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In Time of Dearth and Famine. both by their life and doctrine
GOD,heavenly Father, whose they may show forth thy glory

O gift it is that the rain doth fall, and set forward the salvation of

¶ Or this.

ALMIGHTY God, the giver of

and the earth bring forth her in- all men, through Jesus Christ our crease; behold, we beseech thee, Lord. Amen. the afflictions of thy people; increase the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly benediction; and all good gifts, who of thy digrant that the scarcity and dearth vine providence hast appointed which we now most justly suffer divers orders in thy Church; give for our sins, may, through thy thy grace, we humbly beseech goodness, be mercifully turned thee, to all those who are to be into plenty, for the love of Jesus called to any office and adminis Christ our Lord; to whom, with tration in the same; and so rethee and the Holy Ghost, be all plenish them with the truth of thy honour and glory, now and for doctrine, and endue them with ever. Amen.

In Time of War and Tumults.

innocency of life, that they may
faithfully serve before thee,to the

ALMIGHTY God, the su-glory of thy great name, and the
benefit of thy holy Church,through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
In Time of great Sickness and Mor-
tality.

preme Governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners, 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 stated times of Ordiration.

LMIGHTY God, our heaven

ed to thyself an universal Church, by the precious blood of thy dear Son; mercifully look upon the same, and at this time so guide and govern the minds of thy servants, the Bishops and Pastors of thy flock, that they may lay hands suddenly on no man, but faithfully and wisely make choice of fit persons, to serve in the sacred ministry of thy Church. And, to those who shall be ordained to any holy function, give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that J

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 sins with great sickness and mortality, in the midst of thy judgment, O Lord, remember mercy. Have pity upon us miserable sinners, and withdraw from us the grievous sickness with which we are afflicted. May this thy fatherly correction have its due influence up on us, by leading us to consider how uncertain

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.

For a Sick Person.

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 whom our prayers are desired. Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy; comfort he

FATHER of mercies, and

For a Person under Affliction.

with a sense of thy goodness; preserve him from the temptations of MERCIFUL God, and hea the enemy; give him patience unvenly Father,who hast taught der his affliction; and, in thy good us, in thy holy Word, that thou time, restore him to health, and dost not willingly afflict or grieve enable him to lead the residue of the children of men; look with his life in thy fear, and to thy glo-pity, we beseech thee, upon the ry: Or else give him grace so to sorrows of thy servant, for whom take thy visitation, that, after this our prayers are desired. In thy painful life ended, he may dwell wisdom thou hast seen fit to visit with thee in life everlasting, him with trouble, and to bring disthrough Jesus Christ our Lord. tress upon him. Remember him, Amen. O Lord, in mercy; sanctify thy fatherly correction to him; endue

For a Sick Child.

For Malefactors, after Condemnation.

Or else the Prayer in the Visitation of
Prisoners, beginning, "O Father of
Mercies," &c. may be used.

ALMIGHTY God, and merciful his soul with patience under his Father,to whom alone belong affliction, and with resignation to the issues of life and death; look thy blessed will; comfort him down from heaven, we humbly with a sense of thy goodness; lift beseech thee, with the eyes of up thy countenance upon him, mercy, upon the sick child for and give him peace, through Jesus whom our prayers are desired. Christ our Lord. Amen. Deliver him, O Lord, in thy good appointed time, from his bodily pain, and visit 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 ful God, we earnestly beMOST gracious and mercibe an instrument of thy glory, by seech thee to have pity and comserving thee faithfully, and doing passion upon those persons recomgood in his generation: Or else re-mended to our prayers, who now ceive him into those heavenly hab- lie under the sentence of the law itations, where the souls of those and are appointed to die. Visit who sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy them, O Lord, with thy mercy and perpetual rest and felicity, Grant salvation; convince them of the this,O Lord,for the love of thy Son, miserable condition they are in our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen. by their sins and wickedness; and ¶ Foi a Person, or Persons going to Sea. let thy powerful grace produce

O ETERNAL God, who alone in them such a godly sorrow, and

spreadest out the heavens, sincere repentance, as thou wilt and rulest the raging of the sea; be pleased to accept. Give we commend to thy Almighty them a strong and lively faith in protection, thy servant, for whose thy Son our blessed Saviour, and preservation on the great deep our make it effectual to the salvation prayers are desired. Guard him, of their souls. O Lord, in judgwe beseech thee, from the dan- ment remember mercy; and gers of the sea, from sickness, whatever sufferings they are to from the violence of enemies, and endure in this world, yet deliver from every evil to which he may them, O God, from the bitter pains be exposed. Conduct him in safe- of eternal death. Pardon their ty to the haven where he would sins, and save their souls, for the be, with a grateful sense of thy sake and merits of thy dear Son, mercies, through Jesus Christ our our blessed Saviour and RedeemLord. Amen. er. Amen.

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THANKSGIVINGS.

5 The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth; to be said when any Woman, being present in Church, shall

¶ For Plenty.

MOST merciful Father, who

have desired to return Thanks to Al-heard the devout prayers of thy mighty God for her safe deliverance.

ALMIGHTY God, we give scarcity into plenty; we give thee Church,and turned our dearth and thee humble thanks, for that this thy special bounty; beseeching thee to continue thy loving kindness unto us, that our land may yield us her fruits of increase, to thy glory and our comfort, through Jesus Christ For Peace, and Deliverance from our our Lord. Amen.

thou hast been graciously pleased to preserve, through the great pain and peril of Child-birth, this woman, thy servant, who desires now to offer her praises and thanksgivings unto thee. Grant, we be seech thee, most merciful Father, that she, through thy help, may both faithfully live and walk according to thy will in this life present, and also may be partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our

Lord. Imen.

