A Prayer after Sermon.
Blessing and Thanksgiving
The congregation blesses God for His abundant mercies, election, and the cascading blessings of salvation.
Blessed be God! and the Father of all mercy!✦ who continues to pour his benefits upon us. You have elected us, you have called us, you have justified us, sanctified us, and glorified us: You were born for us, and you lived and died for us: You have given us the blessings of this life, and of a better one.✦1 O Lord! your blessings hang in clusters; they come thronging upon us! They break forth like mighty waters on every side.
Prayer for the Sermon's Fruit
The congregation asks God to bless the preached Word, making it health and strength unto obedience, and closes with a trinitarian doxology.
And now, Lord, you have fed us with the bread of life: so we ate angels' food. O Lord, bless it. O Lord, make it health and strength for us, still striving and prospering for so long within us, until our obedience reaches the measure of your love, who have done for us as much as possible.✦2 Grant this, dear Father, for your Son's sake, our only Savior, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, three Persons but one most glorious, incomprehensible God, be ascribed all honor, and glory, and praise forever. Amen.
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BLessed be God! and the Father of all mercy! who continueth to pour his benefits upon us. Thou hast elected us, thou hast called us, thou hast justified us, sanctified, and glorified us: Thou wast born for us, and thou livedst and diedst for us: Thou hast given us the blessings of this life, and of a better. O Lord! thy blessings hang in clusters, they come trooping upon us! they break forth like mighty waters on every side. And now Lord, thou hast fed us with the bread of life: so man did eat Angels food: O Lord, blesse it: O Lord, make it health and strength unto us; still striving &prospering so long within us, untill our obedience reach the measure of thy love, who hast done for us as much as may be.
Grant this dear Father, for thy Son's sake, our only Saviour: To whom with thee, and the Holy Ghost, three Persons, but one most glorious, incomprehensible God, be ascribed all Honour, and Glory, and Praise, ever. Amen.
Scripture echoes
- ↩2Cor.1.3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
- ↩Rom.8.30 — And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
- ↩Ps.78.25 — Man ate the bread of the mighty; provisions he sent them to the full.
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