The Prayer.
MOst gracious God, who art •• Father of the Fatherless, and pleadest the Cause of the Wido••, have Mercy upon thy holy Catholick
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MOst gracious God, who art •• Father of the Fatherless, and pleadest the Cause of the Wido••, have Mercy upon thy holy Catholick
Church, and since her Lord is ••∣scended up on high, even to his hea∣venly Mansions, leave us not alone comfortless, but send thy holy Spirit into our hearts, that by his assistance we may escape spiritual, and the bit∣terness of the temporal.
Send a gracious showre, even the Dew of thy divine Favours, to re∣fresh our weariness in this Calamity; make thy People as Doves, innocent and chast, and adorn them with the Beauty of inward Sanctity: Let all Kings, Princes, and Rulers of the Earth, confess thy Name, and thy honour; that thy Gospel extending forth into all Lands, Peace, and all thy Blessings may follow it, and thy praise be encreased from Genera∣tion to Generation, through Christ our Lord and Saviour,