Prayer Library / Book of Common Prayer
23 entries
Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
ps 34:9-10
O God, heavenly Father, who by your Son Jesus Christ has promised to all those who seek your kingdom, and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance; Send us, we beseech you, in this our necessity, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receiv…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
gen 6:5
O Almighty Lord God, who for the sin of man did once drown all the world, except eight persons, and afterward of your great mercy did promise never to destroy it so again; We humbly beseech you, that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain and water…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
gen 1:20
O God, heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the rain does fall, the earth is fruitful, beasts do increase, and fishes do multiply; Behold, we beseech you, the afflictions of your people; and grant that the scarcity and dearth, which we do now most justly suffer for our iniquity…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
2 kings 6:25
O God, merciful Father, who, in the time of Elisha the prophet, did suddenly in Samaria turn great scarcity and dearth into plenty and cheapness;
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
ps 30:10
Have mercy upon us, that we, who are now for our sins punished with like adversity, may likewise find a seasonable relief: Increase the fruits of the earth by your heavenly benediction; and grant that we, receiving your bountiful liberality, may use the same to your glory, the re…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
ex 15:3
O Almighty God, King of all kings, and Governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belongs justly to punish sinners, and to be merciful to those who truly repent; Save and deliver us, we humbly beseech you, from the hands of our enemies; abate th…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
num 16:49
O Almighty God, who in your wrath did send a plague upon your own people in the wilderness, for their obstinate rebellion against Moses and Aaron; and also, in the time of king David, did slay with the plague of Pestilence threescore and ten thousand, and yet remembering your mer…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
acts 20:28
Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who has purchased to yourself an universal Church by the precious blood of your dear Son; Mercifully look upon the same, and at this time so guide and govern the minds of your servants the Bishops and Pastors of your flock, that they may lay han…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
matt 7:11
Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts,
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
matt 7:11
who of your divine providence has appointed diverse Orders in your Church; Give your grace, we humbly beseech you, to all those who are to be called to any office and administration in the same; and so replenish them with the truth of your doctrine, and endue them with innocency…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
ex 34:6-7
O God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive, That you would be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations, to the advancement of your glory, the good of your Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her Dominions; that all…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
josh 24:1
Most gracious God, we humbly beseech you, as for this Kingdom in general, so especially for the High Court of Parliament, under our most religious and gracious Queen at this time assembled: That you would be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations, to the advancemen…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
job 7:20
O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech you for all sorts and conditions of men: that you would be pleased to make your ways known to them, your saving health to all nations. More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it m…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
gen 32:10
Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we your unworthy servants give you most humble and hearty thanks for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; [*particularly to those who desire now to offer up their praises and thanksgivings for your late mercies vouchsaf…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
deut 11:14-15
O God our heavenly Father, who by your gracious providence does cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man; We give you humble thanks that it has pleased you, in our great necessity, to send us at the last a jo…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
ex 9:27-28
O Lord God, who has justly humbled us by your late plague of immoderate rain and waters, and in your mercy have relieved and comforted our souls by this seasonable and blessed change of weather; We praise and glorify your holy Name for this your mercy, and will always declare you…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
ps 66:18-20
O most merciful Father, who of your gracious goodness has heard the devout prayers of your Church, and turned our dearth and scarcity into cheapness and plenty; We give you humble thanks for this your special bounty; beseeching you to continue your loving-kindness unto us, that o…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
ps 61:2-3
O Almighty God, who are a strong tower of defence to your servants against the face of their enemies; We yield you praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers with which we were compassed. We acknowledge it your goodness that we were not deli…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
2 sam 22:47-49
We bless your holy Name, that it has pleased you to appease the seditious tumults which have been lately raised up amongst us; most humbly beseeching you to grant to all of us grace, that we may henceforth obediently walk in your holy commandments; and, leading a quiet and peacea…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
2 sam 22:44
O eternal God, our heavenly Father, who alone makes men to be of one mind in a house, and stills the outrage of a violent and unruly people;
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
1 chron 21:1
O Lord God, who has wounded us for our sins, and consumed us for our transgressions, by your late heavy and dreadful visitation; and now, in the midst of judgment remembering mercy, has redeemed our souls from the jaws of death; We offer to your fatherly goodness ourselves, our s…
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
lev 26:15-16
We humbly acknowledge before you, O most merciful Father, that all the punishments which are threatened in your law might justly have fallen upon us, by reason of our manifold transgressions and hardness of heart:
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Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century
1 kings 21:29
Yet seeing it has pleased you of your tender mercy, upon our weak and unworthy humiliation, to assuage the contagious sickness with which we lately have been sore afflicted, and to restore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings; We offer unto your Divine Majesty the sacri…
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