THIS is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us. I JOHN V. 14. GOD'S "ask," Meaneth all fulness and all grace, Yet we, To whom this mercy is so free, A. E. H. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve; pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son, our Lord. Amen. THE meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. PSALM XXV. 9. TRUE dignity abides with him alone WORDSWORTH. WE beseech thee, O Lord, to govern the hearts of thy faithful servants: and that they may obtain thy good things, grant first of all that their own wills may be good through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THOU hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word. PSALM CXix. 65. FATHER, thy life-long mercies, old and new, Built on the ground-work of a grateful heart, So, "all things" minister of right to me, And help to bring me on my pilgrim path M. K. A. S. GOD, whose never-failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth; we humbly beseech thee to put away from us all hurtful things, and to give us those things which are profitable for us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. HE was marvellously helped, till he was strong. 2 CHRON. xxvi. 15. UNSTABLE waves grow firm beneath Christ's feet; The lacking power of every frame of mind, A. E. H. FROM presuming to measure the depth of thy almightiness by the short line of human reason, from presuming to interpret the unsearchable secrets of thy will by the fallible rule of man's judgment: good Lord deliver us! FOR through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God. EPH. ii. 18, 19. THERE is a tie 'twixt thee and me, E. HAMILTON. GOD, who hast made all those that are born again in Christ to be our spiritual kindred, grant that thy people who are called to eternal life, may have the same faith in their hearts, and the same piety in their actions, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. |