Prayers for occasions

Matthew Henry gives words for prayer at particular times: morning and evening, meals, the Lord’s Day, the Lord’s Supper, journeys, sickness, the family and children.

Times and occasions

In our morning prayers.
In our evening prayers.
In craving a blessing before meat.
In returning thanks after our meat.
When we are going on a journey.
When we return from a journey.
In the evening before the Lord’s day.
On the morning of the Lord’s day.
At the entrance upon the public worship on the Lord’s day, by the masters of the assemblies.
In our preparation for the Lord’s supper.
In the celebrating of the Lord’s supper.
After the celebrating of the Lord’s supper.
Upon occasion of the baptism of a child.
Upon occasion of a funeral.
Upon occasion of marriage.
Upon occasion of the ordaining of ministers.
Upon occasion of the want of rain.
Upon occasion of excessive rain.
Upon occasion of infectious diseases.
Upon occasion of fire.
Upon occasion of great storms.
Upon occasion of the cares, and burdens, and afflictions of particular persons ; as
When we pray with, or for those that are troubled in mind, and melancholy, and under doubts and fears about their spiritual state.
Those that are under convictions of sin, and begin to be concerned about their souls and their salvation, and to inquire after _ Christ.
When we pray with, or for those that are sick and weak, and distempered in body, that those who are sick and in sin-may be convinced, those who are sick and in Christ comforted.
When we pray with, or for those that are deprived of the use of their reason.
When we pray with, or for sick children.
When we pray with, or for families where death is, especially such as have lost their head.
When we pray with, or for those women that are near the time of travail, or in travail.
When we pray with, or for those that are recovered from sickness, or are delivered in child-bearing, and desire to return thanks to God for his mercy.
When we pray with, or for those parents, whose children are a grief to them, or such as they are in fear about.
When we pray with, or for those that are in prison.
When we pray with, or for condemned malefactors, that have but a little while to live.
When we pray with, or for those that are at sea.

Forms of prayer

A prayer to be used by children
Another paraphrase on the Lord’s prayer, in the words of the Assembly’s Shorter. Catechism
Another prayer drawn out of my plain ca- techism for children, (which was first published in the year 1703,) which will be easy to those children who have learned that Catechism
A morning prayer for a family
An evening prayer for a family
A family prayer for the Lord’s Day morning
A family prayer for the Lord’s Day evening
A prayer proper to be put up by parents for their children
A prayer for the use of a particular person, before the receiving of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
Another after the receiving of the Lord’s Supper
An address to God before meat
Another
An address to God after meat

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.