Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
CHAPTER XII
THE COLLECTION FOR ST PAUL: THE FAREWELL (PHIL. iv. 10-23.)
"Holy Scripture is the Letter of God Almighty to His creatures; learn God's heart in God's Words."
GREGORY THE GREAT, _Epist._, iv. 31.
_INTRODUCTORY_
O Gracious GOD and most mercifull Father, which hast vouchsafed us the rich and precious iewell of thy holy worde, assist us with thy Spirit, that it may be written in our hearts to our euerlasting comfort, to reforme us, to renew us according to thine owne image, to build us up, and edifie us into the perfect building of thy Christ, sanctifying and increasing in us all heauenly vertues. Graunt this O heauenly Father, for Iesus Christes sake. Amen.
_From the_ GENEVA BIBLE, 1557.