1. There was once an

improper practice of inserting

here a prayer from the visitation office .

2. Probably compond by BK: Sanderson : and added in the two ex at the cast review.

This to be
said when any de-

sire the Prayers of
the Congregation.

thy fatherly goodness all those, who are any
ways afflicted, or distressed,
in mind, body, or estate;
[*especially those for whom our
prayers are desired,] that it
may please thee to comfort and relieve
them, according to their several necessities,
giving them patience under their sufferings,
and a happy issue out of all their afflictions.
And this we beg for Jesus Christ his sake.
Amen.

J.

ALM

THANKSGIVINGS.

A General Thanksgiving.

LMIGHTY God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; [* particularly to those who desire now to offer up have been prayed their praises and thanksgivings for desire to return for thy late mercies vouchsafed praise.

* This to be said when any that

unto them.] We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech

2.

thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we shew forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

For Rain.

GOD our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence dost cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man; We give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee, in our great necessity, to send us at the last a joyful rain upon thine inheritance, and to refresh it when it was dry, to the great comfort of us thy unworthy servants, and to the glory of thy holy Name; through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For fair Weather.

LORD God, who hast justly humbled us by thy late plague of immoderate rain and waters, and in thy mercy hast relieved and comforted our souls by this sea

1. Here particular thanksgivings

s were added in the time.

of James 1. but before the review in 1662 they : nexed to the Litary : not detached, as they

They

me

were an:

are now.

Grock liturgy;

for the most part taken from ancient offices, alths' no selection of forms so complete is to be met with in le Latin or any sig Palmer states that the English is the The contains special thanksgivings for the murcies of God. —

only

ritual ritual.