Or, Lord, Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that wilt by no means clear the guilty; (Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7.) Incline thine ear and hear: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. (Dan. ix. 18.) Or, I will arise and go to my Father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. (Luke xv. 18, 19.) Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O Lord: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. (Ps. cxliii. 2.) I acknowledge my transgression, and my sin is ever before me. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. (Ps. li. 3, 9.) THE CHURCH LITANY. LORD, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, hear us. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. O God, the SON, the Saviour of the world, Be gracious unto us. O God, the HOLY GHOST, Abide with us for ever. Amen. T. 22. Most holy, blessed TRINITY, We praise thee to eternity. :||::|: T. 132. p. 2. Thou LAMB once slain, our God and Lord, And on us all have mercy. From coldness to thy merits and death, From error and misunderstanding, From the loss of our glory in thee, From the unhappy desire of becoming great, From self-complacency, From untimely projects, From needless perplexity, From the murdering spirit and devices of Satan, From hypocrisy and fanaticism, From the deceitfulness of sin, From all sin, Preserve us, gracious Lord and God. By all the merits of thy life, By thy human birth and circumcision, By thy obedience, diligence, and faithfulness, By thy holy baptism, By thy watching, fasting, and temptations, By thy prayers and tears, By thy having been despised and rejected, Bless and comfort us, gracious Lord and God. By thine agony and bloody sweat, By thy bonds and scourgings, By thy crown of thorns, By thy cross and passion, By thy sacred wounds and precious blood, By thy dying words, By thy atoning death, By thy rest in the grave, By thy glorious resurrection and ascension, By the holy sacraments, By thy divine presence, (Matt. xxviii. 20.) By thy coming again to thy church on earth, or our being called home to thee, Bless and comfort us, gracious Lord and God. T. 96. We humbly pray with one accord, Remember us, most gracious Lord; Think on thy sufferings, wounds, and cross, For this is all our hope and plea, In time and in eternity, We poor sinners pray ; Hear us, gracious Lord and God. Rule and lead thy holy Christian church; Increase the knowledge of the mystery of Christ, and dimi nish misapprehensions; Make the word of the cross universal among those who are called by thy name; Unite all the children of God in one spirit; (John xi. 52.) (Matt. ix. 38) Abide their only Shepherd, High-priest, and Saviour; Send faithful labourers into thy harvest; Give spirit and power to preach thy word; Preserve unto us the word of reconciliation till the end of days; And, through the Holy Ghost, daily glorify the merits of thy life, sufferings, and death: Hear us, gracious Lord and God. Prevent or destroy all designs and schemes of Satan, and defend us against his accusation; (Rev. xii. 10.) For the sake of that peace which we have with thee, may we, as much as lieth in us, live peaceably with all men; (Rom. xii. 18.) Grant us to bless them that curse us, and to do good to them that hate us; (Matt. v. 44.) Have mercy upon our slanderers and persecutors, and lay not this sin to their charge; Hinder all schisms and offences; (Acts vii. 60.) Put far from thy people all deceivers and seducers; Bring back those who have erred, or have been seduced; Hear us, gracious Lord and God. Thou Light and Desire of all nations, (Matt. iv. 16; Hag. ii. 7.) Watch over thy messengers both by land and sea; Prosper the endeavours of all thy servants, to spread thy gospel among heathen nations; Accompany the word of their testimony concerning thy atonement, with demonstration of the Spirit and of power; (1 Cor. ii. 4.) Bless our congregations gathered from among the heathen; Keep them as the apple of thine eye; (Deut. xxxii. 10.) (Rom. xi. 25, 26.) Have mercy on thy ancient covenant-people, the Jews; deliver them from their blindness; And bring all nations to the saving knowledge of thee: Hear us, gracious Lord and God. O praise the Lord, all ye heathen: Praise him, all ye nations. Give to thy people open doors to preach the gospel, and set them to thy praise on earth; (Rev. iii. 8.) Grant to all bishops and ministers of the church soundness of doctrine and holiness of life, and preserve them therein; (Tit. i. 7, ii. 1.) Help all elders to rule well, especially those who labour in the word and doctrine; that they may feed thy church, which thou hast purchased with thine own blood: (1 Tim. v. 17; Acts xx. 28.) Hear us, gracious Lord and God. Watch graciously over all kings, princes, and governments, and hear our intercessions for them; (1 Tim. ii. 1, 2.) Grant and preserve unto them thoughts of peace and concord; We beseech thee especially, to pour down thy blessings in a plentiful manner upon our gracious Sovereign, Queen VICTORIA, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and all the Royal Family; Grant that our Queen may enjoy a long and happy reign over us; stablish her in thy faith, fear, and love, that she may walk before thee as thy servant, and protect thy true religion in these nations; [Bless both Houses of Parliament, and direct their counsels;] Guide and protect the magistrates of the land wherein we dwell, and all that are put in authority; and grant us to lead under them a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty: (1 Tim. ii. 2.) Hear us, gracious Lord and God. Teach us to submit ourselves to every ordinance of man for thy sake; and to seek the peace of the places where we dwell; (1 Pet. ii. 13; Jer. xxix. 7.) Grant them blessing and prosperity; Prevent war, and the effusion of human blood; Preserve the land from distress by fire and water, hail and tempest, plague, pestilence, and famine; Let the earth be like a field which the Lord blesseth; Give peace and salvation, O God, to this land, and to all orders of men therein: Hear us, gracious Lord and God. To be prayed in time of War. [Grant, O Lord, unto our Queen, in these times of danger, thy gracious counsel, that in all things she may approve herself the mother of her people; Be thou the gracious Protector of these nations, and of our fellow-subjects in all parts of the world; Turn the hearts of our enemies; defeat every evil design against us; and continue to show thy tender mercy unto this United Kingdom, as thou hast done in the days past; Cause us to bow down before thee, to confess our sins, and to |