A manual of prayers for the use of the scholars of Winchester college [by T. Ken]. By T. Ken

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Page 65 - For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins 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.
Page 105 - Thou hadft done. And yet for all this Thou haft wrought new miracles of Love for us, and as if it had not been Love enough to have given Thyfelf for us on the Crofs, Thou haft found out a way to give Thyfelf to us in the Holy Sacrament, to unite Thyfelf to us with the moft intimate union that it is...
Page 131 - Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of Thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain ; he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope : truly my hope is even in Thee.
Page 43 - Watch therefore : for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning ; lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Page xiii - As for my religion, I die in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic faith, professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West; more particularly I die in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.
Page 137 - I wake ! I wake ! Ye heavenly choir, May your devotion me inspire, That I, like you, my age may spend, Like you may on my God attend ! May I, like you, in God delight, Have all day long my God in sight, Perform like you my Maker's will ! 0 may I...
Page 98 - ... praise and thanksgiving, which become the remembrance of a crucified Saviour, which become one redeemed by the blood of God, and that for his sake only that redeemed...
Page 111 - Blessed Spirit! let me never more by my sins grieve thee who art the author of life and joy to me!
Page 93 - Tis all I have to offer thee : accept it, O merciful Lord, imperfect as it is, and do thou daily heighten my sense of thy love to me, that I may daily heighten my love to thee ! O thou infinite Lover of souls, with all my heart I love, I praise, I adore thy love to me, but alas, I can never do it enough...
Page 79 - But my help standeth in Thee, O Great Creator, Who hast made heaven and earth, and I commit my soul to Thy keeping. O Thou that art faithful as well as Almighty, keep that safe which is committed to Thy trust ; watch over me that I may not be beguiled by the deceitfulness of sin, or betrayed by my own treacherous heart, or...

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