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Episode Date: December 6, 2024

The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes by Lancelot Andrewes audiobook. Genre: religion The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes gathers the private prayers and meditations of Lancelot Andrewes, one of the most influential Anglican churchmen of the early seventeenth century. Shaped for personal use rather than public display, these devotions invite the listener into a disciplined spiritual life ordered by the hours and seasons of Christian worship. Moving from adoration and thanksgiving to confession, petition, and intercession, Andrewes crafts a richly textured language of prayer that balances humility with bold trust in divine mercy. Scriptural echoes and liturgical rhythms run throughout, creating a steady cadence suited to slow listening and repeated return. Along the way, Andrewes wrestles with enduring questions: how to pray when the heart is distracted, how to examine oneself without despair, how to seek holiness amid ordinary duties, and how to hold together reverence, repentance, and hope. Both intimate and theologically weighty, The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes offers a guide for anyone drawn to traditional Christian prayer, as well as a window into the devotional mind of a major figure in English religious history. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:04:36) Chapter 02 (00:10:55) Chapter 03 (00:17:10) Chapter 04 (00:33:53) Chapter 05 (00:42:07) Chapter 06 (00:52:05) Chapter 07 (01:03:36) Chapter 08 (01:10:46) Chapter 09 (01:19:17) Chapter 10 (01:26:40) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman. Daily prayers. Preparation 1. 1. Times of prayer. Always, Luke 18, verse 1, without ceasing, 1 Thessalonians 5 verse 17 at all times. Ephesians 6 verse 18. Samuel, among such as call upon his name, Psalm 99 verse 6. God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you,

and showing you the good and the right way. 1 Samuel 12, verse 23. We will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word, Acts 6, verse 4. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did a foretime, Daniel 6 verse 10. In the evening and morning and at noonday will I pray, and that instantly, and he shall hear my voice, Psalm 55 verse 18. 7 times a day do I praise thee, Psalm 119 verse 119.

64. 1. In the morning, a great while before day, Mark 1, verse 35. 2. In the morning watch. Psalm 63 verse 6, vid also. Psalm 130, verse 6. 3. The third hour of the day, Acts 2, verse 15. 4. About the 6th hour, Acts 10, verse 9. 5. The hour of prayer, the 9th. Acts 3 verse 1. 6. The even tide. Genesis 24 verse 63, 7 by night, Psalm 134 verse 2, at midnight, Psalm 119 verse 62. 2. Places of Prayer. In all places where I record my name, I will come to thee, and I will bless thee. Exodus 20 verse 24. Let thine eyes be open towards this house, night and day, even towards the place of which thou hast said, my name shall be there, that thou mayst hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make towards this place. 1 Kings 8 verse 29.

Thou that hearest the prayer unto thee shall all flesh come. The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise and the fierceness of them shall thou refrain. As for me, I will come into thy house, even upon the multitude of thy mercy, and in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy temple. Hear the voice of my humble petitions when I cry unto thee. when I hold up my hands towards the mercy seat of thy holy temple. We wait for thy loving kindness, O God, in the midst of thy holy temple. One, among the faithful and the congregation.

Psalm 111.1.2. Enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy father, which is in secret. Matthew 6, verse 6. 3. They went up into an upper room, Acts 1, verse 13. 4. He went up upon the housetop to pray. Acts 10 verse 9. 5. They went up together into the temple. Acts 3 verse 1.

6. We kneeled down on the shore and prayed. Acts 21 verse 5. 7. He went forth over the brook Kedron where it was a garden. John 18 verse 1. 8. Let them rejoice in their beds.

Psalm 149 verse 5. 9. He departed into a desert place and there prayed. Mark 1 verse 35. 10. In every place lifting up holy hands without rock. and doubting. 1 Timothy 2 verse 8. 3. Circumstances of prayer.

1. Kneeling. Humiliation. He knelt down and prayed. Luke 22, verse 41. He went a little further and fell on his face and prayed. Matthew 26, verse 39. My soul is brought low even under the dust. My belly cleaveth under the ground. 2. Sinking the head. Shame.

Drooping the face. Ezra 9 verse 6. 3. smiting the breast. Luke 18 verse 13 Indignation 4 shuddering Acts 16 verse 29 Fear

5 groaning Isaiah 59 verse 11 Sorrow Clasping of hands 6 raising of eyes and hands Psalm 25 verse 15 Psalm 143 verse 6 vehement desire

7 blows Psalm 73 verse 14 Revenge Bracketing 3 to 7 2 Corinthians 7 verse 11 End of Section 1 Section 2 of the Devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lanselot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman.

This Librevox recording is in the public domain. Order of Maton Prayer Litany, Glory be to thee, O Lord, Glory to thee, Glory to thee who give us me sleep, To recruit my weakness, and to remit the toils of this fretful flesh. To this day and all days, a perfect, holy, peaceful, healthy, sinless course, vouchsafe, O Lord. The angel of peace, a faithful guide, guardian of souls and bodies to encamp around me,

and ever to prompt what is salutary, vouchsafe, O Lord. Pardon and remission of all sins and of all offences, vouchsafe, O Lord. To our souls, what is good and convenient and peace to the world, vouchsafe, O Lord. Repentance and strictness for the residue of our life, and health and peace to the end, vouchsafe, O Lord. Whatever is true, whatever is honest, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever of good report, if there be any virtue, if any praise, such thoughts, such deeds, vouchsafe, O Lord. A Christian close without sin, without shame, and should it please thee, without pain,

and a good answer at the dreadful and fearful judgment seat of Jesus Christ our Lord. Vouch safe, O Lord. Confession. Essence beyond essence, nature in create, framer of the world, I set thee, Lord, before my faith, and I lift up my soul unto thee. I worship thee on my knees and humble myself under thy mighty hand. I stretch forth my hands unto thee, my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land. I smite on my breast and say with the publican, God be merciful to me a sinner, the chief of sinners. To the sinner above the publican, be merciful as to the publican. Father of mercies, I beseech thy fatherly

affection, despise me not, an unclean worm, a dead dog, a putrid corpse. despise not thou the work of thine own hands, despise not thine own image, though branded by sin. Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean, Lord only say the word, and I shall be cleansed, and thou, my saviour, Christ my saviour, saviour of sinners, of whom I am chief, despise me not, despise me not, O Lord,

despise not the cost of thy blood, who am called by thy name, but look on me with those eyes, with which thou didst look upon Magdalene at the feast, Peter in the hall, the thief on the wood, That with the thief I may entreat thee humbly Remember me, Lord, in thy kingdom. That with Peter I may bitterly weep and say,

O, that mine eyes were a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night. That with Magdalene I may hear thee say, Thy sins be forgiven thee, And with her may love much, For many sins ye manifold have been forgiven me. And thou, all holy, good and life-giving spirit, Despise me not thy breath.

Despise not thine own holy things, But turn thee again, O Lord, at the last, and be gracious unto thy servant. Commendation. Blessed art thou, O Lord, our God. The God of our fathers, who turn us the shadow of death into the morning, and lightness the face of the earth, who separatest darkness from the face of the light, and banishest night and bring us back the day,

who lightenest mine eyes, that I sleep not in death, who deliverest me from the terror by night, from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, who drive us sleep from mine eyes and slumber from mine eyelids, who make us the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise thee, because I laid me down and slept and rose up again, for the Lord sustained me, because I waked and beheld, and my sleep was sweet unto me.

Blot out as a thick cloud my transgressions, and as a cloud my sins, grant me to be a child of light, a child of the day, to walk soberly, wholly, honestly, as in the day, thou safe to keep me this day without sin, Thou, who upholdest the failing and liftest the fallen, let me not harden my heart in provocation or temptation or deceitfulness of any sin. Moreover, deliver me to-day from the snare of the hunter,

and from the noisome pestilence, from the arrow that flyeth by day, from the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday. Defend this day against my evil, against the evil of this day, defend thou me. Let not my days be spent in vanity, nor my years in sorrow. One day telleth another, and one night certifieth another, and one night certif another.

O let me hear thy loving kindness but times in the morning, for in thee is my trust. Show thou me the way that I should walk in, for I lift up my soul unto thee. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies, for I flee unto thee. Teach me to do the thing that pleaseeth thee,

for thou art my God. Let thy loving spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousness. Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake, and for thy righteousness's sake. Bring my soul out of trouble, remove from me foolish imaginations, inspire those which are good and pleasing in thy sight,

turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity, let mine eyes look right on, let mine eyelids look straight before me, hedge up mine ears with thorns, lest they incline to undisciplined words, give me early the ear to hear, and open mine ears to the instruction of thy oracles,

set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips, and let my word be seasoned with salt, that it may minister grace, to the hearers. Let no deed be grief unto me, nor offensive heart, let me do some work, for which thou wilt remember me, Lord, for good, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy. Into thy hands I commend my spirit, soul, and body, which thou hast created, redeemed, regenerated. O Lord, thou God of truth, and together with me, all mine, and all that belongs to me.

Thou hast vouchsafe'd them to me, Lord, in thy goodness, guard us from all evil, guard our souls, I beseech thee, O Lord, guard us without falling, and. place us immaculate in the presence of thy glory in that day. Guard my going out and my coming in henceforth and forever. Prosper I pray thee, thy servant, this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of those who meet him. O God, make speed to save me, O Lord, make haste to help me. O turn thee then unto me, and have mercy upon me.

Give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handmaid. Show some token upon me for good, that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed, because thou, Lord, hast hope in me and comforted me. End of Section 2. Section 3 of the Devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman. This Librevonk's recording is in the public domain. Order of evening prayer.

Meditation. The day is gone, and I give thee thanks, O Lord. Evening is at hand, make it bright unto us. As day has its evening, so also has life. The even of life is age. Age has overtaken me, make it bright unto us. Cast me not away in the time of age, forsake me not when my strength faileth me. Even to my old age be thou he, and even to whore hairs carry me.

