CHAPTER VIII.
Litany
ADAPTED OUT OF HOLY SCRIPTURE TO THE HEALTHY, THE SICK, AND THE DYING.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven, Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, Have mercy on us.
Who hast made man to thy own image and likeness,
Who hast breathed into man’s face the breath of life,
Who broughtest forth in the midst of Paradise the Tree of Life against the death of the body,
Who, when our first parents were become guilty of death, didst set up the Seed of the Woman against the Serpent’s malice,
Who hast not left mankind comfortless and helpless, when made subject by sin to manifold miseries, diseases, and death,
Who, when all the first-born of Egypt were destroyed in one night, didst preserve the Israelites unhurt,
Who, for the sin of unbelief, didst cause Moses and Aaron to die out of the Promised Land,
Who, by the sight of the brazen Serpent, didst deliver the people that were bitten by the fiery serpents,
Who, for their too curiously looking into the Ark, didst destroy with death more than fifty thousand of the Bethshamites,
Who, for the numbering of the people by David, didst carry off by a three days’ pes-
