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Prayer VI

O Lord our God, in Whom we believe and Whose Name we
invoke above every name, grant us, as we go to sleep, relaxation
of soul and body, and keep us from all dreams, and dark
pleasures; stop the onslaught of the passions and quench the
burnings that arise in the flesh. Grant us to live chastely in deed
and word, that we may obtain a virtuous life, and not fall away
from Thy promised blessings; for blessed art Thou for ever. Amen.
Prayer VII, of St. John Chrysostom, according to the number
of hours of day and night:

O Lord, deprive me not of Thy heavenly good things.
O Lord, deliver me from the eternal torments.
O Lord, if I have sinned in mind or thought, in word or deed,
forgive me.
O Lord, deliver me from all ignorance, forgetfulness, faint-
heartedness, and stony insensibility.
O Lord, deliver me from every temptation.
O Lord, enlighten my heart which evil desire hath darkened.
O Lord, as a man I have sinned, but do Thou, as the
compassionate God, have mercy on me, seeing the infirmity of
my soul.
O Lord, send Thy grace to my help, that I may glorify Thy holy
name.
O Lord Jesus Christ, write me Thy servant in the Book of Life, and
grant me a good end.
O Lord my God, even though I have done nothing good in Thy
sight, yet grant me by Thy grace to make a good beginning.
O Lord, sprinkle into my heart the dew of Thy grace.
O Lord of heaven and earth, remember me Thy sinful servant,
shameful and unclean, in Thy kingdom. Amen.

O Lord, accept me in penitence.
O Lord, forsake me not. O Lord, lead me not into temptation.