First published 1840.
Published by S.P.C.K. 1920.
THE following Translation of the Greek Devotions of Bishop Andrewes
is made from the Edition of 1675, and has already appeared in a publication of the
day. It is reprinted in its present form in compliance with the suggestion of many
persons, who naturally wished to possess it simply as a devotional work, apart from
its controversial bearings. A few alterations have been made in the arrangement
of its separate parts, as they occur in the present text of the original, but only
with a view to its answering more fully the purpose for which it seems to have been
composed, of furnishing a manual of devotion for every day of the week. Accordingly,
such portions of the work, as were obviously without or out of place, have been
inserted, where they were wanted, in the course of the prayers; or collected together
at the end; or, if repetitions, omitted. No
J. H. N.
FEAST OF ALL SAINTS.
LANCELOT ANDREWES was born in 1555; in the parish of All Hallows,
Barking. His early education was received at Cooper’s Free School in Stepney, and
subsequently at Merchant Taylors’ School; at the age of sixteen he went up to Cambridge,
where he became successively scholar, fellow, and (1589‑1605) master of Pembroke
Hall. Ordained in 1580, he rose rapidly in his calling, becoming chaplain to Queen
Elizabeth in or about 1586, canon of St. Paul’s in 1589, canon of Westminster in
1597, and dean of the Abbey in 1601. Consecrated bishop of Chichester in 1605, Andrewes
was translated to Ely in 1609, and to Winchester in 1619. From 1616 he was a member
of the Privy Council, and from 1618 dean of the Chapel Royal. His death took
Andrewes lived through the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, and
this bare chronicle of his life is enough to shew how large a part he took in the
affairs of both Church and State in those difficult times. By temperament and early
habit he was a student; he ‘never loved or used any games;’ if he needed recreation,
it’ was found in the study of Nature. Such a man might gladly have spent his days
in the learned leisure of College rooms. But circumstances called him to the larger
life of public service, and he threw himself into it without reserve. At St. Paul’s
he revived the office of penitentiary canon, attending in the aisles of the Cathedral
during Lent to give spiritual counsel to any who sought it. At Westminster the boys
of the school were not overlooked by the scholarly Dean, who associated himself
with them both in their studies and their
It was a full life that Andrewes led from boyhood to his death.
As scholar, courtier, preacher, controversialist, bishop, he could have had little
leisure, and must often have been
The private prayers of Bishop Andrewes were not written for publication.
They grew up under the hands of the author in hours of solitude, perhaps when he
was on his knees. That they are written in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin confirms this
view of their origin; for others he would have used the English tongue; to Andrewes
himself the three learned languages were as familiar and more expressive than
But private and personal as the Preces were in their intention
and original use, they have proved to be eminently fitted for adoption by Church
people in general. Experience has shewn that Bishop Andrewes’ private devotions
are such as every devout member of the Church of England, and, it may almost be
added, every good Christian would desire to make his own. What is personal is usually
limited by the circumstances, the outlook, the mentality of the individual; it interests
us by its individuality, but the field over which it ranges is necessarily narrow
and may be one with which we ourselves have little in common. But the personal devotions
of Bishop Andrewes are singularly free from this disadvantage. He has poured into
them all the wealth of a rich nature; he has spent upon them all the resources of
Even more remarkable is the Bishop’s singular mastery, over the
words and thoughts of Holy Scripture. It does not lie in the ready stringing together
of conventional Scriptural phrases, which neither assists devotion nor evinces,
any real knowledge of the Bible Rather it is the art of the Christian scribe who,
like an, experienced householders brings forth out of leis treasure things new and
old. So steeped is the mind of this: great student and preacher of the Word with,
Of the quaintnesses and eccentricities which would render the
Bishop's sermons, notwithstanding their great merits, inappropriate in the modern
pulpit, there is scarcely a trace in his devotions. There are a few verbal tricks
or doubtful positions: a fondness for alliteration, as when he twice connects
The Private Prayers begin, like the Book of Common Prayer, with
forms for daily Morning and Evening Prayer, and to these are added separate forms
for, Morning Prayer on each day of the week. Each of these forms embraces certain
chief elements of devotion, such as commemoration, petition, intercession; acts.
of penitence, faith, hope; offering of praise and thanksgiving. Beside these forms
in which the elements are combined, there are
Nothing is more surprising in Andrewes’ treatment of these great
factors of private prayer than the infinite variety of detail which he is able to
introduce into the constantly recurring sections of his work. One would expect to
find in fifty pages devoted to penitential devotions much wearisome and unedifying
repetition; but every page has its own presentation of the evil of sin, and the
justice and mercy of God; its own confessions, petitions, deprecations, hopes. The
writer gathers up from Scripture every confession uttered by patriarch or prophet
or psalmist or apostle, and makes it his own; he collects from the experiences of
life all that aggravates human sin, that exposes its depths of ingratitude, its
intricacies of self‑deceit; every consideration drawn from the mercies and the judgments
of God which can enhance its guilt. Yet the ‘spirit of
There is the same breadth of outlook and minuteness of detail
in Andrewes’ intercessions. As Dean Church has written:
In praise and thanksgiving Andrewes is not less helpful than
in intercession. He teaches us how without loss of reverence to descend into the
smallest particulars of the mercies personally received. Nothing in his life from
infancy onwards is forgotten: he thanks God for ‘house, kinsfolk; neighbours, friends;
for health; good repute sufficiency; for parents, honest and good, teachers gentle,
colleagues like‑minded, retainers faithful; for all who have stood me in good stead
by their writings.’ He rises to has highest level when he is praising God for all
that
The Bishop’s theological position calls for a few words. He was
a devoted son of the Church of England as she emerged from the troubles of the first
half of the sixteenth century. ‘But,’ to quote Dean Church again,
But the theology of the Preces privatae
does not largely concern itself with controversial questions. It is for the most
part an interpretation of the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds read in the light of the
experience of life. The Incarnation and Atonement, the Resurrection and Ascension,
the Coming of the Spirit and His work in the Catholic
The translation of the Greek devotions reprinted in this volume
is due to John Henry Newman; it was made in his Anglican days for
Tracts For the Times, where it first appeared as
H. B. S.
Hitchin, March 28, 1917.
[The Introduction to this reprint was written by Professor Swete just before his death in 1917.]
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ORIGINAL PREFACE | v |
INTRODUCTION | vii |
Daily Prayers—Preparation | |
I‑Times of Prayer |
1 |
II‑Places of Prayer |
2 |
III‑Circumstances of Prayer |
4 |
Order of Matin Prayer | |
Litany |
6 |
Confession |
8 |
Commendation |
10 |
Order of Evening Prayer | |
Meditation |
16 |
Confession |
19 |
Commendation |
22 |
Course of Prayers for the Week (for each Day, under the five acts of Confession, Prayer for Grace, Profession, Intercession, and Praise, with an Introduction) |
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The First Day |
27 |
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51 |
The Third Day |
63 |
The Fourth Day |
76 |
The Fifth Day |
92 |
The Sixth Day |
103 |
The Seventh Day |
116 |
Additional Exercises | |
A Deprecation |
127 |
A Litany of Deprecation |
128 |
Forms of Intercession | |
I |
135 |
II |
136 |
III |
138 |
IV |
139 |
Meditations | |
On Christian Duty |
141 |
On the Day of Judgment |
142 |
On Human Frailness |
146 |
A Preparation For Holy Communion. | 149 |
ALWAYS. (
Without ceasing. (
At all times. (
Samuel among such as call upon His name.
God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray
for you, and shewing you the good and the right way. (
We will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry
of. the word. (
He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave
thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. (
In the evening, and morning, and at noon day will I pray, and
that instantly; and He shall hear my voice. (
Seven times a day do I praise Thee. (
1. In the morning, a great while before day. (
2. In the morning watch. (
3. The third hour of the day. (
4. About the sixth hour. (
5. The hour of prayer, the ninth. (
6. The eventide. (
7. By night. (
At midnight. (
In all places where I record My Name, I will come to thee, and
I will bless thee. (
Let
The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise, and the fierceness of them shalt Thou refrain.
As for me, I will come into Thy house even upon the multitude of Thy mercy; and in Thy fear will I worship toward Thy Holy Temple.
Hear the voice of, my humble petitions, when I cry unto Thee; when I hold up my hands towards the mercy‑seat of Thy Holy Temple.
We wait for Thy loving‑kindness, O God, in the midst of Thy Temple.
1. Among the faithful and in the congregation. (
2. Enter into thy closet, and, when
3. They went up into an upper room. (
4. He went up upon the housetop to pray. (
5. They went up together into the Temple. (
6. We kneeled down on the shore, and prayed. (
7. He went forth over the brook Cedron, where was a garden. (
8. Let them rejoice in their beds. (
9. He departed into a desert place and there prayed. (
10. In every place lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
(
1. Kneeling, humiliation.
He kneeled down and prayed. (
He went a little further, and fell on His face, and prayed. (
My soul is brought low, even unto the dust,
my belly cleaveth unto the grounds
2. Sinking the head, | shame. | ||
Drooping the face. |
( |
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3. Smiting the breast, ( |
indignation. | } | ( |
4. Shuddering, ( |
fear. | ||
5. Groaning, ( |
sorrow. | ||
Clasping of hands. |
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6. Raising of eyes and hands, ( |
vehement desire. | ||
7. Blows, ( |
revenge. |
GLORY be to Thee, O Lord, glory to Thee.
Glory to Thee who givest me sleep
to recruit my weakness,
and to remit the toils
of this fretful flesh.
To this day and all days,
a perfect, holy, peaceful, healthy,
sinless course,
Vouchsafe O Lord.
The Angel of peace, a faithful guide,
guardian of souls and bodies,
to encamp around me,
and ever to prompt what is salutary,
Vouchsafe O Lord.
Pardon and remission
of all sins and of all offences
Vouchsafe O Lord.
To our souls what is good and convenient,
and peace to the world,
Vouchsafe O Lord.
Repentance and strictness
for the residue of our life,
and health and peace to the end,
Vouchsafe O Lord.
Whatever is true, whatever is honest,
whatever just, whatever pure,
whatever lovely, whatever of good report,
if there be any virtue, if any praise,
such thoughts, such deeds,
Vouchsafe O Lord.
A Christian close,
without sin, without shame,
and, should it please Thee,
without pain,
and a good answer
at the dreadful and fearful
judgment‑seat
of Jesus Christ our Lord,.
Vouchsafe O Lord.
Essence beyond essence,
Nature increate,
Framer of the world,
I set Thee, Lord, before my face,
and I lift up my soul unto Thee.
I worship Thee on my knees,
and humble myself under Thy mighty hand.
I stretch forth my hands unto Thee,
my soul gaspeth unto Thee as a thirsty land.
I smite on my breast
and say with the Publican,
God be merciful to me a sinner,
the chief of sinners;
to the sinner above the Publican,
be merciful as to the Publican.
Father of mercies,
I beseech Thy fatherly affection;
despise me not,
an unclean worm, a dead dog,
a putrid corpse,
despise not Thou the work of Thine own hands,
though branded by sin.
Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean;
Lord, only say the word, and I shall be cleansed.
And Thou, my Saviour Christ,
Christ my Saviour,
Saviour of sinners, of whom I am chief,
despise me not,
despise me not, O Lord,
despise not the cost of Thy blood,
who am called by Thy Name;
but look on me with those eyes
with which Thou didst look upon
Magdalene at the feast,
Peter in the hall,
the thief on the wood;—
that with the thief I may entreat Thee humbly,
Remember me, Lord, in Thy kingdom;
that with Peter I may bitterly weep and say,
O that mine eyes were a fountain of tears
that I might weep day and night;
that with Magdalene, I may hear Thee say,
and with her may love much,
for many sins yea manifold
have been forgiven me.
