PRAYER FOR GRACE — PROFESSION

[Defend me from]
[against seven deadly sins]
Pride Amorite.
envy Hittite.
wrath Perizzite.
gluttony Girgashite.
lechery Hivite.
[covetousness]
the cares of life Canaanite.
[sloth]
lukewarm indifference Jebusite.
[Give me]
Humility, pitifulness, patience,
sobriety, purity, contentment, ready zeal.

One thing have I desired of the Lord
which I will require, [12]
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to behold the fair beauty of the Lord,
and to visit His temple.
Two things have I required of Thee,
O Lord,
deny Thou me not before I die;
remove far from me vanity and lies;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
feed me with food convenient for me;
lest I be full and deny Thee
and say, Who is the Lord?
or lest I be poor and steal,
and take the Name of my God in vain.
Let me learn to abound,
let me learn to suffer need,
in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.
For nothing earthly, temporal, mortal,
to long nor to wait.
Grant me a happy life
in piety, gravity, purity,
in all things good and fair,
in cheerfulness, in health, in credit,
in competency, in safety, in gentle estate,
in quiet;
a happy death,
a deathless happiness.

I believe
in the Father, benevolent affection;
in the Almighty, saving power;
in the Creator, providence
for guarding, ruling, perfecting the
universe.
In Jesus, salvation,
in Christ, anointing;
in the Only?begotten Son, sonship,
in the Lord, a master's treatment,
in His conception and birth
the cleansing of our unclean conception
and birth;
in His sufferings, which we owed,
that we might not pay;
in His Cross the curse of the law
removed;
in His death the sting of death;
in His, burial eternal destruction in the
tomb;
in His deseent, whither we ought,
that we might not go;
in His resurrection,
as the first-fruits of them that sleep;
in His ascent, to prepare a place for us;
in His sitting, to appear and intercede;
in His return, to take unto Him His own;
in His judgment, to render to each
according to his works.
In the Holy Ghost; power from on high,
transforming unto sanctity
from without and invisibly,
yet inwardly and evidently.
In the Church, a body mystical
of the called out, of the whole world,
unto intercourse in faith and holiness.
In the communion of saints,
members of this body,
a mutual participation in holy things,
for confidence of remission of sins,
for hope of resurrection, of translation,
to life everlasting.