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tilence seventy thousand of the men of Israel, Have mercy on us, 2 Kings xxiv.

Who, having pity on the affliction of the people, didst call back the destroying angel from slaying them,	Ibid.
Who, at the prayers of the prophet Elias, didst recall the dead child to life,	3 Kings xvii.
Who punishedst King Ochozias with death for consulting idols about his health,	4 Kings i.
Who, by the prophet Eliseus, didst restore to life the Sunamitess' son,	4 Kings iv.
Who, by Eliseus, didst heal Naaman the Syrian of his leprosy,	4 Kings v.
Who, by the bones of Eliseus, didst recall the dead man to life,	4 Kings xiii.
Who didst visit King Asa with a premature death, for trusting in physicians rather than in God,	2 Par. xvi.
Who, when Ezechias prayed to thee with tears in his sickness, didst deliver him from death and disease,	Isa. xxxviii.
Who didst strengthen Job with wonderful patience whilst Satan had brief permission to afflict him,	Job i. &c.	Have mercy on us.
Who rebukest by sorrow in the bed, and makest a man’s bones to wither,	Job xxxiii.
Who wouldst have Tobias tried with the affliction of blindness, to give to posterity an example of patience,	Tobias ii.
Who hast created the physician and countless remedies for the necessity of men,	Ecc. xxxviii.
Who madest not death, and hast no pleasure in the destruction of the living,	Wisd. i.
Who wast sent to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and to comfort all that mourn,	Isa. lxi.
Who didst dismiss Simeon, an old and a just man, out of this world in peace, when he had seen the Messiah,	Luke ii.
Who didst heal the ruler’s son at Capharnaum,	John iv.
Who, with a word, didst heal the man who had been under his infirmity eight and thirty years,	John v.
Who didst heal Peter’s wife’s mother, when taken with a great fever,	Luke iv.