Do thou make, do thou bear, do thou carry and deliver me? Abide with me, Lord, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent of this fretful life. Let thy strength be made perfect in my weakness. Day is fled and gone. Life too is going, this lifeless life. Yet cometh and cometh death, the deathless death, near as is the end of day, so to the end of life. We then, also remembering it, beseech of thee, for the close of our life that thou wouldst direct it in peace, Christian, acceptable, sinless, shameless, shameless, and if it please thee, painless.

Lord, O Lord, gather us together, under the feet of thine elect, when thou wilt, and as thou wilt, only without shame and sins. Remember we the days of darkness, for they shall be many, lest we be cast into outer darkness. Remember we to outstrip the night doing some good thing. Near is judgment, a good and acceptable answer at the dreadful and fearful judgment seat of Jesus Christ. Vouch safe to us, O Lord. By night I lift up my hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord. The Lord hath granted his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night season did I sing of him.

and made my prayer unto the God of my life. As long as I live, will I magnify thee on this manner and lift up my hands to thy name. Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice. Blessed art thou, O Lord, our God, the God of our fathers, who hast created the changes of days and nights, who giveest songs in the night,

who hast delivered us from the evil of this day, who hast not cut off like a weaver my life, nor from day even to night made an end of me. Confession. Lord, as we add day to day, so sin to sin, thee just falleth seven times a day, and I, an exceeding sinner, seventy times seven, a wonderful, a horrible thing, O Lord,

but I turn with groans from my evil ways, and I return into my heart, and with all my heart I turn to thee, O God of penitence and saviour of sinners, and evening by evening I will return in the innermost, marrow of my soul, and my soul, out of the deep, cryeth unto thee, I have sinned, O Lord, against thee, heavily against thee. Alas, alas, woe is me for my misery.

I repent, O me. I repent, spare me, O Lord, I repent, O'Me, I repent. Help thou my impenitence. Be appeased, spare me, O Lord. Be appeased, have mercy on me. I said, Lord, have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, after thy great goodness.

according to the multitude of thy mercies, do away mine offences, remit the guilt, heal the wound, blot out the stains, clear away the shame, rescue from the tyranny, and make me not a public example. O bring thou me out of my trouble, cleanse thou me from secret fault, keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins, my wandering of mind and idle talking, lay not to my charge. Remove the dark and muddy flood of foul and wicked thoughts. O Lord, I have destroyed myself. Whatever I have done amiss, pardon mercifully. Deal not with us after our sins, neither reward us after our inequities.

Look mercifully upon our infirmities, and for the glory of thy all holy name, turn from us all those ills and miseries, which by our sins and by us through them are most righteously and worthily deserved. 3. Commendation To my weariness, O Lord, vouchsafe thou rest. To my exhaustion, renew thou strength, Light in mine eyes that I sleep not in death, Deliver me from the terror by night,

The pestilence that walketh in darkness, Supply me with healthy sleep, And to pass through this night without fear, O keeper of Israel, who neither slumberest nor sleepest, Guard me this night from all evil, Guard my soul, O Lord, Visit me with the visitation of thine own, Reveal to me wisdom in the visions of the night,

If not, for I am not Worthy, not worthy, at least, O loving Lord, Let sleep be to me a breathing time As from toil, so from sin. Yea, O Lord, nor let me in my dreams imagine, What may anger thee, what may defile thee. Let not my loins be filled with illusions. Yea, let my reins chasten me in the night season,

Yet without grievous terror. Preserve me from the black sleep of sin, All earthly and evil thoughts put to sleep within me, Grown to me light sleep, rid of all imaginations fleshly and satanical. Lord, thou knowest how sleepless are mine unseen foes, and how feeble my wretched flesh who madeest me. Shelter me with the wing of thy pity,

awaken me at the fitting time, the time of prayer, and give me to seek thee early for thy glory and for thy service. Here use the form of intercession number three. Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend myself, my spirit, soul and body. Thou didst make and didst redeem them, and together with me all my friends and all that belongs to me thou hast vouchsafe them to me, Lord in thy goodness. Guard my lying down and my rising up, from henceforth and forever.

Let me remember thee on my bed and search out my spirit. Let me wake up and be present with thee. Let me lay me down in peace and take my rest, for it is thou lord only that makeest me dwell in safety. End of Section 3. Section 4 of the devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelon. Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman, this Librovon's recording is in the public domain. Course of prayer for the week, first day. Introduction. Through the tender mercies of our God, the day spring from on high hath visited us. Glory be to thee, O Lord, glory to thee,

creator of the light and enlightener of the world, of the visible light, the sun's ray, a flame of fire, day and night, evening and morning, of the light invisible, the revelation of God, writings of the law, oracles of prophets, music of Psalms, instruction of proverbs, experience of histories, light which never sets. God is the Lord who have showed us light, bind the sacrifice with cords, yea, even unto the horns of the altar. Or by thy resurrection raises up unto newness of life, supplying to us frames of repentance. The God of peace, who did bring again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep,

through the blood of the everlasting covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ, perfecting. us in every good work to do his will, working in us what is acceptable before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Thou, who did send down on thy disciples on this day, thy thrice holy spirit, withdraw not thou the gift, O Lord, from us, but renew it in us day by day, who ask thee for it. First confession, merciful and pitiful Lord, long-suffering and full of pity, I have sinned, Lord, I have sinned against thee, O me, wretched that I am, I have sinned Lord against thee much and grievously In attending on vanities and lies

I conceal nothing, I make no excuses I give thee glory O Lord this day I denounce against myself my sins Truly I have sinned before the Lord And thus and thus have I done I have sinned and perverted that which was right And it profited me not And what shall I now say

Or with what shall I open my mouth What shall I answer seeing I have done it Without plea, without defense self-condemned am I. I have destroyed myself. Unto thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but unto me confusion of face, because thou art just in all that has come upon me. For thou hast done right, but I have done wickedly. And now, Lord, what is my hope? Truly my hope is even in thee. If hope of salvation remain to me, if thy loving kindness cover the multitude of my iniquities, oh, remember what my substance is, the work of thine hands, the likeness of thy countenance,

the cost of thy blood, a name from thy name, a sheep of thy pasture, a son of the covenant, despise not thou the work of thine own hands, hast thou made for naught thine own image and likeness, for naught if thou destroy it, and to what profit is there in my blood? Thine enemies will rejoice. May they never rejoice, O Lord, grant not to them my destruction. Look upon the face of thine anointed in the blood of thy covenant, the propitiation for the sins of the whole world. Lord, be propitious unto me a sinner, even unto me, O Lord of sinners, chief, chiefest and greatest. For thy name's sake, be merciful unto my sin, for it is great, it exceeds. For thy namesake, that name, beside which none other under heaven is given among men whereby

we must be saved, the spirit himself helping our infirmities and making intercession for us with plains unutterable. For the tender yearnings of the father, the bloody wounds of the sun, the unutterable plains of the spirit, give ear, O Lord, have mercy, O Lord. O Lord, hearken and do, defer not for thine own sake, O my God. For me, I forget not my sins. They are ever before me. I remember them in the bitterness of my soul. I am anxious about them. I turn away and groan. I have indignation and revenge and wrath against myself. I despise and bruise my own self that my penitence, Lord, O Lord, is not deeper, is not fuller. Help thou mine impenitence, and more and still.

Still more, pierce thou, rend, crush my heart, and remit, forgive, pardon, what things are grief to me, and offence of heart. Cleanse thou me from secret faults, and keep thy servant also from presumptuous sins. Magnify thy mercies towards the wretched sinner, and in season, Lord, say to me, be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee. My grace is sufficient for thee. Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Why art thou so heavy, O my soul?

And why art thou so disquieted within thee? return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath rewarded thee. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine indignation, neither chasten me in thy displeasure. I said, I will confess my sins unto the Lord, and so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. Lord, thou knowest all my desire and my groaning is not hid from thee. Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness, according to the multitude of thy mercies, do away mine offences. Thou shalt arise and have mercy on me, O Lord, for it is time that.

thou have mercy upon me, yea, the time is come. If thou, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O Lord, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Second, prayer for grace. My hands will I lift up unto thy commandments which I have loved. Open thou mine eyes that I may see, incline my heart that I may desire, order my steps that I may follow, the way of thy commandments. O Lord God, be thou to me a God, and beside thee none else, none else, naught else with thee. Bouch safe to me to worship thee, and serve thee. One, in truth of spirit, two, in reverence of body, three, in blessing of lips, four,

in private and in public, five, to pay honour to them that have rule over me, by obedience and submission, to show affection to my own by carefulness and providence. Six, to overcome evil with good. Seven, to possess my vessel in sanctification and honour. 8. To have my converse without covetousness. Content with what I have. 9. To speak the truth in love. 10. To be desirous not to lust, not to lust passionately, not to go after lusts.

The hedge of the law, i.e. precautions. 1. To bruise the serpent's head. Genesis 3.15. 2. To remember my latter end. Deuteronomy 27 verse 29. 3. To cut off opportunities. 2 Corinthians 11 verse 12. 4. To be sober 1 Peter 5, verse 8. 5, not to sit idle. Matthew 20, verse 6. 6. To shun the wicked. Psalm 26, verse 5. 7. To cleave to the good. Romans 12, verse 9. 8. To make a covenant with the eyes. Job 31, 1.9.1. 9.1.000. 1.000. 10. To give myself unto prayer. 1 Corinthians 7 verse 5. 11. 11 to betake myself to penit myself to penitaph. 1. 1.5. 11. To betake myself to penitaph. 2. Peter 3 verse 9. Hedge up my way with thorns, that I find not the path for following vanity.

