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Through thee have I been holden up, ever fince I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; my praise thall alway be of thee.

I am become as it were a monfter unto many but my fure truft is in thee.

O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may fing of thy glory and honour all the day

long.

Caft me not away in the time of age: forfake me not when my firength faileth me.

For mine enemies fpeak against me; and they that lay wait for my foul, take their couufel together, faying: God hath forfaken him; perfecute him, and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

Go not far from me, O God: my God, hafte thee to help me. Let them beconfounded and perith that are against my foul: let them be covered with fhame and difhonour that teek to do

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Thou, O God, haft taught my from my youth up until now: therefore will I tell of thy won,drous works.

Forfake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray headed: until I have fhewed thy firength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

Thy righteoufnefs, O God, is very high; and great things are they that thou haft done; O God,

who is like unto thee!

Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.

Adding this:

SAVIOUR of the world, who by thy crofs and pre

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and protection we commit thee. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee. The Lord make his face to thine 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 iffues of life and death; Look down from heaven, we humbly befeech thee, with the eyes of mercy upon this Child, now lying upon the bed with thy falvation; deliver him of fickness: Vifit him, O Lord, in thy good appointed time from his bodily pain, and fave his foul for thy mercies' fake: That if it his days here on earth, he may fhall be thy pleafure to prolong live to thee, and be an infirument of thy glory, by ferving thee faithfully, and doing good in his generation, or elle receive him into thofe heavenly habitations, where the fouls of them that fleep in the Lord Jefus enjoy perpetual reft and felicity: Grant this, O Lord, for thy mercies> fake, in the fame thy Son our Lord Jefus Chrift, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

A Prayer for a fick Perfon, 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 fervant, here lying under thy hand in great weaknefs of body. Look graciously upon him, O Lord; and the more the outward man decayeth, ftrengthen him, we befeeeh thee, fo 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 paft, and ftedfaft faith in thy fon 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 feen. We know,

Lord, that there is no word impoffible with thee; and that if thou wilt, thou canft even yet raife him up, and grant him a longer continuance amongst us: yet forafmuch as in all appearance the time of his diffolution draweth near; fo 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 thine everlafting kingdom, through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift thine only Son, our Lord and

Saviour. Amen.

A commendatory Prayer for a fick Perfon at the point of departure.

ALMIGHTY God, with O whom do live the fpirits of jutt men made perfect, after they are delivered from their earthly prifons; We humbly commend the foul of this thy fervant, our dear brother, into thy hands, as into the hands of a faithful Creator and moft merciful Saviour, mot humbly befeeching thee, that it may be precious in thy fight. Wath it, we pray thee, in the blood of that immaculate Lamb, that was flain to take away the fins of the world;

that what foever defilements it may have contracted in the midit of this miferable and naughty world, through the lufts of the fleth, or the wiles of Satan, being purged and done away, it may be prefented pure and without fpot before thee. And teach us, who furvive, in this and other like daily fpectacles of mortality, to fee how frail and uncertain our own condition is; and fo to number our days, that we may feriously apply our hearts to that holy and heavenly wit dom, whilft we live here, which may in the end bring us to life everlafting, through the merits of Jefus Chrift thine only Son our

Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Perfons troubled in mind or in confcience.

of mercies, and the God of BLESSED Lord, the Father all comforts; We befeech thee, look down in pity and compaftion upon this thy afflicted fervant. Thou writeft bitter things against him, and makeft him to poffefs his former iniquities; thy wrath lieth hard upon him, and his foul is full of trouble: But, O merciful God, who haft written thy hoiy 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 promifes; that he may neither caft away his confidence in thee, nor place it any where but in thee. Give him ftrength again all his temptations, and heal all his diftempers. Break not the bruifed reed, nor quench the fmoking flax. Shut not up thy tender mercies in difpleafure; but make him to hear of joy and gladnefs, that the bones which thou haft broken may rejoice. Deliver him from fear of the enemy, and lift up the light of thy countenance upon peace, him, and give him through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift our Lord Amen.

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Foralmuch as all mortal men be fubject to many fudden perils, difeafes, and hicknesses, and ever uncertain what time they shall depart out of this life; therefore, to the intent they may be always in a readiness to die, whenfoever it shall pleafe Almighty God to call them, the Curates/hall diligently from time to time (but especially in the time of pefilence, or other infectious fickness) exhort their Parishioners to the often receiving of the Holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Chrift, when it shall be publickly administered in the Church; that fo doing, they may, in cafe of Judden vifitation, have the lefs caufe to be difquieted for lack of the fame. But if the fick Perfon be not able to come to the Church, and yet is defirous to receive the Communion in his houfe; then he must give timely notice to the Curate, fignifying also how many there are to communicate with him, (which shall be three, or two at the leaft; and having a convenient place in the fick Man's houfe, with all things neceffary fo prepared, that the Curate may reverently minifter; he fhall there celebrate the Holy Communion, beginning with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, here following..

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY, everliving God,

Maker of mankind, who doft correct those whom thou doft love, and chaftife every one whom thou doft receive; We befeech thee to have mercy upon this thy fervant. vifited with thine hand; and to grant that he

The Epistle. Heb. xii. 5.

MY fon, defpife not thou the

chaftening of the Lord,

nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth he chafteneth, and fcourgeth every fon whom he receiveth. The Gospel. John v. 24. TERILY, verily, I fay unto

may take his fickness patiently, VE

and recover his bodily health, if it be thy gracious will; and whenfoever his foul thall depart from the body, it may be without fpot prefented unto thee, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that feat me, hath everlasting life, and fhall not come into condemnation; but is paffed from death unto life.

