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The private devotions and Manual for the sick of Launcelot Andrews

This book comprises a series of private devotions and a manual for those suffering from illness, offering spiritual support and religious reflections written by Launcelot Andrews. more

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Lancelot Andrewes
Lancelot Andrewes

Lancelot Andrewes was an English bishop and scholar, serving as the Bishop of Chichester. Born on July 16, 1555, and passing away on September 25, 1626, he was a prominent figure in the Church of England during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. His contributions to theology, literature, and the English language have left a lasting impact. more

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“Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.”

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Book:Private Prayers
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“Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?”

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Book:The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes
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“Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.”

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Book:Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V
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“I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.”

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Author:Lancelot Andrewes
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“Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.”

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Book:The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes: Translated from the Greek and Arranged Anew
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