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take its flight from my body, that it may be a meet companion for the spirits of just men made perfect in that blessed rest which thou hast reserved for thy chosen in paradise, and bring me finally to my perfect consummation and bliss both in body and soul in the everlasting glory of thy heavenly kingdom; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

Against the Fear of Death.

MOST gracious and merciful Father, grant that I may be always ready to obey thy summons and be willing to depart and be with Christ, whenever thou shalt see fit to call me hence. Forgive me all my sins which are the sting of death, and prepare me to meet it with firmness and composure, and enable me to regard it as a happy release from all the weaknesses and sorrows, the troubles and trials of this mortal life. Let not my spirit be broken with the apprehensions of dying under thy heavy displeasure, but make me to rejoice in the sense of thy pardoning mercy here, and the promise of thy everlasting favour in the world to come. And give me an unwavering faith and a comfortable hope in the full and perfect sacrifice which was made on the cross for the atonement of sin, and grant that I may pass through the grave and gate of death to my joyful resurrection, for his merits who died

and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Another.

HOLY and eternal God, who for the sin of man didst send death into the world, and by the resurrection of thy blessed Son didst bring life to all believers; have mercy upon me whom thou hast smitten with thy rod and brought into the valley of tears and the shadow of death. O blessed Lord, let not this season so fearful to nature and so awful to the impenitent, have any terrors Look upon me as a sinner whom thou hast pardoned, and as a prodigal son whom thou hast restored to thy favor.

for me.

Take from me the

fear, and if it be thy blessed will take from me also the sentence of death. Preserve my life and restore my health if it be best for me, for to thy power I submit, on thy goodness I depend, by thy wisdom may I be governed, and by thy love may I be directed in my choice. But if thou hast otherwise decreed, O grant to thy servant the comfort of a holy hope, the strength of an unconquerable faith, the constancy of an immovable patience, and the meekness of a perfect resignation, that I may be able to say with the Apostle, "to me to live is Christ and to die is gain." Grant this O Lord, for Jesus' sake, my Advocate and RedeemAmen.

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To be used by a Dying Person, for his Relations and Friends.

NTO thee O God of mercy and truth, I com

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mit all my relations and friends, and more especially my wife and children, to whom I am bound by the tenderest ties. O thou who art the father of the fatherless and pleadest the cause of the widow, provide for them according to all their temptations and all their wants. Leave them not, neither forsake them O God of my salvation. Be thou to them when I am gone, whatsoever I would have been and more than I could have been, had I been spared to them. Enable them evermore to love thee with all their heart, and soul, and strength, and to put their whole trust and confidence in thy mercy; and keep them from all the pollutions and dangers of this miserable world, which call louder to thee for thy succour and protection than all their wants. Train them up in thy fear, preserve them from all evil, and bring them at last to the joys and blessedness of the world to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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THE VISITATION OF THE SICK.

(FROM THE LITURGY.)

EMEMBER not, Lord, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers; Spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood; and be not angry with us for ever."

Ans. Spare us, good Lord.

Then the Minister shall say,
Let us Pray.

LORD, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Min. O Lord, save thy servant;

Ans. Who putteth his trust in thee.

Min. Send him help from thy holy place;
Ans. And evermore mightily defend him.

Min. Let the enemy have no advantage of him ;
Ans. Nor the wicked approach to hurt him.
Min. Be unto him, O Lord, a strong tower,
Ans. From the face of his enemy.

Min. O Lord, hear our prayer;

Ans. And let our cry come unto thee.

Minister.

O LORD, look down from heaven, behold, visit, and relieve this thy servant. Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy; give him comfort and sure confidence in thee; defend him from the danger of the enemy; and keep him in perpetual peace and safety, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

HEAR us, Almighty and most merciful God and Saviour; extend thy accustomed goodness to this thy servant, who is grieved with sickness. Sanctify, we beseech thee, this thy fatherly correction to him; that the sense of his weakness may add strength to his faith, and seriousness to his repentance that if it shall be thy good pleasure to restore him to his former health he may lead the residue of his life in thy fear, and to thy glory: 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.