THURSDAY MORNING AND EVENING. HE freely opens his bounteous hand, and fills with his blessings every living creature; the eyes of all wait upon him, and he giveth them their meat in due season. Come, let us adore our God who sustains us. He feeds our understanding with the knowledge of truth, and strengthens our wills with his holy grace; he refreshes our memories with a thousand benefits, and feasts our whole souls with everlasting hopes. Come, let us adore our God who sustains us. With his spiritual body and blood he feeds us, and preserves us to immortal life; beginning even here that blessed union which shall be fully perfected in his own kingdom. Come, let us adore our God who sustains us. Come all ye servants of so gracious a Lord, whom he daily entertains with innumerable mercies; come all ye children of so loving a Father, for whom he has provided an eternal feast : Come, let us adore our God who sustains us. FRIDAY MORNING AND EVENING. HE is a gracious and indulgent Lord, who freely pardons all who repent; who extends his mercies over all his works, and never rejects our humble supplications. Come, let us adore our God who forgives us. He willeth not the death of a sinner, but had rather that he should repent and live; he directs to sinners the gracious voice of expostulation, "why will ye die?" Come, let us adore our God who forgives us. When we were sunk in guilt and wickedness, he sent his only Son to restore us; when we were enslaved by the chains of sin and Satan, he sent his own Son to redeem us from bondage. Come, let us adore our God who forgives us. Let us then turn to our God with our whole hearts, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; let us humbly supplicate his infinite mercy, and bring forth fruits meet for repentance. Come, let us adore our God who forgives us. SATURDAY MORNING AND EVENING. COME, all the powers of our souls, and pay your homage to the Prince of peace; cast yourselves at his sacred feet, and renew your vows of ho'y obedience. Come let us adore our victorious Redeemer. He triumphed over death in his own body; and enables us to conquer it in ours; imparting to us his heavenly skill and exciting our courage with infinite rewards. Come, let us adore our victorious Redeemer. He changed the corrupted government of the world, and established a new and holy law; that as we were vassals to sin before, we might now become the free subjects of grace. Come, let us adore our victorious Redeemer. Let us live and die in his blest obedience, and let no temptation separate us from him; who, if we resist, will make us overcome, and when we have overcome, will crown us with peace. Come, let us adore our victorious Redeemer. Prayers to be used after the above Devotions. Morning Prayer. ¶ Read a chapter or a portion of a chapter from the Old or New Testament. O HOLY, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons and one God; have mercy upon us, miserable sinners. Lord, have mercy upon us. O LORD, we beseech thee, mercifully hear our prayers, and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee, that they whose consciences by sin are accused, by thy merciful pardon may be absolved, through Christ our Lord. Amen. O GOD, the strength of all them that put their trust in thee; mercifully accept our prayers and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments, we may please thee, both in will and deed, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O GOD, the Protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; increase and multiply upon us, thy mercy, that thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal: Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake our Lord. Amen. LORD, we beseech thee, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow thee, the only God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O LORD, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who has safely brought us to the beginning of this day; defend us in the same with thy mighty power, and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger; but that all our doings, being ordered by thy governance, may be righteous in thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O ALMIGHTY God, we give thee humble thanks, that thou hast vouchafed to deliver us, thy servants, from all the perils and dangers of the past night: Grant, we beseech thee, most merciful Father, that we, through thy help, may both faithfully live, and walk according to thy will in this life present, and also may be partakers of everlasting glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who dost govern all things in heaven and earth; mercifully hear the supplications of thy people, and grant us thy peace all the days of our life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. OUR Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen. UNTO thy gracious mercy and protection, O God, we commit ourselves, and all our friends and relations; beseeching thee to bless, preserve, and keep us in our going out and coming in, this day and for ever more. Amen. vation. Evening Prayers. O LORD, show thy mercy upon us—and grant us thy salO God, make clean our hearts within us-and take not thy Holy Spirit from us. ness. O LORD, we acknowledge and bewail our sins and wickedFor we have done the things that we ought not to have done, and have left undone the things that we ought to have done; and there is no health in us. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful God. For thy Son Jesus Christ's sake, forgive us all that is past; and grant that we, whose consciences by sin are accused, by thy merciful pardon may be absolved, through Christ our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear, than we to pray, and are wont to give more than we desire or deserve; pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen. GRANT, we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people pardon and peace, that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men; grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O ALMIGHTY and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness, keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready both in body and soul, may cheerfully accomplish those things that thou wouldest have done, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O LORD, our heavenly Father, by whose Almighty power we have been preserved this day; by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy only Son our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen. O GOD, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men, that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. More especially we pray for thy holy Church universal; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians, may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of Spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life. Finally, we commend to thy Fatherly goodness, all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed in mind, body, or estate; that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them, according to their several necessities; giving them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions. We beseech thee also, so to direct and dispose the hearts of all Christian Rulers, that they may truly and impartially administer justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true religion and virtue. Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all Bishops and other Ministers; that they may, both by their life and doctrine, set forth thy true and lively word, and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments; and to all thy people give thy heavenly grace, that they may serve thee in pureness of living and truth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us, and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but, above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus |