and earnest prayer, the aid and comfort of our heavenly Father. Hear us, our SAVIOUR CHRIST, for Thy Name's sake; Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one GOD, world without end. Amen. (The Primer.) For Trust in God's Care. ALMIGHTY and most merciful FATHER, from Whom cometh down every good and perfect gift, and Who hast taught us to take no anxious thoughts about our life, glory of Thy Name turn from us, &c. (Litany.) GOD, the Protector of all that trust in Thee, without Whom nothing is strong, &c. (Coll. iv. Trin.) ALMIGHTY and everlasting give unto us the increase of faith, hope, &c. (Coll. xiv. Trin.) A GOD, Who of Thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent Thy Son, our Saviour JESUS CHRIST, to take, &c. (Coll. Palm Sunday.) LMIGHTY and everlasting GOD, Who hast prepared for them that love Thee such good things as pass man's understanding; Pour, &c. (Coll. vi. Trin.) but to trust all to Thy Fatherly care; Give us grace to rest with perfect confidence upon Thy goodness and love; help us to cast away all faithless and murmuring thoughts; strengthen us to believe in Thee as our Father in heaven; and in all our earthly anxieties, and troubles, and sorrows, enable us to look up to Thee, as children to their father, and to commit art the author and giver ORD of all power and might, ourselves with patience into Thy hands, knowing that Thou wilt never fail us, if we put our trust in Thee; this we beg for the sake of JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen. E humbly beseech Thee, O of all good things; Graft, &c. (Coll. vii. Trin.) ALMIGHTY and everlasting GOD, Who hast given unto us, Thy servants, grace by the confes WE Famely, mercifully to look sion of a true faith to acknowledge, upon our infirmities; and for the &c. (Coll. Trin. Sunday.) H. Faith.-ii. Faith in Christ. "AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON OUR LORD, WHO WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY GHOST, BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY." ND the Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us; and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father; full of grace and truth. St. Johni. 14. 2. We have not an High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Heb. iv. 15. 3. This is a true saying, and worthy of all men to be received, that CHRIST JESUS came into the world to save sinners. 1 Tim. i. 15. For Faith in Christ as God. LORD JESU CHRIST, the only begotten Son of GOD, very GOD of very GOD; We pray Thee increase our faith in Thee; and as Thou didst hearken to the cry of the father in the Gospel who said, "LORD, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief;" even so hear us, we beseech Thee, and grant that our belief in Thee may be strengthened and confirmed, that no doubts may ever prevail to trouble us; but that we may always look up to Thee in all our troubles as our GOD and SAVIOUR; and trust in Thee with our whole souls; and worship Thee with reverence and devotion; Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest as Man. LORD JESU CHRIST, Who for our sakes wast made man, that Thou mightest Thyself take our infirmities and bear our sicknesses; and Who on earth didst feel about doing good and healing all for Thy suffering people, and go kinds of sickness and disease amongst them; We pray Thee increase our faith in Thy goodness and love towards all for whom Thy precious blood was shed; that we may believe in Thy sympathy with us in all our difficulties and trials here, and take them all to Thee, in child like trust that Thou wilt remove them if it seemeth good to Thee; or else, strengthen us to bear them; for Thy tender mercies' sake, Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen. A Gon, Who of Thy tender love LMIGHTY and everlasting towards mankind hast sent Thy Son, our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, to take, &c. (Coll. Palm Sunday.) 