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or wrong to any man, that he
make amends to the uttermost of thy mercies, doft fo put a-
of his power. And if he hath way the fins of those who tru-
not before difpofed of hisGoods, ly repent, that thou remem-
let him then be admonished to brett them no more; Open
make his Will, and to declare thine eye of mercy upon this
his Debts, what he oweth, thy fervant, who most carneft-
and what is owing unto him, ly defireth pardon and forgive-
for the better difcharging of nefs. Renew in him (most lo-
his Confcience, and the quiet- ving Father) whatsoever hath
nefs of his Executors. But men been decayed by the fraud and
fould often be put in remem- málice of the devil, or by his
brance to take order for the own carnal will and frailnefs;
fettling of their temporal e- preserve and continue this fick

member in the unity of the Church; confider his contrition, accept his tears, affwage his pain, as fhall feem to thee moft expedient for him. And foraf much as he putteth his full truft only in thy mercy, impute not unto him his former fins; but ftrengthen him with thy bleffed Spirit; and when thou art pleafed to take him hence, take Go not far from me, O God: him unto thy favour, through the merits of thy most dearly beloved Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Caft me not away in the time of age: forfake me not when my ftrength faileth me.

For mine enemies speak againft me, and they that lay wait for my foul, take their counfel together, faying: God hath forfaken him, perfecute him, and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

Then hall the Minifter fay this Pfalm.

In te, Domine, fperavi. Pfal. 71. N' thee, O Lord, have I put I my truff, let me never be put to confufion but rid me, and deliver me in thy righteoufnefs; incline thine ear unto me, and fave me.

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Be thou my ftrong hold, whereunto I may alway refort: thou haft promised to help me, for thou art my houfe of defence, and my caftle.

my God, hafte thee to help me.

Let them be confounded and perish, that are against my foul: let them be covered with fhame and difhonour, that seek to do me evil.

As for me, I will patiently abide alway: and will praise thec more and more.

My mouth fhall daily speak of thy righteoufnefs and falvation: for I know no end thereof.

I will go forth in the ftrength of the Lord God: and will make mention of thy righte oufness only.

Thou, O God, haft taught me from my youth up until now: therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly: out of the hand of the uniigh- Forfake me not, O God, in teous and cruel man.

mine old age, when I am grayFor thou, O Lord God, art headed until I have fhewed the thing that I long for: thou thy ftrength unto this generatiart my hope even from my on, and thy power to all them youth. that are yet for to come. Through thee have I been Thy righteouincfs, O God, holden up ever fince I was born: is very high, and great things thou art he that took me out of are they that thou haft done: my mothers womb; my praise O God, who is like unto thee? fhall alway be of thee. Glory be to the Father, r. As it was in the beginning,

I am become as it were a monfter unto many: but my fure truft is in thee.

O let my mouth be filled

with thy praife: that I may

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Adding this.

Saviour of the world, who by thy Crofs and precious

fing of thy glory and honour Blood haft redeemed us, fave

all the day long.

us, and help us, we humbly where the fouls of them that befeech thee, O Lord. fleep in the Lord Jefus, enjoy Then fhall the Minifter fay, perpetual reft and felicity. He Almighty Lord, who Grant this, O Lord, for thy

all them that put their truft in Son our Lord Jefus Chrift, him, to whom all things in hea- who liveth and reigneth with ven, in earth, and under the thee, and the Holy Ghost, ever earth, do bow and obey, be now one God, world without end. and evermore thy defence, and Amen. make thee know and feel, that there is none other name under heaven given to man, in whom, and through whom thou mayft receive health and falvation, but only the Name of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

And after that shall fay, TNto Gods gracious mercy U and protection we commit thee. The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to fhine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace, both now and evermore. Amen

A Prayer for a fick Perfon, when there appeareth Small hope of Recovery.

God of all comfort, our Father of mercies, and only help in time of need; We fly unto thee for fuccour in behalf of this thy fervant, here lying under thy hand in great weakness of body. Look graci oufly upon him, O Lord; and the more the outward man de-. cayeth, ftrengthen him, we befeech thee, fo much the more continually with thy grace and Holy Spirit, in the inner man. Give him unfeigned repentance A Prayer for a fick Child. for all the errors of his life paft, Almighty God and mer- and stedfat faith in thy Son ciful Father, to whom a- Jefus, that his fins may be done lone belong the iffues of life and away by thy mercy, and his death; Look down from hea- pardon fealed in heaven, beven, we humbly beseech thee, fore he go hence, and be no with the eyes of mercy, upon more seen. We know, O Lord, this Child, now lying upon the that there is no word impoffbed of fickness: Vifit him, O ble with thee; and that if thou Lord, with thy falvation; de- wilt, thou canft even yet raise liver him in thy good appoint him up, and grant him a longer ed time from his bodily pain, continuance amongst us. Yet and fave his foul for thy mer- forafmuch as in all appearance cies fake. That if it fhall be thy the time of his diffolution pleasure to prolong his days draweth near, fo fit and prehere on earth, he may live to pare him, we beseech thee, athee, and be an inftrument of gainft the hour of death, that thy glory, by ferving thee faith- after his departure hence in fully, and doing good in his ge- peace, and in thy favour, his neration; or elfe receive him foul may be received into thine into thofe heavenly habitations, everlafting kingdom, through

the merits and mediation of Je- merits of Jefus Chrift thine fus Chrift thine only Son, our only Son our Lord. Amen. Lord and Saviour. Amen. A Prayer for perfons troubled A Commendatory Prayer for in Mind or in Confcience. a fick Perfon at the point of departure.

