fear, and to thy glory: Or else be, with a grateful sense of thy give him grace so to take thy mercies, through JESUS CHRIST visitation, that, after this painful our Lord. Amen.

life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlasting, through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. Amen.

For a Sick Child.

For a Person under Affliction.

O MERCIFUL GOD, and Heavenly Father, who hast taught us, in thy holy Word,

ALMIGHTY GOD, and mer- that thou dost not willingly ciful Father, to whom alone afflict or grieve the children of belong the issues of life and men; look with pity, we bedeath; look down from heaven, seech thee, upon the sorrows we humbly beseech thee, with of thy servant, for whom our the eyes of mercy, upon the prayers are desired. In thy sick child for whom our pray-wisdom thou hast seen fit to ers are desired. Deliver him, visit him with trouble, and to O LORD, in thy good appointed bring distress upon him. Retime, from his bodily pain, and member him, O Lord, in mercy; visit him with thy salvation; sanctify thy fatherly correction that if it should be thy good to him; endue his soul with pleasure to prolong his days patience under his affliction, here on earth, he may live to and with resignation to thy thee, and be an instrument of blessed will; comfort him with thy glory, by serving thee faith- a sense of thy goodness; lift fully, 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, JESUS CHRIST. Amen.

up thy countenance upon him, and give him peace, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. For Malefactors, after Condemnation. Or else the Prayer in the Visitation of Prisoners, beginning, "O Father of Mercies," &c. may be used.

O MOST gracious and merciful God, we earnestly beseech thee to have pity and compassion upon those persons recommended to our prayers, who now lie under the sentence of

For a Person, or Persons, going to Sea. O ETERNAL GOD, who alone spreadest out the heavens, and rulest the raging of the sea; the law, and are appointed to we commend to thy Almighty die. Visit them, O Lord, with protection, thy servant, for thy mercy and salvation; conwhose preservation on the great vince them of the miserable deep our prayers are desired. condition they are in, by their Guard him, we beseech thee, sins and wickedness; and let from the dangers of the sea, thy powerful grace produce in from sickness, from the violence them such a godly sorrow, and of enemies, and from every sincere repentance, as thou wilt evil to which he may be ex- be pleased to accept. Give posed. Conduct him in safety them a strong and lively faith to the haven where he would in thy Son, our blessed Saviour, and make it effectual to the the bitter pains of eternal death. salvation of their souls. O Pardon their sins, and save LORD, in judgment remember their souls, for the sake and mercy; and whatever sufferings merits of thy dear Son, our they are to endure in this world, blessed Saviour and Redeemer. yet deliver them, O God, from Amen.

THANKSGIVINGS.

The Thanksgiving of Women after Child- mercies in JESUS CHRIST our birth; to be said when any Woman, being Lord. Amen.

present in Church, shall have desired to return Thanks to Almighty God for her safe deliverance.

For Fair Weather.

O LORD God, who hast O ALMIGHTY GOD, we justly humbled us by thy late give thee humble thanks, for visitation of us with immodethat thou hast been graciously rate rain and waters, and in pleased to preserve, through thy mercy hast relieved and the great pain and peril of child- comforted our souls by this birth, this woman, thy servant, seasonable and blessed change who desireth now to offer her of weather; we praise and praises and thanksgivings unto glorify thy holy name, for this thee. Grant, we beseech thee, thy mercy, and will always most merciful Father, that she, declare thy loving kindness through thy help, may both from generation to generation, faithfully live and walk accord- through JESUS CHRIST ing to thy will in this life pre- Lord, Amen.

sent, and also may be partaker

of everlasting glory in the life

For Plenty.

our

O MOST merciful Father,

to come, through JESUS CHRIST who of thy gracious goodness

our Lord. Amen.

For Rain.

hast heard the devout prayers of thy Church, and turned our O GOD, our heavenly Father, dearth and scarcity into plenty; who by thy gracious provi- we give thee humble thanks for dence dost cause the former this thy special bounty; beand the latter rain to descend seeching thee to continue thy upon the earth, that it may loving kindness unto us, that bring forth fruit for the use of our land may yield us her fruits man; we give thee humble of increase, to thy glory and thanks that it hath pleased thee, our comfort, through JESUS in our great necessity, to send CHRIST Our Lord. Amen. us at the last, a joyful rain upon For Peace, and Deliverance from our thine inheritance, and to refresh it when it was dry, to the great O ALMIGHTY GOD, who comfort of us thy unworthy art a strong tower of defence servants, and to the glory of unto thy servants against the thy holy name, through thy face of their enemies; we yield

Enemies.

