quests; fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them, granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen.

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'HE Lord bless us, and keep us; may he be gracious unto us, and give us peace, now and forevermore. Amen.

Or this.

Now unto him who is able to keep us from

falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, through Jesus Christ, for ever and ever. Amen.

END OF SERVICE FOR DAYS OF THANKSGIVING.

The Minister may use the common Service for Morning or Evening Prayer, till he comes to the Psalm beginning, O come let us sing, &c., instead of which shall be said or sung the following Anthem, from the fifty-fifth Psalm.

HEA

PSALM LV.

Reliance upon God in the time of trouble.

EAR my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my petition.

Take heed unto me, and hear me; how I mourn in my prayer, and am troubled.

My heart is disquieted within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me.

And I say, O that I had wings like a dove; for then would I flee away, and be at rest.

Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness.

I would make haste to escape from the stormy wind and tempest.

But yet I will call upon God, and the Lord shall

save me.

In the evening, and morning, and at noonday will I pray, and that instantly; and he shall hear my voice.

O cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain thee, and will not suffer the righteous to fall utterly.

And then, instead of the Psalms for the Day of the Month, shall be said the following Psalms.

PSALM VI.

Penitential Psalm.

LORD, rebuke me not in thine indignation; neither chasten me in thy heavy displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones tremble.

My soul also is sore troubled; but thou, O Lord, how long?

Turn thee, O Lord, and deliver my soul; O save me for thy mercies' sake.

Depart from me, all ye who work vanity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

The Lord hath heard my petition; the Lord will receive my prayer.

PSALM XLII.

Longings of an exile for God's house.

AS the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so

longeth my soul after thee, O God.

My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night; while they continually say unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in grief; how I once walked with the multitude to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the multitude that kept holy day.

Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul; and why art thou so disquieted within me ;

Put thy trust in God; for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance.

Once the Lord granted his loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night season did I sing unto him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

Now I say unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?

As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

Why art thou so cast down, O my soul; and why art thou so disquieted within me?

O put thy trust in God; for I will yet thank him, who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

PSALM LXXX.

Prayer for deliverance in a time of calamity.

HEAR, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; shine forth, thou that sittest between the cherubim.

Turn us again, O God, show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

O Lord, God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink.

Turn us again, thou God of hosts, show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the heathen, and plantedst it.

Thou madest room for it ; and when it had taken root, it filled the land.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar

trees.

She stretched out her branches unto the sea, and her boughs unto the river.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, that all those who go by pluck off her grapes?

The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven; behold, and visit this vine;

And the vineyard that thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.

It is burnt with fire and cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Let thy hand uphold the man of thy right hand, and the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thyself.