And Thou, All‑holy, Good, and
Life‑giving Spirit,
despise me not, Thy breath,
despise not Thine own holy things;
but turn Thee again, O Lord,
at the last,
and be gracious unto Thy servant.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord;
Our God,
the God of our Fathers;
who turnest the shadow of death into
the morning;
and lightenest the face of the earth;
who separatest darkness from the face
of the light;
and banishest night and bringest back
the day;
who lightenest
mine eyes,
that I sleep not in death;
night,
from the pestilence that walketh in
darkness;
who drivest sleep from mine eyes,
and slumber from mine eyelids;
who makest the outgoings of the
morning and evening
to praise Thee;
because I laid me down and slept and
rose up again,
for the Lord sustained me;
because I waked and beheld,
and my sleep was sweet unto me.
Blot out as a thick cloud
my transgressions,
and as a cloud my sins;
grant me to be a child of light,
a child of the day,
to walk soberly, holily, honestly,
as in the day;
vouchsafe to keep, me this day
without sin.
Thou who upholdest the falling and .
liftest the fallen,
let me not harden my heart
in provocation, or temptation,
or deceitfulness of any sin.
Moreover, deliver me to‑day
from the snare of the hunter
and from the noisome pestilence;
from the arrow that flieth by day,
from the sickness that destroyeth in
the noon day.
Defend this day against my evil,
against the evil of this day
defend Thou me.
Let not my days be spent in vanity,
nor my years in sorrow.
One day telleth another,
and one night certifieth another.
O let me hear Thy loving‑kindness
betimes in the morning,
for in Thee is my trust;
shew Thou me the way that
I should
walk in,
for I lift
up my soul unto Thee.
Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies,
for I flee unto Thee.
Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth
Thee,
for Thou art my God;
into the land of righteousness.
Quicken me,
O Lord,
for Thy Name’s sake,
and for Thy righteousness’ sake
bring my soul out of
trouble;
remove from me foolish imaginations,
inspire those which are good
and pleasing
in Thy sight.
Turn away mine eyes
lest they behold vanity;
let mine eyes look right
on,
and let mine eyelids look straight
before me.
Hedge up mine ears with thorns
lest they incline to undisciplined words.
Give me early the ear to hear,
and open mine ears to the instruction
of Thy oracles.
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth,
and keep the door of my lips.
Let my, word
be seasoned with salt,
that it may minister grace to the hearers.
Let no deed be grief unto me
nor offence
of heart.
Let me do, some work
for good,
and spare me according to the greatness
of Thy mercy.
Into Thine hands I commend
my spirit, soul, and body,
which Thou hast created, redeemed,
regenerated,
O Lord, Thou God of truth;
and together with me
all mine and all that belongs to
me.
Thou hast vouchsafed them to me,
Lord, in Thy goodness.
Guard us from all evil,
guard our souls,
I beseech Thee, O Lord.
Guard us without falling,
and place
us immaculate
in the presence of Thy glory
in that day.
Guard my going out and my coming in
henceforth and for ever.
Prosper, I pray Thee, Thy servant this
day,
and, grant him mercy
in the sight of those who meet him.
O Lord, make haste to help me.
O turn Thee then unto me,
and have mercy upon me;
give Thy strength unto Thy servant,
and help the son of Thine handmaid.
Shew some token upon me for good,
that they who hate me may see it and
be ashamed,
because Thou, Lord, hast holpen me
and comforted me.
THE day is gone;
and I give Thee thanks, O Lord.
Evening is at hand,
make it bright unto us.
As day has its evening
so also has life;
the even of life is age;
age has overtaken me,
make it bright unto us.
Cast me not away in the time of age;
forsake me not when my strength
faileth me.
Even to my old age be Thou He,
and even to hoar hairs carry me;
do Thou make, do
Thou bear,
do Thou carry and deliver me.
Abide with me, Lord,
for it is toward evening,
of this fretful life.
Let Thy strength be made perfect
in my weakness.
Day is fled and gone,
life too is going,
this lifeless life.
Night cometh,
and cometh death,
the deathless death.
Near as is the end of day,
so too the end of life:
We then, also remembering it,
beseech of Thee
for the close of our life,
that Thou wouldest direct it in
peace,
Christian, acceptable,
sinless, shameless,
and, if it please Thee, painless,
Lord, O Lord,
gathering us together
under the feet of thine Elect,
when Thou wilt, and as Thou wilt,
only without shame and sins.
for they shall be many,
lest we be cast into outer
darkness.
Remember we to outstrip the night
doing some good thing.
Near is judgment;—
a good and acceptable answer
at the dreadful and fearful judgment‑seat
of Jesus Christ,
vouchsafe to us, O Lord.
By night I lift up my hands in the
sanctuary,
and praise the Lord.
The Lord
hath granted
His loving‑kindness
in the day time;
and in the night season did I sing of
Him,
and made my prayer unto the God of
my life.
As long as I live will I magnify Thee on
this manner,
and lift up my hands, in Thy
Name.
Let my prayer be set forth in Thy sight
as the incense,
and let the lifting up of
my hands
be an evening
sacrifice.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, our God,
the God of our fathers,
who hast created the
changes of days and
nights,
who givest songs in the night,
who hast delivered us
from the evil of
this day,
who hast not cut off like a weaver my
life,
nor from
day even to night made an
end of me.
Lord,
as we add day to day
so sin to sin.
The just falleth seven times a day;
and I, an exceeding sinner,
seventy times seven;
wonderful, a horrible thing, O Lord.
But I turn with groans
from my evil ways,
and I return into my heart,
and with all my. heart I turn to Thee,
sinners;
and evening
by evening I will return
in the
innermost marrow of my soul;
and my
soul out of the deep
crieth unto
Thee.
I have sinned, O Lord, against Thee,
heavily against Thee;
alas, alas, woe is me!
for my misery.
I repent,
O me! I repent, spare me,
O Lord,
I repent, O me, I repent,
help Thou my impenitence.
Be appeased, spare me, O Lord;
be appeased, have mercy on me;
I said, Lord, have mercy upon me,
heal my soul, for I have sinned against
Thee.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord,
after Thy great goodness,
according to the multitude of Thy mercies
do away mine offences.
Remit the guilt,
heap the wound,
blot out the stains,
rescue from the tyranny,
and make me not a public example.
O bring Thou me out of my trouble,
cleanse Thou me from secret fault,
keep back Thy servant also from
presumptuous sins.
My wanderings of mind
and idle talking
lay not to my charge.
Remove the dark and muddy flood
of foul and wicked thoughts.
O Lord,
I have destroyed myself;
whatever I have done amiss,
pardon mercifully.
Deal not with us after our sins,
neither reward
us after our iniquities.
Look mercifully upon our infirmities;
and for the glory
of Thy All‑holy Name,
turn from us all those ills and miseries,
which by our sins,
and by us through
them,
are most righteously and worthily
deserved.
To my weariness, O Lord,
vouchsafe Thou rest,
to my exhaustion
renew Thou strength.
Lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in
death.
Deliver me from the terror by night,
the pestilence that walketh in darkness.
Supply me with healthy sleep,
and to pass through this night without
fear.
O keeper of Israel,
who neither slumberest nor sleepest,
guard me this night from all evil,
guard my soul, O Lord.
Visit me with the visitation of Thine own,
reveal to me wisdom in the visions of
the night.
If not, for I am not worthy, not worthy;
at least, O loving Lord,
let sleep be to me a breathing time
as from toil, so from sin.
Yea, O Lord,
nor let me in my dreams imagine
what may defile me.
Let not my loins be, filled with illusions,
yea, let my reins chasten me in the night
season,
yet without grievous terror.
Preserve me from the black sleep of sin;
all earthly and evil thoughts
put to sleep within me.
Grant to me light sleep,
rid of all imaginations
fleshly and satanical.
Lord, Thou knowest
how sleepless are mine unseen foes,
and how feeble my wretched flesh,
who madest me;
shelter me with, the wing of Thy pity;
awaken me at the fitting time,
the time of prayer;
and give me to seek Thee early,
for Thy glory, and for Thy service.
Here use the form of Intercession, No. 3.
Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commend
myself,
my spirit, soul, and body:
them;
and together with me, all my friends
and
all that belongs to me.
Thou hast vouchsafed them to me, Lord,
in Thy goodness.
Guard my lying down and my rising up,
from henceforth and for ever.
Let me remember Thee on my bed,
and search out my spirit;
let me wake up and be
present with
Thee;
let me lay me down in peace,
and take my rest:
for it is Thou,
Lord, only
that makest me dwell in safety.
THROUGH the tender mercies of
our God
the day‑spring from on high
hath
visited
us.
Glory be to Thee, O Lord, glory to Thee.
Creator of the light,
and Enlightener of the world,—
of the visible light,
The Sun’s ray, a flame of fire,
day and night,
evening
and morning,—
of the light invisible,
the revelation
of God,
writings
of the Law,
oracles
of Prophets,
music of
Psalms,
instruction
of Proverbs,
experience
of Histories,—
light
which never sets.
God is the Lord who hath shewed us
light;
yea even unto the horns of the altar.
O by Thy resurrection raise us up
unto newness of life,
supplying to us frames of repentance.
The God of peace,
who did bring again from the dead
the great Shepherd of the sheep,
through the blood of the everlasting
covenant,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
perfect us in every good work,
to do His will,
working in us what is acceptable before
Him,
through Jesus Christ,
to whom be glory for ever.
Thou who didst send down on Thy
disciples on this day
Thy Thrice‑holy Spirit,
withdraw not Thou the gift, O Lord,
from us,
but renew it in its, day by day,
who ask Thee for it.
Merciful and pitiful Lord,
Long‑suffering
and full of pity,
I have sinned, Lord,
I have sinned against Thee;
O me, wretched
that I am,
I have sinned, Lord, against Thee
much and grievously,
in attending on vanities and lies.
I conceal nothing:
I make no excuses.
I give Thee
glory, O Lord, this day,
I denounce
against myself my sins;
Truly I have
sinned before the Lord,
and thus
and thus have I done.
I have sinned and perverted
that which was right,
and it profited
me not.
And what
shall I now say?
or with what shall I open my mouth?
What shall I answer;
seeing I have done it?
Without plea, without defence,
self‑condemned, am I.
I have destroyed myself.
righteousness,
but unto me confusion of face,
because Thou art just in all that is come
upon me,
for Thou hast done right,
but
I have done wickedly.
And now, Lord, what is my hope?
Truly my hope is even in Thee,
if hope of salvation
remain to me,
if Thy loving‑kindness cover
the multitude of my iniquities.
O remember,
what my substance is,
the work
of Thine hands,
the likeness
of Thy countenance,
the cost
of Thy blood,
a name from
Thy Name,
a sheep of
Thy pasture,
a son of the
covenant.
Despise not Thou the work of Thine
own hands.
Hast Thou made for nought
Thine own image and likeness?
for nought, if Thou destroy it.
And what profit is there in my
blood?
Thine enemies
will rejoice.
Grant not
to them my destruction.
Look upon the face of Thine Anointed,
and in the
Blood of Thy covenant,
the propitiation for the sins of the whole
world,
Lord, be propitious unto me; a sinner;
even unto me, O Lord, of sinners
chief,
chiefest and greatest;
For Thy Name’s sake be merciful unto
my sin,
for it is great: it exceeds.
For Thy Name’s
sake, that Name,
beside which, none other under heaven
is given among men,
whereby we must be saved,
the Spirit Himself helping our infirmities,
and making intercession for us;
with
plaints unutterable.
For the tender yearnings of the Father,
the bloody wounds of the Son,
the unutterable
plaints of the Spirit,
give ear, O Lord, have mercy; O Lord,
O Lord, hearken and do;
defer not, for Thine
own sake,
O my
God.
they are ever before me;
I remember them in the bitterness of my
soul;
I am anxious about them;
I turn away and groan,
I have indignation and revenge
and wrath against myself.
I despise and bruise my own self,
that my penitence, Lord, O Lord
is not deeper, is not fuller;
help Thou mine impenitence.
And more, and still more,
pierce Thou, rend, crush my heart;
and remit, forgive, pardon
what things are grief to me,
and offence of heart.
Cleanse Thou me from secret faults,
and keep Thy servant also from
presumptuous sins.
Magnify Thy mercies towards the
wretched sinner
and in season, Lord, say to me,
Be of good cheer;
thy sins are forgiven thee;
My grace is sufficient for thee.
