The Prayers of Yahweh's People

Our Heavenly Father, in as much as you have so loved us, as to give your only-begotten Son to be our Savior and Mediator, but we wretched sinners are nevertheless unable rightly to know him whom you have sent or truly to call him our Lord, without the help of your Holy Spirit — we beseech you, according to your promise, richly to pour your Holy Spirit upon us, that he may lead us into all truth, increase and confirm in us true faith, renew our hearts more and more onto the hope of eternal life, and kindle in us ardent love, the spirit of fervent prayer and confidence, peace and joy of heart and conscience, steadfast and ever-enduring consolation, together with all gladness and assurance of soul; and so seal unto us the day of our final redemption, when you shall be all in all; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

-The Old Palatinate Liturgy (1563)