ness though in his latest hour he turneth unto thee. Renew in him whatsoever hath been de cayed by his own carnal will and frailness. Consider his contrition; accept his repentance; and forasmuch as he putteth his full trust only in thy mercy, impute not unto him his former sins, but strengthen him with thy blessed Spirit; and when thou art pleased to take him hence, take him unto thy favor: This we beg through thy merits, O Lord, our Saviour and our Redeemer. Amen.

T Then shall the Minister say,

SAVIOUR of the world, who by thy cross and precious blood hast redeemed us, save us, and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord.

T Then the Minister, standing, shall say,

IN the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succor, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased?

Yet, O Father most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers; but spare us, Lord most holy, O Father most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death to fall from thee.

Then shall the Minister say,

UNTO God's gracious mercy and protection

we commit thee: The Lord bless thee and keep thee; The Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee; The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace both now and evermore.

At the time of Execution, besides all, or such parts of the foregoing office as the Minister shall judge proper, shall be said the Commendatory Prayer for a person at the point of departure, as it is in the Visitation of the Sick.

¶ A Prayer for imprisoned persons.

MOST gracious Father look down in pity and compassion upon these sorrowing persons, thine afflicted servants, who are fallen under the misery of a close restraint. Give them always a deep sense of their sins, and of thy fatherly love and correction; and the more their confinement presseth hard upon them, the more let the comforts of thy grace and mercy abound toward them. Give to them a meek and forgiving spirit toward all those who have confined them, and a full purpose to repair all the injuries and losses which others have sustained by them. Raise them up friends to pity and relieve them; give them the continued comfort of thy countenance here; and so sanctify their afflictions, that they may work for them an eternal weight of glory, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

A FORM OF

Prayer and Thanksgiving,

FOR THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH,

AND ALL THE

OTHER BLESSINGS OF GOD'S MERCIFUL PROVIDENCE.

¶ To be used yearly, and on such days as may be appointed by the Civil authority.

T The service to be as usual, except when it is hereby otherwise appointed.

¶ Appropriate sentences to be selected at the beginning of Morning Prayer.

¶ Instead of O come let us sing, &c. the following shall be said or sung:

PRAISE ye the Lord; for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.

The Lord doth build up Jerusalem; he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

He healeth those that are broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

He covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth; he maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains.

He giveth to the beast his food; and to the young ravens which cry.

Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: Praise thy God, O Sion.

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.

Then shall be said or sung one of the Selections, or some other portion of the Psalms, at the discretion of the Minister.

¶ After the General Thanksgiving, shall be said:

MOST gracious and heavenly Father, we yield

thee unfeigned thanks and praise, as for all thy mercies, so especially for the returns of seedtime and harvest, and for crowning the year with thy goodness, in the increase of the ground, and the gathering in of the fruits thereof. And, we beseech thee, give us a just sense of this great mercy; such as may appear in our lives, by an humble, holy, and obedient walking before thee all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all glory and honor, world without end. Amen.

¶ The Collect to be used instead of that for the day. MOST merciful Father, who hast blessed the labors of the husbandman in the returns of the fruits of the earth; we give thee humble and hearty thanks for this thy bounty; beseeching thee to continue thy loving kindness to us; that our land may still yield her increase, to thy glory and our comfort, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

THE EPISTLE. St. James i. 16.

Do not err, my beloved brethren; every good gift and every perfect gift is from above; and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. Be ye doers of the word; and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before Almighty God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

YE have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine ene