Evening Prayers.

O LORD, show thy mercy upon us—and grant us thy salvation. O God, make clean our hearts within us-and take not thy Holy Spirit from us.

O LORD, we acknowledge and bewail our sins and wickedness. For we have done the things that we ought not to have done, and have left undone the things that we ought to have done; and there is no health in us. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful God. For thy Son Jesus Christ's sake, forgive us all that is past; and grant that we, whose consciences by sin are accused, by thy merciful pardon may be absolved, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear, than we to pray, and are wont to give more than we desire or deserve; pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

GRANT, we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people pardon and peace, that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men; grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O ALMIGHTY and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness, keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready both in body and soul, may cheerfully accomplish those things that thou wouldst have done, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O LORD, our heavenly Father, by whose Almighty power we have been preserved this day; by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy only Son our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.

O GOD, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men, that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. More especially we pray for thy holy Church universal; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians, may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of Spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life. Finally, we commend to thy Fatherly goodness, all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed in mind, body, or estate; that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them, according to their several necessities; giving them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions.

We beseech thee also, so to direct and dispose the hearts of all Christian Rulers, that they may truly and impartially administer justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true religion and virtue. Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all Bishops and other Ministers; that they may, both by their life and doctrine, set forth thy true and lively word, and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments; and to all thy people give thy heavenly grace, that they may serve thee in pureness of living and truth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, Father of all mercies, we, thine înworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us, and to all We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but, above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus

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Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we may show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end.

Amen.

GRANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ; so by continually mortifying our corrupt affections, we may be buried with him, and through the grave and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection, for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

OUR Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil : For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

UNTO thy gracious mercy and protection, O God, we commit ourselves, and all our friends and relations, this night and evermore. O Lord, bless and keep us. Lord, make thy face to shine upon us, and be gracious unto us. Lord, lift up thy countenance upon us, and give us peace both now and evermore. Amen.

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DEVOTIONS

TO BE USED ON THE SUNDAYS IN ADVENT.

BEHOLD, our Lord will appear; and will not fail to make good his promise. If he delay a while, patiently wait; for he surely will come, and visit us with his salvation. Alleluja. Come, O thou Sun of Righteousness, and fountain of eternal light! come, and illumine those who sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death; come, guide our feet in the ways of peace. Alleluja.

Come, O thou hope of the gentiles, and the desire of all nations! come, and redeem us from the vassalage of sin, into the only true liberty of serving thee. Alleluja.

PREPARE now thy ways, O my soul, before the Lord, make thy paths straight before the face of thy God for he will come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, and blessed are they who are ready to meet him. Our Lord is come to redeem the world. Our Lord will come finally to judge it.

O GOD, by whose providence thy Church has appointed the solemn season of Advent, to forerun the commemoration of our Saviour's nativity, and prepare its way in our hearts; grant, we beseech thee, that we may devoutly employ this holy season in meditating upon the glorious predictions which announced the coming of the Messiah, and on the inestimable blessings of his gracious Advent in the flesh, that our souls may be excited to celebrate the great festival of his nativity with due joy and exultation, and that we may thereby be prepared to expect his second coming to judge the world, who, with thee, O Father, and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, one God, world without end. Amen.

[Add the Collects for Advent.]

Devotions for St. Andrew's Day.

AS soon as St. Andrew saw afar off the cross prepared for his martyrdom, he was transported with joy, and triumphantly saluted it, as the happy instrument of his approaching glory. Alleluja.

O that we may be always ready to embrace the cross as

becomes the disciples of the crucified Jesus; even with joy to take up the cross by which we shall be conformed to our glorious Master. Alleluja.

O that we may never despise the doctrine of the cross, but in courage, and patience, and constancy, and forgiveness of enemies, follow the steps of this blessed Saint, as he folowed the steps of Christ, who, for the joy that was set beJore him, endured the cross, and despised the shame, and is now set down at the right hand of God. Alleluja.

O MOST blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus! who out of thine infinite mercy and compassion, didst kindle in the blessed Apostle St. Andrew, so ardent a love for thee that he left all to be thy true and faithful follower; inspire our souls, we most humbly beseech thee, with a holy desire of thee; that we may so earnestly desire, as diligently to seek thee; so successfully seek, as to be happy in finding thee: make us so sensible of that happiness in finding, as most fervently to love thee; so effectually to express that love as to suffer any thing for thy sake with a joyful and triumphant spirit. Ŏ grant that all the miseries of this life may be rendered easy and supportable by thy divine assistance, by the contemplation of thy example, and by the many patterns of constancy and virtue which thy now glorified saints, but once afflicted servants, have in all ages set forth for our imitation and encouragement. Thus encouraged by the bright example of thy blessed Apostle, sustained by the assurance of eternal rewards, and directed in the right way by the light of thy doctrine, may we so pass through things temporal, as finally to lose not the things eternal; through thy merits and intercession, O most blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus! to whom, with the Father, and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, might, majesty and dominion, henceforth and for Amen.

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[Add the Collect for the Day.

Devotions for St. Thomas' Day.

THE other disciples said to Thomas, we have seen the Lord; but he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hand the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.