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capable either of displeasing thee, or of defiling me.

Let not the follies of sensual pleasure abuse me, but my reins rather chasten me in the night-season; that my sleep may be perfectly composed and pure, quiet from every worldly and wicked imagination. And do thou, Lord, drive away all suggestions of the Devil or the flesh.

Thou beholdest the wakefulness of mine enemies, which attack me unseen, and my weakness to resist them is not hid from thee; who knowest whereof my nature is made, and rememberest that I am but feeble dust and ashes.

Take me then under the covering of thy wings, and let thy loving-kindness and thy truth always preserve me.

And, after such refreshment as thou seest proper for me, raise thou me up again to make my prayer in a time when thou mayest be found; that so I may begin my every day with thee, by setting forth most thankfully thy praises, and dedicating myself entirely to thy service.

AT BED-TIME.

INTO thy hand, O Lord, I commend myself, my spirit, my soul and my body; for thou hast created and redeemed them, O Lord, thou God of truth.

Together with me, take also under thy fatherly care and protection all that are near or dear to me, all that thou givest me leave to call mine for all these are the gifts of thy bountiful hand to thy poor unworthy servant.

Preserve my lying down and my rising up, from this time forth, and even for

evermore.

Make me to remember thee on my. bed, and to think upon thee when I am waking then let me commune with my own heart, and search out my spirit; for thou art about my path, and about my bed, and when I awake I am present with thee.

I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest, for it is thou, Lord, only, 'that makest me dwell in safety.

SHORT EJACULATIONS

FOR PARTICULAR

HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT,

PROPER FOR A

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION,

BY

BISHOP ANDREWS.

O THOU, who inspirest thy saints with songs in the night, and givest wholesome sleep to thy beloved; whose name I will think of in the night season, and will keep thy law; let thy protection and mercy be upon me, and let the Prayers and Thanksgivings come up to thee, which my soul poureth out when it fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch.

O thou, who for us men, and for our salvation, didst vouchsafe to be born while Shepherds were watching their flocks by night; grant me to be born

again, by the daily renewing of the Holy Ghost, till Christ be formed in me unto a perfect map, and save me.

About Sun Rising.

O THOU, who very early in the morning, about the rising of the sun, wast pleased to leave thy tomb, and return again from the dead; raise me, I pray thee, to walk in newness of life, by such daily exercises of repentance and virtue, as may keep me dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God, through thee, and save me.

Nine in the Morning.

O THOU, who at the third hour of the day, didst pour out from Heaven upon thy apostles the miraculous gift of the Holy Ghost, take not away from us the comforts of that Spirit, but fill our hearts with the riches of his grace, and save us.

O thou, who, about this hour, didst, with invincible meekness and patience, stand before Pilate's bar, and suffer a robber and murderer to be released before thee; grant us, in all our sufferings

for the testimony of thy truth, and of a good conscience, to consider and imitate thee, who didst endure such contradiction of sinners against thyself, and

save us.

Twelve at Noon.

O THOU, who at the sixth hour of the sixth day of the week; didst nail the sins of the world with thy body to the cross, blot out the hand writing of our sins, which is against us, and take it out of the way, and save us.

O thou, who at the same hour of the day, didst let down a great sheet from Heaven, filled with all sorts of living creatures, figuring thereby to Peter thy universal Church; grant, that we sinners of the Gentiles, who have been received into that mystical sheet, may with it at length be taken up into Heaven, and save us.

One at Noon.

O THOU, who at the seventh hour,

didst command' the fever to leave the Nobleman's son, allay all the distempered heats of our appetites and pas

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