Ninth Day.

CONFESSION.

LORD, we know that if we say we have no sin,

we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but Thou hast said, If we confess our sins, Thou art faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

We have followed after lying vanities, and forsaken our own mercies; have forsaken the fountain of living waters, for cisterns, even broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Who can say he is clean from that love of money which is the root of all evil, that covetousness which is idolatry?

By breaking the law we have dishonoured God, and have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger most bitterly. And many a thing that we have done hath displeased the Lord.

O the riches of the patience and forbearance of God! how long-suffering is He to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

PETITION.

Thou, Lord, even Thou art He that blottest out our transgressions for Thine own sake, and wilt not

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remember our sins, which we are here to put Thee in remembrance of, to plead with Thee, and to declare that we may be justified.

Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously; heal our backslidings, and love us freely, and let Thine anger be turned away from us; for in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

Let the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge our conscience from dead works to serve Thee the living God.

Circumcise our hearts to love Thee the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, that we may live.

O that the love of God may be shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, and take away the stony heart out of our flesh, and give us a heart of flesh.

THANKSGIVING.

We bless Thee, O Father, that when our Lord Jesus went away, He sent us another Comforter to abide with us for ever, even the Spirit of truth who shall glorify Christ, for He shall take of His and show it unto us.

That being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He poured it forth as rivers of living water.

We thank Thee that we have the Scriptures to search, and that in them we have eternal life, and that they testify of Christ, and that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for

reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteous

ness.

We thank Thee that Thou hast made known unto us Thy holy Sabbaths; and that still there remains a rest to the people of God.

INTERCESSION.

O show those fools their folly and misery, that have said in their hearts there is no God, and that are corrupt, and have done abominable works.

Give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, the truth as it is in Jesus, the truth that is according to godliness, that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil.

Let those that are as sheep going astray return to Jesus Christ, the Shepherd and Bishop of their souls.

Lord, maintain the honour of the Scripture, the law and the testimony, and convince those who speak not according to that word, that it is because there is no light in them; O magnify that word above all Thy

name.

Let those that will not be won by the word be won by the conversation of Christians.

To God only wise be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

NOTES FOR SPECIAL PRAYER.

Tenth Day.

CONFESSION.

OUR Father, against Thee, Thee only, have we sinned, and have done much evil in Thy sight; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws which He hath set before us; though they are all holy, just, and good.

If for every idle word that men speak they must give an account, and by our words we must be justified, and if by our own words we must be condemned, woe unto us, for we are undone; for we are of unclean lips, and dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.

Thou hast stricken us, but we have not grieved; we have refused to hear correction, and have made our faces harder than a rock; and the rod hath not driven the foolishness out of our hearts.

We have lost our first love, and where is now the blessedness we sometimes spake of?

We have not performed the words of the covenant which we made before Thee, but as treacherous dealers we have dealt treacherously.