The Collects of the Book of Common Prayer - An Exposition, Critical and Devotional; Abridged From Dean Goulburn's "the Collects of the Day" #233736

The next member Of a Collect, and a very im portant one, which is seldom wanting in any specimen, is the aspiration or devout wish with which it Closes, and is as it were the wing to the petition, the feather which carries the arrow of prayer right up to the habitation of God's holi ness and glory in heaven. It may well remind us of the indispensability Of fervor to the accept10 ON the structure ofa collect.