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Through thee have I been holden up ever fince I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; my praise fhall alway be of thee.

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 fing of thy glory and honour all the day long.

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

For mine enemies fpeak against 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.

Go not far from me, O God: 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 feek to do me evil.

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

My mouth fhall daily fpeak 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 righteousness only.

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

Forfake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray-headed until I have fhewed thy ftrength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to

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Thy righteoufnefs, O God, is very high, and great things are they that thou haft done: O God, who is like unto thee?

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the, &c.

Adding this,

Saviour of the world, who by thy Crofs and precious
Blood haft redeemed us, fave us, and help us, we

humbly beseech thee, O Lord,

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Then fhall the Minifter fay,

HE Almighty Lord, who is a moft strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whoin all things in heaven, in earth, do bow and obey, be now and evermore thy defence, and 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.

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And after that fhall fay,

NTO God's gracious mercy 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.

A Prayer for a fick Child.

Amen.

Almighty God, and merciful Father, to whom alone belong the iffues of life and death; look down from heaven, we humbly befeech thee, with the eyes of mercy upon this Child now lying upon the bed of fickness: vifit him, O Lord, with thy falvation; deliver him in thy good appointed time from his bodily pain, and fave his foul for thy mercies fake. That if it fhall be thy pleafure to prolong bis days here on earth, be may live to thee, and be an inftrument of thy glory, by ferving thee faithfully, and doing good in his generation; or elle receive bim into thofe heavenly habitations, where the fouls of them that fleep in the Lord Jefus enjoy perpetual reft and felicity. Grant this, O Lord, for thy mercies fake, in the fame thy Son our Lord Jefus Chrift, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoit, ever one God, world without end. Amen, A Prayer for a fick Perfon, when there appeareth finall hope of recovery. Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, our 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 graciously upon him, O Lord; and the more the outward man decayeth, strengthen bim, we beseech thee, fo much the more continually with

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thy grace and Holy Spirit in the inner man. Give him unfeigned repentance for all the errors of his life paft, and ftedfaft faith in thy Son Jefus, that his fins may be done away by thy mercy, and bis pardon fealed in heaven, before be go hence, and be no more feen. We know, O Lord, that there is no word impoffible with thee; and that if thou wilt, thou canst even yet raife him up, and grant him a longer continuance amongst us Yet, forafmuch as in all appearance the time of his diffolution draweth near, fo fit and prepare him, we beseech thee, against the hour of death, that after bis departure hence in peace, and in thy favour, his foul may be received into thine everlafting kingdom, through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift thine only Son, our Lord and Saviour, Amen.

A commendatory Prayer for a fick Perfon at the point of departure.

Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of just men made perfect, after they are delivered from their earthly prifons; We humbly commend the foul of this thy fervant; our dear brother, into thy hands, as into the hands of a faithful Creator, and molt merciful Saviour; most humbly befeeching thee, that it may be precious in thy fight. Wafh it, we pray thee, in the blood of that immaculate Lamb that was flain to take away the fins of the world; that whatfoever defilements it may have contracted in the midst of this miferable and naughty world, through the lufts of the flesh, or the wiles of Satan, being purged and done away, it may be prefented pure and without spot before thee. And teach us, who furvive, in this and other like daily fpectacles of mortality, to fee how frail and uncertain our own condition is, and fo to number our days, that we may feriously apply our hearts to that holy and heavenly wisdom, whilst we live here, which may in the end bring us to life everlasting, through the merits of Jefus Christ, thine only Son our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Perfons troubled in mind or in confcience. Bleffed Lord, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comforts, we beseech thee look down in pity

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and compaffion upon this thy afflicted fervant. Thou writeft bitter things against him, and makeft him to poffes his former iniquities; thy wrath lieth hard upon him, and his foul is full of trouble: But, O merciful God, who hast written thy holy Word for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of thy holy Scriptures might have hope; give him a right understanding of himself, and of thy threats and promifes, that he may neither caft away bis confidence in thee, nor place it any where but in thee. Give him ftrength against all bis temptations, and heal all bis diftempers. Break not the bruifed reed, nor quench the fmoking flax. Shut not up thy tender mercies in difpleafure; but make him to hear of joy and gladnefs, that the bones which thou haft broken may rejoice. Deliver him from fear of the enemy, and lift up the light of thy countenance upon him, and give bim peace, through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift our Lord, Amen.

The COMMUNION of the SICK.

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Orafmuch as all mortal Men be subject to many fudden Perils, Dif, eafes and Sickneffes, and ever uncertain what time they fhall depart out of this life; therefore to the intent they may be always in a readiness to die, whenfoever it fhall please Almighty God to call them, the Curates fhall diligently from time to time (but especially in the time of Peftilence, or other infectious Sickness) exhort their Parishoners to the often receiving of the holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Chriß, when it fhall be publickly adminiftered in the Church; that fo doing, they may, in cafe of fudden vifitation, have the lefs 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 houfe; then he must give timely notice to the Curate, fignifying alfo how many there are to communicate with him (which fhall be three, or two at the leaft and having a convenient place in the fick Man's houfe, with all things neceffary to prepared, that the Curate may reverently minifter, he fhall there celebrate the holy Communion, beginning with the Collect, Epile, and Gofpel, here following.

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The Collect.

Lmighty everliving God, maker of mankind, who doft correct thofe whom thou doft love, and chastise every one whom thou doft receive; We befeech thee to have

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mercy upon this thy fervant vifited with thine hand, and to grant that be may take his fickness patiently, and recover bis bodily health (if it be thy gracious will) and whenfoever his foul fhall depart from the body, it may be without fpot prefented unto thee, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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The Epifle. Heb. 12. 5.

fon, defpife not thou the chaftening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth, he chafteneth; and fcourgeth every Son whom he receiveth.

The Gospel. St John 5. 24.

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lafting life, and fhall not come into condemnation; but is paffed from death unto life.

After which the Prieft fhall proceed according to the form before prefcribed for the holy Communion, beginning at thefe words (Ye that de truly, &c.)

At the time of the diftribution of the holy Sacrament, the Priest shall 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 fick nefs, or for want of warning in due time to the Curate, or for lack of company to receive with him, or by any other juft impediment, do not receive the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, the Curate fhall inftrust 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 thed his blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering 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 he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth. When the fick Perfon is vifited, and receiveth the holy Communion all at one time, then the Prieft, for more expedition, fhall cut off the form of the Vifitation at the Pfalm (In thee, O Lord, have I put my truft. &c.) and go ftraight to the Communion.

In the time of the Plague, Sweat, or fuch other like contagious times of fickness or difeafes, when none of the Parish or neighbours can be gotten to communicate with the fick in their houfes, for fear of the infection, upon fpecial request of the difeafed, the Minister may only communicate with him.

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