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The second service, or Office of the faithful enlarged, according to ancient forms For a private use.
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Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.
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worship Thee in Spirit and in Truth whose Souls are made thy Temples who honour and adore Thee in the most inward Thoughts of their Hearts and sacrifice their Lusts and vile Affections and their own Wills to Thee whose Faith and Devotion is certainly known unto Thee that thou wilt hide them in the hollow of thy Hand and under the Shadow of thy Wings and preserve them as a Seed to partake of that Glory which shall immediately follow and come upon the Church as soon as the Storm shall be over and that thou wilt be graciously pleased effectually to make every one of us and of this Society to be and continue of that blessed Company who worship Thee in Spirit and in Truth and confirm it and increase it daily both in Grace and Number to the Honour and Praise of thy Great Name through Jesus Christ our Blessed Lord and Saviour And we humbly beseech Thee that thou wilt remember and be gracious to those of us who are now absent by reason of any Infirmity Sickness or other just Impediment and supply their involuntary corporal Absence from us by the Presence of thy Spirit with them and make them Partakers with us of the Spiritual Benefits of this Holy Ordinance And we humbly beseech Thee for our Relations in Blood and Affinity that thou wilt be pleased to work and perfect that Holy Work of Regeneration in them that we may be all bejoyned and united in that more excellent Relation in Spirit and so become indeed thy Children and Brethren and Sisters one to another Give us all Grace to be vigilant and resolute against the Temptations and Counsels of Flesh and Blood and to be fruitful our selves and mutually assistant one to another in the Production of the Fruits of the Spirit and to understand observe and follow the Conduct thereof saithfully and fully We beseech Thee also for all our Friends and Benefactors and all those who have sent hither their Oblations to Thee that thou wilt reward all their Kindness to us or any of us into their own Bosoms and as thou makest them Instruments of thy Providence for our Relief Benefit or Comfort so make us Instruments of thy Grace and Blessing unto them And we beseech Thee O Lord to remember all those who have desired to be remembred in our Prayers or for whom our Prayers have been desired or who do remember us in theirs Thou knowest all the Circumstances of their several Cases better than either we or they themselves We beseech thee be Propitious and favourable to them all and dispose of all both them and their Concerns as may be most for the Honour and Glory of thy Name the Promotion of thy Service and the Weal and Comfort of every one of them These things O most Gracious and Bountiful Lord and what ever else in thy Infinite Wisdom thou seest any way requisite or necessary for us or for any whom we have or ought to have prayed for we humbly beg and Implore through this Holy Propitiation now commemorated before thee in the Name and for the Sake and Merits of thy dearly Beloved Son our Blessed Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus who hath commanded and encouraged us when we pray to say unto Thee Our Father who art in Heaven c. We do not presume to come to this thy Table c. After the Communion Almighty and Everlasting God c. Glory be to God on high c. May God arise and his Enemies be scattered and all that hate him fly before him As Smoak is dissipated in the Air may they vanish and as Wax is dissolved at the Fire may the Wicked Perish at the Presence of God But may the Righteous always be Glad rejoice in God yea exceedingly rejoyce Glory be to the Father c. * To God who did c. Accept us graciously O Lord in these our Supplications Prayers and Thanksgivings and dispose c. O Almighty Lord and everlasting God c. Lord of all Power and Might c. Collect for the 7th after Trinity Almighty God who hast Promised to hear c. Incline thy Favour c. The Peace of God c. HYMN I. RISE O my Soul with thy Desires to Heaven And with Divinest Contemplation use Thy Time where Time's Eternity is given And let vain Thoughts no more thy Thoughts abuse But down in silent Darkness let them lie So live thy better let thy worse Thoughts Die And thou my Soul inspir'd with Holy Flame View and Review with most regardful Eye That Holy Cross whence thy Salvation came On which thy Saviour and thy Sin did Die For in that Sacred Object is much Pleasure And in that Saviour is my Joy my Treasure To Thee O JESU I direct mine Eyes To Thee my Hands to thee my Humble Knees To Thee my Heart shall offer Sacrifice To Thee my Thoughts who my Thoughts only sees To Thee my Life my Self and all I give To Thee I die to Thee alone I live O Holy Holy Holy Lord most High Coequal Coeternal DEITY Who mad'st us did'st redeem and dost Inspire Our Souls faln Heat with new Caelestial Fire We Bless thee now and shall eternally O Holy Holy Holy Lord most High HYMN II. O Tast O tast O tast and see How good how sweet thy Lords to thee Blessed O Blessed is the Man That firmly holds his Trust in Him O Fear the Lord all ye his Saints For they who Fear him nothing want The Lyons lack and Hunger bear But nought want they who do Him Fear The Lyons lack and pine for Food But who fear Him can want no Good HYMN III. TO God who did create the World's great Frame To God by whom lost Man's Redemption came To God who Graces sends God the Holy-Ghost We now give Praise with all the Heavenly-Host Thy early Praises i' th' Beginning were When all the Morning Stars made up the Quire Thee all thy Works Angels and Men adore As we do now and shall do evermore All Glory to the Majesty on high The ever Blessed Blessing Trinity As in th' Beginning was is now shall be When Time shall pass into Eternity FINIS