“Dear Father, for Christ’s sake, I beseech thee to take from me and from all others for whom thou wouldest that we should pray, all envy, pride, arrogance, disdain, hatred, and all suspicion. Grant unto us mercy, humility, patience, meekness, long-suffering, gentleness, peace, charity, and love. Comfort the feeble. Relieve the poor. Help the fatherless. Heal the sick. Bless the afflicted. Show thy great mercy upon all poor prisoners, and deliver them in thy good time. Remember thy pity toward strangers, captives, widows, and such as are oppressed.”
John Bradford (1510-1555) in Diane Karay Tripp (compiler & editor), Prayers from the Reformed Tradition: In the Company of a Great Cloud of Witnesses. Louisville, KY: Witherspoon Press, 2001, page 190.
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