Why art thou so heavy, O my soul?
and why art thou so disquieted
within thee?
Return unto thy rest, O
my soul,
for
the Lord hath rewarded thee.
O Lord, rebuke me not in Thine
indignation,
neither chasten me in Thy displeasure.
I said, I will confess my sins unto the
Lord,
and
so Thou forgavest the wickedness
of my sin.
Lord, thou knowest all my desire,
and my groaning is not hid from
Thee.
Have mercy upon me, O God,
after Thy great goodness,
according to the multitude
of Thy
mercies
do away mine offences.
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy on me,
O
Lord,
for it is time that Thou have mercy
upon me,
yea, the
time is come.
iniquities,
O Lord, who shall stand?
Enter not into judgment with Thy servant,
O Lord,
for in Thy sight shall no man living be
justified.
My hands will I lift up
unto Thy commandments which I have
loved.
Open Thou mine eyes that I may see,
incline my heart that I may desire,
order my
steps that I may follow,
the way of Thy commandments.
O Lord God,
be Thou to me a God,
and beside Thee none else,
none else, nought else with Thee.
Vouchsafe to me, to worship Thee and
serve Thee
1. in truth of spirit,
2. in reverence
of body,
3. in blessing
of lips,
4. in private
and in public;
rule over me,
by obedience and submission,
to shew affection to my own,
by carefulness and providence;
6. to overcome evil with good;
7. to possess my vessel in sanctification
and honour;
8. to have my converse without
covetousness,
content with what I have;
9. to speak the truth in love;
10. to be desirous not to lust,
not to lust passionately,
not to go after lusts.
(THE HEDGE OF THE LAW, i.e. PRECAUTIONS)
1. To bruise the serpent’s head. (
2. To remember my latter end. (
3. To cut off opportunities. (
4. To be sober. (
5. Not to
sit idle. (
6. To shun
the wicked. (
7. To cleave
to the good. (
8. To make
a covenant with the eyes. (
9. To bring
my body into subjection. (
10. To
give myself unto prayer. (
11. To betake
myself to penitence. (
Hedge up,
my way with thorns,
that I find not the path
for following vanity.
Hold Thou me in with bit and bridle,
lest I fall from Thee.
O Lord compel
me to come in to Thee.
I believe, O Lord,
in Thee, Father, Word, Spirit, One God;
that by Thy fatherly love and power
all things were created;—
all things have been begun anew
in Thy Word,—
Who for us men and for our salvation,
was made flesh,
was conceived and born,
suffered
and was crucified,
died and was buried,
descended and rose again,
ascended
and sat down,
will return
and will repay;—
that by the shining‑forth and working
of Thy Holy Spirit,
hath been called, out of the whole
world
a peculiar
people into a polity,
in belief of the truth
and sanctity of living:—
that in it we are partakers
of the communion of saints
and forgiveness of sins
in
this world;—
that in it
we are waiting
for resurrection
of the flesh
and life
everlasting
in the
world to come.—
which was once delivered to the saints
I believe, O Lord;
help Thou mine
unbelief,
and vouchsafe to me
to love the Father for His fatherly love,
to reverence
the Almighty for His
power,
as a faithful Creator, to commit my
soul to Him in well
doing;
vouchsafe to me to partake
from Jesus of salvation,
from Christ of anointing,
from the Only‑begotten of adoption;
to worship the Lord
for His conception in faith,
for His birth in humility,
for His sufferings in patience and hatred
of sin;
for
His Cross to crucify beginnings,
for His death to mortify the flesh,
for His burial
to bury evil thoughts in
good works, for His descent to meditate upon hell,
for
His resurrection upon newness of life,
for His ascension; to mind things above,
things on His right,
for His return, to fear His second
appearance,
for judgment, to judge myself ere I be
judged.
From the Spirit
vouchsafe me the breath of salutary
grace.
In the Holy Catholic Church
to have my own calling, and holiness,
and portion,
and a fellowship
of
her sacred rites, and prayers,
fastings and groans,
vigils,
tears, and sufferings,
for assurance of remission of sins,
for hope of resurrection
and translation
to eternal life.
O Hope of all the ends of the earth,
and of them that remain in the broad sea;
O Thou on whom our fathers hoped,
and Thou didst deliver them;
and were not confounded;
O my Hope from my youth,
from my mother’s breasts;
on whom I have been cast from the womb,
be Thou my hope
now and evermore,
and my
portion in the land of the living:
In Thy nature,
in Thy names, in Thy types,
in word and in deed,
My Hope,
let me not be disappointed of my hope.
O the Hope of all the
ends of the earth,
remember Thy whole creation for good,
visit the world in Thy
compassion;
O guardian of men,
O loving
Lord,
remember all our race.
Thou who hast shut up all in unbelief,
on all have pity, O Lord.
O Thou who didst die and rise again,
to be Lord both of the dead and living,
live we
or die we,
Thou art
our Lord;
Lord, have
pity on living and dead.
seasonable
aid in affliction,
remember
all who are in necessity,
and need
Thy succour.
O God of grace and truth,
establish all who stand in truth and grace,
restore all who are sick with heresies
and sins.
O wholesome defence of Thine anointed,
remember Thy congregation
which Thou hast purchased and
redeemed of old.
O grant
to all believers
one heart and
one soul.
Thou that walkest amid the golden
candlesticks,
remove not
our candlestick
out of its place.
Amend what
are wanting,
establish what
remain,
which Thou
art ready to cast away,
which
are ready to die.
O Lord of
the harvest
send forth
labourers,
made sufficient by Thee,
into Thy harvest.
who wait in Thy temple,
grant to our clergy,
rightly to divide
the word of truth,
rightly to walk in it;
grant to Thy Christian people
to obey
and submit to them.
O King of nations, unto the ends
of the earth;
strengthen all the states
of the
inhabited world,
as being Thy ordinance,
though a creation of man.
Scatter the nations that delight in war,
make wars to cease in all the earth.
O expectation of the isles and their hope,
Load, save this island,
and all the country in which we sojourn,
from all affliction, peril, and need.
Lord of lords, Ruler of rulers,
remember all rulers
to whom Thou hast given rule in the earth,
and O remember specially
our divinely‑guarded king,
and work with him more and more,
and prosper
his way in all things.
for Thy Church and all Thy people,
grant to him
profound and
perpetual peace,
that in
his tranquillity
we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and honesty.
O Thou by whom are ordained the
powers that be,
grant to those who are chief in
court,
to be chief in virtue and Thy fear;
grant to the Parliament Thy holy wisdom;
to our great men, to do nothing against
but for the truth;
to the courts of law,
Thy judgments
to judge in all things concerning all
without preference, without
partiality.
O God of armies,
give a prosperous course and strength
to all the
Christian army,
against the enemies of our most holy
faith.
Grant to our population
to be subject unto the higher powers,
not only for wrath,
but also for conscience‑sake.
good seasons;
to the fleet and fishers fair weather;
to tradesmen, not to overreach one
another;
to mechanics, to pursue their business
lawfully,
down to the meanest workman,
down to the poor.
O God, not of us only but of our seed,
bless our children among us,
to advance in wisdom as in stature,
and in favour
with Thee and with
men.
Thou who wouldest have us provide for
our
own,
and hatest the unnatural,
remember, Lord, my relatians according
to the flesh,
grant
me to speak peace concerning
them,
and to seek their
good.
Thou who willest us to make return
to our benefactors,
remember; Lord, for good,
all from whom
I have received good;
upon earth,
and deliver them not
into the will of their enemies.
Thou who hast noted
the man who neglects his own, as worse
than an infidel,
remember in Thy good pleasure
all those in my household.
Peace be to my house,
the Son of peace upon all in it.
Thou who wouldest that our
righteousness exceed
the righteousness of sinners,
grant me, Lord,
to love
those who love me;
my own friend, and my father’s friend,
and my friend’s children,
never to forsake.
Thou who wouldest that we overcome
evil with good,
and pray for those who persecute us,
have pity on mine enemies, Lord,
as on myself;
and lead them
together with me
to Thy
heavenly kingdom.
servants one for another,
remember, Lord, for
good,
and pity all those
who remember me in their, prayers,
or whom I have promised to remember
in mine.
Thou who acceptest diligence in every
good work,
remember, Lord,
as if they prayed
to Thee,
those who for any good reason
give not time to prayer.
Arise, and
have mercy
on those who are in the last necessity,
for it is time that thou hast mercy
upon
them,
yea the time is come.
Have mercy on them, O Lord,
as on me also, when in extremities.
Remember,
Lord,
infants, children, the grown, the young,
the middle‑aged,
the old,
hungry,
thirsty, naked, sick,
prisoners, foreigners, friendless,
unburied,
possessed with devils,
and tempted to suicide,
troubled by unclean spirits,
the hopeless, the sick in
soul or body,
the weak‑hearted,
all in prison
and chains,
all under sentence of death;
orphans, widows, foreigners, travellers,
voyagers,
women with child, women who give
suck,
all in bitter servitude, or mines,
or
galleys,
or in loneliness.
Thou, Lord, shalt save both man
and beast,
how excellent is Thy mercy,
O God!
And the children of men shall put
their trust
under the shadow of Thy wings.
The Lord
bless us, and keep us,
and show the light of His countenance
upon us,
And be merciful
unto us,
upon us,
And give us peace!
I commend to
Thee, O Lord,
my soul, and my body,
my mind,
and my thoughts,
my prayers,
and my vows,
my senses,
and my limbs,
my words, and my works,
my life, and my death;
my brothers, and my sisters,
and their
children;
my friends,
my benefactors,
my well-wishers,
those who have a claim
on me;
my kindred, and my neighbours,
my country, and all Christendom.
I commend
to Thee, Lord,
my impulses,
and my startings,
my intentions,
and my attempts,
my going
out, and my coming in,
my sitting down, and my rising up.
Up with our hearts;
we lift them to the Lord.
O how very meet, and right, and fitting,
and due,
in all, and for all,
at all times,
places, manners,
in every season, every spot,
everywhere, always, altogether,
to
remember Thee, to worship Thee,
to confess to Thee, to praise Thee,
to bless Thee,
to hymn Thee,
to give thanks to Thee,
Maker, nourisher, guardian, governor,
preserver, worker, perfecter of all,
Lord
and Father,
King and God,
fountain of life and immortality,
treasure of everlasting goods.
Whom
the heavens hymn,
and the heaven of heavens,
the Angels and all the heavenly powers,
one to other crying continually,—
under their feet,—
Holy, Holy, Holy
Lord the
God of Hosts;
full is the whole heaven,
and the whole earth,
of the majesty
of Thy glory.
Blessed be the glory of the Lord
out of His place,
For His Godhead, His mysteriousness,
His height, His sovereignty,
His almightiness,
His eternity,
His providence.
The Lord is my strength, my stony rock,
and my defence,
my deliverer, my succour, my buckler,
the horn also of my salvation
and my refuge.
MY voice shalt Thou hear betimes,
O Lord,
early in the morning
will I direct my payer unto Thee,
and will look up.
Blessed
art Thou., O Lord,
who didst create the firmament of heaven,
the heavens and the heaven
of heavens,
the heavenly powers,
Angels, Archangels,
Cherubim, Seraphim,
waters above the heavens,
mists and exhalations,
for showers, dew, hail, snow as
wool,
hoar frost as ashes, ice as morsels,
clouds from the ends of the earth,
lightnings,
thunders, winds out of Thy
treasures, storms;
waters beneath
the heavens,
for drinking
and for bathing.
I will confess my sins,
and the sins of my fathers,
for I have transgressed ‑\and neglected
Thee, O Lord,
and walked perversely before Thee.
Set not, O Lord, set not my misdeeds
before Thee,
nor my life in the light of Thy
countenance,
But pardon the iniquity of Thy servant,
according to Thy great mercy;
as Thou hast been merciful to him from
a child,
even so now.
I have sinned, what shall I do unto
Thee,
O Thou preserver of men?
Why hast Thou
set me as a mark
against Thee,
so that I am
a burden to myself?
O pardon
my transgression,
and take away mine iniquity.
Deliver me from going
down to the pit,
for Thou hast found a ransom.
Lord, help
me.
