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 Prayer for Wiednesday Morning. 187

May it illuminate our understandings, while Thy love warms our hearts; that so, being quickened with life from Thee, we may finally rise to the regions of everlasting joy, there to praise and magnify Thee throughout the boundless ages of eternity.

Our Father, &ec.

LMIGHTY, eternal, and ever-blessed Lord Jesus! Thou Lord of life and glory! Thou judge of quick and dead! the Creator of all things, and the sovereign disposer of all human affairs, we beseech Thee to be especially present with us at this time. We acknowledge, O God, that Thou art our Redeemer and Saviour! the great and good Shepherd of the flock; and that we are the people of Thy pasture, and the sheep of Thy hand. Feed us, O Lord, with the bread of life, and refresh us with the streams of Thy pleasures! To Thee we look for succour in every time of need, for Thou are a present help in time of trouble. We beseech Thee so to dispose our minds, that we may receive with joy and gladness instruction from Thy Word. Raise up, we implore Thee, pious and enlightened ministers of the truth, to spread far and wide the knowledge of Thee, and the glory of Thy kingdom! O may Thy spiritual church, the New Jerusalem, which is now descending from Thee out of heaven, be the means of dispersing all ignorance and folly, all hardness of heart, and contempt of Thy Word and commandments, that so the knowledge of Thee, O Lord, as the one true and