1987 May/June issue Part 3

Prayers

The following suggestions for intercession are abridged from Lancelot Andrewes' Private Devotions:

for those who have a claim on me

from kinship,-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 benefitted me, who have ministered to me in spiritual, material, or physical things;

or from trust placed in me,- those whom I have educated, employed, served, influenced;

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, or even on account of truth and righteosuness;

or from neighbourhood,-those who dwell near me;

or from promise,-for all whom I have promised to remember in prayers;

or from mutual office,-for all who remember me in their prayers and ask of me the same;

or from stress of engagements,-for all who for any sufficient cause fail to call upon Thee.