5. but so turn thine anger from us, who meekly acknowledge our vileness, and truly repent us of our faults, and so make haste to help us in this world, that we may ever live with thee in the world to come; sus Christ our Lord. Amen. correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. Jer. ii. 19. Woe unto us, that we have sinned! Lam. v. 16. 5. Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation. Psal. lxxxv. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness. Jer. xiv. 20. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, because we have sinned against thee. Dan. ix. 8. We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God. Jer. iii. 25. Behold I am vile. Job xl. 4. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Job through Je- xlii. 5, 6. Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? Psal. lxxxv. 6. Be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Psal. xxii. 19. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. Psal. xxxix. 13. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you. Phil. ii. 12, 13. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, and I will write upon him my new name. Rev. iii. 12. Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. v. 20, 21. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Heb. iv. 16. 1. Turn thou us, O good Lord, CCXXXIX. An earnest Prayer for Restoration to God's favour. 1. Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned. Lam. v. 21. Thou, Lord, art good, and Be favour able, O Lord, Be favourable to thy people, Who turn to thee in weeping, fasting, and praying, For thou art a merciful God, Full of and so shall ready to forgive. Psal. lxxxvi. 5. I have surely we be turned. heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Jer. xxxi. 18. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy. Job xxxiii. 26. In that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, going and compassion, weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their Long-suffer- God. Jer. 1. 4. Therefore also now, saith the Lord, ing, and of great pity. Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel ii. 12, 13. The children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God. Neh. ix. 1, 2, 3. I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. Zech. xii. 10. For with the Lord there is mercy. Psal. cxxx. 7. Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. Psal. lxxxvi. 15. 2. Thou sparest when we deserve And in thy 2. Thou our God hath punished us less than our iniquities deserve. Ezra ix. 13. I will spare them, punishment, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. wrath think- Mal. iii. 17. O Lord, in wrath remember mercy. Hab. iii. 2. He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were est upon upon mercy. Spare thy people, good Lord, spare them, And heritage be brought to confusion. let not thine but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. Psal. lxxviii. 38, 39. I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil. Jer. xxix. 11. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach. Joel ii. 17. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Psal. lxxi. 1. See also, Psal. lxxiv. 19. 3. Hear us, O Lord, for thy mercy is great; And multitude thy mercies after the look upon the merits and media. of tion of thy blessed Son, our Lord. Amen. 3. Consider and hear me, O Lord my God. Psal. xiii. 3. Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord. Psal. cxix. 156. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transus; Through gressions. Psal. li. 1. But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth Jesus Christ of thy salvation. Psal. lxix. 13. God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. Eph. ii. 4, 5. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. Gal. i. 4. He is the Mediator of the new testament. Heb. ix. 15. I am the Way, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John xiv. 6. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Cor. i. 9. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies. 2 Cor. i. 3. The concluding Prayer for a Blessing. The Lord bless us, and keep us; the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us, and give us peace now and for evermore. Amen. Num. vi. 24, 25, 26. 1. O Eter who alone with bounds until day and night come to an end: Be pleased to receive into thy Almighty and most graci ous protection, the FORMS OF PRAYER TO BE USED AT SEA. CCXL. A Daily Prayer. 1. Know this day, and consider it in thine heart, nal Lord God, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon spreadest out the earth beneath there is none else. Deut. iv. 39. the heavens, and rulest From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Psal. the raging xc. 2. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and of the sea; who hast treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Job ix. 8. Thou compassed rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof the waters arise, thou stillest them. Psal. lxxxix. 9. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? Job xxxviii. 8. 11. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. Job xxvi. 10. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. Psal. cxlvi. 5. Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trustthe Fleet in eth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. Jer. xvii. 5. 7. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. 1 Tim. ii. 8. Wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts? Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. Psal. cviii. 11, 12, 13. See also, Exod. xvii. 10, 11, 12.-Psal. lvi. 9.-xliii. 2, 3.—Isa. xl. 12. 22.-xlii. 5. Persons of us thy servants, and which we serve. 2. Preserve us from the dangers of from the vio lence of the 2. Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I put my trust. Psal. xvi. 1. Which stilleth the noise of the the sea, and seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people. Psal. lxv. 7. They that go down to the enemy; that sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these safeguard see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the anto our most deep. They cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and vereign he bringeth them out of their distresses. Psal. cvii. we may be a gracious So Victoria, and her Domi nions, and a security for such as pass Lady, Queen 23, 24. 28. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man. Psal. cxl. 1. Now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent. 1 Kings v. 4. The horse is prepared against lawful occa- the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord. Prov. xxi. 31. See also, 1 Kings iv. 24, 25.-2 Chron. xxvi. 8 to 12. on the seas upon their sions; 3. that the inhabitants serve thee that we may return in safety to en joy the bless ings of the land, with the fruits of our labours; 3. I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplicaof our Island tions, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, may in peace be made for all men; for kings; and for all that are and quietness in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1 Tim. ii. 1, 2. The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. Psal. xxix. 11. They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree: and none shall make them afraid : for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. Mic. iv. 4. Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you; ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day. And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession. Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment : divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren. Jos. xxii. 1 to 4. 8. Thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Psal. cxxviii. 2. See also, Isa. iii. 10.-Deut. xxxiii. 13 to 16. 4. and with a thankful remembrance of thy mer 4. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Psal. cvii. 8. I will praise thee, O cies to praise Lord, among the people and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. For thy mercy is through Je- great above the heavens. Psal. cviii. 3, 4. Rejoice sus Christ our in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the and glorify thy holy Name; Lord. Amen. |