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Min. O Lord, fave thy fervants,
Anfw. That put their truft in thec.
Min. Send unto them help from above;
Anfw. And evermore mightily defend them.
Min. Help us, O God our Saviour;

Anfw. And for the glory of thy Name deliver us ; be merciful to us finners, for thy Name's fake. Min. O Lord, hear our prayer;

Anfw. And let our cry come unto thee.

O we

Minifter. Let us pray.

Lord, we beseech thee, mercifully hear our pray ers, and fpare all thofe who confefs their fins unto thee; that they, whofe confciences by fin are accused, by thy merciful pardon may be abfolved, through Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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Moft mighty God, and merciful Father, who haft compaffion upon all men, and hateft nothing that thou haft made, who wouldeft not the death of a finner, but that he should rather turn from his fin, and be faved; Mercifully forgive us our trefpaffes; receive and comfort us, who are grieved and wearied with the burthen of our fins. Thy property is always to have mercy; to thee only it appertaineth to forgive fins. Spare us therefore, good Lord, fpare thy people, whom thou haft redeemed; enter not into judgment with thy fervants, who are vile earth, and miferable finners; but fo turn thine anger from us, who meekly acknowledge our vilenefs, and truly repent us of our faults; and fo make hafte to help us in this world, that we may ever live with thee in the world to come, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Then fhall the people fay this that followeth, after the
Minifter.

TURN

URN thou us, O good Lord, and fo fhall we be turned. Be favourable, O Lord, be favourable to thy people, who turn to thee in weeping, fafting, and praying. For thou art a merciful God, full of compaffion, long-fullering, and of great pity. Thou sparest when we

deferve punishment, and in thy wrath thinkeft upon mercy. Spare thy people, good Lord, fpare them, and let not thine heritage be brought to confufion. Hear us, O Lord, for thy mercy is great; and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us, through the merits and mediation of thy bleffed Son Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Then the Minifter alone fhall fay,

HE Lord blefs us, and keep us; the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us, and give us peace now and for evermore. Amen.

Then the Minifter, &c.] This rubric and the bleffing were added at the laft review.-In Edward's frit book, after the Commination, comes the difcourfe" of ceremonies why fome be abolished and fome retained;" and the book concludes with " certain notes for the more plain explication and decent miniftration of things contained in this book;" which have been quoted before.

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ET the commendation of this book be taken from

the experience and the praises of some of those perfons who have used it moft. It has made their expreffions eloquent, not merely because it prefented to them a noble model of fine writing; but it has made them eloquent, because it has touched their hearts with the love of God, and of his laws.

Extract from the Life of Bishop SANDERSON, by ISAAC WALTON.

"And he then commended to me the frequent ufe of "the Pfalter, or Pfalms of David; fpeaking to this pur"pose: that they were the treasury of Chriftian comfort, "fitted for all perfons and all neceffities; able to raise "the foul from dejection by the frequent mention of "God's mercies to repentant finners; to ftir up holy "defires; to increase joy; to moderate forrow; to "nourish hope; and to teach us patience by waiting "God's leifure; to beget a trust in the mercy, power, "and providence of our Creator; and to caufe a refig"nation of ourselves to his will; and then, and not till "then, to believe ourselves happy." P. 222, vol. ii. Edit. Oxford, 1805.

Extract from HORNE'S Preface to his Commentary on the Pfalms.

"Let us ftop for a moment, to contemplate the true "character of these facred hymns,

"Greatness confers no exemption from the cares and "forrows of life. Its fhare of them frequently bears a "melancholy proportion to its exaltation. This the "Ifraelitish monarch experienced. He fought in piety "that peace, which he could not find in empire, and "alleviated the difquietudes of state with the exercises of "devotion,

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"His invaluable Pfalms convey thofe comforts to "others, which they afforded to himself. Compofed upon particular occafions, yet defigned for general ufe; "delivered out as fervices for Ifraelites under the law, "yet no lefs adapted to the circumftances of Chriftians "under the Gofpel, they prefent religion to us in the "moft engaging drefs, communicating truths, which "philofophy could never inveftigate, in a ftile which "poetry can never equal; while hiftory is made the "vehicle of prophecy, and creation lends all its charms "to paint the glories of redemption. Calculated alike "to profit and to please, they inform the understanding, "elevate the affections, and entertain the imagination. "Indited under the influence of Him, to whom all hearts

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are known, and all events foreknown, they fuit man"kind in all fituations, grateful as the manna which de "fcended from above, and conformed itfelf to every 66 palate. The faireft productions of human wit, after a few perufals, like gathered flowers, wither in our hands, and lofe their fragrancy; but thefe unfading ἐσ plants of Paradife become, as we are accustomed to ἐσ them, ftill more and more beautiful; their bloom appears "to be daily heightened; fresh odours are emitted, and "new fweets extracted from them. He who hath once

tafted their excellencies, will defire to tafte them yet ર again, and he who taftes them ofteneft, will relifh "them beft."-Page 63, 64.

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