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19. That it may pleafe thee to illuminate all Bifhops, Priefts, and Deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word; and that both by their preaching and living they may fet it forth, and fhew it accordingly; We befeech thee to bear us, good Lord.

20. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council, and all the Nobility, with grace, wisdom, and understanding;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord!

21. That it may pleafe thee to blefs and keep the Magiftrates; giving them grace to execute juftice, and to maintain truth;

We befeech thee to bear us, good Lord.

22. That it may please thee to blefs and keep all thy people;

We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord.

PARAPHRASE.

19. That thou wouldst be pleafed to enlighten and confer the gifts of thy grace upon thofe whom thou haft appointed to be the minifters of thy gofpel: upon the three orders of the clergy, bifhops, priefts, and deacons; that by thy bleffing upon their ftudies, they may fufficiently unand the holy fcriptures; and that they may enforce the doctrine of thy holy religion, as well by the good examples of their lives, as by their zealously preaching the true and orthodox expofitions of thy word:which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

20. That thou wouldst be pleafed to confer upon the lords of the privy council, (on whofe prudent determinations the public welfare does in a great measure depend) and upon the reft of the nobility, the spirit of wifdem, to understand what is juft and fitting; and grace, to advise or adjudge it; give them, O Lord, the grace to fet good examples to inferiors, and to let their light fhine fo brightly before men, that they may be as remarkable for piety and virtue, as for high rank and condition: which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

21. That thou wouldst be pleafed to afford thy bleffing and protection to all the other magiftrates of the realm, judges, juftices, &c. endowing them with foch a portion of thy grace, as may be fufficient to fecure them from prejudice or corruption, and enable them to adminifter impartial juftice to all men, and to maintain the truth and honour of religion and the laws-which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

22. That thou wouldst be pleased to make all thy fubjects of this kingdom partake of thy bleffing and protection, as they are all become thy people, by embracing the true reformed religion:-which petition, Ó gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

23. In

23. That it may please thee to give to all nations, unity, peace, and concord,

We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord.

24. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy command

thents:

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

25. That it may pleafe thee to give to all thy people increase of grace, to hear meekly thy Word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

26. That it may pleafe thee to bring into the way of truth, all fuch as have erred and are deceived;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

27. That it may please thee to ftrengthen fuch as de ftand, and to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to

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23. Intreating thee to extend thy goodnefs to all foreign nations, by caufing them to live in peace and unity with their neighbouring princes and states, and in concord amongst themselves :-which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

24. That it would please thee to infpire the hearts of thy fervants, the clergy and people of this land, with a fincere love, a reasonable fear of thee, and a conftant obedience of thy commandments :—which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

25. That it may please thee to confer upon them every day increase of chriftian graces, and to enable them to make conftant improvements upon what they have already received; that they may, with humility and proper attention, give ear to the pious documents of their pastors; that being free from all prejudice, prepoffeffion and obftinacy, they may hear them with pure and difinterefted minds, as becomes the mildness and lowly difpofition of a difciple of Jefus Chrift; and that they may bring forth the fruits of the fpirit, love, joy, peace, long fuffering, &c. (Gal. v. 22, 23.) which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

26. We likewife humbly make application unto thee, in behalf of thofe who are without the church; befeeching thee to open their eyes to the catholic faith, and to bring back to the pale of the church, all who have quitted it, either by heretical opinions or unwarrantable separations :which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

27. That thou wouldst be pleased to fortify and confirm all true christians in the faith, whereof they make profeffion, and the good refolutions which they have formed, that they may not be perverted by any

per

raise up them that fall, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet:

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

28. That it may please thee to fuccour, help, and comfort all that are in danger, neceffity, and tribulation ; We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord.

29. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all fick perfons, and young children, and to fhew thy pity upon all prifoners and captives;

We befeech thee to bear us, good Lord.

0. That it may pleafe thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that are defolate and oppreffed ;

We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord.

