thofe evils that we moft juftly have deserved; and grant that, in all our troubles, we may put our whole truft and confidence in thy mercy; and evermore ferve thee in holinefs and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. ¶ A vice, and by walking before thee in holínefs and righteoufnefs all our days, through Jefus Chrift, our Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghoft, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. ¶A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom. given us grace at this 4 General Thanksgiving. Almighty God, who haft Almighty God, Father time, with one accord, to of all mercies, we, thine make our common fupplications unto thee; and doft promife that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou wilt grant their requefts; 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 everlafting. Amen. unworthy fervants, do give may fhow forth T 2 Cor. xiii. 14. HE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowfhip of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. Here endeth the LITANY. PRAYERS 1 Upon feveral Occafions, to be used before the two final Prayers of MORNING and EVENING SERVICE. PRAYERS. TA Prayer for CONGRESS, to be ufed during their feffion. OST gracious God, we M humbly beseech thee, as for the People of these United States in general, fo especially for their Senate and Reprefentatives in Congress affembled; that thou wouldeft be pleased to direct and profper all their confultations, to the advancement of thy Glory, the good of thy Church, the fafety, honour, and welfare of thy people; that all things may be fo ordered and fettled by their endeavours, upon the best and fureft foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and juftice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations. These and all other neceffaries for them, for us, and thy whole Church, we humbly beg in the name and mediation of Jefus Chrift, our most bleffed' Lord and Saviour. Amen. For Rain. God, heavenly Father, who by thy Son Jefus Christ haft promised to all those who seek thy kingdom and the righteousness thereof, all things neceffary to their bodily fuftenance; fend us, we beseech thee, in this our neceffity, fuch moderate rain and fhowers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to thy honour, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. For fair Weather. A Lmighty and moft mer ciful Father, we humbly befeech thee, of thy great goodness, to reftrain thofe immoderate rains, wherewith, for our fins, thou haft afflicted us: And we pray thee to fend us fuch feafona ble weather, that the earth may, in due time, yield her increase, for our use and benefit; and give us grace, that we may learn, by thy punish ments, to amend our lives, and for thy clemency to give thee thanks and praife, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. ¶ In Time of Dearth and Famine. God, heavenly Father, whofe gift it is that the rain doth fall, and the earth bring forth her increase; be hold, We befeech thee, the afflictions of thy people; increafe the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly benediction; and grant that the scarcity and dearth, which we now moft juftly fuffer for our fins, may may, through thy goodnefs, be mercifully turned into plenty, for the love of Jefus Chrift our Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghoft, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen. ¶ In Time of War and Tumults. Almighty God, the fupreme governor of all things, whofe power no creature is able to refift, to whom it belongeth justly to punish finners, and to be merciful to those who truly repent; fave and deliver us, we humbly befeech thee, from the hands of our enemies; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preferved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory, through the merits of thy Son, Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. For those who are to be admitted into holy Orders, to be used in the weeks preceding the ftated times of Ordination. Lmighty God, our heavenly Father, who haft purchased to thyfelf an univerfal Church, by the preci wifely make choice of fit perfons, to ferve in the facred miniftry of thy Church. And, to thofe who fhall be ordained to any holy function, give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that both by their life and doctrine they may fhow forth thy glory, and fet forward the falvation of all men, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. ¶ Or this. Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, who of thy divine providence haft appointed divers orders in thy Church; give thy grace, we humbly befeech thee, to all those who are to be called to any office and adminiftration in the fame; and fo replenish them with the truth of thy doctrine, and endue them with innocency of life, that they may faithfully ferve before thee, to the glory of thy great Name, and the benefit of thy holy Church, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. In Time of great Sickness and Mortality. O Almighty God, the Lord ous blood of thy dear Son; mercifully look upon the fame, and at this time fo guide and govern the minds of thy fervants, the Bifhops and Paftors of thy flock, that they may lay hands fuddenly on no man, but faithfully and of life and death, of fick nefs and health; regard our fupplications, we humbly befeech thee; and, as thou haft thought fit to vifit us for our fins with great fickness and mortality, in the midft of thy judgment, O Lord, re member For a fick Child. member mercy. Have pity upon us miferable finners, and withdraw from us the griev- Amighty God, and mer ous fickness with which we are, afflicted. May this thy fatherly correction have its due influence upon us, by leading us to confider how frail and uncertain our life is; that we may apply our hearts unto that heavenly wifdom, which in the end will bring us to everlasting life, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. For a fick Perfon. Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need; look down from heaven, we humbly beseech thee, behold, vifit, and relieve thy fick fervant, for whom our prayers are defired. Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy; comfort him with a fenfe of thy goodness; preferve him from the temptations of the enemy; give him patience under bis affliction; and, in thy good time, reftore him to health, and enable him to lead the refidue of his life in thy fear, and to thy glory: Or elfe give him grace fo to take thy vifitation, that, after this painful life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlafting, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. ciful Father, to whom alone belong the iffues of life and death; look down from heaven, we humbly befeech thee, with the eyes of mercy, upon the fick child for whom our prayers are defired. Deliver him, O Lord, in thy good appointed time, from his bodily pain, and vifit him with thy falvation; that if it should be thy good pleasure to prolong his days here on earth, be may live to thee, and be an inftrument of thy glory, by ferving thee faithfully, and doing good in his generation: Or elfe receive him into thofe heavenly habitations, where the fouls of those who fleep in the Lord Jefus enjoy perpetual reft and felicity. Grant this, O Lord, for the love of thy Son, our Saviour, Jefus Chrift. Amen. ¶ For a Perfon, or Perfons, going to Sea. Eternal God, who alone spreadeft out the heavens, and ruleft the raging of the fea; we commend to thy Almighty protection, thy fervant, for whofe prefervation on the great deep our prayers are defired. Guard him, we befeech thee, from the dangers of the fea, from fickness, from the violence of enemies, and from every evil to which be taught us, in thy holy Word, that thou doft not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men, look with pity, we beseech thee, upon the forrows of thy fervant, for whom our prayers are defired. In thy wifdom thou haft feen fit to vifit him with trouble, and to bring diftrefs upon him. Remember him, O Lord, in mercy; fanctify thy fatherly correction to him; endue his foul with patience under bis affliction, and with refignation to thy bleffed will; comfort him with a fenfe of thy pentance, as thou wilt be goodness; lift up thy counte-The For Malefactors, after Condemnation. Or elfe the Prayer in the Vifitation of Prifoners; beginning, "O Father of mercies," c. may be used. Molt and metly Moft gracious and merciful God, we earnestly befeech thee to have pity and compaffion upon thofe perfons recommended to our prayers, who now lie under the fen Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth; to be faid when any Woman, being prefent in Church, fhall have defired to return Thanks to Almighty God for her fafe Deliverance. Almighty God, we give thee humble thanks, for that thou hast been graciously pleased to preserve, through the great pain and peril of Child-birth, this woman, thy fervant, who defires now to offer her praifes and thanksgivings |