Yea, Lord, even the dogs eat of the
crumbs
which fall
from their masters’ table.
Have patience with me, Lord,
yet I have not wherewith to pay,
I confess
to Thee;
forgive me the whole debt,
I beseech Thee.
How long wilt Thou forget me, O Lord?
for ever?
How long wilt Thou hide Thy face
from me?
How long shall I seek counsel in my soul,
and be vexed in my heart day and night?
How long shall mine enemies triumph
over me?
Consider and hear me, O Lord my God,
lighten mine eyes that I sleep not
in death,
lest mine enemy say I have prevailed
against him,
for if I be
cast down, they that trouble
me will rejoice at it;
but my trust
is in Thy mercy.
[The Ten Commandments]
Remove from me
1. all iniquity and profaneness, superstition, and hypocrisy.
2. worship of idols, of persons.
3. rash oath, and curse.
4. neglect or indecency of worship.
5. haughtiness and recklessness.
6. strife and wrath.
7. passion and corruption.
8. indolence and fraud.
9. lying and injuriousness.
10. every evil notion, every impure thought, every base desire, every unseemly thought.
Grant to me,
1. to be religious and pious.
2. to worship and serve.
3. to bless and swear truly.
4. to confess meetly in the congregation.
5. affection and obedience.
6. patience and good temper.
7. purity and soberness.
8. contentedness and goodness.
9. truth and incorruptness.
10. good thoughts, perseverance to the end.
I believe in God,
1. the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.
2. And in Jesus Christ, His Only-begotten Son, our Lord,
(1) conceived of the Holy Ghost,
(2) born of Mary, ever‑virgin,
(3) suffered under Pontius Pilate,
(4.) crucified,
(5) dead,
(6) buried.—
(1) descended into hell,
(2) risen from the dead,
(3) ascended into heaven,
(4) set down on the right hand,
(5) to return thence,
(6) to judge both quick and dead.
3. And in the Holy Ghost,
(1) The Holy Church,
(2) Catholic,
(3) communion of saints,
(4) remission of sins,
(5) resurrection of flesh,
(6) life everlasting.
And now, Lord, what is my hope?
Truly my hope is even in Thee;
in Thee, O Lord,
have I trusted,
let me never be confounded.
Let us pray God,
for the whole creation;
for the
supply of seasons,
healthy, fruitful, peaceful;
for the whole race of mankind;
for those who are not
Christians;
for the conversion of Atheists,
the ungodly;
Gentiles, Turks, and Jews;
for all Christians;
who languish in errors and sins;
for confirmation of all
who have
been granted truth and
grace;
for succour
and comfort of all
who are
dispirited, infirm, distressed,
unsettled,
men and women;
for thankfulness and sobriety in all
who are hearty, healthy, prosperous,
quiet,
men and women;
For the Catholic Church,
its establishment and increase;
for the
Eastern,
its deliverance and union;
for the Western,
its adjustment and peace;
for the British,
the supply of what is wanting in it,
the strengthening of what
remains in it;
for the episcopate, presbytery,
Christian people
for the states of the inhabited world;
for Christian states,
far off, near at hand;
for our own;
for all
in rule;
for our divinely‑guarded king,
the queen and the prince;
for those who have place
in the court;
for parliament and judicature,
army and police,
commons and their leaders,
farmers, graziers, fishers, merchants,
traders, and mechanics,
down to mean
workmen, and the poor,
for the rising
generation;
for the
good nurture of all the royal
family,
of the young
ones of the nobility;
for all in
universities, in inns of court,
in schools
in town or country,
in apprenticeships;
for those
who have a claim on me from
relationship,
for brothers
and sisters,
that God’s
blessing may be on them,
and on their
children;
or from benefits
conferred,
who have benefited me,
who have ministered to me in carnal
things;
or from trust placed in me,
for all
whom I have educated,
all whom I have ordained:
for my college, my parish,
Southwell,
St. Paul’s, Westminster,
Dioceses of Chichester, Ely, and my
present;
clergy, people, helps, governments,
the deanery in the chapel royal;
the almonry,
the colleges committed to me;
or from natural kindness,
for all who love me,
though I know them not;
or from Christian
love;
for those who hate me without cause,
some too, even on account of truth and
righteousness;
or from neighbourhood,
for all who dwell near me
peaceably and harmlessly;
for all whom I have promised to
remember in my prayers;
or from mutual offices,
for all who remember me in their prayers,
and ask of me the same;
or from stress of engagements,
for all who on sufficient reasons fail to
call upon Thee;
for all who have no intercessor
in their own behalf;
for all who at present are in agony
of extreme necessity or deep affliction;
for all who are attempting any good work
which will bring glory to the Name of God
or some great good to the Church;
for all who act nobly
either towards things sacred
or towards the poor:
for all who have ever been offended by me
either in word or in deed.
God have mercy on me and bless me;
God shew the light of His countenance
upon me and pity me.
God bless me, even our God,
God bless me and receive my prayer;
commandments,
hallow my soul,
purify my body,
correct my thoughts,
cleanse my desires,
soul and body, mind and spirit,
heart and reins.
Renew me thoroughly, O God,
for, if Thou wilt, Thou canst.
The Lord, the Lord God,
merciful and pitiful,
long‑suffering and full of pity, and true,
keeping pity for thousands,
taking away iniquities
and unrighteousnesses and sins;
not clearing the guilty one,
bringing sins of fathers upon children.
I will bless the Lord at all times,
His praise shall ever be in my mouth.
Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace,
goodwill towards men.
The | Angels, | guardianship; |
Archangels, | glory; | |
Powers, | marvels; | |
Thrones, | judgment; | |
Dominions, | beneficence; | |
Principalities, | government; | |
Authorities, | against devils; | |
Cherubim, | knowledge; | |
Seraphim, | love. |
O GOD, Thou art my God,
early will I seek Thee.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord,
who gatheredst the water into the sea,
and broughtest to sight the earth,
and madest to sprout
herb and fruit‑tree.
There are the depths and the sea
as on an heap,
lakes, rivers, springs;
earth, continent, and isles,
mountains, hills, and valleys;
glebe, meadows, glades,
green pasture, corn, and hay;
herbs and flowers
for food, enjoyment, medicine;
fruit‑trees bearing
wine, oil, and spices,
and trees for wood;
and things beneath the earth,
stones, metals, minerals, coal,
blood and fire, and vapour of smoke.
Who can
understand his errors
Cleanse Thou me from secret faults.
Keep back Thy servant also from
presumptuous
sins,
lest they have the dominion over me.
For Thy Name’s sake,
be merciful unto my sin,
for it is great.
My iniquities have taken such hold
upon me
that I am
not able to look up,
yea, they are more in number than the
hairs of my head,
and my heart hath failed me,
Be pleased,
O Lord, to deliver me,
Make haste,
O Lord, to help me.
Magnify Thy
mercies upon me,
O Thou who savest them that trust in
Thee.
I said, Lord, have mercy upon me,
heal
my soul,
for I have dinned against
Thee;
I have sinned, but I am confounded,
and I turn from my evil ways,
and with my whole heart I turn unto
Thee;
and I seek Thy face,
and I beseech Thee, saying,
I have sinned,
I have committed iniquity,
I have done unjustly.
I know, O Lord, the plague of my heart,
and lo, I turn to Thee with all my heart,
and with all my strength.
And Thou, O Lord, now from Thy
dwelling‑place,
and from the glorious throne of Thy
kingdom in heaven,
O hear the prayer
and the supplication of Thy servant;
and be propitious towards Thy servant
and heal his soul.
O God, be merciful to me a sinner,
be merciful to me the chief of sinners.
Father, I have sinned against heaven,
and before Thee,
and am no more worthy to be called Thy
son,
make me one of Thy hired servants;
or the least among all.
What profit is there in my blood,
when I go down to the pit?
shall the dust give thanks unto Thee?
or
shall it declare Thy truth?
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me;
Lord, be Thou my helper;
Turn my heaviness
into joy,
my dreamings into earnestness,
my falls into clearings of myself,
my guilt, my offence into indignation,
my sin into fear,
my transgression into vehement desire,
my unrighteousness into strictness,
my
pollution into revenge.
Hosanna in the highest.
Remember me, O Lord,
with the favour that Thou bearest unto
Thy people,
O visit me with Thy salvation;
that I may see the felicity of Thy chosen,
and give thanks with
Thine inheritance.
There is glory which shall be revealed;
for when the judge cometh
some shall see Thy face cheerful,
and shall be placed on the right,
and shall hear those most welcome
words,
"Come, ye blessed."
They shall be caught up in clouds
to meet the Lord;
they shall
enter into gladness,
they shall enjoy the sight of Him,
they shall
be ever with Him.
'These alone,
only these are blessed
among the sons of men.
O to me the meanest grant the meanest
place,
there under their feet;
under the feet of Thine elect,
the meanest among them.
And that this may be;
let me find grace in Thy sight
to have grace; (
so as to serve Thee acceptably
with reverence and
godly fear.
not to receive in vain (
the first grace,
not to came short of it;
(
yea, not to neglect it,
(
so as to
fall from it, (
but to stir it up, (
so as to increase in it, (
yea, to abide in it
till the end of my life.
And O, perfect for me what is lacking
of faith, of hopeof Thy gifts,
help Thou mine unbelief,
establish my trembling hope,
of lovekindle its smoking flax.
Shed abroad Thy love in my heart,
so that I may love Thee,
my friend in Thee, my
enemy for Thee.
O Thou who givest grace to the humble‑minded,
also give me‑grace
to be humble‑minded.
O Thou who never failest those who fear
Thee,
my Fear and my Hope,
let me fear one thing only,
the fearing
ought more than Thee.
so may I do to them;
not to have thoughts beyond what I
should think,
but to have thoughts unto sobriety.
Shine on those who sit in darkness,
and the shadow of death;
guide our feet into the way of peace,
that we may have the same thoughts
one with another,
rightly to divide, rightly to walk,
to edify,
with one accord, with one mouth
to glorify God;
and if ought otherwise,
to walk in the same rule
as far as we have attained;
to maintain order,
decency and stedfastness.
Godhead, paternal love, power,
providence:
salvation, anointing, adoption,
lordship;
cross, death, burial,
descent, resurrection, ascent,
sitting, return, judgment;
Breath
and Holiness,
calling from
the Universal,
hallowing
in the Universal,
communion
of saints,
and of saintly
things,
resurrection,
life eternal.
Hosanna on the earth.
Remember, O Lord,
to crown the year with Thy goodness;
for the eyes of all look towards Thee,
and Thou givest their food in due season.
Thou openest Thine hand,
and fillest all things living with
plenteousness.
And on us, O Lord, vouchsafe
and the dew above,
blessings of fountains
and the deep beneath,
courses of sun, conjunctions of moons,
summits of eastern mountains,
of the everlasting
hills,
fulness of the earth
and of
produce thereof,
good seasons,
wholesome weather,
full crops,
plenteous fruits,
health of
body, peaceful times,
mild government,
kind laws,
wise councils,
equal judgments,
loyal obedience,
vigorous justice,
fertility
in resources,
fruitfulness
in begetting,
ease in bearing, happiness in offspring,
careful nurture, sound training,
That our
sons may grow up as the young
plants,
our daughters
as the polished corners
of the
temple,
that our
garners may be full and
plenteous
with all
manner of store,
and ten thousands in our streets:
that there be no decay,
no leading into captivity
and no complaining in our streets.
Thou.
and unto Thee shall the vow be
performed in
Jerusalem.
Thou art worthy, O Lord our God,
the Holy One,
to receive glory, and honour, and
power.
Thou that hearest the prayer,
unto Thee shall all flesh come,
my flesh shall come.
My misdeeds prevail against me,
O be Thou merciful unto our sins;
that I may come and give thanks
with all Thy
works,
and bless Thee with Thy holy ones.
O Lord,
open Thou my lips,
and my mouth
shall shew forth Thy
praise.
for the goodness He hath done
to the whole creation,
and to the whole race of men;
for Thy mercies towards myself,
soul, body, and estate,
gifts of grace, nature, and fortune;
for all benefits received,
for all successes, now or heretofore,
for any good thing done;
for health, credit, competency,
safety, gentle estate, quiet.
