For One Under Sickness

—Think, O God, for good upon the afflicted; especially him (or her) whom we now commend to thy compassionate regard. Comfort him upon the bed of languishing, and make all his bed in his sickness.

If the sickness be unto death, prepare him for the solemn event, and be with him in it. But we are allowed to implore deliverance, with submission; nothing is too hard for the Lord: Thou canst heal as well as wound; we therefore pray, if it be thy good pleasure, that Thou wilt put efficacy into the means, rebuke the disorder, renew the strength, and prolong the days of thy servant.

Above all, let the dispensation be sanctified to the sufferer and his connexions; and may all have reason to acknowledge in the review, It is good for me that I have been afflicted.