Prayer of Bishop Thomas
Ken,
Bishop of Bath & Wells 1685-1691
Thou,
O heavenly Guide of our devotion and our love
by
teaching us to pray hast showed us
that
Prayer is our Treasury where all blessings are kept,
our
Armoury where all our strength and weapons are stored,
the
only great preservative
and
the very vital heat of divine love.
Give
me grace to call on thee at all times by diligent prayer.
Lord,
I know my devotion has daily many
unavoidable
and necessary interruptions,
and
I cannot always be actually praying.
All
I can do is to beg of thy love to keep my heart always
in
an habitual disposition to devotion,
and
in mindfulness of thy divine presence.
As
thy infinite love is ever-streaming in blessings on me
O
let my soul be ever breathing love to Thee.
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