Keep our epifcopacy precious before thee, to feed the church of God, which thou haft purchased with thine own blood;

Bless and protect the nurfing-fathers and nurfingmothers of thy church, together with their minifters, (Ifa. xlix. 23.)

Watch graciously over all kings, princes and govern

ments;

Grant and preferve unto them thoughts of peace and concord,

And hear our interceffions for them all;

We befeech thee especially, to pour down thy bleffings in a plentiful manner upon our gracious Sovereign King George, the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and upon all the Royal Family.

Grant, that our King may enjoy a long and happy reign over us, preferve him in thy faith, fear, and love, that he may walk before thee as thy fervant, and protect thy true religion in these nations; *

Guide and protect the magistrates of the land wherein we dwell, and all that are put in authority under them,

That we may lead under them a quiet and peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty!

Hear us, gracious Lord and God!

Teach us to fubmit ourselves to every ordinance of man for thy fake!

And to feek the peace of the places where we dwell; Grant them bleffing and profperity;

Prevent war, and the effufion of human blood; Preferve the land from diftrefs by fire and water, hail and tempeft, plague, peftilence, and famine!

Let this earth be like a field which the Lord bleffeth;

*Blefs both Houses of Parliament, at this time assembled, and direct their councils.

Give peace and falvation, O God! to thy land, and

to all orders of men therein!

Hear us, gracious Lord and God!

They that go down to the fea in fhips, they fee thy wonders!

Blefs and protect our brethren and fifters who travel by land or fea.

C. Command thy Angel, Lord, that he
Watch o'er thy flock by land and fea.

Care alfo for the neceffities of the church;
Blefs our diaconies;

Let all things be conducted among us in fuch a manner, that we provide things honest, not only before God, but alfo before men;

Let our commerce and trade be holy unto thee;

Bless the sweat of the brow, and the faithfulness in handicraft bufinefs;

But let none entangle himself with the affairs of this life;

Nor let in any labor be perceived the after-taste of fin.

Hear us, gracious Lord and God!

O that we might always be ready, to show love to all men, and never forget to do good and to communicate;

O that we took pleasure in refreshing the hearts of the dejected,

And to relieve the needy might be our hearts' delight!

C. Can we do good, we'll it embrace,

Thank God for his enabling grace.

Thou Lover of men!

Send help to all that are in diftrefs or danger;

Set at liberty fuch who are unjustly imprisoned; Let all those who are imprifoned for the word of God, live by the word, which kept thee in the defert ;

Comfort all the weak-hearted and afflicted,

Be the fupport of the aged,

Make the bed of the fick, and show that thou lovest them;

And when thou takest away men's breath, that they die, then thou furely wilt remember, that thou haft not died for our fins only, but for the fins of the whole world.

Now thou God over all, bleffed for evermore! Have mercy on thy whole creation;

Be the Savior of all men ;

For thou haft, by thyfelf, reconciled all things unto thyself, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

Hear us, gracious Lord and God!

Think on thy fuff'rings, wounds, and crofs,
And how by death thou faveďst us;

C. For this is all our hope and plea,
In time and in eternity.

Thou Savior of thy body!

Grant, that it may be feen in thy congregations, that thou art a God of order;

Walk in the midst of them with complacence, Govern them all gently, and according to their measure; (Rom. xii. 3. Wifd. ix. 11.)

Teach all of us to be subject to one another in love; (1 Pet. v. 5.)

Be the fanctification of every choir, through the maternal care of the Holy Ghoft;

* Particularly N. N. ~

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Blefs and fanctify the married state;

Let our children be brought up in the nurture and admonition of thee; *

The merit of thy unfpotted youth render our boys and girls chafte;

Let the fingle brethren and fingle fifters care only for the things of the Lord, that they may be holy both in body and in fpirit;

Be the joy and bleffed hope of our widowers and widows.

Pour out thy Holy Spirit on all thy fervants and handmaids.

Purify our fouls in obeying the truth, through the fpirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren

;

Hear us, gracious Lord and God! Keep us in everlasting fellowship + with the whole Church triumphant;

And let us once reft together in thy presence from all our labor!

Hear us, gracious Lord and God!

O thou Lamb of God, which takeft away the fins of the world,

Have mercy upon us! O thou Lamb of God, which takest away the fins of the world,

Own us to be thine! O thou Lamb of God, which takeft away the fins of the world,

Leave thy peace with us!

* Here the last baptized child is mentioned thus: Efpecially N. N. and a benedictory verfe fung for it.

If one or more members of the Congregation lately deceased, are to be mentioned, it may be done here, by praying: Keep us in everlasting fellowship with N. N. and with the whole, &c.

Unto

T. 539. b.

*Unto the Lamb, which was flain, and hath redeemed us out of all nations of the earth;

Unto the Lord, who purchased our fouls for himself;

Unto that Friend, who loved us and washed us from fins in his own blood;

Who died for us once, that we might die unto fin; Who rofe for us, that we alfo might rife;

Who afcended for us into heaven, to prepare a place for us;

And to whom are subjected the angels, and powers and dominions;

To him be glory at all times, in the church, which waiteth for him, and in that which is about him,

From everlafting to everlasting, Amen! Little children, abide in him, that, when he fhall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

C. In none but him alone I trust for ever,
In him my Savior.

Liturgus:

The Lord blefs thee and keep thee!

The Lord make his face to fhine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee!

The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, aud

give thee peace!

Ch. In the name of Jefus, Amen.

* Or: Lamb! once flain for finners,

Receive our praises,

Honor and glory from all choirs and claffes;

To thee they're due!

+ Or: Grant me to lean unfhaken upon thy faithfulness, until from hence I'm taken, to fee thee face to face.

Or: O let my foul ne'er moved be out of thy arms, dear Savior; both late and early fhow to me thy mercy and thy favor! III. HYMNS

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