Make Thou their voyages safe to their persons and their fellowship strong, especially we ask this for the Company of Her Majesty’s Survey Ship Protector and be Thyself their way and light till journeys shall end through Jesus Christ Our Lord. O Eternal Lord God, who alone spreadest out the heavens and rulest the ragings of the sea: be pleased to receive into Thy protection all those who go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters. We thank Thee for all those whose integrity, diligence and skill have created the fine traditions which we today have inherited, and we pray that we might be found worthy successors, through Jesus Christ Our Lord. These include the Titans and the leaders in the Shadowlands (the Jailer, the Arbiter, etc.). They also created the Eternal Ones, who were to serve as the pantheons for the cosmic forces. Deist could mean a person who denied God’s providence, but it could mean other things as well. The First Ones created the 6 cosmic forces (Life, Death, Order, Disorder, Light, and Void). I addressed this point in a post at Cato Unbound: People in 18th-century Anglo-America did not always use our textbook definition of a deist. We pray Thee to bless all who form The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. In the 18th century, deist did not always entail the idea of an absent clockmaker god. Burnet used an analogy involving a clockmaker to argue that Gods role in nature is indirect:We think him a better artist that makes a clock that strikes. O Lord who didst bind Thy disciples to Thyself in a strong fellowship of love and service. This is a biography of Englands greatest medieval scientist, a man who solved major practical and theoretical problems to build an extraordinary and. Gods Clockmaker is a biography of Englands greatest. O Blessed Saviour, who wast pleased Thyself to be numbered among the craftsmen: We pray Thee to guide and prosper all who labour with mind and hand, especially those employed in the Horological industry, that their work may be done to Thy honour and rewarded with Thy approval, who livest and reignest with the Father and Holy Spirit, world without end. Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. Endue thy servants with those gifts, which shall fit them for the due discharge of their duties, and make them to be faithful in all things, to Thy honour and glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Especially at this time we ask Thy blessing on the Company of Clockmakers, the Master, the Wardens and all the members of the Court, Livery and Freedom. And herein we pray Thee to bless and prosper all ancient Guilds and Companies founded of old time in our City of London for the prosperity of its trade and spiritual and temporal well-being of its citizens. O Lord God, whose Dwelling is in the Eternal City, vouchsafe to protect the earthly cities, towns and villages in which we dwell. From The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers The first listed is the one we usually use:
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