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Queen Charlotte, their Royal Highneffes George Prince of Wales, the Princefs Dowager of Wales, and all the Royal Family; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

19 That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word, and that both by their preaching and living they may fet it forth, and fhew it accordingly;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

20 That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council, and all the Nobility, with grace, wifdom, and understanding; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

21. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates, giving them grace to execute juftice, and to maintain truth; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

22 That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

23 That it may please thee to give to all nations, unity, peace, and concord;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

24 That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy commandments ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

25 That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase

Paraphrafe on the Litany.

19 Grant O Lord, we beseech thee, all orders of the Clergy a right underftanding of thy Word; and give them Grace to prove the perfection of their knowfedge by the excellency of their Doctrines, and the purity of their Lives.

20 Endue the Lords of the King's Privy Council, and all the Nobility of this Realm, with judgement to difcern the true interefts of their Country; with Wisdom to form fuch meafures as are most for its advantage; and with religion and integrity, fteadily to pursue them.

21 We befeech thee good Lord, to afford thy bleffing and protection to all who are put in truft for the execution of the Laws of this Kingdom, and give them Grace to adminifter Juftice impartially to all Men;

and faithfully to fupport the cause of Truth and Virtue.

22 O fave our Country, gracious God!

23 Let peace, harmony, and unity prevail through

the World.

24 Create in us, O Lord, fuch an ardent Love, and filial Fear of thee as will excite us to keep thy Commandments diligently.

25 Give all Chriftians Grace, we beseech thee, O God, to pay an humble and steady attention to thy Word, to embrace its inftructions with fincere affection, and to fhew forth its influence upon their Hearts by producing the Fruits of the Spirit, viz. Love, Joy, Peace, Long-fuffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meeknefs, Temperance, Gal. v. 22. 23. POPS.

O fave my Country, Heaven! fhall be thy laft.

of grace, to hear meekly thy Word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. 26 That it may please thee to bring into the way fuch as have erred, and are deceived;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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27 That it may please thee to ftrengthen fuch as do ftand, and to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up them that fall, and finally beat down Satan under our feet;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

28 That it may please thee to fuccour, help, and comfort all that are in danger neceffity, and tribulation;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

29 That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by and or by water, all women labouring or child, all fick perfons and young children, and to fhew thy pity upon all prifoners and captives;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

30 That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that are defolate and oppreffed;

We beseech thee to Fear us, good Lord.

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31 That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Paraphrafe on the Litany.

26 Grant the light of thy Truth to all fuch, as being deceived by falfe Doctrines, have erred from the Faith. 27 Confirm, O Lord, all Christians in their holy profeffion, comfort and affift all fuch as labour under religious doubts and defpondencies, reftore the Sinner, and finally make Virtue triumphant over all its Enemies.

28 Gracious God, deliver, affift, and relieve all that are in peril, want, or affliction.

29 Let thy good Providence watch over and fupport

all Travellers, all Women in Child-birth; all that are in the helpless condition of Sicknefs or Infancy; and comfort all fuch as are deprived of liberty through War or any other Calamity.

30 Be thou, O Lord, a Father to the Fatherless, and defend the cause of the Widow; be a friend to the deftitute, and an helper of the oppreffed.

31 All bounteous God, extend thy mercy and good. nefs towards all Mankind,

32 That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, perfecutors, and flanderers, and to turn their hearts; pi

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

33 That it may please thee to give and preferve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, fo as in due time we may enjoy

them;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

34 That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our fins, negligences, and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy holy Word;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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O Lamb of God: the takeft away the fins of the world ;
Grant us thy peace.

O Lamb of God: that takeft away the fins of the world ;
Have mercy upon us.

O Chrift, hear us.

O Chrift, hear us.

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Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Chrift, have mercy upon us.
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Lord, have mercy upon us.

34 Inspire us O Lord,with such a godly forrow for Sin, as will work in us a Repentance not to be repented of; pardon and forgive all our paft Tranfgreffions of thy Law, whether owing to perverfenefs, inconfideration, or want of inftruction; afford us fuch help by thy Holy Spirit, as will enable us to reform our lives after the rule of thy Commandments.

Paraphrafe on the Litany. 32 As we fincerely forgive (according to Christ Jefus' Commandment and Example) all that have injured, or wished us evil, either with refpect to our Perfons, Fortunes, or Reputation; fo we humbly befeech thee, O Lord, to pardon and forgive them alfo. 33 O giver of all good gifts fend down thy Bleffing upon the Fruits of the Earth, that they may grow up to perfection; and that we may receive them in due feafon to our nourishment, and thy glory.

Jefus, Son of God intercede for us that our Prayers may be accepted.

Then fhall the Priest, and the People with him, fay the Lords Prayer.

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UR Father, which art in Heaven; Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy Thy will be done in earth, as it is Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us.

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And lead

us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen.
Prieft. O Lord, deal not with us after our fins.
Anfw. Neither reward us after our iniquities.

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Let us Pray.

God merciful Father, that defpifeft not the fighing of a contrite heart, nor the defire of fuch as be forrowful; mercifully affift our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adverfities, whenfoever they opprefs us; and graciously hear us, that thofe evils, which the craft and fubtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, be brought to nought, and by the providence of thy goodness they may be difperfed, that we thy fervants, being hurt by no perfecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jefus Chrift our Lord, O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thy Names fake.

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God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their

days, and in the old time before them.

O Lord, arife, help, and deliver us for thine Honour.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

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From our enemies defend us, O Chrift.
Graciously look upon our afflictions.

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Pitifully behold the forrows of our hearts.
Mercifully forgive the fins of thy people.
Favourably with mercy hear our prayers.
O Son of David, have mercy upon uş.

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Both now and ever vouchfafe to hear us, O Christ.
Graciously hear us, O Chrift; graciously bear us, O Lord Christ.
Prieft. O Lord, let thy mercy be shewed upon us,
Anfw. As we do put our truft in thee.

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Let us Pray.

E humbly befeech thee, O Father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities; and for the glory of thy Name, turn from us all thofe evils that we moft righteously have deserved; and grant, that in all our troubles we may put our whole truft and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore ferve thee in holiness and pureness of

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Pardon the Tranfgreffions of those who turn to thee nifhment which our Sins have deferved; and teach us, penitently.

Lend a gracious Ear to our petitions.

under all our Afflictions, to rely firmly on thy goodnefs, and to dedicate our lives to thy fervice in all We addrefs thee in the language of blind Bartimeus godlinefs, to the praife of thy Name, through the interSon of David have mercy upon us.

ceffion of Jefus Christ our Lord.

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