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Additional Prayers for the Sick
O Father of mercies and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need: We humbly beseech you to behold, visit, and relieve your sick servant N. for whom our prayers are desired. Look upon him with the eyes of your mercy; comfort him with a sense of your goodness; preserve him from the temptations of the enemy; and give him patience under his affliction. In your good time, restore him to health, and enable him to lead the remainder of his life in your fear, and to your glory; and grant that finally he may dwell with you in life everlasting; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A pastoral prayer for the sick, drawn from the sickbed prayers of the 1662 English Prayer Book and first appearing whole in the first American Book of Common Prayer of 1789. Its present wording comes from the 1928 American revision.