Hold thou me in with bit and bridle, lest I fall from thee. O Lord compel me to come into thee. Third, profession. I believe, O Lord, in thee, Father, Word, Spirit, one God. That by thy fatherly love and power all things were created, that by thy goodness and love to man, all things have been begun anew in thy word, who for us men and for our salvation was made flesh, was conceived and born, suffered and was crucified, died and was buried, descended and rose again, ascended and sat down,

will return and will repay, that by the shining forth and working of thy Holy Spirit, hath been called out of the whole world a peculiar people into a polity in belief of the truth and sanctity of living, that in it we are partakers of the communion of saints and forgiveness of sins in this world, that in it we are waiting for resurrection, of the flesh and life everlasting in the world to come. This most holy faith, which was once delivered to the saints, I believe, O Lord, help thou mine unbelief, and vouchsafe to me to love the Father for his fatherly love, to reverence the Almighty for his power, as a faithful creator, to commit my soul to him in

well-doing, vouchsafe to me to partake from Jesus of salvation, from Christ of anointing, from the only begotten of adoption, to worship the Lord for his conception in faith, for his birth in humility, for his sufferings in patience and hatred of sin, for his cross to crucify beginnings, for his death to mortify the flesh, for his burial to bury evil thoughts in good works, for his descent to meditate upon hell, for his resurrection upon newness of life, for his ascension to mind things above, for his sitting on high to mind the good things on his right, for his return to fear his second appearance, for judgment to judge myself ere I be judged. From the spirit, vouchsafed me the breath of salutary grace in the Holy Catholic Church

to have my own calling and holiness and portion, and a fellowship of her sacred rites and prayers, fastings and groans, vigils, tears, and sufferings, for assurance of remission of sins, for hope of resurrection and translation to eternal life. Fourth, intercession, O hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea, oh thou on whom our fathers hoped, and thou didst deliver them, on whom they waited and were not confounded, oh, my hope from my youth, from my mother's breasts, on whom I have been cast from the womb, be thou my hope now and evermore, and my portion in the land of the living, in thy nature, in thy names, in thy types, in word and indeed. My hope, let me not be disappointed

of my hope. Oh, the hope of all the ends of the earth, remember thy whole creation for good, visit the world in thy compassion. O guardian of men, O loving Lord, remember all our race. Thou who hast shut up all in unbelief, on all have pity, O Lord. O thou who dost die and rise again to be Lord both of thee dead and living.

Live we or die we, thou art our Lord. Lord have pity on living and dead, O helper of the helpless, seasonable aid and affliction, remember all who are in necessity and need thy succour. O God of grace and truth, establish all who stand in truth and grace. restore all who are sick with heresies and sins. O wholesome defense of thine anointed,

remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased and redeemed of old. O ground to all believers, one heart and one soul, that thou walkest amid the golden candlesticks, remove not our candlestick out of its place, amend what we are wanting, establish what remain, which thou art ready to cast away, which are ready to die. O lord of the harvest, send forth labourers made sufficient by thee into thy harvest. O portion of those who wait in thy temple, Ground to our clergy, rightly to divide the word of truth, rightly to walk in it, Ground to thy Christian people to obey and submit to them.

O king of nations, unto the ends of the earth, strengthen all the states of the inhabited world, as being thy ordinance through a creation of man. Scatter the nations that delight in war, make wars to cease in all the earth, O expectation of the isles and their hope, Lord, save this island, and all the country in which we sojourn, from all affliction, peril and need.

Lord of Lords, ruler of rulers, remember all rulers to whom thou has given rule in the earth, and, oh, remember specially our divinely guarded king, and work with him more and more, and prosper his way in all things, speak good things unto his heart, for thy church and all thy people grant to him profound and perpetual peace, that, in his tranquility we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. O thou, by whom are ordained the powers that be, ground to those who are chief in court, to be chief in virtue and thy fear, ground to the parliament, thy holy wisdom, to our great men, to do nothing against but for the truth, to the courts of law, thy judgments, to judge in all things concerning all without preference, without partiality.

O God of armies give a prosperous course and strength to all the Christian army against the enemies of our most holy faith. Ground to our population to be subject under the higher powers, not only for wrath, but also for conscience's sake. Ground to farmers and graziers good season, to the fleet and fishes, fair weather, to tradesmen, not to overreach one another, to mechanics, to pursue their business lawfully, down to the menest workmen, down to the poor. O God, not of us only but of our seed, bless our children amongst us, to advance in wisdom, as in stature, and in favour with thee and with men. Thou who wouldst have us provide for our own and hate us the unnatural,

remember, Lord, my relations according to the flesh, grant me to speak peace concerning them and to seek their good. Thou who willest us to make return to our benefactors, remember Lord for good, all from whom I have received good, keep them alive that they may be blessed upon earth, and deliver them not into the will of their enemies. Thou who hast noted the man who neglects his own, as worse than an infidel,

remember in thy good pleasure, all those of my household. peace be to my house, the son of peace upon all in it. Thou who wouldst that our righteousness succeed the righteousness of sinners, grant me Lord to love those who love me, my own friend and my father's friend and my friend's children, never to forsake. Thou who wouldst that we overcome evil with good and pray for those who persecute us, have pity on mine enemies, Lord, as on myself, and lead them together with me to thy heavenly kingdom. Thou who grantest the prayers of thy servants one for another, remember Lord,

for good, and pity all those who remember me in their prayers, or whom I have promised to remember in mine. Thou who acceptest diligence in every good work, remember Lord, as if they pray to thee, those who for any reason give not time to prayer. Arise, and have mercy on those who are in the last necessity, for it is time that thou hast mercy upon them, yet the time has come. Have mercy on them, O Lord, as on me also when in extremities. Remember Lord, infants, children, the young, the old, the middle-aged, the old, hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, prisoners, foreigners, friendless, unburied, all in extreme age and weakness, possessed with devils and tempted to suicide, troubled by unclean spirits, the hopeless, the sick in soul or body, the weak-hearted, all in prisons and chains, all under sentence of death, orphans, widows, foreigners, travelers, voyagers, women with, child, women who give suck, all in bitter servitude or minds or galleys or in loneliness. Thou, Lord, shall save both man and beast.

How excellent is thy mercy, O God. And the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. The Lord bless us and keep us, and show the light of his countenance upon us, and be merciful unto us. The Lord lift up his countenance upon us and give us peace. I commend to thee, O Lord, my soul and my body, my mind and my thoughts, my prayers and my vows, my senses and my limbs, my words and my works, my life and my death, my brothers and my sisters, and their children, my friends, my benefactors, my well-wishers, those who have a claim on me,

my kindred and my neighbours, my country and all Christendom, I commend to the Lord, my impulses and my startings, my intentions and my attempts, my going out and my coming in, my sitting down and my rising up. Fifth, praise. Up with our hearts, we lift them to the Lord, O how very meat and right and fitting and due, in all and for all, at all times, places, manners, in every season, every spot, everywhere, always, altogether, to remember thee, to worship thee, to confess to thee, to thee, to confess to thee, to praise thee, to bless thee, to him thee, to give thanks to thee, maker, nourisher, guardian, governor, preserver, worker, perfecter of all. Lord and father, king and God, fountain of life and immortality, treasure of everlasting goods,

whom the heavens, him, and the heaven of heavens, the angels and all the heavenly powers, one to other, crying continually, and we, the while, weak and unworthy, under their feet, holy, holy, holy, lord the god of hosts. Full is the whole heaven and the whole earth, of the majesty of thy glory, blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his place,

for his godhead, his mysteriousness, his height, his sovereignty, his almightiness, his eternity, his providence. The Lord is my strength, my stony rock, and my defence, my deliverer, my sucker, my buckler, the horn also of my salvation and my refuge. End of Section 4. Section 5 of The Devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman. This Librevox recording is in the public domain.

Course of prayer for the week, second day. The second day. Introduction. My voice shalt thou hear betimes, O Lord, early in the morning. will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up. Blessed out thou, O Lord, who didst create the firmament of heaven, the heavens and the heaven of heavens, the heavenly powers, angels, archangels, cherubim, seraphim, waters above the heavens, mists and exhalations, for showers dew, hail, snow as wool, hoar frost as ashes, ice as morsels,

clouds from the end of the earth, lightnings, thunders, winds out of thy treasures, storms, waters beneath the heavens, for drinking and for bathing. Confession. I will confess my sins and the sins of my fathers, for I have transgressed and neglected thee, O Lord, and walked perversely before thee. Set not, O Lord, set not my misdeeds before thee, nor my life in the light of thy countenance,

but pardon the iniquity of thy servant, according to thy great mercy, as thou hast been merciful to him from a child, even so now. I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I may burden to myself.

O pardon my transgression and take away mine iniquity. Deliver me from going down to the pit, for thou hast found a ransom. Have mercy on me, son of David. Lord, help me. Yea, Lord, even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table. Have patience with me, Lord. Yet I have not wherewith to pay. I confess to thee, forgive me the whole debt I beseech thee.

How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face? from me. How long shall I seek counsel in my soul and be vexed in my heart day and night? How long shall mine enemies triumph over me? Consider and hear me, O Lord, my God. Lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death, lest mine enemy say I have prevailed against him, for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it, but my trust is in thy mercy. Second, prayer for grace. Remove from me, one, all iniquity and profaneness, superstition and hypocrisy. Two, worship of idols, of persons. Three, rash oath and curse. Four, neglect or indecency of worship.

Five, haughtiness and recklessness. Six, strife and wrath. Seven, passion and corruption. Eight, indolence and fraud. Nine, lying and injuriousness. Ten, every evil notion, every impure thought, every base desire, every unseeky. Finally thought. Grown to me, one, to be religious and pious, two, to worship and serve, three, to bless and swear truly, four, to confess meately in thy congregation. Five, affection and obedience, six patience and good temper, seven, purity and soberness, eight contentedness and goodness, nine, truth and incorruptness, ten good thoughts, perseverance to the end.

Third profession. I believe in God, one, the Father, Almighty, Maker of God. heaven and earth. Two, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten son, our Lord. First, conceived of the Holy Ghost. Second, born of Mary, ever virgin. Third, suffered under Pontius Pilate. Fourth, crucified. Fifth, dead. Sixth, buried. First, descended into hell. Second, risen from the dead. Third, ascended into heaven. Fourth, set down on the right hand. Fifth, to return thence. Sixth, to judge both quick and dead. Three, and in the Holy Ghost.

First, the Holy Church. Second, Catholic. Third, communion of saints. Fourth, remission of sins. Fifth, resurrection of flesh. Sixth, life everlasting. And now, Lord, what is my hope? Truly, my hope is even in thee.

In thee, O Lord, have I trusted. Let me never be confounded. Fourth, intercession. Let us pray, God, for the whole creation. For the supply of seasons, healthy, fruit. peaceful, peaceful, for the whole race of mankind, for those who are not Christians, for the conversion of atheists, the ungodly, Gentiles, Turks and Jews, for all Christians, for restoration of all who languish in errors and sins, for confirmation of all who have been granted truth and grace,

for succour and comfort of all who are dispirited, in firm, distressed, unsettled, men and women, for thankfulness and sobriety in all who are hearty, healthy, prosperous, quiet, men and women, for the Catholic Church its establishment and increase, for the Eastern, its deliverance and union, for the Western, its adjustment and peace, for the British, the supply of what is wanting in it, the strengthening of what remains in it, for the Episcopate, Presbytery, Christian people,

for the states of the inhabited world, for Christian states, far off near at hand, for our own, for all in rule, for our divinely guarded king, the queen and the prince, for those who have place in the court, for Parliament and Judicature, Army and Police, Commons and their leaders, farmers, graziers, fishes, merchants, traders and mechanics, down to mean workmen and the poor, for the rising generation, for the good nurture of all the royal family, of the young ones of the nobility, for all in universities, in in inns of court, in schools, in town or country, in apprenticeships, for those who have a claim on me from relationship for brothers and sisters that God's blessing may be on them and on their children, or, or from benefits conferred, that thy recompense may be on all who have benefited me, who have ministered to me in carnal things, or from trust placed in me,

for all whom I have educated, all whom I have ordained, for my college, my parish, Southwell, St. Paul's, Westminster, Diocese of Chichester, Ili, and my present, clergy, people, helps, governments, the deanery and the chapel royal, the almanry, the college is committed to me, or from natural kindness, for all who, love me, though I know them not, or from Christian love, for those who hate me without cause, some too, even on account of truth and righteousness, or from neighborhood, for all who dwell near me peaceably and harmlessly, or from promise, for all whom I have promised to remember in my prayers, or from mutual officers, for all who remember me in their prayers and ask of me the same,

or from stress of engagements, for all who on sufficient reasons fail to call upon thee, for all who have no intercessor in their behalf, for all who at present are in agony of extreme necessity or deep affliction, for all who are attempting any good work which will bring glory to the name of God, or some great good to the church, for all who act nobly either towards things sacred or towards the poor, and for all who have ever been offended by me, either in word or indeed, God have mercy on me and bless me.

God show the light of his countenance upon me and pity me. God bless me even our God. God bless me and receive my prayer. O direct my life towards thy commandments. Hallow my soul, purify my body, correct my thoughts, cleanse my desires, soul and body, mind and spirit, heart and reins. Renew me thoroughly, O God, for if thou wilt thou canst. Fifth, praise. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and pitiful, long suffering and full of pity and true,

keeping pity for thousands, taking away iniquities and unrighteous, and sins, not clearing the guilty ones, bringing sins of fathers upon children, I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall ever be in my mouth. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, goodwill towards men. The angels, guardianship, archangels, glory, powers, marvels, thrones, judgment, dominions, beneficence, principalities, government, authorities against devils, cherubim, knowledge, seraphim, love. End of Section 5. Section 6 of the devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman.

This Librevox recording is in the public domain. Course of prayer for the week. Third day. Introduction. O God, thou art my God. Early will I seek thee. Blessed are thou, O Lord, who gatherest the water into the sea and brought us to sight the earth and made us to spout herb and fruit tree.

There are the depths and the sea, and the sea, and the earth. on a heap, lakes, rivers, springs, earth, continent, and aisles, mountains, hills, and valleys, glebe, meadows, glades, green pasture, corn, and hay, herbs and flowers, for food, enjoyment, medicine, fruit trees bearing wine, oil, and spices, and trees for wood, and things beneath the earth, stones, metals, minerals, coal, blood and fire, and vapours of smoke. First, confession. Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults,

keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins, lest they have thee dominion over me. For thy name's sake, be merciful unto my sin, for it is great. My iniquities have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up. Yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Make haste, O Lord, to help me.

Magnify thy mercies upon me, O thou who savest then, the trust in thee. I said, Lord, have mercy upon me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. I have sinned, but I am confounded, and I turn from my evil ways, and I turn unto mine own heart, and with my whole heart I turn unto thee,

and I seek thy face, and I beseech thee, saying, I have sinned, I have committed iniquity, I have done unjustly. I know, O Lord, the plague of my heart, and lo, I turn to thee with all my heart, and with all my strength. And thou, O Lord, now from thy dwelling place and from the glorious throne of thy kingdom in heaven.

O hear the prayer and the supplication of thy servant, and be propitious towards thy servant and heal his soul. O God, be merciful to me a sinner, be merciful to me the chief of sinners. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me one of thy hired servants. Make me one or even the last, or the least among all. What prophet is there in my blood when I go down to the pit?

Shall the dust give thanks unto thee, or shall I declare thy truth? Here, O Lord, and have mercy upon me. Lord, be thou my helper. Turn my heaviness into joy, my dreamings into earnestness, my falls into clearings of myself, my guilt, my offence into indignation, my sin into fear, my transgression into vehement desire, my unrighteousness into strictness,

my pollution into revenge. Second, prayer for grace. Hosanna in the highest. remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people. O visit me with thy salvation, that I may see the felicity of thy chosen, and rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance. There is glory which shall be revealed, for, when the judge cometh, some shall see thy face cheerful, and shall be placed on the right,

and shall hear those most welcome words, come ye blessed. They shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord, they shall enter into gladness, they shall enjoy the sight of him, they shall enjoy the sight of him, they shall be ever with him. These alone, only these are blessed among the sons of men. O to me the meanest, grant the meanest place there under their feet, under the feet of thine elect, and meanest among them. And that this may be, let me find grace in thy sight, to have grace so as to serve thee acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Let me find that second grace not to receive in vain the first grace, not to come short of it, yea, not to neglect it.

And that this may be, let me find grace in thy sight to have grace, Hebrews 1228, so as to serve thee acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Let me find that second grace, not to receive in vain the first grace, to Corinthian 6 verse 1. Not to come short of it, Hebrews 12, verse 15, yea, not to neglect it, 1 Timothy 4 verse 14. So as to fall from it, Galatians 5 verse 4, but to stir it up, 2 Timothy 1 verse 6, so as to increase in it 2 Peter 3 verse 18, yea, to abide in it till the end of my life, and, oh, perfect for me what is lacking of thy gifts, of faith, help thou my unbelief, of hope, establish my trembling hope, of love, kindle its smoking flax. Shared abroad thy love in my heart, so that I may love thee, my friend in thee, my enemy for

thee, thou who give us grace to thee humble-minded, also give me grace to be humble-minded, O thou who never failest those who fear thee, my fear and my hope, let me fear one thing only, the fearing ought more than thee. As I would that men should do to me, so may I do to them, not to have thoughts beyond what I should think, but to have thoughts unto sobriety. Shine on those who sit in darkness, and the shadow of death, guide our feet into the way of peace that we may have the same thoughts one with another. Rightly to divide, rightly to walk, to edify,

with one accord with one mouth to glorify God, and if ought otherwise, to walk in the same rule as far as we have attained, to maintain order, decency, and steadfastness. Third, profession. Godhead, paternal love, power, providence, salvation, anointing, adoption, lordship, conception, birth, passion, cross, death, burial, descent, resurrection, assent, sitting, return, judgment, breath and holiness, calling from the universal, hallowing in universal. Communion of saints and of saintly things, resurrection, life eternal. Fourth intercession. Hosanna on the earth. Remember, O Lord, to crown the year with thy goodness, for the eyes of all look towards thee, and thou giveest their food in due season. Thou

openest thine hand and fillest all things living with plenteousness, and on us, O Lord, vouchsafe the blessings of heaven and the dew above, blessings of fountains, and the deep beneath, courses of sun, conjunctions of moons, summits of eastern mountains, of the everlasting hills, fullness of the earth and of produce thereof, good seasons, wholesome weather, full crops, plentious fruits, health of body, peaceful times, mild government, kind laws, wise councils, equal judgments, loyal obedience, vigorous justice, fertility and resources, fruitfulness in begetting, ease in bearing, happiness in offspring, careful nurture, sound training.

That our sons may grow up as the young plants, our daughters are the polished corners of the temple, that our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store, that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets, that there be no decay, no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets. Fifth, praise. Thou, O Lord, art praised in Zion, and unto thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, the Holy One, to receive God. glory and honor and power. Thou that hearest the prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

My flesh shall come, my misdeeds prevail against me. O, be thou merciful unto our sins, that I may come and give thanks with all thy works, and bless thee with thy holy ones. O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. My soul doth praise the Lord for the goodness he hath done to the whole creation, and to the whole race of men. For thy mercies towards myself, soul, body, and estate. Gifts of grace, nature, and fortune, for all benefits received, for all successes, now, or

heretofore, for any good thing done, for health, credit, competency, safety, gentle estate, quiet. Thou hast not cut off as a weaver my life, nor from day even to night made an end of me. He hath vouchsafed me life and breath until this hour. From childhood, youth, and hitherto even unto age, he holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to slip, rescuing me from perils, sicknesses, poverty, bondage, public shame, evil chances, keeping me from perishing in my sins, fully waiting my conversion, leaving in me return into my heart, remembrance of my latter end, shame, horror, grief

for my past sins, fuller and larger, larger and fuller, more and still more, oh my lord, storing me with good hope of their omission, through repentance and its works, in the power of the thrice holy keys and the mysteries in thy church. Wherefore, day by day, for these thy benefits towards me, which I remember, wherefore also for others, very many which I have let slip, From their number, from my forgetfulness, For those which I wished, knew and asked, And those I asked not, knew not, wished not.

I confess and give thanks to thee, I bless and praise thee as is fit and every day, And I pray with my whole soul and with my whole mind, I pray. Glory be to thee, O Lord, glory to thee, Glory to thee, and glory to thy all holy name, for all thy divine perfections in them, for thine incomprehensible and unimaginable goodness, and thy pity towards sinners and unworthy men, and towards me of all sinners, far the most unworthy. Yea, O Lord, for this and for the rest, glory to thee and praise and blessing and thanksgiving,

with the voices and concert of voices, of angels and of men, of all thy saints in heaven, and all thy creatures in heaven and earth, and of me beneath their feet, Unworthy and wretched sinner, thy abject creature, now in this day and hour and every day till my last breath, and till the end of the world, for ages upon ages. End of Section 6. Section 7 of the Devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman. This Librevon's recording is in the public domain. Course of Prayer for the Week, Fourth Day. Introduction

I have thought upon thee, O Lord. When I was waking, for thou hast been my helper, Blessed art thou, O Lord, who made us the two lights, sun and moon, greater and lesser, and the stars, for light, for signs, for seasons, spring, summer, autumn, winter, days, weeks, months, years, to rule over day and night. First confession,

Behold, thou art angry, for we have sinned, we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags. We all do fade as a leaf. and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. But now, O Lord, thou art our father. We are clay, all thy handiwork. Be not wrath very sore, nor remember iniquity forever.

Behold, see, we beseech thee. We are all thy people, O Lord. Though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee. Yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name, leave us not.

O hope of Isabel, Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? Why shouldst thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save, be merciful to our unrighteousnesses, and our iniquities remember no more? Lord, I am carnal, sold under sin. There dwelleth in me that is in my flesh no good thing for the good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do.

I consent under the law that it is good. I delight in it after the inner man, but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and enslaving me to the law of sin. Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ that where sin abounded, grace hath much more abounded. O Lord, thy goodness leadeth me to repentance. O give me sometime repentance to recover me from the snare of the devil,

who am taken captive by him at his will. Sufficient for me the past time of my life to have done the will of lusts, walking in lasciviousness, reveling, drunkenness, and in all other excess of profligacy. O lamb without blemish and without spot, who hast redeemed me with thy precious blood,

in that very blood, pity me and save me in that blood, and in that very name, besides which is none other under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. O God, thou knowest my foolishness and my sins, are not hid from thee. Lord, thou knowest all my desire, and my groaning is not hid from thee. Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my cause. Let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O Lord God of Israel. Take me out of the mire that I sink not.

O let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters. Let not the water flood drown me, neither let thee deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Second, prayer for grace Defend me from Against seven deadly sins Pride, Amorite Envy Hittite Wroth, Parasite

Glutony, Gogeshite Letcheri Hyvite Covetousness The cares of life Canaanite Sloth Lugwarm indifference

Jebucite Give me Humility Pitifulness Patience Sobriety Purity Contentment

Ready zeal One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will require that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the fair beauty of the Lord and to visit his temple. Two things have I required of thee, O Lord, deny thou me not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Feed me with food convenient for me, lest I be full and deny thee. And say who is the Lord, or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Let me learn to abound. let me learn to suffer need in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content, for nothing earthly, temporal, mortal, to long nor to wait. Grant me a happy life in piety, gravity, purity, in all things good and fair, in cheerfulness, in health, in credit, in competency, in safety, in gentle a state, in quiet, a happy death, a deathless happiness. Third profession. I believe in the father,

benevolent affection in the almighty saving power in the creator providence for guarding ruling perfecting the universe in Jesus salvation in Christ anointing in the only begotten son sonship in the Lord a master's treatment in his conception and birth the cleansing of our unclean conception and birth in his sufferings which we owed that we might not pay in his cross the curse of the law removed in his death a sting of death in his burial, eternal destruction in the tomb, in his descent whether we ought, that we might not go, in his resurrection as the first fruits of them that sleep, in his ascent to prepare a place for us, in his sitting to appear and intercede, in his return to take unto him his own, in his judgment to render to each according to his works,

in the Holy Ghost power from unhigh, transforming unto sanctity from without and invisibly, yet inwardly and evidently. In the Church, a body mystical of the called out of the whole world, under intercourse in faith and holiness. In the communion of saints, members of this body, a mutual participation in holy things, for confidence of remission of sins, for hope of resurrection, of translation to life everlasting.

Fourth, intercession. And I have hoped in thy mercy from everlasting to everlasting. How excellent is thy mercy, O Lord? If I have hope it is in thy mercy, O let me not be disappointed of my hope. Moreover, we beseech thee, Remember all, Lord, for good. Have pity upon all, O sovereign Lord,

be reconciled with us all. Give peace to the multitudes of thy people. Scatter offences, abolish wars, stop the uprisings of heresies. Thy peace and love vouchsafe to us, O God, our Saviour, the hope of all the ends of the earth. Remember to crown the year with thy goodness,

for the eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their meat in due season. thou openest thy hand and fillest all things living with plenteousness. Remember thy holy church from one end of the earth to the other, and give her peace whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood, and establish her unto the end of the world. Remember those who bear fruit and act nobly in thy holy churches, and who remember the poor and needy,

recompense to them thy rich and heavenly gifts, thou shalt safe to them, for things earthly, heavenly, for corruptible, incorruptible, for temporal, eternal. Remember those who are in virginity and purity and ascetic life, also those who live in honourable marriage in thy reverence and fear. Remember every Christian soul in affliction, distress and trial, and in need of thy pity and succour, also our brethren in captivity, prison, chains, and bitter bondage, supplying return to the wandering, health to the sick, deliverance to the captives.

Remember religious and faithful kings whom thou hast given to rule upon the earth, and especially remember Lord, our divinely guarded king, strength in his kingdom, subdue to him all adversaries, speak good things to his heart for thy church and all thy people. Thou shave to him deep and undisturbed peace, that in his serenity we may lead a quiet and peaceable life with all godliness and honesty. Remember Lord all power and authority, our brethren in the court, those who are chief in counsel and judgment, and all by land and sea, waging thy wars for us. Moreover, Lord, remember graciously our Holy Fathers, the Honourable Presbytery and all the clergy, rightly dividing the word of truth and rightly walking in it.

Remember, Lord, our brethren around us, and praying with us in this holy hour, for their zeal and earnestness sake. Remember also those who unfair reasons are away, and pity them and us in the multitude of thy pity. Fill our garners with all manner of store, preserve our marriages in peace and concord, nourish our infants, lead forward our youth, sustain our aged, comfort the weak-hearted, gather together the scattered, restore the wanderers, and knit them to thy holy Catholic apostolic church, set free the troubled with unclean spirits, voyage with the voyagers,

travel with the travellers, stand forth for the widow, shield the orphan, rescue the captive, heal the sick, those who are on trial, in minds, in exile, in galleys, in whatever affliction, necessity, and emergence, remember, O God, and all who need thy great mercy, and those who love us, and those who hate us, and those who have desired us unworthy to make mention of them in our prayers, and all thy people remember, O Lord, our God, and upon all pour out thy rich pity, to all performing their requests for salvation, and those of whom we have not made mention, through ignorance, forgetfulness, or number of names,

do thou thyself remember, O God, who knowest the stature and appellation of each, who knowest every one from his mother's womb. For thou art, O Lord, the succour of the succourless, the hope of the hopeless, the saviour of the tempest tossed, the harbour of the voyager, the physician of the sick, do thou thyself become all things to all men? O thou, who knowest each man and his petition, each house and its need,

deliver, O Lord, this city, and all the country in which we sojourn from plague, famine, earthquake, flood, fire, sword, hostile invasion, and civil war. In the schisms of the churches, quench the haughty cries of the nations, and receive us all into thy kingdom, acknowledging us as sons of light, and thy peace and love, vouchsafe to us, O Lord, our God, remember, O Lord, our God, all spirits and all flesh which we have remembered, and which we have not.

And the close of our life, Lord, Lord, direct in peace, Christianly, acceptably, and should it please thee painlessly, gathering us together under the feet of thine elect, when thou wilt, and how thou wilt, only without shame and sins. The brightness of the Lord our God be upon us. Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us. O prosper thou our handiwork. Be Lord within me to strengthen me, without me to guard me, over me, to shelter me, beneath me, to establish me, before me to guide me, after me, to forward me, round about me to

secure me. Fifth, praise. Blessed out thou, Lord, God of Israel, our Father, from everlasting to everlasting. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power, the triumph and the victory, the praise, and the strength. For thou rulest over all in heaven and on earth. At thy face every king is troubled and every nation. Thine, O Lord, is the kingdom and the supremacy over all, and over all rule. With thee is wealth and glory is from thy countenance. Thou rulest over all, O Lord, the ruler of all rule, and in thine hand is

strength and power, and in thine hand to give to all things greatness and strength. and now, Lord, we confess to thee, and we praise thy glorious name. End of Section 7. Section 8 of the devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews. Translated by John Henry Newman, this Librevox recording, is in the public domain. Course of prayer for the week, fifth day. Introduction. We are satisfied with thy mercy, O Lord, in the morning.

Blessed are thou, O Lord, who brought us forth from the water, creeping through. things of life and wales and winged fowl. Be thou exalted, O God above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth. By thy ascension, O Lord, draw us too after thee, that we savour of what is above, not of things on the earth. By the marvellous mystery of the holy body and precious blood on the evening of this day, Lord have mercy. First confession, thou who hast said, as I live, saith the Lord, I will not the death of a sinner, but that the ungodly return from his way and leave, live. Turn ye, turn ye from your wicked way, for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Turn us,

O Lord, to thee, and so shall we be turned. Turn us from all our ungodlinesses, and let them not be to us for punishments. I have sinned, I have committed iniquity, I have done wickedly, from thy precepts and thy judgments, to thee, O Lord, righteousness, and to me, confusion of face, as at this day, in our despicableness, wherewith thou hast despised us, Lord, to us confusion of face and to our rulers who have sinned against thee. Lord, in all things, is thy righteousness, unto all thy righteousness. Let then thine anger and thy fury be turned away, and cause thy face to shine upon thy servant. O my God, incline thine ear and hear.

