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Good Lord, deliver us.

In all time of our tribulation in all time of our prosperity; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment;

Good Lord, deliver us.

We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God; and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way;

tion, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth, all such as have erred, and are deceived;

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand, and We beseech thee to hear us, good to comfort and help the weakLord. hearted, and to raise up those That it may please thee to bless who fall, and finally to beat down and preserve all Christian Rulers Satan under our feet; and Magistrates; giving them We beseech thee to hear us, good grace to execute justice, and to Lord. maintain truth;

That it may please thee to sucWe beseech thee to hear us, good cour, help, and comfort all who Lord. are in danger, necessity, and tri

That it may please thee to illu-bulation; minate all Bishops, Priests, and We beseech thee to hear us, good Deacons, with true knowledge Lord.

Lord.

and understanding of thy word; That it may please thee to pre and that both by their preaching serve all who travel by land or by and living they may set it forth, water, all women in the perils of and show it accordingly; child-birth, all sick persons, and We beseech thee to hear us, good young children, and to show thy pity upon all prisoners and capThat it may please thee to tives; bless and keep all thy people; We beseech thee to hear us, good We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. Lord. That it may please thee to That it may please thee to give defend, and provide for, the fato all nations unity, peace, and therless children, and widows, concord; and all who are desolate and op

We beseech thee to hear us, good pressed; Lord.

We beseech thee to hear us, good

That it may please thee to give Lord. us an heart to love and fear thee, That it may please thee to have and diligently to live after thy mercy upon all men;

Commandments;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Lord.

We beseech thee to hear us, good That it may please thee to forgive That it may please thee to give our enemies, persecutors, and to all thy people increase of slanderers, and to turn their hearts; grace, to hear meekly thy Word, We beseech thee to hear us, good and to receive it with pure affec- Lord.

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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

For Fair Weather.

during their Session. ALMIGHTY and most merciful

Father, we humbly beseech

where with, for our sins, thou

thee to send us such seasonable

MOST gracious God, we humbly beseech thee, as for the thee, of thy great goodness, to People of these United States in restrain those immoderate rains, general, so especially for their Senate and Representatives in hast afflicted us: And we pray Congress assembled; that thou wouldest be pleased to direct and weather, that the earth may, in prosper all their consultations, to due time, yield her increase, for the advancement of thy Glory, our use and benefit; and give us the good of thy Church, the safe. grace, that we may learn, by thy ty, honour, and welfare of thy punishments, to amend our lives,

and for thy clemency to give
thee thanks and praise, through

Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
In Time of Dearth and Famine.

God, heavenly Father, whose
gift it is that the rain doth

people; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all genera- fall, and the earth bring forth her tions. These, and all other neces- increase; behold, we beseech thee, saries for them, for us, and thy the afflictions of thy people; inwhole Church, we humbly beg in crease the fruits of the earth by the name and mediation of Jesus thy heavenly benediction; and Christ, our most blessed Lord and grant that the scarcity and dearth,

Saviour. Amen.

For Rain.

God, Heavenly Father, who,

which we now must justly suffer for our sins, may, through thy goodness, be mercifully turned into plenty, for the love of Jesus Christ Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all

by thy Son Jesus Christ, hast promised to all those who seek thy kingdom and the righteous- honour and glory, now and for

ever. Amen.

In Time of War and Tumults.

ness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance; send us, we beseech thee, in this our Almighty God, the supreme necessity, such moderate rain Governor of all things, whose andshowers, that we may receive power no creature is able to rethe fruits of the earth to our com-sist, to whom it belongeth justly fort. and to thy honour, through to punish sinners, and to be merYesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ciful to those who truly repent;

save and deliver us, we humbly and the benefit of thy holy beseech thee, from the hands of Church, through Jesus Christ our our enemies; that we, being arm- Lord. Amen.

tion.

ed with thy defence, may be pre- In Time of great Sickness and Mortaserved evermore from all perils, lity. to glorify thee, who art the only Almighty God, the Lord of giver of all victory, through the life and death, of sickness merits of thy Son, Jesus Christ and health; regard our supplicaour Lord. Amen. tions, we humbly beseech thee; For those who are to be admitted into and, as thou hast thought fit to Holy Orders, to be used in the Weeks visit us for our sins with great preceding the stated Times of Ordina-sickness and mortality, in the midst of thy judgment. O Lord, ALMIGHTY God, our heaven-remember mercy. Have pity ly Father, who hast purchas-upon us miserable sinners, and ed to thyself an universal Church, withdraw from us the grievous by the precious blood of thy dear sickness with which we are afSon; mercifully look upon the flicted. May this thy fatherly same, and at this time so guide correction have its due influence and govern the minds of thy ser-upon us, by leading us to convants, the Bishops and Pastors of sider how frail and uncertain our thy flock, that they may lay life is; that we may apply our bands suddenly on no man, but hearts unto that heavenly wisfaithfully and wisely make choice dom, which in the end will bring of fit persons, to serve in the sa- us to everlasting life, through cred ministry of thy Church. And. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. to those who shall be ordained to

any holy function, give thy grace

Lord. Amen.

Or this.

For a Sick Person.

