wouldeft caufe us to pafs under the rod, and bring us into the bond of the covenant, that we may become thine h.

Make with us an everlafting covenant, even the fure mercies of David i.

(3.) That we may have the favour of God, and an interest in his fpecial love.

We intreat thy favour, O God, with our whole hearts; be merciful to us according to thy word, for in thy favour is life, yea, thy loving-kindness is better than life itself.

Lord, make thy face to fhine upon us, and be gracious unto us; Lord, lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, and give us peace ",

Remember us, O Lord, with the favour that thou beareft unto thy people: O vifit us with thy falvation, that we may fee the good of thy chofen, and may rejoice in the gladnels of thy nation, and may glory with

thine inheritance.

(4) That we may have the blefing of God.

O God, be merciful to us, and blefs us, and caufe thy face to fhine on us; yea, let God, even our God, give us his bleffing p.

The Lord that made heaven and earth, bless us out of Zion a; blefs us with all fpiritual bleffings in hea venly things, by Chrift Jefus ".

O that thou wouldelt blefs us indeed! Commandthe bleffing upon us, even life for evermore: for thou bleffeft, O Lord, and it fhall be bleffed v.

Let us receive the bleffing from the Lord, even the righteoufnefs from the God of our falvation w.

Haft thou but one bleffing! Yea, thou haft many bleffings: Blefs us, even us alfo, O our Father; yea,

b xvi. 8. ¿ If, lv.

b xvi. 8. i If. lv. 3. Pfal. cxix. 58. m lxiii. 3. n Numbers vi. 25. 26. plxvii. 1, 6. q cxxxiv. 3. r Eph..3 t Pfal. cxxxiii. 3. 1 Chron. xvii. 23,

plxvii. 1,

Gen. xxvii. 38.

let the bleffing of Abraham come upon us, which comes upon the Gentiles through faith . And the bleffing of Jacob, for we would not let thee go, except thou blefs us 2.

(5.) That we may have the prefence of God with us.

If thy prefence go not up with us, carry us not up hence a; never leave us, nor forfake us .

O caft us not away from thy presence, nor ever take thy Holy Spirit away from us; but let us always dwell with the upright in thy prefence d,

3. We must pray for the comfortable fenfe of our reconciliation to God, and our acceptance with him.

(1.) That we may have fome evidence of the pardon of our fins, and of our adoption.

O make us to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which fin bath broken may rejoice.

Say unto each of us, Son, Daughter, be of good cheer, thy fins are forgiven thee .

Let the blood of Chrift, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without fpot to God, purge our confcience from dead works, to ferve thee the living God 8.

Let thy Spirit witnefs with our fpirit, that we are the children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ h.

Say unto our fouls, that thou art our falvation.

(2.) That we may have a well-grounded peace of conScience; a holy fecurity and ferenity of mind arifing from a fenfe of our justification before God, and a good work wrought in us.

The Lord of peace himself give us peace, all peace, always, by all means; that peace which Jefus Chrift hath left with us, which he gives to us, fuch a peace as

≈ Gen. xxxii. 26. a Exod. xxxiii. 15. c Pfalm li. 14. a cxl. 13. c Pfalm li. 8. g Heb. ix. 14. b Rom. viii. 16. 17.

ki Thef. xxxvi, 19.

the world can neither give nor take away; fuch a peace as that our hearts may not be troubled nor afraid 1.

Let the work of righteoufnefs in our fouls be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and affurance for ever m.

Speak peace unto thy people, and to thy faints, and let not them turn again to folly ".

O create the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to them that are afar off, and to them that are nigh, and raftǝre comfort to thy mourners o.

Where the fons of peace are, let thy peace find them out, and rest upon them P.

Caufe us to hear thy loving-kindness, and to tafte that thou art gracious, for in thee do we trust '.

Let the peace of God, which paffeth all understanding, keep our hearts and minds, through Chrift Jefus ; and let that peace rule in our hearts, unto which we are called t.

Now the God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing, that we may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost v.