Thou hast not cut off as a weaver my life,
nor from day even to night made an end
of me.
He hath vouchsafed me life and breath
until this hour,
from childhood, youth, and hitherto
even unto age.
He holdeth our soul in life
and suffereth not our feet to slip;
rescuing me from perils, sicknesses,
poverty, bondage,
public shame, evil chances;
keeping me from perishing in my sins,
fully waiting my conversion,
remembrance of my latter end,
shame, horror,
grief,
for my past sins;
fuller and larger, larger and fuller,
more and still more,
O my Lord,
storing me with good hope
of their remission,
through repentance and its works,
in the power of the thrice‑holy Keys,
and the mysteries in Thy Church.
Wherefore
day by day
for these Thy benefits towards me,
which I remember,—
wherefore also for
others very many
which I have let slip
from their number,
from my forgetfulness,—
for those which I wished, knew
and asked,
and those l asked not, knew not,
wished
not,—
I confess and give thanks to Thee,
I bless and praise Thee, as, is fit,
and
every day,
And I pray with my whole soul,
and with my whole mind I pray.
Thee;
glory to Thee,
and glory to Thine All-holy Name,
for all Thy Divine perfections
in them;
for Thine incomprehensible and
unimaginable
goodness,
and Thy
pity towards sinners
and unworthy
men,
and towards
me of all sinners
far the
most unworthy.
Yea, O
Lord,
for this,
and for the rest,
Glory to Thee,
and praise, and blessing,
and thanksgiving,
with the voices and concert
of voices
of Angels and of men,
of all Thy saints in heaven,
and all Thy creatures
in heaven or earth,
and of me, beneath their feet,
unworthy and wretched sinner,
Thy abject creature,
now, in this day and hour,
and every day
till my last breath,
and
till the end of the world,
and for ages upon ages.
I HAVE thought upon Thee, O Lord,
when I was waking,
for Thou hast been my helper.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord,
who madest the two Lights,
Sun and Moon,
greater and lesser,
and the stars
for light, for signs, for seasons,
spring, summer, autumn, winter,
days, weeks,
months, years,
to rule over day and night.
Behold, Thou art angry,
for we have sinned.
We are all as an unclean thing,
and all our righteousnesses
as filthy rags.
and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
But now, O Lord, Thou art our Father,
we are clay, all Thy handiwork.
Be not wroth
very sore,
nor remember iniquity for ever,
behold, see, we beseech Thee,
we are
all Thy people.
O Lord, though our iniquities testify
against us,
do Thou it for Thy Name’s sake;
for our backslidings are many,
we have sinned against Thee.
Yet Thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us,
and we are called by Thy Name,
leave us,
not.
O Hope of
Israel,
The Saviour thereof in time of trouble,
why shouldest
Thou be as a stranger in
the land,
and as a wayfaring man that turneth
aside to tarry for a night?
why shouldest Thou
be as a man
astonished,
as a mighty man that cannot save?
and our iniquities remember no more.
Lord, I am carnal,
sold under sin;
there dwelleth in me, that is, in my flesh,
no good thing;
for the good that I would, I do not,
but the evil which I would not, that I do.
I consent unto the law that it is good,
I delight in it after the inner man;
But I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind,
and enslaving me to the law of sin.
Wretched man that I am,
who shall deliver me from the body of
this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ,
that where sin abounded,
grace hath much more‑abounded.
O Lord, Thy goodness leadeth me to
repentance:
O give me sometime repentance
to recover me from the snare of the devil,
who am taken captive by him, at his will.
Sufficient for me the past time of my life
to have done the will of lusts,
drunkenness,
and in other
excess of profligacy.
O Lamb without blemish and without
spot,
who
hast redeemed me with Thy
precious
Blood,
in that very
Blood pity me and save me;
in that
Blood, and in
that very Name,
besides which is none other under heaven
given among men,
by which we must be saved.
O God, Thou
knowest my foolishness,
and my sins are not hid from Thee.
Lord, Thou knowest all my desire,
and my groaning is not hid from Thee.
Let not
them that trust in Thee,
O Lord
God of hosts,
be ashamed
for my cause;
let not those
that seek Thee be
confounded
through me,
O Lord
God of Israel.
Take me out of the mire that I sink not;
O let me, be delivered from them
that hate me
and out of the deep waters;
neither let the deep swallow me up,
and let not the pit shut her mouth
upon me.
[Defend me from] | |
[against seven deadly sins] | |
Pride | Amorite. |
envy | Hittite. |
wrath | Perizzite. |
gluttony | Girgashite. |
lechery | Hivite. |
[covetousness] | |
the cares of life | Canaanite. |
[sloth] | |
lukewarm indifference | Jebusite. |
[Give me] | |
Humility, pitifulness, patience, sobriety, purity, contentment, ready zeal. |
One thing have I desired of the Lord
which I will require,
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
and to visit His temple.
Two things have
I required of Thee,
O Lord,
deny Thou me not before I die;
remove far from me vanity
and lies;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
feed me with food convenient for me;
lest I be full and deny Thee
and say, Who is
the Lord?
or lest I be poor and steal,
and take the Name of my God in vain.
Let me learn to abound,
let me learn to suffer
need,
in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.
For nothing earthly, temporal, mortal,
to long nor to wait.
Grant me a happy life
in piety, gravity, purity,
in all things
good and fair,
in cheerfulness,
in health, in credit,
in competency, in safety, in gentle estate,
in quiet;
a happy death,
a deathless
happiness.
I believe
in the Father, benevolent affection;
in the Almighty, saving power;
in the Creator,
providence
for guarding, ruling, perfecting the
universe.
In Jesus, salvation,
in Christ, anointing;
in the Only‑begotten Son, sonship,
in the Lord, a master’s treatment,
in His conception
and birth
the cleansing of our unclean conception
and birth;
in His sufferings,
which we owed,
that we might not pay;
in His Cross the curse of the law
removed;
in His death the sting of death;
in His, burial eternal destruction in the
tomb;
in His deseent, whither we ought,
that we might not go;
in His resurrection,
as the first-fruits of them that sleep;
in His sitting, to appear and
intercede;
in His return, to take unto Him His own;
in His judgment, to render
to each
according to his works.
In the Holy Ghost; power from on high,
transforming
unto sanctity
from without and invisibly,
yet inwardly and evidently.
In the Church,
a body mystical
of the called out, of the whole world,
unto intercourse in faith
and holiness.
In the communion of saints,
members of this body,
a mutual participation
in holy things,
for confidence of remission of sins,
for hope of resurrection, of
translation,
to life everlasting.
And I have hoped in Thy mercy
from‑everlasting to everlasting.
How excellent is Thy mercy, O Lord;
If I have hope, it is in Thy mercy,
O let me not be disappointed of my hope.
remember all, Lord, for good;
have pity upon all; O Sovereign
Lord,
be reconciled with us all.
Give peace to the multitudes of Thy
people;
scatter offences;
abolish wars;
stop the uprisings of heresies.
Thy peace and love
vouchsafe to us, O God our Saviour,
the Hope of all the ends of the
earth.
Remember to crown the year
with Thy goodness;
for the eyes of all wait upon Thee,
and Thou givest them their meat in due
season.
Thou openest Thy hand,
and fillest all things living
with plenteousness.
Remember Thy Holy Church;.
from one end of the earth to the other;
and give her peace,
whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy
precious blood;
unto the end of the world.
Remember
those who bear fruit,
and act
nobly,
in Thy holy Churches,
and who remember the poor and needy;
recompense to them
Thy rich and heavenly gifts;
vouchsafe to them,
for things earthly, heavenly,
for corruptible, incorruptible,
for temporal,
eternal.
Remember those who are in virginity;
and purity and ascetic life;
also those who live in honourable
marriage,
in Thy
reverence and fear.
Remember
every Christian soul
in affliction,
distress, and trial,
and in need
of Thy pity and succour;
also our
brethren in captivity, prison,
chains,
and bitter bondage;
supplying return to the wandering,
health
to the sick,
deliverance
to the captives.
Remember religious and faithful kings,
upon the earth;
and especially remember, Lord,
our
divinely‑guarded king;
strengthen his kingdom,
subdue to him all adversaries,
speak
good things to his heart,
for Thy Church, and all Thy
people.
Vouchsafe to him deep and undisturbed
peace,
that in his serenity
we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
with all godliness and honesty.
Remember,
Lord, all power
and authority,
our brethren in the court,
those who are chief in
council
and judgment,
and all by land and sea
waging Thy wars for us.
Moreover, Lord, remember graciously
our holy Fathers,
the honourable Presbytery,
and all the Clergy,
rightly dividing the Word of Truth,
and rightly walking in it.
around us,
and praying with us in this holy hour,
for their zeal and earnestness‑sake.
Remember also those who on fair reasons
are away,
and pity them and us
in the
multitude of Thy pity.
Fill our garners with all manner of store;
preserve our marriages in peace and
concord,
nourish our infants,
lead forward our youth,
sustain our aged,
comfort the weak‑hearted,
gather together the scattered,
restore the wanderers,
and knit them to Thy Holy
Catholic
Apostolic Church.
_Set free
the troubled
with unclean
spirits,
voyage with
the voyagers,
travel with
the travellers
stand forth
for the widow,
shield the
orphan,
rescue the
captive,
heal the
sick.
in galleys,
in whatever affliction,
necessity,
and emergence,
remember,
O God;
and all
who need Thy great mercy;
and those
who love us,
and those
who hate;
and those
who have desired us unworthy
to make mention
of them in our prayers;
and all Thy
people remember, O Lord,
our God,
and upon all
pour out Thy rich pity,
to all performing
their requests
for salvation;
and those
of whom we have not made
mention,
through
ignorance, forgetfulness,
or number
of names,
do Thou Thyself
remember, O God,
who knowest the stature and appellation
of each,
who knowest every one from his mother’s
womb.
For Thou
art, O Lord, the Succour of the
succourless,
The Saviour of the tempest‑tost,
the Harbour of the voyager,
the Physician
of the sick,
do Thou Thyself become all things
to all men.
O Thou who knowest each man and his
petition,
each house, and its need,
deliver, O Lord, this city,
and all the country
in which we sojourn,
from plague, famine, earthquake, flood,
fire, sword, hostile
invasion,
and civil war.
End the schisms of the Churches,
quench the haughty cries of the nations,
and receive
us all into Thy kingdom,
acknowledging us, as sons of light;
and Thy
peace and love
vouchsafe to us, O Lord, our God.
Remember O
Lord, our God,
all spirits and all flesh
which we
have remembered, and which
we have
not.
And the
close of our life,
Lord, Lord,
direct in peace,
please Thee, painlessly,
gathering us together under the feet
of Thine elect,
when Thou wilt and how Thou wilt,
only without shame and sins.
The brightness of the Lord our God be
upon us,
prosper Thou the work of our hands
upon us,
O prosper Thou our handiwork.
Be, Lord,
within me to strengthen me,
without me to guard me,
over me to shelter me,
beneath me to stablish me,
before me to guide me,
after me to forward me,
round about me to secure me.
Blessed art Thou, Lord, God of Israel,
our Father,
from everlasting to everlasting.
is the greatness and the power,
the triumph and the victory,
the praise and the
strength,
for Thou rulest over all
in heaven and on earth.
At Thy face every king is troubled,
and every nation.
Thine, O Lord, is the kingdom
and the supremacy over all,
and over all rule.
With Thee is wealth, and glory is from
Thy countenance;
Thou rulest over all, O Lord;
the Ruler of all rule;
and in Thine hand is strength
and power,
and in Thine hand to give to all things
greatness and strength.
And now;
Lord, we confess to Thee
and we praise
Thy glorious Name.
We are satisfied with Thy mercy,
O Lord,
in the morning.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord,
who broughtest forth from the water
creeping things of
life,
and whales,
and winged fowl.
Be Thou exalted, O God,
above the heavens,
and Thy glory above all the earth.
By Thy Ascension, O Lord,
draw us too after Thee,
that we savour of what is above,
not of things on the earth.
