Lancelot Andrewes · 23 of 61

Intercession

Let us pray God, for the whole creation; for the supply of seasons, healthy, fruitful, peaceful; for the whole race of mankind; for those who are not Christians; for the conversion of Atheists, the ungodly; Gentiles, Turks, and Jews; for all Christians; for restoration of all who languish in errors and sins; for confirmation of all who have been granted truth and grace; for succour and comfort of all who are dispirited, infirm, distressed, unsettled, men and women; for thankfulness and sobriety in all who are hearty, healthy, prosperous, quiet, men and women;

For the Catholic Church, its establishment and increase;

for the Eastern, its deliverance and union;

for the Western, its adjustment and peace;

for the British, the supply of what is wanting in it, the strengthening of what remains in it; for the episcopate, presbytery, Christian people

for the states of the inhabited world;

for Christian states, far off, near at hand; for our own; for all in rule; for our divinely‑guarded king, the queen and the prince; for those who have place in the court; for parliament and judicature, army and police, commons and their leaders, farmers, graziers, fishers, merchants, traders, and mechanics, down to mean workmen, and the poor, for the rising generation; for the good nurture of all the royal family, of the young ones of the nobility; for all in universities, in inns of court, in schools in town or country, in apprenticeships; for those who have a claim on me from relationship, for brothers and sisters, that God’s blessing may be on them, and on their children; or from benefits conferred, that Thy recompence may be on all who have benefited me, who have ministered to me in carnal things; or from trust placed in me, for all whom I have educated, all whom I have ordained: for my college, my parish, Southwell, St. Paul’s, Westminster, Dioceses of Chichester, Ely, and my present; clergy, people, helps, governments, the deanery in the chapel royal; the almonry, the colleges committed to me; or from natural kindness, for all who love me, though I know them not; or from Christian love; for those who hate me without cause, some too, even on account of truth and righteousness; or from neighbourhood, for all who dwell near me peaceably and harmlessly; or from promise, for all whom I have promised to remember in my prayers; or from mutual offices, for all who remember me in their prayers, and ask of me the same; or from stress of engagements, for all who on sufficient reasons fail to call upon Thee; for all who have no intercessor in their own behalf; for all who at present are in agony of extreme necessity or deep affliction; for all who are attempting any good work which will bring glory to the Name of God or some great good to the Church; for all who act nobly either towards things sacred or towards the poor: for all who have ever been offended by me either in word or in deed. God have mercy on me and bless me; God shew the light of His countenance upon me and pity me. God bless me, even our God, God bless me and receive my prayer; O direct my life towards Thy commandments, hallow my soul, purify my body, correct my thoughts, cleanse my desires, soul and body, mind and spirit, heart and reins. Renew me thoroughly, O God, for, if Thou wilt, Thou canst.