pit. Blessed Lord, remember thy bow and obey; be now and evermercies; look upon his infirmi-more thy defence; and make thee ties; hear the voice of his com- know and feel that there is none plaint; give him, we beseech thee, other name under heaven given to patience in this his time of adver-man, in whom and through whom sity, and support under the terrors thou mayest receive salvation, but which encompass him; set before only the name of our Lord Jesus his eyes the things he hath done in Christ. Amen. the body, which have justly provoked thee to anger; and foras-UNTO God's gracious mercy And after that shall say, and protection we commit much as his continuance appeareth to be short amongst us, quick-thee: The Lord bless thee and en him so much the more by thy keep thee: The Lord make his grace and Holy Spirit; that he, face to shine upon thee, and be being converted and reconciled gracious unto thee: The Lord lift unto thee, before thy judgments up his countenance upon thee, and have cut him off from the earth, give thee peace both now and evermay at the hour of his death de- more. part in peace, and be received into thine everlasting kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Adding this. SAVIOUR of the world, At the time of Execution, besides all, or such parts of the foregoing office as the Minister shall Judge proper, shall be said the Commendatory Prayer for a person at the point of departure, as it is in the Visitation of the Sick. The Collect for the Communion Service. who by thy cross and pre-O GOD, who declarest thy Almighty power chiefly in cious blood hast redeemed us, showing mercy and pity; we besave us and help us, we humbly seech thee to have mercy upon beseech thee, O Lord. this thy servant, who for his transIN the midst of life we are in gressions is appointed to die. Grant death: Of whom may we seek that he may take thy judgments for succour, but of thee, O Lord, patiently, and repent him truly of who for our sins art justly dis- his sins; that he recovering thy pleased? favour, the fearful reward of his Ν Then the Minister, standing, shall say, Yet, O Lord God most holy, actions may end with this life; and O Lord most mighty, O holy and whensoever his soul shall depart most merciful Saviour, deliver us from the body, it may be without not into the bitter pains of eternal spot presented unto thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. death. Thou knowest, Lord, the se- The Epistle. Heb. xii. 11. crets of our hearts: Shut not thy NO chastening for the present merciful ears to our prayers; but seemeth to be joyous, but spare us, Lord most holy, O God grievous; nevertheless, afterwards most mighty, O holy and merciful it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of Saviour, thou most worthy Judge righteousness, unto them which eternal, suffer us not, at our last are exercised thereby. hour, for any pains of death to fall from thee. TH Then the Minister shall say, The Gospel. St. John v. 24. ERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my VE HE Almighty God, who is a word, and believeth on him that most strong tower to all those sent me, hath everlasting life, and who put their trust in him; to shall not come into condemnation; whom all things in heaven, in but is passed from death unto earth, and under the earth, do life. TA Prayer for imprisoned Debtors. sion, and to them a meek and for- down in pity and compas- have confined them, and a full sion upon these thine afflicted ser-purpose to repair all the injuries vants, who are fallen under the and losses which others have susmisery of a close restraint. Give tained by them. Raise them up them always a deep sense of their friends to pity and relieve them; sins, and of thy fatherly love and give them the continued comfort correction; and the more their of thy countenance here; and so confinement presseth hard upon sanctify their afflictions, that they them, the more let the comforts may work for them an eternal of thy grace and mercy abound weight of glory, through the towards them. Give to their merits and mediation of Jesus creditors tenderness and compas-Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen. A FORM OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING For the Fruits of the Earth, and all the other Blessings of his merciful Providence; to be used yearly on the first Thursday in November, or on such other Day as shall be appointed by the Civil Authority. ¶ The Service shall be as usual, except where it is hereby otherwise appointed. ¶ Among the Sentences at the beginning of Morn- and who is the sword of thy exing Prayer shall be the following: cellency! Deut. xxxiii. 