By the
marvellous mystery
of the Holy Body and precious Blood,
on the evening of this day,
Lord, have mercy.
Thou who
hast said,
“As I live, saith the Lord,
I will not
the death of a sinner,
but that the ungodly return from his way
and live;
turn ye, turn ye from your wicked way,
for why will ye die, O house of
Israel?”
turn us, O Lord, to Thee,
and so shall
we be turned.
Turn us from all our ungodlinesses,
and let them not be to us
for punishments.
I have sinned, I have committed iniquity,
I have done
wickedly,
from Thy precepts, and Thy judgments.
To Thee, O Lord, righteousness,
and to me confusion of face,
as at this day,
in our dispicableness,
wherewith Thou
hast despised us.
Lord, to us confusion of face,
and to our rulers
who have
sinned against Thee.
unto all Thy righteousness;
let then Thine
anger and Thy fury be
turned away,
and cause Thy face to shine
upon Thy servant.
O my God, incline Thine ear and hear,
open Thine eyes and see my
desolation.
O Lord, hear, O Lord forgive,
O Lord hearken and do;
defer not
for Thine own sake,
O my God,
for Thy servant is called by Thy Name.
In many
things we offend all;
Lord, let Thy mercy rejoice, against Thy
judgment in my sins.
If
I say I have no sin, I deceive myself,
and the truth is not in me;
but I confess my sins many and grievous,
and Thou, O Lord, art faithful and just,
to forgive me my sins when I confess
them.
Yea, for this too
I have an Advocate with Thee to Thee,
Thy Only‑begotten Son, the Righteous.
who is also for the whole world.
Will the
Lord cast off for ever?
and will
He be no more intreated?
Is His mercy
clean gone for ever?
and is His promise come utterly to an end
for
evermore?
Hath God forgotten
to be gracious?
and will He shut up His loving kindness
in displeasure?
And I said,
It is mine own infirmity;
but I will remember the years of the
right hand of the
most Highest.
[Give me grace]
to put aside every weight,
and the sin that doth so easily beset us;
all filthiness
and superfluity of naughtiness,
lust‑of the flesh, of the eyes,
pride of life,
every motion, of flesh and spirit
alienated from the will of Thy sanctity:
that I have a portion in the kingdom of
heaven;
to mourn,
that I be comforted;
to be meek, that I inherit the earth;
to hunger and thirst
for righteousness,
that I be filled;
to be pitiful, that I be pitied;
to be pure
in heart, that I see God;
to be a peace‑maker that I be called the
son of God;
to be prepared
for persecutions and
revilings
for righteousness’ sake,
that my
reward be in heaven,—
all this,
grant to me, O Lord.
I, coming to God;
believe that He is,
and that He is a rewarder of them
that diligently seek Him.
I know that my Redeemer liveth,
that He is Christ, the Son of the Living
God,
that He is truly the Saviour of the world,
sinners,
of whom I am chief.
Through the grace
of Jesus Christ
we believe that we shall be saved
like as our fathers.
I know that
my skin shall rise up upon
the earth,
which undergoeth these things.
I believe, to see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.
Our heart shall rejoice in Him,
because we have hoped in His holy
Name,
in the
Name of the Father,
of the Saviour, Mediator, Intercessor,
Redeemer,
of the two‑fold Comforter,
under the figures of the Lamb and the
Dove.
Let Thy merciful kindness, O Lord,
be upon us,
like as we do
put our trust in Thee.
Let us beseech the Lord in peace,
for the heavenly peace,
and the salvation of our
souls;—
for the peace of the whole world;
for the stability of God’s holy Churches,
and the union of them all;—
for this holy house,
and those who enter it with faith
and
reverence;
for our holy Fathers;
the honourable Presbytery,
the Diaconate in
Christ,
and all, both Clergy and people;—
for this holy retreat, and all the city
and country,
and all the faithful who dwell
therein;—
for salubrious
weather,
fruitfulness
of earth,
and peaceful times;—
for voyagers;
travellers,
those who
are in sickness, toil, and
captivity,
and for their
salvation.
O God, in
Thy grace.
Making mention
of the all‑holy, undefiled, and more than
blessed
Mary, Mother of God and Ever‑Virgin,
with all saints,
let us commend ourselves, and each other,
and all our life;
to Christ our God.
To Thee, O Lord, for it is fitting,
be glory, honour, and worship.
The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
and the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Ghost,
be with me, and with all of us. Amen.
I commend me and mine,
and all that belongs
to me,
to Him who is able to keep me without
falling, and to place me immaculate
before
the presence of His glory,
to the only wise God and our Saviour;
to whom be glory and greatness,
strength and
authority,
both, now
and for all ages. Amen.
O Lord, my
Lord,
for my being, life, reason,
for nurture, protection, guidance,
for education, civil rights, religion,
for Thy gifts of grace, nature, fortune,
for redemption,
regeneration, catechising,
for my call, recall, yea, many calls
besides;
for Thy
forbearance, long‑suffering,
long long‑suffering
to me‑ward,
many seasons, many
years; up to this
time;
for all good things received,
successes granted
me,
good things done;
for the use of things present,
for Thy promise, and my hope
of the enjoyment of good things to
come;
for my parents honest and good,
teachers kind,
benefactors newer to be forgotten,
religious, intimates congenial,
friends sincere,
domestics faithful,
for all who have advantaged
me,
by writings, homilies, converse,
prayers, patterns, rebukes, injuries;
for all
these, and all others
which I know, which I know not,
open, hidden,
remembered, forgotten,
done when
I wished, when I wished not,
I confess to Thee and will confess,
I bless Thee and will bless,
I give thanks to Thee and will give
thanks,
all the days of my life.
Who am I;
or what is my father’s house,
that Thou
shouldest look upon a dead
dog,
the like of me?
What reward
shall I give unto the Lord
for all
the benefits which He hath done
unto me?
What thanks can I recompense unto God,
for all He hath spared and borne with me
until now?
worthy art Thou,
O Lord and our God, the Holy One,
to receive the glory, and the honour,
and the power,
for Thou hast made all things,
and for Thy pleasure they are,
and were created.
EARLY shall my prayer come before
Thee.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord,
who broughtest forth of the earth,
wild beasts, cattle,
and all the reptiles,
for food, clothing, help;
and madest man after Thine image,
to rule the earth,
and blessedst him,
The fore‑counsel, fashioning hand,
breath of life, image of God,
appointment over the works,
charge to the Angels concerning him,
paradise.—
Heart, reins, eyes, ears, tongue, hands,
feet,
life, sense, reason, spirit, free will,
memory, conscience,
the revelation of God, writing of the
law,
instruction of proverbs,
experience of histories,
worship of sacrifices.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord,
for Thy great and precious promise
on this day,
concerning the Life‑giving Seed,
and for its fulfilment in fulness of
the times
on this day.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord,
for the holy Passion
of this day.
O by Thy salutary sufferings
on this day,
save us, O Lord.
I have withstood Thee, Lord,
but I return to Thee;
for I have fallen by mine iniquity.
and I return unto Thee and say,
take away all iniquity and receive us
graciously,
so will we render the calves of our lips.
Spare us, Lord, spare,
and give not Thine heritage to reproach,
to Thine enemies.
Lord, Lord, be propitious,
cease, I beseech Thee,
by whom shall Jacob arise?
for he is small.
Repent, O Lord, for this,
and this shall not be.
While observing lying vanities
I forsook my own mercy,
and am cast out of Thy sight.
When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
yet will I look again toward Thy Holy
Temple;
Thou hast brought up my life from
corruption.
Who is a God like unto Thee,
that pardoneth iniquity
to the remnant of His heritage?
He retaineth not His anger forever,
because He delighteth in mercy.
Turn again and have compassion
upon us, O Lord,
subdue our iniquities,
and cast all our sins into the depths
of the sea,
according to Thy truth,
and according to Thy mercy.
O Lord, I have heard Thy speech
and was afraid,
in wrath
remember mercy.
Behold me, Lord, clothed in filthy
garments;
behold Satan standing at my right hand;
yet, O Lord,
by the blood
of Thy covenant,
by the fountain opened for sin and for
uncleanness,
Take away my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin.
Save me as a brand
plucked out of the fire.
Father, forgive me, for I knew not,
truly I knew not, what I did
in sinning against
Thee.
Lord, remember me
when Thou comest in Thy kingdom.
Lord, lay not mine enemies’ sins to
their charge,
Lord, lay
not my own to mine.
By Thy sweat bloody and clotted,
Thy soul
in agony,
Thy head crowned with thorns,
bruised with staves,
Thine eyes
swimming with tears,
Thine ears
full of insults,
Thy mouth moistened with vinegar
and gall,
Thy face
dishonourably stained with
spitting,
Thy neck weighed down with the burden
Thy back ploughed with the wheals
and gashes of the scourge,
Thy hands and feet stabbed through,
Thy strong cry, Eli, Eli,
the water and blood thence flowing,
Thy body broken,
Thy blood poured out,
Lord, forgive the offence of Thy servant,
and cover all his sins.
Turn away all Thy displeasure,
and turn Thyself from Thy wrathful
indignation.
Turn me then, O God our Saviour,
and let Thine anger cease from us.
Wilt Thou be displeased at us for ever,
and stretch out Thy wrath from one
generation to another?
Wilt Thou not turn again
and quicken us,
that Thy people may rejoice in Thee?
Shew us Thy mercy, O Lord,
and grant us Thy salvation
. . . .
the works of the flesh,
adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness,
enmities, strifes,
emulations, heats,
quarrels, parties,
heresies, envyings, murders,
drunkennesses, revellings, and such like.
. . . .
the fruits of the Spirit,
love, joy, peace,
long‑suffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, temperance;
the spirit of wisdom, of understanding,
of counsel, of might,
of knowledge, of
godliness,
of fear of the Lord:—
and the gifts of the Spirit,
the word of wisdom,
of knowledge,
faith, gifts of healing,
working of miracles,
prophecy, discerning of spirits,
kinds of tongues,
interpretation of tongues.
May Thy strong hand, O Lord,
be ever my defence;
my salvation;
Thy all‑veritable word,
my instructor;
the grace
of Thy life‑bringing Spirit,
my consolation
all along, and at last.
The Soul of
Christ hallow me,
and the Body strengthen me,
and the Blood ransom me,
and the Water
wash me,
and the Bruises heal me,
and the Sweat refresh me,
and the Wound hide
me.
The peace of God
which passeth all understanding,
keep my heart and thoughts
in
the knowledge and the love
of God.
I believe
that Thou hast created me;
despise not the work of Thine own
hands;—
and likeness,
suffer not Thy likeness to be
blotted
out;—
that Thou host redeemed me in
Thy blood,
suffer not the cost of that redemption
to perish;
that Thou host called me Christian
after Thy name,
disdain not Thine own title;
that Thou host hallowed me in
regeneration;
destroy not Thy holy work;—
than Thou halt grafted me into the
good olive‑tree,
the member of a mystical
body;
the member of Thy mystical body,
cut not off.
O think upon Thy servant as concerning
Thy word,
wherein Thou hast caused me to put
my trust.
My soul hath longed for Thy salvation,
and I have good
hope because of
Thy word.
[I pray]
forthe prosperous advance and good
condition
of all the Christian army,
against the enemies of our most holy
faith;
for our holy fathers,
and all our
brotherhood in Christ;
for those who hate and those who
love us,
for those who
pity and those who
minister to us;
for those whom we have promised
to remember
in prayer;
for the liberation of captives;
for our fathers and brethren absent;
for those who voyage by sea;
for those who lie in sickness.
Let us pray also for fruitfulness of the
earth;
and for every soul of orthodox
Christians.
Let us bless pious kings,
orthodox high‑priests,
our parents,
and all our forefathers
and our brethren departed.
