It is you (O God) that have commanded the morning and caused (continued)
And now let the Lord preserve and keep us from all evil this day, yea let the Lord preserve our souls: Lord, preserve our going out, and coming in; Give your angels charge concerning us, to bear us up in their hands, and keep us in all our ways. And give us grace to do the work of the day in its day, as the duty of the day requires. Psalm
121:7, 8. Psalm 91:11, 12. Ezra 3:4.
2. INOUR EVENING PRAYERS Thou, O God, make the outgoings of the evening, as well as of the morning, to rejoice; for thereby you call us from our work and our labor, and bid us rest a while. And now let our souls return to you, and repose in you as our rest, because you have dealt bountifully with us; so, shall our sleep be sweet to us. Psalm 65:8. Psalm 104:23.
Mark 6:31. Psalm 116-7. Jeremiah 31:26.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with his benefits, who hath this day preserved our going out and coming in: And now we have received from you our daily bread, we pray, Father, forgive us our trespasses. Psalm 68:19. Psalm 121:8. Matthew 6:11, 12.
And we will lie down and sleep; for you, Lord, make us dwell in safety: Make a hedge of protection (we pray you) about us and about our house, and about all that we have round about. Let the angels of God encamp round about us to deliver us; that we may lie down, and none may make us afraid. Psalm 4:8. Job 1:10. Psalm
Into your hands we commit our spirits; that in slumberings upon the bed, our ears may be opened, and instruction sealed; And let