Lo Psalm cxli. ORD, I call upon Thee, haste Thee unto me: and consider my voice when I cry unto Thee. Let my prayer be set forth in Thy sight as the incense and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth and keep the door of my lips. O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickedness, lest I eat of such things as please them. Let the righteous rather smite me friendly and reprove me. But mine eyes look unto Thee, O Lord God: in Thee is my trust, O cast not out my soul. Keep me from the snare that they have laid for me and from the traps of the wicked doers. Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together and let me ever escape them. [Repeat Baptismal Promises and Belief, as in p. 8.] ¶ Kneeling. For Guidance. LORD, we beseech Thee mercifully to receive the prayers of Thy people which call upon Thee and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. C Against Temptation. LORD, we beseech Thee, grant Thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow Thee the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Preservation. LORD, who never failest to help and govern them whom Thou dost bring up in Thy stedfast fear and love; Keep us, we beseech Thee, under the protection of Thy good Providence, and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. [Final Prayers as on Sunday Morning, p. 10.] WEDNESDAY MORNING. DUTY. NOT every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Matt. vii. 21. PSALM 119.-N. V. How bless'd are they who always keep Who never from the sacred paths Of God's commandments stray! How bless'd, who to His righteous laws And have with fervent humble zeal O then that Thy most holy will NO The Lesson.Rom. vi. 8-14. OW if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that He died, He died unto since once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. L Psalm xv. ORD, who shall dwell in Thy tabernacle or who shall rest upon Thy holy hill? Even he, that leadeth an uncorrupt life and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart. He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour: and hath not slandered his neighbour. He that setteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes and maketh much of them that fear the Lord. : He that sweareth unto his neighbour, and disappointeth him not though it were to his own hindrance. He that hath not given his money upon usury: nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doeth these things: shall never fall. HE Psalm xvii. EAR the right, O Lord, consider my complaint and hearken unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Let my sentence come forth from Thy presence: and let Thine eyes look upon the thing that is equal. Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night-season; Thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me: for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend. Because of men's works, that are done against the words of Thy lips : I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer. O hold Thou up my goings in Thy paths that my footsteps slip not. I have called upon Thee, O God, for Thou shalt hear me incline Thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words. Shew Thy marvellous loving-kindness, Thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in Thee from such as resist Thy right hand. : Keep me as the apple of an eye: hide me under the shadow of Thy wings, From the ungodly that trouble me mine enemies compass me round about to take away my soul. : They are inclosed in their own fat and their mouth speaketh proud things. |