Son; thou hast shown such unspeakable love towards me, as calls for my unceasing obedience, gratitude, and praise. And yet O Lord, I have disregarded my baptismal promises, I have violated the vows which I have so often renewed, I have yielded my soul to the service of the world, the flesh, and the devil, which I had solemnly renounced, and despised the riches of thy goodness, forbearance, and long-suffering, as if I had not known that thy goodness should have led me to repentance. But now, O Lord, that thou hast awakened me to a deep sense of my guilt, enable me I beseech thee to sin no more. And since I am not mine, being bought with a price, but thine, therefore claim me as thy right, keep me as thy charge, and love me as thy child. Protect me when I am assaulted by my spiritual foes, heal me when I am wounded, and revive me when I am about to faint and fall. And daily increase in me the manifold gifts of grace, that I may walk in the ways of truth and righteousness and continue thine for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, &c.

A Prayer to be used by a Person in behalf of absent Relatives and Friends.

GOD the protector of all that trust in thee,

grant to thy servant, my partner in life, health of body and cheerfulness of spirit. Defend and guard her in my absence, with thy tenderest care; let thy blessing be upon her head, night and day; support her in all her necessities, strengthen her in all her temptations, comfort her in all her sorrows, guide her in all the changes and chances of this mortal life, and make us both to rejoice in the light of thy countenance for ever and ever.

Bless my children with healthful bodies and sound minds, with sweet dispositions and holy habits, and with all the gifts and graces of thy spirit. Keep them in simplicity, purity, and innocence. Guard them against the craft and subtilty of the devil, the influence of evil example and the deceitfulness and corruption of their own hearts. And so rule and govern their conduct in early life as to prevent the follies of their childhood from growing up to sins in their youth; and the sins of their youth from being confirmed into habits in manhood; and so deliver them in their weakness, their ignorance and temptations, and guide them in the way of thy commandments that that they may continue thine for ever.

Look down with mercy O Lord on my parents in the troubles and trials of this miserable world. As the years draw nigh when they shall have no pleasure in them, when their strength shall be labour and sorrow, and their flesh and their heart shall fail; O be thou the strength of their heart and their portion for ever. During the few and evil days of their wearisome pilgrimage let thy rod and thy staff support and comfort them; and the more the outward man decayeth and the world fadeth from their sight, strengthen them so much the more continually with thy grace and Holy Spirit in the inner man. Enable them to realize the truth of thy promises, and fill them with the hopes and consolations of thy gospel, that they may be at all times ready for their departure; and whenever thou art pleased to take them hence, fulfil their joy in the bliss and glory of thy heavenly kingdom.

Bless also my brothers and sisters, and all my relatives and friends. Thou knowest all their joys and their sorrows, their hopes and their fears; the number of their sins and the measure of their repentance. O grant them the grace which is sufficient for them according to their several necessities, and bless them with purity of heart, with righteousness of life, and with peace and joy in the Holy Ghost; all which I ask through the merits and mediation of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer before the Communion.

BLESSED Jesus, my gracious Saviour and Redeemer, King of kings and Lord of lords, whom the Angels look upon with wonder and worship with the deepest adoration; what am I O Lord, that thou shouldest deign to dwell with me who am nothing but folly and infirmity, misery and sin, shame and death.

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I confess O Lord, when I consider thy purity and my uncleanness, thy glory and my shame, I tremble to approach thy presence and to partake of the memorials of thy body and blood. But though my sins have made a separation between me and my God, thy love and thy passion, thy holiness and obedience, have reconciled me to Him whom I have so grievously offended. Blessed Saviour who for our sakes didst take upon thee our affections and passions, our weaknesses and sufferings, who wert hungry after the temptation of the devil, weary and thirsty in thy discourse with the woman of Samaria, who didst weep over Lazarus, wert exceeding sorrowful in the garden, and pouredst out thy soul unto death for the transgressors, and who didst thus become unto us a merciful high priest touched with a feeling of our infirmities; receive I beseech thee, thy unworthy servant, weary and heavy laden with his sins, accused by his own conscience, and pol

luted both in body and soul. I know that a thousand years of sorrow, the humiliation of the greatest penitent, the love of saints, and the purity of Angels, are not sufficient to make me worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof, and that I should be strengthened and refreshed with thy body and blood.

But what I cannot be of myself, do thou graciously make me. I come unto thee wounded with my transgressions, for thou art my physician; arise then with healing in thy wings. Thirsty and faint, as the hart longeth after the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee O God, the eternal fountain, whence spring the waters of comfort and salvation. Heal my diseases, wash out my stains, and cleanse me from all pollution of flesh and spirit. O Blessed Jesus, may this holy sacrament which is a memorial of thy death, be unto me a savour of life. May it purify my heart, strengthen my faith, enliven my hope, and increase my charity; that being united with thee in the closest bonds on earth, I may finally be a partaker of thy glory and bliss in the kingdom of heaven, where thou livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God world without end. Amen.