Thou who,
on man’s transgressing Thy
command,
and falling,
didst not
pass him by, nor leave him,
God of goodness;
but didst
visit in ways manifold,
as a tender Father,
supplying
him with Thy great and
precious
promise,
concerning
the Life‑giving Seed,
opening
to him the door of faith,
and of repentance unto life,
and in fulness
of the times,
sending Thy Christ Himself
to take on Him the seed of Abraham;
and, in the oblation of His life,
to fulfil the Law’s obedience;
and, in the sacrifice of His death,
to take off the Law’s curse;
to redeem the world;
and, in His resurrection,
to quicken it:—
O Thou, who doest all things,
whereby to bring again our race to Thee,
that it may be partaker
of Thy divine nature and eternal glory;
who hast borne witness
to the truth of Thy gospel
by many and various wonders,
in the ever-memorable converse of Thy
saints,
in their supernatural endurance
of torments;
in the overwhelming conversion
of all lands
to the obedience of faith,
without might, or persuasion; or
compulsion:—
Blessed be Thy Name,
and praised and celebrated,
and magnified, and high exalted,
and glorified, and hallowed;
its record, and its memory,
an d every memorial of it,
both now and for evermore.
and to open the seals thereof,
for Thou wast slain,
and hast redeemed us to God
by Thy blood,
out of every kindred and tongue,
and people,
and nation.
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive the power,
and riches, and wisdom,
and strength, and honour,
and glory, and blessing.
To Him that sitteth upon the Throne,
and to the Lamb,
be the blessing, and the honour,
and the glory, and the might,
forever and ever. Amen.
Salvation to our God, which sitteth
upon the throne,
and to the Lamb.
Amen. The blessing and the glory
and the wisdom,
and the thanksgiving and the honour,
and the power and the strength,
be unto
our God,
for ever and ever,
Amen.
O LORD, be gracious unto us,
we have waited for Thee;
be Thou
our arm every morning,
our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Blessed art Thou,
O Lord,
who restedst on the seventh day
from all Thy works,
and blessedst and sanctifiedst it:
[concerning the Sabbath,
concerning the Christian rest instead
of it,
concerning the burial of Christ,
and the resting from sin,
concerning those who are already gone
to rest.]
I am ashamed; and blush, O my God,
to lift up my face to Thee,
for mine iniquities are increased
over my head,
heavens;
since the days of youth
have I been
in a great trespass
unto this day;
I cannot stand before Thee because
of this.
My sins are more in number than the
sand of the sea,
my iniquities are multiplied,
and I not worthy to look up
and see
the height of heaven,
from the
number of my
unrighteousnesses;
and I
have no relief,
because I have provoked Thine anger,
and done evil in Thy sight;
not doing Thy will,
not keeping
Thy commandments.
And now my heart kneels to Thee,
beseeching Thy goodness.
I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned,
and I know mine iniquities;
and I ask and
beseech,
remit to
me, O Lord, remit to me,
and destroy me not in mine iniquities;
nor reserve evil for me;
nor condemn me
in the lowest parts of the earth.
Because Thou art God,
the God of penitents,
and Thou shalt shew in me all Thy
loving kindness;
for Thou shalt save me unworthy,
according to Thy much pity,
and I will praise Thee alway.
Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst cleanse
me;
Lord, only say the word, and I shall be
healed.
Lord, save me;
Carest
Thou not that we perish?
Say to me, Be of good cheer, thy sins
are remitted to thee.
Jesu,
Master,
have mercy on me;
Thou Son of David, Jesu, have mercy
on me;
Jesu, Son of David, Son of David.
Lord, say to me, Ephphatha.
Lord, I have no man (
infirmity.
Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Say unto me, My grace is sufficient
for thee.
Lord, how long wilt Thou be angry?
shall Thy jealousy burn like fire for ever?
O, remember
not our old sins;
but have
mercy on us and that soon,
for we are
come to great misery;
Help us, O God of our salvation;
for the glory of Thy Name.
O deliver us and be merciful unto
our sins,
for Thy Name’s sake.
[O Lord, remit].
all my failings, shortcomings, falls,
offences, trespasses, scandals,
transgressions, debts, sins,
faults, ignorances, iniquities,
impieties, unrighteousnesses, pollutions.
The guilt of them, | |
be gracious unto, | pardon; |
remit, | forgive; |
be propitious unto, | spare; |
impute not, | charge not, remember not. |
The stain, | |
pass by, | pass over; |
disregard, | overlook; |
hide, | wash away; |
blot out, | cleanse. |
The hurt, | ||
remit, | heal, | remedy; |
take off, | remove, | away with; |
abolish, | annul, | disperse, annihilate; |
that they be not found, that they exist not. |
Supply | |
to faith, | virtue; |
to virtue, | knowledge |
to knowledge, | continence; |
to continence, | patience; |
to patience, | godliness; |
to godliness, | brotherly love; |
to brotherly love, | charity. |
That I forget not my cleansing from my
former sins,
but give diligence to make my calling
and election sure
through good works.
I believe in Thee the Father;
Behold then, if Thou art a Father and
we sons,
as a father pitieth sons,
be Thou of tender‑mercy towards us,
O Lord.
I believe in Thee, the Lord;
behold then, if Thou art Lord and we
servants,
our eyes are upon Thee our Lord,
until Thou have mercy upon us.
I believe that though we be neither sons
nor servants,
but dogs only,
yet we have leave to eat of the crumbs
that fall from Thy Table.
I believe that Christ is the Lamb of
God;
sins of the world,
take Thou away mine.
I believe that Jesus Christ came into
the world
to save sinners;
Thou who
camest to save sinners
save Thou
me, of sinners
chief and
greatest,
I believe that Christ came to save what
was lost;
Thou who
camest to save the lost,
never suffer, O Lord, that to be lost
which Thou
hast saved.
I believe that the Spirit is the Lord and
Giver of life;
Thou who
gavest me a living soul,
give me that I receive not my soul
in vain.
I believe that the Spirit gives grace
in His sacred things;
give me that I receive not His grace
in vain,
nor hope of His sacred things.
I believe
that the Spirit intercedes for us
with plaints
unutterable
plaints
to partake, O Lord.
Our fathers hoped in Thee,
they trusted in Thee, and Thou didst
deliver them.
They called upon Thee and were holpen,
they put their trust in Thee, and were not
confounded.
As Thou didst our fathers
in the generations of old,
so also deliver us, O Lord,
who trust in Thee.
O Heavenly King,
confirm our faithful kings,
stablish the faith,
soften the nations,
pacify the
world,
guard well
this holy retreat,
and receive us in orthodox faith and
repentance,
as a kind and loving Lord.
the wisdom of the Son enlighten me,
the working of the Spirit quicken me.
Guard Thou my soul,
stablish my body,
elevate my senses,
direct my converse,
form my habits,
bless my actions,
fulfil my prayers,
inspire holy thoughts,
pardon the past,
correct the present,
prevent the future.
Now unto Him that is able to do
exceeding abundantly
above all that we ask or
think,
according to the power that worketh
in us,
to Him be
glory
in the Church in Christ
unto all generations
world without end. Amen.
and magnified, and exalted, and glorified,
and hallowed,
be Thy Name, O Lord,
its
record, and its memory,
and every memorial of it;
for the all‑honourable senate
of the
Patriarchs,
the ever‑venerable band of the
Prophets,
the all‑glorious college of the Apostles,
the Evangelists,
the all‑illustrious army of the Martyrs,
the Confessors,
the assembly of Doctors,
the Ascetics,
the beauty of Virgins,
for Infants the delight of the world,—
for their faith, | their hope, |
their labours, | their truth; |
their blood, | their zeal, |
their diligence, | their tears, |
their purity; | their beauty. |
Glory to Thee, O Lord, glory to Thee,
glory to Thee who didst glorify them,
among whom we too glorify Thee.
Lord, the God Almighty;
just and true are Thy ways,
O King of Saints.
Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord,
and glorify Thy Name?
for Thou only art holy,
for all the nations shall come and worship
before Thee,
for Thy judgments are made manifest.
Praise our God, all ye His servants,
and ye that fear Him,
both small and great,
Alleluia,
for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth;
let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour
to Him.
Behold the tabernacle of God is with men,
and He will dwell with them;
and they shall be His people,
and God Himself shall be with them,
and shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes.
And there shall be no more death;
neither crying, neither pain any more,
for the former things are passed away.
LORD, Thou knowest, and canst,
and wiliest
the good, of my soul.
Miserable man
am I;
I neither know, nor can, nor, as I ought,
will it.
Thou, O Lord, I beseech Thee,
in Thine ineffable affection,
so order concerning
me,
and so dispose,
as Thou knowest to be most pleasing
to Thee,
and most good for me,
[Thine is]
goodness, grace;
love, kindness;
benignity, gentleness, consideration;
forbearance,
long‑sufferings;
much pity, great pity;
yearnings of mercies;
kind yearnings, deep yearnings;
in passing over,
in overlooking, in disregarding;
many seasons, many years;
[punishing] unwillingly, not willingly;
not to the
full,
not correspondently,
in wrath
remembering mercy,
repenting
of the evil,
compensating
doubly,
ready to pardon,
to be reconciled,
to be appeased.
Father, the Creator,
Son, the
Redeemer
Spirit, the Regenerator,
destroy me not,
regenerated.
Remember not, Lord, my sins,
nor the sins
of my forefathers;
neither take vengeance for our sins, theirs,
nor mine.
Spare us, Lord, them and me,
spare Thy people,
and, among
Thy people, Thy servant,
who is redeemed with Thy precious
blood;
and be not angry with us for ever.
Be merciful; be merciful; spare us, Lord,
and be not angry with us for ever.
Be merciful; be merciful;
have pity on us, Lord,
and be not angry with us to the
full.
Deal not, O Lord,
deal not with me after mine inquities .
neither recompense me according to my
sins;
but after Thy
great pity,
deal with me;
and according to the multitude of Thy
mercies,
recompense
me;
and that multitude of mercies,
as Thou didst to our fathers
in the times of old;—
by all that is dear unto Thee.
From all evil and adversity,
in all time of need;
from this evil and this adversity,
in this time;
raise me, rescue me, save me,
O Lord.
Deliver me, O Lord,
and destroy me not.
On the bed of sickness;
in the hour of death;
in the day of judgment,
in that dreadful and fearful day;
rescue me, Lord, and save me;—
from seeing the judge’s face overcast,
from being placed on the left,
from hearing the dreadful word,
Depart from Me,
from being bound in chains of darkness,
from being, east into the outer darkness,
from being tormented in the pit of fire
and brimstone,
ascendeth for ever.
Be merciful, be merciful,
spare us, pity us,
O Lord:
and destroy us not for ever,
deliver and save us.
Let it not be, O Lord; and that it
be not,
take away from me, O Lord,
hardness of
heart,
desperateness after sinning,
blindness of heart,
contempt of Thy threats,
a cauterized conscience,
a reprobate mind,
the sin against the Holy Ghost,
the
sin unto death,
the four crying sins;
the six which forerun
the sin against,
the Holy Ghost.
from all ills and abominations of this
world,
from plague, famine, and war;
earthquake,
flood, and fire,
the stroke of immoderate rain and
drought;
blast and blight;
thunder, lightning and tempest;
epidemic sickness, acute and malignant,
unexpected death;
from ills and difficulties in the Church,
from private interpretation,
from innovation in things sacred,
from heterodox teaching;
from unhealthy enquiries
and
interminable disputes,
from heresies, schisms; scandals,
public and private,
from making gods of kings,
from flattering of the people,
from the indifference
of Saul,
from tie scorn of Michal,
from the greediness of Hophni,
from the plunder of Athaliah;
from the
priesthood of Micah,
Judas,
from the doctrine of men unlearned
and unestablished,
from the pride of novices,
from the people resisting
the priest:—
from
ills and difficulties in the
state, from anarchy, many rulers, tyranny,
from Asher,
Jeroboam, Rehoboam,
Gallio, Haman,
the profligacy of Ahithophel,
the foolishness of Zoan (
the statutes of Omri,
the justice of Jezebel,
the overflowings of Belial (
the courage of Peor,
the valley of Achor,
pollution of blood or seed,
incursion of enemies,
civil war,
bereavement of good governors,
accession of evil and unprincipled
governors;
from an intolerable life,
distress, peril, slavery, restlessness:
from death
in sin, shame,
tortures,
desperateness, defilement, violence,
treachery;
from death unexpected,
from death eternal.
