O GOD of armies,

give a prosperous course and strength
to all the Christian army,

against the enemies of our most holy faith.
Grant to our population

to be subject unto the higher powers,

not only for wrath, but also for conscience-sake.
Grant to farmers and graziers good seasons;

to the fleet and fishers fair weather;

to tradesmen, not to overreach one another; to mechanics, to pursue their business lawfully, down to the meanest workman,

down to the poor.

O God, not of us only but of our seed,
bless our children among us,

to advance in wisdom as in stature,

and in favour with Thee and with men. Thou who wouldest have us provide for our own, and hatest the unnatural,

remember, LORD, my relations according to the flesh;
grant me to speak peace concerning them,
and to seek their good.

Thou who willest us to make return
to our benefactors,

remember, LORD, for good,

all from whom I have received good; keep them alive that they may be blessed upon earth,

and deliver them not

into the will of their enemies.

Thou who hast noted

the man who neglects his own, as worse than an infidel, remember in Thy good pleasure

all those in my household.

Peace be to my house,

the Son of peace upon all in it.

Thou who wouldest that our righteousness exceed

the righteousness of sinners,

grant me, LORD, to love those who love me,

my own friend, and my father's friend, and my friend's children,

and lead them together with me to Thy heavenly kingdom. Thou who grantest the prayers of Thy servants

one for another,

remember, LORD, for good,

and pity all those

who remember me in their prayers,

or whom I have promised to remember in mine. Thou who acceptest diligence in every good work, remember, LORD, as if they prayed to Thee, those who for any good reason

give not time to prayer.

Arise, and have mercy

on those who are in the last necessity,
for it is time that Thou hast mercy upon them,

yea the time is come.

Have mercy on them, O LORD,

as on me also, when in extremities.

Remember, LORD,

infants, children, the grown, the young, the middle aged, the old, hungry, thirsty, naked, sick,

prisoners, foreigners, friendless, unburied,

all in extreme age and weakness, possessed with devils, and tempted to suicide, troubled by unclean spirits,

the hopeless, the sick in soul or body, the weak-hearted, all in prison and chains, all under sentence of death; orphans, widows, foreigners, travellers, voyagers, women with child, women who give suck,

all in bitter servitude, or mines, or galleys, or in loneliness.

Thou, LORD, shalt save both man and beast,

how excellent is thy mercy, O GOD! And the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings.

The LORD bless us, and keep us,

and show the light of His countenance upon us, And be merciful unto us,

(5) Praise.

The LORD lift up His countenance upon us,
And give us peace!

I commend to Thee, O LORD,
my soul, and my body,
my mind, and my thoughts,
my prayers, and my vows,
my senses, and my limbs,
my words, and my works',
my life, and my death;
my brothers, and my sisters,
and their children;

my friends, my benefactors, my well wishers,
those who have a claim on me;

my kindred, and my neighbours,
my country, and all Christendom.
I commend to Thee, LORD,
my impulses, and my startings,
my intentions, and my attempts,
my going out, and my coming in,
my sitting down, and my rising up.

Up with our hearts;

we lift them to the LORD.

O how very meet, and right, and fitting, and due, in all, and for all,

at all times, places, manners, in every season, every spot, everywhere, always, altogether,

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to remember Thee, to worship Thee,
to confess to Thee, to praise Thee,
to bless Thee, to hymn Thee,
to give thanks to Thee,
Maker, nourisher, guardian, governor,

preserver, worker, perfecter of all,
LORD and Father,

King and God,

fountain of life and immortality,

treasure of everlasting goods.
Whom the heavens hymn,

and the heaven of heavens,

the Angels and all the heavenly powers,
one to other crying continually,-
and we the while, weak and unworthy,
under their feet,—

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY
LORD the GOD of Hosts;

full is the whole heaven,

and the whole earth,
of the majesty of Thy glory.

Blessed be the glory of the LORD
out of His place,

for His Godhead, His mysteriousness,

His height, His sovereignty, His almightiness,
His eternity, His providence.

The LORD is my strength, my stony rock, and my defence, my deliverer, my succour, my buckler,

the horn also of my salvation and my refuge.

THE SECOND DAY.

Introduc- My voice shalt Thou hear betimes, O LORD, tion. early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up.

Blessed art Thou, O LORD,

who didst create the firmament of heaven,
the heavens and the heaven of heavens,

the heavenly powers,

Angels, Archangels,

Cherubim, Seraphim,

waters above the heavens,

mists and exhalations,

for showers, dew, hail, snow as wool,

hoar frost as ashes, ice as morsels,

clouds from the ends of the earth,

lightnings, thunders, winds out of Thy treasures, storms; waters beneath the heavens,

Confession.

for drinking and for bathing.

I will confess my sins,

and the sins of my fathers,

for I have transgressed and neglected Thee, O Lord,
and walked perversely before Thee.

Set not, O LORD, set not my misdeeds before Thee,
nor my life in the light of Thy countenance,
But pardon the iniquity of Thy servant,
according to Thy great mercy;

as Thou hast been merciful to him from a child,

even so now.

I have sinned, what shall I do unto Thee,

O Thou preserver of men?