COLLECT FOR THE SUNDAY CALLED SEPTUAGESIMA, (Or the third Sunday before Lent.) O Lord, we beseech Thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy people; that we, who are justly punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness, for the glory of thy name, through Jesus Christ, our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. QUESTIONS ON THE COLLECT. Amen. 1. What means the word "Septuagesima ?" 2. How do we entreat the Lord to hear our prayers? 3. What do we acknowledge here? 4. In what way are we delivered? 5. From what do we pray to be delivered? 7. Through whom do we expect deliverance? ANSWER. Luke xxiii. 47. Romans iv. 25. COLLECT FOR THE SUNDAY CALLED SEXAGESIMA, O Lord God, who seest that we put not our trust in anything that we do; mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. QUESTIONS ON THE COLLECT. 1. What means the word Sexagesima? 2. What is God here said to " see ?" 3. Ought we to trust in anything that we do? 4. What do we here pray for? 5. By what do we pray to be defended ? ANSWER. Luke xvii. 10. Psalm xci. 4. COLLECT FOR THE SUNDAY CALLED QUINQUAGESIMA, (Or the Sunday next before Lent.) O Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth; send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before Thee: grant this for thine only Son, Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. QUESTIONS ON THE COLLECT. 1. What is meant by the word " gesima ?" Quinqua 2. Who is here said to have "taught us?" 3. What does He teach us? 4. What is "CHARITY?" 5. Who do we pray may be sent to us? 7. What is the character here given of charity? 8. What is charity said to be? 9. What are we accounted to be in the sight of God without charity? 10. Through whom do we ask the gift of charity? 11. What texts are illustrated here? ANSWER. 1 Cor. xiii. throughout. COLLECT FOR THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT. O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. QUESTIONS ON THE COLLECT. 1. Who is addressed in this Collect? 2. What did Christ do for our sake? 3. What grace do we ask in imitation of this? 4. What is "abstinence ?" 5. Why should we do this? 6. What do we understand by the "flesh ?" 7. What spirit is meant here ? 8. What are we to obey? 9. What is "righteousness?" 10. What is "holiness?" |