PRAYERS. 



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thee shall all flesh come ; and thou hast said, if we confess our sins, thou art 

 faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from aU un- 

 righteousness. Have mercy upon us, 0 Lord, according to thy loving kind- 

 ness ; and after the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out aU our trans- 

 gressions. Wash us from the guHt of our sins, in the precious blood of our 

 Saviour Jesus Christ, and purge us from the stain and pollution of them, 

 and sanctify us by the inhabitation of thy Holy Spirit. Let thy grace both 

 instruct and enable us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live 

 righteously, soberly and godlily in this present world. Endue us with all 

 the graces of thy Holy Spirit, a lively and operative faith, an awful fear and 

 a reverence of thee, a fervent love to thee, and zeal for thy glory, with a 

 firm hope and confidence in thee. Help us to live in the constant practice 

 and exercise of [those Christian virtues] sobriety and purity, humility and 

 charity ; of justice and meekness, patience and contentedness. Help us to 

 hate every evil way, and to love thy law, and delight therein. Give us to 

 exercise ourselves in all things, so as to keep our consciences void of 

 offence, both towards God and man. Assist us against all temptations, more 

 especially those to which we are most liable [and which, heretofore, have 

 prevailed most against us] ; comfort us in all our adversities, support us 

 under all our pressures, counsel and direct us in all our doubts and difficul- 

 ties, and help us to persevere in a way of well-doing to our lives' end. For 

 which end we pray thee fit and prepare us. Give us so to live every day as 

 if it were our last, that so we may always have our loins girded about, and 

 our lamps burning ; that when we come to die, we may have nothing to do 

 but to die, and resign up our souls into thy hands, as into the hands of a 

 faithful Creator. With us be merciful to thy whole Church : do good, O 

 Lord, in thy good pleasure to Sion ; build thou the waUs of Jerusalem ; puU 

 down and destroy the kingdom of Satan, and build up and advance the 

 kingdom of thy Son. Be merciful to the people of this land, and those of 

 the neighbouring nations. Be graciously pleased still to dwell among us, 

 and to continue peace, and the gospel of peace to us. More especially we 

 pray for a plentiful blessing upon thy servant, but our sovereign. Enrich 

 his royal heart with aU those gifts and graces that may fit and qualify him 

 for the faithful discharge of his high trust and calling. Bless him in his 

 person, in his relations, in his counsellors and officers. Bless all that have 

 any places of power and authority under him, that they may faithfully serve 

 him, and the public, according to the trust committed to them; and that 

 they may employ their power and authority in the punishment of evU doers, 

 and in the protection and encouragement of those that do well. [Give us aU 

 dutiful and obedient hearts to our governors and superiors.] Assist and 

 succeed the labours of thy faithful ministers. Let thy Urim and Thummim 

 be with thy holy ones. Give them to take heed, both to themselves and to 



