Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Monday, August 16, 2010

Comfortable Words: A Prayer of the Venerable Bede, after chanting the Psalms

Comfortable Words: A Prayer of the Venerable Bede, after chanting the Psalms

O THOU who dost set souls at liberty, Redeemer of the World, Jesus Christ, eternal God, immortal king, I, even I, a sinner, implore thy boundless clemency, that of thy great mercy, and by the chanting of the Psalms, which I, even I, a sinner have again sung, thou wilt set my soul free from sin.

Turn my heart from all evil, misshapen, and treacherous thoughts, free my body from servitude to sin, drive from me fleshly lusts, deliver me from every snare of Satan and his servants, seen and unseen.

Preserve me from these and from all evils, Saviour of the world, who livest and reignest and hast the lordship, with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, God, throughout endless ages of ages. Amen.

No comments: