against thee. Because thou delightest in Mercy, mark not our iniquities, we entreat thee. We flee to our God for pardon and peace; rife not in the ftrength of thy wrath to confume us. Like as a father pities and fpares the fon whom he loves, fo do thou, O Father of all Mercies, have compaffion upon thy forrowful and penitent Children. Though we have wandered from the path of duty, yet caft us not off for ever; let the fympathies of Parental tendernefs be exercised, and embrace, with the arms of affection, thy returning offspring. While with thee, our God, we are importunate for pardon and peace, we cheerfully acknowledge the juftice and equity of thy laws, that command us to be kindly affected towards all our brethren, and ready to forgive those who have offended us. Put away from us, we pray thee, all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-fpeaking, with all malice; that we may be kind, and tender-hearted, forgiving one another, that thou, O God, for Christ's fake, may also forgive us. The offences of men against each other, are few, flight, and inconfiderable; incline us, therefore, to endure them patiently, and from the heart to forgive them freely; that our innumerable, and heinoufly aggravated offences against thy divine Majefty, may alfo be blotted out and pardoned by thee and may this fpirit of forgiveness, which thou haft wrought in our hearts, be a pledge to affure us of thy promife, that we,

;

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who are merciful to men on earth, fhall find the like mercy from God in Hea

ven.

And lead us not into Temptation; but deliver us from Evil.

But while we entreat thy pardon for the offences we have already committed, prevent us, we pray thee, from relapfing into fin any more, that we may not again incur thy just displeasure. We lament our depravity and frailty; we are fenfible of the blindness of our understandings, of the wickedness of our imaginations, the perverfity of our wills, and the earthiness of our affections; we therefore defire to continue under the direction of thy Wisdom, who, alone, art able to guide our piety, and to preserve us from iniquity. If, at any time, thy good Providence, for the trial of our stedfastness, fhould permit us to be tempted, proportion our ftrength, we befeech thee, to our trials, and make way for our escape, by affording us affiftance equal to them. May neither the allurements nor terrors of the world, miflead us from our integrity. Let not its profits, pleasures, nor honours, enfnare us; nor may any of its croffes, calamities, nor perfecutions, affright us from thofe duties we are called. to perform. Keep us, that we fin not, through the fuggeftions of wicked men, or the urgency of neceffity. Never lcave, never foríake us, but let let thy gracious prefence ever be with us, to defend us

from

from all carnal and corrupt affections; from this prefent evil world; and from the feductions of Satan; who malicioufly, fubtilly, and restlefsly, goes about to deceive, and destroy us. Incline us to fobriety and vigilance, that we may alwa s resist him, being stedfaft in the Faith. And we pray, that thou, the God of Peace, wouldft bruise that wicked one under our feet. Subdue all our iniquities, and keep us from departing from thee, that we may be delivered from thy Wrath, and from everlasting Death; and do thou, O God, perfect the work of thy Grace in us, and ftrengthen us always to do that which is well-pleafing in thy fight, that, in the end, we may receive everlasting Life.

For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever. Amen.

To whom, O God, fhall thy children of the dust make fupplication, but to thee, who art the Father of all Mercies. Thou art the Great King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom; thy Dominion is univerfal; the fceptre of thy Power overawes the nations of the earth, and rules the inhabitants of the world in righteoufnefs. Thy right over all things is abfolute; thou difpofeft of them all to thy glory, and thy creature's good. Thou alone art our help and hope; and in all times and places we will glorify thee, with the facrifices of praise, and of thanksgiving.

thanksgiving. The heavens and the earth are thine; thou alone art the Creator and Preferver of them; and thou art exalted as Head above all: Let, therefore, all Honour, Love, Obedience, Adoration and Glory, be afcribed unto thee, throughout all ages. To thee, let every knee bow in facred homage; and let every tongue confefs thy mighty works, and praife the Glory of thy Excellencies, for ever and ever.

Amen.

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PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING

TO GOD,

FOR THE

CREATION, PRESERVATION, AND REDEMPTION OF THE WORLD.

EVER-BLESS

VER-BLESSED Creator! and universal Preferver of all exiftences! we humbly prefume to appear in thy prefence, and to offer up to thee a pure homage. Thou alone art Great; upon thee, all things depend; and thou art worthy of the most exalted praise.

The foundations of the earth were established by thy Power; the ftrong bars thereof cannot be moved. The heavens are the work of thy hands, with an inimitable perfection of beauty thou haft adorned them. They all thall wax old and perish; but, through the multitude of ages, thou changest not; from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.

hou makeft thy fun to cheer this lower world; his general heat fructifies and rejoices all nature. The moon, in her folemn courfe; the ftars, in their midnight fplendour, difplay thy magnificence. But the heavens cannot contain the immenfity of

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