6. Deliver of the enemy, and lift up the light of thy countenance upon him, and give him peace, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen. with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. Psal. cxxvi. 5, 6. 6. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: prehim from fear serve my life from fear of the enemy. Psal. Ixiv. 1. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Psal. Ixi. 2, 3. I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. Psal. xii. 5. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him : I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. Psal. xci. 14, 15, 16. There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Psal. iv. 6. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. Num. vi. 26. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom. v. 1. The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Phil. iv. 7. 1. Almighty, everliving God, Maker who dost dost love, THE COMMUNION OF THE SICK. CCXXV. A Prayer for patience under affliction. 1. I, even I, am he, and there is no God with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I of mankind, heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of correct those my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and whom thou say, I live for ever. Deut. xxxii. 39, 40. Now, O and chastise Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the work of thy and. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. Isa. lxiv. 8, 9. My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom every one whom thou dost receive; 2. We be the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons. Heb. xii. 5, 6, 7. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty for he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. Job v. 17, 18. 2. Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, seech thee to and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in have mercy upon this thy servant visited with thine hand, 3. and to may take his recover his gracious will;) and whensoever his soul shall depart from the body, it mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon 3. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall grant that he into divers temptations; knowing this, that the sickness pa- trying of your faith worketh patience. But let tiently, and patience have her perfect work, that ye may be bodily health, perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 2, 3, (if it be thy 4. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. 1 Pet. v. 6. Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, and said, Remay be with member now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have out spot pre- walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, thee; through and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. Isa. xxxviii. 2 to 5. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. Psal. xxxix. 13. Father, if thou be willing, remove this sented unto Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. wept sore. A a cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. Luke xxii. 42. We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 2 Cor. v. 4. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Eccl. xii. 7. I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. Phil. i. 23. To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke xxiii. 43. Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Eph. v. 25, 26, 27. Ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. 1 Cor. xii. 27. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Jude 24, 25. The Epistle. Hebrews xii. 5, 6.-My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faini when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth; and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. The Gospel. John v. 24.-Verily, verily I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. THE ORDER FOR THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD. The introductory Sentences, Psalms, and Lesson. I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. John xi. 25, 26. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. Job xix. 25, 26, 27. We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord. 1 Tim. vi. 7. Job i. 21. Psalm xxxix.-I said, I will take heed to my ways: that I offend not in my tongue. -I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle: while the ungodly is in my sight.-1 held my tongue, and spake nothing: I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me -My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled: and at the last I spake with my tongue.-Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live-Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long: and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee, and verily every man living is altogether vanity.-For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them-And now, Lord, what is my hope: truly my hope is even in thee.Deliver me from all mine offences: and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish.—I became dumb, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doing.-Take thy plague away from me: I am even consumed by means of thy heavy hand.-When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but vanity.-Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling: hold not thy peace at my tears.-For I am a stranger with thee: and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.-0 spare me a little, that I may recover my strength: before I go hence, and be no more seen. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the, &c. Psalm xc.-Lord, thou hast been our refuge: from one generation to another.-Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: 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: seeing that is past as a watch in the night.-As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as a sleep: and fade away suddenly like the grass.-In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the eveniny it is cut down, dried up, and withered.For we consume away in thy displeasure: and are afraid at thy wrathful indianation. -Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee: and our secret sins in the light of tay countenance. For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.-The days of our age are threescore years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.-But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.-So teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.-Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last: and be gracious unto thy servants.-O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life-Comfort us again, now after the time that thou hast plagued us: and for the years wherein we have sufered adversity-Shew thy servants thy work: and their children thy glory. And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us: prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handy-work.-Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the, &c. 1 Cor. xv. 20.-Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's, at his But every coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death: For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, All things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we die. Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners. the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou But some man will say, How are sowest is not quickened except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body, as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one 532 star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead: It is 1. Man CCXXVI. Meditations preparatory to the placing 1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, of a woman hath but a short time to continueth not. Job xiv. 1, 2. live, and is full of mi- never con- grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of |