Open thine eyes and see my desolation. O Lord hear, O Lord forgive, O Lord hearken, and do, defer not for thine own sake, O my God, for thy servant is called by thy name. in many things we offend all. Lord, let thy mercy rejoice against thy judgment in my sins. If I say I have no sin, I deceive myself and the truth is not in me, but I confess my sins many and grievous, and thou, O Lord, art faithful and just to forgive me my sins when I confess them. Yea, for this too, I have an advocate with thee to thee, thy only begotten son the righteous, may he be the propitiation for my sins, who is also for the whole world.

will the Lord cast off forever, and will he be no more entreated? Is his mercy clean gone forever, and is his promise come utterly to an end forevermore? Have God forgotten to be gracious, and will he shut up his loving kindness in displeasure? And I said it is mine own infirmity, but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most highest. Second, prayer for grace. Give me grace to put aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, lust of the flesh of the eyes, pride of life,

every motion of flesh and spirit, alienated from the will of thy sanctity, to be poor in spirit, that I have a portion in the kingdom of heaven, to mourn that I be comforted, to be meek that I inherit the earth, to hunger and thirst for righteousness that I be filled, to be pitiful that I be pitied,

to be pure in heart that I see God, to be a peacemaker that I be called the son of God, to be prepared for persecutions and reverend, vileings for righteousness's sake, that my reward be in heaven. All this grant to me, O Lord. Third, profession. I, coming to God, believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. I know that my redeemer liveth, that he is Christ, the son of the living God, that he is truly the saviour of the world, that he came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief. Through the grace of Jesus Christ we believe that we shall be saved, like as our fathers.

know that my skin shall rise up upon the earth which undergoeth these things. I believe to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Our heart shall rejoice in him because we have hoped in his holy name, in the name of the father, of the saviour, mediator, intercessor, redeemer, of the twofold comforter, under the figures of the lamb and the dove. Let thy merciful kindness, O Lord, be upon us, like as we do put our trust in thee. Fourth, intercession. Let us beseech the Lord in peace, for the heaven.

the peace and the salvation of our souls, for the peace of the whole world, for the stability of God's holy churches, and the union of them all, for this holy house, and those who entered with faith and reverence, for our holy fathers, the Honourable Presbytery, the Deaconate of Christ, and all both clergy and people, for this holy retreat, and all the city and country, and all the faithful who dwell therein, for salubrious weather, fruitfulness of earth, and peaceful times, for voyagers, travellers, those who are in sick, toil and captivity and for their salvation. Aid, save, pity, and preserve them, O God, in thy grace, making mention of the all-holy, undefiled, and more than blessed Mary, Mother of God,

and ever virgin with all saints, let us commend ourselves and each other, and all our life to Christ our God. To thee, O Lord, for it is fitting be glory, honour, and worship. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with me and with all of us. Amen. I commend me and mine, and all that belongs to me, to him who is able to keep me without falling, and to place me immaculate before the presence of his glory, to the only wise God and our Savior, to whom be glory and greatness, strength and authority, both now and for all ages.

Amen. Fifth, praise. O Lord, my Lord, for my being, life, reason, for nurture, protection, guidance, for education, civil rights, religion, for thy gift of grace, nature, fortune, for redemption, regeneration, catechising, for my call, recall, yea, many calls besides, for thy forbearance, long-suffering, long-suffering, to meward, many seasons, many years up to this time, for all good things received, successes granted me, good things done, for the use of things present, for thy promise and my hope of the enjoyment of good things to come, for my parents,

honest and good, teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, religious intimates congenial, Here is thoughtful, friends sincere, domestics faithful, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, homilies, converse, prayers, patterns, rebukes, injuries, for all these and all others, which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, forgotten, done when I wished, when I wished not, I confess to thee and will confess, I bless thee and will bless, I give thanks to thee and will give thanks all the days of my life. Who am I, or what is my father's house, that thou shouldst look upon a dead dogs alike of me? What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits which he hath done unto me? What thanks can I recompense unto God? For all he hath spared and born with me until now.

Holy, holy, holy, worthy are thou, O Lord and our God, the Holy one, to receive the glory and the honour and the power, for thou hast made all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. End of Section 8. Section 9 of the Devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman. This Librevon's recording is in the public domain. Course of Prayer for the Week, 6th Day. Introduction, early shall my prayer come before thee. Blessed are thou, O Lord, who brought us forth of the earth, wild beasts, cattle, and all the reptiles,

for food, clothing, help, and made us man after thine image to rule the earth and blessedest him. The for-council, fashioning hand, breath of life, image of God, appointment over the works, charged to the angels concerning him, paradise. Heart, reins, eyes, ears, tongue, hands, feet, life, sense, reason, spirit, free will, memory, conscience, the revelation of God, writing of the law, oracles of prophets, music of Psalms, instruction of proverbs, experience of histories, worship of sacrifices. Blessed out thou, O Lord, for thy great and precious promise on this day concerning the life-giving seed, and for its fulfillment in fullness of the times, on this day.

Blessed are thou, O Lord, for the holy passion of this day. O, by thy salutary sufferings on this day, save us, O Lord. First, confession, I have withstood thee, Lord, but I return to thee, for I have fallen by mine iniquity, but I take with me words, and I return unto thee, and say, take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we render the calves of our lips. Spare us, Lord, spare, and give not thine heritage to reproach to thine enemies. Lord, Lord, be propitious. Cease, I beseech thee, by whom shall Jacob arise, for he is small.

Repend, O Lord, for this, and this shall not be. While observing lying vanities, I forsook my own mercy, and am cast out of thy sight. When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord, yet will I look again Toward thy holy temple Thou hast brought up my life from corruption Who is a godlike unto thee That pardoneth iniquity

To the remnant of his heritage He retaineth not his anger forever Because he delighteth in mercy Turn again and have compassion upon us O Lord subdue our iniquities And cast all our sins into the depths of the sea According to thy truth and according to thy mercy

O Lord I have heard thy speech and was afraid, in wrath, remember mercy. Behold me, Lord, clothed in filthy garments. Behold Satan standing at my right hand. Yet, O Lord, by the blood of thy covenant, by the fountain open for sin and for uncleanness, take away my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Save me as a brand plucked out of the fire.

Father, forgive me, for I knew not. Truly I knew not what I did in sinning against thee. Lord, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom. Lord, lay not mine enemy's sins to their church. charge. Lord, lay not my own to mine. By thy sweat, bloody and clotted, thy soul in agony, thy head crowned with thorns, bruised with staves, thine eyes swimming with tears, thine ears full of insults, thy mouth moistened with vinegar and gall, thy face dishonorably stained with spitting, thy neck weighed down from the burden of the cross, thy back ploughed with the

wheels and gashes of the scourge. Thy hands and feet stamped through, thy strong cry, Eli, Eli, Thy, thy heart pierced with the spear, the water and blood thence flowing, Thy body broken, thy blood poured out, Lord forgive the offence of thy servant, and cover all his sins, Turn away all thy displeasure, and turn thyself from thy wrathful indignation. Turn me then, O God our saviour, and let thine anger cease from us. Will thou be displeased at us forever, and stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another? Will thou not turn again and quicken us, that thy people may rejoice in thee? Show us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

Second, prayer for grace. The works of the flesh, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, strifes, emulations, heats, quarrels, parties, heresies, envings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and such like. the fruits of the spirit love joy peace long suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance the spirit of wisdom of understanding of counsel of might of knowledge of godliness of the fear of the Lord and the gifts of the spirit the word of wisdom of knowledge faith gifts of healing working of miracles prophecy discerning of spirits kinds of tongues interpretation of tongues May thy strong hand, O Lord, be ever my defence. Thy mercy in Christ, my salvation, thy all veritable word, my instructor,

the grace of thy life-bringing spirit, my consolation all along, and at last. The soul of Christ hallow me, and the body strengthen me, and the blood ransom me, and the water wash me, and the bruises heal me, and the sweat refresh me, and the wound hide me. The peace of God which passeth all understanding keep my heart and thoughts in the knowledge and the love of God. Third profession, I believe that thou hast created me. Despise not the work of thine own hands, that thou madeest me after thine image and likeness. Suffer not thy likeness to be blotted out, that thou hast redeemed me in thy blood.

Suffer not the cost of that redemption to perish, that thou hast called me Christian after thy name, disdain not thine own title. That thou hast hallowed me in regeneration, destroy not thy holy work, that thou hast grafted me into the good olive tree, the member of a mystical body, the member of the member of thy mystical body, cut not off. O think upon thy servant as concerning thy word, wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust. My soul hath longed for thy salvation, and I have good hope because of thy word. Fourth, intercession.

I pray for the prosperous advance and good condition of all the Christian army against the enemies of our most holy faith, for our holy fathers and all our brotherhood in Christ, for those who hate and those who love us, for those who pity and those who minister to us. for those whom we have promised to remember in prayer, for the liberation of captives, for the fathers and brethren absent, for those who voyage by sea, for those who lie in sickness, let us pray also for the fruitfulness of the earth and for every soul of Orthodox Christians. Let us bless pious kings, Orthodox high priests, the founders of this holy retreat, our parents, and all our forefathers and our brethren departed.

Fifth, praise. thou, who on man's transgressing thy command and falling, didst not pass him by nor leave him, God of goodness, but didst visit in ways manifold as a tender father supplying him with thy great and precious promise concerning the life-giving seed, opening to him the door of faith and repentance unto life, and in fullness of the times, sending thy Christ himself to take on him the seed of Abraham, and in the ablation of his life, to fulfil the law's obedience, and in the sacrifice of his death to take off the law's curse, and in his death, to redeem the world, and in his resurrection to quicken it.

