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2 Cor. xiii. 14.

the desires and peitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for THE grace of our Lord Jesu them granting us in this world Christ, and the love of God, and knowledge of thy truth, and in the the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, ba world to come life everlasting. Amen. with us all evermore. Amen.

Here endeth the Litany.

PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS
UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,

To be used before the two final Prayers of Morning and Evening Serve.

PRAYERS.

A Prayer for Congress, to be used [sins, thou hast afflicted us: And we during their Session. pray thee to send us such seasonable MOST gracious God, we humbly weather, that the earth may, in due beseech thee, as for the People of time, yield her increase, for our use these United States in general, so es- and benefit; and give us grace, that pecially for their Senate and Repre- we may learn, by thy punishments, sentatives in Congress assembled; to amend our lives, and for thy cle that thou wouldest be pleased to direct mency to give thee thanks and praise, and prosper all their consultations, to through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. the advancement of thy Glory, the In Time of Dearth and Famine. good of thy Church, the safety, ho- God, heavenly Father, whose gift nour, and welfare of thy People; that it is that the rain doth fall, and all things may be so ordered and the earth bring forth her increase; besettled by their endeavours, upon the hold, we beseech thee, the afflictions of best and surest foundations, that thy people; increase the fruits of the peace and happiness, truth and Jus-earth by thy heavenly benediction; tice, religion and piety, may be es-and grant that the scarcity and dearth, tablished among us for all generations. which we now most justly suffer for These, and all other necessaries for our sins, may, through thy goodness, them, for us, and thy whole Church, be mercifully turned into plenty, for we humbly beg in the name and me-the love of Jesus Christ our Lord; to diation of Jesus Christ, our most whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen. be all honour and glory, now and for ¶ For Rain. ever. Amen.

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In Time of War and Tumults. Almighty God, the supreme Governor of all things, whose powa

O God, heavenly Father, who by thy Son Jesus Christ, hast promised to all those who seek ty kingdom and the righteousness thereof, all no creature is able to resist, to whom it things necessary to their bodily sus-belongeth justly to punish sinners, and tenance; send us, we beseech thee, in to be merciful to those who truly rethis 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.

For Fair Weather. LMIGHTY and most merciful A Father, we humbly beseech thee, of thy great goodness, to restrain those immoderate rains, wherewith, for our

pent; save and deliver us, we humbly
beseech thee, from the hands of our ene-
mies; that we, being armed with thy
defence, may be preserved evermore
from all periks, to glorify thee, who art
the only giver of all victory, through
the merits of thy Son, Jesus Christ our
Amethy
Lord."

For those who are to be admitted into Holy Orders, to be used in the

Weeks preceding the stated times of humbly beseech thee, behold, visit. Ordination. and relieve thy sick servant, for whom

ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly our prayers are desired. Look upon Father, who hast purchased to him with the eyes of thy mercy; comthyself an universal Church, by the fort him with a sense of thy goodness; precious blood of thy dear Son; merci- preserve him from the temptations of fully look upon the same, and at this the enemy; give him patience under time so guide and govern the minds of his affliction; and, in thy good time, thy servants, the Bishops and Pastors restore him to health, and enable him of thy flock, that they may lay hands to lead the residue of his lite in thy suddenly on no man, but faithfully fear, and to thy glory: Or else give and wisely make choice of fit persons. him grace so to take thy visitation, to serve in the sacred ministry of thy that, after this painful life ended, he Church. And, to those who shall be may dwell with thee in life everlasting, ordained to any holy function, give through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. shy grace and heavenly benediction; For a Sick Child. that both by their life and doctrine they ALMIGHTY God, and mercife! may show forth thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Father, to whom alone belong the issues of life and death; look down from heaven, we humbly beseech thee, Or this. with the eyes of mercy, upon the sick A LMIGHTY God, the giver of all child for whom our prayers are de good gifts, who of thy divine pro-sired. Deliver him, O Lord, in thy vidence hast appointed divers orders goox appointed time, from his belily in thy Church; give thy grace, we pain, and visit him with thy salvation humbly beseech thee, to all those who that if it should be thy good pleasure to are to be called to any office and ad-prolong his days here on earth, he ministration in the same; and so re- may live to thee, and be an instrument plenish them with the truth of thy doc-of thy glory, by serving thee faithfully, trine, and endure them with innocency and doing good in his generation: Ur of life, that they may faithfully serve else receive him to those heavenly before thee, to the glory of thy great habitations, where the souls of those name, and the benefit of thy holy who sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy per Church, through Jesus Christ our petual rest and felicity. Grant this, Lord. Amen." O Lord, for the love of thy Son, our

In Time of great Sickness and Mor-Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.
For a Person, or Persons going to
Sea.

tality.

