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Prayers for the Dead.
The Psalm Miserere, Have mercy on me, &c. (p. 137,) and the Psalm De profundis, Out of the depths, &c. (p. 140.) At the end of each, instead of Glory be to the father, &c. say, Eternal rest give to them, O Lord; and let perpetual light thine upon them.
A Prayer for all the Faithful departed.
O GOD the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful, give to the souls of thy servants departed the remission of all their sins; that, through pious supplications, they may obtain the pardon which they have always desired: who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
A Prayer upon the day of a person's decease or burial.
O GOD whose property is always to have mercy and to spare, we humbly beseech thee for the soul of thy servant N. which thou hast this day called out of the world, that thou wouldst not deliver it up into the hands of the enemy, nor forget it unto the end; but command it to be received by thy holy angels, and to be carried to Paradise, its true country; that as in thee it had faith and hope, it may not suffer the pains of hell, but may take possession of everlasting joys: through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Another.
WE beseech thee, O Lord, admit the soul of thy servant N. which this day hath departed out of this world, into the fellowship of thy saints, and pour forth upon it the dew of thy eternal mercy; through our Lord Jesus Christ.
