VI. FORM OF PRIVATE PRAYER. Prayer to be used daily, after public notice is given for O ALMIGHTY God, I beseech thee graciously to look upon me, thy servant, who am now called by thy Providence to be a partaker of the holy rite of Confirmation. I yield Thee most humble and hearty thanks that Thou hast vouchsafed to regenerate me by Water and the Holy Ghost; to receive me into covenant with Thee; and to make me a Member of Christ, a Child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. Fill my mind, I beseech Thee, with a lively sense of these thine inestimable benefits; and give me grace duly to remember what a solemn vow, promise, and profession, I made by my Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism, and am now about to ratify and confirm in my own person, in the presence of Thee, the all-seeing God, and of thy Holy Church; so that coming with meek heart and due reverence to this sacred ordinance, I may be fulfilled with thy grace and heavenly benediction: and may be endued with power from on high to resist the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and to continue thy faithful soldier and servant to my life's end. Let thy Fatherly hand be ever over me; thy Holy Spirit ever with me: and so lead me in the knowledge and obedience of thy Word, that I may attain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. GILBERT & RIVINGTON, Printers, St. John's Square, London. |