dom 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. Amen.

Min. O LORD, deal not with us according to our sins.

Ans. Neither reward us according to our iniquities.

Let us pray.

WE 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 O GOD, merciful Father, who de- we most justly have deserved; and spisest not the sighing of a contrite grant that, in all our troubles, we may heart, nor the desire of such as are put our whole trust and confidence in sorrowful; mercifully assist our pray-thy mercy; and evermore serve thee ers which we make before thee in all in holiness and pureness of living, to our troubles and adversities, whenso- thy honor and glory, through our ever they oppress us; and graciously only Mediator and Advocate, JESUS hear us, that those evils which the CHRIST our Lord. Amen. craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, may, by thy good providence, be brought to naught; that we, thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. O LORD, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thy name's sake.

O 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, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thine honor.

Glory be to the FATHER, and to the SON, and to the HOLY GHOST; Ans. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

From our enemies defend us, CHRIST.

We

A General Thanksgiving. ALMIGHTY GOD, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us, and to all men. 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 CHRIST; 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 show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in thy service, and by walking before our lives; by giving up ourselves to thee in holiness and righteousness all our days, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord; to whom, with thee and the HOLY GHOST, be all honor and

Graciously look upon our afflic-glory, world without end. Amen.

tions.

With pity behold the sorrows of our hearts.

A Prayer of St. Chrysostom. ALMIGHTY GOD, who hast given us grace at this time, with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in up-thy name, thou wilt grant their re

Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people. Favorably with mercy hear our prayers.

O Son of David, have mercy

on us.

quests; fulfil now, O LORD, the de

sires and petitions of thy servants, 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. xiii. 4.

THE grace of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, and the love of GOD, and the fellowship of the HOLY GHOST, be with us all evermore.

Bere endeth the Litany.

Amen.

PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS
UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,

TO BE USED BEFORE THE TWO FINAL PRAYERS OF MORNING AND
EVENING SERVICE,

Session.

PRAYERS.

that

A Prayer for Congress, to be used during the thy great goodness, to restrain those immoderate rains, wherewith, for our MOST gracious GOD, we humbly sins, thou hast afflicted us: And we beseech thee, as for the People of these pray thee to send us such seasonable United States in general, so especially weather, that the earth may, in due for their Senate and Representatives time, yield her increase, for our use in Congress assembled; that thou and benefit; and give us grace, wouldest be pleased to direct and we may learn, by thy punishments, prosper all their consultations, to the to amend our lives, and for thy cleadvancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honor, andency to give thee thanks and praise, welfare of thy people; that all things through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. may be so ordered and settled by their endeavors, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations. These, and all other necessaries for thein, for us, and thy whole Church, we humbly beg in the and mediation of JESUS CHRIST, our most blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

name

¶ For Rain.

O GOD, heavenly Father, who by thy Son JESUS CHRIST, hast promised to all those who seek thy king. dom and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance; send us, we beseech thee, in this our necessity, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to thy honor, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

Amen.

T In Time of Dearth and Famine.

O GOD, heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the rain doth fall, and the earth bring forth her increase; behold, we beseech thee, the afflictions of thy people; increase the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly benedic tion; and grant that the scarcity and dearth, which we now most justly suffer for our sins, may, through thy goodness, be mercifully turned into plenty, for the love of JESUS CHRIST our Lord; to whom, with thee and the HOLY GHOST, be all honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

¶ In Time of War and Tumults.

O ALMIGHTY GOD, the supreme Governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners, and to be merciful to those who truly repent; save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of ALMIGHTY and most merciful our enemies; that we, being armed Father, we humbly beseech thee, of with thy defence, may be preserved

For Fair Weather.

evermore from all perils, to glorify [ence upon us, by leading us to conthee, who art he only giver of all vic-sider how frail and uncertain our life tory, through the merits of thy Son, is; that we may apply our hearts unto JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. For those who are to be admitted into Eoly Orders, to be used It. the Weeks preceding the

stated Times of Ordination.

that heavenly wisdom, which in the end will bring us to everlasting life, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.

Amen.

For a Sick Person.

ALMIGHTY GOD, our heavenly Father, who hast purchased to thyself| an universal Church, by the precious O FATHER of mercies, and God blood of thy dear Son; mercifully of all comfort, our only help in time look upon the same, and at this time of need; look down from heaven, we so guide and govern the minds of thy humbly beseech thee, behold, visit, servants, the Bishops and Pastors of and relieve thy sick servant, for whom thy flock, that they may lay hands our prayers are desired. Look upon suddenly on no man, but fathfully him with the eyes of thy mercy: comand wisely make choice of fit persons, fort him with a sense of thy goodness; to serve in the sacred ministry of thy preserve him from the temptations of Church. And, to those who shall be the enemy; give him patience under ordained to any holy function, give his affiction; and, in thy good time, thy grace and heavenly benediction; restore him to nealth, and enable him that both by their life and doctrine to lead the residue of his life in thy they may show forth thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

Or this.

fear, and to thy glory: Or else give him grace so to take thy visitation, that, after this painful life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlast ing, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

For a Sick Child.

