richly to enjoy. Write a law of thankfulness on our hearts, we beseech thee,. and grant that we may walk before thee, in holiness and righteousness, all the days of our lives. Amen.

¶ Here a Pfalm of Praise, or Thankf giving, is to be fung; and after that the Second Leffon read, out of the NEW TESTAMENT, except on the first Sunday in the Month, when the Ten Commandments, and our Saviour's Summary of the Moral Law, are to be read, instead of the Second Leffon, in the Evening Service; for which purpose they are printed together after the Occafional Forms.

¶ Then the Service must proceed with the following Addrefs to the People.

Minifter.

"SURELY it is meet to be faid "unto GOD we have done iniquity. "To the LORD our GOD belong "mercies and forgiveness, though we "have finned against him :

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"Let us therefore confefs and lament our manifold tranfgreffions, before the "throne of the heavenly grace."

¶ The GENERAL CONFESSION; to be read by the Minifter alone, the People kneeling.

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LMIGHTY and moft merciful Fa

ther, we confess that in many things we have all offended: we have not behaved as thy children, and as the disciples of our bleffed Saviour: we have not duly improved the talents with which thou haft intrufted us: we have too often neglected our duty to ourselves, and to our fellow men; and our confciences witness against us. With humble and penitent hearts, we lament before thee,

our Father, every inftance of disobedience; whatever we have done amifs in thought, word, or deed; every offence against thee, our neighbour, or ourfelves and if we have been injurious, unjust, or have dealt deceitfully; if we have forgotten thy great loving

kindness,

kindness, and departed from our character as men, and as chriftians, forgive us, according to thy promises by CHRIST JESUS our LORD; forgive our fins, we beseech thee, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness: and may we bring forth the fruits which are meet for repentance, by walking in newness of life, and studying to abound in holiness, and every good work. Amen.

Then the following Prayers are to be read by the Minifter alone, the congregation ftill kneeling, and faying Amen, at the conclufion of each Prayer.

A Prayer for the Pardon of Sin.

Minister.

LORD GOD, whofe nature is to have mercy, and to forgive, behold with compaffion thy penitent creatures. Thou knoweft our frame; thou remembreft that we are but duft: be merciful unto us, O GOD, be merciful unto us may thy goodness lead us to

repent

repentance; to destroy every evil inclination and habit, and to form our minds to a virtuous and heavenly temper. May we have a fixed abhorrence of fin; and hereafter live foberly, righteously, and piously in this world, in humble expectation of thy mercy unto eternal life, declared to mankind by CHRIST JESUS, our LORD. Amen.

A Prayer founded on the Perfections of GOD.

GOD, the unchangeable, and everlasting fountain of life, perfection, and happiness; we lift up our hearts unto thee, the greatest, wisest, and beft of beings: from the contemplation of thy works, may we daily increase in the knowledge of thee; attain to more pure and worthy conceptions of thy nature, and providence; and ever manifest a becoming reverence for thy perfections; and a just concern for thine honour and fervice. Under a due sense of thine almighty power, we would avoid thy difpleasure,

pleasure, as the worst of evils: from a full perfuafion that thou art wife in counsel, faithful in thy promifes, and righteous in all thy ways, we repose an unreferved confidence in all the meafures of thy providence: as a being perfectly good, we would love thee with all our hearts, and rejoice in thine univerfal government. Above all we defire to yield a chearful obedience to thy commandments; and by the perfevering love and practice of righteousness, in this world, we humbly pray that we may at length be prepared for thy glorious worship in the heavenly world above. Amen.

A Prayer refpecting relative Duties.

GOD, who art love, and who dwelleft in love; may we earnestly endeavour to imitate thy conftant and univerfal goodness: may we behave in our several stations with integrity and benevolence; and difcover the true fpirit of piety and goodness in all the relations of life may we walk within our houses

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