Concluding Prayer. O THOU that hearest prayer, deign, we entreat thee, to accept these our praises and fupplications. Pardon the imperfections which attend our beft fervices. Af fift us in the duties which further lie before us. Enlighten our minds with thy holy fpirit, that we may receive the truth in the love of it, be guided by it in our whole lives, and finally attain to eternal falvation, through thine infinite mercy in Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. MORNING MORNING PRAYER. NINTH SERVICE. At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minifter fhall read one or more of thefe Sentences of Scripture that follow; after which he shall read the Exhortation. GIVE unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holinefs. Pfal. xxix. 6. O give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds amongst the people. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. Seek the Lord and his strength; feek his face for evermore. P. cv. 1, 3, 4. Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high; and yet humbleth himself M 3 himself to behold the things which are in heaven and on earth Pfal. cxiii. 5. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forfake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, unto our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Ifa. lv. 6, 7. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveneffes, though we have rebelled against him; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he hath fet before us. Dan. ix. 9, 10. The Exhortation. DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture exhorteth us in fundry places to acknowledge and confefs our manifold fins and wickednefs before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father, with an humble, lowly, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the fame by his infinite goodnefs and mercy. And as we ought in our private prayers humbly to acknowledge our fins before God, fo likewife ought we to do when we affemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits we have received at his hands; to fet forth his most worthy praise; to hear his moft holy word, and to ask those things which are requisite and neceffary as well for the body as the foul. Wherefore I beseech you, as many as are here prefent, to accompany me with an humble heart unto the throne of heavenly grace. Then fhall be read by the Minifter the General The General Confeffion. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, we have erred and ftrayed from thy ways like loft fheep. We have followed too much the devices and defires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done thofe things which we ought not to have done. But do thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us. Spare thou them, O God, who confefs their faults. Reftore thou them who are penitent, according to thy promifes declared unto mankind by Chrift Jefus our Lord. And grant, O moft merciful Father, that we may hereafter lead a fober, righteous, and godly life, to the glory of thy holy name. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts are open, all defires known, and from whom no fecrets are hid, cleanse the thoughts of our hearts from all evil, and renew us in the spirit of our minds, that we may perfectly love thee, worthily mag nify |