O LORD, to quhome all power is gevin in heavin and in eirthe, thow
that art the Eternall Sone of the Eternall Father, quho hes not onely
so luifit thy Kirk, that for the redemptioun and purgatioun of the
same, thow hes humilled thyself to the deyth of the Croce; and
thareupoun hes sched thy most innocent bluid, to prepair to thyself a
Spous without spott; bot also, to retein this thy most excellent
benefite in memory, hes appointed in thy Kirk, Teichears, Pastores,
and Apostles, to instruct, comfort, and admonische the same: Luk upoun
us mercifully, O Lord, thow that onely art King, Teicher, and Hie
Priest to thy awin flock; and send unto this our Brother, quhome in
thy name we have chairged with the cheif cair of thy Kirk, within the
boundis of Louthiane, sick portioun of thy Holy Spreit, as thareby he
may rychtly devyde thy word to the instructioun of thy flocke, and to
the confutatioun of pernitious erroures, and damnable superstitiones.
Give unto him, gude Lord, a mouthe and wisdome, quhareby the enemies
of thy truthe may be confounded, the wolfis expellit, and driven from
thy fauld, thy scheip may be fed in the wholsum pastures of thy most
holy word, the blind and ignorant may be illuminated with thy trew
knawlege: Finally, That the dregis of superstitioun and idolatry
quhilk yit restis within this Realme, being purged and removed, we may
all not only have occasioun to glorifie thee our onely Lord and
Saviour, but also dayly to grow in godlines and obedience of thy most
holy will, to the destructioun of the body of synne, and to the
restitutioun of that image to the quhilk we wer anes created, and to
the quhilk, efter our fall and defectioun, we ar renewed by
participatioun of thy Holy Spirit, quhilk by trew fayth in thee, we do
profes as the blissit of thy Father, of quhome the perpetuall incres
of thy graces we crave, as by thee our Lord and King, and onely
Bischope, we are taucht to pray, saying, "Our Father that art in
hevin, &c."
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The prayer ended, the rest of the Ministers, if ony be, and Elders of
that Kirk present, in signe of thair consents, sall tak the elected by
the hand, and then the cheif Minister sall gif the benedictioun, as
follows:--
GOD, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, quho hes comanded his
Evangell to be preiched, to the comfort of his Elect, and hes called
thee to the office of a Watchman over his peple, multiply his graces
with thee, illuminat thee with his Holy Spirit, comfort and strenthen
thee in all vertewe, governe and guyde thy ministry, to the prayse of
his holy Name, to the propagatioun of Christis kingdome, to the
comforte of his Kirk, and finally, to the plain dischairge and
assurance of thy awin conscience in the day of the Lord Jesus; to
quhome, with the Father, and the Holy Ghost, be all honour, prayse,
and glory, now and ever. So be it.