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in all time of our prosperity; | pure affection, and to bring in the hour of death, and in the forth the fruits of the Spirit; day of judgment; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

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 ; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

That it may please thee to bless and preserve all Christian Rulers and Magistrates; giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

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 set it forth, and show it accordingly;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

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

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 to comfort and help the weakhearted, and to raise up those who fall, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort all who are in danger, necessity, and tribulation;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

That it may please thee to preserve all who travel by land or by water, all women in the perils of child-birth, all sick persons, and young children, and to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless children, and widows,

We beseech thee to hear us, and all who are desolate and good LORD.

That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and fear thee, and diligently to live after thy Commandments;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace, to hear meekly thy Word, and to receive it with

oppressed;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men ;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts;

good LORD.

We beseech thee to hear us, | 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, deal not with us according to our sins.

That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so that in due time we may enjoy them;

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

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

We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD.

SON of GOD, we beseech thee to hear us.

SON of GOD, we beseech thee

to hear us.

O Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world; Grant us thy peace.

O Lamb of GOD, who takest away the sins of the world;

Have mercy upon us.

The Minister may, at his discretion, omit all that follows, to the Prayer, "We humbly

beseech thee, O Father," &c.

[O CHRIST, hear us.
O CHRIST, hear us.
LORD, have mercy upon us.
LORD, have mercy upon us.
CHRIST, have mercy upon us.
CHRIST, have mercy upon us.
LORD, have mercy upon us.
LORD, have mercy upon us.

f Then shall the Minister, and the People

with him, say the Lord's Prayer.

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

Ans. Neither reward us according to our iniquities.

Let us pray.

O GOD, merciful Father, who despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as are sorrowful; which we make before thee in mercifully assist our prayers whensoever they oppress us; all our troubles and adversities, those evils which the craft and and graciously hear us, that subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, may, by thy good providence, be brought to naught; that we, thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, 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.

O 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, arise, help us, and deliver 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.

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our lings of this life; but, above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord JESUS CHRIST; 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

Favourably with mercy hear our prayers.

O Son of David, have mercy upon us. Both now and ever, vouch-forth thy praise, not only with safe to hear us, O CHRIST. our lips, but in our lives; by Graciously hear us, O CHRIST; giving up ourselves to thy sergraciously hear us, O Lord vice, and by walking before CHRIST.

thee in holiness and righteousmer-ness all our days, through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord; to whom, with thee and the HOLY GHOST, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

Min. O LORD, let thy cy be showed upon us; Ans. As we do put our trust in thee.]

Let us pray.

TA Prayer of St. Chrysostom. ALMIGHTY GOD, who hast

WE humbly beseech thee, O Father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities; and, for the glory of thy name, turn from given us grace at this time, us all those evils that we most with one accord to make our justly have deserved; and grant common supplications unto that, in all our troubles, we thee; and dost promise that may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy; and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

when two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt grant their requests; fulfil now, O LORD, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen,

2 Cor. xiii. 14.

TA General Thanksgiving. ALMIGHTY GOD, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for THE grace of our Lor all thy goodness and loving | JESUS CHRIST, and the love of kindness to us, and to all men. GOD, and the fellowship of the We bless thee for our creation, HOLY GHOST, be with us all preservation, and all the bless-evermore. Amen,

Here endeth the Litany.

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.

T For Fair Weather. ALMIGHTY and most mer

MOST gracious GoD, we ciful Father, we humbly behumbly beseech thee, as for the seech thee, of thy great goodPeople of these United States ness, to restrain those immoin general, so especially for derate rains, wherewith, for our their Senate and Representa-sins, thou hast afflicted us: And tives in Congress assembled; we pray thee to send us such that thou wouldest be pleased seasonable weather, that the to direct and prosper all their earth may, in due time, yield consultations, to the advance- her increase, for our use and ment of thy glory, the good of benefit; and give us grace, that thy Church, the safety, honour, we may learn, by thy punishand welfare of thy people; that ments, to amend our lives, and all things may be so ordered for thy clemency to give thee and settled by their endeavours, thanks and praise, through JEupon the best and surest foun- SUS CHRIST our Lord, Amen, dations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations. These, and all other necessaries for them, for us, and thy whole Church, we humbly beg in the name and mediation of JESUS CHRIST, our most blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

T For Rain.

In Time of Dearth and Famine. O GOD, heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the rain doth fall, and the earth bring forth her increase; behold, we beseech thee, the afflictions 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 O GOD, heavenly Father, sins, may, through thy goodwho by thy Son JESUS CHRIST, ness, be mercifully turned into hast promised to all those who plenty, for the love of JESUS seek thy kingdom and the CHRIST our Lord; to whom, righteousness thereof, all things with thee and the HOLY GHOST, necessary to their bodily sus-be all honour and glory, now tenance; send us, we beseech and for ever. Amen. thee, in this our necessity, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to thy honour, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen,

In Time of War and Tumults. O ALMIGHTY GOD, the supreme Governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners, and to

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the stated Times of Ordination.

them with innocency of life, that they may faithfully serve before thee, to the glory of thy great name, and the benefit of thy holy Church, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

¶ In Time of great Sickness and Mortality.

O 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

For those who are to be admitted into Holy Orders, to be used in the Weeks preceding ALMIGHTY GOD, our hea- sins with great sickness and venly Father, who hast pur- mortality, in the midst of thy chased to thyself an universal judgment, O LORD, remember Church, by the precious blood mercy. Have pity upon us of thy dear Son; mercifully miserable sinners, and withlook upon the same, and at this draw from us the grievous sicktime so guide and govern the ness with which we are afflicted. minds of thy servants, the May this thy fatherly correcBishops and Pastors of thy tion have its due influence upon flock, that they may lay hands us, by leading us to consider suddenly on no man, but faith-how frail and uncertain our life fully and wisely make choice is; that we may apply our of fit persons, to serve in the hearts unto that heavenly wissacred ministry of thy Church. dom, which in the end will And, to those who shall be or- bring us to everlasting life, dained to any holy function, through JESUS CHRIST give thy grace and heavenly Lord. benediction; that both by their life and doctrine they may show forth thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men, through JESUS CHRIST our

Lord. Amen.

¶ Or this.

Amen.

our

For a Sick Person. O 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 ALMIGHTY GOD, the giver whom our prayers are desired. of all good gifts, who of thy di- Look upon him with the eyes vine providence hast appointed of thy mercy; comfort him with divers orders in thy Church; a sense of thy goodness; pregive thy grace, we humbly be- serve him from the temptations seech thee, to all those who are of the enemy; give him patience to be called to any office and under his affliction; and, in thy administration in the same; and good time, restore him to so replenish them with the health, and enable him to lead truth of thy doctrine, and enduel the residue of his life in thy

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