all the world; exhorting him to forgive from the bottom of his heart all perfons that have offended him, and if he hath offended any other to ask their forgiveness; and where he hath done wrong or injury to any man, that he make amends to the uttermost of bis power. And if he hath not before disposed of his goods, let him then be admonished to make his Will, and to declare bis debts what he oweth, and what is owing to him, for the better difcharging of bis Conscience, and the quieting of bis Executors. But men should be often put in remembrance to take order for the fettling of their temporal estates whilst they are in health.

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Here shall the fick person make a special con fession of his fins, the Priest affisting him by asking such Questions as he shall think proper.

The foregoing Exhortation and Examination need not be repeated every day, but only so often as the Priest shall see convenient.

When this Examination and Confession are over; the Company may come in again, and then the Priest shall kneel down, and say,

R Emember not, Lord, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers. Spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever.

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UR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed 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. Amen.

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Nor the wicked approach to hurt him.

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Be unto him, O Lord, a strong tower,

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From the face of his enemy.

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And let our cry come unto thee.

Then shall the Priest say the two Collects following. yetem sved and

O Lord, look down from heaven, behold, vifit, and relieve this thy servant. Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy, give him comfort and fure confidence in thee, defend him from the danger of the enemy, and keep him in perpetual peace and fafety, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

HEAR us, Almighty and most merciful God

and Saviour; extend thy accustomed goodness to this thy servant, who is grieved with Sickness. Sanctify, we beseech thee, this thy fatherly correction to him; that the sense of his weakness may add strength to his faith, and seriousness to bis repentance. That if it shall be thy good pleasure to restore him to bis former health, be may lead the residue of his life in thy fear and to thy glory; or else give him grace so to take thy visitation, that after this painful life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then the Priest shall stand up, and laying his band upon the fick person's head, he shall absolve bim (if he humbly and beartily defire it) after this fort. And the same form of Absolution shall be used in all private Confeffions.

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If the fick person is visited constantly, Absolution is to be repeated no oftner, than as the Priest Shall see just cause; and when it is omitted, the Priest shall then proceed directly to the Collect, which is next after this Absolution.

OUR Lord Jesus Chrift, who hath left power

to his Church to abfolve all Sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences: And by his Authority committed to me, I abfolve thee from all thy fins: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

The Priest may use either the foregoing form of Absolution, or else that which is in the Office for the Holy Communion, according to his difcretion.

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Then the Priest shall say the Collect following. Most merciful God, who, according multitude of thy mercies, doft so put away the fin's of those who truly repent, that thou re membrest them no more, Open thine eye of mercy upon this thy fervant, who most earnestly defireth pardon and forgiveness. Renew in thith, most loving Father, whatsoever hath been decay ed by the fraud and malice of the Devil, or by his own carnal will and frailness; preferve and continue this fick member in the unity of the Church; confider bis contrition, accept his tears, and affuage bis pain, as shall feem to thee moft expedient for him. And forafmuch as be putteth

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Then shall the Priest say this Pfalm; but if the person vifited be very fick, it may be omitted

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never be put to confution: but rid me, and deliver me in thy righteousness; incline thing ear unto me, and lave me all to costats

Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may alway refort: thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence, and my castle. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly: out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel Man.

For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope, even from my

Through thee have I been holden up ever fince I was born: thou art he that took me our of my mother's womb; my praise dhallwalway be of aheed bachadaivataa volam becomesas it were a monster unto many but my fure truft is in thee.

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