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down upon our Bishops andother goodness and loving kindness to Clergy, and upon the Congrega- us, and to all men. We bless thee tions committed to their charge, for our creation, preservation, the healthful spirit of thy grace; and all the blessings of this life; and, that they may truly please but, above all, for thine inestima thee, pour upon them the contin- ble love in the redemption of the ual dew of thy blessing: Grant world by our Lord Jesus Christ; this, O Lord, for the honour of for the means of grace and for our Advocate and Mediator Je- the hope of glory. And, we be sus Christ. Amen. seech thee, give us that due sense ¶ A Prayer for all Conditions of Men. of all thy mercies, that our hearts GOD, the Creator and Pre- may be unfeignedly thankful, and server of all mankind, we that we may show forth thy praise, humbly beseech thee for all sorts not only with our lips, but in our and conditions of men, that thou lives; by giving up ourselves to wouldest be pleased to make thy thy service, and by walking be fore thee in holiness and righte ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. More ousness all our days, through Jeespecially we pray for thy holy sus Christ our Lord; to whom, Church universal; that it may be with thee and the Holy Ghost, be so guided and governed by thy all honour and glory, world withgood Spirit, that all who profess out end. Amen. and call themselves Christians, A Prayer of St. Chrysostom. may be led into the way of truth, LMIGHTY God, who hast and hold the faith in unity of Spi- given us grace at this time, rit, in the bond of peace, and in with one accord to make our com righteousness of life. Finally, we mon supplications unto thee, commend to thy Fatherly good- and dost promise that when tw ness, all those who are any ways or three are gathered together in afflicted or distressed in mind, thy name, thou wilt grant their body, or estate; that it may please requests; fulfil now, O Lord, the thee to comfort and relieve them, desires and petitions of thy seraccording to their several neces- vants, as may be most expedient sities; giving them patience un- for them; granting us in this der their sufferings, and a hap-world knowledge of thy truth, py issue out of all their afflictions: and in the world to come life And this we beg for Jesus Christ's everlasting. Amen.

sake. Amen.

¶ A General Thanksgiving.

2 Cor. xiii. 14.

THE race of our Lord Jesus

Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore.

ALMIGHTY God, Father of all
mercies, we, thine unworthy
servants, do give thee most hum-
ble and hearty thanks for all thy Amen.

Here endeth the order of Evening Prayer.

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1 Or General Supplication, to be used after Morning Service, on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

GOD, the Father of Heaven; Good Lord, deliver us.

have mercy upon us misera

ble sinners.

From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death; Good Lord, deliver us.

O God, the Father of Heaven; have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world; have mercy upon us From all sedition, privy con

miserable sinners. spiracy, and rebellion; from O God the Son, Redeemer of the all false doctrine, heresy, and world; have mercy upon us miserable schism; from hardness of heart, sinners. and contempt of thy Word and Commandment;

O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son; have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son; have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

Good Lord, deliver us.

By the mystery of thy holy In carnation; by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision; by thy Baptism, Fasting, and Temptation;

Good Lord, deliver us.

O Holy, blessed, and glorious By thine Agony and Bloody Trinity, three Persons and one Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion, God; have mercy upon us mis-by thy precious Death and Burial; erable sinners. by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost;

O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons and one God; have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers; neither take thou vengeance of our sins: spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever:

Spare us, good Lord.

From all evil and mischief; from sin; from the crafts and assaults of the devil; from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation; Good Lord, deliver us.

Good Lord, deliver us.

In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our prosperity; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment;

Good Lord, deliver us.

We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God; and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way;

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to bless and preserve all Christian Rulers From all blindness of heart; and Magistrates; giving them from pride, vain-glory, and hy-grace to execute justice, and to pocrisy; from envy, hatred, and maintain truth;

malice, and all uncharitableness;

Good Lord, deliver us. From all inordinate and sinful affections; and from all the de

We beseech thee to hear us, good. Lord.

That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests, and

ceits of the world, the flesh and Deacons, with true knowledge land understanding of thy word.

the devil.

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and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth, and show it accordingly;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and fear thee, and diligently to live after thy Commandments;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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 such as have erred, and are deceived; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless children, and widows, and all who are desolate and oppressed; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts;

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so that in due time we may enjoy them;

We beseech thee to hear us, gooa Lord.

