grace Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Acts xiv. 26. And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled. Rom. i. 5. By whom we have received and Apostleship, for obedience to the faith, among all nations, for his name. 1 Tim. i. 14. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Heb. xii. 28. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Heb. xiii. 9. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. 2 Pet. iii. 18. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. Col. iv. 6. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Col. iii. 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 1 Pet. i. 13. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the Revelation of Jesus Christ. From the Book of Common Praper. MORNING PRAYER. Absolution. Where fore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his Holy Spirit; that those things may please him which we do at this present, and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy; so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Glory be to....the Holy Ghost. Te Deum. The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee ; The Father, of an infinite Majesty ; Apostles' Creed. I believe in the Holy Ghost;.... us; us. Priest. O God, make clean our hearts within Answer. And take not thy Holy Spirit from Prayer for the King's Majesty....... Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious sovereign Lord King George, and so replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit that he may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way ; • • • • • • Prayer for the Royal Family. Endue them with thy Holy Spirit; enrich them with thy hea venly grace. Prayer for the Clergy and People;..Send down upon our Bishops, and Curates, and all congregations committed to their charge, the healthful spirit of thy grace; . ...... The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. LITANY. O CREED OF ST. ATHANASIUS. God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, have mercy upon us miserable sin ners. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace, to hear meekly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit;...... That it may please thee....to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy holy word;...... General THANKSGIVING.......Through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory world without end. COLLECT for Christmas Day...Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit, through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. For St. Stephen's Day. Grant, O Lord, that in all our sufferings here upon earth, for the testimony of thy truth, we may stedfastly look up to Heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors by the example of thy first Martyr St. Stephen.... For the Circumcision. Grant us the true Circumcision of the Spirit, that our hearts and all our members being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, we may in all things obey thy blessed will,. . . . . . For Quinquagesima Sunday. 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 virtue, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee:..... For the first Sunday in Lent. 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. For Good Friday. Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified; . For Monday in Easter Week. We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost put into our minds good desires; so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect, through Jesus Christ our Lord;...... For the fifth Sunday after Easter. · O Lord, from whom all good things do come; grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ. For the Sunday after Ascension Day.... We beseech thee leave us not comfortless; but send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us, and exalt us unto the same place, whither our Saviour Christ is gone before ; .. .... For Whitsunday. God, who as at this time, didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit; grant us by the same spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort, through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour ; . . . . . . For the ninth Sunday after Trinity. Grant to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful, that we who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will, . . . • . • For the seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. Lord, we pray thee, that thy grace may always prevent and follow us; and make us continually to be given to all good works,...... For the nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able |