A manual of prayers for the use of the scholars of Winchester college [by T. Ken]. By T. Ken

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Page 141 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 133 - Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of Thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain ; he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope : truly my hope is even in Thee.
Page 63 - GOD, that he should be clean ; or he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous...
Page 66 - For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins 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.
Page xiii - As for my religion, I die in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic faith, professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West ; more particularly I die in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.
Page 48 - But let a man examine himfelf, and fo let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
Page 140 - Direct, control, suggest, this day, All I design, or do, or say ; That all my powers with all their might In thy sole glory may unite.
Page 140 - Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Page 99 - ... praise and thanksgiving, which become the remembrance of a crucified Saviour, which become one redeemed by the blood of God, and that for his sake only that redeemed...

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