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Page 232 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 157 - For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Page 117 - O ALMIGHTY GOD, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son CHRIST our Lord ; grant us grace so to follow thy blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those unspeakable joys, which thou hast prepared for those who unfeignedly love thee, through JESUS CHRIST
Page 167 - The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 174 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Page 112 - O ALMIGHTY GOD, whom truly to know is everlasting life ; grant us perfectly to know thy Son JESUS CHRIST to be the way, the truth, and the life; that following the steps of thy holy apostles, Saint Philip and Saint James, we may steadfastly walk in the way that leadeth to eternal life, through the same thy Son JESUS CHRIST our Lord.
Page 116 - ALMIGHTY GOD, who calledst Luke the physician, whose praise is in the Gospel, to be an evangelist and physician of the soul; may it please thee, that by the wholesome medicines of the doctrine delivered by him, all the diseases of our souls may be healed, through the merits of thy Son JESUS CHRIST our Lord.
Page 99 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting GOD, who hast given unto us thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal TRINITY, and in the power of the divine Majesty to worship the Unity...
Page 227 - ... the oil of joy for mourning, and the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
Page 186 - Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

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