The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes. Vol. I 29Praise

Thou. O Lord, art praised in Sion, and unto Thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, the Holy One, to receive glory, and honour, and power. Thou that hearest the prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come, my flesh shall come. My misdeeds prevail against me, O be Thou merciful unto our sins; that I may come and give thanks with all Thy works, and bless Thee with Thy holy ones. O Lord, open Thou my lips, and my mouth shall shew forth Thy praise. My soul doth praise the Lord, for the goodness He hath done to the whole creation, and to the whole race of men; for Thy mercies towards myself, soul, body, and estate, gifts of grace, nature, and fortune; for all benefits received, for all successes, now or heretofore, for any good thing done; for health, credit, competency, safety, gentle estate, quiet. Thou hast not cut off as a weaver my life, nor from day even to night made an end of me. He hath vouchsafed me life and breath until this hour, from childhood, youth, and hitherto even unto age. He holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to slip; rescuing me from perils, sicknesses, poverty, bondage, public shame, evil chances; keeping me from perishing in my sins, fully waiting my conversion, leaving in me return into my heart, remembrance of my latter end, shame, horror, grief, for my past sins; fuller and larger, larger and fuller, more and still more, O my Lord, storing me with good hope of their remission, through repentance and its works, in the power of the thrice-holy Keys, and the mysteries in Thy Church. Wherefore day by day for these Thy benefits towards me, which I remember,-- wherefore also for others very many which I have let slip from their number, from my forgetfulness,-- for those which I wished, knew and asked, and those l asked not, knew not, wished not,-- I confess and give thanks to Thee, I bless and praise Thee, as, is fit, and every day, And I pray with my whole soul, and with my whole mind I pray. Glory be to Thee, O Lord, glory to Thee; glory to Thee, and glory to Thine All-holy Name, for all Thy Divine perfections in them; for Thine incomprehensible and unimaginable goodness, and Thy pity towards sinners and unworthy men, and towards me of all sinners far the most unworthy. Yea, O Lord, for this, and for the rest, Glory to Thee, and praise, and blessing, and thanksgiving, with the voices and concert of voices of Angels and of men, of all Thy saints in heaven, and all Thy creatures in heaven or earth, and of me, beneath their feet, unworthy and wretched sinner, Thy abject creature, now, in this day and hour, and every day till my last breath, and till the end of the world, and for ages upon ages.