shew forth thy praise to all gen erations. Ps. xcii, 1, 2. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: To shew forth thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night. Ps. cvi, 48. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD. Ps. cxiii, 2, 3. Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun, unto the going down of the same, the LORD's name is to be praised. Ps. cxv, 18. But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD. Ps. cxix, 164. Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. Ps. cxlv, 1, 2, 4, 21. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy❘ mighty acts. My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. Col. i, 3. We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you. 1 Thess. i, 2. We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers. DOXOLOGIES. Rom. xi, 36. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Phil. iv, 20. Now unto God, and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter v, 11. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Jude 24, 25. Now unto him that is able to keep you from fall ing, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. PUBLIC PROCESSIONS. of 2 Chron. xx, 26-28. And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day. Then they returned, every man Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy: for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies. And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries, and harps, and trumpets, unto the house of the LORD. Neh.xii,31-34,37-40. Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof onewent on the right hand uponthewalltoward the dung-gate; And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam, Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah; And at the fountain-gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water-gate eastward. And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of Amen. Now to him the people upon the wall, from that is of power to stablish you beyond the tower of the furnaces according to my gospel, and the even unto the broad wall; And preaching of Jesus Christ, (ac- from above the gate of Ephraim, cording to the revelation of the and above the old gate, and above mystery, which was kept secret the fish gate, and the tower of since the world began, But now Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, is made manifest, and by the even unto the sheep gate: and scriptures of the prophets, accord- they stood still in the prison gate. ing to the commandment of the So stood the two companies of everlasting God, made known to them that gave thanks in the all nations for the obedience of house of God, and I, and the half faith;) To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ' for of the rulers with me. ever. Amen. Rom. xvi, 24-27. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Ephesians iii, 20, 21. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end. Amen. II. THE COMMAND. 1 Chron. xvi, 10, 11. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually, Ps. cv, 3, 4. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. Seek the LORD, and his strength; seek his face evermore. Isa.lv, 6. Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near. Lam. iii, 41. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. Luke xviii, 1. And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint. Phil. iv, 6. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. Col. iv, 2. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. 1 Thess. v, 17. Pray without ceasing. 1 Tim. ii, 8. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands; without wrath and doubting. THE EXAMPLE. Matth. vi, 9-13. After this manner therefore pray ye: 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. Hosea xiv, 2. Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so we will render the calves of our lips. Matth. vi, 7. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matth. xviii, 19. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. Luke xi, 1. And it came to pass, that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. SEASONS. Ps. v, 3. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my voice. Ps. lxxxvi, 3. Be merciful unto me, O LORD, for I cry unto thee daily. Ps. lxxxviii, 1. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee. P8. lxxxviii, 13. But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Ps. cxliil, 8. Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning, for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. Isa. xxxiii, 2. O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. Acts xvi, 25. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. PLACES. | broad, and three cubits high, and spread forth his hands toward heaven. BOWING. CONFESSION. he shall be guilty in one of these Lev. v, 5. And it shall be, When things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing. fess their iniquity, and the inLev. xxvi, 40. If they shall conquity of their fathers, with their against me, and that also they trespass which they trespassed have walked contrary unto me. Gen. xxiv, 48, 52. And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD which had led me in the right or woman shall commit any siz God of my master Abraham, children of Israel, Num. v, 6, 7. Speak unto the way, to take my master'sbrother's that men commit, to do a tresWhen a m daughter unto his son. ham's servant heard their words, confess their sin came to pass, that, when Abra-person be guilty; Then they shall pass against the LORD, and that he worshipped the LORD, bowing have done..... himself to the earth. which they And it made haste, and bowed his head said to all the congregation, Now 2 Chron. xxix, 29, 30. And when they had made an end of offering, 2 Chron. xx, 9. If, when evil the king, and all cometh upon us, as the sword, present with him, bowed themthat were judgment, or pestilence, or fam-selves,and worshipped. Moreover, ine, we stand before this house, Hezekiah the king and the princes and in thy presence, (for thy commanded the Levites to sing name is in this house,) and cry praise unto the LORD with the unto thee in our affliction, then words of David, and of Asaph the thou wilt hear and help. seer: and they sang praises with whither they were carried capbethink themselves in the land 1 Kings viii, 47. Yet if they shall tives, and repent, and make sup saying, We have sinned, and have them that carried them captives plication unto thee in the land of done perversely, we have committed wickedness. shall I do unto thee, O thou PreJob vii, 20. I have sinned; what server of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so thai I am a burden to myself? with sighing: my strength faileth through my roaring all the day Ps. Ixi, 2. Frem the end of the gladness, and they bowed their to thee, and mine iniquity have I earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I. Lam. iii, 55. I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. Jonah il, 1. Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly. Matth. vi, 5. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the coruers of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. POSTURE S. 1 Kings viii, 54. And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 2 Chron. vi, 13. For Solomon bad made a brazen scaffold of heads and worshipped. PROSTRATION. Gen. xvii, 3. And Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying. Joshua vii, 10. And the LORD phat bowed his head with his Ezra x, 1. Now, when Ezra had the LORD, the great God: and all not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Ps. xxxviii, 4-8, 10. For mine head; as an heavy burden, they iniquities are gone over DiDe wounds stink, and are corrupt are too heavy for me. Xy greatly; I go mourning all the day troubled; I am because of my foolishness. I am bowed down long. For my loins are filled there is no soundness in my Lesh with a loathsome disease; and I am feeble and sore broken: 1 have roared by reason of the dis quietness of my heart. My beari panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. evils have compassed me about Ps. xl, 12. For innumerable mine iniquities have taken hold hairs of mine head; therefore my look up: they are more than the upon me, so that I am not able to heart faileth me. whoso confesseth and forsaketh eth his sins shall not prosper: but Prov. xxviii, 13. He that coverthem shall have mercy. Jer. iii, 13. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. Gen. xviii, 27. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes. Num. xiv, 40. And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and $ will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. Judges x, 10, 15. And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Balaam. And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned; do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. 1 Sam. xii, 10. And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Balaam and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. Ezra ix, 6, 15. And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses; for we cannot stand before thee because of this. princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments, and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Job x1, 4, 5. Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will not answer; yea, twice, but I will proceed no further. Ps. xxxviii, 18. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. Ps. li, 3, 4. For I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Ps. Ixix, 5. O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. Ps. evi, 6, 7. We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done stood not thy wonders in Egypt; wickedly. Our fathers underthey remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Ps. cxxx, 3. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand? Isa. vi, 5. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Neh. 1, 6, 7. Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy serIsa. lix, 12, 13. For our transvants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we havegressions are multiplied before sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned, We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy ser vant Moses. thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Jer. iii, 25. We le down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God. Jer. xiv, 7, 20 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee. Lam. i, 18. The LORD is right cous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow; my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity. Lam. iii, 42. We have transgressed, and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. Lam. v, 16. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! Dan. ix, 5-8, 10-15. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judgments; Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and onr fathers, and to all the people of the land. Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants that are near, and that are far off, of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel through all the countries whither thon hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. Neither LORD our God, to walk in his laws, have we obeyed the voice of the which he set before us by his servants the prophets. Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. There fore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out off sea, which cannot be numbered CONFESSION OF SIN TO Josh. vii, 19. And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me. James v, 16. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Gen. xli, 9. Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day. Exod. ix, 27. And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Num. xxi, 7. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinued; for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee. Joshua vii, 20. And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD 2 Chron. vi, 16, 17. Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law as thou hast walked before me. Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David." Neh. 1, 8-10. Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying.Ifye trangress, I willscatter you abroad among the nations: But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there. Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand. Neh. ix, 32. Now therefore,. our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee UPON THE DIVINE GOODNESS, 1 Kings iii, 6, 7. And Solom said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in rigt eousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son te sit on his throne, as it is this day. And now, O LORD, my God, theT hast made thy servant king instead of David my father, andl am but a little child: I know no how to go out or come in. P3. xxv, 6. Remember, O Lom thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses; for they have bea ever of old. Ps. xxvii, 9. Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servan away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither futsake me, O God of my salvation Ps. Ivi, 13. For thou hast 3 God of Israel, and thus and thus that hath come upon us, on our livered my soul from death; rë have I done. 1 Sam. xv, 24. And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the command ment of the LORD, and thy words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. 1 Sam. xxvi, 21. Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly. 2 Sam. xix, 19, 20. And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king. PETITION. BASED UPON THE DIVINE Gen. xxxli, 12. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the kings, on our princes, and on our on our fathers, and on all thy priests, and on our prophets, and people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. Ps. cxix, 49, 169, 170. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word. Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. Jer. xiv, 21. Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of thy glory; remember, break not thy covenant with us. UPON PROVIDENCE. Exod. xvii, 4. And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. Deut. iii, 23, 24. And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, O Lord God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? Ps. xii, 1. Help, LORD; for the God in the light of the living? not thou deliver my feet fro falling, that I may walk before Isa: Ixiii, 15. Look down from from the heaven, and behold habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy me? Are they restrained? bowels and of thy mercies toward Dan. ix, 17-19. Now therefore O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, r the Lord's sake. O my God, cline thine ear, and hear, open thine eyes, and behold our descr ations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not pr sent our supplications before ite for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies. O Lord, bear. O LORD, forgive; O Lord, hearhea and do; deter not, for thine o sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by name. within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Peradventure thereshall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it if I find thirtythere. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. Pз. xvii, 1, 2. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. Ps. liv, 1. Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. UPON THE DIVINE GLORY. Exod. xxxii, 11, 12. And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. man, then the nations, which have heard the fame of thee, will speak, saying, Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. Deut. ix, 28, 29. Lest the land whencethoubroughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. Yet, they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power, and by thy stretched-out arm. Joshua vii, 7-9. And Joshua said, Alas! O' LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had other side Jordan! O Lord, what been content, and dwelt on the shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies? For the Canaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name. 1 Kings xviii, 36, 37. And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. 1 Chron. xvi, 35. And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise. Ps. cxv, 2. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? Isa. xxxvii, 17, 20. Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God. Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only. Num. xiv, 13--16. And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them) And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou, LORD, art among this people; that thou, LORD, art seen AND ALSO UPON CONFIDENCE face to face; and that thy cloud IN GOD, AND RELATION TO HIM, standeth over them; and that thou goest before them, by day-time in PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE. a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar 2 Kings xx, 3. I beseech thee, of fire by night. Now, if thou O LORD, remember now how I shalt kill all this people as one i have walked before thee in truth [and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. Neh. v, 19. Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people. Neh. xiii, 14. Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof. Ps. iii, 3. But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. Ps. xvi, 1. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. Ps. xxvi, 1-3. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes; and I have walked in thy truth. P3. xxxi, 1. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. P3. xxxili, 22. Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee. Ps. lxxi, 1, 7. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be put to confusion. I am as a wonder unto many, but thou art my strong refuge. Ps. cxix, 30, 31, 41, 42, 94, 132. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto thy testimonies; O LORD, put me not to shame. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. So shall I have wherewith to an I am swer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts. Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in Ps. cxli, 8. But mine eyes are thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxlii, 5, 6. I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. Isa. xxxviii, 2, 3. Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, And said, Remember now, O |