From Six to Nine in the Evening. per O THOU, who when Supper was ended, and night drew on, didst mit thy own Disciple to betray thee to thy enemies, and wast content to be apprehended by them; enable us to imitate, under all injuries and oppressions, that meekness, which admitted the traitor's kiss, and surrendered thy person to those, whom thy word struck down to the ground, and save us. O thou, who didst visit thy Apostles assembled in the evening, when the doors were shut; and, by breathing on them, didst impart the Holy Ghost, 5 Ghost, aud a power of remitting and retaining sius: Grant us the benefit and comfort of that power, to be used for the loosing and remitting, never for the binding and retaining of our offences, and save us. Midnight. Midnight. O THOU, who didst, at midnight, raise the Prophet David and Paul, and Silas, to sing praises to thee, because of thy righteous judgments: Make us to think upon thee with gladness in our beds, whose presence makes our darkness to be light, and save us. O thou, who hast compared thy second coming to that of a bridegroom at midnight; let this cry, "Behold the bridegroom cometh, be constantly sounded in our ears; and grant, that we may always be in readiness, with oil in our lamps, to go out and meet him, and save us. Between Between Midnight and Morning. THOU, who, by the crowing of the cock, didst call back thy fallen Apostle to a sense of his sin and infirmity Grant us, like him, to take warning by the same signal, to retire into ourselves, and weep bitterly for our offences, and then do thou accept our repentance, and save us. O thou, who hast foretold, that thou wilt return to judgment, in an hour that we are not aware of: Grant us grace to watch and pray always, that, whether thou shalt come at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, |