father's rod. We have n our confidence, our rock, O God, from the miseric suffer the intolerable cala the evils we have done, have deserved; that we. and undefiled bodies, a of judgment, be presen the Lamb, that we ma places to the honour our souls from death. falling. Grant this Jesus Christ our Lor Then shall be adde The Prayer of i ( SAVE us, defe: God of merc countenance, fication of o our souls in l from discountenancing the true : let every Christian soul d pity at the throne of grace: let all our errors and ignonces find pardon by Christ, and remedy by the Holy Spirit Christ; hear all our prayers, relieve all our necessities, anctify all the events of thy providence, and the changes of r life, that we may for ever love and for ever fear thee, and ll things may work together for our good unto thy glory, Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Blessing. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communication of the Holy Spirit of God, be with us, and with all our relatives, and with all the servants of God, this day, and for evermore. Amen. EVENING PRAYER, THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. Say one or more of these sentences. O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, have mercy upon us for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee. Seek the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, when he is near. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the remnant of the transgression of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. fatherless, the strangers and the friendless, the oppressed and the grieved, the decrepit and sickly, the young men and the tempted, the weak of heart and the weak in body, them that languish and them that are dying; relieve their necessities, comfort their sorrows, sanctify their calamities, strengthen their weaknesses, and suffer not the devil to prevail over them in the days of their sorrow and disadvantage: and, in thy due time, deliver them from their sad bondage into thy glorious liberty of the sons of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. VII. Be a guide to the travellers, a star and a port to mariners, the comfort and strength of miners and galley-slaves. Pity, good God, all gentlemen that are fallen into poverty and sad misfortunes; strengthen and deliver all women that are in sharp and dangerous labour; all them that roar and groan with intolerable pains and noisome diseases: have mercy and compassion upon all that are afflicted with illusion of the night and frightful apparitions; that are haunted or possessed with evil spirits, or troubled with despairing or amazed consciences, with the stone and with the gout,-with violent colics and grievous ulcers: give them pity and give them patience, a speedy deliverance from their calamity, and a sanctified use of the rod of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. VIII. We pray unto thee, O blessed Father, in behalf of all that are in banishment and captivity, in fetters or hard services, n want or extreme poverty, in great fear or in any great passion. Keep them from sinning against thee, and from being swallowed by too great a sorrow. Let the accidents of their lives be under the command of reason, and of thy Holy Spirit, and end in holiness and comfort, in peace and joys eternal; through the mercies of our God, in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. For Preservation from Danger and Evil. IX. Keep us, O God, from famine and pestilence, from earthquakes and inundations, from fire and sword, from invasion by foreign enemies and from civil wars, from false religion and from discountenancing the true : let every Christian soul find pity at the throne of grace: let all our errors and ignorances find pardon by Christ, and remedy by the Holy Spirit of Christ; hear all our prayers, relieve all our necessities, sanctify all the events of thy providence, and the changes of our life, that we may for ever love and for ever fear thee, and all things may work together for our good unto thy glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Blessing. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communication of the Holy Spirit of God, be with us, and with all our relatives, and with all the servants of God, this day, and for evermore. Amen. EVENING PRAYER, THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. Say one or more of these sentences. O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, have mercy upon us for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee. Seek the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, when he is near. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the remnant of the transgression of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, -whose name is Holy,-I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to renew the hearts of them that are contrite. After which add this short Exhortation. I beseech you that are present, to join with me in an humble confession of sins to Almighty God, casting yourselves down with all humility before the throne of grace. The Confession. ALMIGHTY GOD, powerful and merciful, thou art a jealous God against persevering sinners, but a gracious Father to the penitent let thy merciful ears be opened to the petitions of thy servants, who, with sorrow and shame, confess their sins unto thee. II. We have loved the world, not thee: we have obeyed the desires of our own hearts, not thy holy laws and commandments we have often left our duty undone, but cease not to please our senses, and to feed greedily upon vanity: thou hast commanded us to love our brethren, and, instead of loving them, we have slandered and reproached, injured and tempted them, envied their good, and rejoiced in their calamity. III. O blessed God, we are ashamed when we remember our own follies, our violent passions, our peevishness and pride, our vain thoughts and unprofitable words, our uncharitable and useless conversation: we spend our days in idleness and folly, our nights in the images and causes of death; and though our sins are so many that we cannot number them, yet we so little apprehend our own dangers that we neither leave them utterly nor heartily deplore them. IV. But, O God, thou God of pity and compassion, have mercy upon us for thou art our Father, merciful and gracious, and thou hast revealed to mankind an infinite mercy |