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our sins, and rewarded us according to our iniquities, we had long before this been like as Sodom and Gomorrah, or swept away by some other sudden and severe destruction.

But, O merciful Father, thou hast shown thyself to be a God gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance: thou hast spared us when we deserved punishment, and in the midst of judgment hast remembered mercy.

In mercy, O God, awaken us all to a true and deep sense of our manifold, and often repeated provocations; and for thy name's sake, and for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, pardon the great and crying sins of this whole nation; and in a more peculiar manner, I beseech thee to pardon me, who now humble myself before thee, and forgive all my sins, which have helped to increase thy severe displeasure against us.

Wash away all our sins in the blood of the ever-blessed Jesus; and oh! be thou reconciled unto us, who are now seeking unto thee in fasting and prayer; spare thy people, O good Lord, spare them; and grant that we may so turn from all our evil ways that iniquity may not be our ruin.

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from our eyes; lest that dreadful day come upon us, when all opportunity of reconciling ourselves to our offended God shall be taken from us.

And do thou so effectually convince every one of us of the great evil of sin, and what dreadful punishments will inevitably fall upon those that persist in it, that we may forsake all our sins and wickedness, and turn unto thee the Lord our God. Fill us with such a godly sorrow for our sins, as may work in us a true repentance not to be repented of; and grant that we may now be so truly humbled for them, that this may be such a fast as thou hast chosen; a fast that may loose the bands of wickedness, wherewith we have been so long tied and bound, that we may be set free from every evil way, and may no longer abuse thy mercies, nor despise thy judgments; but may become a peculiar people, zealous of good works, that thou mayest turn from thy displeasure against us, and delight over us to do us good, to build us up, and not to destroy us.

Hear, O Lord, and answer my prayers, that go not out of feigned lips: O let them prevail with thee for mercy for myself and all this people; even such a measure of thy grace, as will at length reclaim us, through the merits and intercession of thy dear Son Jesus Christ

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A Prayer upon the same Occasion, which may be used after the Evening Service.

O GOD, thou art great, and doest wondrous things; thou art God alone: thou takest vengeance of those that contemn thy laws, but hast, in all ages, wonderfully condescended to the intercessions of thy servants, which have feared thee, and called upon thy name; behold with pity and compassion this church and nation, now humbling itself before thee; accept our humiliation, and hear the prayers which have been this day offered up at the throne of grace; and grant that they may be effectual, through the intercession of thy dear Son, to obtain mercy and pardon for the sinful people of this land.

O Lord, I confess that thou mayst justly be displeased with us, for our great and manifold provocations, and that we are no more worthy to be called, or dealt with as thy sons or servants, whom neither thy judgments have driven, nor thy mercies led to repentance: O be thou graciously pleased to look upon us in the Son of thy love, and give us such a deep sense of the evil of our doings, that we may truly repent of, and so effectually turn from all our transgressions, that thou mayst be reconciled, and at peace with us; and that our humiliation and repentance may so effectually

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