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The fourth Sunday after Trinity.

O God, protector of the weak who, trusting, wait on Thee: we now Thy gracious blessing seek our sure defense to be. Without Thee nothing can be strong, nor any creature pure; to Thee for life all beings throng; by Thee all things endure. Increase and multiply in us Thy mercy and Thy grace, all evil to resist, and thus to run the Christian race. Suffer us not to turn aside where earthly pleasures shine; though pain and care our path betide, still keep us ever Thine. Home, through the grace of Christ our Lord, home to our Heav’nly joy, to praise our God with sweet accord in love without alloy.

1 O God, protector of the weak
who, trusting, wait on Thee:
we now Thy gracious blessing seek
our sure defense to be.
2 Without Thee nothing can be strong,
nor any creature pure;
to Thee for life all beings throng;
by Thee all things endure.
3 Increase and multiply in us
Thy mercy and Thy grace,
all evil to resist, and thus
to run the Christian race.
4 Suffer us not to turn aside
where earthly pleasures shine;
though pain and care our path betide,
still keep us ever Thine.
5 Home, through the grace of Christ our Lord,
home to our Heav’nly joy,
to praise our God with sweet accord
in love without alloy.

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Text attr. Eliza Humphreys
Tune Caithness
melody from The Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter, 1635;
harm. The English Hymnal, 1906

The fourth Sunday after Trinity.

O God, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; increase and multiply upon us thy mercy; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal: grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake our Lord. Amen.