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Twenty-Fourth Day.

CONFESSION.

GOD, we have said in our haste we are cast off from before Thine eyes, and that the Lord hath forsaken us, our God hath forgotten us, as if God would be favourable no more; as if He had forgotten to be gracious, and had in anger shut up His tender mercies. This has been our infirmity.

If in anything we have gone beyond and defrauded our brother, if we have walked with vanity, and our foot hath hasted to deceit, and any blot hath cleaved to our hands, Lord, discover it to us, that if we have done iniquity (and there is no man that sinneth not), we may do so no more. O that our heads were waters, and our eyes fountains of tears, that we might weep day and night for our transgressions.

PETITION.

Lord, we take hold of Thy covenant, to Thee we join ourselves in a perpetual covenant; O that Thou wouldest cause us to pass under the rod, and bring us into the bond of the covenant, that we may become Thine.

Give us all to know Thee, from the least even to

the greatest, and to follow on to know Thee; and so to know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent, whom to know is life eternal.

When we know not what to do, then let our eyes be unto Thee; then let us hear the word behind us, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, that we turn not to the right hand or to the left.

Lord, give us so to be crucified with Christ, as that the life we now live in the flesh we may live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us and gave Himself for us; and so to bear about with us continually the dying of the Lord Jesus, as that the life also of Jesus may be manifest in our bodies.

THANKSGIVING.

We bless Thee, O our Father, that forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, Jesus also Himself likewise took part of the same; that He took not on Him the nature of angels, but our nature, and was in all things made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest, in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people; and that He is not ashamed to call them brethren; and that the first begotten was brought into the world with a charge given to all the angels of God to worship Him.

We thank Thee for the gracious invitation He gave to those who are weary and heavy laden, to come to Him for rest; and for the assurance He hath given, that whosoever comes unto Him, He will in no wise

cast out.

INTERCESSION.

Counsel our counsellors, and teach our senators wisdom; O give them a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord, to make them of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord.

O remove not the speech of the trusty, nor take away the understanding of the aged, nor let the things that belong to the nation's peace be hid from the eyes of those that are intrusted with the nation's counsels.

Make those that rule over us just, ruling in the fear of God; and let those that judge remember that they judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with them in the judgment; that therefore the fear of the Lord may be upon them.

O let our hearts be perfect with the Lord our God all our days, and continue so till the end be, that then we may rest, and may stand in our lot, and let it be a blessed lot in the end of the days.

Amen.

NOTES FOR SPECIAL PRAYER.

Twenty-Fifth Day.

CONFESSION.

LORD, in the multitude of our words there

O wanteth not sin, nor can a man full of talk be

justified.

While the lips of the righteous feed many, our lips have poured out foolishness, and spoken frowardness.

Many a price hath been put into our hand to get wisdom, which we have had no heart to, or our heart has been at our left hand.

When we did eat, and when we did drink, did we not eat to ourselves, and drink to ourselves?

The Word of God hath been to us precept upon precept, and line upon line; and though we have beheld our natural faces in the glass, yet we have gone away, and straightway forgot what manner of men we

were.

PETITION.

O Lord our God, let us have redemption through Christ's blood, even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of Thy grace, wherein Thou hast abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence. That being in Christ Jesus, there may be no condemnation to us.

This is the name whereby we will call Him, The

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