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Special Prayers.

SPECIAL PRAYERS.

SUPPLICATIONS

Which may be added, as occasion requires, to either of the foregoing Services, using them in the place designated for Special Prayers.

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In time of great Sickness and Mortality.

ALMIGHTY God, the Lord of life and death, of sickness and health, regard our supplications, we humbly beseech thee: and, as thou hast thought fit to visit us for our sins with great sickness and mortality, in the midst of thy judgment, O Lord, remember mercy. Have pity upon us miserable sinners, and withdraw from us the grievous sickness with which we are afflicted. May this thy fatherly correction have its due influence upon us, by leading us to consider how frail and uncertain our life is; that

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that we may apply our hearts unto that heavenly wisdom, which in the end will bring us to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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For a Sick Person.

FATHER of mercies, and God of all comfort,

our only help in time of need, look down from heaven, we humbly beseech thee, behold, visit, and relieve thy sick servant, for whom our prayers are desired. Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy; comfort him with a sense of thy goodness; preserve him from the temptations of the enemy; give him patience under his affliction; and, in thy good time, restore him to health, and enable him to lead the residue of his life in thy fear, and to thy glory. Or else give him grace so to take thy visitation, that, after this painful life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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For a Person or Persons going to Sea.

ETERNAL God, who alone spreadest out the

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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 of the sea, 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.

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For Fair Weather.

LMIGHTY and most merciful Father, we humbly

beseech thee, of thy great goodness, to restrain those immoderate rains, wherewith, for our sins, thou hast afflicted us. And we pray thee to send us such seasonable weather, that the earth may, in due time, yield her increase for our use and benefit; and give us grace, that we may learn, by thy punishments, to amend

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