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pernicious opinions, nor fall into any deadly fin; to afford affistance and confolation to those weak-hearted christians, whose timorous confciences are troubled with doubts and fufpicions of offending God by actions in themfelves indifferent; to give true repentance to fuch as are betrayed into any heinous fin, that they may emerge from thence, and again attain to a ftate of true piety; and finally, to make fuch a spirit of goodness prevail among us, that vice being entirely banished, we may be enabled to refift the efforts and fubdue the power of our great adversary the devil :—which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

28. That it would please thee to afford thy divine aid to all that are expofed to any danger or difficulty, relief to all indigent perfous, and comfort to all fuch as ftruggle with adverfity or tribulation which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

29. And fince there are many who have it not in their power to join in the public prayers, which we offer up to the Almighty; we humbly petition thee to defend all travellers by land from the affaults of robbers, and other unlucky accidents; all mariners and paffengers by fea from pirates, forms and tempefts; all women who fuffer the pains of child-birth; all perfons in general, who are afflicted with any dangerous pain or illness; all young children, who are apt to run into danger for want of thought; and all prifoners and captives, more particularly thofe who fuffer the rigours of confinement on account of their religion :—which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

30. That thou wouldst be pleased to take all widows and orphans under thy particular care and protection, as thou art the only friend' upon whom they can, with fecurity, rely; and to afford the fame affiftance to all others who may ftand in need of it:-which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

31. And

31. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

32. That it may pleafe thee to forgive our enemies, perfecutors, and flanderers, and to turn their hearts;

We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord.

33. That it may please thee to give and preferve to our ufe the kindly fruits of the earth, fo as in due time we may enjoy them;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

34. That it may please thee to give us true repentance; to forgive us all our fins, negligences, and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy holy Word,

We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord.

35. Son of God, we beseech thee to hear us. Son of God, we beseech thee to hear us.

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31. And, left our enumeration fhould not comprise all the individuals who ftand in need of fuccour, we beseech thee to extend thy aid to the whole human race:- which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

32. And, in purfuance of the commands which thou haft given us, we pray thee to forgive all that have any animofity to us; all that perfecute us; and all that rife calumnies against us :-which petition, O gracious God, we beg of thee to grant us.

33. That thou wouldst be pleased to bestow upon us the fruits of the earth, and to preferve them from all blights and mildews, which may ob. ftruct their growth, and fo kindly to ripen them, that when they are come to perfection we may, thro' thy favour, enjoy them in due season : -which petition, O gracious God, we beseech thee to grant us.

Paraphrafe on the SUPPLICATION.

34. We earneftly pray thee to grant us the grace of true repentance for the various tranfgreffions whereof we have been guilty; to forgive us all our deliberate acts of fin, all our fins of omifion and ignorance, and all our fins of infirmity; and that thou wouldst enable us by thy grace to eradicate all thofe finful habits which we ourselves have contracted; to rectify every vicious tendency and corrupt inclination in us; and to reform our lives according to that perfect example fet before us in the gospel :which petition, O gracious God. we beg of thee to grant us.

35. O thou eternal fon of God who haft deigned to take upon thee the offices of mediator and interceffor for mankind, hear favourably these our prayers, and present them to the Father.

36. O thou

36. O Lamb of God, that takeft away the fins of the world;

37. Grant us thy peace.

O Lamb of God, that takeft away the fins of the world;

Have mercy upon us.

38. O Chrift, hear us.

O Chrift, bear us.

39. Lord, have mercy upon us.

Lord, bave mercy upon us.

Christ, have mercy upon us.
Chrift, bave mercy upon us!
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Lord, bave mercy upon us.

Then the Minifter, Clerks, and People, fhall fay the Lord's Prayer.

OUR

UR Father, which art in Heaven; Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in Earth, As it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us. And lead us not into temptation;

but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

See the Paraphrafe on the Lord's Prayer, Page 8, 9.

Prieft. 40 O Lord deal not with us after our fins.
Anfw. Neither reward us after our iniquities.

PARAPHRASE.

36. O thou lamb of God who, tho' thou didst affume a human body, wert always exempt from fin and a perfect pattern of innocence, thou who didft go as a lamb to the flaughter, to make atonement for the fins of mankind.

37. Grant us that peace for the purchafing whereof thy precious blood

was shed.

38. O Chrift, thou true Meffiah and Saviour of the world, give ear into our prayers.

39. O thou, who art our Lord both by purchase and redemption, have mercy upon us and pardon our fins.

Prief. 40. O Lord, we beseech thee in the words of the royal Pfalmift (Pfal. ciii. 10.) deal not with us, &c. i. e. do not punish us as our fins have deserved.

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