Nineteenth Day.

CONFESSION.

GOD, our sins have separated between us and God, and have kept good things from us; and by them our minds and consciences have been defiled.

Thou hast sent to us, saying, O do not this abominable thing which I hate; but we have not hearkened, nor inclined our ear.

But, Lord, we repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand; to which Thou hast exalted Thy Son Jesus Christ, to give repentance and remission of sins.

O that we may bring forth fruits meet for repentance! and may never return again to folly.

O what fools are they that make a mock at sin!

PETITION.

Enter not into judgment with Thy servants, O Lord, for in Thy sight shall no flesh living be justified.

We will say unto God, do not condemn us, but deliver us from going down to the pit, for Thou hast found a ransom.

It is God that justifieth, who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, and now is even at the right hand of God, who also

maketh intercession for us, and whose blood speaketh better things than that of Abel's sacrifice.

Cause us to hear Thy loving-kindness, and to taste that Thou art gracious, for in Thee do we trust.

The very God of peace sanctify us wholly, and we pray God our whole spirit, and soul, and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; for faithful is He that calleth us, who also will do it.

THANKSGIVING.

O how wonderfully did the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appear, not by any works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us; we had destroyed ourselves, but in Thee, and Thee only, was our help.

When we were cast out in the open field, and no eye pitied us, Thou sawest us polluted in our own blood, and Thou saidst unto us, Live; yea, Thou saidst unto us, Live; and the time was a time of love.

When the redemption of the soul was so precious, as that it must have ceased for ever, and no man could by any means redeem His brother, or give to God a ransom for him, then Thou wast pleased to find a ransom, that we might be delivered from going down to the pit. Herein appears the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world for our glory.

INTERCESSION.

O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just, Ò Thou righteous God that triest the hearts and the reins. Spirit many to rise up for Thee against the evil-doers, and to stand up for Thee against the workers of iniquity.

Let those that are striving against sin never be weary or faint in their minds.

Cause the unclean spirit to pass out of the land, and turn to the people a pure language, that they may call on the name of the Lord.

Make us high above all nations in praise and in name, and in honour, by making us a holy people unto the Lord our God.

Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant make us perfect in every good work, to do His will, working in us that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Amen.

NOTES FOR SPECIAL PRAYER.

Twentieth Day.

CONFESSION.

GOD, our own wickedness hath corrected us, and backslidings have reproved us, and we cannot but know and see that it is an evil thing, and bitter, that we have forsaken the Lord our God, and that His fear hath not been in us.

We have lifted up our souls unto vanity, and set our eyes upon that which is not, have looked at the things which are seen, which are temporal, but the things which are not seen, that are eternal, have been forgotten or postponed. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this, for we have forsaken Thy commandments? We have sinned, and what shall we do unto Thee, O Thou preserver of men?

PETITION.

Now we pray to God that we may do no evil, but may be blameless and harmless as the children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.

Turn away our eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken Thou us in Thy way; remove from us the way of lying, and grant us Thy law graciously.

Lord, work in us that fear of Thee which is the