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A Prayer for a sick Child. more continually with thy ALMIGHTYGod and mer-grace and Holy Spirit, in the ciful Father, to whom innerman: Give him unfeignalone belong the issues of life ed repentance for all the erand death; look down from rors of his life past, and steadHeaven, we humbly beseech fast faith in thy Son Jesus, that thee, with the eyes of mercy his sins may be done away by upon this Child, now lying thy mercy, and his pardon upon the bed of sickness sealed in Heaven, before he Visit him, O Lord, with thy go hence,and be no more seen. salvation; deliver him in thy We know, O Lord, that there good appointed time from his is no word impossible with bodily pain, and save his soul thee; and that if thou wilt, for thy mercies' sake; that if thou canst even yet raise him it shall be thy pleasure to pro- up, and grant him a longer long his days here on earth, continuance amongst us: Yet, he may live to thee, and be an forasmuch as in all appearinstrument of thy glory, by ance the time of his dissolution serving thee faithfully, and do- draweth near, so fit and preing good in his generation: Or pare him, we beseech thee, else receive him into those against the hour of death, that heavenly habitations, where after his departure hence in the souls of those who sleep peace, and in thy favour, his in the Lord Jesus enjoy per- soul may be received into thine petual rest and felicity: Grant everlasting Kingdom; through this, O Lord, for thy mercies' the merits and mediation of sake, in the same thy Son our JesusChrist thine only Son,our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth Lord and Saviour. Amen. and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God,

world without end. Amen.

A Prayer for a sick Per

A Commendatory Prayer for a sick Person at the point of Departure.

ALMIGHTY God,with whom do live the spirits but small hope of Recovery of just men made perfect afFATHER of mercies, ter they are delivered from and God of all comfort, their earthly prisons; we humour only help in time of need; bly commend the soul of this We fly unto thee for succour thy servant, our dear brother, in behalf of this thy servant, into thy hands as into the here lying under thy hand in hands of a faithful Creator, great weakness of body: Look and most merciful Saviour; graciously upon him, O Lord; most humbly beseeching thee, and the more the outward man that it may be precious in thy decayeth, strengthen him, we sight: Wash it, we pray thee, beseech thee, so much the in the blood of that immace

son, when there appeareth O

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offences; and make me not a Thou hast set our misdeeds rebuke unto the foolish. before thee; and our secret When thou with rebukes sins in the light of thy coundost chasten man for sin, thou tenance.

makest his beauty to consume

For when thou art angry, away, like as it were a moth all our days are gone: We fretting a garment: Every bring our years to an end, as man therefore is but vanity. it were a tale that is told.

Hear my prayer, O Lord; The days of our age are and with thine ears consider threescore years and ten; and my calling: Hold not thy though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with yet is their strength then but thee, and a sojourner; as all labour and sorrow; so soon my fathers were. passeth it away, and we are O spare me a little, that I gone. may recover my strength; before I go hence, and be

more seen.

So teach us to number our no days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Lord, thou hast been our Glory be to the Father, and refuge, from one generation to the Son, and to the Holy to another. Ghost;

Before the mountains were As it was in the beginning, brought forth, or ever the is now,and ever shall be,world earth and the worldwere made, without end. Amen. thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.

Thou turnest man to destruction; again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of

men.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday;

¶ Then shall follow the Lesson, taken out of the fif teenth Chapter of the first Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.

1 Cor. xv. 20.

seeing that is past as a watch NOW is Christ risen from

in the night.

the dead,and become the first fruits of them that slept.

As soon as thou scatterest For since by man came death, them, they are even as asleep; by man came also the resurand fade away suddenly like rection of the dead. For as the grass. in Adam all die, even so in In the morning it is green, Christ shall all be made alive. and groweth up; but in the But every man in his own orevening it is cut down, dried der: Christ the first fruits; up, and withered. afterwards they_that_are For we consume away in Christ's, at his coming. Then thy displeasure; and are afraid cometh the end,when he shall at thy wrathful indignation.

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in perfect charity with the
world: All which we ask

throughJesusChrist
through JesusChrist our Lord.

Amen.

A Prayer which may be

A Thanksgiving for the beginning of a Recovery. GREAT and mighty God, who bringest down to the grave, and bringest up again; we bless thy wonderful goodsaid in case of sudden surprise and immediate danger. heaviness into joy and our ness, for having turned our O MOST gracious Father, mourning into gladness, by rewe fly unto thee for mercy storing this our brotherto some in behalf of this thy servant, degree of his former health. here lying under the sudden Blessed be thy Name, that visitation of thine hand. If it thou didst not forsake him in be thy will, preserve his life, his sickness; but didst visit that there may be place for him with comforts from above; repentance: But, if thou hast didst support him in patience otherwise appointed, let thy and submission to thy will; mercy supply to him the want and, at last, didst send him of the usual opportunity for the seasonable relief. Perfect, we trimming of his lamp. Stir up beseech thee, this thy mercy in him such sorrow for sin and towards him; and prosper the such fervent love to thee, as means which shall be made may in a short time do the use of for his cure: That bework of many days: That ing restored to health of body, among the praises which thy vigour of mind, and cheerfulSaints and holy Angels shall ness of spirit, he may be able sing to the honour of thymercy to go to thine House, to offer through eternal ages, it may thee an oblation with great be to thy unspeakable glory, gladness; and to bless thy hothat thou hast redeemed the ly Name for all thy goodness soul of this thy servant from towards him, through Jesus eternal death, and made him Christ our Saviour: To whom partaker of the everlasting with thee and the Holy Spirit, life, which is through Jesus be all honour and glory, world Christ our Lord. Amen. without end. Amen.

