The Shepherd’s Comfort at a Deathbed
Asks for God’s lovingkindness and peace for an unnamed dying woman, with the Shepherd’s care through her final hours and beyond.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
O LORD GOD! most merciful, we come to Thee. O Lord, there are many things about Thee that we cannot understand; but this we know, on this we lean—God so loved the world that He sent His only-begotten Son to die for us. Thou willest not the death of any sinner; Thou willest that all should live. Grant, O Lord, unto this Thy child, now lying in wasting and weariness, drawing nigh unto the close of her mortal life—grant unto her to know Thy lovingkindness. May the blessed peace of God take possession of her. Be Thou with her, even unto the end, and afterward give unto her a crown of life. May she feel as one of old did, the Lord is her Shepherd, therefore she shall not want. Lead her by the still waters. May Thy rod and Thy staff comfort her. And look upon us all in Thy love; not in the love we bear to Thee, but in Thy love towards us, and fit us all for Thy Rest, through Jesus Christ our Lord.—AMEN.