That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins, 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 hear us, good

Lord.

Son of God, we beseech thee to hear us.

That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand, and to comfort and help the weak-us. hearted, and to raise up those who fall, and finally to beat down Satan, under our feet;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort all who are in danger, necessity, and tribulation;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please thee to preserve all who travel by land or by water, all women in the perils of child-birth, all sick persons, and voung children, and to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives;

Son of God, we beseech thee to hear

O Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world;

Grant us thy peace.

O Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world;

Have mercy upon us.

The Minister may, at his discretion, omit all that follows, to the Prayer, "We humbly beseech thee, O Father,'

&c.

[O Christ, hear us.

O Christ, hear us.

Lord, have mercy upon us
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Lord. have mercy upon us. ]

With pity behold the sorrows of our hearts.

Mercifully forgive the sins of thy

people.

Favourably with mercy hear our prayers.

Then shall the Minister, and the People with him, say the Lord's Prayer. 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 tres-on passes, 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.

O Son of David, have mercy upus.

Both now and ever, vouchsafe to hear us, O Christ.

Graciously hear us, O Christ; graciously hear us, O Lord Christ. Min. O Lord, let thy mercy be showed upon us;

Ans. As we do put our trust in thee.]

" Let us pray.

GOD, merciful Father, who despises not the sighing of WE humbly beseech thee, O Father, mercifully to look a contrite heart, nor the desire of upon our infirmities; and, for the such as are sorrowful; merciful-glory of thy name, turn from us ly assist our prayers which we all those evils that we most justmake before thee in all our trou-ly have deserved; and grant bles and adversities, whensoever that, in all our troubles, we may they oppress us; and graciously put our whole trust and confihear us, that those evils which dence in thy mercy; and everthe craft and subtilty of the devil more serve thee in holiness and or man worketh against us, may, pureness of living, to thy honour by thy good providence, be and glory, through our only Mebrought to nought; that we, thy diator and Advocate, Jesus Christ servants, being hurt by no per- our Lord. Amen. secutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

A General Thanksgiving.

ALMIGHTY God, Father of all

mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most hum

O Lord, arise, help us, and de-ble and hearty thanks for all thy liver us, for thy name's sake.

GOD, we have heard with we, 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 honour.

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, O Christ.

Graciously lock upon our afflic

tions.

goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men. 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 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 our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness

and righteousness all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

TA Prayer of St. Chrysostom.

ALMIGHTY God, who hast

quests; fulfil now, O Lord, the desires 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. 14.

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

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 thy name, thou wilt grant their re- Amen.

Here endeth the Litany.

PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS
UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,

To be used before the two final Prayers of Morning and Evening Service.

PRAYERS.

For Fair Weather.

A Prayer for Congress, to be used promised to all those who seek during their Session. thy kingdom, and the righteousMS OST gracious God, we hum-ness thereof, all things necessary bly beseech thee, as for the to their bodily sustenance; send People of these United States in us, we beseech thee, in this our general, so especially for their necessity, such moderate rain and Senate and Representatives in showers, that we may receive the Congress assembled; that thou fruits of the earth to our comfort, wouldest be pleased to direct and and to thy honour, through Je prosper all their consultations, to sus Christ our Lord. Amen. the advancement of thy Glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of thy People; that all things may be so ALMIGHTY and most merci. ordered and settled by their en- ful Father, we humbly bedeavours, upon the best and seech thee, of thy great goodness, surest foundations, that peace and to restrain those immoderate happiness, truth and justice, reli- rains, wherewith, for our sins, gion and piety, may be estab- thou hast afflicted us: And we lished among us for all genera-pray thee to send us such seasontions. These, and all other ne-able weather, that the earth may, cessaries for them, for us, and thy in due time, yield her increase, whole Church, we humbly beg in for our use and benefit; and give the name and mediation of Jesus us grace, that we may learn, by Christ, our most blessed Lord and thy punishments, to amend our Saviour. Amen. lives, and for thy clemency to give thee thanks and praise, through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen

T For Rain.

GOD, heavenly Father, who,
by thy Son Jesus Christ, hast!

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