and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for the Queen, Prince Charles, and the rest of the Royal progeny.

ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to bless our gracious Queen Mary, Prince Charles, with the rest of the Royal progeny endue them with thy Holy Spirit, enrich them with thy heavenly grace, prosper them with all happiness, and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for the holy Clergy.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who only workest great and marvellous things: Send down upon our Bishops, Presbyters, and Curates, and all Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they may truly please ⚫ thee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing. Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator, Jesus Christ. Amen.

¶ A Prayer to be said in the Ember Weeks, for those which are then to be admitted into Holy Orders; and is to be read every day of the week, beginning on the Sunday before the day of Ordination.

ALMIGHTY God, the Giver of all good gifts, who of thy divine providence hast appointed divers Orders in thy Church Give thy grace, we humbly beseech thee, to all those which are to be called to any office and administration in the same; and so replenish them with the truth of thy doctrine, and innocency of life, that they may faithfully serve before thee, to the glory of thy great name, and the benefit of thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer of Chrysostom.

ALMIGHTY God, which 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 be gathered together in thy name, thou wilt grant their requests: Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of us thy servants, as may be most expedient for us, granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen.

2 Cor. xiii. 13.

THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.

For Rain, if the time require.

O GOD, heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruitful, beasts increase, and fishes do multiply: 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.

O LORD God, which 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 this plague of rain and waters, yet, upon our true repentance, thou wilt send us such weather, whereby we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season, and learn both by thy punishment to amend our

lives, and for thy clemency to give thee praise and glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

In the time of Dearth and Famine.

O GOD, heavenly Father, which by thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised to all them that seek thy kingdom and thy righteousness, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance: Behold, we beseech thee, the afflictions of thy people, and grant that the scarcity and dearth which we do now most justly suffer for 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, world without end. Amen.

¶ In the time of War.

O ALMIGHTY God, King of all kings, and Governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners, and to be merciful unto them that truly repent: Save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies; abate their pride, assuage their malice, and defeat their devices; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, which art the

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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 ALMIGHTY God, which in thy wrath, 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, that now are visited with great sickness and mortality; that like as thou didst then command thine 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.

O GOD, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive, receive our humble petitions ; and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us, for Jesus Christ his sake, our Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

A Thanksgiving for Rain.

O GOD our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence dost cause the former and the latter