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to behold and bless thy servant, please thee to comfort and reThe President of the United States, lieve them, according to their and all others in authority; and several necessities; giving them so replenish them with the grace patience under their sufferings, of thy Holy Spirit, that they may and a happy issue out of all their always incline to thy will, and afflictions: And this we beg for walk in thy way: Endue them Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. plenteously with heavenly gifts; TA General Thanksgiving. grant them in health and pros- ALMIGHTY God, Father of perity long to live; and finally, all mercies, we, thine unworafter this life, to attain everlasting thy servants, do give thee most joy and felicity, through Jesus humble and hearty thanks for all Christ our Lord. Amen. thy goodness and loving kindness A Prayer for the Clergy and People. thee for our creation, preservato us, and to all men. We bless ALMIGHTY and everlasting tion, and all the blessings of this God, from whom cometh every good and perfect gift, send life; but, above all, for thine indown upon our Bishops and other estimable love in the redemption Clergy, and upon the Congregaof the world by our Lord Jesus tions committed to their charge, and for the hope of glory. And, Christ; for the means of grace, the healthful spirit of thy grace; we beseech thee, give us that due and, that they may truly please thee, pour upon them the conti-sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts nual dew of thy blessing: Grant may be unfeignedly thankthis, O Lord, for the honour of ful, and that we may show forth our Advocate and Mediator Je- 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

sus Christ. Amen.

TA Prayer for all Conditions of Men.

O God, the Creator and Pre- and righteousness all our days, server of all mankind, we through Jesus Christ our Lord; humbly beseech thee for all sorts to whom, with thee and the Holy and conditions of men, that thou Ghost, be all honour and glory, wouldest be pleased to make thy world without end. Amen. ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. More especially Church univery for thy holy

A Prayer of St. Chrysostom.

ALMIGHTY GOD, who hast given us grace at this time, that it may with one accord to make our be so guided and governed by thy common supplications unto thee; good Spirit, that all who profess and dost promise that when two and call themselves Christians, or three are gathered together in may be led into the way of truth, thy name, thou wilt grant their and hold the faith in unity of Spi- requests; fulfil now, O Lord, the rit, in the bond of peace, and in desires and petitions of thy serrighteousness of life. Finally, we vants, as may be most expedient commend to thy Fatherly good-for them; granting us in this ness, all those who are any ways world knowledge of thy truth, afflicted or distressed in mind, and in the world to come life body, or estate; that it may everlasting. Amen.

2 Cor. xiii. 14..

and the fellowship of the Holy

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

Here endeth the order of the Evening Prayer.

THE LITANY,

¶ Or General Supplication to be used after Morning Service, on Sundays, Wedi nesdays, and Fridays.

God, the Father of Heaven ; from sin; from the crafts and ashave mercy upon us misera-saults of the devil; from thy wrath, ble sinners. and from everlasting damnation;

O God, the Father of Heaven; have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God, the Son, Redeemer of the world; have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

O God, the Son, Redeemer of the world; have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

Good Lord, deliver us.

From all blindness of heart; from pride, vain-glory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness;

Good Lord, deliver us.

From all inordinate and sinful affections; and from all the deO God, the Holy Ghost, pro-ceits of the world, the flesh, and ceeding from the Father and the the devil; Son; have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

Good Lord, deliver us. From lightning and tempest; O God, the Holy Ghost, pro- from plague, pestilence, and faceeding from the Father and the mine; from battle and murder, Son; have mercy upon us mise- and from sudden death; Good Lord, deliver us.

rable sinners.

O holy, blessed, and glorious From all sedition, privy conTrinity, three persons and one spiracy, and rebellion; from all God; have mercy upon us mise-false doctrine, heresy, and schism; rable sinners. from hardness of heart, and conO holy, blessed, and glorious tempt of thy Word and ComTrinity, three persons and one mandment; God; have mercy upon us misera- Good Lord, deliver us. ble sinners. By the mystery of thy holy InRemember not, Lord, our of-carnation; by thy holy Nativity fences, nor the offences of our and Circumcision; by thy Bapfore-fathers; neither take thou tism, Fasting, and Temptation; vengeance of our sins: spare us, Good Lord, deliver us.

good Lord, spare thy people, By thine Agony and bloody whom thou hast redeemed with Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion; thy most precious blood, and be by thy precious Death and Bunot angry with us for ever. rial; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension; and by the

Spare us, good Lord.

From all evil and mischief; coming of the Holy Ghost;

tion, and to bring forth the fruits

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Good Lord, deliver us. In all time of our tribulation; of the Spirit; in all time of our prosperity; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment;

Good Lord, deliver us.