O Almighty God, the Lord of life and

Eternal God, who alone sprendest

death, of sickness and health; regard our supplications we humbly be-1 out the heavens, and riflest the seech thee; and, as thou hast thought raging of the sea; we commend to thy fit to visit us for our sins with great Almighty protection, thy servant, for sickness and mortality, in the midst of whose preservation on the great deep thy judgment, O Lord, remember our prayers are desired. Guard him, mercy. Have pity upon us miserable we beseech thee, from the dangers sinners, and withdraw from us the the sea, from sickness, from the vicgrievous sickness with which we are lence of enemies, and from every evi afflicted. May this thy fatherly cor-to which he may be exposed. Con rection have its due influence upon as, by leading us to consider how frail and uncertain our life is; that we may apply our hearts unto that heavenly wisdom, which in the end will bring as to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For a Sick Person. Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need; look down from heaven, we

duct him in safety to the haven where he would be, with a grateful sense of thy mercies, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For a Person under Affliction. Merciful God, and heavenly Fa ther, who hast taught us, in thy holy Word, that thou dost not willing ly afflict or grieve the children of men look with pity, we beseech thee, upon the sorrows of thy servant, for whom

our prayere are desired. In thy wis-ferings they are to endure in this dom thou hast seen fit to visit him world, yet deliver them, O God, from with trouble and to bring distress upon the bitter pains of eternal death. Purhim. Remember him, O Lord, in don their sins, and save their souls, mercy; sanctify thy fatherly correction for the sake and merits of thy denr to him; endue his soul with patience Son, our blessed Saviour and Redeemunder his affliction, and with resigna-er. Amen. tion to thy blessed will; comfort him with a sense of thy goodness; lift up thy countenance upon him, and give him peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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A Prayer to be used at the Meetings of Convention.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God,

who, by thy Holy Spirit, didst preside in the councils of the blessed For Malefactors, after Condemna- Apostles, and hast promised, through tion. Or else the Prayer in the Visi-thy Son Jesus Christ, to be with thy tation of Prisoners, beginning, "O Church to the end of the world; we Father of mercies,"&c.may be used. beseech thee to be present with the Most gracious and merciful God, council of thy Church here assembled we earnestly beseech thee to have in thy name and presence. Save them pity and compassion upon those per- from all error, ignorance, pride, and sons recommended to our prayers, prejudice; and of thy great mercy who now lie under the sentence of the vouchsafe, we beseech thee, so to dilaw, and are appointed to die. Visit rect, sanctify, and govern us in our them, O Lord, with thy mercy and present work, by the mighty power of salvation; convince them of the mise- the Holy Ghost, that the comfortable rable condition they are in, by their gospel of Christ may be truly preachsins and wickedness; and let thy ed, truly received, and truly followpowerful grace produce in them such led, in all places, to the breaking down a godly sorrow, and sincere repent-the kingdom of sin, Satan, and death; ance, as thou wilt be pleased to ac- till at length the whole of thy discept. Give them a strong and lively faith in thy Son our blessed Saviour, and make it effectual to the salvation of their souls. O Lord, in judgment remember mercy; and whatever suf

persed sheep, being gathered into one field, shall become partakers of everlasting life, through the merits and death of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.

THANKSGIVINGS.

The Thanksgiving of Women after! Childbirth; to be said when any Woman, being present in Church, shall have desired to return Thanks to Almighty God for her safe deliver

ance.

Almighty God, we give thee humble thanks, for that thou hast been graciously pleased to preserve, through the great pain and peril of Childbirth, this woman, thy servant, who desireth now to offer her praises and thanksgivings unto thee. Grant, we beseech 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. Amen.

For Rain.

God, our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence 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 huinble 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.

fi For Fair Weather. Lord God, who hast justly humbled us by thy late visitation of us with immoderate rrin and waters, aud in thy mercy hat relieved tad

conforted our souls by this seasonable ly offer unto thee our sacrifice of praise and blessed change of weather, we and thanksgiving for these thy mer praise and glorify thy holy name, for cies towards us, through Jesus Christ this thy mercy, and will always de- our Lord. Amen. clare thy loving kindness from generasion to generation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For Deliverance from great Sick ness and Mortality.

O Lord God, who hast wounded us

for our sins, and consumed us for

For Plenty. 0 Most merciful Father, who of our transgressions, by thy late heavy thy gracious goodness hast heard and dreadful visitation; and now, in the devout prayers of thy Church, the midst of judgment remembering and turned our dearth and scarcity mercy, hast redeemed our souls from into plenty; we give thee humble the jaws of death; we offer unto thy thanks for this thy special bounty; fatherly goodness ourselves, our souls beseeching thee to continue thy loving and bodies, which thou hast delivered, Kindness unto us, that our land may to be a living sacrifice unto thee; alyiekl us her fruits of increase, to thy ways praising and magnifying thy glory and our comfort, through Jesus mercies in the midst of thy Church, Christ our Lord. Amen. through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For Peace, and Deliverance from Amen.

our Enemies.

