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up them that fall, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet;

We beseech thee to hear 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 hear us, good Lord.

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That it may please thee to preserve all that travel upon their lawful occafions, by land or by water, with all women labouring of child.

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to have mercy upon all fick perfons, [efpecially thofe for whom our Prayers are defired ;] to fhew thy pity upon all prifoners and captives, and upon those that suffer for righteousness fake;

We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to defend and provide for all young and fatherless children, for all widows, and those that are defolate and oppreffed;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men ; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, per

fecutors, and flanderers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to give and preferve to our ufe the fruits of the earth, fo as in due time we may enjoy them;

We befeech thee to hear us, good 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 befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Prieft. O Lord, deal not with us after our fins. Anfw. Neither reward us after our iniquities.

Let us pray.

O God, merciful Father, that defpifeft not the fighing of a contrite heart, nor the defire of fuch as be forrowful; Mercifully affist us in our Prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adverfities, whenfoever they opprefs 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 goodnefs they may be dispersed, that we thy fervants, being

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hurt by no perfecutions or adverfities, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. O Lord,arife,help us, and deliver us for thy Name's fake. OG 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,belp us,and deliver us for thine Honour. Glory be to the Father, &c. Anfw. As it was in the, &c.

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honour and glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Note, Here the Lord's Pray er may be used, if it have not been used already.

A concluding Prayer. ALmighty God, who haft given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common fupplications unto thee; and by thy beloved Son doft promise, that when two or three are gathered together in his Name, thou wilt grant their requests; fulfil now, O Lord,

the defires and petitions of thy fervants, as may be moft expedient for them; granting us in this world, knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come, life everlafting. Amen.

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2 Cor. 13. 14.

The grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowfhip of the holy Ghoft, be with you all evermore. Amen.

Prayers and Thanksgivings, upon feveral Occafions, to be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany, or of Morning and Evening Prayer.

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things neceffary to their Bodily Suftenance; Send us we befeech 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,

honour, thro' Jefus Chrift

our Lord.

Amen. For fair Weather. Almighty Lord God, who for the fin of man didft once drown all the world, except eight perfons, and afterward, of thy great mercy, didft promife never to deftroy it so again; We humbly beseech thee, that altho' we for our iniquities have worthily deferved a plague of rain and waters, yet upon our true repentance thou wilt fend us fuch weather, that we may recieve the fruits of the earth in due feafon; and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives; and for thy clemency to give thee praife and glory, through Jefus our Lord. Amen. In the time of Dearth and

Famine.

God, heavenly Father, whofe gift it is,that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruitful, beafts increase, and fishes do multiply; Behold, we beseech thee, the afflictions of thy people, and grant that the fcarcity and dearth (which we do now most justly fuffer for our iniquity) may thro' thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheapness and plenty, for the love of Jefus Chrift our Lord; to whom with thee, in the Holy Ghoft be all homour and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

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Or this. God, merciful Father, who in the time of Eli

the prophet didst suddenly in Samaria turn great fcarcity and dearth into plenty and cheapnefs; Have mercy upon us: that we who are now for our fins punished with like adverfity, may likewife find a feasonable relief: Increase the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly benediction; and grant that we recieving thy bountiful liberality, may use the fame to thy glory, the relief of thofe that are needy, and our own comfort, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. In the time of War and Tumults.

Almighty God, King of all kings, and Governor of all things, whofe power no creature is able to refift, to whom it belongeth juftly to punish finners, and to be merciful to them that truly repent; Save and deliver us, we humbly befeech thee, from the hands of those that are unjustly our enemies; abate their pride, affwage their malice, and confound their devices; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preferved evermore from all perils, to glorifie thee, who art the only giver of all victory, thro' the merits of thy only Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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In the time of any common Plague and Sickness. Almighty God, who in thy wrath didst send a plague upon thine own people in the wilderness, for their obftinate rebellion against Mofes and Aaron; and also in the time of King David didft flay with the plague

of peftilence threescore and

ten thousand, and yet, remembring thy mercy, didft fave the reft; Have pity upon us, miferable finners, who now are vifited with great fickness and mortality; that like as thou didst then accept of an atonement, and didft command the deftroying Angel to cease from punifhing; fo it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous fickness, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For thofe that are to be admit

ed into holy Orders.

ALmighty God, our heavenly Father, who haft purchased to thy felf an uni

verfal Church, by the preci

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 thy glory, and fet forward the falvation of all men, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. Or this.

ALmighty God, the giver of all good gifts, who of thy divine providence hast appointed divers Orders in thy Church; give thy grace, we humbly befeech thee, to all thofe 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, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. A

men.

A Prayer for the King, and all that are in Authority. MOft gracious God, we

ous blood of thy dear Son ; humbly beseech thee,' mercifully look upon the as for this kingdom in gefame; and at this time fo neral, fo efpecially for our guide and govern the minds Sovereign Lord the King, of thy fervants, the Bishops, the Privy Council, [the Parand Paftors of thy flock, that liament now affembled, Jand they may lay hands fuddenly all that are in authority: on no man, but faithfully That thou wouldst be pleafand wifely make choice of fit ed to direct and prosper perfons to serve in the facred all their confultations, to miniftry of thy Church. the advancement of thy gio

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ry, the good of thy Church, the fafety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and his kingdoms; 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 eftablished 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. A Collect or Prayer for all conditions of men, to be used at fuch times when the Litany is not appointed to be faid.

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God, the Creator and Preferver of all mankind, we humbly befeech thee for all forts and conditions of men, that thou wouldft be pleased to make thy ways known unto them,

thy faving health unto all nations. More especially we pray for the good eftate of the Catholick Church; that it may be fo 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. We also commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted or diftreffed in mind, body, or eftate, * This to he [*efpecially thofe faid when for whom our pray-Prayers of the any defire the ers are defired] Congregation. that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their feveral neceffities, giving them patience under their fufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions: And this we beg for Jefus Chrift his fake. Amen.

THANKS

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