...direction of Christ, let us " search the Scriptures, for they are they that testify of Him." Let us " hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them ; that by patience and comfort of his holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which God hath...

...increased; and, as a necessary consequence, the peace, prosperity, and stability of society, at large. Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures...hast given us in our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen*. * Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent. HARRIET REECE, A TALE. Give not yourselves unto vanity....

...and display that faith and hope of which this blessed volume is the treasury ! And, oh merciful God, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written...hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us through Jesus Christ our Lord ! SERMON XII. THE DUTIES OF THE MINISTRY. [Preached at Chester, 1819.*]...

...Readings. This is the prayer "for grace to receive the word" to be offered before reading the Bible: "Blessed Lord, Who hast caused all Holy Scriptures...hast given us in our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen." This is the prayer "for the Holy Spirit" to be said after reading the Bible: "Almighty and everlasting...

...also destroy the balance of the sentence. Let us examine another sentence from one of the Collects : " Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them that," &c. Suppose one wished to put these words in the infinitive and say " it is our duty to hear them,...

...livcth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen. Second Sunday — Bible Sunday Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures...Thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. Third Sunday the world didst send Thy messenger to prepare Thy way before Thee: Grant that the ministers...

...I put in a plea for the omission of a comma?" We sat up, expectant. "I believe that Cranmer wrote: 'Grant that we may in such wise hear them read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them . . . '." He developed his argument that sixteenth-century congregations could not be expected to read...

...Advent) is: "Blessed Lord, which hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning, grant us that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn,...life, which thou hast given us in our saviour, Jesus Christ."10 Redaction may end with a text, but the work of redaction has no necessary relation to texts....

...faith. I ask you this through Jesus, my Lord and my brother. Amen. The Bible O God, who caused all the Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant...inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of the holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have...

...inherent in a literal reading of the Bible. The meditation follows the lines of Cranmer's collect: "Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning ..." Grant us to hear and read them: The first aim for the church's disciplines of preaching and teaching, worship...