but according to thy clemency and ineffable love to mankind, overlook and blot out the hand-writing that is against thy servants, and grant us thine heavenly and eternal rewards, such as eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive; even such as Thou hast prepared for them that love Thee.
And reject not this people for me and my sins, O Lord.
Then is repeated thrice.
Priest.—For this people and thy Church make their supplication before Thee.
People.—Have mercy upon us, O Lord God Almighty Father.
Priest continues.—Have mercy upon us, O God the Almighty, have mercy upon us, O God our Saviour. Have mercy upon us, O God, according to thy great mercy; and send down upon these gifts which are here set before Thee, thy most Holy Spirit, even the Lord and giver of life, who with Thee, O God the Father, and with thine only-begotten Son, liveth and reigneth a consubstantial and coeternal Person: who spake by the Law, by the Prophets, and by the New Testament: descended in the form of a dove upon our Lord Jesus Christ in the river Jordan, and rested upon Him, and came down in the shape of fiery tongues upon thy Apostles, when they were assembled on the day of Pentecost, in an upper room of Holy and glorious Sion. Send down, O Lord, this thy most Holy Spirit upon us, and upon these holy gifts, here set before Thee. That by His holy good and glorious presence, he may sanctify and make this bread the body of thy Christ. R. Amen.
And this cup the precious blood of thy Christ. R. Amen.
That all who are partakers thereof may obtain remission of their sins and eternal life.