3. For Faith in the Atonement. ever one GOD, world without end. LORD JESU CHRIST, our only Amen. SAVIOUR, Who didst come into the world to make reconciliation for sinful men, and to save them from the punishment which sin deserved; Give us grace to rest in faith on Thy one sacrifice offered upon the Cross for all; and to believe in GOD, Whose Blessed Son was manifested that He might destroy, &c. (Coll. vi. Epiph.) Thee with our whole souls, as the ALMIGHTY Lamb of GOD Which taketh away the sins of the world. O LORD, hear us; O LORD, plead for us; O LORD, increase our faith; and at last take us to Thyself; Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen. and everliving GOD, Who for the more confirmation, &c. (Coll. St. Thomas.) Son truly to know is everlasting ALMIGHTY GOD, Whom life; Grant us perfectly to know Thy JESUS CHRIST to be the way, (Coll. SS. Phil. & James.) &c. "SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD AND BURIED, HE DESCENDED INTO HELL." . By Thine agony and bloody sweat; by Thy Cross and Passion; by thy precious death; Ry. Good LORD, deliver me. LORD JESU CHRIST, our only SAVIOUR, Who for our sakes wast betrayed into the hands of wicked men, and didst suffer insult and scourging, and crucifixion, and mockery, and death; we pray Thee look with mercy upon us, and fill our hearts with love for Thee Who hast so loved us; fulfil Thine own word, O LORD, and by Thy Cross and Passion draw us unto Thee, and bind us to Thee with the bonds of love; that we may bear all that may be laid upon us patiently and meekly, after Thy example and for Thy sake; and grant that in all our trials and temptations here, we may be strengthened by the thought of all that Thou hast suffered and endured for us; Who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen. LORD JESU CHRIST, Son of GRANT, O LORD, that as we are holy Passion, Cross, and Death be- us A1 LMIGHTY and everlasting baptized into the death of Thy Blessed Son, our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, so by continual mortifying, &c. (Coll. Easter Even.) ALMIGHTY GOD, Who through Thine only-begotten Son, JESUS CHRIST, hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate everlasting life; We humbly beseech Thee that, as by Thy special grace preventing, &c. (Coll. Easter Day.) of GOD, Who of Thy tender love THE glorious Death and Passion towards mankind hast sent Thy Son our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST to take, &c. (Coll. Palm Sunday.) of our LORD JESUS CHRIST deliver us from sorrow and trouble, and bring us to the joys of Paradise. Amen. (The Primer.) I. Faith.—iv. The Resurrection and "THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD; HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, AND SITTETH ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY." Thy redeemed, and thence as Con-parison of Thee; therefore, all queror bestow the gifts of Thy love, all glory be to Thee, O Lord. conquest upon men; We pray Thee Amen. (Adapted from Bp. Ken.) look in pity upon us, Thy children, and grant that, as we have been buried with Thee in baptism into death, so likewise we may be raised up with Thee to walk in newness of life; that being dead unto sin, we may live unto GOD; and that having now our conversation in heaven, we may hereafter be welcomed by Thee into the enjoyment of our inheritance; for Thy sake, and through Thy merits, O Blessed LORD GOD, Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen. MOST loving JESU, Who didst enter into the Holy of Holies, as our great High Priest, to present to Thy Father the sweet-smelling sacrifice of His crucified Son, the GRANT O LORD, that as we are baptized into the death of Thy Blessed Son, our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, so by continual mortifying, &c. (Coll. Easter Even.) A LMIGHTY GOD, Who through Thine only-begotten Son hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech Thee that, as by Thy special grace preventing, &c. (Coll. Easter Day.) and everliving ALMIGHTY GOD, Who for the more confirmation of the faith, &c. (Coll. St. Thomas.) G Almighty GOD, that like as RANT, we beseech Thee, &c. (Coll. Ascen.) sole Propitiation for sinners; Hear us, we beseech Thee; O our Advocate, plead for us; O our SAVIOUR, save us from our sins; O our Re-GOD, the King of Glory, Who deemer, ransom us from the power of sin. Raise our love from earthly things to rest on Thee; for whom have we in heaven but Thee? and there is none upon earth in com hast exalted Thine only Son, JESUS CHRIST, with great triumph unto Thy kingdom in heaven; We beseech Thee, leave us not comfortless, &c. (Coll. Sunday after Ascen.) EE. Faith.-v. Future Judgment. "FROM THENCE HE SHALL COME TO JUDGE THE QUICK AND THE DEAD." SAW the dead, small of those things which were written 2. Behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me to give every man according as his work shall be. Rev. xxii. 12. 1. Psalm cxxxix.- O LORD, Thou hast searched me out. 2. Psalm xxiii.-The LORD is my Shepherd. D |