thee praise and thanksgiving, ed our souls from the jaws of for our deliverance from those death; we offer unto thy fagreat and apparent dangers therly goodness ourselves, our wherewith we were compassed; souls and bodies, which thou we acknowledge it thy good-hast delivered, to be a living ness that we were not delivered sacrifice unto thee; always over as a prey unto them; be- praising and magnifying thy seeching thee still to continue mercies in the midst of thy such thy mercies towards us, Church, through JESUS CHRIST that all the world may know our Lord. Amen. that thou art our Saviour and For a Recovery from Sickness. mighty Deliverer, through JEO GOD, who art the giver of sus Christ our Lord. Amen. life, of health, and of safety; For Restoring Public Peace at Home. we bless thy name, that thou

O ETERNAL God, our heavenly Father, who alone makest men to be of one mind in a

hast been pleased to deliver from his bodily sickness this thy servant, who now desireth to return thanks unto thee, in

he devote the residue of his

house, and stillest the outrage the presence of all thy people. of a violent and unruly people; Gracious art thou, O Lord, and we bless thy holy name, that it hath pleased thee to appease the full of compassion to the childseditious tumults which have ren of men. May his heart be been lately raised up amongst duly impressed with a sense of us; most humbly beseeching thy merciful goodness, and may thee to grant to all of us grace, that we may henceforth obediently walk in thy holy commandments; and, leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, may continually offer unto thee our MOST gracious LORD, whose sacrifice of praise and thanks- mercy is over all thy works; giving for these thy mercies we praise thy holy name that towards us, through JESUS thou hast been pleased to conCHRIST our Lord. Amen.

days to an humble, holy, and
obedient walking before thee,
through JESUS CHRIST
Lord. Amen.

For a safe Return from Sea.

our

duct in safety, through the perils of the great deep, this

For Deliverance from great Sickness and thy servant, who now desireth to return his thanks unto thee,

Mortality.

O LORD GOD, who hast in thy holy Church: May he be wounded us for our sins, and duly sensible of thy merciful consumed us for our transgres- providence towards him, and sions, by thy late heavy and ever express his thankfulness dreadful visitation; and now, by a holy trust in thee, and in the midst of judgment re- obedience to thy laws, through membering mercy, hast redeem-JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

THE

COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS,

TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

The Collect.

THE FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT. spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on ALMIGHTY GOD, give us the armour of light. Let us grace that we may cast away walk honestly, as in the day; the works of darkness, and put not in rioting and drunkenness, upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life,

not in chambering and wanton

in which thy Son JESUS CHRIST ness, not in strife and envying. came to visit us in great humi

lity; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the HOLY GHOST, now and ever. Amen.

But put ye on the Lord JESUS

CHRIST, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

The Gospel. St. Matt. xxi. 1. WHEN they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall The Epistle. Rom. xiii. 8. find an ass tied, and a colt with

This Collect is to be repeated every day with the other Collects in Advent, until

Christmas-day,

OWE no man any thing, but her: loose them, and bring to love one another; for he them unto me. And if any that loveth another hath ful- man say aught unto you, ye filled the law. For this, Thou shall say, The Lord hath need shalt not commit adultery, of them; and straightway he Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt will send them. All this was not steal, Thou shalt not bear done, that it might be fulfilled false witness, Thou shalt not which was spoken by the covet; and if there be any other prophet, saying, Tell ye the commandment, it is briefly com- daughter of Sion, Behold, thy prehended in this saying, name- King cometh unto thee, meek, ly, Thou shalt love thy neigh- and sitting upon an ass, and a bour as thyself. Love worketh colt the foal of an ass. And no ill to his neighbour; there- the disciples went, and did as

JESUS commanded them; and brought the ass and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they sat him thereon. And

fore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when a very great multitude spread we believed. The night is far their garments in the way; (44)

others cut down branches from have hope. Now the God of the trees, and strawed them in patience and consolation grant the way. And the multitudes you to be like-minded one tothat went before, and that fol- wards another, according to lowed, cried, saying, Hosanna CHRIST JESUS: that ye may to the Son of David: blessed with one mind and one mouth is he that cometh in the name glorify GOD, even the Father of the LORD'; Hosanna in the of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. highest. And when he was Wherefore receive ye one ancome into Jerusalem, all the other, as CHRIST also received

us, to the glory of God. Now I say, that JESUS CHRIST was a minister of the circumcision, for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto

city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is JESUS the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And JESUS went into the temple of GOD, and cast out all them that sold the fathers: and that the Gen

and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

THE SECOND SUNDAY IN

ADVENT.

The Collect.

tiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name: and again he saith, Rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people: and again, Praise the LORD, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people. And again Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the

BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and power of the HOLY GHOST.

The Gospel. St. Luke xxi. 25.

inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, AND there shall be signs in and ever hold fast the blessed the sun, and in the moon, and hope of everlasting life, which in the stars; and upon the earth thou hast given us in our distress of nations, with perSaviour JESUS CHRIST. Amen. plexity; the sea and the waves The Epistle. Rom. xv. 4. roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking WHATSOEVER things after those things which are were written aforetime, were coming on the earth; for the written for our learning; that powers of heaven shall be we, through patience, and com- shaken. And then shall they fort of the Scriptures, might see the Son of man coming