SIXTH MEDITATION. BURIAL AND RESURRECTION
Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by…
THE HYMN OF ZACHARIAS
Luke i. 68-79. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for He hath visited and redeemed His people; And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David; As He spake by the…
PRIMITIVE DEVOTIONAL FORMS
These venerable forms of faith and worship should he constantly used by Christians in their devotions. Every young Christian ought early to commit them all to memory. THE LORD’S PRAYER. Matt. vi. 9-13. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed…
AN ACT OF GENERAL THANKSGIVING
It is meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, Lord God Almighty, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I will magnify Thee, I will worship Thee, I will…
THANKSGIVINGS
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving. I will wash my hands in innocency; so will I compass Thine altar, O Lord: that I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Thy wondrous works. Giving…
FOR FRIENDS
O Christ, my Creator and Redeemer, have mercy on all who are joined to me by the ties of blood, or united to me by the intimacy of holy affections, for whom I am desired to pray, or have resolved…
FOR THE FAMILY IN WHICH YOU LIVE
Visit, I beseech Thee, most gracious Fa- ther, this family with thy salvation; let Thy blessings descend, and rest upon all that be- long unto it, as well absent as present. Con- tinue to preserve us, Thy servants, both in…
FOR THE CONGREGATION TO WHICH YOU BELONG
O Thou, who accepteth the intercessions which Thy servants offer for each other; re- member, I entreat Thee, for good all the members of Thy holy Church throughout all the world, and especially of that congrega- tion to which I…
FOR PARENTS
Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named; I give Thee most hum- ble thanks, that Thou didst, of Thy divine providence, vouchsafe to let me be born of…
AN ACT OF GENERAL INTERCESSION
And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. — Is. lix. 16. He bore the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. — Is. liii. 12. We know not what we…