About the Book
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... Lord and Father, King and God, fountain of life and immortality, treasure of everlasting goods. Whom the heavens hymn, and the heaven of heavens, the Angels and all the heavenly powers, one to other crying continually, -- and we the while, weak and unworthy, under their feet, -- Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord the God of Hosts; full is the whole heaven, and the whole earth, of the majesty of Thy glory. Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of His place, for His Godhead, His mysteriousness, His height, His sovereignty, His almightiness, His eternity, His providence. The Lord is my strength, my stony rock, and my defence, my deliverer, my succour, my buckler, the horn also of my salvation and my refuge. INTRODUCTION. My voice shalt Thou hear betimes, 0 Lord, early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up. Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord, who didst create the firmament of heaven, the heavens and the heaven of heavens, the heavenly powers, Angels, Archangels, Cherubim, Seraphim, waters above the heavens, mists and exhalations, for showers, dew, hail, snow as wool, hoar frost as ashes, ice as morsels, clouds from the ends of the earth, lightnings, thunders, winds out of Thy treasures storms; waters beneath the heavens, for drinking and for bathing. CONFESSION. I will confess my sins, and the sins of my fathers, for I have transgressed and neglected Thee, 0 Lord and walked perversely hefore Thee. Set not, 0 Lord, set not my misdeeds before Thee, nor my life in the light of Thy countenance, But pardon the iniquity of Thy servant, according to Thy great mercy; as Thou hast been merciful to him from a child, even so now. I have sinned, what shall I do unto Thee, 0 Thou preserver of men ? Why hast Thou set me as a mark against Thee, so..
