Obrazy na stronie
PDF
ePub

and his cordition, his wants, and

his desires.

Defend, O Lord, the place wherein I dwell, and this whole country, whereunto I belong, from pestilence and famine, rom earthquakes and inundations, invasions from abroad, and civil wars it home.

Close up the rents of schismatical and divided Christians; restrain the rage and cruelty of Infidels: diffuse into all hearts humanity and mutual charity; and so make us all meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in Light.

THE

THE glorious Majesy of the Lord our God be upon us: Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us: Yea, prosper thou our handy work.

BE thou, O Lord, within me, to strengthen me. Vithout me, to watch me: Over ne, to cover me: Under me, to hold me up: Before me, to lead me: Behind me, to bring me back: Round about me, to keep off mine enmies on every side.

An

An ACT of PRAISE.

BLESSED be thou, Lord God of Israel, our Father, for ever and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the glory, and the victory, and the Majesty; for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth, is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thy hand is power and might, and in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, O Lord, we thank thee, and evermore will praise thy glorious

name.

THURS

THURSDAY.

EARLY in the morning do I cry unto thee; for in thy Word is my

trust.

O satisfy me with thy mercy, and that soon; so shall I rejoice, and be glad, all the days of my life.

BLESSED art thou, O Lord, who didst, as on this day, command the waters to bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that hath life; the fish, and fowl, great whales, and winged birds; and didst bless them, and give them power to increase and multiply.

Blessed

Blessed art thou, O Lord, who didst, as on this day, return to thy Father's throne.

Set up thyself, O God, above the Heavens: And thy glory above all the earth. And, by thy ascension, so draw us after thee, that we may henceforth set our affections on things above, not on things on the earth.

By that salutary and venerable Sacrament of thy most holy Body and most precious blood, which thou, on this day's evening, wert pleased to institute, have mercy upon us, and deliver us, good

Lord.

An

« PoprzedniaDalej »