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Commendatory Prayer
The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia
or A beautiful and impressive prayer added to the Prayer Book in 1661, and which is to be said over a dying person. This prayer ought to be memorized by every Churchman so as to use it in any emergency for, as Bishop Coxe suggests in "Thoughts on the Services," "whether a Clergyman be present or not, no Christian should be willing to die, or be permitted to die, without the Commendatory Prayer said by some one present at or near the moment of departure. Church people are not heathen, that they should neglect this bounden duty to one who is passing away. 'Father into Thy hands I commend My spirit,' said the Saviour with His dying breath. So should the sick person in his own behalf; or those who love him in his behalf, if because of the pain or unconsciousness of death, he cannot frame the petition for himself."
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Miller, William James. Entry for 'Commendatory Prayer'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/c/commendatory-prayer.html. 1901.
