Anfwer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever fhall be world without end. Amen. From our enemies defend us, O Chrift. Graciously look upon our afflictions. Pitifully behold the forrows of our hearts. Mercifully forgive the fins of thy people. : Favourably with mercy hear our prayers. O Son of David, have mercy upon us. Both now and ever vouchfafe to hear us, O Chrift. Graciously hear us, O Chrift; graciously hear us, O Lord Chrift. Prieft. O Lord, let thy mercy be fhewed upon us; Anfwer. As we do put our truft in thee. WE Let us pray. E humbly befeech thee, O Father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities; and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all thofe evils that we most righteously have deserved; and grant, that in all our troubles we may put our whole truft and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore ferve thee in holiness and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory; through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. A Prayer for the High Court of Parliament, to be read during their Seffion. M OST gracious God, we humbly befeech thee, as for this Kingdom in general, fo especially for the High Court of Parliament, under our most religious and gracious King at this time affembled: That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and profper all their confultations to the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the fafety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign, and his Dominions; that all things may be fo ordered and fettled by their endeavours, upon the beft and fureft foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and juftice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations. Thefe and all other neceffaries, for them, for us, and thy whole Church, we humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Jefus Chrift our moft bleffed Lord and Saviour. Amen. A Collect or Prayer for all Conditions of men. God, the Creator and Preferver of all mankind, we humbly befeech thee for all forts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways ways known unto them, thy faving health unto all nations. More especially, we pray for the good eftate of the Catholick Church; that it may be fo guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of fpirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteoufnefs of life. Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness all thofe, who are any ways afflicted, or diftreffed, in mind, body, or * This to be faid estate; [* especially thofe for when any defire the whom our prayers are dePrayers of the Con- fired,] that it may please gregation. thee to comfort and relieve them, according to their several neceffities, giving them patience under their suferings, and a happy iffue out of all their afflictions. And this we beg for Jefus Chrift his fake. Amen. God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive, receive our humble petitions; and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our fins, yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us; for the honour of Jefus Chrift, our Mediator and Advocate. Amen. A General Thanksgiving. * This to be faid been prayed for defire to return praife. when any that have LMIGHTY God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy fervants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men ; [* particularly to those who defire now to offer up their praifes and thankf givings for thy late mercies vouchfafed unto them.] We blefs thee for our creation, prefervation, and all the bleffings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jefus Chrift; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech thee, give us that due fenfe of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we fhew forth thy praife, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy fervice, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jefus Chrift our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. THE THE Collects, Epiftles, and Gospels, To be used throughout the Year. Α' 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 last day, when he fhall 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. This Collect is to be repeated every day, with the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve. The Epiftle. Rom. xiii. 8. WE no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth an other hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou fhalt not kill, Thou shalt not fteal, Thou fhalt not bear falfe witnefs, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this faying, namely, Thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf. Love worketh no C 3 ilt. |