Resources on Prayers

O GOD, Creator of all things, grant that we may acknowledge and magnify thy great strength and power that declare thee in the conserving and guiding of this world. Suffer not that we wander any whit from thy holy law, which is pure and perfect, but that, taking delight therein, we may wholly be so governed by it that in the end we may  be participant of the heavenly salvation through Jesus Christ. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 53

“O LORD, the buckler and defence of all those who love thee, hear thy poor servants who call upon thee in truth and verity, and deliver them from their enemies. And forasmuch as there is nothing better than to acknowledge and follow thy holy will, chase from us all darkness of error and ignorance; and let thy light so shine over us thy poor church that, being strengthened by thy strength, we may employ ourselves wholly in setting forth thy praises, through Jesus Christ thy dear Son. AMEN.” – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 52.

“O GOOD LORD, the only searcher of men’s hearts, howsoever we are compassed about on all sides with infinite dangers, yet we beseech thee to show forth to us thy favour and thy good will, without which we should immediately perish. Suffer not, O Lord, that our hearts be bent on things earthly, but that we may follow thy commandments, and ever aspire to the heavenly bliss which Jesus Christ, thy Son, has acquired for us by his own blood. AMEN.” – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 51.

HEAVENLY FATHER , who has adopted us to be thy children, grant that we, passing through this corrupt world in such integrity and cleanness that none have any just occasion to complain of us, may in the end be participant of that celestial heritage which is prepared for us in the heavens, through Jesus  Christ, our only Saviour. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 50.

“MERCIFUL LORD, fountain of all righteousness, who knowest the dangerous assaults wherewith we are assaulted on all sides, refuse not our petitions; but let us have the sure experience of thy favor, and goodness; to the intent that, what affliction soever fall upon us, we may live in peace and quietness of spirit, awaiting the eternal rest which thou has promised to thy children, through thy dear Son, Christ Jesus our Lord. AMEN.” – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 42-43.