--Rom. viii. 34.
He ever liveth to make intercession for them.--Heb. vii. 25.
_Service of Thomas Becket._
O Christ Jesus, by the wounds of Thomas loosen the sins which bind us.
O blessed Jesus, BY THE MERITS OF THOMAS, forgive us our debts, raise us
from the threefold death, and restore what has been lost with thy
accustomed pity.
Do thou, O Christ, by the blood of Thomas, which he shed for thee, make
us ascend whither Thomas has ascended.
Holy Thomas, pray for us.
And if this service thus seems to mingle the merits of Christ, the
merits of his blood and of his death, with {222} the merits of a mortal
man, the immediate address to that mortal as the giver of good things
temporal and spiritual, very awfully trespasses on that high, exclusive,
and incommunicable prerogative of the one Lord God Omnipotent, which his
Spirit hath proclaimed solemnly and repeatedly, and which he has fenced
around against all invasion with so many warnings and denunciations.
_Scripture._ _Service of Becket_
1. O thou that hearest prayer, 1. For they sake, O Thomas,
unto thee shall all flesh come.-- let the right hand of God embrace
Ps. lxv. [vulg. lxiv.] 2. us.
By prayer and supplication,
with thanksgiving, let your requests
be made known unto God.--Phil.
iv. 6.
2. Lord, be thou my helper.
Pages:
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267