The Form and Manner of Ordering of Priests
Book of Common Prayer
The Form and Manner of Ordering of Priests
Book of Common Prayer
The Form and Manner of Ordering of Priests
Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,1
And lighten with celestial fire.
You are the anointing Spirit,2
Who does your sevenfold gifts impart.
Your blessed unction from above,3
Is comfort, life, and fire of love.
Enable with perpetual light4
The dullness of our blinded sight.
Anoint and cheer our soiled face5
With the abundance of your grace.
Keep far our foes, give peace at home;6
Where you are guide, no ill can come.
Teach us to know the Father, Son,7
And you, of both, to be but One.
That, through the ages all along,8
This may be our endless song: Praise to your eternal merit,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Proof Texts
acts 2:3-4
is 11:2-3
tit 3:5-6
psalms 68:1-2
psalms 91:9-10
psalms 112:6-7
revelation 5:12-13