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cy-seat, and raise our hearts to thyself. us to approach thee as becometh creatures, and do thou draw nigh unto us as a God of grace.

Thou art God, and there is none else; thy name alone is Jehovah. All nations before thee are as nothing, and they are accounted in thy sight less than nothing and vanity. Thou art the blessed and only potentate, King of kings and Lord of lords. All things are naked and open before thine eyes. Thou searchest the heart of man, but how unsearchable is thine understand. ing! Thy power is infinite. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold iniquity. Thou art slow to anger, abundant in goodness, thy mercy is everlasting, and thy truth endureth to all generations.

As thou art glorious in thyself, so by thy works thou hast manifested thy glory to us. Thou, Lord, hast made the heavens and the earth. The whole creation is the work of thine hands. Thou rulest among the armies of heaven, and doest what thou pleasest among the inhabitants of the earth. Thy works of nature and providence are full of wonder, but especially thy works of grace and redemption by Jesus Christ. While we give glory unto thee, we would humble ourselves in thy presence. Our being is but of yesterday, and our foundation is in the dust. We are not only mean in our original, but we are guilty and depraved. We confess before thee the iniquities of our thoughts, of our lips, and of our lives; our sins of omission and of commission; the sins of our childhood, and of our riper years; our sins against the law and against the gospel.

We are ashamed and blush to lift up our faces before thee our God, for our iniquities are increas

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ed over our heads, and our trespasses have reached up to the heavens. We will lay our hands upon our mouth, and our mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

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Gracious God, we humbly beseech thee to take away the guilt of our sins, through the atonement of thy Son; justify our persons through his righteousness, and subdue the power of our iniquities by thy Spirit. Deliver us from the natu ral darkness of our minds, from the corruption of our hearts, and the perverse tendency of our appetites and passions. May thy Spirit discover to us the evil and danger of sin, enlighten our minds in the knowledge of God in Jesus Christ, and sanctify all the powers of our nature. our hearts according to thy will, and after the image of thy Son. Be thou our light and our strength, and quicken us in the paths of holy obedience. Fortify us against the temptations, and free us from the snares which daily attend us. While we are in this life we are in continual danger; let the watchful eye of our God be upon us for our defence. Save us from the power of our enemies in this world, and from the punishment due to our sins in the world to come.

Preserve the gospel among us, and let all the means of grace be continued to us, and be made serviceable for the great ends of their appointment. Let all thy providences be sanctified to us. May thy mercies, as cords of love, draw us nearer to thyself; and let the strokes of thine afflicting hand wean us from sin, mortify us to this world, and make us ready for our departure hence, whensoever thou art pleased to call us. Guide us by thy counsels, and secure us by thy grace

in all our travels through this dangerous wilderness, and at last give us the victory over death, and a triumphant entrance into the kingdom of thy glory.

While we are here in the body, give us such things as are necessary to support our lives, and to make them easy and comfortable to us. Let our health, our strength, and our peace be maintained, and let holiness to the Lord be inscribed upon them all, that whatever we receive from thine hands may be improved to thine honour and our truest advantage.

We pray thee to enlarge the borders of thy Son's kingdom: spread the gospel among the heathen, and make the name of Christ glorious from the rising to the setting sun. Call in the

remainder of thine ancient people the Jews, with the fulness of the Gentiles, into thy church. Pour down a more abundant measure of thy Spir it to carry on thy own work upon earth. May his influence be diffused in plentiful degrees upon churches, upon ministers, upon families, and upon all the saints. Deliver those who suffer from persecuting powers: restrain the wrath of man, and cause it to praise thee.

We pray for the nation to which we belong, that liberty and peace may be established and flourish in it. Bless our governors, supreme and subordinate, with wisdom and faithfulness, to manage the affairs thou hast entrusted them with. We pray for our friends and relatives, that thou wouldst deliver them from all the evils they feel or fear, and bestow upon them all the good we wish for ourselves, here or hereafter.

We give thee humble and hearty thanks for all thy mercies vouchsafed to mankind in general, and to ourselves in particular, especially for the safety and refreshment of the past night. May the same good providence defend us through the hours of this day, and may thy grace assist us in all the duties of it. Hear and answer us, pardon, accept, and bless us, for thy mercy's sake in Jesus Christ, through whom, by one Spirit, be as- : cribed to the only living and true God, everlasting praises. Amen.

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MOST high and most holy God; we who are but dust and ashes, take upon us to speak to thy sacred majesty. Pardon our unworthiness and help our infirmities. Hearken to the voice of our cry, O our King and our God, unto whom we will pray.

We adore thee as the first and the last, the greatest and the best of beings; the only true and living God, whose glorious name is exalted above all blessing and praise. We adore thee as the creator and governor of the universe, and the bountiful benefactor of all thy creatures.

With gratitude and joy we acknowledge thy relation to us, as our Creator, our Redeemer, our King, our Almighty Friend, our reconciled God and Father in Jesus Christ.

We praise thee, O Lord, for thine original designs of love to fallen man; that thou shouldst make such a distinction between us and the angels that sinned. Lord, what is man that thou shouldst so concern thyself about his salvation. Blessed, for ever blessed be thy name, that though fallen angels were suffered to perish without a Saviour, thou didst chuse any of the race of Adam unto salvation that before all worlds thou didst enter into a covenant of grace with thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and give them into his hands, that their happiness might be secured. We bless thee that thou didst reveal this mercy, in various types and promises, to our fathers by the prophets, and that in thine own appointed time thou didst send thy Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to redeem us by his death. We give glory to thy justice and thy grace for this work of terror and compassion; in reconciling sinners to thyself by the suf ferings of thine only begotten and well-beloved

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We praise thee for the gospel which thou hast published to the world; the gospel of pardon and of peace that thou hast confirmed it by such abundant testimonies, to raise and establish our faith. We give glory to that power of thine which has guarded thy gospel in all ages; and through all the oppositions of its enemies, in earth and hell, has delivered it down to us, and proclaimed its glad tidings in our age and nation.

We bless thee that we were born in such a land of light as this, in which thou hast built habitations for thyself, wherein we have enjoyed the privilege of attending thy solemn worship, of be