also our brethren in captivity, prison, chains, supplying return to the wandering, health to the sick, deliverance to the captives. Remember religious and faithful kings, whom Thou hast given to rule upon the earth; and especially remember, LORD, our divinely-guarded king; subdue to him all adversaries, for Thy Church, and all Thy people. Vouchsafe to him deep and undisturbed peace, that in his serenity we may lead a quiet and peaceable life with all godliness and honesty. and authority, our brethren in the court, those who are chief in council and judgment, waging Thy wars for us. Moreover, LORD, remember graciously the honourable Presbytery, and all the clergy, Remember, LORD, our brethren around us, Remember also those who on fair reasons are away, and pity them and us in the multitude of Thy pity. Fill our garners with all manner of store, preserve our marriages in peace and concord, nourish our infants, lead forward our youth, sustain our aged, comfort the weak-hearted, gather together the scattered, restore the wanderers, and knit them to Thy Holy Catholic Apostolic Church. Set free the troubled with unclean spirits, voyage with the voyagers, travel with the travellers, stand forth for the widow, shield the orphan, rescue the captive, heal the sick. Those who are on trial, in mines, in exile, in galleys, in whatever affliction, necessity, and emergence, remember, O God; and all who need Thy great mercy; and those who hate; and those who have desired us unworthy to make mention of them in our prayers; and all Thy people remember, O LORD, our GOD, and upon all pour out Thy rich pity, to all performing their requests for salvation; and those of whom we have not made mention, through ignorance, forgetfulness, or number of names, do Thou Thyself remember, O God, who knowest the stature and appellation of each, who knowest every one from his mother's womb. For thou art, O LORD, the Succour of the succourless, the Hope of the hopeless, the Saviour of the tempest-tost, the Physician of the sick, do Thou Thyself become all things to all men. O Thou who knowest each man and his petition, each house, and its need, deliver, O LORD, this city, and all the country in which we sojourn, End the schisms of the Churches, vouchsafe to us, O LORD, our God. all spirits and all flesh which we have remembered, and which we have not. And the close of our life, LORD, LORD, direct in peace, Christianly, acceptably, and, should it please Thee, painlessly, gathering us together under the feet of Thine elect, when Thou wilt and how Thou wilt, only without shame and sins. The brightness of the LORD our God be upon us, prosper Thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper Thou our handy work. Be, LORD, within me to strengthen me, without me to guard me, over me to shelter me, beneath me to stablish me, before me to guide me, after me to forward me, round about me to secure me. (5) Praise. Blessed art Thou, LORD, GOD of Israel, our FATHER, from everlasting to everlasting. is the greatness and the power, in heaven and on earth. At Thy face every king is troubled, Thine, O LORD, is the kingdom and the supremacy over all, and over all rule. With Thee is wealth, and glory is from Thy countenance; Thou rulest over all, O LORD, the Ruler of all rule; and in Thine hand is strength and power, And now, LORD, we confess to Thee, and we praise Thy glorious Name. Introduction. THE FIFTH DAY. We are satisfied with Thy mercy, O LORD, in the morning. Blessed art Thou, O LORD, who broughtest forth from the water creeping things of life, and whales, and winged fowl. Be Thou exalted, O GOD, above the heavens, (1) Confession. draw us too after Thee, that we savour of what is above, By the marvellous mystery LORD, have mercy. Thou who hast said, "As I live, saith the LORD, I will not the death of a sinner, but that the ungodly return from his way |