He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

Ye that fear the Lord praise him, for he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he cried unto him he heard.

O Lord, my God, I cried unto thee: and thou hast healed me.

O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Sing unto the Lord, O ye Saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

For his anger endureth but for a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

I cried unto thee, O Lord: unto the Lord I made my supplication.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down into the pit? Shall the dust praise thee shall it declare thy truth?

Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.

Thou hast turned, for me, my mourning into joy!: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.

To the end that my glory may sing praise unto

thee,

thee, and not be silent: O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the beginning, &c.

Let us pray.

O MOST merciful Saviour and Redeemer Jesus, who wert born of a pure Virgin; who hast felt the calamities of mankind, and knowest how to pity our infirmities, and rejoicest in doing and shewing mercy to all that need, and to all that call to thee for succor; I give thee thanks and praise, that thou hast heard my prayers, and considered my cries, and relieved my necessities, and kept my life from the grave, still continuing to me a portion in the land of the living, and opportunities of serving thee. O be pleased to continue and encrease, and to sanctify thy mercies to me. Pardon all my sins, pity my infirmities, assist me in my duty, keep me from all evil by thy blessed Providence, let my portion be in the things of God and of Religion, in the light of thy countenance, and the service of thy Majesty; that I, walking humbly and devoutly before thee; piously and dutifully to my relatives, doing justice, and giving good example to those with whom I shall converse, may find the rewards of holiness, and the eternal mercies of God, in the day of thy glorious appearing, O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus. Amen.

O Almighty Lord and Father, who healest every sickness and every disease, and art ever gracious, and always present to the prayers of them who, in the day of trouble, call upon thy holy Name; thou has given delivery to me thy servant, [and made me the mother of a living child still be pleased to continue and renew thy loving-kindness unto me. Keep me from all violent accidents and intolerable pains, from colds and fevers, defend me by the custody of thy holy angels of light, from all attempts of the powers of darkness. Give me rest and sleep, a quiet spirit, and an easy body, confidence in thee, and a daily sense of thy mercies; a speedy restitution of health and strength, and a thankful heart to praise thee in the congregation of Saints, and to serve thee with an encreasing and a persevering duty all the days of my life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then if there be Time and fitted Circumstances, add this Prayer for the Child.

O ETERNAL God, who hast promised to be a Father to a thousand generations of them that love and fear thee; be pleased to bless this child who is newly come into a sad and most sinful world. O God, preserve his life, and give him the Grace and Sacrament of baptismal regeneration: do thou receive him and enable him to receive thee, that he have power to become the child of God. Keep

may

him from the spirits that walk at noon, and from the evil spirits of the night, from sudden death and violent accidents. Give unto him a gracious heart, and an excellent understanding, a ready and unloosed tongue, a healthful and a useful body, and a wise soul, that he may serve thee and advance thy glory in this world, and may encrease the number of thy Saints and servants in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus. Amen.

To God the Father of our Lord Jesus:

To the eternal Son of God, the Son of man:
To the Spirit of the Father and the Son,

Be all honor and glory, praise and thanksgiving,
love and obedience, now and for evermore.
Amen.

Prayers by Parents before the Child is baptized.

O ALMIGHTY and Eternal God, Father of men and angels, Lord of heaven and earth, whose Spirit moving upon the waters at the beginning of the world, produced every living, and every moving creature; Thou, by the flood of waters, didst wash away the iniquity of the old world, and by preserving to thyself a generation of holy persons, whom thou didst bring up from those waters, didst consign to us a type of regeneration: Look, O Lord, graciously, upon the face of thy Church, and multiply in her thy regenerations, and the new-births

of

of thy Spirit. With the abundance of thy Grace make thy holy City to rejoice, and still open this holy Fountain of Baptism, for the reformation and sanctification of all the nations of the world; that thy blessed Spirit, sanctifying the waters, a new and heavenly off-spring may hence arise, full of health and light; that human nature, which was made after thy own image, being reformed and restored to the honor of its first beginning, may be cleansed from all the impure adherences of sin, preserved from the dominion of it, and rescued from all its sad effects, that what shall be so born in the womb of the Church, may dwell in the house of God, and reign with thee for ever in the inheritance of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus, Amen.

Our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus, who was baptized of John in Jordan, who walked upon the waters, who converted water into wine, who out of his precious side shed forth blood and water, the two Sacraments of life, unto his holy Church, and commanded his disciples to teach all nations, baptizing them with water, in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; may he bless and sanctify, by his holy Spirit, the baptismal water, that it may be instrumental and effective of Grace, of pardon and sanctification. Hear us, O most gracious God, that whosoever shall be baptized in such water, may be renewed by thy Grace, justified by thy mercy, sanctified by thy Spirit, preserved by thy Providence, and guided by thy word, that in that water, springing from the Paradise of

God,