The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore.
✙ Ps. 121:7-8 ✙
How few are to be found who yield to God the honor of being a keeper, in order to their being thence assured of their safety, and led to call upon him in the midst of their perils! On the contrary, even when we seem to have largely experienced what this protection of God implies, we yet instantly tremble at the noise of a leaf falling from a tree, as if God had quite forgotten us. Being then entangled in so many unholy misgivings, and so much inclined to distrust, we are taught from the passage that if a sentence couched in a few words does not suffice us, we should gather together whatever may be found throughout the whole scriptures concerning the providence of God, until this doctrine—that God always keeps watch for us—is deeply rooted in our hearts; so that depending upon his guardianship alone we may bid adieu to all the vain confidences of the world.
✙ John Calvin ✙
Into thy hands, most blessed Jesus, I commend my soul and body, for
thou hast redeemed both with thy precious blood. So bless and sanctify
my sleep unto me that it may be temperate, holy, and safe; a
refreshment to my wearied body, to enable it so to serve my soul, that
both may serve thee with a never-failing duty. O, let me never sleep in
sin or death eternal, but give me a watchful and prudent spirit, that I
may omit no opportunity of serving thee; that whether I sleep or awake,
live or die, I may be thy servant and thy child: that when the work of
my life is done, I may rest in the bosom of my Lord, till by the voice
of the archangel, the trump of God, I shall be awakened, and called to
sit down and feast in the eternal supper of the Lamb. Grant this, O
Lamb of God, for the honor of thy mercies, and the glory of thy Name,
O most merciful Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ, who taught me to pray...
✙ Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) ✙
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