death; look thy blessed will; comfort him down from heaven, we humbly with a sense of thy goodness; lift beseech thee, with the eyes of up thy countenance upon him, mercy, upon the sick child for and give him peace, through Jesus whom our prayers are desired. Christ our Lord. Amen. Deliver him, O Lord, in thy good appointed time, from his bodily pain, and visit him with thy salvation; hat if it should be thy good pleasure to prolong his days here on earth, he may live to thee, and MOST gracious and merci. be an instrument of thy glory, by seech thee to have pity and comful God, we earnestly beserving thee faithfully, and doing passion upon those persons recomgood in his generation: Or else re-mended to our prayers, who now ceive him into those heavenly hab-lie under the sentence of the law, itations, where the souls of those and are appointed to die. Visit who sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy them, O Lord, with thy mercy and perpetual rest and felicity, Grant salvation; convince them of the this, O Lord,for the love of thy Son, miserable condition they are in, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen. by their sins and wickedness; and ¶ Foi a Person, or Persons going to Sea. let thy powerful grace produce ETERNAL God, who alone in them such a godly sorrow, and spreadest out the heavens, sincere repentance, as thou wilt and rulest the raging of the sea; be pleased to accept. Give we commend to thy Almighty them a strong and lively faith in protection, thy servant, for whose thy Son our blessed Saviour, and preservation on the great deep our make it effectual to the salvation prayers are desired. Guard him, of their souls. O Lord, in judg we beseech thee, from the dan- ment remember mercy; and gers of the sea, from sickness, whatever sufferings they are to from the violence of enemies, and endure in this world, yet deliver from every evil to which he may them, O God, from the bitter pains be exposed. Conduct him in safe- of eternal death. Pardon their ty to the haven where he would sins, and save their souls, for the be, with a grateful sense of thy sake and merits of thy dear Son, mercies, through Jesus Christ our our blessed Saviour and RedeemLord. Amen. er. Amen.

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THANKSGIVINGS.

The Thanksgiving of Women after
Child-Birth; to be said when any

¶ For Plenty.

MOST merciful Father, who of thy gracious goodness hast

have desired to return Thanks to Al-heard the devout prayers of thy
Woman, being present in Church, shall
mighty God for her safe deliverance.

ALMIGHTY God, we give scarcity into plenty; we give thee Church,and turned our dearth and thee humble thanks, for that humble thanks for this thy special thou hast been graciously pleased bounty; beseeching thee to conto preserve, through the great pain tinue thy loving kindness unto us, and peril of Child-birth, this wo- that our land may yield us her man, thy servant, who desires now fruits of increase, to thy glory and to offer her praises and thanks-our comfort, through Jesus Christ givings unto thee. Grant, we beseech thee, most merciful Father, For Peace, and Deliverance from our our Lord. Amen. that she, through thy help, may both faithfully live and walk ac

Enemies.

ALMIGHTY God, who art a

cording to thy will in this life O strong tower of defence unpresent, and also may be partaker to thy servants against the face of of everlasting glory in the life to their enemies; we yield thee come, through Jesus Christ our praise and thanksgiving, for our Lord. Amen.

¶ For Rain.

deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we ledge it thy goodness that we were compassed; we acknowwere not delivered over as a prey unto them, beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies toknow that thou art our Saviour wards us, that all the world may and mighty Deliverer, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

GOD, our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence dost cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man; we give thee kumble thanks that it hath pleas ed thee, in our great necessity, to send us at the last, a joyful rain upon thine inheritance, and to For Restoring Public Peace at Home. refresh it when it was dry, to the great comfort of us thy unworthy servants, and to the glory of thy holy name, through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For Fair Weather.

LORD God, who hast justly

Oly Father, who alone makest men to be of one mind in a house, and stillest the outrage of a vio lent and unruly people; we bless thy holy name, that it hath pleased thee to appease the seditious tumults which have been lately

ETERNAL God, our heaven

tion of us with immoderate rain bly beseeching thee to grant to all and waters, and in thy mercy hast of us grace, that we may hencerelieved and comforted our souls forth obediently walk in thy holy by this seasonable and blessed commandments; and, leading a change of weather; we praise and quiet and peaceable life in all godglorify thy holy name, for this thy liness and honesty, may continumercy, and will always declare ally offer unto thee our sacrifice thy loving kindness from genera- of praise and thanksgiving for fion to generation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

these thy mercies towards us, through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen.

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