that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will be give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him. Luke xi, 9, 10. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. CONDITIONS OF BEING Job vill, 5, 6. If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty: If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. Prov. xv, 29. The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. Jer. xxix, 13. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. Hosea vii, 14. And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds; they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. Matth. xxi, 22. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. 1 John v, 14, 15. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing accord ing to his will, he heareth us. And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. Mark xii, 40. Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damuation. HOPE OF BEING HEARD. 2 Sam. xxii, 4. I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. Ps. iv, 3. But now that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. Ps. x, 17, 18. LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear; To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. Ps. xvii, 6. I have called upon thee; for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. P8. xviii, 3. I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. P8. xx, 6. Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. Ps. xxxviii, 15, 16. For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, For I said, O LORD my God. shall be written for the genera tion to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. PRAYERS HEARD. Gen. xix, 18-21. And Lot said unto them, Oh! not so, my lord: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh! let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. Exod. ix, 33. And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth. 2 Sam. xxii, 7. In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried voice out of his temple, and my to my God; and he did hear my cry did enter into his ears. 2 Kings xiii, 4, 5. And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the children Syrians: and the Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. of 2 Kings xix, 20. Then Isaiah Mark xi, 25. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought Hear me, lest otherwise they the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, against any; that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. John xv, 7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Heb. iv, 16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. James v, 15. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 1 Peter ill, 12. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 1 John iii, 22. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, be cause we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify them selves against me. Ps, Ixix, 13. 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 of thy salvation. Ps. lxxiii, 27, 28. For, lo, they perish: thou hast destroyed all Ps. cii, 17, 18. He will regard This saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 2 Kings xx, 5. Turn again, and tell Hezekiah, the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David my father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: hehold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. 2 Chron. xxx, 27. Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwellingplace, even unto heaven. Neh. ix, 28...... Yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies. P3. iii, 4, I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me trouble, and I delivered thee; I out of his holy hill. Selah. Ps. vi, 8-10. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly. P3. xxi, 2. Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. answered thee in the secret place Ps. xcix, 6. Moses and Aaron Ps. cvi, 44. Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry. Ps. cvii, 13. Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. place. an Ps. cxx, 1. In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard Ps. xxii, 4, 5, 24, 25. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They LORD in distress: the LORD Ps. cxviii, 5. I called upon the cried unto thee, and were deliver-swered me, and set me in a large ed: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. For he hath not despised nor abhored the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. me. Ps. cxxiii, 2. . . . . So our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, un til that he have mercy upon us. Ps. cxxxviii, 3. In the day when Ps. xxx, 2. O LORD, my God, II cried thou answeredst me, and cried unto thee, and thou hast strengthenedst me with strength healed me. in my soul. Ps. xxxi, 22-24. For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. Ps. cxli, 2. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. Lam. iii, 56, 57. Thou hast heard O love the LORD, all ye his saints: my voice; hide not thine ear at for the LORD preserveth the faith-drewest near' in the day that I my breathing, at my cry. Thou ful, and plentifully rewardeth the called upon thee: thou saidst, proud doer. Be of good courage, Fear not. and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. Ps. xxxiv, 4-7, 15-17. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are Dan. ix, 3, 4. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: prayer and supplications, with And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments. Amos vil, 2-6. And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, man subject to like passions as are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it rate! not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the beaver gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. PRAYERS NOT HEARD. Job xiii, 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? Job xxx, 20, 21. I cry unto thee. and thou dost not hear me, I stand up, and thou regardest me not. Thou art become cruel t me; with thy strong hand thos opposest thyself against me. Ps. xxii, 1, 2. My God, my God. why hast thou forsaken me? y art thou so far from helping me. and from the words of my roar day-time, but thou hearest Del: ing? O my God, I cry in the and in the night-season, and a not silent. Ps. lxix, 3. I am weary of my cry. ing, my throat is