of mercies, and the God

Bleffed Lord, the Father

Almighty God, with of all comforts, we beseech whom do live the fpirits thee look down in pity and or juft men made perfect, after compation upon this thy afthey are delivered from their flifted fervant. Thou writeft earthly prifons; We humbly bitter things against him, and commend the foul of this thy makeft him to poffefs his forfervant our dear brother, into mer iniquities; thy wrath lieth thy hands, as into the hands of hard upon him, and his foul is a faithful Creator, and moft full of trouble: But, O mermerciful Saviour; moft hum- ciful God, who haft written bly befeeching thee that it may thy holy Word for our learning, be precious in thy fight. Wafh that we through patience and it, we pray thee, in the blood comfort of thy holy Scriptures of that immaculate Lamb that might have hope, give him a was flain to take away the fins right understanding of himself, of the world; that whatfoever and of thy threats and promifés, defilements it may have con- that he may neither caft away tracted in the midst of this mi- his confidence in thee, nor place ferable and naughty world, it any where but in thee. Give through the lufts of the flesh, him ftrength against all his or the wiles of Satan, being temptations, and heal all his purged and done away, it may diftempers. Break not the bruibe prefented pure and without fed reed, nor quench the fimofpot before thee. And teach us king flax. Shut not up thy who furvive, in this and other tender mercies in displeasure; like daily fpectacles of morta- but make him to hear of joy and lity, to fee how frail and uncer- gladnefs, that the bones which tain our own condition is, and thou haft broken may rejoyce. fo to number our days, that Deliver him from fear of the we may feriously apply our enemy, and lift up the light of hearts to that holy and heaven- thy countenance upon him, ly wisdom, whilft we live here, and give him peace, through which may in the end bring us the merits and mediation of Jeto life everlafting, through the fus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Communion of the SICK,

Forafmuch as all mortal menbe subject to many fudden perils, difeafes, and fickneffes, and ever uncertain what time they Thall depart out of this life; therefore to the intent they may be alwaysin a readiness to die,whenfoever it shall please Almighty God to call them, the Curates shall diligently from time to time

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(but especially in the time of peftilence, or other infe Tious ficnefs) exhort their Parishioners to the often receiving of the holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, when it fall be publickly adminiftred in the Church; that fo doing, they mayin cafe of fudden vifitation, have the less caufe to be difquieted for lack of the fame. But if the fick perfon be not able to come to the Church, and yet is defirous to receive the Communion in his house, then he must give timely notice to the Curate, fignifying also how many there are to Communicate with him (which shall be three, or two at the leaft) and having a convenient place in the fick mansh use, with all things neceffary fo prepared, that the Curate may reverently minifter, he shall there celebrate the holy Communion, beginning with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, here following. The Colleft.

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The Epiftle. Heb. 12. 5. Lmighty everliving Y fon, defpife not thou God, maker of man- MY kind, who doft correct Lord, nor faint when thou art the chaftning of the thofe whom thou dost love, and rebuked of him. For whom chaftife every one whom thou the Lord loveth, he chaftneth doft receive; We befcech and fcourgeth every fon whom thee to have mercy upon this he receiveth. thy fervant vifited with thine hand, and to grant that he may The Gospel. S. John 5. 24. take his fickness patiently, a hero, He that heareth recover his bodily health (if it be you, He

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thy gracious will) and whensoe- word, and believeth on him ver his foul fhall depart from the that fent me, hath everlasting body, it may be without fpot life, and fhall not come into prefented unto thee, through condemnation but is paffed Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. from death unto life. -After which, the Priest shall proceed according to the Form be fore prefcribed for the holy Communion, beginning at these words, [Ye that do truly, &c]

At the time of the distribution of the holy Sacrament, the Priest fhall first receive the Communion himself, and after minifter unto them that are appointed to Communicate with the fick, and laft of all to the fick perfon.

But if a man, either by reafon of extremity of fickness, or for want of warning in due time to the Curate, or for lack of com pany to receive with him, or by any other juft Impediment, do not receive the Sacrament of Chrifts Body and Blood, the Curate fhall inftruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his fins, and ftedfaftly believe that Jefus Chrift hath fuffered death upon the Crofs for him, and shed his Blood for his redemption, earneftly remembring the benefits he hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks therefore, he doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Chrift profitably to his fouls health, -although