To be read about Whit-Sunday. Reader. In thy name was the Holy Spirit sent to teach the hearts of thy faithful people. Reader and Congregation. Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort. To be read at all times. Reader. By the mystery of thy holy incarnation; by thy holy nativity and circumcision; by thy baptism, fasting, and temptation, Reader and Congregation. Good Lord, deliver us. Reader. By thine agony and bloody sweat; by thy cross and passion; by thy precious death and burial ; by thy glorious resurrection and ascension; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Reader and Congregation. Good Lord, deliver us. Reader. Deliver us from yielding to despair, impatience or complaints in whatever measure it may please Thee to visit us with affliction ; deliver us from pride, insolence, covetousness, uncleanness, and Let forgetfulness of Thee in the enjoyment of ease and prosperity. Let every change of condition which we may undergo, render us more meet to appear before Thee. us be instructed by Thee, how to be full and to be hungry, how to abound and to suffer need. In the midst of life let us think of death, and prepare for thy solemn judgment; in the hour of death, when our spiritual enemies will assail us the more in consequence of our great weakness, deliver us from extremity of pain, from overwhelming sorrow and insensibility of conscience; and in the day of judgment, when our secret sins shall be made known, deliver us from condemnation with Satan, and from his accusations. Change thou our vile body that it may be like thy glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby thou art able to subdue all things unto thyself, and receive our souls into the paradise of God. In all time of our tribulation, in all time of our wealth, in the hour of death and in the day of judgment, Reader and Congregation. Good Lord, deliver us. INTERCESSIONS. Reader. By reason of our sins we are not worthy to pray to Thee, O Lord Jesus, for those things of which we D ourselves stand in need, yet do we beseech Thee, of thy goodness, to hear us in behalf of others also, who, like ourselves, depend upon Thee, and for whom thou hast commanded us, through thy holy Apostle, to intercede. Intercessions for temporal and spiritual blessings on Communities and persons in authority. Reader. Especially do we beseech Thee, to grant unto that church, which the powers of darkness shall not destroy, and which now subsists under different forms and in distant lands, that, under thy control |