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Office for
Burial.

From Mr. Ket slewell.

AND;

ND, O Lord, most Holy, O God moft Mighty; O Holy and Merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge Eternal; Suffer me not at my last Hour, for any Pains of Death, to fall from thee. A

men.

3. Against the Fear of Death.

GRant, O Lord, that I may

end my Life in thy Fear and Favour; and receive my Death, whenever it fhall ap proach, not as my Curse, but as my Deliverance; as a Reft from my Labours, and an Entrance upon a Life without Trouble and without Sin.

Remember not against me my manifold Sins; but let them all, be done away by thy Mercies, and my Blessed Saviour's Merits, and my own true Repentance.

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That I may come to my last
Change without Guilt, and fore-
fee its near Approach without
Fear or Impatience.
Jefus Christ our Lord.

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Through
Amen.

From

Mr. Ket

Trengthen me, O God, in my laft Agonies; and as my lewell. Strength decays, let my Pains wear off. But when my Strength fails, let not my Faith fail; even in Death enable me to trust in thee.

Deliver me from all violent Disorders of a troubled Fancy, or painful Delufions of my Ghoftly Enemy. O, let him not be able to disturb and terrify me, or any way prevail against me.

Amen.

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Ave me in thy Cuftody, From O Holy Father: For nothing can take me out of thy hands. Give thy holy Angels charge to ftand about me, to guard and re

ceive my poor Soul at my Departure, and to conduct and carry it to the blessed Receptacles of Reft and Peace. Amen.

Into thy Hands, O Lord, I commend my Spirit: for thou haft Redeemed it, O Lord, thou God of Truth.

ן:

Of the Sick Man's Daily Prayers; and other Inftances of his Devotion.

1. Of his Daily Prayers.

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Hen the Sick Perfon IS confined to his Bed, fo that he cannot conveniently kneel, nor put himself into the proper Gesture of Prayer; he must not thereupon think, that he is excu fed from his Duty, w

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I mention this, because I fear it is a common Miftake in Sick Perfons, to fancy, That their Weakness may excufe their Pray ers: And that in fuch a Cafe, God will accept the Will for the Deed.

They fay, They think upon God, and will Pray with their Hearts. And this they hope will be fufficient.

To which I Answer:

When the Sick Perfon is in extremis, and is reduced to fuch Weakne that he is either Speechlefs, or cannot use his Voice without Difficulty and Pain: in fuch a Cafe let him comfortably be affured, that our Gracious God, who knows our Frame, will accept of the Defires of his Heart; and his Sighs and Groans fhall be all' Vocal.

But whilst he hath fo much Strength, as to talk to his Vifitants and Attendants, let him

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know and confider, that it is his Duty to talk with God. To lift up his Voice as well as his Heart, to God in the Heavens. And let him fay with David.

As for me, I will call upon God: and the Lord fhall fave me. Evening and Morning, and at Noon will I pray, and cry aloud; and he shall hear my voice. Pfal. 55. 16, 17.

However, let him not doubt, but that God confiders his Weaknefs. And when he cannot Pray as he would; let him Pray as he can: and the Lord accept him.

Now, to make the Sick Man's Daily Prayers as eafy as poffible, I propofe him this Method..

In the Morning, or when he is best Difpofed, (for all Sick Perfons have their Lucid Intervals ;) let him fay his ufual Morning Prayers; and then let him add the following Prayer.

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