...Let us earnestly beseech him, who hath caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning, to grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark,...inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of his holy word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which he hath...

...putting up this prayer with your hearts and souls. ' Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scripture to be written for our learning, grant, that we may in such wise hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy word, we may...

...clause, and paragraph by paragraph. The prayer opens with a most appropriate invocation. " Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning." The Scriptures, we are here reminded, were written for our learning ; and so written, by special appointment...

...mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,"—that by " the comfort" which they will find in them, they may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, given us through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. September 5«A, 1824. JWB ON KEEPING THE SABBATH....

...also destroy the balance of the sentence. Let us examine another sentence from one of the Collects : " Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them that," &c. Suppose one wished to put these words in the infinitive and say " it is our duty to hear them,...

...written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ. £ Almighty God, your word is a lantern to our feet and...

...reigneth with Thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen. Second Sunday — Bible Sunday Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written...Thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. Third Sunday the world didst send Thy messenger to prepare Thy way before Thee: Grant that the ministers...

...I put in a plea for the omission of a comma?" We sat up, expectant. "I believe that Cranmer wrote: 'Grant that we may in such wise hear them read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them . . . '." He developed his argument that sixteenth-century congregations could not be expected to read...

...'Then you begin, at least, with the Collect for the week.' 'As that Collect happened to be "Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning," &c., I did not think it quite appropriate to "Nicholas Nickleby," ' he said. And the congregation who...

...may clarify this distinction. The collect (for the second Sunday in Advent) is: "Blessed Lord, which hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning, grant us that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them; that by patience...