29. ONOUR the Lord with thy Instead of, O come let us sing, &c. the following shall be said or sung: RAISE ye the Lord; for it fruits of all thine increase: So good to sing praises unto shall thy bar is be filled with plen ty, and thy presses shall burst out our God; for it is pleasant, and with new wine. Prov. iii. 9, 10. praise is comely. The Lord by wisdom hath The Lord doth build up Jerufounded the earth; by understand-salem; he gathereth together the ing hath he established the hea-outcasts of Israel. vens: By his knowledge the He healeth those that are brodepths are broken up, and the ken in heart, and bindeth up their clouds drop down the dew. Prov. wounds. iii. 19, 20. He covereth the heaven with The eternal God is thy refuge, clouds, and prepareth rain for the and underneath are the everlasting earth; he maketh the grass to arms. Deut. xxxiii. 27. grow upon the mountains. Israel then shall dwell in safety alone; the fountain of Jacob shall be upon the land of corn and of wine, also his heaven shall drop down dew. Deut. xxxiii. 28. He giveth to the beast his food; and to the young ravens which cry. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: Praise thy God, O Sion. For he hath strengthened the Happy art thou, O Israel; who bars of thy gates; he hath blessis like unto thee, O people saved ed thy children within thee. by the Lord, the shield of thy help, He maketh peace in thy bor ders, and filleth thee with the finest the wrath of man worketh not the of the wheat. righteousness of God. Where¶ Then shall be said or sung one of the Selections, fore lay apart all filthiness and su or some other portion of the Psalms, at the discretion of the Minister. perfluity of naughtiness, and re¶ The First Lesson shall be Deut. viii. and the ceive with meekness the engrafted Second Lesson shall be 1 Thess. v. 12 to 24. MOST which followeth: After the General Thanksgiving, shall be said this word, which is able to save your souls. Be ye doers of the word; OST gracious God, by whose and not hearers only, deceiving knowledge the depths are your own selves. For if any be a broken up, and the clouds drop hearer of the word and not a doer, down the dew; we yield thee un- he is like unto a man beholding feigned thanks and praise, as for his natural face in a glass: for he all thy mercies, so especially for beholdeth himself, and goeth his the returns of Seed-time and Har-way, and straightway forgetteth vest, and for crowning the year what manner of man he was. But with thy goodness, in the increase whoso looketh into the perfect law of the ground, and the gathering in of liberty, and continueth therein, of the fruits thereof. And, we be- he being not a forgetful hearer, seech thee, give us a just sense of but a doer of the work, this man this great mercy; such as may ap-shall be blessed in his deed. If any pear in our lives, by an humble, man among you seem to be reholy, and obedient walking before ligious, and bridleth not his tongue, thee all our days, through Jesus but deceiveth his own heart, this Christ our Lord; to whom, with man's religion is vain. Pure rethee and the Holy Ghost, be all ligion and undefiled before God glory and honour, world without and the Father is this: to visit the end. Amen. The Collect to be used instead of that for the day. MOST merciful Father, who husbandman in the returns of the fatherless and widows in their af- The Gospel. St. Matt. v. 43. Ysaid, Thou shalt love thy fruits of the earth; we give thee humble and hearty thanks for this neighbour and hate thine enemy. thy bounty; beseeching thee to But I say unto you, love your enecontinue thy loving kindness to us; mies, bless them that curse you, that our land may still yield her in-do good to them that hate you, and crease, to thy glory and our com- pray for them which despitefully fort, through Jesus Christ our use you and persecute you; that Lord. Amen. ye may be the children of your The Epistle. St. James i. 16. Father which is in heaven: for he O not err, my beloved breth-maketh his sun to rise on the evil ry perfect gift is from above; and on the just and on the unjust. For cometh down from the Father of if ye love them which love you, Lights, with whom is no variable-what reward have ye? do not even ness, neither shadow of turning. the Publicans the same? Or if ye Of his own will begat he us of the salute your brethren only, what word of truth, that we should be a do ye more than others? do not kind of first fruits of his creatures. even the Publicans so? Be ye Wherefore, my beloved brethren, therefore perfect, even as your let every man be swift to hear, Father which is in heaven is perslow to speak, slow to wrath: for fect. 168 FORMS OF PRAYER TO BE USED IN FAMILIES. MORNING PRAYER. ¶ The Master or Mistress having called together as many of the Family as can conveniently be present, let one of them, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling: UR Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Acknowledgment ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, in whom we preservation, espe night past. of God's mercy and live and move and have our being; we, thy cially through the needy creatures, render thee our humble praises, for thy preservation of us from the beginning of our lives to this day, and especially for having delivered us from the dangers of the past night. To thy watchful * When disturb providence we owe it, *(that no disturbance hath unces of any kind come nigh us or our dwelling; but, that we are stead of this, say, brought in safety to the beginning of this day.) For that notwithstand these thy mercies, we bless and magnify thy glorious are brought in safe Name; humbly beseeching thee to accept this our ty to the beginning morning sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; for his sake who lay down in the grave, and rose again for us, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. befall a Family, in ing our dangers, we of this day. Dedication of soul and body to God's service, with a reso ND, since it is of thy mercy, O gracious Father, that another day is added to our lives; we here lution to be growing dedicate both our souls and our bodies to thee and daily in goodness." thy service, in a sober, righteous, and godly life: In which resolution, do thou, O merciful God, confirm and strengthen us; that, as we grow in age, we may grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer for grace RUT, O God, who knowest the weakness and cor to enable us to perform that resolution. Bruption of our nature, and the manifold tempta tions which we daily meet with; we humbly beseech thee to have compassion on our infirmities, and to give us the constant assistance of thy Holy Spirit; that we may be effectually restrained from sin, and excited to our duty. Imprint upon our hearts such a dread of thy judgments, and such a grateful sense of thy goodness to us, as may make us both afraid and ashamed to offend thee. And, above all, keep in our minds a lively remembrance of that great Day, in which we must give a strict account of our thoughts, words, and actions; and, according to the works done in the body, be eternally rewarded or punished, by him whom thou hast appointed the Judge of quick and dead, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Ν IN particular, we implore thy grace and protection for the ensuing day. Keep us temperate in our meats and drinks, and diligent in our several callings. Grant us patience under any afflictions thou shalt see fit to lay on us, and minds always contented with our present condition. Give us grace to be just and upright in all our dealings; quiet and peaceable; full of compassion; and ready to do good to all men, according to our abilities and opportunities. Direct us in all our ways* (and prosper the works of our hands in the business of our several stations.) Defend us from all dangers and adversities; and be graciously pleased to take us, and all things belonging to us, under thy Fatherly care and protection. These things, and whatever else thou shalt see necessary and convenient to us, we humbly beg, through the merits and mediation of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen. same. serious and atten es of thy Church, duty with honest hearts, in order to practise it. THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. EVENING PRAYER. Amen. The Family being together, a little before Bed Time, let the Master or Mistress, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling: UR Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen. MOST merciful God, who art of purer eyes than who reads, make a Confession of to behold iniquity, and hast promised forgiveness sins, with a prayer to all those who confess and forsake their sins; we pardon. for contrition and come before thee in an humble sense of our own unworthiness, acknowledging our manifold transgressions of thy righteous laws.* But, O gracious Father, who Here, let him desirest not the death of a sinner, look upon us, we be- short pause, that ev seech thee, in mercy, and forgive us all our transgres- er one may scand sions. Make us deeply sensible of the great evil of failings of that day. them; and work in us an hearty contrition; that we may obtain forgiveness at thy hands, who art ever ready to receive humble and penitent sinners; for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ, our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. A ery one sceretly Prayer for grace better. ND lest, through our own frailty, or the temptations which encompass us, we be drawn again in- to reform and grow to sin, vouchsafe us, we beseech thee, the direction and assistance of thy Holy Spirit. Reform whatever is amiss in the temper and disposition of our souls; that no unclean thoughts, unlawful designs, or inordinate desires, may rest there. |