7. By night. Ps. cxxxiv. 2.

At midnight. Ps. cxix. 62.

2. Places of Prayer.

In all places where I record My Name, I will come to thee, and I will bless thee. Exod. xx. 24.

Let' Thine eyes be open towards this house night and day, even toward the place of which Thou hast said, My Name shall be there; that Thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant shall make towards this place. 1 Kings viii. 29.

Thou that hearest the prayer

unto Thee shall all flesh come.

The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise,
and the fierceness of them shalt Thou refrain.
As for me, I will come into Thy house
even upon the multitude of Thy mercy,
and in Thy fear will I worship
toward Thy Holy Temple.
Hear the voice of my humble petitions,
when I cry unto Thee;

when I hold up my hands

towards the mercy-seat of Thy Holy Temple.
We wait for Thy loving-kindness, O God,
in the midst of Thy Temple.

1. Among the faithful and in the congregation. Ps. cxi. 1. 2. Enter into thy closet and, when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret.

Matt. vi. 6.

Acts i. 13.
Acts x. 9.

3. They went up into an upper room.
4. He went up upon the housetop to pray.

5. They went up together into the Temple.

Acts iii. 1.

Acts xxi. 5.

6. We kneeled down on the shore, and prayed. 7. He went forth over the brook Cedron, where was a garden. John xviii. 1.

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8. Let them rejoice in their beds. Ps. cxlix. 5.

9. He departed into a desert place and there prayed. Mark i. 35.

10. In every place lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. 1 Tim. ii. 8.

1. Kneeling,

3. Circumstances of Prayer.

humiliation.

He kneeled down and prayed. Luke xxii. 41.

He went a little further, and fell on His face, and prayed. Matt. xxvi. 39.

My soul is brought low, even unto the dust,

my belly cleaveth unto the ground.

2. Sinking the head,

Drooping the face. [Ezr. ix. 6.]

shame.

3. Smiting the breast, [Luke xviii. 13.] indignation.

4. Shuddering, [Acts xvi. 29.]

5. Groaning, [Isai. lix. 11.]

Clasping of hands.

fear.

sorrow.

6. Raising of eyes and hands, [Ps. xxv. 15. cxliii. 6.]

7. Blows, [Ps. lxxiii. 14.]

vehement desire.

revenge.

2 Cor. vii. 11.

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ORDER OF MATIN PRAYER.

Litany. Glory be to Thee, O LORD, glory to Thee.
Glory to Thee who givest me sleep

to recruit my weakness,

and to remit the toils

of this fretful flesh.

To this day and all days,

a perfect, holy, peaceful, healthy, sinless course,

Vouchsafe O Lord.

The Angel of peace, a faithful guide,

guardian of souls and bodies,

to encamp around me,

and ever to prompt what is salutary,

Vouchsafe O Lord.

Pardon and remission

of all sins and of all offences

Vouchsafe O LORD.

To our souls what is good and convenient,

and peace to the world

Vouchsafe O Lord.

Repentance and strictness

for the residue of our life,

and health and peace to the end,

Vouchsafe O LORD.

Whatever is true, whatever is honest,

whatever just, whatever pure,

whatever lovely, whatever of good report,

if there be any virtue, if any praise,
such thoughts, such deeds,

Vouchsafe O LORD.

A Christian close,

without sin, without shame,

and, should it please Thee, without pain,
and a good answer

at the dreadful and fearful judgment-seat
of JESUS CHRIST Our LORD,

Vouchsafe O Lord.

Confession. Essence beyond essence, Nature increate,
Framer of the world,

I set Thee, LORD, before my face,

and I lift up my soul unto Thee.

I worship Thee on my knees,

and humble myself under Thy mighty hand.
I stretch forth my hands unto Thee,
my soul gaspeth unto Thee as a thirsty land.

I smite on my

breast

and say with the Publican,

God be merciful to me a sinner,

the chief of sinners;

to the sinner above the Publican,
be merciful as to the Publican.
Father of mercies,

I beseech Thy fatherly affection,
despise me not

an unclean worm, a dead dog, a putrid corpse,
despise not Thou the work of Thine own hands,
despise not Thine own image

though branded by sin.

LORD, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean,

LORD, only say the word, and I shall be cleansed.

And Thou, my SAVIOUR CHRIST,
CHRIST my SAVIOUR,

SAVIOUR of sinners, of whom I am chief,
despise me not, despise me not, O LORD,
despise not the cost of Thy blood,
who am called by Thy Name;
but look on me with those eyes

with which Thou didst look upon
Magdalen at the feast,

Peter in the hall,

the thief on the wood;

that with the thief I may call on Thee humbly,
Remember me, LORD, in Thy kingdom;
that with Peter I may bitterly weep and say,
O that mine eyes were a fountain of tears
that I might weep day and night;
that with Magdalen I may hear Thee say,
Thy sins be forgiven thee,

and with her to love much,

And Thou, All-holy, Good, and Life-giving Spirit, despise me not, Thy breath,

despise not Thine own holy things;

but turn Thee again, O LORD, at the last,
and be gracious unto Thy servant.

Commendation.

Blessed art Thou, O LORD,

Our GOD,

the God of our Fathers;

who turnest the shadow of death into the morning; and lightenest the face of the earth;

who separatest darkness from the face of the light and banishest night and bringest back the day; who lightenest mine eyes,

that I sleep not in death;

who deliverest me from the terror by night, from the pestilence that walketh in darkness;