religion set over thy daughter, who by continual example may both teach and allure her to rise up betimes to prayer, and to sing the morning hymns to the glorious praise of God.

IDEM, ad EUSTOCHIUM.

Who is it that knoweth not the ordinary hours of prayer to be the third, the sixth, and the ninth hour, with the morning and the evening?

RAB. MAUR. de Inst. Cler. lib. 2. cap. 9. This hour of prayer is universally observed by the Church of Christ.

PREPARATORY PRAYERS

TO

ALL THE HOURS THAT FOLLOW.

God be in my head and understanding.
God be in my eyes and in my seeing.
God be in my mouth and in my speaking.
God be in my heart and in my thinking.
God be at my end and my departing.

Amen.

PREVENT me, O Lord, in all my doings with thy most gracious favour, and further me with thy continual help; that in all my works begun, continued, and ended in thee, I may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen,

D

The Confession.

Almighty and most merciful Father; I have erred, and strayed from thy ways like a lost sheep. I have followed too much the devices and desires of my own heart. I have offended against thy holy laws. I have left undone those things which I ought to have done; and I have done those things which I ought not to have done; and there is no health in me. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon me, miserable offender. thou me, O God, which confess my faults. Restore thou me that am penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; That I may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and

Spare

sober life, To the glory of thy holy

Name. Amen.

The Prayer.

Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desirest not the death of a sinner, but that he may turn from his wickedness, and live; and hast promised to pardon them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe thy holy Gospel; of thy mercy I beseech thee to grant me true repentance, and thy Holy Spirit, that those things may please thee, which I do at this present; and that the rest of my life hereafter may be pure, and holy; so that at the last I may come to thine eternal joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

THE

MATINS OR MORNING PRAYER,

FOR THE

FIRST HOUR OF THE DAY.

Give us

OUR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.