...liturgy directs, by patience in well doing, and comfort in virtuous suffering, which we learn of his holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life. Let him accordingly stop on fit occasions and think: What consolation loth this passage administer...

...prepare yourself accordingly. Heaven and Hell, the blessing and the cursing, are both before you. PRAYER. BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning, and those mighty signs to be recorded, that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God...

...of imperfection, the more exalted a degree of it shall we possess in another world. And do thou, " Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our instruction, grant that we may in such wise read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience...

...the Church doth read for example of life, and instruction of manners ; but yet doth it not apply c Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures...which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. Cull, for the second Sunday in Advent. pervert the Gospel of Christ. But we said before, so say...

...the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. The second Sunday in Advent. The Colled. BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures...may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and mwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast...

...in it. And grant that •we may in such wise hear it, read it, mark, learn, and inwardly digest it, that by patience and comfort of thy holy word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the *1 blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given, •\ wa i» our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen....

...salvation, in «"«< such form as hciejultmctth : A Prayer for the Right Use of the Holy Scriptures BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning ; grant that / may, in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them ; that by patience, and...

...same " blessed Lord has caused to be written for our learning, that by patience and comfort of his holy word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life." For this purpose, and that we may be able to hear and read, to mark and learn, these sacred Scriptures,...

...they contained the most stupidly-devised fable, instead of the things which belong to our peace ! " Blessed LORD, who hast caused all holy Scriptures...thou hast given us in our SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST." These words imply also, 2. Imperfect knowledge. — The Apostle uses the active verb, " Which things...

...well-known, but not exhausted, collect, — the one appointed for the second Sunday in Advent. George. " Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures...which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen." Minister. And, amen. The Scriptures were not given, we should always remember, for the vain...