Father of mercies, and God heavenly benediction; that of all comfort, our only help by both their life and doctrine in time of need; look down from they may show forth thy glory, heaven, we humbly beseech thee, and set forward the salvation of behold, visit, and relieve thy sick all men, through Jesus Christ our servant, for whom our prayers are desired. Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy; comfort ALMIGHTY God, the giver of him with a sense of thy goodall good gifts, who of thy di-ness; preserve him from the vine providence hast appointed temptations of the enemy; give divers orders in thy Church; give him patience under his affliction; thy grace, we humbly beseech and, in thy good time, restore thee, to all those who are to be him to health, and enable him to called to any office and adminis-lead the residue of his life in thy tration in the same; and so re-fear, and to thy glory: Or else plenish them with the truth of give him grace so to take thy vithy doctrine, and endue them sitation, that, after this painful with innocency of life, that they life ended, he may dwell with may faithfully serve before thee, thee in life everlasting, through to the glory of thy great name Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For a Sick Child.

we beseech thee, upon the sorALMIGHTY God, and merci- rows of thy servant, for whom ful Father, to whom alone our prayers are desired. In thy belong the issues of life and wisdom thou hast seen fit to visit death; look down from heaven, him with trouble and to bring we humbly beseech thee, with distress upon him. Remember the eyes of mercy, upon the sick him, O Lord, in mercy; sanctify child for whom our prayers are thy fatherly correction to him; desired. Deliver him, O Lord, in endue his soul with patience unthy good appointed time, from der his affliction, and with resighis bodily pain, and visit him nation to thy blessed will; comwith thy salvation; that if it fort him with a sense of thy goodshould be thy good pleasure to ness; lift up thy countenance prolong his days here on earth, he upon him, and give him peace, may live to thee, and be an in-through Jesus Christ our Lord. strument of thy glory, by serving Amen.

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

thee faithfully, and doing good in his generation: Or else receive him into those heavenly habitations, where the souls of those who sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity. Grant this, O Lord, for the love of thy Son, our Saviour, sion upon those persons recomJesus Christ. Amen. mended to our prayers, who now

Most gracious and merciful God, we earnestly beseech thee to have pity and compas

For a Person, or Persons going to Sea. lie under the sentence of the law, Eternal God, who alone and are appointed to die. Visit spreadest out the heavens, them, O Lord, with thy mercy and rulest the raging of the sea; and salvation; convince them of we commend to thy Almighty the miserable condition they are protection, thy servant, for whose in, by their sins and wickedness; preservation on the great deep and let thy powerful grace proour prayers are desired. Guard duce in them such a godly sorhim, we beseech thee, from the row, and sincere repentance, as dangers of the sea, from sickness, thou wilt be pleased to accept. from the violence of enemies, Give them a strong and lively and from every evil to which he faith in thy Son our blessed Samay be exposed. Conduct him viour, and make it effectual to in safety to the haven where he the salvation of their souls. O would be, with a grateful sense Lord, in judgment remember of thy mercies, through Jesus mercy; and whatever sufferings Christ our Lord. Amen. they are to endure in this world,

For a Person under Affliction. yet deliver them, O God, from the Merciful God, and heavenly bitter pains of eternal death. Father, who hast taught us, Pardon their sins, and save their in thy holy Word, that thor: dost souls, for the sake and merits of hot willingly afflict or grieve the thy dear Son, our blessed Sahildren of men; look with pity, viour and Redeemer. Amen.

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The Thanksgiving of Women after this thy mercy, and will always Child-Birth; to be said when any Wo- declare thy loving kindness from man, being present in Church, shall have desired to return Thanks to Al- generation to generation, eneration, through mighty God for her safe Deliverance. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Almighty God, we give thee

For Plenty.

humble thanks, for that thou Most merciful Father, who hast been graciously pleased to of thy gracious goodness hast preserve, through the great pain heard the devout prayers of thy and peril of Child-birth, this wo-Church, and turned our dearth man, thy servant, who desires now and scarcity into plenty; we give to offer her praises and thanks-thee humble thanks for this thy givings unto thee. Grant, we special bounty; beseeching thee beseech thee, most merciful Fa- to continue thy loving kindness ther, that she, through thy help, unto us, that our land may yield may both faithfully live and walk us her fruits of increase, to thy according to thy will in this life glory and our comfort, through present, and also may be partaker Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. of everlasting glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For Rain.

For Peace, and Deliverance from our

Enemies.

Almighty God, who art a strong tower of defence unto

O God, our heavenly Father, thy servants against the face of who by thy gracious provi-their enemies; we yield thee dence dost cause the former and praise and thanksgiving, for our the latter rain to descend upon deliverance from those great and the earth. that it may bring forth apparent dangers wherewith we fruit for the use of man; we give were compassed; we acknowthee humble thanks that it hath ledge it thy goodness that we pleased thee, in our great neces- were not delivered over as a prey sity, to send us at the last, a joy- unto them; beseeching thee sull ful rain upon thine inheritance, to continue such thy mercies toand to refresh it when it was dry. wards us, that all the world may to the great comfort of us thy un-know that thou art our Saviour worthy servants, and to the glo- and mighty Deliverer, through ry of thy holy name, through thy Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord. For restoring Public Peace at Home. Amen. Eternal God, our heavenly Father, who alone makest Lord God, who hast justly men to be of one mind in a house, humbled us by thylate visita- and stillest the outrage of a viotion of us with immoderate rain lent and unruly people; we bless and waters, and in thy mercy thy holy name, that it hath pleashast relieved and comforted oured thee to appease the seditious souls by this seasonable and bles-tumults which have been lately sed change of weather; we praise raised up amongst us; most humand glorify thy holy name, for bly beseeching thee to grant to

For Fair Weather.