IV.

LORD, let not any Pain or Paffion difcompose the

order and decency of his Thoughts and Duty; and lay no more upon thy Servant than thou wilt make him able to bear, and together with the Temptation do thou provide a way to efcape; even by the Mercies of a longer and more holy Life, or by the Mercies of a bleffed Death: Even as it pleaseth thee, O Lord, fo let it be.

LE

v.

ET the tenderness of his Confcience and the Spirit of God call to Mind his Sins, that they may be confeffed and repented of: Because thou haft promifed, that if we confess our Sins, we fhall have Mercy. Let thy mighty Grace draw out from his Soul every root of bitterness, left the remains of the Old Man be accurfed with the referves of thy Wrath: But in the union of the holy Jefus, and in the Charities of God and of the World, and the Communion of all the Saints, let his Soul be prefented to thee blameless, and intirely pardoned, and thoroughly wafhed, through Jefus Christ our Lord.

[Here also may be inferted the Prayers fet down after the Holy Communion is adminiftred.]

The Prayer of S. Euftratius the Martyr, to be used by the fick or dying Man, or by the Priests or Affiftants in his behalf, which he said when he was going to Martyrdom.

I

Will praise thee, O Lord, that thou haft confidered my low Eftate, and haft not shut me up in the Hands of mine Enemies, nor made my Foes to rejoyce over me: And now let thy right hand protect me, and let thy Mercy come upon me; for my Soul is in Trouble and Anguifh because of its departure from the Body. O let not the Affemblies of its wicked and cruel Enemies meet it in the paffing forth, nor hinder me by reafon of the Sins of my paft Life. O Lord, be favourable

Sect. 7. favourable unto me, that my Soul may not behold the hellish Countenance of the Spirits of Darkness, but let thy bright and joyful Angels entertain it. Give Glory to thy holy Name and to thy Majefty Place me by thy merciful Arm before thy Seat of Judgment, and let not the hand of the Prince of this World fnatch me from thy Prefence, or bear me into Hell. Mercy, fweet Jefu. Amen.

A Prayer taken out of the Euchologion of the Greek Church, to be faid by or in behalf of People in their Danger, or near their Death.

Βεβορβορωμένο ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις, &c.

I.

BEmired with Sins and naked of good Deeds, I that

am the meat of Worms cry vehemently in Spirit : Caft not me Wretch away from thy Face; place me not on the left Hand who with thy Hands didft fashion me; but give Reft unto my Soul, for thy great Mercies fake, O Lord.

II.

Supplicate with Tears unto Chrift, who is to judge

my poor Soul, that he will deliver me from the Fire that is unquenchable. I pray you all, my Friends and Acquaintance, make mention of me in your Prayers, that in the Day of Judgment I may find Mercy at that dreadful Tribunal.

WHer

III.

Then may the Standers-by pray:

Hen in unspeakable Glory thou doft come dreadfully to judge the whole World, vouchsafe, O gracious Redeemer, that this thy faithful Servant may in the Clouds meet thee chearfully. They who have been dead from the beginning, with terrible and fearful trembling ftand at thy Tribunal, waiting thy juft Sentence, O bleffed Saviour Jefus. None shall there avoid thy formidable and moft righteous Judgment. All Kings and Princes with Servants ftand together, and hear the dreadful Voice of the Judge condemning

demning the People which have finned, into Hell: from which fad Sentence, O Chrift, deliver thy Servant. Amen.

Then let the fick Man be called upon to rehearse the Articles of his Faith; or, if he be fo weak he cannot, let him (if he have not before done it) be called to jay Amen, when they are recited, or to give fome Teftimony of his Faith and confident affent to them.

After which it is proper (if the Perfon be in Capacity, that the Minifter examine him, and invite him to Confeffion, and all the Parts of Repentance, according to the foregoing Rules. After which, he may pray this Prayer of Abfolution.

