For Recovery from Sickness.

LORD, our heavenly Father, who redeemeft the lives of thy fervants from deftruction, and givest health, and life, and bleffing; accept the fincere and humble thanksgivings of thy fervant, whom thou haft raised from a bed of fickness, and reftored to fome good meafure of health and strength: we praise thee for this gracious inftance of thy goodness; may the remembrance of thy late mercy to him, have a happy and lasting influence upon his mind, and may that life, which thy mercy prolongs, be devoted to thy fervice, in a conftant obedience to thy holy commandments, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For the Recovery of a fick Child. ALMIGHTY and most gracious God, thou art the length of our days, and the conftant fupport of our being. We rejoice in the goodness of thy providence,

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and blefs thy holy name for redeeming the life of thy fervant's child from fickness and diftrefs. In fubmiffion to thy will, we humbly pray that it may please thee to prolong it to years of reason and underftanding, that it may be employed in thy fervice, and be an inftrument of much usefulness in the world, to the glory of thy holy name, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Though the foregoing Occafional Forms are calcu lated for a confiderable variety of circumstances; yet the Minifter is at liberty to introduce such petitions of his own, as he may more perfectly adapt to the circumflances of the time, and his Congregation; and this he may do either by introducing them in fome proper part of the Service, or in his Prayer after Sermon, in which the Society hopes to enjoy the peculiar advantages of free Prayer, as distinguished from the advantages of a pre-compofed Form.

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THE COMMUNION.

The Bread and Wine being put on the Table, the Minifter may begin the Service with the following Address to the Communicants:

MY CHRISTIAN BRETHREN,

WE are affembled at this time, to commemorate the sufferings and death of our Lord Jefus Chrift: to declare our obligation and defire to improve in all goodness as becomes his difciples, to acknowledge ourselves members of his body, and our duty as fuch, to live with each other in mutual love, and in the continual exercise of christian charity. Be ye therefore now exhorted conscientioufly, and in the fear of God, to fulfil this part of your duty; fhewing hereby your obedience to the great law

law-giver of the Chriftian Church, and improving yourselves by this religious memorial of him, in a steady submission to all those divine and moral laws, which he lived and died to establish, as the foundation of everlasting happiness. To the right obfervance of this chriftian ordinance, may God incline your hearts; and in the use of it, may you be filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jefus Christ, to the praise and glory of God.

The Minifter may then take the Bread, and say,

The Lord Jefus, as he was eating with his difciples, the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and gavę thanks.

Let us in like manner exprefs our religious gratitude.

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LMIGHTY God, the eternal fountain' of life, and the father of all mercies, we' thine unworthy fervants come before thee, in humble acknowledgment of thine eter

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nal power, and in the exercife of that unfeigned joy, with which thy righteous and univerfal government infpires us; thy kingdom ruleth over all, and thy goodness knows no bounds. We thank thee, heavenly Father, for the condefcenfion and goodness we experience every day and hour of our lives. Thou forgiveft our iniquities, and healeft our diseases; thou redeemeft our lives from deftruction, and crowneft us with loving kindness and tender mercies. We adore thee, more especially, as the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, by whom we have access, by faith, into this grace, wherein we ftand, rejoicing in the hope of pardon, and of eternal glory. We embrace, with pleafure, every opportunity of acknowledging our relation to him, our fubmiffion to his authority, and our delight in the prospect of being made partakers with him hereafter, in the honours and happiness of the heavenly kingdom. Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that we may partake worQ thily