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Deac. Let us pray for our Prefbyters; that the Lord would deliver them from every unlawful and wicked action, and preserve them safe and honourable in their Presbytery.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for the whole order of Deacons in Chrift, and all the Clergy; that the Lord would preserve them unblameable in their ministry.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for the King; that he, knowing whose minifter he is, may above all things feek God's honour and glory; and that we and all his fubjects, duly confidering whofe authority he hath, may faithfully ferve, honour, and humbly obey

him.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for all the royal family, for the nobility, magiftrates, and all the people of this realm.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for those, who are departed in the faith, and are at reft in Chrift; that God, the lover of mankind, who hath received their fouls, would forgive them all their fins voluntary and involuntary, and of his great mercy would graciously grant them perpetual peace in the region of the juft, who reft in the bofom of Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, with all those who have pleased him and done his will from the beginning of the world, in the place whence forrow, grief, and lamentation, are banished away.

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Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for all virgins, widows, and orphans, for thofe who live in continence, and lead a pious life.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for those who live in marriage and child-bearing, that the Lord would have mercy upon them all.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for those that bring forth fruit in the holy church, and give alms to the poor.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for those who offer their facrifices and firft fruits to the Lord our God; that the moft gracious God would reward them with heavenly gifts, and restore them an hundred fold in this world, and grant them everlasting life in the world to come; giving them heavenly things for their earthly, and for their temporal thofe that are eternal.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for our brethren who are newly converted, that the Lord would confirm and establish them.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for those who are afflicted with fickness, [efpecially the perfons for whom our prayers are defired; This is to be faid when any defire the prayers of the congregation:] that the Lord

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would deliver them from all their distempers and infirmities, and restore them in health to his holy church.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for all who travel by land or by water, for those who are in hard slavery, and for all who in this tranfitory life are in trouble, forrow, need, or any other adverfity, [efpecially those for whom our prayers are defired. This is to be faid when any defire the prayers of the congregation.]

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for those who are in banishment, prison, or bonds for the name of the Lord, for all who are perfecuted for truth and righteouf nefs fake.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for our enemies, perfecutors, flanderers, and all who hate us; that the Lord would forgive them, and turn their hearts.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for those who are Without, and led away with error, that the Lord would con vert them.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us remember the infants of the church; that the Lord would perfect them in his fear, and bring them to the measure of adult

age.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befecch thee to hear us, good Lord. C a

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Deac. Let us pray mutually for one another, that the Lord would keep and preferve us by his grace unto the end, deliver us from the evil one and from all the scandals of thofe that work iniquity, and conduct us fafe to his heavenly kingdom.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Deac. Let us pray for every christian foul.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Then fhall the Prieft ftand up and fay, the Deacon kneeling,

Keep us, O Lord, and preferve us by thy grace. Anjw. Save us, O God, and raise us up by thy mercy.

Then fhall the Prieft fay the following Prayer.

Almighty God, O Lord moft high who dwel

left in the higheft, O thou holy one who refteft in thy holy places, thou great monarch of the world without original; who by thy Christ hast caufed thy knowledge to be preached unto us, to the acknowledgment of thy glory and of thy name, which he hath manifefted to our understandings: Do thou now look down by him upon this thy flock, and deliver it from all ignorance and from every evil work. Grant that this thy people may fear thee with reverence, love thee with affection, and tremble before the face of thy glory. Be merciful and propitious to them, and hearken unto their prayers; and keep them ftedfaft, unblameable, and unreproveable, that they may be holy in body and foul, not having spot or wrinkle or any fuch thing, but that they may be perfect, and none of them deficient or

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wanting in any respect. O thou their defender and powerful God, who accepteft not the perfons of men, do thou affift and fupport this thy flock, which thou haft redeemed with the precious blood of thy Chrift: Be thou their refuge and fuccour, their protector and guardian, their impregnable wall, their bulwark and security: for none can pluck out of thine hand; there is no other God like thee; in thee is our hope and ftrong confolation. Sanctify them by thy Truth, for thy Word is Truth. Ó thou, who doft nothing out of partiality or favour, whom it is impoffible to deceive; deliver them from all fickness and infirmity, from all fin, injury, and fraud, from fear of the enemy, from the arrow that flieth by day, and the danger that walketh in darknefs; and vouchfafe to bring them to eternal life, which is in Chrift thine only begotten Son our God and Saviour; through whom to Thee in the Holy Ghost, be glory and adoration, now and for ever, world without end. Amen,·

Then the Deacon ftanding up and turning towards the People, fhall fay,

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LET us beg of the Lord his mercies and compaffions, that this morning, and this day, and all the time of our pilgrimage may be paffed by us peace without fin: Let us beg of God, that he would fend us the angel of peace, and give us a christian end, and be gracious and merciful unto us. Let us commend ourselves and one another to the living God through his only begotten Son.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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