OCCASIONAL

PRAYERS

AND

THANKSGIVINGS;

To be made use of as the Minifter fball think proper.

OCCASIONAL PRAYERS.

A Collect adapted to the Spring Seafon.

LORD, the Creator, and Preferver of all things, who with unerring wisdom maintainest the beauty and order of thy works; we look up with joy and confidence unto thy gracious power, which causes the returning seasons to know their place: thou hast fent forth thy fpirit; thou haft renewed

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rich the earth with the rain of heaven: may grafs grow for the cattle, and herbs and fruits for the fervice of man; may our pastures be cloathed with flocks; our vallies covered with corn; and the year crowned with thy goodness: and may we so improve the various bleffings of thy providence in this world, as to be prepared for the unchangeable felicities of thine everlasting kingdom. Amen.

A Collect adapted to the Seafon of Harvest.

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LMIGHTY GOD, the Fountain of

all goodness, in whose power alone it is to give fruitful feafons, and to fill our hearts with food and gladness; we lift up our eyes unto thee, from whom our hope cometh, befeeching thee to preserve unto us the appointed weeks of harveft, and to give us feasonable weather for ripening, and gathering in the fruits of the earth, that in due time

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we may enjoy them. *May the immoderate rains be abated; and thy mercy again fine upon us. Suffer not the hopes of the hufbandman to fail; may the poor be fatisfied with bread; continue to blefs us with the bounties of thy providence; and may we evermore live to thy praife, in a wife, grateful, and temperate enjoyment of thy mercies, who art the only Giver of all good. Amen.

A Collect to be used on Occafion of any violent Storm, or Earthquake.

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REAT and glorious LORD GOD, almighty in thy power, and unfearchable in all thy ways, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and the foundations of the hills do fhake; who thundereft with thy voice, and fendest forth thy lightnings to the ends of the heavens; who commandeft the winds, and the fea, and they obey; we, the children of men, proftrate ourselves before [02]

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thy throne, adoring the greatness of thy majefty, and imploring thy favour and mercy to us. Awaken our attention duly to confider the voice of thy providence; and poffefs our hearts with a holy reverence of thy power, and a humble confidence in thy goodness. It is of thy goodness that we have not been confumed: in the midst of the amazing inftances of thy power, thou remembereft mercy; fhewing forth the care of thy providence in our prefervation. May the remembrance of these things produce in us thankfulness of heart, and fuch seriousness of spirit, that no calamity may ever furprise us, nor death it felf find us unprepared; and this we beg, for thy goodness fake, declared unto mankind by JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen.

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A Collect to be read in Time of War.

ALMIGHTY GOD, King of all kings, and Governor of all things, to whom it justly belongeth to punish finful nations, and to be merciful to thofe, who repent; we humbly befeech thee, in this time of our danger, to be the Defender of our country: give us not up into the hands of our enemies; fave us from the edge of the fword; and preferve our land from the defolations of war; continue us in the undifturbed profeffion of thy true religion; in the enjoyment of our public liberties ; and may we yet live secure and happy, under that wife and equal government, which thou haft fet over us. We do with all humility acknowledge ourselves unworthy of thefe peculiar bleffings: have mercy upon us; O GOD, have mercy upon thy people: fend forth a fpirit of reformation amongst us; avert the evils we have deferved; continue thy favour and protection to us; fave and deliver us, O our GOD, for in thee

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