We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand, and to comfort and help the weakhearted, and to raise up those who fall, and finally to beat down sin under our feet; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to succor, help, and comfort all who are in danger, necessity, and tribulation; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all who travel by land or by water, all sick persons, and young children, and to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless children and widows, and all who are desolate and oppressed; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so that in due time we may enjoy them; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy Holy Word; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. Son of God, we beseech thee to hear us. O Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world; Grant us thy peace. O Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world; Have mercy upon us. T Let us pray. MERCIFUL Father, who despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as are sorrowful; mercifully assist our prayers which we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us; and graciously hear us, that those evils which the craft and subtlety of man worketh against us, may, by thy good providence, be brought to naught; that we, thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord, help us and deliver us. GOD, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them. O Lord, help us and deliver us. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; Ans. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. us; Min. O Lord, let thy mercy be showed upon Ans. As we do put our trust in thee. T Let us pray. WE humbly beseech thee, O Father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities; and, for the glory of thy name, turn from us all those evils that we most justly have deserved; and grant that, in all our troubles, we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy; and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living, to thy honor and glory, through our Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THE grace of our Father in heaven, the love of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. Here endeth the Litany. When any of the occasional Prayers of Adoration, Petition and Thanksgiving are required by circumstances, or called for by special cases, they may be used here, or before the two final prayers of the Morning and Evening services, on the discretion of the Minister. Then a Psalm or Hymn is to be sung, and after it the Altar Service is to be read by the Priest standing at the Altar. Prayers of Adoration, Petition, and Thanksgiving. To be read as required, or on discretion, in the Morning and Evening Service. ADORATION. ¶ Prayer to Almighty God. ETERNAL and Almighty God, omniscient and omnipresent, the Creator and God of all, to whom the universe is subject, we humbly adore thy name, and worship thy perfection. All things obey thy will, and this glorious earth, with the thousand brilliant worlds which circle round thee, are governed by thy law. In wisdom hast thou made them all. We are taught to worship thee, O Eternal and Almighty God, through the mysterious union of a holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, and to ascribe to our Father in heaven all might, majesty, dominion and power, as God, Governor and Judge, of the world we live in. We thank thee, that our Father has promised us eternal life, and salvation in the day of final judgment, through the mediation of our Redeemer Jesus Christ; and that by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, we are permitted to offer up to thy all-glorious majesty our humble supplications and prayers-believing in thy justice, and trusting to thy mercy hereafter. O most adorable Spirit, great Ruler of creation, God of gods, benevolent and good, thou didst order our being, and our condition is according to thy word. Grant us, we humbly beseech thee, a knowledge of thy truth, and a clear understanding of thy will, with a grateful sense of the mercies we receive from our Heavenly Father, through his blessed Son, our Saviour, so that when, hereafter, we shall live in the spirit, we may prove ourselves acceptable to thee, and become partakers of that happy life prepared for us from the beginning. Amen. ¶ Prayer to our Father in Heaven. OHOLY Father in heaven, O glorious and blessed Word, who, in the beginning, didst form this world and every living thing upon it. Hallowed be thy name. Thou orderest our condition, and through thy wisdom we live, and move, and have our being. Submissively we bow before thee, and entreat thy pardon for our transgressions. To thee belong might, majesty, dominion and power over us, and we pray thee, Heavenly Father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities. Remember, O Lord, that our flesh is weak and tends to evil, and that, while soul and body are bound together by perishable matter, we may be daily tempted beyond our strength. Succor us, we beseech thee, in our troubles, and send us aid in our distress, that through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit we may have a heart to love, and not to fear, thy judgments. O gracious Father, we have erred and strayed |