After which the Priest hall proceed according to the Form before preferibed for the Holy Communion, beginning at these words Ye that do truly repem, &c:] At the time of the diftribution of the Holy Sacrament, the Prieft Jhall first receive the Communion himself, and after minifter unto them that are appointed to communicate with the fick, and last of all to the fick Perfon.

But if a Man,either by reafon of extremity of fickness, or for want of warning in due time to the Curate, or for lack of company to receive with him, or by any other just impediment, do not receive the Sacrament of Chrift's Rody and Blood; the Curate fhallinstruct him, that if he do truly event him of his fins, and stedfastly believe that Fejus Chrift hath,uffered death upon the Crofs for him, and hed his Blood for his recinton; earnestly remembering the benefits he hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks therefore, he dth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Chrift profitably to his foul's health, although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth. When the fick Perfon is vifited, and receiveth the Holy Communion all at one time, then the Prieft, for more expedition, hall cut off the Form of the Vifitation at the Pfalm [In thee, O Lord, have I put my truft, &c.] and go straight to the Communion. In the time of the Plague, Sweat, or fuch other like contagious times of fickness or difcafes, when none of the Farish or Neighbours can be gotten to communicate with the fick in their houses, for fear of the infection; upon special request of the difeafed the Minister may nly communicate with him.

THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD.

Here is to be noted, That the Office enfuing is not to be used for) any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent hands upon themselves.

The Priest and Clerks meeting the Corpfe at the entrance of the Church-yard, and going before it, either into the Church, or towards the Grave, Jhall fay, or fing,

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AM the refurrection and the life, faith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet fhall he live: and whofoever liveth and believeth in me, fhall never die. John xi.

25, 26.

KNOW that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall ftand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my fkin, worms deftroy this body; yet in my fieth thall I fee God: whom I fhall fee for myfelf, and mine eyes fhall behold, and not another. Job xix. 25, 26, 27.

W E brought nothing into

this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; bleffed be the Name of the Lord. 1 Tim. vi. 7. Fob i. 21.

After they are come into the Church, fhall be read one or both of the Pfalms following. Pfalm xxxix. Dixi, cuftodiam. SAID, I will fake heed to my ways that I offend not in my tongue;

I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle: while the ungodly is in my fight.

I held my tongue, and fpake nothing: I kept filence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me.

My heart was hot within me; and while I was thus mufing, the fire kindled: and at the laft I fpake with my tongue;

Lord, let me know my end, and the number of my days; that I may be certified how long I have to live.

Behold, thou haft made my days as it were a fpan long: and

mine age is even as nothing in refpect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.

For man walketh in a vain fhadow, and difquieteth himself in vain.: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who fhail gather them.

And now, Lord, what is my hope: truly my hope is even in thee.

Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish.

I became dumb, and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing.

Take thy plague away from me: I am even confumed by means of thy heavy hand.

chatten man for fin, thou makeft When thou with rebukes doft his beauty to confume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but vanity.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears confider my calling: hold not thy peace at my tears.

For I am a firanger with thee, and a fojourner: as all my fathers were.

O fpare me a little, that I may recover my ftrength: before I go hence, and be no more

feen.

Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.

Pfalm xc. Domine, refugium. LORD, thou haft been our reto another.

fage from one generation

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlafting, and world without end.

Thou turneft man to deftruc- Then shall follow the Leffon, tion again thou fayeft, Come again, ye children of men.

For a thoufand years in thy fight are but as yefterday feeing that is paft as a watch in the night.

As foon as thou fcattereft them, they are even as a fleep: and fade away fuddenly like the grafs.

In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and

withered.

For we confume away in thy difpleafure: and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation..

Thou haft fet our inifdeeds before thee: and our fecret fins in the light of thy countenance.

For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

The days of our age are threefcore years and ten; and though men be to firong, that they come to fourfcore years: yet is their ftrength then but labour and forrow; fofoon paffeth it away, and we are gone.

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as a man feareth, fo is thy displeasure.

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wifdom.

Turn thee again, O Lord, at the laft and be gracious unto thy fervants.

O fatisfy us with thy mercy, and that foon: fo fhall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

Comfort us again, now after the time that thou haft plagued us: and for the years wherein we have suffered adverfity.

Shew thy fervants thy work : and their children thy glory.

And the glorious Majefty of the Lord our God be upon us: profper thou the work of our hands upon us, O profper thou our handy-work.

Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.

taken out of the fifteenth Chap ter of the former Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. I Cor. xv. 20.

NOW is Chrift rifen from the

dead, and become the firstfruits of them that flept. For fince by man came death, by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even fo in Chrift fhall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Chrift the firstfruits; afterward they that are Chrift's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he fail have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he thall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he muft reign, ti he hath put all enemies under his feet. The laft enemy that thall be deftroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he faith, All things are put under him, it is manifeft that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things thall be fubdued unto him, then thail the Son alfo himself be fubje&t unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Elfé what thall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rife not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? and why ftand we in jeopardy every hour? I proteft by your rejoicing, which I have in Chrift Jesus our Lord, I die daily. If after the manner of men I have fought with beats at Ephefus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rife not. Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteoufnefs, and fin not; for fome have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your fhame. But fome man will fay, How are the dead raifed up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou foweft is not quickened, except it die: and that which thou foweit, thou fowelt not that body that thall

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