the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest one God, for ever and ever.
O Heavenly Father, I commend my children unto thee. Be thou their God and Father; and mercifully supply whatever is wanting in me, through frailty or negligence. Strengthen them to overcome the corruptions of the world, to resist the solicitations of evil, whether from within or without; and deliver them from the secret snares of the enemy. Pour thy grace into their hearts, and confirm and multiply in them the gifts of the Holy Spirit, that they may daily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, and so faithfully serving thee enjoy thee hereafter; through the merits of the same Jesus Christ, who with thee and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest. Amen.
PRAYER OF A CHILD.
O ALMIGHTY God, who hast given unto me my father and mother, and made them to be an image of thy authority, and love, and tender watchfulness, and hast commanded me to love, and honour, and obey them in all things, give me grace cheerfully and with my whole heart, to keep this thy law. Help me to love them fervently, to honour them truly, to yield a ready obedience to all their commands, to comply with all their wishes, to study their happiness in everything, and to bear with patience and humility all their rebukes. Deliver me, O God, from pride, rebellion, and wilfulness, from passion and stubbornness, from sloth and carelessness. Make me diligent in all my duties and studies, and patient in all my trials; that so living, I may deserve to be thy child, who art our Father in heaven, through Jesus Christ, thine only Son our Lord. Amen.
