wrath, and from everlasting | worshipping of thee, in righte damnation,

ousness and holiness of life, thy Servant GEORGE, our most gracious King and Governour; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Good Lord, deliver us. From all blindness of heart; from pride, vain-glory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and inalice, and all uncharitableness,

Good Lord, deliver us.
From fornication, and all
other deadly sin; and from all
the deceits of the world, the
flesh, and the devil,

Good Lord, deliver us.
From lightning and tempest;
from plague, pestilence, and fa-
mine; from battle and murder,
and from sudden death,

Good Lord, deliver us.
From all sedition, privy con-
spiracy, and rebellion; from
all false doctrine, heresy, and
schism; from hardness of heart,
and contempt of thy Word and
Commandment,

Good Lord, deliver us.
By the mystery of thy holy
Incarnation; by thy holy Na-
tivity and Circumcision; by thy
Baptism, Fasting, and Tempt-
ation,

Good Lord, deliver us.
By thine Agony and bloody
Sweat; by thy Cross and
sion; by thy precious Death
and Burial; by thy glorious
Resurrection and Ascension;
and by the coming of the Holy
Ghost,

That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith, fear, and love, and that he may evermore have affiance in thee, and ever seek thy honour and glory;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests and Deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word; and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth, and shew it accordPas-ingly;

That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true

That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper, giving him the victory over all his enemies;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to bless and preserve all the Royal Family;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Coun cil, and all the Nobility, with grace, wisdom, and understand. ing;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates, giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thec to

And lead us not into temptation; |
But deliver us from evil. Amen. our prayers.
Priest. O Lord, deal not with
ns after our sins.

O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thy Name's sake.

God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.

O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thine honour.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;

Answer. Neither reward us after our iniquities.

Let us pray. God, merciful Father, that despisest not sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as be sorrowful; Mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities, when

Let us pray.

to

soever they oppress us; 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

WE humbly beseech thee, O upon our infirmities; and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most

by the providence of thy good-righteously have deserved; and grant, that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory; through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ness they may be dispersed; that we thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Answer. As it was in the be-
ginning, is now, and ever shall
be: world without end. Amen.
From our enemies defend us,
Q Christ.
Graciously look upon our af-
flictions.

Favourably with mercy hear

Pitifully behold the sorrows
of our hearts.
Mercifully forgive the sins of
thy people.

O Son of David, have mercy upon us.

Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O Christ.

Graciously hear us, O Christ; graciously hear us, O Lord Christ. O Lord, let thy mercy be shewed upon us; Answer. As we do put our trust in thee.

unto.

A Prayer of St. Chrysostom. ALMIGHTY God, who hast with one accord to make our given us grace at this time common supplications when two or three are gathered thee; and dost promise, that together in thy Name thou wilt O Lord, the desires and petigrant their requests: Fulfil now, tions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; grantof thy truth, and in the world ing us in this world knowledge to come life everlasting. Amen. 2 Cor. xiii.

of our Lord Je

sus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.

Here endeth the Litany.

UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,

¶ To be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany, or of Morning {0nd Evening Prayer.

PRAYERS.

For Rain.

God, heavenly Father, who by thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised to all them that 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.

In the time of Dearth and Famine.

God, heavenly Father, whose gift it is, that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruitful, beasts increase, and fishes do multiply; Behold, we beseech thee, the afflictions of thy people; and grant that the scarcity and dearth, which we do now most justly suffer for our iniquity, may through thy

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goodness be mercifully turned
into cheapness and 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.

prophet, didst suddenly in Sa-
maria turn great scarcity and
dearth into plenty and cheap-
ness; Have mercy upon us, that
we,
who are now for our sins

For fair Weather.
Almighty Lord God, who

punished with like adversity.
man didst
may find a seasonable
once drown all the world, ex-relief: Increase the fruits of the
cept eight persons, and after-earth by thy heavenly benedic-
ward of thy great mercy didst tion; and grant that we, receiv-
promise never to destroy it so ing thy bountiful liberality, may
again; We humbly beseech thee, use the same to thy glory, the
that although we for our iniqui- relief of those that are needy,
ties have worthily deserved a and our own comfort; through
plague of rain and waters, yet Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
upon our true repentance thou
wilt send us such weather, as
that we may receive the fruits
of the earth in due season; and
learn both by thy punishment
to amend our lives, and for thy
elemency to give thee praise
and glory; through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen.

Or this.

God, merciful Father, who,

in time

In the time of War and Tumults.

Almighty God, King of all kings, and Governour of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belongeth justly to pa nish sinners, and to be merciful to them that truly repent; Save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies; abate their pride, asswage their malice, and confound their devices; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory; through the merits of thy only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

In the time of any common Plague or Sickness. Almighty God, who in thy wrath didst send a plague upon thine own people in the wilderness, for their obstinate rebellion against Moses and Aaron; and also, in the time of king David, didst slay with the plague of Pestilence threescore and ten thousand, and yet remembering thy mercy didst save the rest; Have pity upon us miserable sinners, who DOW are visited with great sickness and mortality; that like as thou didst then accept of an atonement, and didst command the destroying Angel to cease from punishing, so it

God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive, receive our humble petitions; and though we be tied and bound with the may now please thee to with-chain of our sins, yet let the pidraw from us this plague and tifulness of thy great mercy grievous sickness; through Jesus loose us; for the honour of Je. Christ our Lord. Amen. sus Christ, our Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

In the Ember Weeks, to be said every day, for those that are to be admitted into Holy Orders.

ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who hast puran universal Church by the precious blood of thy dear Son; 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 which shall be ordained to any holy function give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that both by their life and doctrine they may set forth thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men; through Jesus Christ our Lurd. Amen.

Or this.

of all good gifts, who of thy divine providence hast appoint

ed divers Orders in thy Church, Give thy grace, we humbly be seech thee, to all those who are to be called to any office and administration in the same; and so replenish them with the truth of thy doctrine, and endue them with innocency of life, that they may faithfully serve before thee, to the glory of thy great Name, and the benefit of thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer that may be said after any of the former.

A Prayer for the High Court of
Parliament, to be read during their
Session.

MOST gracious God, we
humbly beseech as
for this Kingdom in general, so
especially for the High Court of
Parliament, under our most re-
ligious and gracious King at
this time assembled: That thou
wouldest be pleased to direct
and prosper all their consulta-
tions to the advancement of thy
glory, the good of thy Church,
the safety, honour, and welfare
of our Sovereign, and his Do-
minions; that all things may be
so ordered and settled by their
endeavours, upon the best and
surest foundations, that peace
and happiness, truth and justice,
religion and piety, may be esta-
blished among us for all gene-
rations. These and all other
necessaries, for them, for us,

we

humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ our