Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . rosius. This was then the one accessible handbookof Universal History, and he enriched it by an outlineof the state of Germany, up to date. The Venerable BedesEcclesiastical History he also turned into Saxon, freelyinterpolating ideas of his own, such as that on the theoryof good government, as consisting in a due balance of thepriest, the soldier, and the churl. Pope Gregorys book on the Pastoral Office we have * Sharon Turner, KING ALFRED 155 already referred to. It was much prized throughoutEurope, is twice pra
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . rosius. This was then the one accessible handbookof Universal History, and he enriched it by an outlineof the state of Germany, up to date. The Venerable BedesEcclesiastical History he also turned into Saxon, freelyinterpolating ideas of his own, such as that on the theoryof good government, as consisting in a due balance of thepriest, the soldier, and the churl. Pope Gregorys book on the Pastoral Office we have * Sharon Turner, KING ALFRED 155 already referred to. It was much prized throughoutEurope, is twice praised by Alcuin, and was tlie best hand-book of the time for tlie guidance of the clergy. Hetranslated this, and collected also some of the flowersof Augustine, adding prayers to his soliloquies.* Here is a prayer of this father of literature and religion :— Come now to help me, 0 Thou who art the only Eternal, the true CTod of glory ; Father and Son and Holy Spirit, without any separation and mutability, and without any necessity or diminution of power, and who never at} xiaTV^V/eRIX tvau^iOSatiouc O TtC bcciunC ftclrcTJCinax- ALFEED S ISALTEE. Thou art always dwelling in the highest lirightness inperfect unanimity, and in the fullest abundance. WithThee there is no deficiency of good, but Thou art everabiding replete with every felicity, through endless Thee. 0 God, I call. Hear, 0 hear me. Lord, for Thouart my God and my Lord ; my Father and my Creator ;my ruler and my hope ; my wealth and my honour ;my house; my country ; my salvation and my , hear me, 0 Lord. Few of Thy servants comprehendThee. But Thee alone I love indeed, above all other * In his Anglo-Saxon Clironicle also we have a continuous NationalRecord from our first coming here. iS6 OUR OWN ENGLISH BIBLE things; Thee I seek; Thee I will follow ; Thee I amready to serve. Under Thy power I desire to abide, forThou alone art the Sovereign of all. I pray Thee tocommand me as Thou wilt. Alfre
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