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ther grant of his infinite goodness, that thy foul inwardly may be anointed with the Holy Ghost, who is the Spirit of all strength, comfort, relief, and gladness; and vouchsafe of his great mercy, if it be his blessed will, to restore unto thee thy bodily health and strength to serve him, and send thee release of all thy pains, troubles, and diseases [both in body and mind.] And howsoever his goodness by his divine and unsearchable providence shall dispose of thee, I his unworthy minifter and fervant humbly beseech his eternal majesty to do with thee according to the multitude of his innumerable mercies, and [to pardon thee all thy fins and offences, committed by all thy bodily senses, paffions, and carnal affections; and may he also vouchsafe mercifully] to grant unto thee ghostly strength by his Holy Spirit, to withstand and overcome all temptations and affaults of thine Adversary, that in no wife he prevail against thee, but that thou mayest have perfect victory and triumph over the devil, fin, and death, through Jesus Christ our Lord; who by his death hath overcome the prince of death, and with the Father and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Note, that the words between hooks are to be omitted, when a fick child is anointed.

Then the Priest shall fay to the fick perfon,

THE Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth do bow and obey, be now and evermore thy defence; and make thee know and feel, that there is no other name under heaven given to man,

in whom and through whom thou mayest receive health and salvation, but only the name of our Lord Jesus Chrift.

Amen.

Then the Priest shall bless the fick perfon, faying, UNto God's gracious mercy and almighty protec

tion I commit thee. The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace, both now and evermore. Amen.

A Prayer for a fick child.

Almighty God and merciful Father, to whom

alone belong the issues of life and death; look down from heaven, we humbly beseech thee, with the eyes of mercy upon this child now lying upon the bed of fickness: Visit him, O Lord, with thy falvation, deliver him in thy good appointed time from his bodily pain, and save his foul for thy mercies fake. That if it shall be thy pleasure to prolong his days here on earth, he may live to thee, and be an instrument of thy glory, by serving thee faithfully, and doing good in his generation; or elfe receive him into Abraham's bosom, where the fouls of them that fleep in the Lord Jesus, rest in perpetual peace. Grant this, O Lord, for thy mercies fake, in the fame thy Son our Lord Jesus Chrift, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

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A Prayer for a fick person, when there appeareth

Small hope of recovery.

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Father of mercies and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need; we fly unto thee for fuccour in behalf of this thy servant, here lying under thy hand in great weakness of body. Look gracioufly upon him, O Lord; and the more the outward man decayeth, strengthen him, we beseech thee, so much the more continually with thy grace and Holy Spirit in the inner man. Give him unfeigned repentance for all the errors of his life past, and stedfast faith in thy Son Jefus, that his fins may be done away by thy mercy, and his pardon fealed in heaven, before he go hence, and be no more seen. We know, O Lord, that there is no word impoffible with thee; and that if thou wilt, thou canst even yet raise him up, and grant him a longer continuance amongst us: Yet forasmuch as in all appearance the time of his diffolution draweth near, so fit and prepare him, we beseech thee, against the hour of death, that after his departure hence in peace and in thy favour, his foul may be received into the bosom of Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, the region of the pious, who have pleased thee from the beginning of the world, where there is no forrow, grief, or lamentation. And this we beg through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thine only Son, our blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

A Commendatory Prayer for a fick perfon at the point of departure.

Almighty God, in whose hand are the spirits of the righteous, after they are delivered from their earthly prifons; we humbly commend the foul

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of this thy fervant, our dear brother, into thy hands, as into the hands of a faithful Creator and most merciful Saviour; most humbly beseeching thee, that it may be precious in thy fight. Wash it, we pray thee, in the blood of that immaculate Lamb, which was flain to take away the sins of the world, that [* whatsoever defilements it may * These words are to be omitted, when this have contracted in the midst of this prayer is faid for a miferable and naughty world, through child, whom the Priest in his discretion shall the lufts of the flesh or the wiles of not think to have been Satan, being purged and done away,] capable of committing it may be presented pure and without spot before thee. And teach us who furvive, in this and other like daily spectacles of mortality, to fee how frail and uncertain our own condition is, and so to number cur days, that we may seriously apply our hearts to that holy and heavenly wisdom, whilst we live here, which may in the end bring us to life everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ thine only Son our Lord. Amen.

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A Prayer for persons troubled in mind or confcience.

Blessed Lord, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comforts; we beseech thee, look down in pity and compaflion upon this thy afflicted servant. Thou writest bitter things against him, and makest him to possess his former iniquities; thy wrath lieth hard upon him, and his foul is full of trouble: But, O merciful God, who hast written thy holy word for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of thy Holy Scriptures might have hope; give him a right understanding of himself, and of thy threats and promises, that he may neither cast away his confidence in thee, nor place it any where but in thee. Give him strength against all his temptations, and heal all his distempers. Break not the bruised reed, nor quench the smoaking flax. Shut not up thy tender mercies in difpleasure; but make him to hear of joy and gladness, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Deliver him from fear of the enemy, lift up the light of thy countenance upon him, and give him peace, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Note, when the Priest visits the fick, he may add any other proper Collects, Exhortations, and Prayers, as be judges best, according to the various circumStances of the Sick perfon.

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