servant Elizabeth our Queen; that under her we may be godly and quietly governed.
We also ask our heavenly Father to
grant unto her whole Council, and to all that are put in authority under her, that they may truly and indifferently (impartially) minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true religion and virtue.
How very contemporary that prayer and the biblical values it reflects are in the light of the appalling lawlessness in London and in other UK cities in the past few days.
Devastating criminality threatens again tonight. May the good Lord grant the forces of law and order success in restraining the violence.
But they cannot hope to solve the spiritual and moral problems in UK society that have been laid bare by this wickedness.
How desperately our country, and particularly its young people who have been polluted by the values vacuum of the permissive society, need the transforming power of the saving gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Third Collect at Evening Prayer is particularly pertinent for all front-line police officers minded to pray it as they prepare for public duty tonight:
Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
On Anglican Mainstream, the Revd Paul Perkin, vicar of St Mark's Battersea Rise, has provided a powerful eye-witness account of the looting in south London last night and this morning.
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