AND Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. JOHN vi. 35. DAILY, O Lord, our prayers be said, JOSEPH ANSTICE. GOD, the Bread of Life, look upon us; be thou the guardian of our bodies; be thou the Saviour of our souls; we ask it for Christ's sake. Amen. STAND fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. GAL. V. I. I BLESS thy wise and wondrous love, Which makes us leave our earthly snares, JOHN MASON. GRANT us, Lord, not to mind earthly things, but to love things heavenly, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. EYE hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. I COR. ii. 9. THEY whom we loved and lost so long ago, Eternal peace have they; God wipes their tears away: They drink that river of life which flows for DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. MAKE us, O loving Lord, partakers of thy paradisejoy, and grant us there to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting, for Christ's sake. Amen. FOR the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. PSALM lxxxiv. II. If thou art my shield and my sun, Thy smiles and thy comforts abound, The soul he delights to defend. TOPLADY. BE present, O Lord, to our prayers, and protect us by : day and night that in all successive changes of times we may ever be strengthened by thine unchangeableness, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. LET us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. HEB. iv. 16. THE trials that those men do meet withal, And come, and come, and come again afresh : Oh let the pilgrims, let the pilgrims then, BUNYAN. GOD, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright; grant to us such strength and protection, as may support us in all dangers, and carry us through all temptations; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. |