The Domestic Worshipper Prayers Author:Samuel Green General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THANKSGIVING FOR SAFE DELIVERY IN CHILDBIRTH. Truly, O Lord, thou hast helped us. We sought thy mercy, and thou didst hear us. We hoped in thee, and thou hast not disappointed us. We come to offer our thanks. May the life spared be increasingly devoted to thy service. May the fruit of the womb be received gratefully as a gift from thee. Continue thy kindness to the mother, that strength may be perfectly re-established; and may the little one be spared to us, and trained up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Oh that our family may live before thee. May we all faithfully walk according to thy will in this life present, and also be partakers of everlasting glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord. FOR A NEW-BORN INFANT. Thou, O Lord, hast promised to be a God to thy people and to their children after them. Suffer us to present this our beloved child to thee. Born in sin, may he early in life be created anew in Christ Jesus. We are uncertain as to what may be before him, but all is known to thee. O Lord, teach him if he live to say to thee in the morning of his days, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth. Give us grace to train him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and may we see him grow in wisdom, and in favour with God and man. And may all our household be thine, through Jesus Christ, our glorious Kedeemer. A CHILD GOING FROM HOME TO SCHOOL. We commit to thy care, O Lord, our beloved boy who is leaving us to receive instruction to fit him for future life. May he not forget or forsake his parents' God. Help him in acquiring knowledge. May he be disposed cheer...« less