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friends and benefactors, our charges and relatives, all that have desired our prayers and all that need them, all that we have and all that we have not remembered; thou knowest all their joys and their sorrows, their hopes and their fears, the number of their sins and the measures of their repentances; sanctify them; and us, let our portion be in the good things of God, in Religion and purity, in the peace of conscience, and the joys of the Holy Ghost, in the love of God and of our neighbors. O gather us to the feet of thy elect when thou wilt, and in what manner thou art pleased: only let us appear before thee without shame and without sins, through the merits of Jesus Christ, our most merciful Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

GLORY be to thee, O God our Father, who hast vouchsafed to make us partakers of the body and blood of thy holy Son: we offer unto thee, O God, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee: keep us under the shadow of thy wings, and defend us from all evil, and conduct us by thy holy Spirit of Grace into all good; for thou who hast given thy holy Son unto us, how shalt not thou with him give us all things else? blessed be the name of our God for ever and ever. Amen.

Glory be to thee, O Christ, our King, the only begotten Son of God, who wert pleased to become a sacrifice for our sins, a redemption from calamity, the physician and the medicine, the life and the health, the meat and the drink of our souls; thou

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by thy unspeakable mercy didst descend to the weakness of sinful flesh remaining still in the perfect purity of spirit, and hast made us partakers of thy holy body and blood: O condemn us not when thou comest to judgment, but keep us ever in thy truth, in thy fear, and in thy favor, that we may have our portion in thine inheritance, where holiness and purity, where joy and everlasting praises dwell for ever and ever. Amen.

Proceeding from glory to glory, we still glorify thee, O Father of spirits, and pray thee for ever to continue thy goodness towards us. Direct our way aright, establish us in holy purposes, keep us unspotted in thy faith, let the enemy have no part in us, but conform us for ever to the likeness of thy holy Son; lead us on to the perfect adoption of our Souls, and to the redemption of our bodies from corruption, and fill our hearts and tongues with everlasting praises of thy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

JUST, righteous, and fitting it is to praise and to glorify, to worship and adore, to give thanks and to magnify thee, the great Maker of all creatures, visible and invisible, the treasure of all good, temporal and eternal: the fountain of all life, mortal and immortal: the Lord and God of all things in heaven and earth, the great Father of his servants, the great Master of his children.

The heavens and the heaven of heavens, and every power therein; the sun and the moon, and all the stars of the sky; the sea and the earth, the

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heights above and the depths below; Jerusalem that is from above, the Church of the first-born written in the heavens, the spirits of the prophets and of just men made perfect, the souls of the apostles and all holy martyrs, angels and archangels, thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, the spirits of understanding and the spirits of love, with never-ceasing hymns and perpetual anthems, cryout night and day,

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts; heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

Our Father, &c. See page 4.

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MEDITATIONS AND PRAYERS

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SUNDAY MORNING.

REJOICE in the Lord ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

The word of the Lord is true, and all his works are faithful.

He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercy.

To deliver their souls from death; and to keep them alive in the time of famine.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of all.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk: for I lift up my soul

unto thee.

Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God; thy Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men.

The poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

O how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men.

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavillion, from the strife of tongues.

O love the Lord all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer.

Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the Lord. Glory be to the Father, &c.

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