for their Senate and Represen-IT In Time of Dearth and tatives in Congress assembled; Famine. that thou wouldst be pleased whose gift it is that the rain to direct and prosper all their consultations, to the advance- doth fall, and the earth bring ment of thy Glory, the good of forth her increase; behold, we thy Church, the safety, honour, beseech thee, the afflictions of and welfare of thy people; that thy people; increase the fruits all things may be so ordered of the earth by thy heavenly beand settled by their endeavours, nediction; and grant that the upon the best and surest foun- scarcity and dearth, which we dations, that peace and happi- now most justly suffer for our ness, truth and justice, religion sins, may, through thy goodaud piety, may be established ness, be mercifully turned into among us for all generations. plenty, for the love of Jesus These, and all other necessaries Christ our Lord; to whom, with for them, for us, and thy whole thee and the Holy Ghost, be all Church, we humbly beg in the honour and glory, now and for name and mediation of Jesus ever. Amen. Christ, our most blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen. For Rain. GOD, heavenly Father, who by thy Son Jesus Christ, hast promised to all those who seek thy kingdom and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance; send us, we beseech thee, in this our necessity, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to thy honour, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Fair Weather. ALMIGHTY and oste ciful Father, we humbly beseech thee, of thy great goodness, to restrain those immoderate rains, wherewith, for our sins, thou hast afflicted us: And In Time of War and Tu mults. O ALMIGHTY God, the For those who are to be admitted into Holy Orders, to be used in the Weeks preced ing the stated Times of Ordination. ALMIGHTY God, our hea we pray thee to send us such seasonable weather, that the venly Father, who hast earth may, in due time, yield purchased to thyself an univerher increase, for our use and sal Church, by the precious benefit; and give us grace, that blood of thy dear Son; merci we may learn, by thy punish-fully look upon the same, and ments, to amend our lives, and at this time so guide and govern for thy clemency to give thee the minds of thy servants, the thanks and praise, through Je- Bishops and Pastors of thy sus Christ our Lord. Amen. Iflock, that they may lay hands 49 suddenly on no man, but faith- | dom, which in the end will bring fully and wisely make choice us to everlasting life, through of fit persons, to serve in the Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. sacred ministry of thy Church. And, to those who shall be ordained to any holy function, give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that both by their life and doctrine they may show forth thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O of life the upon the sick child for whom Lord of life and death, of our prayers are desired. Desickness and health; regard liver him, O Lord, in thy good we humbly appointed time, from his bodily our suhee; and, as thou hast pain, and visit him with thy sal beseech thought fit to visit us for our vation; that if it should be thy sins with great sickness and good pleasure to prolong his mortality, in the midst of thy days here on earth, he may live judgment, O Lord, remember to thee, and be an instrument mercy. Have pity upon us mi- of thy glory, by serving theo serable sinners, and withdraw faithfully, and doing good in from us the grievous sickness his generation: Or else receive with which we are afflicted. him into those heavenly habiMay this thy fatherly correc-tations, where the souls of tion have its due influence up-those who sleep in the Lord on us, by leading us to consider Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and how frail and uncertain our life felicity. Grant this, O Lord, is; that we may apply our for the love of thy Son, our hearts unto that heavenly wis-Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen For a Person, or Persons, countenance upon him, and give him peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. T For Malefactors, after condemnation. Or else the Prayer in the Visitation of Pri soners, beginning, "O Father of mercies," &c. may be used. going to Sea. ETERNAL God, who alone spreadest out the heavens, and rulest the raging of the sea; we commend to thy Almighty protection, thy servant, for whose preservation on the great deep our prayers are desired. Guard him, we beseech thee, from the dangers sette tee, from sickness, from the violence of enemies, and from every evil to which he may be exposed. Conduct him in safety to the haven where he would be, with a grateful sense of thy mercies, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For a Person under Afflic tion. MOST gracious mer seech thee to have pity and compassion upon those persons recommended to our prayers, who now lie under the sentence of the law, and are appointed to die. Visit them, O Lord, with thy mercy and salvation; convince them of the miserable condition they are in, by their 0 MERCIFUL God, and sins and wickedness; and let heavenly Father, who hast thy powerful grace produce in taught us, in thy holy Word, them such a godly sorrow, and that thou dost not willingly af sincere repentance, as thou wilt flict or grieve the children of be pleased to accept. Give men; look with pity, we be- them a strong and lively faith seech thee, upon the sorrows of in thy Son,our blessed Saviour, thy servant, for whom our pray- and make it effectual to the ers are desired. In thy wisdom salvation of their souls. O thou hast seen fit to visit him Lord, in judgment remember with trouble, and to bring dis- mercy; and whatever suffer tress upon him. Remember ings they are to endure in this him, O Lord, in mercy; sanc-world, yet deliver them, O God, tify thy fatherly correction to him; endue his soul with patience under his affliction, and with resignation to thy blessed will; comfort him with a sense of thy goodness; lift up thy from the bitter pains of eternal death. Pardon their sins, and save their souls, for the sake and merits of thy dear Son, our blessed Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. THANKSGIVINGS. The Thanksgiving of Wo men after Child birth; to be mercy hast relieved and com forted our souls by this season-said when any Woman, be-able and blessed change of weaing present in Church, shall ther; we praise and glorify thy have desired to return holy name, for this thy mercy, Thanks to Almighty God and will always declare thy for her safe Deliverance. loving kindness from generation to generation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. for that thou hast been graFor Plenty ciously pleased to preserve, who of thy gracious goodMOST merciful Father, through the great pain and pe ril of Childbirth, this woman, ness hast heard the devout thy servant, who desireth now prayers of thy Church, and to offer her praises and thanks-turned our dearth and scarcity givings unto thee. Grant, we into plenty; we give thee humbeseech thee, most merciful ble thanks for this thy special Father, that she, through thy help, may both faithfully live and walk according to thy will in this life present, and also may be partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Rain. 0 GOD, our heavenly Fa bounty; beseeching thee to continue thy loving kindness unto us, that our land may yield us her fruits of increase, to thy glory and our comfort, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Peace, and Deliverance from our Enemies. ALMIGHTY God, who ther, who by thy gracious art a strong tower of deprovidence dost cause the for- fence unto thy servants against mer and the latter rain to de- the face of their enemies; we scend upon the earth, that it yield thee praise and thanksmay bring forth fruit for the giving, for our deliverance from use of man; we give thee hum- those great and apparent danble thanks that it hath pleased gers wherewith we were comthee, in our great necessity, to passed; we acknowledge it thy send us at the last, a joyful rain goodness that we were not deupon thine inheritance, and to livered over as a prey unto refresh it when it was dry, to them; beseeching thee still to the great comfort of us thy un-continue such thy mercies toworthy servants, and to the glory of thy holy name, through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Fair Weather. wards us, that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For restoring Public Peace Oly humbled us by thy late ETERNAL God, our hea visitation of us with immoderate rain and waters, and in thy venly Father, who alone makest men to be of one mind |