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Deprecatious.

1.

O Lord, Thou knowest, and canst, and willest

the good of my soul,

Miserable man am I;

I neither know, nor can, nor, as I ought,

will it.

Thou, O Lord, I beseech Thee,

in Thine ineffable effection,

so order concerning me,

and so dispose,

as Thou knowest to be most pleasing to Thee,
and most good for me.
[Thine is]

goodness, grace;

love, kindness;

benignity, gentleness, consideration;

forbearance, long-suffering;

much pity, great pity;

mercies, multitude of mercies, yearnings of mercies;

a Vide p. 92, edit. 1675.

kind yearnings, deep yearnings;
in passing over,

in overlooking, in disregarding;

many seasons, many years; [punishing] unwillingly, not willingly; not to the full,

not correspondently,

in wrath remembering mercy,

repenting of the evil,
compensating doubly,
ready to parlon,
to be reconciled,
to be appeased.

2.

Litany.

Father, the Creator,
Son, the Redeemer,
Spirit, the Regenerator,
destroy me not,

b Page 180, edit. 1675.

whom Thou hast created, redeemed, regenerated.

Remember not, Lord, my sins,

nor the sins of my forefathers;

neither take vengeance for our sins, theirs, nor mine.
Spare us, Lord, them and me,
spare Thy people,

and, among Thy people, Thy servant,
who is redeemed with Thy precious blood;
and be not angry with us for ever.
Be merciful, be merciful; spare us, Lord,
and be not angry with us forever.

Be merciful, be merciful; have pity on us, Lord,
and be not angry with us to the full.
Deal not, O Lord,

deal not with me after mine iniquities, neither recompense me according to my sins; but after Thy great pity,

deal with mê,

and according to the multitude of Thy mercies,

recompense me;

after that so great pity,

and that multitude of mercies,

as Thou didst to our fathers

in the times of old;

by all that is dear unto Thee.

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DEPRECATION.

From all evil and adversity,

in all time of need;

from this evil and this adversity,
in this time;

raise me, rescue me, save me, O Lord.

and destroy me not.

On the bed of sickness;

in the hour of death;

in the day of judgment,

in that dreadful and fearful day,
rescue me, Lord, and save me ;—

from seeing the Judge's face overcast,
from being placed on the left,

from hearing the dreadful word, Depart from Me,

from being bound in chains of darkness,

from being cast into the outer darkness,

from being tormented in the pit of fire and brimstone, where the smoke of the torments

ascendeth for ever.

Be merciful, be merciful,

spare us pity us,

O Lord :

and destroy us not for ever,

deliver and save us.

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Let it not be, O Lord; and that it be not,

take away from me, O Lord,
hardness of heart,

desperateness after sinning,
blindness of heart,

contempt of thy threats,

a cauterized conscience,
a reprobate mind,

the sin against the Holy Ghost,
the sin unto death,

the four crying sins;

the six which forerund

the sin against the Holy Ghost.
Deliver me

from all ills and abominations of this world,
from plague, famine, and war;

earthquake, flood, and fire,

the stroke of immoderate rain and drought,
blast and blight ;

thunder, lightning and tempest;

epidemic sickness, acute and malignant,
unexpected death;

c Wilful murder, the sin of Sodom, oppressing the poor, defrauding workmen of their wages.

d Despair of salvation, presumption of God's mercy, impugning known truth, envy at another's grace, obstinacy in sin, and impenitence.