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By thy rest in the grave,

By thy glorious resurrection and ascension,
By thy sitting at the right hand of God,

By thy sending the Holy Ghost,
By thy prevailing intercession,

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,
And how by death thou savedst us:

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;

Abide their only Shepherd, High-priest, and Saviour;

Send faithful labourers into thy harvest;

(John xi. 52.)

(Matt. ix. 38.)

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;
Grant love and unity to all our congregations:

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;
Have mercy on thy ancient covenant-people, the Jews; deliver
them from their blindness;

(Deut. xxxii. 10.)

(Rom. xi. 25, 26.)

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, the Prince Consort, the Prince 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

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acknowledge with contrite hearts, that it is of thy mercies that we are not consumed;

(Lam. iii. 22.) Stop in thy tender mercy the effusion of human blood, and make discord and wars to cease;

To this end, put into the hearts of the rulers of the nations thoughts of peace, that we may see it soon established, to the glory of thy name:

Hear us, gracious Lord and God.]

T. 235. p. 2. Promote, we pray, thy servants' good,

Redeem'd with thy most precious blood:

Among thy saints make us ascend

To glory that shall never end:
O Lord, have mercy on us all,

Have mercy on us, when we call:

Lord, we have put our trust in thee,
Confounded let us never be: Amen.

Supply, O Lord, we pray thee, all the wants of thy church; Let all things be conducted among us in such a manner, that we provide things honest, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men; (2 Cor. viii. 21.) Bless the sweat of the brow, and faithfulness in business; Let none entangle himself with the affairs of this life; (2 Tim.ii.4.) But may all our labour of body and mind be hallowed unto thee: Hear us, gracious Lord and God.

O thou Preserver of men,

Send help to all that are in distress or danger;

(Job vii. 20.)

Strengthen and uphold those who suffer bonds and persecution for the sake of the gospel;

Defend, and provide for fatherless children,

all who are desolate and oppressed;

Be the support of the aged;

(Hebr. xiii. 3.) and widows, and

(Ps. lxviii. 5.)

(Is. xlvi. 4.)

(Ps. xli. 3.)

Make the bed of the sick, and, in the midst of suffering, let them feel that thou lovest them; And when thou takest away men's breath, that they die, then remember, that thou hast died, not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world: (1 John ii. 2; Rom. v. 18.) Hear us, gracious Lord and God.

O Lord,thou who art over all, God blessed for ever, (Rom. ix. 5.) Be the Saviour of all men; (1 Tim. iv. 10.) Yea, have mercy on thy whole creation; (Rom. viii. 19, 22.) For thou camest, by thyself to reconcile all things unto God, whether things in earth, or things in heaven:

Hear us, gracious Lord and God.

Thou Saviour of thy body, the church,

truth;

(Col. i. 20; Eph. ii. 16.)

(Eph. v. 23.)

Bless, sanctify, and preserve every member, through the

(John xvii. 17.) Grant that each, in every age and station, may enjoy the powerful and sanctifying merits of thy holy humanity; and make us chaste before thee in soul and body;

(Eph. vi. 4.)

Let our children be brought up in thy nurture and admonition; Pour out thy Holy Spirit on all thy servants and handmaids;

(Acts ii. 18.)

Purify our souls, in obeying the truth, through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren:

Hear us, gracious Lord and God.

(1 Pet. i. 22.)

Keep us in everlasting fellowship with the church triumphant, and let us rest together in thy presence from our labours: Hear us, gracious Lord and God.

O Christ, almighty God,

Have mercy upon us.

O thou Lamb of God, which takest away the sin of the world,

Own us to be thine.

(John i. 29.) O thou Lamb of God, which takest away the sin of the world,

Be joyful over us.

O thou Lamb of God, which takest away the sin of the world, Leave thy peace with us.

O Christ, hear us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

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