O LORD OUR GOD, we approach Your presence, who alone can succor* and save, beseeching you to look down in pity upon this Your servant, here lying in great weakness of body, under Your chastening hand. We know, O Lord, that with You are the issues of life and of death; that with You nothing is impossible; that if you will You can even yet raise him up, heal all his infirmities, and restore him to health. In entire submission to Your righteous will, we beg this mercy at Your hands. Spare him, O good Lord, and grant him a longer continuance among us. But whatever You have determined, let his soul be precious in Your sight. Give him true repentance for all the sins, ignorance, and negligence of his past life, and a lively faith in Jesus Christ. Wash his soul with the precious blood of Your dear Son, and sanctify it by and adorn it with the graces of Your Holy Spirit, that it may be cleansed from all its defilements, and be presented pure and blameless and without spot before You, in the great Day of Your power. Fit him, we pray You, for whatever in Your wise providence You hast appointed for him, whether life or death; that it may be unto him to live unto Christ, and if to die, that to die may be gain; and that in all things he may find cause to praise and glorify Your holy name. If You should be graciously pleased to raise him from his bed of languishing, grant that he may lead the residue of his life in Your fear and to Your glory. Or if You hast otherwise determined, prepare him for the hour of his departure; defend him from his spiritual enemies; finish all that is wanting in the work of his salvation; support and comfort him in his last agonies; make his end easy and peaceful; and fill him with an hope full of immortality. Finally, O Lord, receive him into the arms of Your unspeakable mercy, into the glorious state of Your saints in light, and give him a resurrection unto eternal life in Your heavenly kingdom. All which we ask, in the name, and through the merits and mediation of our Advocate and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen.