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thanksgivings unto thee. Grant, we beseech thee, moft merciful Father, that he through thy help may both faithfully live and walk according to thy will in this life prefent, and also may be

ways declare thy loving kindnefs from generation to generation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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For Plenty.

Most merciful Father,

partaker of everlafting glory who of thy gracious in the life to come, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ For Rain.

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God, our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence doft caufe the former and the latter rain to defcend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man; we give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee, in our great neceffity, to fend us at the laft a joyful rain upon thine inheritance, and to refresh it when it was dry, to the great comfort of us thy unworthy fervants, and to the glory of thy holy Name, through thy mercies in Jefus

Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ For fair Weather. Lord God, who haft juftly humbled us by thy late vifitation of us with immoderate rain and waters, and in thy mercy haft relieved and comforted our fouls by this feasonable and bleffed change of weather; we praife and glorify thy holy Name, for this thy mercy, and will al

goodness haft heard the devout prayers of thy Church, and turned our dearth and

fcarcity into plenty; we give

thee humble thanks for this thy fpecial bounty; befeeching thee to continue thy loving kindnefs unto us, that our land may yield us her fruits of increafe, to thy glory and our comfort, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For Peace, and Deliverance from our Enemies. Almighty God, who art a ftrong tower of defence thy fervants against the face of their enemies; we

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yield thee praife and thankf giving, for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compaffed; we acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them; befeeching thee ftill to continue fuch thy mercies towards us, that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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art our Saviour and mighty unto thee; always praifing

Deliverer, through Jefus and thy mercies

Christ our Lord. Amen.

in the midft of thy Church,

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Home.
Lord. Amen. ovil viuidus
Eternal God, our hea¶For a Recovery from Sickness.
Ovenly Father, who alone
makeft men to be of one mind God, who art the giver

in a house, and ftilleft the outrage of a violent and unruly people; we blefs thy holy Name, that it hath pleafed thee to appease the feditious tumults which have been lately raised up amongst us; moft humbly befeeching thee to grant to all of us grace, that we may henceforth obediently walk in thy holy commandments; and, leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honefty, may continually offer unto thee our facrifice of praife and thanksgiving for thefe thy

of life, of health, and of fafety; we bless thy name, that thou haft been pleased to deliver from his bodily fick nefs this thy fervant who now defireth to return thanks unto thee, in the presence of all thy people. Gracious art thou, O Lord, and full of compaffion to the children of men. May his heart be duly impreffed with a fenfe of thy merciful goodnefs, and may be devote the refidue of his days to an humble, holy, and obedient walking before thee, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

mercies towards us, through .For a fafe Return from Sea.

Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
For Deliverance from great

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Sickness and Mortality. Lord God, who haft wounded us for our fins, and confumed us for our tranfgreffions, by thy late heavy and dreadful vifitation; and now, in the midst of judgment remembering mercy, haft redeemed our fouls from the jaws of death; we offer unto thy fatherly goodness ourfelves, our fouls and bodies, which thou haft delivered, to be a living facrifice

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M whofe mercy is over all
MOST gracious Lord,

thy works; we praise thy holy
Name, that thou hast been
pleased to conduct in fafety,
through the perils of the great
deep, this thy fervant, who now
defereth to return his thanks
unto thee, in thy holy Church:
May be be duly fenfible of thy
merciful providence towards
him, and ever express his
thankfulness by a holy truft
in thee, and obedience to thy
laws, through Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

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in the life to come, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. For Rain.

God, our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence doft caufe the former and the latter rain to defcend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man; we give

goodnefs haft heard the devout prayers of thy Church, and turned our dearth and

fcarcity into plenty; we give

thee humble thanks for this

thy fpecial bounty; befeeching 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 Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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For Peace, and Deliverance from our Enemies.

thee humble thanks that it. hath pleased thee, in our great neceffity, to fend us at the laft a joyful rain upon thine inheritance, and to refresh it when it was dry, to Almighty God, who art the great comfort of us thy a ftrong tower of defence unworthy fervants, and to unto thy fervants against the the glory of thy holy Name, face of their enemies; we through thy mercies in Jefus

Christ our Lord. Amen.
¶ For fair Weather.
Lord God, who haft
juftly humbled us by thy
late vifitation of us with im-
moderate rain and waters, and
in thy mercy haft relieved and
comforted our fouls by this
seasonable and bleffed change
of weather; we praife and
glorify thy holy Name, for
this thy mercy, and will al-

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yield thee praife and thankf giving, for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compaffed; we acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them; befeeching thee ftill to continue fuch thy mercies towards us, that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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art our Saviour and mighty unto thee; always praifing
Deliverer, through Jefus and magnifying thy mercies
Chrift our Lord. Amen. in the midft of thy Church,
For reftoring Public Peace at through Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.
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Eternal God, our hea¶For a Recovery from Sickness.
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in a houfe, and ftilleft the outrage of a violent and unruly people we blefs thy holy Name, that it hath pleafed thee to appeafe the feditious tumults which have been lately raised up amongst us; moft humbly befeeching thee to grant to all of us grace, that we may henceforth obediently walk in thy holy commandments; and, leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honefty, may continually offer unto thee our facrifice of praife and thanksgiving for thefe thy mercies towards us, through For a fafe Return from Sea. OST gracious Lord, Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. whofe mercy is over all For Deliverance from great thy works; we praife thy holy Sickness and Mortality. Lord God, who haft Name, that thou haft been wounded us for our pleafed to conduct in fafety, fins, and confumed us for our through the perils of the great tranfgreffions, by thy late hea- deep, this thy fervant, who now vy and dreadful vifitation; defereth to return bis thanks and now, in the midst of judg- unto thee, in thy holy Church: ment, remembering mercy, May be be duly fenfible of thy haft redeemed our fouls from merciful providence towards the jaws of death; we offer him, and ever exprefs his unto thy fatherly goodness thankfulness by a holy truft ourfelves, our fouls and bo- in thee, and obedience to thy dies, which thou haft deli- laws, through Jefus Chrift vered, to be a living facrifice our Lord. Amen.

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COLLECTS, EPISTLES, & GOSPELS, TO BE USED THROUGHOUT the year.

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The First Sunday in Advent.

The Collect. Lmighty God, give us grace that we may caft away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jefus Chrift came to vifit us in great humility; that in the laft day when he shall come again in his glorious Majefty to judge both the quick and dead, we may rife to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, now and ever. Amen.

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This Collect is to be repeated every Day with the other Collects in Advent, until Chriftmas Day. The Epiftle. Rom. xiii. 8. WE no man any thing, but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not fteal, Thou fhalt not bear falfe witnels, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this faying, namely, Thou fhalt love thy neigh

bour as thyfelf. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of fleep; for now is our falvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far fpent, the day is at hand; let us therefore caft off the works of darknefs, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonnefs, not in ftrife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jefus Chrift, and make not provifion for the flesh, to fulfil the

lufts thereof.

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The Gofpel. St. Matth. xxi. 1. HEN they drew nigh unto Jerufalem, and were come to Bethpage, unto the Mount of Olives, then fent Jefus two difciples, faying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and ftraightway ye fhall find an afs tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man fay aught unto you, ye fhall fay, The Lord hath need of them;

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