From terrors of conscience; from the fear of death; from unrepented sin; from our ghostly enemies, Good Lord, deliver us. From the hidings of Thy face; from unpreparedness for death; from distraction and distrust in our last conflict; from the wrath of God and the damnation of hell, Good Lord, deliver us. By Thy invitations and Thy promises; by Thy merits and Thy mercies; by Thy servitude and suffering while on earth; by Thy tenderness as man, and Thy majesty as God; by Thy baptism, fasting, and temptation, Good Lord, deliver us. By Bethlehem, Gethsemane, and Calvary; by the crown of thorns, and the cruel scourge, and the robe of scorn, and the shame and spitting; by the nails and the gall, and the spear; by Thine unknown agony, and bitter passion, Good Lord, deliver us. By Thy body broken, and Thy blood shed for us; by the sacramental memorials of Thy love unto death; by Thy coming to save, and Thy coming to judge; by Thy burial and resurrection, and ascension, and intercession; and by all the graces of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us. In prosperity and adversity; in wealth and poverty; in sickness and in health; in comfort and distress; in every time of trouble and of need, Good Lord, deliver us. In weakness and temptation; when under provocations and reproaches; in the loss of friends; when love is cold, and faith faint; in our downfalls and declensions; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, Good Lord, deliver us. We, sinners, beseech Thee, O Christ, to save us. That it may please Thee to cleanse us from our sins, and to mortify our corruptions; to illuminate our judgment, and to sanctify our hearts; to put the fear of God before our eyes, and the love of God within our hearts; to endue us with Thy Holy Spirit, and to conform us to Thine own example; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please Thee to instruct us in our duty, and to enable us to perform it; to give us a tender conscience, and an earnest spirit; to uphold us in the slippery ways of the world, and give us sterling integrity of heart; to save us from the enmity of men, from the malice of Satan, and from our own faults and follies; to support us in the hour of death, and receive us in the unseen world; to enable us to confess Thee before men; and to confess us before the angels of God. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. Keep us as the apple of Thine eye; Son of God, we beseech Thee to hear us. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, Grant us Thy peace. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, Have mercy upon us. O Christ, hear us. O Christ, hear us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. The Lord's Prayer. UR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be OUR thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen. M. O Lord, hear our prayers. A. And let our cry come unto Thee. Benediction. THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, WEDNESDAY EVENING. 0 Confession. MOST gracious God, we confess that we have most justly provoked Thy wrath and indignation against us. O Lord, we have angered Thee by the sins of our youth, and the sins of our riper years; By the sins of our soul, and the sins of our body; By our negligences and ignorances; By the evil things we have done to please ourselves, and the evil things we have done to please others; By the sins we know and remember, and the sins we have forgotten; By the sins we have kept secret from others, and the sins by which we have made others to offend. But, O Lord, be not angry with us for ever. Spare us, good Lord, who with true and hearty sorrow confess our sinfulness, And forgive us, we beseech Thee, all that we have done amiss, for his sake, Who died for our sins, and rose again for our justification, and now standeth at Thy right hand to make intercession for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. |