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Hast thou but one blessing? yea, thou hast many blessings; bless us, even us, O our Father.i

Oh, cast us not away from thy presence, nor ever take thy Holy Spirit from us.k

Let the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge our consciences from dead works, to serve the living God./

Let thy Spirit witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for us.m

The Lord of peace give us peace, that peace which Jesus Christ hath left us, such a peace as the world can neither give, nor take away.n

Let the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep our hearts and minds. through Christ Jesus ; and let that peace rule in our hearts unto which we are called.

Now the God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing, that we may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.q

i Gen. xxvii 38. Psalm li, 11. / Heb. ix: 14. m Rom, viii. 16, 17. and 1 Peter i 4.

n John xiv, 27. q Rom. xv 13.

o Phil. iv. 7.

Col. iii 15.

We come to the throne of grace, that we may obtain not only mercy to pardon, but grace to help in every time of need.r

From the fulness that is in Jesus Christ, in whom it pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell,s let every one of us receive; and grace for grace.t

Oh, let no iniquity have dominion over us, because we are not under the law, but under grace.u

But being made free from sin, let us become the servants of righteousness.w

Let the law of the spirit of life, which is in Christ Jesus, make us free from the law of sin and death.x

Give us grace to put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, that we may put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.y

We pray that we may not enter into temptation z or however that no temptation may take us, but such as is common to men, and let the faithful God never suffer us to be tempted above what we are able, but with the temptation make way for us to escape.a Let Christ be made of God to us, not only

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righteousness, but wisdom, sanctification, and redemption.b

Let us be planted together in the likeness of Christ's death and resurrection; that as he was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.c

Lord, teach transgressors thy ways, and let sinners be converted unto thee ;d and let the disobedient be turned to the wisdom of the just.e

Let those be quickened who are yet dead in trespasses and sins.f

Open their eyes, and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them, who are sanctified.g

Fulfil in us all the good pleasure of thy goodness, and the work of faith with power./

Lord, let thy grace be sufficient for us, and let thy strength be made perfect in weakness, that when we are weak, then we may be strong, strong in the Lord, and the power of his might.k

Give us all to know thee, from the least even unto the greatest ; and so to know thee,

b 1 Cor, i. 30. c Rom. vi. 4. d Psalm li, 13. e Luke'i. 17. b 2 Thess. i. 11. / Heb. viii. 11.

ƒEph ii 1. g Acts xxvi 18

2 Cor. xii. 9, 10. k Eph. vi. 10.

the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, as may be eternal life unto us.m

Open thou our eyes, that we may see wonderous things out of thy law and gospel.n

Let the Spirit of truth guide us into all truth,o and cause us to understand wherein we have erred.p

Lord, grant that we may not be as children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Christ in all things, who is the head.q

Lord, let thy Spirit teach us all things, and bring all things to our remembrance, whatsoever thou hast said unto us ;r that the word of Christ may dwell richly in us, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.s

Lord, give us a wise and understanding heart, that wisdom which in all cases is profitable to direct. Oh, that we may be filled with the knowledge of thy will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that we may walk worthy of God unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.u

Order our steps by thy word, and let no iniquity have dominion over us.w

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Create in us a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within us; and cast us not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit away from us; restore unto us the joy of thy salvation, and uphold us with thy free Spirit.x

Write thy law in our hearts, and put it in our inward parts.y

May we delight to do thy will, O God, and delight in the law of God after the inward

man.z

Unto us, Lord, let it be given to believe; for the faith by which we are saved is not of ourselves, it is the gift of God.a

Lord, increase our faith, and perfect what is lacking in it,c that we may be strong in faith giving glory to God.d

We beseech thee work in us that faith, which is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen,e by which we may look above the things that are seen, that are temporal, and may look at the things that are not seen, that are eternalf

Wilt thou work in us to will and to do.g May we have that faith which overcometh the world, and that hope which is an anchor to the soul sure and stedfast.i

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