Let us pray.
O GOD, who hast inspir'd thy Church to celebrate this Day the Memory of our Saviour's Ascension, when having fi∣nish'd on Earth the great Work of our Redemption, he carried up his glorified Humanity above the Clouds, to its eternal Rest! Grant, we beseech Thee, that ta∣king off our Eyes from these Vanities here below, we may stand continually looking after him into Heaven; and heartily ex∣pecting his Appearance thence again at the last great Day, may be always ready to obey his Call, and meet him in the Clouds, and follow him into those blissful Mansions, which he went to prepare for us, at thy Right-hand for evermore, through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who with Thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reign∣eth One God, World without End. Amen.