ALMIGHTY GOD, the giver of all good gifts, who of thy divine providence hast appointed divers orders in thy Church; give thy grace, we ALMIGHTY Gor, and merciful humbly beseech thee, to all those who Father, to whom alone belong the are to be called to any office and ad-issues of life and death; look down ministration in the same; and so re-from heaven, we humbly beseech thee, plenish them with the truth of thy with the eves of mercy, upon the sick doctrine, and endue them with inno-child for whom our prayers are de cency of life, that they may faithfully sid. Deliver him, O LORD, in thy appointed time, trom his bodily serve before thee, to the glory of thy great name, and the benefit of thyan, and visit him with thy salvaholy Church, through JESUS CHRIST tion; that if it should be thy good pleasure to prolong his days here on earth, he may live to thee, and be an instrument of thy glory, by serving O ALMIGHTY GOD, the Lord thee faithfully, and doing good in his of life and death, of sickness and generation: Or else receive him into health; regard our supplications, we those heavenly habitations, where the humbly beseech thee; and, as thou souls of those who sleep in the Lord hast thought fit to visit us for our sins JESUS enjoy perpetual rest and feli with great sickness and mortality, in city. Grant this, O LORD, for the the midst of thy judgment, O LORD, love of thy Son, our Saviour, Jrsus remember mercy. Have pity upon CHRIST. Amen.

our Lord. Amen.

In Time of great Sickness and Mortality.

us miserable sinners, and withdraw from us the grievous sickness with which we are afflicted. May this thy

For a Person, or Persons, going to Sea.

O ETERNAL GOD, who alone

fatherly correction have its due influ-spreadest out the heavens, and rulest

A

the raging of the sea; we commend to thy Almighty protection, thy servant, for whose preservation on the great deep our prayers are desired. Guard him, we beseech thee, froin the dangers of the sea, from sickness, from the violence of enemies, and from every evil to which he may be exposed. Conduct him in safety to the haven where he would be, with grateful sense of thy mercies, through

JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amén.

For a Person under Affliction

through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

Or

For Malfactors, after Condemnation.
else the rayer in the Visitation of Prisoners,
beginong,O Faiher of Mercies," &c. may
be uxd.

GOD, we earnestly beseech thee to MOST gracious and merciful have pity and compassion upon those who now lie under the sentence of persons recommended to our prayers, the law, and are appointed to die. Visit them, O LORD, with thy mercy and salvation; convince them of the O MERCIFUL GOD, and hea miserable condition they are in, by venly Father, who hast taught us, in their sins and wickedness; and let thy holy Word, that thou dost not thy powerful grace produce in them wilingly afflict or grieve the children such a golly sorrow, and sincere reof men; look with pity, we beseech pentance, as thou wilt be pleased to thee, upon the sorrows of thy servant, accept. Give them a strong and for whom our prayers are desired. lively faith in thy Son, our blessed In thy wisdom on hast seen fit to visit him with trouble, and to bring distress upon him. Remember him, O LORD, in mercy; sanctify thy fatherly correction to him; endue his soul with patience under his affliction, and with resignation to thy blessed will; comfort him with a sense of thy goodness; lift up thy countenance upon him, and give him peace, Saviour and Redeemer. [For Prayer at Meetings of Conventions, see page 292.]

Saviour, and make it effectual to the salvation of their souls. O LORD, in judgment reinember mercy; and whatever sufferings they are to endure in this world, yet deliver them O GOD, from the bitter pains of eternal death. Pardon their sins, and save their souls, for the sake and merits of thy dear Son, our blessed Amen.

THANKSGIVINGS.

O 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 servant, who desireth now to offer her praises and thanksgivings unto thee. Grant, we beseech thee, most merciful Fa ther, that she, through thy help, may both faithfully live and walk accord ing to thy will in this life present, and also may be partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

For Rain

O 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 neces sity, 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 JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

T For Fair Weather.

O LORD GOD, who hast justly humbled us by thy late visitation of

us with immoderate rain and waters, may continually offer unto thee our and in thy mercy hast relieved and sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving comforted our souls by the seasonable for these thy mercies toward us, and blessed change of weather; we through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. praise and glorify thy holy name, for Amen. this thy mercy, and will always de clare thy loving kindness from generation to generation, through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. Amen.

O ALMIGHTY GOD, who art

For Deliverance from great Sickness and
Mortality.

O LORD GOD, who hast wounded us for our sins, and consumed us for our transgressions, by thy late heavy and dreadful visitation; and now, in the midst of judgment remembering mercy, hast redeemed our souls from the jaws of death; we offer unto thy fatherly roodness ourselves, our souls and bodies, which thou hast delivered, to be a living sacrifice unto thee; always praising and magnifying thy mercies in the midst of thy Church, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.

Amen.

T For a Recovery from Sickness.

O GOD, who art the giver of life,

a strong tower of defence unto thy of health, and of safety; we bless thy servants against the face of their name, that thou hast been pleased to enemies; we yield thee praise and deliver from his bodily sickness this thanksgiving, for our deliverance thy servant, who now desireih to refrom those great and apparent dan- turn thanks unto thee, in the presence gers wherewith we were compassed; of all thy people. Gracious art thou, we acknowledge it thy goodness that O LORD, and full of compassion to we were not delivered over as a prey be duly impressed with a sense of thy the children of men. May his heart unto them; beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies toward merciful goodness, and may he devote ns, that all the world may know that the residue of his days to an humble, thou art our Saviour and mighty De. holy, and obediert walking before liverer, through JESUS CHRIST our thee, through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. Amen. Lord. Amen.

For a safe Return from Sen.

For Restoring Public Peace at Home. O ETERNAL GOD, our heavenly MOST gracious LORD, whose Father, who alone makest men to be mercy is over all thy works; we of one mind in a house, and stillest praise thy holy name that thou hast the outrage of a violent and unruly been pleased to conduct in safety, people; we bless thy holy name, that through the perils of the great deep, it hath pleased thee to appease the this thy servant, who now desireth seditious tumults which have been to return his thanks unto thee, in thy lately raised up amongst us; most holy Church: May he be duly sen humbly beseeching thee to grant to all of us grace, that we may henceforth abediently walk in thy holy commandments; and, leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty,

sible of thy merciful providence to ward him, and ever express his thankfulness by a holy trust in thee, and obedience to thy laws, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.