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Who, after bowing thy head, and crying with a loud voice, gavest up the ghost, John xix.
Who, through death, didst destroy him who had the empire of death, Heb. ii.
Who wert wounded for our iniquities and bruised for our sins, Isa. liii.
Who didst bear our infirmities and carry our sorrows, Isa. liii.
Who art wont to send diseases and pestilence for sins, Ezech. xxviii ; Deut. xxviii.
Who often sendest diseases and corporal afflictions, not for sin, but to manifest the glory of God, John ix. & xi.
Who chastisest and scourgest those whom thou lovest, Heb. xii.
Who hast frequently punished irreverent treatment of thy holy Mysteries with infirmity and untimely death, 1 Cor. xi. Have mercy on us.
Who, by Peter’s shadow, didst free many from infirmity, Acts v.
Who, by the handkerchiefs and aprons of Paul, didst cure many that were sick, Acts xix.
Who, by thy Apostles, didst give life to the dead, and various cures to the sick, Acts ix. &c.
Who hast wiped away all tears from the eyes of thy Elect, Apoc. vii.
The Lord, who has power of life and death, Wisd. xvi.
The Lord, the Protector of our life, Ps. xxvi.
Father of Mercies, and God of all consolation, who comfortest us in all our tribulation, 2 Cor. i.
God, who art faithful, and wilt not suffer us to be tempted above that which we are able, but makest, with the temptation, issue, that we may be able to bear it, 1 Cor. x.
Who woundest and curest, who strikest, and thy hand shall heal, Job v.
Who wilt have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth, 1 Tim. ii.
Who killest and makest alive, who bringest down to hell, and bringest back again, 1 Kings ii.
Who wilt come to judge the living and the dead, 2 Tim. iv.
Be merciful, O Lord, and spare us.
From all the pains of sickness, Deliver us, O Lord.