latest hour he turneth unto thee. Renew thou mayest receive salvation, but only the in hin whatsoever hath been decayed by name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. the fraud and malice of the devil, or by his own carnal will and frailness. Consider And after that shall say, Utection we commit thee. The Lord God's gracious mercy and pro his contrition; accept his repentance; and forasmuch as he putteth his full trust only in thy mercy, impute not unto him his bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make former sins, but strengthen him with thy his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious blessed Spirit: and when thou art pleased unto thee. The Lord lift up his counte to take him hence, take him unto thy fa-nance upon thee, and give thee peace both vour. This we beg through thy merits, O now and evermore. Amen. Lord, our Saviour and our Redeemer. Amen. Then shall the Minister say, FATHER of mercies, and God of all comfort; we fy unto thee for succour in behalf of this thy servant, who is now under the sentence of condemnation. The day of his calamity is at hand, and he is accounted as one of those who go down into the pit. Blessed Lord, remember thy mercies; look upon his infirmities; hear the voice of his complaint; give him, we beseech thee, patience in this his time of adversity, and support under the terrors which encompass him; set before his eyes the things he hath done in the body, which have justly provoked thee to anger; and forasmuch as his continuance appeareth to be short amongst us, quicken him so much the more by thy grace and Holy Spirit; that he, being converted and reconciled unto thee, before thy judgments have cut him off from the earth, may at the hour of into thine everlasting kingdom; through his death depart in peace, and be received Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Adding this. SAVIOUR of the world, who by thy cross and precious blood hast redeemed At the time of Execution, besides all, or such parts of the foregoing office as the Minister shall judge proper, shall be said the Commendatory prayer for a per son at the point of departure, as it is in the Visitation of the Sick. The Collect for the Communion Ser vice. God, who declarest thy almighty pity; we beseech thee to have mercy upon power chiefly in showing mercy aud this thy servant, who for his transgressions is appointed to die. Grant that he may take thy judgments patiently, and repent him truly of his sins; that he recovering thy favour, the fearful reward of his ac tions may end with this life; and whenso. ever his soul shall depart from the body it may be without spot presented unto thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THE EPISTLE. Heb. xii. 11. afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous; nevertheless, righteousness, unto them which are exer. cised thereby. 0 seech thee, O Lord. Then the Minister, standing, shall say, I who may we seek for succour, but of N the midst of life we are in death: of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eter nal death. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death to fall from thee. THE GOSPEL. St. John v. 24. ERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. A Prayer for imprisoned Debtors. MOST gracious God, look down in pity and compassion upon these thine afflic ted servants, who are fallen under the misery of a close restraint. Give them always a deep sense of their sins, and of thy fatherly love and correction; and the more their confinement presseth hard upon them, the more let the comforts of thy grace and mercy abound towards them. Give to their creditors tenderness and compassion, and to them a meek and forgiving spirit towards all those who have Then the Minister shall say, confined them, and a full purpose to repair all the injuries and losses which others THE Almighty God, who is a most have sustained by them. Raise them up strong tower, to all those who put friends to pity and relieve them; give their trust in him, to whom all things in them the continued comfort of thy coun heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do tenance here; and so sanctify their afflic bow and obey be now and evermore thy tions, that they may work for them an defence; and make thee know and feel, eternal weight of glory; through the merits that there is none other Name under heaven and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our given to man, in whom, and through whom Lord. Amen. A FORM OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING TO ALMIGHTY GOD, For the fruits of the earth, and all the other blessings of his merciful providence; to be used yearly on the first Thursday in November, or on such other day as shall be appointed by the Civil Authority. The Service shall be as usual, except where it is hereby otherwise appointed. Among the Sentences at the beginning of Morning Prayer shall be the following. ONOUR the Lord with thy substance, Hand with the first-fruits of all thine increase; so shall thy barus be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. Prov. iii. 9, 10. The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens: by his knowledge the Selections, or some other portion of the Psalms, at the discretion of the Minister. The First Lesson shall be Deut. viii., and the Second Lesson shall be 1 Thess. v. 12 to 24. T After the General Thanksgiving, shall be said this which followeth. depths are broken up, and the clouds drop edge the depths are broken up, and down the dew. Prov. iii. 19, 20. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deut. xxxiii. 27. Israel then shall dwell in safety alone; the fountain of Jacob shall be upon the land of corn and of wine, also his heaven shall drop down dew. Deut. xxxiii. 28. Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! Deut. xxxiii. 29. Instead of, O come let us sing, &c., the following shall be said or sung. PRAISE ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: be gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth those that are broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. OST gracious God, by whose knowlthe clouds drop down the dew; we yield thee unfeigned thanks and praise, as for all thy mercies, so especially for the returns of seed-time and harvest, and for crowning the year with thy goodness, in the increase of the ground, and the gathering in of the fruits thereof. And, we beseech thee, give us a just sense of this great mercy; such as may appear in our lives, by an humble, holy, and obedient walking before thee all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all glory and honour, world without end. Amen. The collect to be used instead of that for the day. MOST merciful Father, who hist blessed the labours of the husbandmin in the returns of the fruits of the earth; we give thee humble and hearty thanks for He covereth the heaven with clouds, this thy bounty; beseeching thee to conand prepareth rain for the earth; he tinue thy loving-kindness to us; that our maketh the grass to grow upon the moun-land may still yield her increase, to thy tains. glory and our comfort; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; Praise thy God, O Sion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. Then shall be said or sung one of the THE EPISTLE. St. James i. 16. Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above; and cometh down from the Father neither shadow of turning. Of his own of lights, with whom is no variableness, will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. THE GOSPEL. St. Matt. v. 43. of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart ali filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted E have heard that it hath been said, word, which is able to save your souls. Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, only, deceiving your own selves. For if Love your enemies, bless them that curse any be a hearer of the word and not a you, do good to them that hate you, and doer, he is like unto a man b holding his pray for them which despitefully use you natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth and persecute you; that ye may be the himself, and goeth his way, and straight- children of your Father which is in way forgetteth what manner of man he heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise was. But whoso looketh into the perfect on the evil and on the good, and sendeth law of liberty, and continueth therein, he rain on the just and on the unjust. For if being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of ye love them which love you, what reward the work, this man shall be blessed in his | have ye? do not even the publicans the deed. If any man among you seem to be same? Or if ye salute your brethren only, religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but what do ye more than others? do not even deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect. is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before even as your Father which is in heaven is God and the Father is this To visit the perfect. FORMS OF PRAYER TO BE USED IN FAMILIES. MORNING PRAYER. The master or mistress having called together as many of the family as can conveniently be present, let one of them, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling. UR Father who art in in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Acknowledgment of God's mercy and preservation, especially through the night past. † When disturbances of any kind befall a family, instead of this, say, that notwithstanding our dangers, we are brought in safety to the beginning of this day. Dedication of soul and body to God's service, with a resolution to be growing daily in good ness. A and move and have our being; we, thy needy ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, in whom we fir creatures, render thee our humble praises, for thy preserva tion of us from the beginning of our lives to this day, and especially for having delivered us from the dangers of the past night. To thy watchful providence we owe it, (that no disturbance hath come nigh us or our dwelling; but that we are brought in safety to the beginning of this day.) For these thy mercies, we bless and magnify thy glorious Name; humbly beseeching thee to accept this our morning sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; for his sake who lay down in the grave, and rose again for us, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. AND, since it is of thy mercy, O gracious Father, that another day is added to our lives; we here dedicate both our souls and our bodies to thee and thy service, in a sober, righteous, and godly life: in which resolution, do thou, O merciful God, confirm and strengthen us, that, as we grow in age, we may grow in grace, and i the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer for Brace to BUT, O God, who knowest the weakness and corruption enable us to perform resolution. that of our nature, and the manifold temptations which we daily meet with; we humbly beseech thee to have compassion on cur infirmities, and to give us the constant |