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wrath, and from everlasting | worshipping of thee, in rightëdamnation,

Good Lord, delwer us. From all blindness of heart; from pride, vain-glory, and bypocrisy; 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 famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death,

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

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

Lord.

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 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.

That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests and Deacons, with true know

Good Lord, deliver us. By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation; by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision; by thy Baptism, Fasting, and Tempt-ledge and understanding of thy

ation,

Word; and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth, and shew it accord

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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

Good Lord, deliver us. In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our wealth; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgement,

Good Lord, deliver us. We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God; and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way;

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

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

That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council, 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 thee to

give to all nations unity, peace, and concord;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy commandments; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred, and are deceived; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand; and to comfort and help the weak-hearted; and to raise up them that fall; and finally to beat down Satan under our feet; We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort, all that are in danger, necessity, and tribulation;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all sick persons, and young children; and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless children, and widows, and all that are desolate and oppressed;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to give us true repentance; to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances; and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us.

Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us.

O Lamb of God: that takest away the sins of the world; Grant us thy peace.

O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world; Have mercy upon us.

O Christ, hear us.

O Christ, hear us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us. Then shall the Priest, and the people with him, say the Lord's Prayer.

UR Father, which art in

heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us.

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

Answer. Neither reward us after our iniquities.

Let us pray. God, merciful Father, that despisest not the 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

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soever they oppress us; and gra- WE humbly beseech thee, O ciously hear us, that those evils, Father, mercifully to look which the craft and subtilty of upon our infirmities; and for the the devil or man worketh against glory of thy Name turn from us, be brought to nought; and us all those evils that we most by the providence of thy good-righteously have deserved; and 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.

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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.
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom.
ALMIGHTY God, who hast
given us grace at this time
with one accord to make our

common

supplications unto. 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.

THE grace of our Lord Jesus 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 (Ind Evening Prayer.

For Rain.

PRAYERS.

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.

For fair Weather.
Almighty Lord God, who

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.

Or this.

God, merciful Father, who, in the time of Elisha the prophet, didst suddenly in Samaria turn great scarcity and dearth into plenty and cheapness; Have mercy upon us, that we, who are now for our sins punished with like adversity, for the sin of man didst may likewise find a seasonable once drown all the world, ex-relief: Increase the fruits of the cept eight persons, and after-earth by thy heavenly benedicward of thy great mercy didst tion; and grant that we, receivpromise 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.

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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 pnnish 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

fike as thou didst then accept of an atonement, and didst command the destroying Angel to cease from punishing, so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 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 purchased to thyself an 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 Lord. Amen.

Or this.

ALMIGHTY God, the giver 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.

God, whose nature and pro

perty is ever to have mercy and to forgive, receive our humble petitions; and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us; for the honour of Je sus Christ, our Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

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

MOST gracious God, we

humbly beseech thee, as for this Kingdom in general, so especially for the High Court of Parliament, under our most religious and gracious King at this time assembled: That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign, and his Dominions; 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 established among us for all generations. These and all other necessaries, for them, for us,

we

and thy whole Church, humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ our

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