dried mi eyes fail while I wait for my God. Ps. lxxiv, 1. O Gon, why ha thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? Ps. lxxx, 4. O LORD Gold hosts, how long wilt thou b people? angry against the prayer of th Ps. lxxxv, 4-6. Turn us, O Gal of our salvation, and cause this anger toward us to cease. WL thou be angry with us for ever! all generations? wilt thou draw out thine anger revive us again, that thy people Wilt thou s may rejoice in thee? Ps. lxxxix, 46. How long, Lou shall thy wrath burn like fire wilt thou hide thyself for ever! Lam. iii, 8, 44. Also when I cry prayer. Thou hast covered thy and shout, he shutteth out self with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. Hab. i, 2. O LORD, how long shall open unto their cry. The face of forgive, I beseech thee: by whom I cry, and thou wilt not heat the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the LORD hear. eth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Ps. xl, 1. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. Ps. 1xvi, 19. But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Ps. lxxvii, 1. I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. P3. lxxxi, 7. Thou calledst in shall Jacob arise? for he is small. fainted within me I remembered James v, 17, 18. Elias was a even cry out unto thee of violence and thou wilt not save! Deut. 1, 45, 46. And and wept before the LORD; b ye returned your voice, nor give ear unto you the LORD would not hearken So ye abode in Kadesh many days according unto the days that je abode there. 2 Sam. xxii, 42. They looked but there was none to save, ef them not. Job xxvii, 9. Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh op him? no answer. Jer. xi, 11. Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry nuto me, I will not hearken unto them. Jer. xv, 1. Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. Hosca v, 6. They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them. THE REASONS. Deut. iii, 25, 26. I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. Judges x, 12, 13. The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand. Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more. Job xxxv, 12, 13. There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. Ps. lxvi, 18. If I regard inquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear me. Prov. i, 24-28. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you: Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek blood. Isa. lix, 2. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. Micah ili, 4. Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. Zech. vil, 13. Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts. Job ix, 32, 33. For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any day's-man betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. Job xvi, 21. Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! Job xxxiii, 6, 7. Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead; I also am formed out of the clay. Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. Job xlii, 8. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. John ix, 31. Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, Ps. xx, 9. Save, LORD: let the and doeth his will, him he bear-King hear us when we call. eth. Ps. lxxx, 17. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. Ps. lxix, 6. Let not them that 2 Cor. xil, 8-10. For this thing wait on thee, O Lord GoD of hosts, I besought the LORD thrice, that be ashamed for my sake; let not it might depart from me. And those that seek thee be confoundhe said unto me, My grace is suf-ed for my sake, O God of Israel. ficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I ata weak, then am I strong. P3. lxxxiv, 9. Behold, O God, our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. Ps. cxxxii, 10. For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed. PRAYER FOR SPECIAL BLESSINGS. BLESSINGS GENERALLY AND Gen. xxiv, 12. And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. 1 Chron. iv, 10. And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless and that thine hand might be me indeed, and enlarge my coast, with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. shall inherit it for ever. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atone-thee, let now thine ear be attentive ment for your sin. Deut. ix, 27. Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not unto the stub bornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin. 2 Chron. vi, 42. O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant Neh. 1, 11. O LORD, I beseech to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name; and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant me mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cup-bearer. Ps. xc, 13-15, 17. Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. Ps. cxviii, 25. Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. PRAYER IN AFFLICTION. Ps. vi, 1. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. xiii, 3, 4. Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. Ps. xxii, 11. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help. Ps. xxv, 16, 17. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged! O bring thou me out of my distresses. P8. xxxi, 9. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble, mine eye is consumed with grief; yea, my soul and my belly. P3. xxxviii, 1, 2. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. Ps. xxxix, 10, 12, 13. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be uo more. Ps. Ivil, 1. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me; for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. Ps. Ixix, 17, 18, 29, 30. And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation. O God, set me up on high. I will praise the name of God with a Bong, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. Ps. lxxvii, 2. In the day of my trouble I sought the LORD; my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. Ps. lxxxvi, 1. Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me, for I am poor and needy. Ps. lxxxviii, 2, 3, 14-17. Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. Ps. cxix, 25, 28, 29, 107, 153. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me accordRemove ing unto thy word. from me the way of lying, and grant me thy law graciously. I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy word. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. Ps. cxliii, 11, 12. Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afllict my soul: for I am thy servant. that the way of man is not in Jer. x, 23, 24. O LORD, I know himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. Jer. xvii, 14. Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me. and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise PRAYER IN GREAT SORROW AND DANGER. Ps. xxii, 19. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Pз, xxx, 10. Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. Ps. xxxi, 16. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. Ps. xxxviii, 21, 22. Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O LonD my salvation, needy; yet the LORD thinketh upPs. xl, 17. But I am poor and on me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. Ps. xliv, 23. Awake, why sleepest thou, O LORD? arise, cast us not off for ever. Ps. lxix, 1, 2, 14, 15. Save me, 0 God; for the waters are come is unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, ani out of the deep waters. Let not overflow me the water-flood neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Fs. lxxi, 12. O God, be not fir from me: O my God, make haste for my help. Ps. lxxx, 7, 19. Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Turn us again, O LOED God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Ps. lxxxvi, 4. Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, Lord, do I lift up my soul. Ps. cil, 1, 2. Hear my prayer. © LORD, and let my cry come u thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble, incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call, answer me speedily. Ps. cxix, 123, 135, 173. M eyes fail for thy salvation, and it the word of thy righteousnes Make thy face to shine upon thự servant; and teach me thy statutes. Let thine hand belp me; for I have chosen thy pr cepts. Ps. cxxx, 1, 2. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lona LORD, hear my voice; let thin ears be attentive to the voice d my supplications. my hands unto thee: my si Ps. cxliii, 6, 7. I stretch forth thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. Hear me speedily, O LORD; my spirit faileth: bile tet thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into 128 pit. Ps. cxliv, 7, 8. Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; Wh mouth speaketh vanity; and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. Lam. v, 20, 21. Wherefore dest thou forget us for ever, and tar sake us so long time? Turn the us unto thee, O LORD, and w shall be turned; renew our dap as of old. IN OLD AGE AND DEATH. Ps. xxxi, 5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast 3 redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. Ps. xxxix, 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Ps. lxxi, 9. Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. SOCIAL PRAYER. Zech. viii, 20-22. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also. Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. Matth. xviii, 19, 20. 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. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Acts 1, 14. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. PRAYER FOR THE DIVINE MERCY. Job vii, 21. And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. Job xiii, 23. How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. Ps. iv, 1. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. Ps. xxv, 7, 11, 18. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD. For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. Look upon mine affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins. Ps. xxvi, 11. But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. Ps. xxvii, 7. Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. Ps. xxxix, 7-9. And now, LORD, what wait I for? my hope is iu thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the I was reproach of the foolish. dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. Pз. li, 1, 2, 9, 14. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Hide thy face from my sins. and blot out all mine iniquities. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteous ness. Ps. lxxxv, 7. Show us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. Ps. lxxxvi, 16, 17. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. Ps. cxix, 76, 77. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word mercies come unto me, that I may unto thy servant. Let thy tender live: for thy law is my delight. P8. xxv, 4, 5. Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. Ps. xxvii, 11. Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. Ps. cxix, 26, 27, 33, 34, 64, 66, 68, The 73, 74, 108, 124, 125. I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. earth, O LORD, is full of thy me thy statutes. mercy: teach Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed Thou art thy commandments. good, and doest good: teach me Thy hands have thy statutes. made me, and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy in thy word. Accept, I beseech thee, the free-will-offerings of my judgments. Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes. I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testi Ps. cxxxix, 23, 24. Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way ever-monies. lasting. Hab. iii, 2. O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. FOR DIVINE LIGHT. Exod. xxxili, 12, 13. And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people; and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me: yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight; and consider that this nation is thy people. Job xlii, 4. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Ps. v, 8. Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. Ps. cxliii, 9, 10. Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. EXAMPLES. THE DIVINE BEING CONSULTED ON TEMPORAL THINGS. 1 Sam. ix, 19, 20. And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to-day; and to-morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart. And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them, for they are found. 1 Kings xiv, 1-4. At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people. And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, |