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Early in the morning, Lord, will I come unto Thee, and will look up; though I am not worthy to look up by reason of my sin, nor to lift up so much as my eyes unto heaven; but my trust is in Thy mercy, therefore will I lift up my soul. Blessed be Thy name, God our Father. Blessed be Thy name, God the eternal Son, our Saviour. Blessed be Thy name, God the Holy Ghost, our Sanctifier.
And now, Lord God, though I be as a grain of sand upon the sea-shore, as a drop of water in the great and wide sea, though I be small and of no reputation, accept my prayers, when I pray for Thy creation; not for that old creation which Thou didst frame easily, in which all things obeyed Thy will, but I pray for that new creation, created anew, with great sorrow, framed painfully, with the sweat of thy brow, even with a bloody sweat, by the pains of Thy most painful death, by the humbling of Thyself to become man, and to die the death, even the death of the Cross. I