Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil : For Thine is the kingdom, The power and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.

For complete restoration.

O FATHER of mercies and God of all comfort, Thou Preserver of men, Who hast begun to revive and quicken me again; Proceed, I beseech Thee, to perfect that which belongs to my cure, and forsake not the work of Thine own hands, but repair all decays in the outward man, that my mind may recover its former strength to praise and magnify Thy goodness, Who with the SON and the HOLY GHOST art one GOD blessed for evermore. Amen.

For heavenly consolation and

patience to the end of his recovery.

VISIT me, O gracious FATHER, with Thy heavenly consolations from above, and fill me with comforting thoughts of Thy love and tender compassionate care; continue me in a holy frame of patient submission to Thy will, enable me quietly to wait Thy appointed time when Thou shalt see fit to complete my recovery, through JESUS CHRIST our blessed SAVIOUR and REDEEMER. Amen.

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O BLESSED LORD, Who givest medicine to heal our sickness, be pleased still to direct and For continuance bless the means employed for the of blessing upon medicines prefecting of my cure. Give them sucscribed. cess, O LORD, that I may be able, at last, to go into Thy house, to offer Thee an oblation with great gladness, and to bless Thy holy Name for Thy wonderful works towards me and towards the children of men, through JESUS CHRIST Our blessed SAVIOUR. Amen.

O BLESSED LORD, to Whom we owe constant acknowledgments for every power of body or mind; I beseech Thee to give me grace, by my late confinement, weakness of body, dulness of sense, and want of appetite and rest, to learn to value very

For increased gratitude for common blessings.

highly the benefits of the active use of my limbs and the quickness and vigour of all my senses, and to bless Thee more than ever I have heretofore done for all refreshments of my food in the day and of undisturbed sleep in the night, together with the rest of the enjoyments of life, to which Thou mayest restore me. Grant this, O blessed LORD, Who with the SON and HOLY GHOST livest evermore one GOD. Amen.

O HOLY and Eternal GOD, Whose mighty hand For a continual dispenseth sickness and health, leadeth lively sense of the down to the grave and bringeth back devout feelings again, to render the way thither, and which moved the our due preparation for immortality, heart in sickness. through it, by experience and solemn practice, more familiar to us; Preserve in my mind a lively sense of those things which were most powerful to move my heart towards Thee in the time of my sickness, that so the vanity of the world may continue to appear to me as it was then by Thy grace represented unto my mind. Let me never again set my heart upon the perishing enjoyments of this life, nor ever neglect the grace which Thou hast even now taught me to value as my chiefest good; but remember steadfastly how infinitely little all earthly things appeared before the expected approach of death and the looked-for coming of CHRIST in judgment. Let me also bring it to my mind that Thy seeming to continue life is no security for a day longer, and that I must in a little while be brought to the same pass again. Grant this my humfor the sake of JESUS CHRIST prayer, REDEEMER. Amen.

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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.

A Daily Form

of

Devotions

FOR ONE IN A PROLONGED ILLNESS, PREPARING

FOR DEATH AND ETERNITY.

¶ Let the sick man first say devoutly :

In the Name of the ever blessed TRINITY, FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST. Amen.

¶ Then let him seriously meditate on one of the following eight instructions from Scripture.

1.

GOD created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of His own eternity. Nevertheless, through envy of the Devil, came death into the world, and they that do hold of his side find it. Wisd. ii. 23, 24.

Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19.

By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Rom. v. 12.

When the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth; and then all his thoughts perish. Psalm cxlvi. 3.

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The voice said, Cry: and he said, What shall I cry All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as

the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the Spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it surely the people is grass. Isaiah xl. 6, 7.

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! Deut. xxxii. 29.

2.

GOD shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. Eccles. xii. 14.

He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness, by that Man Whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31.

The day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 2 S. Peter iii. 10.

Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. S. Luke xxi. 34.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their LORD, when He will return from the wedding; that when He cometh and knocketh, they may open unto Him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the LORD, when He cometh, shall find watching: verily, I say unto you, that He shall gird Himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if He shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. S. Luke xii. 35-38.

Be ye therefore ready also; for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not. S. Luke xii. 40.

3.

Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is

cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Job xiv. 1, 2.

LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live. Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long; and mine age is even as nothing in respect of Thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Psalm xxxix. 5, 6.

We consume away in Thy displeasure: and are afraid at Thy wrathful indignation.

Thou hast set our misdeeds before Thee: and our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance.

For when Thou art angry all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. Psalm xc. 7, 8, 9.

Keep innocency and take heed to the thing that is right and that shall bring a man peace at the last. Psalm xxxvii. 38.

When Thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, Thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but vanity. Psalm xxxix. 12.

Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! Numbers xxiii. 10.

If the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Ezek. xviii. 21, 22.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto Thee, O Thou Preserver of men? Why hast Thou set me as a mark against Thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and Thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. Job vii. 20, 21.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Job xxxiii. 27, 28.