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|From a sudden, unforeseen, and evil death, |- |By the pain and anguish of thy Circumcision, ||Luke ii. |- |By the pains of death which surrounded thee in the garden, when thy Passion was at hand, || Luke xxii. |- |By the earnestness of thy love, with which thou didst carry our sorrows, and, with thy bruises, heal our infirmities, || Isa. liii || Deliver us, O Lord. |- |By the anguish of thy heart upon the Cross, when thou criedst out that thy Father had forsaken thee, || Matt, xxvii. |- |By that sword of sorrow which pierced the heart of thy most dear Mother at thy Passion, || Luke ii. |- |We sinners, Beseech thee, hear us. |- |That we may esteem ourselves strangers and sojourners upon the earth, || Ps. xxxviii. |- |That having here no permanent city, we may the more fervently seek one to come, || Heb. xiii. |- |That, amid so many storms and perils of life, we may hasten to enter into the rest which we hope for in heaven, ||Heb. iv. |- |That our momentary and light tribulation may work for us an eternal weight of glory, || 2 Cor. iv || We beseech thee, hear us. |- |That we may not reject the discipline of the Lord, nor be wearied whilst we are rebuked by him, || Heb. iv |- |That we may accept all that is laid upon us, and have patience in sorrow, || Ecclus. ii. |- |That in all our diseases and afflictions we may speak no foolish thing against the Lord,|| Job i. |- |That as we have received good things at the hand of the Lord, so too we may cheerfully bear the evil, ||Job ii. |- |That, according to the multitude of sorrows in my heart and in my body, thy comforts may give joy to my soul, || Ps. xciii. |- |That, as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so also by Christ our comfort may abound, || 2 Cor. i. |- |That we may always bear about in our body the dying of Jesus Christ, || Ibid. iv. |- |That looking on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of Faith, who having joy proposed to him, underwent the Cross by patience, we may run to the fight proposed to us, || Heb. xii. |}