ever express our thankfulness by a holy trust in thee, and obedience to thy laws, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Our Father which art in heaven, &c. TUESDAY MORNING. The salvation of the righteous cometh of the Lord: who is also their strength in the time of trouble. PR PSALM 146. RAISE the Lord, O my soul; while I live will I praise the Lord: yea, as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God. 2 O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man: for there is no help in them. 3 For when the breath of man goeth forth he shall turn again to his earth: and then all his thoughts perish. 4 Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God; 5 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: who keepeth his pro mise for ever; 6 Who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong who feedeth the hungry. 7 The Lord looseth men out of prison: the Lord giveth sight to the blind. 8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen: the Lord careth for the righteous. 9 The Lord careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow: as for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down. 10 The Lord thy God, O Sion, shall be King for evermore: and throughout all generations. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. Let us pray. MOST blessed and glorious Lord God, who art of infinite goodness and mercy; We thy unworthy servants, whom thou hast made and preserved, holding our souls in life, and rescuing us from innumerable dangers and troubles, humbly present ourselves before thy Divine Majesty to offer unto thee the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. We bless thee for protecting us through the past night, and renewing thy mercies to us every morning. We bless thee for keeping us in health, and continuing to us all our comforts and enjoyments. Grant, that we, receiving thy bountiful liberality, may not wholly seek our own indulgence in it; but also use the same to thy glory, and the relief of those that are needy; for his sake who went about doing good, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. LORD, by whose holy inspiration we think those things that be good, and by whose merciful guiding we perform the same; Grant us grace to forsake all covetous desires and inordinate love of riches, and to mortify all our evil and corrupt affections; that being neither hindered by our carnal views nor our sinful passions from obeying thy godly motions, we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth, through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, whom truly to know is everlasting life; Grant us so perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that being established in the belief of his Gospel, walking diligently in his commandments, and following the steps of his most blessed life, we may finally be brought unto the glory of his resurrection, and be exalted unto a place in those heavenly mansions which he hath gone to prepare for us, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. LORD, who never failest to help and govern those whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast fear and love; Keep us, we beseech thee, under the protection of thy good providence, and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name. Mercifully look upon our infirmities; and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously 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 honour and glory; through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ. Amen. Our Father which art in heaven, &c. TUESDAY EVENING. The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. PSALM 8. LORD our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all the world: thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens ! 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies: that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 For I will consider thy heavens, even the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained. |