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In the time of Dearth and Famine.

0 GOD, heavenly Father, whose

gift it is, that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruitful, beasts increase, and fishes do multiply; Behold, we beseech thee, the af­flictions of thy people; and grant that the scarcity and dearth, we do now most justly suffer for ALMIGHTY God, who in

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our iniquity, may through thy goodness be mercifully turned in­to cheapness and plenty; for the love of Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, Inow and for ever. Amen.

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thy wrath didst send a plague upon thine own people in the wil­derness, for their obstinate rebel­lion against Moses and Aaron; and also, in the time of king David, didst slay with the plague of Pestilence threescore and ten thousand, and yet remembering thy mercy didst save the rest; Have pity upon us miserable sin­ners, who now are visited with great sickness and mortality; that like as thou didst then accept of an atonement, and didst command the destroying Angel to cease from punishing, so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

PRAYERS.

may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory; through the merits of thy only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. In the time of any common Plague or Sickness.

O

in the time of Elisha the pro­phet, didst suddenly in Samaria turn great scarcity and dearth into plenty and cheapness; Have mer­cy upon us, that we, who are now for our sins punished with like ad­versity, may likewise find a sea­sonable relief: Increase the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly be­nediction; and grant that we, receiving thy bountiful liberality, may use the same to thy glory, the relief of those that are needy, and our own comfort; through ALMIGHTY God, our hea­

In the Ember Weeks, to be said every day, for those that are to be admitted into Holy Orders.

Jesus our Lord.

venly Father, hast pur­chased to thyself an universal Church by the precious blood of thy dear Son; Mercifully look up­on the same, and at this time so guide and govern the minds of thy servants the Bishops and Pastors of thy flock, that they may lay hands suddenly on no man, but faithfully and wisely make choice of fit persons to serve in the sacred Ministry of thy Church. And to those which shall be ordained to any holy function give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that

In the time of War and Tumults.

0 ALMIGHTY God, King of

all kings, and Governour of all things, whose power no crea­ture is able to resist, to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners, and to be merciful to them that truly repent; Save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies; abate their pride, asswage their malice, and confound their devices; that we, being armed with thy defence,