For a Recovery from Sickness.

O Almighty God, who art a strong O God, who art the giver of life, of tower of defence unto thy servants health, and of safety; we bless against the face of their enemies; we thy name, that thou hast been pleased yield thee praise and thanksgiving, for to deliver from his bodily sickness this our deliverance from those great and thy servant, who now desireth to re apparent dangers wherewith we were turn thanks unto thee, in the presence compassed; we acknowledge it thy of all thy people. Gracious art thou, goodness that we were not delivered O Lord, and full of compassion to the over as a prey unto them; beseeching children of men. May his heart be thee still to continue such thy mercies duly impressed with a sense of thy towards us, that all the world may merciful goodness, and may he devote know that thou art our Saviour and the residue of his days to an humble, mighty Deliverer, through Jesus holy, and obedient walking before Christ our Lord. Amen. thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For a safe Return from Sea.

MOST gracious Lord, whose mer

For restoring Public Peace at Home. Eternal God, our heavenly Father, who alone makest men to be cy is over all thy works; we of one mind in a house, and stillest the praise thy holy name, that thou hast outrage of a violent and unruly people; been pleased to conduct in safety, we bless thy holy name, that it hath through the perils of the great deep, pleased thee to appease the seditious this thy servant, who now desireth tumults which have been lately raised to return his thanks unto thee, in thy up amongst us; most humbly beseech-holy Church: May he be duly sensible ing thee to grant to all of us grace, of thy merciful providence towards that we may henceforth obediently him, and ever express his thankful walk in thy holy commandments; and, ness by a holy trust in thee, and obedi leading a quiet and peaceable life in all ence to thy laws, through Jesus Christ vdlineas and honesty, may continual-four Lord. Amen.

THE

COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS,

To be used throughout the Year.

The first Sunday in Advent.
The Collect.

Jass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any ALMIGHTY God, give us grace man say aught unto you, ye shall say that we may cast away the works The Lord hath need of them; and of darkness, and put upon us the ar-straightway he will send them. Al mour of light, now in the time of this this was done, that it might be fulfillmortal life, in which thy Son Jesus ed which was spoken by the prophet, Christ came to visit us in great humi- saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, lity; that in the last day, when he Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, shall come again in his glorious Ma-meek, and sitting upon an ass, and jesty to judge both the quick and dead, a colt the foal of an ass. And we may rise to the life immortal, the disciples went, and did as Jesus through him who liveth and reigneth commanded them; and brought the with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen. This Collect is to be repeated every Day with the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas-day.

ass and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they sat him thereon, And a very great inultitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and The Epistle. Rom. xiii. 8. strawed them in the way. And the WE no man any thing, but to multitudes that went before, and that love one another; for he that loveth followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the another hath fulfilled the law. For Son of David: blessed is he that this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, cometh in the name of the Lord; Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not Hosanna in the highest. And when steal, Thou shalt not bear false wit- he was come into Jerusalem, all the tess, Thou shalt not covet; and if city was moved, saying, Who is this? there be any other commandment, it And the multitude said, This is Jesus is briefly comprehended in this saying, the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. namey, Thou shalt love thy neigh-And Jesus went into the temple of bour as thyself. Love worketh no God, and cast out all them that sold ll to his neighbour; therefore love is and bought in the temple, and over the fulfilling of the law. And thai,threw the tables of the money-chan knowing the time, that now it is high gers, and the seats of them that sold. time to awake out of sleep; for now doves, and said unto them, It is writis our salvation nearer than when we ten, My house shall be called the believed. The night is far spent, the house of prayer; but ye have made it day is at hand; let us therefore cast a den of thieves." 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 cham-BLESSED Lord, who hast caused tering and wantonness, not in strife all holy Scriptures to be written and envying. But put ye on the Lord for our learning; grant that we may Jesus Christ, and make not prevision in such wise hear them, read, mark, for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts there- learn, and inwardly digest them, that of. by patience, and comfort of thy holy The Gospel. St. Matt. xxi. 1. Word, we may embrace, and ever WHEN they drew nigh unto Jeru-hold fast the blessed hope of everlast. sal, and were come to Beth- ing life, which thou hast given us in phage, ur the mount of Olives, then our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. seat Je two disciples, saying unto them, Gnto the village over against you, and ruightway ye shall fiud an

The second Sunday in Advent.
The Collect.

The Epretle. Rom. xv. 4. WHATSOEVER things were writ ten aforetime, were written for

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