Pains

O Lord, fupport me under all my Weakneffes and Infirmities; ftrengthen my Faith, enlarge my Hopes, increafe my Charity, and perfect my Repentance. Make thou my Bed in my Sickness, and lay not more upon me than thou wilt enable me to bear; give a Bleffing to the Means that shall be used for my Recovery; and if it be thy good Pleafure, restore me to my former Health, that I may lead the Refidue of my Life in thy Fear, and to thy Glory: But if thou haft determined that this Sicknefs fhall be unto Death; grant, O merciful Father, that the more the outward Man decayeth, fo much the more I may find the inner Man ftrengthened and renewed with thy Grace and Holy Spirit. O give me Grace fo to take thy Vifitation, that after this painful Life is ended, I may dwell with thee in Life everlafting, through the Merits and Mediation of Jefus Chrift my dear and only Saviour. Amen.

Our Father, &c.

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tracted in this finful Life. I know, ( Lord, that thy Judgments are right, a that thou of thy Goodnefs haft caufed to be troubled: O give me fuch a Mea of Grace and Patience, as may enable chearfully and willingly to fubmit my to thine.

I acknowledge, O Lord, that I juftly deferved to be feverely dealt w thee; for notwithstanding all the Methods which thou haft ufed me, I have not loved thee as I ough 'but in the Days of Health and F have forgotten thee, my God, an afide after Vanity and Folly; but ciful Father, let not my Sins pro to turn away thy Face from m vant, now feeking unto thee in Trouble; hut not up of thy tender Compaffions fro for the Merits and Interceffio loved Son, pardon all my Sins Caufes of all my Sorrows, ar I befeech thee, for his Sake, ciled unto me. O fuffer m under the heavy Load and but

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Afhort Prayer to be used by a Sick Perfon, every Time he takes any Phyfic.

O Lord, without whom all our Endeavours are but vain, give thy Bleffing to the Means now ufed for my Recovery, and (if it be thy bleffed Will) make them fo effectual for that End, that I may live and be an Inftrument of thy Glory, and better prepared for the Coming of my Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Repentance in Sickness.

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I. RIGHTEOUS art thou, O God, in all those Pains and Sorrows which thou haft brought upon me; I receive my Sicknefs as the Chaftifement of a Sinner; and am willing to bear Chaftifement for my Sins, that I may thereby be reclaimed from them.

But, O Lord, correct me not in thine Anger, left thou bring me to nothing; judge me not according as my Sins have deferved, but as my Weakneffes can bear, and as thy Compaffions are wont to mitigate thy Judgments. And Oh! let my Sicknefs work in me a true Repentance, and

and prove a happy Means to reclaim me perfectly from all the Sins which I have formerly committed, not to occafion_my committing more; and to confer that Reft and Peace upon my Soul, which is now denied to my Body. All which I humbly beg for our dear Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift's Sake. Amen.

II. Thou fmiteft me, O gracious Lord, that thou mayeft cure me, and punishest me, that thou mayeft amend and reclaim me. My Sins juftly deferved thefe Sorrows; and I know affuredly, thou wilt bring infinitely worfe upon me, unless I prevent the fame by a timely and true Repentance.

Help me, therefore, O my God, to search out my Sins, and to discover every accurfed Thing; and when I fee them, let me entirely renounce them all. Let thy Love cause me to hate every evil Way, and make my Refolutions against Sin honest and sincere, and my Care to fulfil the fame vigilant and patient. If thou fhalt be pleafed to continue me any longer in this World, grant that all the Remainder of my Days may be one continued Course of reforming my paft Errors, and of devoting myself entirely to thy Service.