Create in us a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within us; cast us not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from us; restore unto us the joy of Thy salvation, and uphold us with Thy free Spirit. Lord, give us to love our neighbour as ourselves, with that love which is the fulfilling of the law; to love one another with a pure heart, fervently, that hereby all men may know that we are Christ's disciples. Enable us to walk in wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

THANKSGIVING.

It is God that girdeth us with strength, and maketh our way perfect; that hath blessed the work of our hands, and it may be that though our beginning was small, yet our latter end hath greatly increased.

When we have eaten and are full, we have reason to bless Thee for the good land which Thou hast given us; a land which the eyes of the Lord our God are always upon, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

Our houses have been safe from fear, and there hath been no rod of God upon us; so that the voice of rejoicing and salvation hath been heard in our tabernacle from day to day. With our staff it may be we have passed over this Jordan, and now we are become two bands, and 'tis God that setteth the solitary in families; and many a time we have delighted ourselves in Thy great goodness.

INTERCESSION.

Lord, Thou hast dealt favourably with our land; we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have told us what work Thou didst for us in their days, and in the times of old; and as we have heard, so we have seen; for we have thought of Thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of Thy temple.

Thou hast given us a pleasant land; Thou hast set up Thy tabernacle among us, and Thy sanctuary is in the midst of us.

We dwell safely, and there is peace to him that goeth out, and to him that comes in.

Turn us again, O Lord God of Hosts, and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. O stir up Thy strength and come and save us.

Lord, Thou hast assured us, that whatever we ask the Father in Christ's name, He will give us; we ask all these things in that name which is above every name, and which is as ointment poured forth. Amen.

NOTES FOR SPECIAL PRAYER.

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Sixteenth Day.

CONFESSION.

LORD our God, we have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited us not. How is the gold become dim, and the most fine gold changed!

We bewail before Thee all our iniquities, and all our transgressions in all our sins.

We have been slothful in the business of religion, and not fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

We have sought great things to ourselves, when Thou hast said, Seek them not.

So foolish have we been and ignorant, and even as beasts before Thee.

PETITION.

Remember us, O Lord, with the favour that Thou bearest unto Thy people. O visit us with Thy salvation, that we may see the good of Thy chosen, and may rejoice in the gladness of Thy nation, and may glory with Thine inheritance.

Let the work of righteousness in our souls be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever. May the law of the spirit of life,

which is in Christ Jesus, make us free from the law of sin and death, that the world may be crucified unto us, by the cross of Christ. Lord, teach transgressors Thy ways, and let sinners be converted unto Thee; and let the disobedient be turned to the wisdom of the just, and make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Let those that are called, being servants, be the Lord's freemen, and those that are called being free, be Christ's servants.

THANKSGIVING.

We thank Thee that when the Lord Jesus ascended up on high, He gave gifts unto men, not only prophets, apostles, and evangelists, but pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; and that while they teach us to observe all things which Christ hath commanded, He hath promised to be with them always, even unto the end of the world. We thank Thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that the things which were hid from the wise and prudent, and which many prophets and kings desired to see, and might not, are revealed to us babes; even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight. Thou hast not only showed Thy word unto Jacob, but Thy statutes and judgments unto Israel,

even unto us.