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From the Book of Common Praper.

MORNING PRAYER. Lord's Prayer. Thy

will be done on earth as it in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread;.....

Benedicite.

The Second Collect, for Peace. Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies; that we surely trusting in thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Third Collect, for Grace. O Lord our heavenly Father, Almighty and Everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day; Defend us in the same with thy mighty power; and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger;...... Prayer for the King's Majesty.

Prayer for the Royal Family.
Prayer for the Clergy and People.

EVENING PRAYER. The Third Collect, for Aid against all Perils. Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night,.

......

LITANY. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the

earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them; (et passim)......

.... And graciously hear us, that those evils, which the craft and subtilty of the Devil or Man worketh against us, be brought to nought, and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed ;

PRAYER, For Rain.

For Fair Weather.

In the Time of Death and Famine.
In the Time of War and Tumults.

In the Time of any common Plague or Sick

ness.

In the Ember Weeks. Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, who of thy Divine Providence, hast ordained divers Orders in thy Church......

For all Conditions of Men.

General THANKSGIVING. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life;

....

For Rain.

For Fair Weather.

For Plenty.

For Peace and Deliverance from Enemies.
For restoring Publick Peace at Home.

For Deliverance from the Plague or other common Sickness.

COLLECT, for Second Sunday after the Epiphany. Almighty and Everlasting God, who dost govern all things in heaven and earth;

....

The Third Sunday after the Epiphany.

-The Sunday called Sexagesima.
The Fifth Sunday in Lent.

The Second Sunday after Trinity.
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity.

The Eighth Sunday after Trinity. O God, whose never failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth;..... The Twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

St. John Baptist's Day. Almighty God, by whose providence thy servant John Baptist was wonderfully born,......

From the Thirty-nine Articles.

ARTICLE I.

Of Faith in the Holy Trinity.

There is but one living and true God...... Preserver of all things, both visible and invisible.

From the Homilies.

BOOK II.

HOMILY 7. An Homily of Prayer. (passim.)

(For "CRANMER'S CATECHISM" on Providence, See the preceding Chapter.)

NOWELL'S CATECHISM.

Mast. Did God think it enough to have once created all things, and then to cast away all further care of things from thenceforth?

Scho. I have already briefly touched this point. Whereas it is much more excellent to maintain and preserve things created, than to have once created them; we must certainly believe, that when he had so framed the world and all creatures, he from thenceforth hath preserved and yet preserveth them. For all things would run to ruin, and fall to nothing, unless by his virtue, and, as it were, by his hand they were upholden. We also assuredly believe, that the whole order of nature and changes of things, which are falsely reputed the alterations of fortune, do hang all upon God that God guideth the course of the heaven, upholdeth the earth, tempereth the seas, and ruleth this whole world, and that all things obey his divine power, and by his divine power all things are governed; that he is the author of fair weather and of tempest, of rain and of drought, of fruitfulness and of barrenness, of health and of sickness: that of all things that belong to the sustentation and preserving of our life, and which are desired either for necessary use or honest pleasure; finally, of all things that nature

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needeth, he hath ever given, and yet most largely giveth abundance and plenty with most liberal hand; to this end verily, that we should so use them as becometh mindful and kind children.

Mast. To what end dost thou think that Almighty God hath created all these things?

Scho. The world itself was made for man, and all things that are therein were provided for the use and profit of men. And as God made all other things for man, so made he man himself for his own glory.

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