Lord.

That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth, all such as

We sinners do beseech thee to have erred, and are deceived; hear us, O Lord God; and that|

We beseech thee to hear us, good

it may please thee to rule and Lord.

govern thy holy Church univer- That it may please thee to sal in the right way; strengthen such as do stand, and

We beseech thee to hear us, good to comfort and help the weakhearted, and to raise up those

Lord. That it may please thee to bless who fall, and finally to beat down and preserve all Christian Rulers Satan under our feet; and Magistrates; giving them

We beseech thee to hear us, good

grace to execute justice, and to Lord. maintain truth;

That it may please thee to suc

We beseech thee to hear us, good cour, help, and comfort all who Lord. are in danger, necessity, and tri

That it may please thee to illu-bulation; minate all Bishops, Priests, and

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Deacons, with true knowledge Lord. and understanding of thy word; That it may please thee to preand that both by their preaching serve all who travel by land or by and living they may set it forth, water, all women in the perils of and show it accordingly; child-birth, all sick persons, and

We beseech thee to hear us, good young children, and to show thy Lord. pity upon all prisoners and cap

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That it may please thee to That it may please thee to give defend, and provide for, the fato all nations unity, peace, and therless children, and widows, concord; and all who are desolate and oppressed;

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.

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 That it may please thee to give our enemies, persecutors, and to all thy people increase of slanderers, and to turn their hearts; grace, to hear meekly thy Word, We beseech thee to hear us, good and to receive it with pure affec-|Lord.

That it may please thee to give Min. O Lord, deal not with us and preserve to our use the kind-according to our sins.

ly fruits of the earth, so that in due time we may enjoy them; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Ans. Neither reward us accord ing to our iniquities.

Let us pray.

O God, merciful Father, who That it may please thee to give despiseth not the sighing of us true repentance, to forgive us a contrite heart, nor the desire of all our sins, negligences, and ig- such as are sorrowful; mercifully norances, and to endue us with assist our prayers which we make the grace of thy Holy Spirit, to before thee in all our troubles amend our lives according to thy and adversities, whensoever they Holy Word;

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oppress us; and graciously hear us, that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, may, by thy good providence, be brought to nought; that we, thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thy name's sake. O God, we have heard with our

ears, 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 look upon our afflictions.

OUR Father, who art in Hea-
ven, Hallowed be thy Name;
Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will
be done on Earth, as it is in Hea-of our hearts.

With pity behold the sorrows

ven; Give us this day our daily Mercifully forgive the sins of thy bread; And forgive us our tres-people.

passes, as we forgive those who

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us from evil. Amen.

O Son of David, have mercy

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Let us pray.

A Prayer of St. Chrysostom.

Both now and ever, vouchsafe and for the hope of glory. And, to hear us, O Christ.co we beseech thee, give us that due Graciously hear us, O Christ; sense of all thy mercies, that our graciously hear us, O Lord Christ. hearts may be unfeignedly thankMin. O Lord, let thy mercy be ful, and that we may show forth showed upon us; thy praise, not only with our lips, Ans. As we do put our trust in but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness E humbly beseech thee, O and righteousness all our days, Father, mercifully to look through Jesus Christ our Lord; upon our infirmities; and, for the to whom, with thee and the Holy glory of thy name, turn from us Ghost, be all honour and glory, all those evils that we most justly world without end. Amen. have deserved; and grant that, in all our troubles, we may put our whole trust and confidence in ALMIGHTY God, who hast thy mercy; and evermore serve given us grace at this time, thee in holiness and pureness of with one accord to make our living, to thy honour and glory; and dost promise that when two common supplications unto thee; through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. or three are gathered together in Amen. thy name, thou wilt grant their requests; fulfil now, O Lord, the ALMIGHTY God, Father of desires and petitions of thy serall mercies, we, thine unwor-vants, as may be most expedient thy servants, do give thee most for them; granting us in this humble and hearty thanks for all world knowledge of thy truth, thy goodness and loving kindness and in the world to come life to us, and to all men. We bless everlasting. Amen.

TA General Thanksgiving.

2 Cor. xiii. 14.

thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this THE grace of our Lord Jesus life; but, above all, for thine in- Christ, and the love of God, estimable love in the redemption and the fellowship of the Holy of the world by our Lord Jesus Ghost, be with us all evermore. Christ; for the means of grace,Amen.

Here endeth the Litany.

PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS

UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,

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

PRAYER S.

A Prayer for Congress, to be used People of these United States in during their Session. general, so especially for their MOST gracious God, we hum-Senate and Representatives in bly beseech thee, as for the Congress assembled; that thou

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