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those evils that we most justly have deserved; and grant that, in all our troubles, we

vice, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days, through Jesus Chrift, our Lord; to whom, with thee and the

may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy; and evermore serve thee in holi- Holy Ghost, be all honour

ness and pureness of living,

and glory, world without

to thy honour and glory, end. Amen.

through our only Mediator

and Advocate, Jesus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A General Thanksgiving.

A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom.

given us grace at this one accord to

Almighty God, Father time with

of all mercies, we, thine make our common fupplicaunworthy servants, do give tions unto thee; and dost thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us, and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the bleffings of this life; but, above all, for thine ineftimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Chrift; 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 forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giv

promise that 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.

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2 Cor. xiii. 14.

HE grace of our Lord
Jesus Chrift, and the

love of God, and the fellow-
ship of the Holy Ghost, be

with us all evermore. Amen.

Here endeth the LITANY.

PRAYERS

Upon feveral Occafions, to be used before the two final Prayers of

MORNING and EVENING SERVICE.

PRAYERS....

A Prayer for CONGRESS, to be used during their feffion.

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neceffity, fuch moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to thy honour, through Jesus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For fair Weather.

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OST gracious God, we humbly beseech thee, as for the People of these United States in general, so especially for their Senate and Representatives in Congress affembled; that thou wouldciful Father, we humest be pleased to direct and bly beseech thee, of thy great profper all their consultati- goodness, to reftrain those ons, to the advancement of immoderate rains, wherethy Glory, the good of thy with, for our fins, thou hast Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of thy people; that all things may be so ordered and fettled 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 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.

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afflicted us : And we pray
thee to send us such seasona.
ble weather, that the earth
may, in due time, yield her
increase, for our use and be-
nefit; and give us grace, that
we may learn, by thy punish
ments, to amend our lives,
and for thy clemency to give
thee thanks and praife,
through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.

In Time of Dearth and
Famine.

God, heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the rain doth fall, and the earth bring forth her increase; be hold, 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 fins,

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¶ In Time of War and Tumults.

preme governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to refift, to whom it belongeth justly to punish finners, and to be merciful to those who truly repent; save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory, through the merits of thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For those who are to be admitted into holy Orders, to be used in the weeks preceding the ftated times of Ordination.

wifely make choice of fit perfons, to serve in the facred ministry of thy Church. And, to those who shall be ordained to any holy function, give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that both by their life and doctrine they may

forward the falvation of all men, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Or this.

Lmighty God, the giver of all good gifts, who of thy divine providence haft appointed divers orders in thy Church; give thy grace, we humbly beseech thee, to all those who are to be called to

any office and adminiftration in the same; and so replenish them with the truth of thy doctrine, and endue 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

Almighty God, our heat Jesus Chri

venly Father, who hast purchased to thyself an universal Church, by the precious blood of thy dear Son; mercifully look upon the fame, and at this time so guide and govern the minds of thy fervants, the Bishops and Pastors of thy flock, that they may lay hands fuddenly on no man, but faithfully and

In Time of great Sickness and
Mortality.

of life and death, of fickness and health; regard our fupplications, we humbly beseech thee; and, as thou haft thought fit to visit us for our fins with great fickness and mortality, in the midst of thy judgment, O Lord, remember mercy. Have pity upon us miferable sinners, and withdraw from us the grievous fickness with which we are afflicted. May this thy fatherly correction have its due influence upon us, by leading us to confider how frail and uncertain our life is; that we may apply our hearts unto that heavenly wisdom, which in the end will bring us to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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For a fick Perfon.

Father of

mercies, and

God of all comfort, our only help in time of need; look down from heaven, we humbly beseech thee, behold, vifit, and relieve thy fick fervant, for whom our prayers are defired. Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy; comfort him with a sense of thy goodness; preserve him from the temptations of the enemy; give him patience under bis affliction; and, in thy good time, restore him to health, and enable him to lead the refidue of his life in thy fear, and to thy glory: Or else give him grace so to take thy visitation, that, after this painful life ended, be may dwell with thee in life everlafting, through Jesus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For a fick Child.

ciful Father, to whom alone belong the issues of life and death; look down from heaven, we humbly beseech thee, with the eyes of mercy, upon the fick child for whom our prayers are defired. Deliver him, O Lord, in thy good appointed time, from his bodily pain, and vifit him with thy salvation; that if it should be thy good pleasure to prolong his days here on earth, he may live to thee, and be an instrument of thy glory, by serving thee faithfully, and doing good in his generation : Or else receive him into those heavenly habitations, where the fouls of those who fleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity. Grant this, O Lord, for the love of thy Son, our Saviour, Jefus Christ. Amen.

For a Person, or Perfons, going to Sea.

Eternal God, who alone

vens, and ruleft the raging of the sea; we commend to thy Almighty protection, thy fervant, for whose prefervation on the great deep our prayers are defired. Guard him, we beseech thee, from the dangers of the fea, from fickness, from the violence of enemies, and from every evil to which be

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he may be expofed. Conduct tence of the law, and are ap

bim in fafety to the haven
where, he would be, with a
grateful fense of thy mercies,
through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.

For a Perfon under Affliction.
Merciful God, and hea-

taught us, in thy holy Word, - that thou dost not willingly aflict or grieve the children of men; look with pity, we beseech thee, upon the forrows of thy fervant, for whom our prayers are defired. In thy wisdom thou haft fseen fit to vifit him with trouble, and to bring distress upon him. Remember bim, O Lord, in mercy; fanctify thy fatherly correction to him; endue bis foul with patience under bis affliction, and with refignation to thy bleffed will; comfort him with a sense of thy goodness; lift up thy countenance upon him, and give him peace, through Jesus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For Malefactors, after Con-
demnation. Or else the Prayer
in the Visitation of Prisoners;
beginning,
O Father of

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mercies," &c. may be used.

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pointed to die. Visit them, O Lord, with thy mercy and falvation; convince them of the miferable condition they are in, by their fins and wickedness; and let thy powerful grace produce in them such a

pentance, as thou wilt be pleased to accept. Give them a strong and lively faith in thy Son our blessed Saviour, and make it effectual to the falvation of their fouls. O Lord, in judgment remember mercy; and whatever sufferings they are to endure in this world, yet deliver them, O God, from the bitter pains of eternal death. Pardon their fins, and save their fouls, for the fake and merits of thy dear Son, our blessed Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth; to be faid when any Woman, being preSent in Church, shall have defired to return Thanks to Almighty God for her fafe Deliverance.

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Most gracious and merciful God, we earnestly befeech thee to have pity and compaffion upon those persons recommended to our prayers, who now lie under the sen

that thou hast been gracioufly pleased to preferve, through the great pain and peril of Child-birth, this wo

man, thy servant, who defires

now to offer her praises and

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