O thou, who doest all things whereby to bring again our race to thee, that it may be partaker of thy divine nature and eternal glory, who has borne witness to the truth of thy gospel by many and various wonders in the ever-memorable converse of thy saints, in the supernatural endurance of torments, in the overwhelming conversion of all lands to the obedience of faith, without might or persuasion or compulsion. Blessed be thy name, and praised and celebrated and magnified, and highly exalted and glorified and hallowed, its record and its memory and every memorial of it,

both now and forevermore. Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive the power, and riches and wisdom, and strength, and honour and glory and blessing

to him that sitteth upon the throne and to the lamb be the blessing and the honour and the glory and the might forever and ever amen salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne and to the lamb amen the blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honour and the power and the strength be unto our God for ever and ever amen

end of section 9 section 10 of the devotions of bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman, this Librevalch's recording is in the public domain. Course of prayer for the week, seventh day. Introduction, O Lord, be gracious unto us, we have waited for thee. Be thou, our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who restedest on the seventh day from all thy works, and blessedest and sanctifiedest it. Concerning the Sabbath, concerning the Christian rest instead of it, concerning the burial of Christ and the resting from sin, concerning those who are already gone to rest.

First confession. I am ashamed and blush, O my God, to lift up my face to thee, for mine iniquities are increased over my head, and my trespass is grown up unto the heavens, since the days of youth have I been in a great trespass unto this day. I cannot stand before thee because of this. My sins are more in number than the sand of the sea, my iniquities are multiplied, and I, not worthy to look up and see the height of heaven, the number of my unrighteousnesses, and I have no relief, because I have provoked thine anger, and done evil in thy sight, not doing thy will, not keeping thy commandments, and now my heart kneels to thee, beseeching thy goodness.

I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I know mine iniquities, and I ask and beseech, remit to me, O Lord, remit to me, and destroy me not in mine iniquities, nor be thou angry forever, nor reserve evil for me, nor condemn me in the lowest parts of the earth, because thou art God, the God of penitence, and thou shalt show in me all thy loving kindness, for thou shalt save me unworthy, according to thy much pity, and I will praise thee always. Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst cleanse me. Lord, only say the word, and I shall be healed. Lord, save me. Carest thou not, that we perish? Say to me, be of good cheer, thy sins are remitted to thee. Jesus, master, have mercy on me. Thou, son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me.

Jesus, son of David, son of David, Lord say to me, Epfathar, Lord, I have no man, Lord say to me, Be loosed from thine infirmity, Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation, say unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee. Lord, how long wilt thou be angry, shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever? O remember not our old sins, but have mercy on us, and that soon, for we are come to great misery, help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name. O deliver us and be merciful unto our sins for thy namesake. Second, prayer for grace. O Lord, remit, all my failings, shortcomings, falls, offences, trespasses, scandals,

transgressions, debts, sins, faults, ignorances, inequities, impieties, unrighteousnesses, pollutions. The guilt of them, be gracious unto, pardon, remit, forgive, be propitious unto, spare, impute not, charge not, remember not. The stain, pass by, pass over, disregard, overlook, hide, hide, wash away, blot out, cleanse. The hurt. Remit, heal,

remedy, take off, remove, away with, abolish and null, disperse, annihilate, that they be not found, that they exist not. Supply to faith, virtue, to virtue, knowledge, to knowledge, continence,

to continence, patience, to patience, godliness, to godliness, brotherly love, to brotherly love, charity. That I forget not my cleansing from my former sins, but give diligence to make my calling and election sure through good works.

Third, profession. I believe in thee, the father. Behold then, if thou art a father and we sons, as a father piteeth his sons, be thou of tender mercy towards us, O Lord. I believe in thee, the Lord. Behold then, if thou art Lord and we servants, our eyes are upon thee, our Lord,

until thou have mercy upon us. I believe that, though we be neither sons nor servants but dogs only, yet we have leave to eat of the crumbs that fall from thy table. I believe that Christ is the Lamb of God. O Lamb of God that takest away these sins of the world, take thou away mine. I believe that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Thou who cameest to save sinners, save thou me, of sinners, chief and greatest. I believe that Christ came to save what was lost. Thou who cameest to save the lost, never suffer, O Lord, that to be lost which thou hast saved. I believe that the spirit is the Lord and giver of life.

thou who gaveest me a living soul Give me that I receive not my soul in vain I believe that the spirit gives grace in his sacred things Give me that I receive not his grace in vain Nor hope of his sacred things I believe that the spirit intercedes for us With plains unutterable Grant me of his intercession and those plains to partake O Lord

Our fathers hoped in thee They trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them They called upon thee and were holpen They put their trust in thee and were not confounded As thou didst our fathers In the generations of old So also deliver us, O Lord, who trust in thee. Fourth, intercession

O heavenly king, confirm our faithful kings, Establish the faith, soften the nations, pacify the world, Guard well this holy retreat And receive us in orthodox faith and repentance As a kind and loving Lord, The power of the father guide me, The wisdom of the sun enlighten me, The working of the spirit, quicken me.

Guard thou my soul, establish my body, elevate my senses, direct my converse, form my habits, bless my actions, fulfill my prayers, inspire holy thoughts, part in the past, correct the present, prevent the future. Fifth, praise. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, to him be glory in the church in Christ and to all generations, world without end, amen. Blessed and praised and celebrated and magnified and exalted and glorified and hallowed be thy name, O Lord, its record and its memory, and every memorial of it. For the all-honourable senate of the patriarchs, the ever-venerable band of the prophets,

the all-glorious college of the apostles, the evangelists, the all-elustrous army of the martyrs, the confessors, the assembly of doctors, the ascetics, the beauty of virgins, for infants, the delight of the world, for their faith, their hope, their labours, their truth, their blood, their zeal, their diligence, their tears, their purity, their beauty. glory to thee, O Lord, glory to thee. Glory to thee, who didst glorify them, among whom we too glorify thee. Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord, the God Almighty, just and true are thy ways, O king of saints, who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name, for thou only are

holy, for all the nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are made manifest. Praise our God, all ye ye that fear him both small and great. Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him. Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there shall be no more death, neither crying, neither pain any more,

for the former things are passed away. End of Section 10. Section 11 of the devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman. This Librevonk's recording is in the public domain. Additional exercises. Deprecations. 1.

O Lord, thou knowest and canst and willest the good of my soul. Miserable man am I. I neither know nor can, nor as I ought will it. Thou, O Lord, I beseech thee. In thine ineffable affection, so order concerning me, and so dispose, as thou knowest to be most pleasing to thee, and most good for me. Thine is goodness, greatness.

grace, love, kindness, benignity, gentleness, consideration, forbearance, long suffering, much pity, great pity, mercies, multitude of mercies, yearnings of mercies, kind yearnings, steep yearnings, in passing over, in overlooking, in disregarding many seasons, many years, punishing, punishing, not to the fool, not correspondently, in wrath, remembering mercy, repenting of the evil, compensating doubly, ready to pardon, to be reconciled, to be appeased, 2. Litany Father, the Creator, Son, the Redeemer, Spirit, the Regenerator, destroy me not.

Whom thou hast created, redeemed, regenerated. Remember not, Lord, my sins, nor these sins of my forefathers, neither take vengeance for our sins, theirs, nor mine. Spare us, Lord, them, and me, spare thy people, and among thy people, thy servant, who is redeemed with thy precious blood, and be not angry with us forever. Be merciful, be merciful. spare us, Lord, and be not angry with us forever. Be merciful, be merciful. Have pity on us, Lord, and be not angry with us to the fool. Deal not, O Lord, deal not with me after mine

iniquities. Neither recompense me according to my sins, but after thy great pity deal with me, and according to the multitude of thy mercies, recompense me. After that so great pity and that multitude of mercies, as thou didst to our fathers in the times of old, by all that is dear unto thee. From all evil and adolph, adversity in all time of need, from this evil and this adversity in this time, raise me, rescue me, save me, O Lord, deliver me, O Lord, and destroy me not. On the bed of sickness, in the hour of death, in the day of judgment, in that dreadful and fearful day, rescue me, Lord, and save me from seeing the judge's face overcast, from being placed on the left, from hearing the dreadful

word, depart from me, from being bound in chains of darkness, from being cast into the outer darkness, from being tormented in the pit of fire and brimstone, where the smoke of the torments ascendeth forever. Be merciful, be merciful. Spare us, pity us, O Lord, and destroy us not forever. Deliver and save us. Let it not be, O Lord, and that it be not. Take away from me, O Lord, hardness of heart, desperateness after sinning, blindness of heart, contempt of thy threats, a quarterized conscience, a reprobate mind, the sin against the Holy Ghost, the sin under death, For crying sins, the sicks which for run, the sin against the Holy Ghost. Deliver me from all ills and abominations of this world, from plague, famine and war,

earthquake, flood and fire, the stroke of immoderate rain and drought, blast and blight, thunder, lightning and tempest, epidemic sickness, acute and malignant, unexpected death, from ills and difficulties in the church, from private interpretation, from innovation in things sacred, from heterodox teaching, from unhealthy inquiries and interminable disputes, from heresies, schisms, scandals, public and private, from making gods of kings, from flattering of the people, from the indifference of soul, from the scorn of Michael, from the greediness of Hoffney, from the plunder of Athaliah, from the priesthood of Micah, from the brotherhood of Simon and Judas, from the doctrine of men unlearned and unestablished, from the pride of novices,

from the people resisting the priest, from ills and difficulties in the state, from anarchy, many rulers, tyranny, from Asher, Jerobo, Rehoboam, Gallio, Heyman, the profligacy of Oedithel, the foolishness of Zohan, footnote, Isaiah 19, end footnote, the statutes of Omri, the justice of Jezebel, the overflowing of Belial, the courage of Peor, the valley of acore, pollution of blood or seed, incursion of enemies, civil war, bereavement of good governors, accession of evil and unprincipled governors, from an intolerable life, in despondence, sickness, ill fame, distress, peril, slavery, restlessness, from death, in sin, shame, tortures, desperateness, defilement, violence, treachery, from death unexpected, from death eternal. Forms of intercession. One, for all creatures, men, persons compassed with infirmity, churches, Catholic, Eastern, Western, British, the Episcopet, Presbyter,

clergy, Christian people, states of the whole earth, Christian, neighboring, our own rulers, kings, religious kings, our own, counselors, judges, nobles, soldiers, sailors, the people, the rising generation, schools, those at court, in cities, the country, those who serve the soul, those who serve the body, in food, clothing, health, necessaries, those who have a claim on my prayers, in nature, by benefits from trust, formerly or now, in friendship, in love, in neighborhood, from promise, from mutual offices, from want of leisure, from destitution, from extremity. 2.