OUR

UR Lord Jefus Chrift, who hath given Commiffion to his Church, in his Name, to pronounce Pardon to all that are truly penitent; He of his Mercy pardon and forgive thee all thy Sins, deliver thee from all Evils paft, prefent and future, preferve thee in the Faith and Fear of his holy Name to thy Life's end, and bring thee to his everlasting Kingdom, to live with him for ever and ever. Amen.

Then let the fick Man renounce all Herefies, and whatfoever is against the Truth of God or the Peace of the Church, and pray for Pardon for all his Ignorances and Errours, known and unknown.

After which let him (if all other Circumstances be fitted) be difpofed to receive the blessed Sacrament, in which the Curate is to minifter according to the Form prefcribed by the Church.

When the Rites are finished, let the fick Man in the Days of his Sickness he employed with the former Offices and Exercifes before defcribed: And when the Time draws near of his Diffolution, the Minister may affift by the following order of recommendation of the Soul.

I.

Holy and moft gracious Saviour Jefus, we humbly recommend the Soul of thy Servant into thy Hands, thy moft merciful Hands; let thy bleffed Angels ftand in Miniftry about thy Servant, and defend him from the Violence and Malice of all his ghoftly Enemies, and drive far from hence all the Spirits of Darkness. Amen.

II.

LORD, receive the Soul of this thy Servant : En

ter not into Judgment with thy Servant: Spare him whom thou haft redeemed with thy most precious Blood: Deliver him from all Evil, for whofe fake thou didft fuffer all Evil and Mischief; from the Crafts and Affaults of the Devil, from the Fear of Death, and from everlasting Death, good Lord, deliver him. Amen.

III...

Mpute not unto him the Follies of his Youth, nor any of the Errors and Miscarriages of his Life : but ftrengthen him in his Agony, let not his Faith waver nor his Hope fail, nor his Charity be difordered: Let none of his Enemies imprint upon him any afflictive or evil Phantasm; let him die in Peace, and reft in Hope, and rife in Glory. Amen.

LOR

IV.

ORD, we know and believe affuredly that whatfoever is under thy Cuftody cannot be taken out of thy Hands, nor by all the Violences of Hell robbed of thy Protection: Preferve the Work of thy Hands, refcue him from all Evil; take into the participation of thy Glories him to whom thou haft given the Seal of Adoption, the earneft of the Inheritance of the Saints. Amen.

V.

LE ET his Portion be with Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, with Job and David, with the Prophets and Apoftles, with Martyrs and all thy holy Saints in the Arms of Chrift, in the Bofom of Felicity, in the Kingdom of God, to eternal Ages. Amen.

Thele

Thefe following Prayers are fit also to be added to the foregoing Offices, in cafe there be no Communion or Intercourfe but Prayer.

Let us pray.

Almighty and eternal God, there is no Number of thy Days or of thy Mercies: Thou haft fent us into this World to ferve thee, and to live according to thy Laws; but we by our Sins have provoked thee to Wrath, and we have planted Thorns and Sorrows round about our Dwellings; and our Life is but a Span long, and yet very tedious, because of the Calamities that inclofe us in on every fide; the Days of our Pilgrimage are few and evil; we have frail and fickly Bodies, violent and diftemper'd Paffions, long Defigns, and but a fhort Stay, weak Understandings, and ftrong Enemies; abufed Fancies, perverfe Wills. O dear God, look upon us in Mercy and Pity: Let not our Weakneffes inake us to fin against thee, nor our Fear caufe us to betray our Duty, nor our former Follies provoke thy eternal Anger, nor the Calamities of this World vex us into tedioufnefs of Spirit and Impatience; but let thy Holy Spirit lead us through this Valley of Mifery with Safety and Peace, with Holinefs and Religion, with 1piritual Comforts and Joy in the Holy Ghost; that when we have ferved thee in our Generations, we may be gathered unto our Fathers, having the Teftimony of a holy Contcience, in the Communion of the Catholick Church, in the Confidence of a certain Faith, and the Comforts of a reafonable, religious and holy Hope, and perfect Charity with thee our God and all the World, that neither Death, nor Life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor Things prefent, nor Things to come, nor Height, nor Depth, nor any other Creature, may be able to feparate us from the Love of God which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord. Amen.