My friends!
Since we are now gathered in the name of our dear Lord Christ, and have orders to pray, and promise: what we ask in the name of Christ JEsu, that our gracious Father in heaven may gladly give it to us; let us first consider the distress of all Christendom, and ask that God may keep His word pure and true for us against all rottenness and heresies, and graciously protect His poor Christendom against all the schemes of the devil and tyrants. After that, let us also pray for this temporal life that God will grace it with gracious peace and blessed weather, protect it from theurge and pestilence, and especially ward off the Turk for the sake of His name. Pray also for the Imperial Majesty, the Lord of us all, and all other authorities, that God may enlighten their hearts by His Spirit and Word, so that God's Word and honor may be promoted through them and not hindered, and that we may have all the more peace in their regiment. After this, pray for all princes and states who have so far confessed God's word, that God will graciously keep them in such confession without all vexation, and bring others to it. Again, however, those who have persecuted it wantonly and still do not desist from it, that God will defend their presumption and graciously protect His Church against them. Especially, however, because now and then in all countries many poor Christians are persecuted, chased away, imprisoned, miserably tortured and strangled for the sake of the Word, we are obliged to pray to God for them, that He may comfort and strengthen their hearts by His Holy Spirit, keep them firm in their confession, and blessedly help them in body and soul. Pray also for an honorable, wise council, our lords here, that God may be with their regiment, and give happiness and salvation to it, so that God's word, honor and all respectability may be promoted, all trouble, of which there is still much, may be averted, and the common good may be governed well and peacefully. After that, pray also for our poor brothers and sisters here and in the whole world, who are either seriously ill or in great distress, that God will take care of them with grace. In the end, pray for the poor people who still lie under the papacy in error and with an evil conscience, and who do not have the blessed knowledge of the divine word, as we do: that God may also lead them to such light of His grace, and may make them eternally blessed with us through right faith in Christ. To obtain all this, pray with devotion an Our Father. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all, Amen.