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“Grant, Almighty God, that as we are now surrounded on every side by so

many miseries, and as our condition is such that amidst groans and

continual sorrows our life could be hardly sustained unless thou dost

support us by spiritual grace, - O grant, that we may learn to look

upon the face of thine Anointed and seek comfort from him in our

misfortunes, and such a comfort as may not engross our minds, or at

least retain us in the world, but raise our thoughts to heaven and

daily seal to our hearts the testimony of our adoption, and that

though many evils must be borne by us in this world we may yet

continue to pursue our course and to fight and strive with invincible

perseverance, until having at length finished all our struggles, we

reach that blessed rest which has been obtained for us by the blood 

of thine only begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.” 

John Calvin