(3.) We must pray for the grace of God, and all the kind and powerful influences and operations of that grace. We come to the throne of grace, that we may obtain not only mercy to pardon, but grace to help in every time of need; grace for feafonable help ".

From the fulness that is in Jesus Christ *, (in whom it pleased the Father, that all fulness fhould dwell y) let every one of us receive, and grace for grace.

to fortify us against every Having been earnest for that we may not die for earnest for the breaking

1. We must pray for grace evil thought, word and work. the removing of the guilt of fin, it as a crime, we must be no less

q Pfalm cxliii. 8. Rom. xv. 13.

/ John xiv. 17. m Ifa. xxxii. 17. n Pfalm 1xxxv. 8. Ifa. lvii. 18, 19. p Luke x. 6. Phil. iv. 7. † Col. iii. 15. x John i. 16. y Col. i. 19: F

r Pet. ii. 3. s

w Heb. iv. 16.

of the power of fin, that we may not die by it as a difeafe, but that it may be mortified in us.

O let no iniquity have dominion over us, because we are not under the law, but under grace 2.

Let the flesh be crucified in us, with its affections and lufts; that walking in the Spirit we may not fulfil the lufts of the flesh a.

Let our old man be crucified with Chrift, that the body of fin may be deftroyed, that henceforth we may. not ferve fin; and let not fin reign in our mortal bodies (in our immortal fouls) that we fhould obey it in the lufts thereof. But being made free from fin, let us become the fervants of righteousness b.

Let the law of the fpirit of life, which is in Chrift Jefus, make us free from the law of fin and death c.

Give us grace to put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lufts, that we may put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness d.

That the world may be crucified to us, and we to the world, by the cross of Christ .

And that the temptations of Satan may not overcome us. We pray that we may not enter into temptation f : Or however, that no temptation may take us, but fuch as is common to men, and let the faithful God never fuffer us to be tempted above what we are able, but with the temptation make way for us to escape &.

Put upon us the whole armour of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, to withftand in the evil day, and having done all to ftand; let our loins be girt about with truth, put on us the breastplate of righteoufnefs, and let our feet be thod with the preparation of, the gofpei of peace. Give us the fhield of faith, wherewith we may quench all the fiery darts

z Rom. vi. 14. 4 Gal. v. 16, 24. b Rom. vi. 6, 12, 18: e viii. 2. d Eph. iv. 22, 24. e Gal. vi. 14. ƒ Mat. xxvi, 14, gi Corx. 13.

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of the wicked, and the helmet of falvation; and let the fword of the fpirit, which is the word of God, be always ready to us *.

Enable us fo to refift the devil, as that he may fly from us; to refift him ftedfaft in the faith.

And the

God of peace tread Satan under our feet, and do it fhortly 1.

2. We must pray for grace to furnish us for every good thought, word, and work; that we may not only be kept from fin, but may be in every thing as we should be, and do as we should do.

Let Chrift be made of God to us, not only righteoufnefs, but wisdom, fanctification, and redemption ".

Let us be planted together in the likeness of Chrift's death and refurrection, that as he was raifed from the dead by the glory of the Father, fo we alfo may walk in newness of life ".

(1.) That the word of grace may be wrought there where it is not yet begun.

Lord, teach tranfgreffors thy ways, and let finners bet converted unto thee; and let the difobedient be turned to the wifdom of the juft, and make ready a people prepared for the Lord P.

Let thofe be quickened that are yet dead in trefpaffes and fins : Say unto them, Live; yea, fay unto them, Live; and the time fhall be a time of love ".

Open their eyes, and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgivenefs of fins, and an inheritance among them who are fanctified

By the blood of the covenant fend forth the prisoners out of the pit, in which is no water, that we may turn to the ftrong hold, as prifoners of hope.

b Eph. vi. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

ki Pet. v. 9:

/Rom. xvi. 20.

i. James iv. 7. ma Cor. i. 30.

n Rom. vi. 4. o Pfal. xv. 13. p Luke i. 17. q Eph. ii. 1. r Ezek. xvi. 6, 8. s Acts xxvi. 18. t Zech, ix. 11, 12,