Andrewes

1THE foundation and ground of prayer is faith.Theophylact.i

2The foundation of faith is the promise of God.

3Lift up your hearts.

4He that made us to live taught us also to pray.

5Ecclus. xxxv.The prayer of him that humbleth himself shall pierce the clouds.

6Prayer is a speaking together with God.

7I will set my sins before me, that they be not before Thee.ii

8Lord, my heart is ready.iii

9Lord, I fear that it is not.

10Would God it were ready.

11Woe is me, that it is not.

12Lord, I dispose myself, and prepare.

13Help my disposing, and

14supply my preparation.

1THE CONFESSION OF FAITH.

2I BELIEVE, Lord; help Thou mine unbelief,i

3In God,

41. The Father,ii

52. Almighty,

63. Maker of heaven and earth.

7In the Father, a natural affection,

8In the Almighty, a power that saveth,

9In the Creator, a Providence,

10unto the preserving,

11the governing,

12the perfecting, or

13the consummating

14of all things.

15In Jesus

16Christ,

17His only-begotten Son,

18Our Lord,

19The great mystery of godliness, who for

20us men and for our salvation was

21God manifest in the flesh,

22Man that is God,

1The Son of the Father,

2The Christ of the Spirit,

3Our Lord,

4because { Creator, / Redeemer, }i

51. That He was conceived, to purgeii

6the uncleanness of the conception of our nature.

72. That He was born, to purge the uncleanness

8of the nativity of our nature.

93. That He suffered

10what we must have suffered,

11that we should not suffer it.

124. Crucified,

13To take away the curse of the law.

145. Dead,

15To take away the sting of death.

166. Buried, to take away the corruption

17Of our bodies in the grave.

187. That He descended into hell,

19whither we must have gone,

20that we should never go down thither.

218. That He rose again from the dead,

22To raise up together with Himself

23Our nature, being made the firstfruits

24of them that slept.

259. That He ascended into heaven,

26To prepare a place for us,

27where we had no right at all.

2810. That He sitteth at the right hand of the Father,

29That He may appear without ceasing

1And make intercession for us.

211. That He shall return from thence,

3To receive us.

412. That He shall be Judge

5At the consummation of all things.

63. In the Holy Ghost,

7And in Him

8A power from on high that sanctifieth,i

9And quickeneth unto immortality,

10From without and invisibly, but

11Effectually and manifestly in

12Us working,

13By the enlightening of righteousness,

14By the infusion of grace,

15In reproof,

16doctrine,

17long-suffering,

18succour,

19testimony;

20The gifts,

21The fruits,

22of this Spirit.

234. The Holy Catholic Church,ii

24The mystical body of Christ the head,

25Of them whom the Spirit calleth

26Out of the whole world,

27Unto the faith of divine truth,

28Unto holiness of conversation,

29Of all the members of this body

1a mutual partaking,

2Unto

3The Communion of Saints, and

4The Remission of sins,

5in the present,

6Unto the hope

7Of the Resurrection and the translation

8unto life everlasting.

9I believe, Lord; supply the defects of my faith;i

10That Thee

11As Father I may love,

12As Almighty revere;

13That to Thee, as unto a faithful Creator, I may commit

14my soul.1 Pet. 4:[19]

15That to Thy Word and only Son

16I may give thanks with unceasing remembrance,

17As to the cleanser of our nature,

18in { conception and / nativity; }

19As to the deliverer of our persons, in

20His Passions,

21Cross,

22Death;

23As to the conquerorii

24over hell, in His Descent;

25over death, in His Resurrection;

26As to our Forerunner,

27in His Ascension;

28To our Advocate,

1in His Session;

2To the finisher of our faith,

3in His second Advent.

4That Christ Himself may be formed in us,i

5that we may be made conformable

6To His Image in works,

7To His Conception in faith,

8To His Nativity in humility;

9For His Passions,

10To have a fellow-feeling with Him,

11as with one suffering for us;

12To suffer for His sake when

13it is His good pleasure.

14To have an antipathy against sin,

15as the cause of these His sufferings.

16To avenge,ii

17To crucify,

18To mortify,

19To bury

20the sin that is in us.

21That we be made conformable

22To His Descent into hell,

23By frequent meditation into hell

24going down;

25To His Resurrection, unto newness of life

26rising again;

27To His Ascension, being wise, and seeking

28those things which are above, and

29nearer to salvation;

30To His Judgment, judging ourselves,

1that with the world

2we be not condemned.

3When we are cold in prayer,i

4and stand in need of some grace

5and of heavenly consolation,

6To remember

7The Throne,

8The Appearing,

9The Intercession

10that are Thine.

11When we teem with affection,

12And with evil concupiscence,

13Never to forget Thy dread

14And terrible judgement-seat, and

15unceasingly in our ears

16to sound the sound of the last trump.

17That for Thy Christ's sake, of Thee

18the Father only-begotten,

19We may receive

20Thine Unction,

21The grace that bringeth salvation,

22Of the Holy Ghost,

23Thine unspeakable gift,

24In saving compunction,

25Clear knowledge,

26Fervent prayer,

27The shedding abroad of charity.

28That I never quench the Spirit,ii

29Nor strive against Him,

30Nor grieve Him,

1Nor ever do Him

2despite.

3That in Thy Church we may be called

4Catholic, certain parts thereof

5Living, by vow and by will;

6That we may be partakers of the holy communioni

7Of holy persons,

8Actions,

9Prayers,

10Liturgies,

11Unto the faith of the remission of sins,

12Unto the hope of { the Resurrection, / the Translation, } unto life everlasting.

13Lord, increase my faith,ii

14as a grain of mustard seed;

15not dead,

16nor for a time,

17nor hypocritical,

18nor destroying the Law;

19But faith

20working by love,

21working together with works,

22ministering virtue,

23living,

24pure,

25most holy.

26Amen.

1THE CONFESSION OF SINS.

2I CONFESS unto Thee, O Lord,i

3That I was conceived in unclean seed,Job xiv. 14.ii

4warmed in iniquity

5in my mother's womb,Ps. li. 6.

6A root of bitterness,Deut. xxix. 18.

7A wild vine of Sodom,Deut. xxxii. 32.

8A generation of vipers,Matt. iii. 7.

9A shoot of the wild olive,Rom. xi. 24.

10A child of wrath,Eph. ii. 3.

11A vessel of destruction,[*Rom.* ix. 22.]

12Having a rebellious heart, like a deceitful bow,[*Hos.* vii. 16.]

13A mouth as an open sepulchre,[*Ps.* v. 11.]

14Bubbling out follies,[*Prov.* xv. 2.]

15Having polluted lips,[*Isa.* vi. 5.]

16A tongue that is a world of iniquity,[*Jas.* iii. 6.]

17Wicked eyes, prone to lusts,[*Ecclus.* xxxi. 13.]

18Uncircumcised ears, like the deaf adder,[*Jer.* vi. 10.]

19A whore's forehead, like brass,[*Jer.* iii. 3.]

20A hard neck, like an iron sinew,[*Isa.* xlviii. 4.]

21Hands slack unto good,[*Heb.* xii. 12.]

22Feet swift unto evil.[*Prov.* vi. 18.]

23Whatsoever I have doneiii

24Is either a spider's web,[*Isa.* lix. 5.]

25Or a cockatrice' egg.[Ibid.]