PRAYER Grant, Almighty God, that since them settest before our eyes so many evils and vices by which we have provoked thine anger against us, and yet givest us the hope of pardon if we repent,—O grant us a teachable spirit, that we may with becoming meekness attend to thy threatenings, and be in such a way terrified by them as not yet to despair of the mercy offered to us, but seek it through thy Son: and as he has once for all pacified thee by shedding his blood, so cleanse thou us also by thy Spirit