THE COMMUNION OF THE SICK.

¶ Forasmuch as all mortal men are subject to many sudden perils, diseases, and sicknesses, and ever uncertain what time they shall depart out of this life; therefore, to the intent they may be always in readiness to die, whensoever it shall flease Almighty God to call them, the Ministers shall diligently from time to time (but especially in the

time of pestilence, or other infectious sickness) exhort their Parishioners to the often receiving of the Holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, when it shall be publicly administered in the Church; that so doing, they may, in case of sudden visitation, have the less cause to be disquieted for lack of the same. But if the sick person be not able to come to the Church, and yet is desirous to receive the Communion in his house; then he must give timely notice to the Minister, signifying also how many there are to communicate with him (which shall be trp at the least ;) and all things necessary being prepared, the Minister shall there celebrate the Holy Communion, beginning with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, here following:

The Collect.

The Epistle. Heb. xii. 5.

ALMIGHTY everliving God, the chastening of the MY Y son, despise not thou

Maker of mankind, who

dost correct those whom thou Lord, nor faint when thou art dost love, and chastise every rebuked of him. For whom one whom thou dost receive; the Lord loveth, he chastenwe beseech thee to have mercy eth; and scourgeth every son upon this thy servant visited whom he receiveth.

with thine hand; and to grant The Gospel. St. John v. 24. that he may take his sickness!

patiently, and recover his boif

TERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth ous will; and that whensoever my word, and believeth on his soul shall depart from the him that sent me, hath everbody, it may be without spot lasting life, and shall not come presented unto thee, through into condemnation; but is Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. passed from death unto life.

dily health, if it be thy graciVER

After which the Minister shall proceed according to the Form before prescribed for the Holy Communion, beginning at these words, Ye who do truly, &c.

At the time of the distribution of the Holy Sacrament, the Minister shall first receive the Communion himself, and after minister unto those who are appointed to communicate with the sick, and last of all to the sick Person.

But if a man, either by reason of extremity of sickness, or for want of warning in due time to the Minister, or for lack of company to receive with him, or by any other just impediment, do not receive the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, the Minister shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and steadfastby believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross for him, and shed his blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering the benefits he hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks there.

have delivered up the king-that body that shall be, but dom to God, even the Father; bare grain; it may chance of when he shall have put down wheat, or of some other grain. all rule, and all authority, and But God giveth it a body asit power. For he must reign till hath pleased him; and to every he hath put all enemies under seed his own body. All flesh his feet. The last enemy that is not the same flesh; but there shall be destroyed is death; is one kind of flesh of men, anfor he hath put all things un-other flesh of beasts, another der his feet. But when he of fishes, and another of birds. saith all things are put under There are also celestial bodies, him, it is manifest that he is and bodies terrestrial: But the excepted which did put all glory of the celestial is one, things under him. And when and the glory of the terrestrial all things shall be subdued un-is another. There is one glory to him, then shall the Son also of the sun, and another glory himself be subject unto him of the moon,and another glory that put all things under him, of the stars: For one star difthat God may be all in all. fereth from another star in Else what shall they do which glory. So also is the resurare baptized for the dead, if rection of the dead. It is sown the dead rise not at all? Why in corruption; it is raised in are they then baptized for the incorruption: It is sown in dead? And why stand we in dishonour; it is raised in glory: jeopardy every hour? I protest It is sown in weakness; it is by your rejoicing, which I raised in power: It is sown a have in Christ Jesus our Lord, natural body; it is raised a I die daily. If after the man- spiritual body. There is a ner of men I have fought with natural body, and there is a beasts at Ephesus, what ad-spiritual body. And so it is vantageth it me, if the dead written, The first man Adam rise not? let us eat and drink, was made a living soul, the for to-morrow we die. Be not last Adam was made a quickdeceived: Evil communica-ening spirit. Howbeit, that tions corrupt good manners. was not first which is spiritual, Awake to righteousness, and but that which is natural; and sin not for some have not the afterwards that which is spiknowledge of God. I speak ritual. The first man is of this to your shame. But some the earth, earthy: The second man will say, How are the man is the Lord from heaven. dead raised up? and with As is the earthy, such are what body do they come they that are earthy and as Thou fool, that which thou is the heavenly, such are they sowest is not quickened, ex-also that are heavenly And cept it die. And that which as we have borne the image thou sowest, thou sowest not of the earthy, we shall also

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