For all creatures, | our own. |
men, | Councillors, |
persons compassed | judges, |
with infirmity | nobles, |
Churches | soldiers, |
Catholic, | sailors, |
Eastern, | the people, |
Western, | the rising |
British. | generation, |
The Episcopate, | schools, |
Presbytery, | those at court, |
clergy, | in cities, |
Christian people. | the country. |
States | Those who serve |
of the whole earth, | the soul; |
Christian, | those who serve |
neighbouring, | the body, |
our own. | in food, |
Rulers, | clothing, |
kings, | health, |
religious kings, | necessaries: |
in neighbourhood; | |
a claim on my | from promise, |
prayers,] | from mutual |
in nature, | offices, |
by benefits, | from want of |
from trust, | leisure, |
formerly or now, | from destitution, |
in friendship, | from extremity. |
in love, |
Thy whole creation, | the world, |
our whole race, | the inhabited earth, |
the states of the world, | |
the Catholic Church, | the Christian religion, |
the separate Churches,
the separate states, |
|
our Church, | our country, |
our state,
the orders in each, |
|
the persons in the orders, | the priesthood, |
the person of the king, of the prince,
the City,
the parish in which I was baptized,
All‑Hallows, Barking.
My two schools,
my University,
my College,
the parish committed
to me, St.
Giles’s,
the three Churches
of Southwell,
St. Paul’s,
Westminster;
the three Dioceses
of Chichester;
Ely,
Winton,
my home,
my kindred,
those who shew we pity,
those who minister to me;
my neighbours,
my friends,
those who have a claim on me.
The creation, | the race of man, |
all in affliction and in prosperity, | |
in error, | and in truth, |
in sin, | and in grace; |
the Church Ecumenical,
Eastern, Western, our own,
Rulers, Clergy, people.
States of the earth,
Christian, neighbouring, our own,
the King, the Queen, the Prince,
the nobles.
Parliament, Law Courts, army, police.
The Commons,
farmers, merchants, artisans,
down to mean workmen,
and poor.
Those who have a claim on me,
from kindred,
benefaction,
ministration of things temporal,
charge formerly or now,
natural kindness,
Christian love,
promise on my part,
their own desire,
their lack of leisure,
sympathy for their extreme misery;
any good work,
any noble action,
any scandal from me,
having none to pray for them.
World, | earth inhabited. |
Church, | kingdom, |
throne, | altar. |
Council‑chamber, | law courts, |
schools, | work‑places, |
Infants, | boys, |
the grown, | youths, |
men, | elderly, |
aged, | decrepit. |
weak‑hearted, | |
sick, | prisoners, |
orphans, | widows, |
foreigners | |
travellers, | voyagers, |
with child, | who give suck, |
in bitter bondage, | in desolateness, |
overladen. |
WHAT shall I do that I may inherit eternal life
Keep the commandments. (
What shall we do?
Repent and be baptized every one of you (
What must I do to be saved?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. (
What shall we do then?
[To the multitude]
He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.
He that hath meat let him do likewise.
[To the publicans]
Exact no more than is appointed you.
[To soldiers.]
Do violence to no man; neither accuse any falsely; be
content with your wages. (
The knowledge and faith | |
of [God’s] justice | [God’s] mercy, |
[leads] unto | |
fear, | hope, |
abasement, | consolation, |
repentance, | thanksgiving, |
fasting, | almsgiving, |
prayers, | hymns, |
patience, | obedience, |
a sacrifice. | an oblation. |
Father Unoriginate, Only‑begotten Son,
Life‑giving Spirit,.
merciful, pitiful, long‑suffering,
full of pity, full of kind yearnings,
who lowest the just and pitiest the
sinful,
who passest by sins and grantest
petitions,
God of penitents,
Saviour of sinners,
I have sinned before Thee; O Lord,
and thus and thus have I done.
Alas, alas! woe, woe.
lust!
How I hated instruction!
Nor felt I fear nor shame
at Thy incomprehensible glory,
Thy awful presence,
Thy fearful power,
Thy exact justice,
Thy winning goodness.
I will call if there be any that will
answer me;
to which of the saints shall I turn?
O wretched man that I am,
who shall deliver me from the body of
this death
how fearful is Thy judgment,
O Lord?
when the thrones are set
and Angels stand around,
aid men are brought in,
the books opened,
the works enquired into,
the thoughts examined,
and the hidden things of darkness.
What judgment shall be upon me?
who shall quench my flame?
if Thou pity me not?
Lord, as Thou art loving,
give me tears,
give me floods, give me to‑day.
For then will be the incorruptible Judge,
the horrible judgment‑seat,
the answer without excuses,
the inevitable charges,
the shameful punishment,
the endless Gehenna,
the pitiless Angels,
the yawning
hell,
the roaring stream of fire,
the unquenchable flame,
the dark prison,
the rayless
darkness,
the bed of live coals,
the unwearied worm,
the indissoluble chains,
the bottomless chaos,
the impassable wall;
the inconsolable cry,
none to stand
by me,
none to plead for me,
none to snatch me out.
I repent,
help Thou mine impenitence,
and more, and
still more,
pierce, rend, crush my heart.
Behold, O Lord, that I am
indignant with
myself,
for my senseless; profitless,
hurtful, perilous passions;
that I loathe
myself,
for these inordinate, unseemly,
deformed, insincere,
shameful, disgraceful
passions,
that my confusion
is daily before me,
and the shame of my face hath covered
me.
Alas! woe, woe—
O me, how long?
Behold, Lord, that I sentence myself
to punishment everlasting,
yea, and all miseries
of this world.
Behold me, Lord, self‑condemned;
Behold, Lord, and enter not into
judgment
with Thy servant.
I humble myself under Thy mighty hand,
I bend to Thee, O Lord, my knees,
I fall on my face to the earth.
Let this cup pass from me!
I stretch forth my hands unto Thee;
I smite my breast, I smite on my thigh.
Out of the deep my soul crieth unto
Thee,
as a thirsty land;
and all my bones,
and all that is within me.
Lord; hear my voice.
Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak;
remember, Lord, how short my time is;
remember that I am but flesh,
a wind that passeth away, and cometh
not again.
My days are as grass, as a flower of the
field;
for the wind goeth over me, and I am
gone,
and my place shall knave me no more.
earth and grass,
flesh and breath,
corruption and the worm,
a stranger upon the earth,
dwelling in a house of clay,
few and evil my days,
to‑day,
and not to‑morrow,
in the morning, yet not until night,
in a body of sin,
in a world
of corruption,
of few days, and full of trouble,
coming up, and cut down like a
flower,
and as a
shadow, having no stay.
Remember this, O Lord, and suffer,
remit;
what profit is there in my blood,
when I go down to the pit?
By the multitude
of Thy mercies,
by the riches and excessive redundance
of Thy pity;
by all that
is dear to Thee,
all that we should plead,
and before and beyond all things, by
Thyself,
by Thyself; O Lord, and by Thy Christ.
sinners.
O my Lord, let Thy mercy rejoice
against Thy judgment in my sin.
O Lord, hear, O Lord, forgive,
O Lord, hearken,
O Lord, hearken and do,
do and defer not for Thine own sake,
defer not; O Lord my God.
O LORD, I am not worthy, I am not
fit,
that Thou shouldest come under the roof
of my soul;
for it is all desolate and ruined;
nor hast Thou in me fitting place
to lay Thy
head.
But, as
Thou didst vouchsafe
to lie in the cavern and manger of brute
cattle,
as Thou
didst not disdain
to be entertained in the house of Simon
the leper;
as Thou didst not disdain
that harlot, like me, who was a
sinner,
coming to Thee: and touching Thee;
as Thou abhorredst not
her polluted and loathsome mouth;
nor the thief upon the cross
confessing
Thee:
and excessive sinner,
deign to receive to the touch and
partaking
of the immaculate, supernatural,
lifegiving,
and saving mysteries
of Thy all‑holy Body
and Thy precious Blood.
Listen, O Lord, our God,
from Thy holy habitation,
and from the glorious throne of Thy
kingdom,
and come to sanctify us.
O Thou who sittest on high with the
Father,
and art present with us here invisibly;
come Thou to sanctify the gifts which
lie before
Thee,
and those in whose behalf, and by
whom,
and the things for which,
they are brought
near Thee.
And grant to us communion,
unto faith, without shame,
love without: dissimulation,
fulfilment of Thy commandments,
alacrity for every spiritual fruit;
hindrance of
all adversity,
healing of soul and body;
that we too, with all Saints,
who have been well‑pleasing to Thee
from the beginning,
may become partakers
of Thy incorrupt
and everlasting goods,
which Thou hast prepared, O Lord, for
them that love Thee;
in whom Thou art glorified
for ever and ever.
Lamb of God,
that takest away the sin of the world,
take away the sin of me,
the utter sinner.
[Unto a pledge of communion. (
A memorial of the Dispensation. (
A showing forth of His death. (
A communion of Body and Blood. (
A sharing in the Spirit. (1 Cor. xii. 13.)
Remission of sins. (
A riddance of things contrary. (
Rest of conscience. (
Blotting out of debts. (
Cleansing of stains. (
Healing of the soul’s sicknesses. (
Renewing of the covenant. (
Food of spiritual life.
(
Increase of strengthening grace. (
And of winning consolation. (
Compunction of penitence. (
Illumination of mind: (
Exercise of humility. (
Seal of faith.
(
Fulness
of wisdom. (
Bond of love.
(
Call for a
.collection. (
A means of endurance. (
Liveliness of thanksgiving. (
Confidence of prayer, (
Mutual indwelling.
(
Pledge of
the resurrection. (
Acceptable
defence in judgment. (
Covenant
of the inheritance. (
Figure of
perfection. (
We then remembering, O sovereign
Lord,
in the presence of Thy holy mysteries,
the salutary passion of Thy Christ,
His
life‑giving cross,
most precious death,
three days’ sepulture,
resurrection from
the dead,
ascent into heaven,
session at the right hand of Thee,
the Father,
His fearful and glorious coming;
we beseech Thee, O Lord,
that we, receiving in the pure testimony
of our conscience,
our portion of Thy sacred things,
may be made one with the holy Body
and Blood
of Thy Christ;
we may hold Christ indwelling in our
hearts,
and may become
a temple
of Thy Holy Spirit.
Yea, O our
God,
nor make any of us guilty
of Thy dreadful and heavenly mysteries,
nor infirm
in soul or body
from partaking of them unworthily.
But grant us
until our last and
closing breath
worthily to receive a hope of Thy holy
things,
for sanctification,
enlightening,
strengthening,
a relief of the weight of my many sins,
a preservative
against all satanic
working,
a riddance and hindrance of my evil
conscience,
a mortification
of my passions,
an appropriation of Thy commandments,
an increase of Thy divine
grace;
and a securing of Thy kingdom.
* * * * *
It is finished
and done,
so far as in our power,
Christ our God,
the mystery of Thy dispensation.
For we have held remembrance of Thy
death,
we have seen the figure of Thy
resurrection,
we have been filled with Thy endless
life,
we have enjoyed Thy uncloying dainties,
which graciously vouchsafe all of us,
in
the world to come.
Lord, the good God,
pardon every soul,
that purifieth his heart
to seek God,
the Lord God of His fathers,
though he be not cleansed
according
to the purification of the
sanctuary.
Genesis
Exodus
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
1 Kings
Ezra
Job
Psalms
2:5 18:4 25:15 26:5 55:18 58:6 73:14 94:6 111:1 116:12 116:13 119:62 119:164 130:6 134:2 143:6 149:5
Isaiah
Daniel
Matthew
Mark
Luke
2:25 3:10-14 14:18 18:1 18:13 22:19 22:20 22:41 24:31
John
5:7 6:27 6:34 6:56 13:35 17:23 18:1
Acts
1:13 2:15 2:37-38 2:42 3:1 3:1 6:4 10:9 10:9 16:29 16:31 21:5
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Hebrews
1 Peter
2 Peter
i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x xi xii xiii xiv xv xvi xvii xviii xix xx xxi xxii xxiii xxiv xxv xxvi xxvii xxviii 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 152 153 154 155