make peace in our borders; fill us with the flour of wheat;

satisfy our poor with bread;

make fast the bars of our gates; bless our children within us;

clothe our enemies with confusion; grant us seasonableness of weather; bestow on us the fruits of the earth; repel carnal desires;

restore health to the weak, to the fallen grant restoration:

to voyagers and travellers grant a prosperous journey and a port of safety;

to the afflicted joy; to the oppressed ease; to the captives liberty;

to all, health of mind,

soundness of body.

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AN HOROLOGY.

THOU, that hast put in Thine Own Power
the times and the seasons,

give us grace that we may pray to Thee
in a convenient and opportune season;
and Save us.

O Thou, that for us men and for our salvation, wast born in the depth of night,

grant us to be renewed daily by the Holy Ghost, until Christ Himself be formed in us,

to a perfect man;

and Save us.

O Thou, that very early in the morning,
at the rising of the sun,

didst rise again from the dead,
raise us also daily to newness of life,
suggesting to us, for Thou knowest them,
habits meet for repentance;

and Save us.

O Thou, that at the Third Hour didst send down
Thy Holy Ghost on the Apostles,

take not that same Holy Spirit from us,
but renew Him every day in our hearts;
and Save us.

O Thou, that at the Sixth Hour of the sixth day didst nail together with Thyself upon the Cross the sins of the world,

blot out the handwriting of our sins that is

against us,

and, taking it away,

Save us.

Thou, that at the Sixth Hour didst let down a great sheet from heaven to earth,

the symbol of Thy Church,

receive into it us sinners of the Gentiles,
and with it receive us into Heaven;
and Save us.

Thou, that at the Seventh Hour didst command the fever to leave the Nobleman's son,

if there be any fever in our hearts,
if any sickness, remove it from us also;
and Save us.

Thou, that at the Ninth Hour for us sinners and for our sins,

didst taste of death,

mortify our members which are upon earth, and whatsoever is contrary to Thy Will;

and Save us.

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Thou, that didst will the Ninth Hour to be the Hour of Prayer,

hear us while we pray at the hour of prayer, and grant unto us that which we pray for and desire;

and Save us.

Thou, that at the Tenth Hour didst grant unto Thine Apostle

to discover Thy Son,

and to cry out with great gladness,
"We have found the Messiah,"

grant unto us also, in like manner,

to find the same Messiah,

and having found Him, to rejoice in like manner; and Save us.

Thou, that didst, even at the Eleventh Hour of the day,

of Thy goodness send into Thy vineyard
those that had stood all the day idle,
promising them a reward,

give us the like grace,

and though it be late, even as it were
about the eleventh hour,

favourably receive us who return unto Thee;

Thou, that at the Sacred Hour of the Supper, was pleased to institute

the Mysteries of Thy Body and Blood,

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render us mindful and partakers of the same, yet never to condemnation, but to the remission of sin,

and to the acquiring the promises

of the New Testament;

and Save us.

Thou, that at the eventide wast pleased to be taken down

from the Cross, and laid in the grave, take away from us, and bury in Thy Sepulchre, our sins,

covering whatever evil we have committed with good works;

and Save us.

Thou, that late in the night, by breathing
on Thine Apostles,

didst bestow on them the power
of the remission and retention of sins,
give unto us to experience that power
for their remission, O Lord,

not for their retention;

and Save us.

Thou, that at Midnight didst arouse David
Thy Prophet,

and Paul Thine Apostle, that they should
praise Thee,

give us also songs in the night,

and to remember Thee upon our beds;

and Save us.