Collects of the Day (Volume 2); An Exposition Critical & Devotional of the Collects Appointed at the Communion

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter XLIV. THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. 3) Xorn, Id ho uci1er f.ulcgt to %micii 11ominis tni, JDomine, help linn gobetn t firm to bom tljon timorcm paritet et amoum fat nos ncse bring up in tljg stenfost feat Iwlmr perpetuum; tiui.i nm1iin11m aim lone; Beep uD, tne l1rsserdi tua gnbrrn.uiouc nestitute, iiuos ihrr, unner Hjc protection of tiip in Dolinitate tuae ntlectionis instU goon probinntce, aun make us tu tuis. Pet Dominum.? Gel. Sac.1 iiauc a perpetual feat aim lobe of ? Mitt. Sar. thp ljoir I-lan1c; tljronglj 31otn(S out JLorn. Amen. This Collect appeared in the First and Second Prayer Books of Edward VI., and also in Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book, in a shorter form than it has at present, and in a form much closer to the original Latin, from which it was translated. At the Savoy Conference in 1661, its present form was substituted for its earlier one. Undoubtedly the prayer is now fuller and richer in meaning than it was before, though perhaps it has somewhat lost point in consequence. The earlier form was; Lord, make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy name; for thou never failest to help and govern them whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast love. Even thus it was not an exact translation of the original Latinin the Sacramentary of Gelasius, which ran thus; Lord, make us to have concurrently (or equally) a perpetual fear and love of thy holy name, because thou never failest to pilot those (more literally, thou never leavest destitute of thy pilotage those) whom thou dost bring up (an admirable translation?train, rear, discipline, educate? there are all these notions in the original word) in the stedfastness of thy love. In order to exhibit the original with entire accuracy, I may add that there is a play u...