32 That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, perfecutors, and flanderers, and to turn their hearts; rich or ! We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. 33 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; יד We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. 34 That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our fins, 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 bear 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: thee takest away the fins of the world; Grant us thy peace. 4 O Lamb of God: that takest away the fins of the world; Have mercy upon us. O Christ, hear us. O Christ, bear us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Chrift, have mercy upon us. Chrift, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Paraphrafe on the Litany. 32. As we sincerely forgive (according to Christ Jesus' Commandment and Example) all that have injured, or wished us evil, either with respect to our Persons, Fortunes, or Reputation; so we humbly beseech thee, O Lord, to pardon and forgive them also. 33 O giver of all good gifts send down thy Blessing upon the Fruits of the Earth, that they may grow up to perfection; and that we may receive them in due season to our nourishment, and thy glory. 34 Inspire us O Lord, with such a godly forrow for Sin, as will work in us a Repentance not to be repented of; pardon and forgive all our paft Tranfgreffions of thy Law, whether owing to perverseness, inconfideration, or want of inftruction; afford us such help by thy Holy Spirit, as will enable us to reform our lives after the rule of thy Commandments. O Jesus, Son of God intercede for us that our Prayers may be accepted. Then shall the Priest, and the People with him, say the Lords 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. Prieft. O Lord, deal not with us after our fins. Anfw. Neither reward us after our iniquities. Let us Pray. God merciful Father, that despisest not the fighing of a con→ trite heart, nor the defire of such as be forrowful; mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us; and gracioufly hear us, that those evils, which the craft and fubtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, be brought to nought, and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed, that we thy fervants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jefus Christ our Lord. O Lord, arife, help us, and deliver us for thy Names fake. I Paraphrafe on the Litany. O pure and spotless Redeemer grant us that peace of mind which thou promisedit to thy Difciples. O Saviour of Mankind have compassion upon us, and help us. O thou who art our anointed Prophet, Prieft, and King, mercifully hear our Prayers. O Father of the Spirits of all Flesh, accept our Petitions. O Chrift, the beloved Son of the Father graciously plead for us. O Holy Spirit, help our Infirmities. For the Paraphrafe on the Lords Prayer, See Morning Service. Lord treat us not as our Sins have justly deserved : 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, arife, help, and deliver us for thine Honour. Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O Christ. Anfw. As we do put our truft in thee. W Let us Pray. : ! E humbly beseech thee, O Father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities; and for the glory of thy Name, turn from us all those evils that we most 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 Paraphrafe on the Litany. Our Forefathers have informed us, O God, of the Miracles which thou wroughtest in their favour as well as in antient Times long before them. Hear us, O Christ, both now and in all our ne ceffities. : Raise up, therefore, thy strength, we beseech thee, and come and help us for the sake of thy glory. All glory and praise, &c. O Saviour of the World protect us from our Ene mies. Relieve our distresses. O Christ, the Lord of Life, mercifully hear our Prayers. Lord grant us thy protection--for thou art our only hope and dependence. Let us pray. O merciful Father, we meekly beseech thee to have pity upon our Infirmities; and for the fake of that glory which is so justly thy due, save us from that pu Pity our complaints. penitently. Lend a gracious Ear to our petitions. under all our Aflictions, to rely firmly on thy goodness, and to dedicate our lives to thy service in all We address thee in the language of blind Bartimeus godliness, to the praise of thy Name, through the interSon of David have mercy upon us. ceffion of Jefus Chrift our Lord. living, to thy honour and glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom. A Lmighty God, who haft given us grace at this time with one accord, to make our common fupplications unto thee, and dost promise, that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfil now, O Lord, the defires and petitions of thy fervants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen. T 2 Cor. 13. 14. 1 HE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all PRAYERS and THANKSGIVINGS upon feveral Occafions, to be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany or Morning and Evening Prayer. For Rain. God heavenly Father, who by thy Son Jefus Christ haft promifed to all them that feck thy kingdom, and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance; Send us we beseech thee, in this our necessity, such moderate Paraphrafe on the Prayer of St. Chryfoftom. Moft mighty God, who hast disposed us at this Time publickly to offer up our united petitions to thee, and haft promised by thy Son that even when a few are assembled together for thy Worship, thou wilt look favourably upon them; graciously perform our requests, O Lord, we beseech thee as thou shalt see best for us; giving us a firm Faith in, and fubmiffion to thy Word in this World, and eternal Happiness in that which is to come. Paraphrafe on the Blessing. The inestimable benefits which Chrift Jesus has purchased for us and the unspeakable love of God the Father which he has shewed to us in our creation, prefervation, and redemption and the comfortable affiftance of the Holy Spirit by which we are fanctified, be with us all for ever. Paraphrafe on the Prayer for Rain. O God, our Father in Heaven, who hast promifed by Jesus Christ that they who, by doing their duty, pursue the Happiness of another life, shall have all necessary provision for this; we beseech thee to fend us, in our present need fuch kindly Rain that the Earth may yield her Fruits for our support, and thereby increase. in us a thankful obedience to thee our Benefactor, through Jesus Chrift. 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. Ο God Thanksgiving for Rain. our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious Providence dost cause the former and latter Rain, to descend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man; We give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee in our great neceffity to send us at the last a joyful rain upon thine inheritance, and to refresh it when it was dry, to the great comfort of us thy unworthy servants, and to the glory of thy holy Name, through thy mercies in Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. For fair Weather. drown all the World, except eight Perfons, and afterwards of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again; We humbly beseech thee, that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain, and waters, yet 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 clemency to give thee praise and glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. In the Time of War and Tumults. O Almighty God, King of all Kings, and Governor of all Things, whose power no Creature is able to resist, to Paraphrafe on the Thanksgiving for Rain. O gracious God, who, by thy Providence givest Rain from Heaven, and fruitful seasons; with grateful Hearts we bless thee for the needful fupply which thou hast lately afforded us; whereby the Earth is refreshed, and enabled to bring forth Food for our Nourishment, and to excite in us a lively sense of thy goodness toward us through Jesus Chrift. Paraphrafe on the Prayer for fair Weather. O most mighty God, who for Sin didst once destroy all mankind by a Flood, except the Family of Noah, and didst promise never again to inflict the fame punishment; though we confefs our Iniquities have justly provoked thee to fend upon us the fame Judgment; yet we beseech thee mercifully to regard our penitence, and grant us such favourable Weather, that the Earth may reasonably afford us her Fruits; and that thy chaitisement may inspire us with obedience, and thy mercy with thankfulness, through Jefus Christ. |