One  of  tlie  prayers  in  the  Morning  Office  of  St.  Basil  also
bears  considerable  resemblance  to  the  Collect  for  Grace,  sufficient
to  indicate  a  common  origin.  It  is  thus  given  by  Archdeacon
Freeman,  in  his  "  Principles  of  Divine  Service,"  i.  222  : —

'O  0eis  6  alwvtoSy  t5  S-vapx*^^  '^^^  ai^iov  ....  (Ps.  xc.  1.)
xipi<Toit  t)^'lv  iv  rrj  Trapovarj  7]fi4pa  ^hapiffruv  (rot,  5ia</)uAaTTuif
l)fxa.^  air})  rratrrjs  afxaprias  KOi  Traffrjs  Tiov-qpas  irpa^eaJS,  ^uo/Xifos
Jlfius     airh     ^e'Aous    imofift/ou    ^/uepas     Kal    Traarjs     itfTiK^tfj.ei'Tjs

(From  Second  Prayer) : —

Ta  TuJe  x^ipuv  7jjtta)i'  ipya Trpamiv  rjixas  ret  (Tot  fuapecrra

This  Collect  was  placed  here  as  the  end  of  Mattins  in  15-19,  a
most  appropriate  prayer  with  which  to  go  forth  to  the  work
wliich  each  one  has  to  do.  In  the  rubric  it  is  cidled  a  prayer
"  for  grace  to  live  well,"  and  Bishop  Cosin  wished  to  in.sert  this


full  title  above  the  collect  as  a  sign  of  the  object  for  wliich  it  is
oll'ered.  In  a  few  terse  words  it  recognizes  the  dependence  of  all
for  spiritual  strength  on  the  grace  of  God,  our  position  in  the
midst  of  temptations  to  sin,  and  the  power  to  do  good  works
well  pleasing  to  God  when  our  doings  are  under  His  governance.
