A PRAYER. 



I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I 

 ought, to exchangers, where it might have made 

 best profit, but mispent it in things for which I was 

 least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a 

 stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merci 

 ful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour s sake, and 

 receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways. 



A PRAYER 



MADE AND USED BY THE LORD CHANCELLOR BACON. 



O ETERNAL God, and most merciful Father in Jesus 

 Christ : Let the words of our mouths, and the medi 

 tations of our hearts be now and ever gracious in thy 

 sight, and acceptable unto thee, O Lord, our God, 

 our strength, and our Redeemer. 



O Eternal God, and most merciful Father in 

 Jesus Christ, in whom thou hast made a covenant of 

 grace and mercy with all those that come unto thee 

 in him ; in his name and mediation we humbly pros 

 trate ourselves before the throne of thy mercies seat, 

 acknowledging that, by the breach of all thy holy 

 laws and commandments, we are become wild olive- 

 branches, strangers to thy covenant of grace ; we 

 have defaced in ourselves thy sacred image imprinted 

 in us by creation ; we have sinned against heaven 

 and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called 

 thy children. O admit us into the place even Ox 

 hired servants. Lord, thou hast formed us in our 