Thy whole creation, the world, our whole race, the inhabited earth, the states of the world, the Catholic Church, the Christian religion, the separate churches, the separate states, our church, our country, our state, the orders in each, the persons in the orders, the priesthood, the person of the king, of the prince, the city, the parish in which I was baptized, all hallows barking, my two schools, my university, my college, the parish committed to me, St. Giles, the three churches of Southwell, St. Poles, Westminster, the three diocese of Chichester, Ely, Winton, my home, my kindred, those who show me pity, those who minister to me, my neighbours, my friends, those who have a claim on me.

Three, the creation, the race of man, all in affliction and in prosperity, in error and in truth, in sin and in grace, the church ecumenical, eastern, western, our own, rulers, clergy, people, states of the earth, Christian, neighbouring, our own, the king, the queen, the prince, the nobles, parliament, law courts, army, police, the commons, farmers, merchants, artisans, down to mean workmen and poor, those who have a claim on me from kindred, benefaction, ministration of things temporal, charge formally or now, natural kindness, Christian love, neighborhood, promise on my part, their own desire, their lack of leisure, sympathy for their extreme misery, any good work, any noble action, any scandal from me,

having none to pray for them. 4. World, earth, inhabited, church, kingdom, throne, altar, council chamber, law courts, schools, workplaces, infants, boys, the grown, youths, men, elderly, aged, decrepit. the possessed, weak-hearted, sick, prisoners, orphans, widows, foreigners, travelers, voyagers, with child, who give suck, in bitter bondage, in desolateness, overladen. Meditations 1 On Christian duty What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

Keep the commandments, Mark 10-117. What shall we do? Repend and be baptized to every one of you. Acts 2 verses 37 and 38 What must I do to be saved? believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 16, verse 31. What shall we do then? To the multitude, he who hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none. He that hath meat, let him do likewise. To the publicans, exact no more than is appointed you. To soldiers, do violence, to no man.

Neither accuse any falsely, be content with your wages. Look three verses 10 to 14. The knowledge and faith of God's justice, God's mercy, leads unto fear, hope, abasement, consolation, repentance. thanksgiving, fasting, almsgiving, prayers, hymns, patience, obedience, a sacrifice, and oblation. 2. On the Day of Judgment. Father, unoriginal, only begotten son, life-giving spirit, merciful, pitiful, long-suffering, full of pity, full of kind yearnings, who lovest the just and piteest the sinful, who passest by sins and grant us petitions, God of penitence, saviour of sinners, I have sinned before thee, O Lord, and thus and thus have I done. Alas, alas, woe, woe, how was I enticed by my own lust, How a hated instruction,

Nor felt I fear, nor shame at thy incomprehensible glory, Thy awful presence, thy fearful power, Thy exact justice, thy winning goodness, I will call if there be any that will answer me, To which of the saints shall I turn? O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? How fearful is thy judgment, O Lord, when the thrones are set, and angels stand around, and men are brought in, the books opened, the works inquired into, the thoughts examined, and the hidden things of darkness, what judgment shall be upon me, who shall quench my flame, who shall lighten my darkness, if thou pity me not. Lord, as thou art loving, give me tears,

give me floods, give me today, for then will be the incorruptible judge, the horrible judgment seat, the answer without excuses, the inevitable charges, the shameful punishment, the endless Gehenna, the pitiless angels, the yawning hell, the roaring stream of fire, the unquenchable flame, the dark prison, the rayless darkness, the bed of live coals, the unwearied worm, the indissoluble chains, the bottomless chaos, the impassable wall, the inconsolable cry, none to stand by me, none to plead for me, none to snatch me out. But I repent, Lord, O Lord, I repent. Help thou my impenitence, and more, and still more, pierce, rain, to crush my heart.

behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself For my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions, That I loathe myself For these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, insincere, shameful, disgraceful passions, That my confusion is daily before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas, whoa, woe! O me how long!

Behold, Lord, that I sentence myself to punishment everlasting, yea, and all miseries of this world. Behold me, Lord, self-conduble. end. Behold, Lord, and enter not into judgment with thy servant. And now, Lord, I humble myself under thy mighty hand. I bend to thee, O Lord, my knees. I fall on my face to the oath. Let this cup pass from me. I stretch forth my hands under thee. I smite my breast, I smite on my thigh. Out of the deep, my soul criath unto thee, as a thirsty land, and all my bones and all that is within me. Lord, hear my voice.

3. On human frailness. Mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak. Remember, Lord, how short my time is. Remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field, for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more. I am dust and ashes, earth and grass, flesh and breath, corruption, and the worm, a stranger upon the earth, dwelling in a house of clay, few and evil my days, today and not tomorrow, in the morning, yet not until night, in a body of sin, in a world of corruption, of few days and full of trouble, coming up and cut down like a flower, and as a shadow having no stay. Remember this, O Lord, and suffer,

remit. What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? By the multitude of thy mercies, by the riches and excessive redundance of thy pity, by all that is dear to thee, all that we should plead, and before and beyond all things by thyself, by thyself, O Lord, and by thy Christ, Lord have mercy upon me, the chief of sinners. O my lord, let thy mercy rejoice against thy judgment in my sin. O Lord hear, O Lord forgive, O Lord hearken, O Lordarken, and do, do, and defer not for thine own sake. Defer not, O Lord, my God. For holy communion, O Lord, I am not worthy, I am not fit, that thou shouldst come under the roof of my soul.

For it is all desolate and ruined, nor hast thou in me fitting place to lay thy head. But, as thou didst vouchsafe to lie in the cavern and manger of brute cattle, as thou didst not disdain to be entertained in the house of Simon the leper, as thou didst not that harlot like me who was a sinner coming to thee and touching thee, as thou abhorst not, her polluted and loathsome mouth, nor the thief upon the cross confessing thee. So me too, the ruined, wretched, and excessive sinner, deign to receive to the touch and partaking of the immaculate, supernatural, life-giving, and saving mysteries of thy all-holy body, and thy precious blood. Listen, O Lord, God, from thy holy habitation, and from the glorious throne of thy kingdom, and come to sanctify us. O thou who sittest on high with the Father, and art present with us here invisibly, come thou to sanctify the gifts which lie before thee, and those in whose behalf and by whom, and the things for which they are brought near thee, and grant to us communion unto faith, without shame, love without dissimulation, fulfillment of thy commandments,

alacrity for every spiritual fruit, hindrance of all adversity, healing of soul and body, that we too, with all saints, who have been well-pleasing to thee from the beginning, may become partakers of thy incorrupt and everlasting goods, which thou hast prepared, O Lord, for them that love thee, in whom thou art glorified for ever and ever. Lamb of God, that takeest away the sin of the world, take away the sin of me, the utter sinner. Under a pledge of communion, Acts 2 verse 42, a memorial of the dispensational, Ephesians 3 verse 2, a showing forth of his death, 1 Corinthians 11, verse 26, a communion of body and blood, Luke 22, verse 19, a sharing in the spirit, 1 Corinthians 12,

verse 13, remission of sins, Matthew 26, 28, a riddance of things contrary, 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7, rest of conscience, Matthew 11, 12, blotting out of debts, Colossians 2 verse 14, cleansing of stains, Hebrews 9 verse 14, healing of the soul's sicknesses, 1 Peter 2, 2, verse 24. Renewing of the covenant, Psalm 2 verse 5, food of spiritual life, John 6, verse 27. Increase of strengthening grace, Hebrews 13, verse 9, and of winning consolation, Luke 2, verse 25. Compunction of penitence, 2, verse 9,

illumination of mind, Luke 24 verse 31. Exercise of humility, 1 Peter 5 verse 5, seal of faith, 2 Corinthians 1 verse 22, fullness of wisdom, Romans 11 verse 33, bond of love, John 13, verse 35, call for a collection, 1 Corinthians 16 verse 1, means of endurance, 1 peter 4 verse 1, liveliness of thanksgiving, Psalm 116 verse 12, confidence in prayer, Psalm 116 verse 13, Mutual in Dwelling, John 6 verse 56, Pledge of the Resurrection, John 6 verse 34, acceptable defense in judgment, Luke 14 verse 18, covenant of the inheritance, Luke 22 verse 20, figure of perfection, John 17 23.

We then remembering, O sovereign Lord, in the presence of thy holy mysteries, the salutary passion of thy Christ, his life-giving cross, most precious death, three days sepulture, resurrection from the dead, ascend into heaven, session at the right hand of thee, the father, his fearful and glorious coming, we beseech thee, O Lord, that we, receiving in the pure testimony of our conscience, our portion of thy sacred things may be made one with the holy body and blood of thy Christ and receiving them not unworthily

we may hold Christ in dwelling in our hearts and may become a temple of thy holy spirit yea, O our God, nor make any use of us guilty of thy dreadful and heavenly mysteries, nor infirm in soul or body from partaking of them unworthily, but grant us until our last and closing breath

worthily to receive a hope of thy holy things for sanctification, enlightening, strengthening, a relief of the weight of my many sins, a preservative against all satanic working, a riddance and hindrance of my evil conscience, a mortification of my passions, an appropriation of thy commandments, an increase of thy divine grace, and a securing of thy kingdom. It is finished and done, so far as in our power, Christ our God, the mystery of thy dispensation, for we have held remembrance of thy death, We have seen the figure of thy resurrection, we have been filled with thy endless life, We have enjoyed thy unclowing dainties, which graciously vouchsafe all of us in the world to come.

The Lord, the good God, pardon every soul that purifieth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of His fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. End of Section 11 End of The Devotions of Bishop Andrews by Lancelot Andrews, translated by John Henry Newman. Thank you.