Concluding Prayer.

MERCIFULLY regard, O heavenly Father, these our petitions for ourselves and others, and grant that by thus expreffing the defires of our hearts before thee, we may be more impreffed with reverence for thee, charity for all mankind, and concern for our religious improvement. Pardon whatever thou haft feen amifs in us at this time. Affift us in the further duties which lie before us. May we receive thy word in the fpirit of meeknefs, and adorn our Chriftian profeffion by the holiness of our lives. Graciously accept our religious fervices, which we offer in the name and as the disciples of Jefus Chrift, in whose words we conclude our addreffes to thee:

OUR Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; Give us day by day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespaffes, as we forgive them that trespass against us: Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

EVENING

EVENING PRAYER.

SIXTH SERVICE.

Let the Minifter introduce the Service by reading the following Exhortation, the Congregation rifing up.

DEARLY beloved brethren, we are now met together under the profeffion of the christian faith, for the worship of Almighty God; to celebrate his glorious perfections; and to give thanks for all his mercies; to hear his holy word; to humble ourselves before him for our tranfgreffions, and to pray for those things which are requifite and neceffary for ourfelves and others; wherefore let us, with fincere and humble hearts, approach the throne of grace.

The Introductory Prayer; the People kneeling.

O MOST merciful God, unto whom all hearts are open, all defires known, and from whom no fecrets are hid, enable us at this time devoutly to magnify thy holy name, and most thankfully to acknowledge thy never failing goodness. May we hear the precepts of thy holy word with teachable and obedient minds; and may we fo humbly and fincerely confefs our fins before thee, relying on thine infinite mercy in Jefus Chrift, as to obtain the forgiveness of them. Strengthen, we beseech thee, the refolutions we would now make, of living more worthy of our Christian profeffion; and grant that our prayers and praises may excite us to love thee more fervently, and to obey thy laws more fincerely and perfectly; and may our interceffions for others be accompanied with fervent charity for all men. Let thy prefence be in all the

affemblies

affemblies of thy people this day. Graciously affift thy miniftring fervants in discharging the important duties of their facred office; may they come forth in the fullness of the bleffing of the gospel of Christ, that finners may be converted unto thee, and thy church may be edified in faith and holinefs unto eternal falvation. Amen.

¶Then let the Minifter and People alternately recite the following Act of Adoration, the People standing.

Minifter..

WORTHY art thou, O Lord, to receive bleffing, and honour, and glory, and praise; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

People.

By the things that are made, are clearly feen and underflood thine eternal power and

godhead.

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Minifter.