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DEPRECATIONS.

I.

LORD, Thou knowest, and canst,
and willest the good of my soul.

O wretched man that I am;

I neither know, nor can, nor, as I ought,
do I will it.

But, O Lord, I beseech Thee,
in Thine ineffable affection,
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, clemency;
forbearance, long-suffering;
much pity, great pity;

I

mercies, multitude of mercies,
yearnings of mercies;
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,

not to the end,

whom Thou didst create, redeem, regenerate, Remember not, Lord, my sins,

nor the sins of my forefathers; neither take Thou vengeance of 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 propitious, be propitious; spare us, Lord, and be not angry with us for ever. Be propitious, be propitious; have mercy on us, Lord,

and be not wroth with us very sore.
Deal not, O Lord,

deal not with me after mine iniquities,
neither reward me according to my sins;
but after Thy great mercy,
deal Thou with me,

and according to the multitude of Thy mercies, reward me.

After that so great pity,

and that multitude of mercies,
as Thou didst to our fathers
in the generations of old;
By all that is dear unto Thee.
From all evil and adversity,

in all time of need;
from this evil and this adversity,
in this time;

lift me up, rescue me, save me, O Lord.
Deliver 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,
Deliver me, O 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 up for ever.

Be merciful, be merciful,

spare us, pity us,
O Lord:

and destroy us not for ever,
Deliver and save us.

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 seared conscience,

a reprobate mind,

the sin against the Holy Ghost,

the sin unto death,

the four crying sins ;* the six which forerun; †

the sin against the Holy Ghost.

Deliver me

from all the grievous and terrible evils
of this world,

from pestilence, famine, and war;
earthquake, flood, and fire,

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

thunder, lightning, and tempest; epidemic sickness, acute and malignant ; unexpected death:

From ills and troubles in the Church,
from private interpretation,

from innovation in things sacred,
from heterodox teaching;

from unhealthy enquiries and interminable disputes,

from heresies, schisms, scandals,

public and private,

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

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