UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. T To be used before the two final Prayers of Morning and Evening Service. PRAYERS. A Prayer for Congress. To be used during their Session. thou hast afflicted us. And we pray thee to send us such season Mbly beseech thee,, for the in due time, yield her increase for OST gracious God, we hum-able weather, that the earth may, Amen. In Time of Dearth and Famine. people of these United States in our use and benefit. And give general, so especially for their us grace, that we may learn by Senate and Representatives in thy punishments to amend our Congress assembled; That thou lives, and for thy clemency to wouldest be pleased to direct and give thee thanks and praise; prosper all their consultations, to through Jesus Christ our Lord. the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of thy people; that all things may be so orGOD, heavenly Father, whose dered and settled by their endeav- gift it is that the rain doth ours, upon the best and surest fall, and the earth bring forth her foundations, that peace and hap- increase; Behold, we beseech piness, truth and justice, religion thee, the afflictions of thy people; and piety, may be established increase the fruits of the earth by among us for all generations. thy heavenly benediction; and These and all other ecessaries, 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. For Rain GOD, heavenly Father, who by thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised to all those who seek thy kingdom, and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance; Send us, we beseech thee, in this 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 merci seech thee, of thy great goodness, to restrain those immoderate rains, wherewith, for our sins, grant that the scarcity and dearth, which we now most justly suffer for our sins, may, through thy goodness, be mercifully turned into plenty; for the love.of Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen. In Time of War and Tumults. ALMIGHTY God, the su preme Governor of all things, to resist, to whom it belongeth whose power no creature is able 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 perils, 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 Ordination. ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly have its due influence upon us, 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 Father, who hast purchased end will bring us to everlasting to thyself an universal Church by life; through Jesus Christ our the precious blood of thy dear Son; Lord. Amen. 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 both by their life and doctrine they may show forth thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men; through Je sus Christ our Lord. Amen. T Or this. For a Sick Person. FATHER of mercies and God in time of need; Look down from of all comfort, our only help 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 him with a sense of thy goodness; preserve him from the temptations of the enemy; give him patience under his affliction; and, in thy. good time, restore him to health, and enable him to lead the residue of his life in thy fear, and to thy Aall good gifts, who of thy divine this painful life ended, he may LMIGHTY God, the giver of glory. Or else give him grace so to take thy visitation, that, after providence hast appointed divers dwell with thee in life everlastOrders in thy Church; Give thy ing; through Jesus Christ our grace, we humbly beseech thee, Lord. Amen. to all those who are to be called to any office and administration in the same; and so replenish them For a Sick Child. with the truth of thy doctrine, ALMIGHTY God, and merciful Father, to whom alone belong and endue them with innocency the issues of life and death; Look of life, that they may faithfully down from heaven, we humbly serve before thee, to the glory of thy great Name, and the benefit of thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. In Time of great Sickness and Mortality. beseech thee, with the eyes of mercy, upon the sick child for whom our prayers are desired. Deliver him, O Lord, in thy good appointed time, from his bodily pain, and visit him with thy salALMIGHTY God, the Lord vation; that if it should be thy of life and death, of sickness good pleasure to prolong his days and health; Regard our supplica- here on earth, he may live to thee, tions, we humbly beseech thee; and be an instrument of thy glory, and, as thou hast thought fit to by serving thee faithfully, and visit us for our sins with great doing good in his generation. Or sickness and mortality, in the else receive him into those heamidst of thy judgment, O Lord, venly habitations, where the souls remember mercy. Have pity upof those who sleep in the Lord on us miserable sinners, and with- Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and draw from us the grievous sick- felicity. Grant this, O Lord, for ness with which we are afflicted. the love of thy Son, our Saviour, May this thy fatherly correction Jesus Christ. Amen. For a Person, or Persons, going their sins and wickedness; and let to Sea. thy powerful grace produce in ETERNAL God, who alone 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 them We commend to thy Almighty a strong and lively faith in thy protection, thy servant, for whose 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 whatgers of the sea, from sickness, ever sufferings they are to endure from the violence of enemies, and in this world, yet deliver them, O. from every evil to which he may God, from the bitter pains of eterhe exposed. Conduct him in safe-nal death. Pardon their sins, and ty to the haven where he would save their souls, for the sake and be, with a grateful sense of thy merits of thy dear Son, our blessmercies; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For a Person under Affliction. ed Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. A Prayer to be used at the Meetings of Convention. MERCIFUL God, and heav-ALMIGHTY any everlasting enly Father, who hast taught us in thy holy Word that thou dost not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men; Look with pity, we beseech thee, upon the sorrows of thy servant, for whom our prayers are desired. In thy wisdom thou hast seen fit to visit him with trouble, and to bring distress upon him. Remember him, O Lord, in mercy; sanctify thy fatherly correction to him; endue his soul with patience under his affliction, and with resignation to thy blessed will; con fort him with a sense of thy goodness; lift up thy countenance upon him, and give him peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Malefactors, after Condem nation. God, who by thy Holy Spirit didst preside in the Councils of the blessed Apostles, and hast promised, through thy Son Jesus Christ, to be with thy Church to the end of the world; We beseech thee to be present with the Council of thy Church here assembled in thy Name and Presence. Save them from all error, ignorance, pride, and prejudice; and of thy great mercy vouchsafe, we beseech thee, so to direct, sanctify, and govern us in our present work, by the mighty power of the Holy Ghost, that the comfortable Gospel of Christ may be truly preached, truly received, and truly followed, in all places, to the breaking down the kingdom of sin, Satan, and death; till at length the whole of thy dispersed sheep, being gathered into one fold, shall become partakers of everlasting life; through the merits and death of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen. T During the period of the session of any General or Diocesan Convention, the above Prayer may be used by all Congregations of this Church, or of the Diocese concerned; the clause "here assembled in thy Name and Presence," being changed to "now assembled in thy Name and Presence;" and the clause "govern us in our present work," to "govern them in their present work.” The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth. To be said when any Woman, being pres. ent in Church, shall have desired to return thanks to Almighty God for her safe deliverance. thee humble thanks for that ALMIGHTY that thou hast been graciously pleased to preserve, through the great pain and peril of child-birth, this woman, thy servant, who desireth now to offer her praises ings into 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. For Rain. Amen. 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 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. LORD God, who hast justly itation 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. For Plenty. MOST merciful Father, who heard the devout prayers of thy Church, and turned our dearth and scarcity into plenty; We give thee humble thanks for this thy special bounty; beseeching thee to continue thy loving-kindness unto us, that our land may yield glory and our comfort; through us her fruits of increase through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Peace, and Deliverance from our Enemies. ALMIGHTY a strong tower of defence unto art thy servants against the face of their enemies; We yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed. We acknowledge it thy goodness that we 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 heaven men to be of one mind in a house, to all of us grace, that we may sion to the children of men. May his heart be duly impressed with a sense of thy merciful goodness, and may he devote the residue of his days to an humble, holy, and obedient walking before thee; 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 thanks unto thee, in thy holy Church. May he be duly sensible of thy merciful providence towards him, and ever express his thankfulness by a holy trust in thee, and obedience to thy laws; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THE COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS, TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. The First Sunday in The Collect. A LMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; 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. shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore 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 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 un-strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. This Collect is to be repeated every day, The Epistle. Rom. xiii. 8. love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the Law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not The Gospel. St. Matt. xxi. 1. |