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 fuch as have erred, and are deceived;

We beseech thee to bear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to strengthen fuch as do stand, and to comfort and help the weakhearted, and to raise up them that fall, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet;

We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord.

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

We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all fick persons and young children, and to shew thy pity upon all prifoners and captives;

We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherlefs children, and widows, and all that are defolate and oppreffed;

Lord.

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
bear us.
O Lamb of God: that takest
away the fins of the world;
Grant us thy peace.
O Lamb of God: that takest
away the fins of the world;
Have mercy upon us.

O Chrift, hear us.
O Chrift, bear us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Chrift, have mercy upon us.
Chrift, bave mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy ufon us.
Then skall the Priest, and the
People with him, Jay the Lord's
Prayer.

OUR Father which art in
heaven, Hallowed be thy
Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy

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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;
Anfaw. Neither reward us af
ter our iniquities.

Let us pray.

God, merciful Father, that
despisest not the fighing of
a contrite heart, nor the defire
of such as be forrowful; Merci-
fully affift our prayers that we
make before thee in all our
troubles and adversities, when-
foever they oppress us; and
graciously hear us, that those
evils, which the craft and fub-
tilty of the devil or man work-
eth against us, be brought to
nought, and by the providence
of thy goodness they may be
difperfed; that we thy servants,
being hurt by no perfecutions,
may evermore give thanks unto
thee in thy holy Church, through
Jesus Chrift our Lord.

O Lord, arife, belp us, and deliver
us for thy Name's fake.
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 us, and deliver us for thine Honour. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; Anfw. As it was in the begin ning, is now, and ever shall be:

world without end. Amen.

From our enemies defend us, O Chrift.

Graciously look upon our tions. Pitifully behold the forrows of our hearts.

Let us pray.

E humbly beseech thee, O

upon our infirmities; and for the glory of thy Name, turn from us all those evils that we most righteoufly have deserved; and grant, that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore ferve thee in ho

liness and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer of S. Chryfoftom.

A Lmighty God, who haft give grace at this time with one accord to make our supplications thee, and doft promife, 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.

2 Cor. 13. 14.

THE grace of our Lord Jefus
Chrift, and the love of God,
and the fellowship of the Holy
Ghost, be with us all evermore.

to be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany, or o or of Morning and Evening Prayer.

For Rain.

PRAYERS.

be all honour and glory now and God, heavenly Father, who for ever. Amen.

by thy

Christ haft promised to all them that

eousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily fustenance; Send us, we beseech thee, in this our neceffity, fuch moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to thy honour, through Jesus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For Fair W'eatber.

Almighty Lord God, who for the fin of man, didst once drown all the world, except eight persons, and afterward of thy great mercy didst

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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 fins punished with like adversity, may likewise find a seasonable relief: Increase the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly benediction; and grant that we, receiving thy

bountiful liberality, may use the same to thy glory, the relief of those that are needy, and sur own comfort, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

promise never to destroy it so In the time of War and Tumulis. of all

again; We humbly befeech there,

that although for our iniqui-
ties 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 a-
mend our lives, and for thy
clemency to give thee praise and
glory, through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amer.

In the time of Dearth and
Famine.

Almighty God, King kings, and Governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it be ongeth justly to punish fin ners, and to be merciful to them that truly repent; Save and deliver us, we humbly befeech thee, from the hands of our enemies; abate their pride, affwage their malice, and confound their devices; that we being armed with thy defence, may be pre served 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. simen.

In the time of any common Plague
or Sickness.

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GOD, heavenly Father, whose gift it is, that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruit. ful, beasts incrcafe, and fishes do multiply; Behold, we beseech thee, the afflictions of thy people, and grant that the scarcity ard dearth, which we do now most justly fuffer for our iniquity, may through thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheap ness and plenty, for the love of King David, didst slay with the Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom plague of pestilence threescore with thee, and the Holy Ghoft, and ten thousand; and yet re

Almighty God, who in wrath didst send a plague upon thine own people in the wilderness, for their obftinate rebellion against Mofes and Aaron; and alfo, in the time of

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Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

In the Ember-weeks, to be faid every day, for those that are to be admitted into holy Orders.

A Lmighty God, our heavenly

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A Prayer for the bigh Court of Parliament, to be read during their Seffion.

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OST gracious God, we for this Kingdom in general, fo humbly beseech thee, as 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 profper all their consultations to the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the fafety, honour, and welfare of our

Sovereign and his Kingdoms;

that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest happiness, truth and justice, refoundations, that peace and ligion 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 Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

Father, who hast purchased to thyself an universal Church by the precious blood of thy dear Son; Mercifully look fame, and at this time so guide and govern the minds of thy servants the Bishops and Paftors of thy flock, that they may lay hands fuddenly 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 fet forth aid thy glory, and fet forward the falvation of all men, through Jesus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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A Lmighty God, the giver of A all good gifts, who of thy divine providence hast appointed divers Orders in thy Church; Give thy grace, we humbly be feech thee, to all those who are to be called to any office and administration in the fame; and so 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 Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A Collect or Prayer for all Con-
ditions of men, to be used at fuch
times when the Litany is not
appointed to be said.

God, the Creator and Prea
server of all mankind, we
humbly beseech thee for all forts
and conditions of men, that

thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all Nations. More especially we pray for the good eftate of the Catholick Church; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Chriftians, may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life. Finally we commend to thy fa- 11 therly goodness, all those who

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whom our prayers ers of the Con-
are defired:] that it gregation.
may please thee to

comfort and relieve them ac-
cording to their several necef-
fities, giving them patience un-
der their fufferings, and a hap-
py ifssue out of all their afflicti-
ons. And this we beg for Jesus
Chrift his fake. Amen.

A Prayer that may be faid after any of the former.

O God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive, receive our humble petitions; and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our fins, yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us, for the honour of Jesus Christ our Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

THANKSGIVINGS.

A general Thanksgiving.

A Lmighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and lovingkindness to us and to all men: [* particularly to * This to be those who defire faid when any now to offer up their that have been praises and thankf- prayed for degivings for thy late fire to return

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mercies vouchsafed unto them.] We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Chrift; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And we beseech thee give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we may shew forth thy praise, not only with our lips but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to thy fervice, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom with thee

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For rain.

God, our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence dost cause the former and the 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 fend us at the laft a joyful rain upon thine inheritance, and to refresh it when it was dry, to the great comfort of us thy unworthy fervants, and to the glory of thy holy Name, through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O Lord God, who haft just ly humbled us by thy late plague of immoderate rain and waters, and in thy mercy hast relieved and comforted our fouls by this seasonable and blessed change of weather; We praife and glorify thy holy Name for this thy mercy, and will always declare thy loving. kindness from generation to generation, through Jesus Chrift our Lord.

Amen.

For Fair Weather.

For Plenty.

and the Holy hot be all hon: Most merciful Father, who

end. Amen.

of thy gracious goodness haft heard the devout prayers

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