O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thy Name's sake. O GOD, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them. O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thine honour. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost; Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, Graciously hear us, O Christ; graciously hear us, O Lord Christ. Priest. O Lord, let thy mercy be shewed upon us; Answer. As we do put our trust in thee. E Let us pray. 1. 3 W humbly beseech thee, O Father, 2. mercifully to look upon our infirmities; and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved ; and grant, that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory; through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer of ST. CHRYSOSTOM. ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise, that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this and us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen. THE 2 Cor. xiii. HE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. Here endeth the LITANY. 1. Unue the cast review of the book, the occasional prayers & thauskawing formed a part of the Litory, and the Letanie was the title at the head in wh they were placed. The paper w The Gruck Church has full and proper offices for particular seasons, and in the western rispaly there is a colout, Episte & Gospel upon every one of there subjects. 2. This and the following Prayer, were placed after the sif coleccts at the end of the communim Office in the 1. B. were added. of R. Eder: - The other four were afteres afttivainy, and all six, placedas now at the end If the Litany. PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS, UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, TO BE USED BEFORE THE TWO FINAL PRAYERS OF THE LITANY, 1. PRAYERS. For Rain. GOD, heavenly Father, who by thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised to all them that seek thy kingdom, and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance; Send us, we beseech thee, in this our necessity, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to thy honour; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For fair Weather. ALMIGHTY Lord God, who for the sin of man didst once drown all the world, except eight persons, and afterward of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again; We humbly beseech thee, that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain and waters, yet upon our true repentance thou wilt send us such weather, as that we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season; and learn both by thy punishment to amend 2. |