Section iv. _O Lord, let thy mercy_, to end of occasional prayers and thanksgivings. One fixed, and other variable, prayers for urgent needs. Section v. The Prayer of S. Chrysostom, addressed to Christ, and the Benediction 2 Cor. xiii. NOTES. i. The Invocation of the Holy Trinity in the 1st Section is very full, and should be compared with the Invocation which is used in Section ii. as a preface to the Lord's Prayer. The words, _Good Lord_, are spoken to Jesus: as we may easily infer from the words, _whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood_; and from, _By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation, By thine Agony and bloody Sweat_ &c. _Son of God, O Lamb of God, O Christ_. ii. The Lesser Litany is to be repeated, verse by verse, by the congregation; copying, in this respect, the setting of the Invocation at the beginning of Section i. The beginning of the Section being thus marked, the end of it is marked by the _Gloria Patri_. iii. We shall show that these eight verses are probably intended for Antiphonal singing. iii. and iv. The Sarum Litany had here 10 couplets of versicles and seven collects. Of these seven collects we may mention, _O God, whose nature and property_ &c., _the Prayer for Clergy and People_, and the 2nd Evening Collect, _O God, from whom_ &c. The substitution of the two sections, as they now stand, may be quoted as an example of the improvements which were effected in the Revision period. {159} iv. The 4th Section includes various prayers of the _Amen_ form. The first of these may be known as the Collect of Complete Confidence. It is made up of two older prayers, and the couplet which precedes it expresses each of those two older prayers in a brief sentence. Thus the couplet anticipates the Collect. [See also p. 128.] The other prayers of this Section usually have equivalents in the first Section. The repetition is made because of some urgency due to the circumstances of the time. Thus, we have prayed for the Clergy already, but in Ember Weeks we add, in the 4th Section, a Collect for the Candidates for Ordination. Or again, we have prayed for sick people, but at this point we may add a Collect for the time of any common Plague or Sickness. Similarly, we have prayed for the preservation of the fruits of the Earth, but may add a prayer here for Rain, or Fair weather, or for cheapness and plenty. Section i. Our cry to Christ. The distinguishing feature of the Litany is that it uses a worship-form which is not used elsewhere in the Prayer Book. The Minister dictates briefly the subject of the Prayer, which is then made by the voices of the People. These are called Suffrages (from _suffragium_, Latin for a vote in favour, or approbation). That part of the Litany which is made in this way is very full and detailed. Students should also notice the variety of its phrases, and the beauty of its rhythm.