A Prayer for Sunday Evening.

O MOST great, most glorious, and eternal God! Thou art the Sovereign Lord of heaven and earth; in whom we live, and move, and have our being, and from whom are derived all the comforts and conveniences of this life, and all our hopes and expectations of a better.

With what awfulness and humility, with what fear and reverence, ought I to appear before thee, when I consider the greatness of thy Majesty, and the purity of thy divine. nature; that thou hast no pleasure in wickedness but hatest all the workers of iniquity, and that such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight.

O Lord! I acknowledge that I am not worthy to come into thy presence, nor to lift up my eyes towards the throne of thy mercyseat. My sins and transgressions are many, and divers of them have been often repeated; the corruption of my heart, and the sinfulness of my thoughts, are perfectly known to thee; and the punishment due unto my sins, is greater than I am able to bear.

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How many duties have I omitted, or performed with coldness and indevotion? How often have I been a hearer of thy word only, and not a doer? How often, both in public and private, have I prayed, when my heart has been far from thee? This very day, O Lord, thou hast given me an opportunity of serving thee in thy house; but, alas! my services there have been accompanied with so many failings, so many imperfections, that I have just cause to humble myself before thee.

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O Lord, if thou shouldst deal with me as I have deserved, how justly mayst thou deprive me of all those means of grace and opportunities of working out my salvation, which thou hast hitherto vouchsafed me? But, O merciful Father! thou hast declared thyself to be a God merciful and gracious, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin. My only hope, there fore, is in thy tender mercies, which have been ever of old; and in that pity and compassion, which thou hast shown to mankind in the redemption of the world, by the death of thy Devithuname's sake, then, O Lord,

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More particularly, O Lord, be merciful to these nations to which I belong : pardon our great and crying sins, and avert from us the evils which we have most justly deserved: put a stop to all profaneness, irreligion, and impiety; to all our unhappy strifes and animosities; and let truth and righteousness, brotherly love and charity, flourish and increase: among us.

Be gracious to thy holy catholic church; and especially to that part of it, which thou hast planted in these kingdoms: heal the breaches and divisions of it, and grant that it may flourish and abound in true piety and virtue, peace and charity..

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Bless especially our Sovereign Lord the King, protect his person, direct his councils, prosper his government, and make him an instrument in thy hands, of great good to these kingdoms.

Inspire the pastors and governors of thy church, with a spirit of true religion, and goodness; and make them zealous and diligent to promote it in all those who are under their charge.

Bless the magistrates, the nobility, gentry, and commons of these realms. Grant that they may all study to serve thee, and to discharge the duties of their several stations, al

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