SECOND SUNDAY SERVICE. The service may be commenced by singing one of the Hymns in the collection. Then let the leader of the service say, DRAW nigh unto God, and he will draw nigh unto you. Cleanse your hands, and purify your hearts. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and make a confession of your sins unto him, with a hearty sorrow and a humble hope, begging for pardon at the throne of grace, through the infinite merit and precious sacrifice of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. All kneeling, may then be said aloud the following Confession. 0 ALMIGHTY God, great Lord of heaven and earth, we miserable sinners with fear and shame cast ourselves down before thee, humbly confessing our manifold sins and unsufferable wickednesses, by which we have deserved thy wrath, and separation from thy presence for ever. We confess, O great God, that we have sinned against thee by knowledge and by ignorance, by folly and by surprise, by word and deed, by anger and desires, by night and by day, in private and in public, by the lusts of the flesh, and the vanity and pride of our spirits our sins of omission are infinite, and the sins of our tongue cannot be numbered. O God, thy words and laws are holy, and thy judgments are terrible; but we have broken all thy righteous laws and commandments, and we have great cause to be afraid of thy severest judgments; and where shall we appear when thou art angry with us? But thou shalt answer for us, O Lord our God: thou art our judge, but thou art our Redeemer: we have sinned, but thou, O blessed Jesus, art our Advocate. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most miserable sinners: enter not into judgment with us, lest we die : let not thine anger arise, lest we be consumed: but spare us, gracious Lord: spare thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious precious blood: O reserve not evil in store for us against the day of vengeance, but show thy goodness in us, and let thy mercies be magnified upon us: deliver us, O Lord, from the power of sin, and preserve us from the punishments of it, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall the leader of the service offer the following Prayers. LORD our God, whose power is infinite, whose glory is supreme, whose goodness is unspeakable, whose mercy is without measure, despise not thy returning servants who earnestly beg for pardon and to be reconciled to thee: sanctify, O God, our bodies and souls, search out our spirits, and cast out all iniquity from within us: all weak principles and false arguings, every impure lust and filthy desire, all pride and envy, all hypocrisy and lying, all inordinate love of this world and base covetousness: all hardness of heart and unrelenting dispositions, all peevishness and hasty anger, all mindfulness of injuries and revengefulness, all blasphemy and irreligion: and every motion of soul and body which can withdraw us us from thee and is against thy will and command ment. Pardon, we humbly beseech thee, our innumerable transgressions of thy holy laws, which might justly cause thee to shut thy merciful ears against all our prayers, and to cast us out of thy presence for ever. Pardon, O God, all the sins we have been guilty of in the course of our lives, against thee, our neighbours, or ourselves, in thought, word, or deed; our sins of ignorance and inadvertency, and especially all wilful and presumptuous sins; those which we have done ourselves; and those which we have been any way accessory to in others. O Lord, pardon also the iniquities of our holy things; our coldness, wanderings, and indevotion in prayer; our irreverent behaviour in thy house, and weariness of thy service; and our repeated violations of the solemn vows and promises made for us in holy baptism, and renewed at thine altar. O God, pardon all our abuses of thy mercies, and the unworthy returns we have made to all thy benefits. Pardon, we beseech thee, our shameful unfruitfulness hitherto under all the means of grace, and make us more more careful to improve all future opportunities; that as we grow in years, we may grow in grace; and the nearer we come to our end, we may be the more fit for that pure and perfect bliss, which thou hast prepared for those who devoutly worship and serve thee, in the glories of thy kingdom. Assist us, we humbly pray thee, in the great duties we have this day to perform: fill us with awful and affecting thoughts of thy greatness, thy holiness, thy wisdom, power, and goodness; and with such a lively sense of our own vileness and wretchedness; of our manifold necessities, and absolute dependence upon thee, as may make us humble, lowly, fervent, and earnest at the throne of thy grace; that so Our prayers and praises may come before thee as the incense, and the lifting up of our hands be a morning sacrifice acceptable in thy sight, through the mediation of our great High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. Gracious Father, give us perfect pardon for what is past, and a perfect repentance of all our evils, that for the time to come we may, with pure spirits, with broken and contrite hearts, with sanctified lips and holy desires, serve thec religiously, walk humbly with |