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sions, and heal every sickness of our souls, and save us,

O THOU, who didst vouchsafe, about the ninth hour of the day, to taste death for the sins of every man, mortify in us our members which are upon the earth, even all things contrary to thy holy will, that we also may be crucified unto the world, and save us.

O thou, who, at this solemn time of prayer, didst magnify the power of thine Apostles, by the cure of the impotent man at the gate of the Temple; who didst also at this hour manifest thyself to Cornelius, praying in his own house: hear us, O Lord, in this and every hour, whether of public or of private prayer, and grant the desires and petitions of thy servants, as thou knowest to be most expédient for us, and save us.

Four after Noon.

O THOU, who, about the tenth hour of the day, didst fill thy Apostle Andrew with joy, for having found the Messias: Discover thyself to us who

seek thee; fill us with the same holy joy for finding thee; and admit us to come and abide with thee, the whole remainder of this day, and of our life, and save us.

Five after Noon.

O THOU, who didst not disdain, even at the eleventh hour, to send labourers into thy vineyard, and agree with them for their hire, after they had stood all the day idle: Be likewise gracious unto all that turn to thee, though they come late, though at the eleventh hour, of life; and give us all grace, to make up the time which we already have mispent or lost, and save us.

Six after Noon.

O'THOU, who, at the hour of eating

the Passover, didst institute the Sacrament of thy Supper, a holy and perpetual memorial of thy precious body and blood: Make us thankful and diligent partakers of the same: that we may eat and drink thereof, never to condemnation, but always to the obtaining re

mission of our sins, and all other benefits of thy passion, and save us.

O thou, who also wast, about this hour, taken down from the Cross, and laid into the Sepulchre, kill in us, we beseech thee, the body of sin, and bury in thy grave, all our corrupt affections, hiding and covering up our evil, with thy good works, and save us.

From Six to Nine in the Evening.

O THOU, who, when Supper was ended and night drew on, didst permit thy own Disciple to betray thee to thy enemies, and wast content to be apprehended by them; enable us to imitate, under all injuries and oppressions, that meekness, which admitted the traitor's kiss, and surrendered thy person to those, whom thy word struck down to the ground, and save us.

O thou, who didst visit thy Apostles assembled in the evening, when the doors were shut; and, by breathing on them, didst impart the Holy Ghost, and a power of remitting and retaining sins; Grant us the benefit and comfort

of that power, to be used for the loosing and remitting, never for the binding and retaining of our offences, and save

us.

Midnight.

O THOU, who didst, at midnight, raise the Prophet David, and Paul, and Silas, to sing praises to thee, because of thy righteous judgments: Make us to think upon thee with gladness in our beds, whose presence makes our darkness to be light, and save us.

O thou, who hast compared thy second coming to that of a bridegroom at midnight; let this cry, "Behold the bridegroom cometh," be constantly sounded in our ears: and grant, that we may always be in readiness, with oil in our lamps, to go out and meet him, and save us.

Between Midnight and Morning.` O'THOU, who by the crowing of the cock, didst call back thy fallen Apostle to a sense of his sin and infirmity: Grant us, like him, to take warning by that. same signal, to retire into ourselves, and

weep bitterly for our offences, and then do thou accept our repentance, and save

us.

O thou, who hast foretold, that thou wilt return to judgment, in an hour that we are not aware of; Grant us grace to watch and pray always, that whether thou shalt come at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning, thou mayest find us in the number of those servants, who shall be blessed, for watching for their Lord, and save us.

Towards Break of Day.

O THOU, who formest the light and bringest back the morning, causing thy sun to rise on the evil and the good: Scatter the darkness of our ignorance, by the knowledge of thy truth; that in thy light we may see light; and lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, the light of grace here, and the light of glory hereafter.