the
hands of our enemies; abate their pride, assuage their malice,
and confound their devices; that we, being armed with thy defence,
may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who
art the only giver of all victory; through the merits of thy only
Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. _Amen_.

_In the time of any common Plague or Sickness_.

O almighty God, who in thy wrath didst send a plague upon thine
own people in the wilderness, for their obstinate rebellion
against Moses and Aaron; and also, in the time of king David,
didst slay with the plague of pestilence threescore and ten
thousand, and yet remembering thy mercy didst save the rest:
Have pity upon us miserable sinners, who now are visited with
great sickness and mortality; that like as thou didst then accept
of an atonement, and didst command the destroying Angel to cease
from punishing, so it may now please thee to withdraw from us
this plague and grievous sickness; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
_Amen_.

_In the Ember Weeks, to be said every day, for those that are to
be admitted into Holy Orders_.

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who hast purchased to thyself
an universal Church by the precious blood of thy dear Son:
Mercifully look upon the same, and at this time so guide and
govern the minds of thy servants the Bishops and Pastors of thy
flock, that they may lay hands suddenly on no man, but faithfully
and wisely make choice of fit persons to serve in the sacred
Ministry of thy Church. And to those which shall be ordained to
any holy function give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that
both by their life and doctrine they may set forth thy glory, and
set forward the salvation of all men; through Jesus Christ our
Lord. _Amen_.

_Or this_.

Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, who of thy divine
providence hast appointed divers Orders in thy Church: Give thy
grace, we humbly beseech thee, to all those who are to be called
to any office and administration in the same; and so replenish
them with the truth of thy doctrine, and endue them with innocency
of life, that they may faithfully serve before thee, to the glory
of thy great Name, and the benefit of thy holy Church; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. _Amen_.

_A Prayer that may be said after any of the former_.

O God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to
forgive, receive our humble petitions; and though we be tied
and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let