 | Geoffrey Wainwright - 1984 - 624 pągines
...militant ends by opening up the eschatological prospect of communion with the saints in the kingdom: 'And we also bless thy holy name for all thy servants...beseeching thee to give us grace so to follow their good example that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom'. In the Wesleyan experience, the... | |
 | Marion J. Hatchett - 1995 - 688 pągines
...1559. This was ordered to be "used before sermons" in a slightly revised form by Canon 55 of 1604: And we also bless thy holy Name for all thy servants...follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom. The American Book of 1892 adopted a prayer which is a Scottish... | |
 | Randle Manwaring - 2002 - 240 pągines
...the dead' had been softened in evangelical ears by: 'And we commend to thy gracious keeping, O Lord, all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear, beseeching thee, according to thy promises, to grant them refreshment, light and peace.' In the Alternative Services... | |
 | Geoffrey Wainwright - 1997 - 288 pągines
...places. It can pray for "the whole state of Christ's church militant here in earth" and also bless God's name for "all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear" (to speak with the Book of Common Prayer). Opportunity may also arise for a congregation to diversify... | |
 | Ian Robinson - 1998 - 218 pągines
...take the section of the Prayer for the Church Militant added to the Book of Common Prayer in 1662: And we also bless thy holy Name for all thy servants...follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom: Grant this, O Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our only Mediator... | |
 | John Francis Baldovin - 2000 - 454 pągines
...Liturgy."1^ The 1662 "Prayer for the Whole State of Christ's Church" had added a phrase blessing God for "all thy servants departed this life in thy faith...to give us grace so to follow their good examples." So, by such narrow wedges, a case could be made that some form of remembering the saints might be permissible... | |
 | Laura C. Lambdin, Robert T. Lambdin - 2000 - 315 pągines
...resembles the language and sentiments of the Prayer for the Whole State of Christ's Church Militant: "And we also bless thy Holy name, for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear." Prayer 3, which begins with the affirmation, "Father of Heaven! whose goodness has brought us in safety... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 2004 - 490 pągines
...the 'Communion Service' of The Book of Common Prayer. The conclusion reads: 'And we also bless the holy Name for all thy servants departed this life...follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom'. Charles Wheatley remarked, 'though the direct petition for the... | |
 | Donald G. Bloesch - 2004 - 336 pągines
...departed. In the words of one of the officially sanctioned prayers: "We also bless Thy holy name for Thy servants departed this life in Thy faith and fear; beseeching Thee to grant them continual growth in Thy love and service."35 Another prayer contains the plea "Grant them... | |
 | Michael D. Keiser - 2006 - 156 pągines
...trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity (here the priest may commemorate specific names). And we also bless Thy Holy Name for all Thy servants,...this life in Thy faith and fear; beseeching Thee to grant them continual growth in Thy love and service. And give us grace so to follow the good examples... | |
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And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness, O Lord, to comfort and succour all them who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity. And we also bless thy holy Name, for all thy servants departed this life... 
