Wednesday Morning
O GOD, blessed for ever, we thank and praise Thee for all Thy benefits, for the comforts of this life, and our hope of everlasting salvation in the life to come.
THOU hast delivered Thine own Son for us all. How shalt Thou not with Him also freely give us all things?
WE depend upon Thee, especially for the grace of Thy Holy Spirit. May we feel it perpetually bearing us up, by the strength of our most holy faith, above all the temptations that may at any time assault us.
LET Thy mighty power enable us to do our duty toward Thee and toward all men, with care, diligence, zeal, and perseverance unto the end. Help us to be meek and gentle in our conversation, prudent and discreet in ordering our affairs, observant of Thy fatherly providence in everything that befalls us, thankful for Thy benefits, patient under Thy chastisements, and readily disposed for every good word and work.
DELIVER US, we beseech Thee, from worldly cares and foolish desires; from vain hopes and causeless fears; and so dispose our hearts that death itself may not be dreadful to us.
MAY our hearts be so firmly established in grace that nothing may affright us to shake our constancy.
WE commend unto Thee all mankind. Bless our Sovereign, his counselors and ministers and all employed in public business, whether spiritual or civil, that whatsoever they do may be for Thy glory and the public good.
BE gracious unto all that are near and dear to us, and keep us all in Thy fear and love. Guide us, good Lord, and govern us by the same Spirit, that we may be so united to Thee here as not to be divided when Thou art pleased to call us hence, but may together enter into Thy glory, through Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Saviour, who hath taught us when we pray to say: Our Father, etc
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