For Rain.

GOD, our heavenly Father,

dence dost cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man; we give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee, in our great necessity, to send us at the last, a joyful rain upon thine inheritance, and to refresh it when it was dry, to the great comfort of us thy unworthy servants, and to the glory of thy holy name, through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For Fair Weather.

Ohumble who
LORD God, who hast justly

tion of us with immoderate rain and waters, and in thy mercy hast relieved and comforted our souls by this seasonable and blessed change of weather; we praise and glorify thy holy name, for this thy mercy, and will always declare thy loving kindness from generation to generation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Enemies.

ALMIGHTY God, who art a to thy servants against the face of strong tower of defence untheir enemies; we yield thee praise and thanksgiving, for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed; we acknow

were not delivered over as a prey unto them, beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies towards us, that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour

and mighty Deliverer, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Restoring Public Peace at Home. ETERNAL God, our heavenly Father, who alone makest men to be of one mind in a house, and stillest the outrage of a violent and unruly people; we bless thy holy name, that it hath pleased thee to appease the seditious raised up amongst us, most humtumults which have been lately

bly beseeching 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 sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for these thy mercies towards us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For Deliverance from great Sickness | O Lord, and full of compassion and Mortality. to the children of men. May his LORD God, who hast wound-heart be duly impressed with a ed us for our sins, and con-seuse of thy merciful goodness, sumed us for our transgressions, and may he devote the residue of by thy late heavy and dreadful his days to an humble, holy, and visitation; and now, in the midst of obedient walking before thee, Judgment remembering mercy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. hast redeemed our souls from the Amen. jaws of death; we offer unto thy fatherly goodness ourselves, our souls and bodies, which thou hast delivered, to be a living sacrifice unto thee; always praising and magnifying thy mercies in the midst of thy Church, through

Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For a safe Return from Sea.

MOST gracious Lord, whose mercy is over all thy works; we praise thy holy name, that thou hast been pleased to conduct in safety, through the perils of the great deep, this thy servant, who now desireth to return his For a Recovery from Sickness. GOD, who art the giver of thanks unto thee, in thy holy life, of health, and of safety; Church: May he be duly sensible we bless thy name, that thou hast of thy merciful providence tobeen pleased to deliver from his wards him, and ever express his bodily sickness this thy servant, thankfulness by a holy trust in who now desireth to return thanks thee, and obedience to thy laws, unto thee, in the presence of all through Jesus Christ our Lord. thy people. Gracious art thou,Amen.

THE

COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS,

To be used throughout the Year.

The first Sunday in Advent.

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY God, give us

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

The Epistle. Rom. xiii. 8.

WE no man any thing, but to

grace that we may cast away Ore one another; for he that the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now loveth another hath fulfilled the in the time of this mortal life, in law. For this, Thou shalt not which thy Son Jesus Christ came commit adultery, Thou shalt not to visit us in great humility; that kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou in the last day, when he shall shalt not bear false witness, Thou come again in his glorious Ma- shalt not covet; and if there be jesty to judge both the quick and any other commandment, it is dead, we may rise to the life im- briefly comprehended in this saymortal, through him who livething, namely, Thou shalt love thy and reigneth with thee and the neighbour as thyself. Love workHoly Ghost, now and ever. eth no ill to his neighbour; thereAmen. fore love is the fulfilling of the

law. And that, knowing the time, | This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, 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.

that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not pro

vision for the flesh, to fulfil the

lusts thereof.

The second Sunday in Advent.
The Collect.

Baused all holy Scriptures to

LESSED Lord, who hast

The Gospel. St. Matt. xxi. 1. be written for our learning; grant WH THEŃ they drew nigh unto that we may in such wise hear Jerusalem, and were come them, read, mark, learn, and into Bethphage, unto the mount of wardly digest them, that by paOlives, then sent Jesus two disci-tience, and comfort of thy holy ples, saying unto them, Go into Word, we may embrace, and ever the village over against you, and hold fast the blessed hope of straightway ye shall find an ass everlasting life, which thou hast tied, and a colt with her: loose given us in our Saviour Jesus them, and bring them unto me. Christ. Amen. And if any man say ought unto

The Epistle. Rom. xv. 4.

WHATSOEVER things were

written aforetime, were

you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. All this was written for our learning; that we, done, that it might be fulfilled through patience, and comfort of which was spoken by the pro- the Scriptures, might have hope. phet, saying, Tell ye the daughter Now the God of patience and conof Sion, Behold, thy King cometh solation grant you to be like mindunto thee, meek, and sitting upon ed one towards another,according an ass, and a colt the foal of an to Christ Jesus; That ye may with ass. And the disciples went, and one mind and one mouth glorify did as Jesus commanded them; God, even the Father of our Lord and brought the ass and the colt, Jesus Christ. Wherefore receive and put on them their clothes, ye one another, as Christ also reand they sat him thereon. And a ceived us, to the glory of God. very great multitude spread their Now I say, that Jesus Christ was garments in the way; others cut a minister of the circumcision, down branches from the trees, for the truth of God, to confirm the and strawed them in the way. promises made unto the fathers: And the multitudes that went be- And that the Gentiles might glofore, and that followed, cried, rify God for his mercy; as it is saying, Hosanna to the Son of written, For this cause I will conDavid: blessed is he that cometh fess to thee among the Gentiles, in the name of the Lord; Ho- and sing unto thy name: And sanna in the highest. And when again he saith, Rejoice ye Genhe was come into Jerusalem, all tiles, with his people: And again, the city was moved, saying, Who Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; is this? And the multitude said, and laud him, all ye Jeople. And

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