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[¶A Prayer that may be faid after any of the former.

GOD, whofe Nature and Property is ever to have Mercy and to forgive, receive our humble Petitions, and though We be tied and bound with the Chain of our Sins, yet let the Pitifulness of thy great Mercy loose us, for the Honor of Jefus Chrift, our Mediator and Advocate. Amen.]

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¶A Concluding Prayer.

LMIGHTY God, who haft given us Grace at this Time to make our common Supplications unto Thee, and doft promise that when Two or Three are gathered together in thy Name, Thou wilt grant their Requefts; We earnestly pray, that thy Bleffing and Prefence may be with us, (*and with All who are this Day affembled in thy Faith and Fear, from one End of the World unto the other;) and that Thou wouldst graciously affift Us to overcome the Temptations of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and be our conftant Guide and Support: According to thy great Goodness, fulfil now, O Lord, the Defires and Petitions of thy Servants, as Thou in thy Wisdom knoweft to be best for us; grant us in this World whatsoever thou feest to be really good for us, and deny us all thofe things which wou'd be evil and hurtful to us; and in the World to come, bring us to everlating Life. We ask all from Thee in the Name of Jefus Chrift, thine only Son, our Bleffed Savior and Redeemer, in whofe Words we fum up all our Requests unto Thee for Ourselves and Others.

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The LORD'S PRAYER, to be faid devoutly by Minifter and People.

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UR Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name; may thy Kingdom come; may thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven: give us this Day our daily Bread; and forgive us our Trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpass against us; and lead us not into Temptation,

*To be faid only on Sondays,

tation, but deliver us from Evil: for thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, for ever. Amen.

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Then All standing up, the Minister shall folemnly pronounce the

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BLESSING. viz.

HE Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his Face to fhine upon you, and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up his Countenance upon you, and give you Peace. (Numb. vi. 24-26.)

[And unto All, that, in every Place, call upon the Naine of Jefus Christ our Lord, Grace be unto them, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jefus Chrift. (1 Cor. i. 3.)

And may the Grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Spirit, be with Us all evermore. (2 Cor. xiii. 14.)

Amen.

End of the Morning Service,

On Sondays, and other Days when there is to be a Sermon preached, let a Tune now be played on the Organ, (if there

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one,) and after that a Pfalm or Hymn in Metre, (expreffive of fome of the Chriftian Duties,) be fung by the whole Congregation, fitting or flanding as most agreeable, while the Minifter refts himself.

When that is over, All kneeling, He may use this or a like Prayer before He begins his Sermon.

LORD, our heavenly Father, accompany Us, We befeech Thee, with thy most gracious Favor, and further us with thy continual Help; at this time in parti

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cular, We defire that Thou wouldst engage the Attention of thy Servants to thofe Things, which relate to their fpiritual Improvement and Edification. Give unto Us the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding in the Knowledge of Thee, that through the Comfort of thy holy Word We may embrace, and, by a patient Continuance in Welldoing, ever hold faft, the bleffed Hope of everlasting Life, which Thou haft given us by our Savior Jefus Chrift, in whofe prevailing Name, and comprehenfive Words We ftill addrefs Thee;

OUR Father, who art in Heaven; hallowed be thy Name; thy Kingdom come; thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; give us this Day our daily Bread; forgive us our Offences, as we forgive them that offend against us; and lead us not into Temptation, but deliver us from Evil; for thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, for ever. Amen.

A Prayer, that may be used after Sermon.

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OST gracious and ever bleffed God, who alone canft encrease and multiply our Bleffings; We humbly pray, that as the Rain cometh down from Heaven and watereth the Earth, and maketh it to bring forth it's Fruit in due Seafon; fo thy Word, which is now gone forth, may profper in the Thing whereunto it is fent, and accomplish the good End of true and godly Inftruction: May it be as Seed fown in good Ground; let not the Deceitfulness of Riches, nor the Cares of this Life, choak it and render it unfruitful: But grant, that thy Servants now before Thee, having heard the Word, may in good and honest Hearts receive and keep the fame, and bring forth Fruit with Patience abundantly, to thy Glory and their own everlasting Comfort, through Jefus Chrift, the Son of thy Love, who was dead, and is alive, and liveth for evermore. Amen.

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¶ Then All franding, the Minister shall add,

OW the very God of Peace fanctifie you wholly; and I pray God, your whole Spirit, and Soul and Body, may be preferved blameless unto the Coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift; to Him be Glory and Dominion, for ever and ever. (1 Thessal. v. 23.) Amen.

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THANKSGIVING,

Upon Particular Occasions,

To be read immediately after the General THANKSGIVING, (before the First Leffon) fuch as may be necessary, in the Morning and Evening Service.

And it is further to be noted, that as no General Form can fufficiently well provide for every Circumftance and Event, in which either Public or Private Congregations may be Sometimes may be proper interefted, and which therefore it and feemly to take more particular Notice of, in our common Acts of Worship; in fuch Cafes the Minifter himself, as He fees convenient and neceffary, may with Reafon be left at Liberty to vary the General Form, or to draw up fuch other Form or Forms, as may be most fuited to thofe fpecial Occafions

And the fame Things alfo to be cbferved, with Refpect to fuch other particular Forms of Prayer as may be thought wanting in feme Cafes.

¶ THANKSGIVING for Rain, after long Drowth.

GOD, our heavenly Father, how many are the gracious Works which Thou haft done, and thy Mercies which are to Us ward! If We would declare and fpeak of them, They are more than can be numbered. A particular Inftance of thy Providential Goodness We defire, at this Time, thankfully to acknowledge, that it hath pleafed Thee, in our great Neceffity, to vifit this our Land, and water it, to make it foft with Showers, and to command

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mand thy Clouds to drop down Fatnefs, to the great Comfort of Us thine unworthy Servants. May a grateful Sense of thy continual Benefits abide upon our Hearts; and in our Lives may We bring forth the Fruits of Righteoufnefs, to thy Glory and our own everlafting Salvation, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For Fair Weather, after long continued or great Rains.

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LMIGHTY and moft gracious God, who haft juftly humbled Us by the late immoderate Rain and Waters, We yield Thee hearty Thanks, as for every other Manifeftation of thy Goodness, fo for this seasonable Change of Weather, by which Thou haft put Gladness into our Hearts, and given us the agreeable Hopes, that our Land will yield her Fruits of Encreafe. At this thy merciful Vifitation, O fupreme and univerfal Lord, the Heavens fmile, the Earth is glad, the Fields are joyful, and All that is therein, and the Hills rejoice on every Side; our Souls too would abound in the comely Chearfulness of Praife, and afcribe with unfeigned Gratitude all Honor and Glory, Bleffing and Thanksgiving to Thee the Author of our Good, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For a plentiful Harvest.

LMIGHTY and ever bleffed God, who mercifully

A fupplieft the Wants of thy Creatures, and art contiΑ

nually giving us Teftimonies of thy gracious Providence ; We rejoice at this Time in the Gifts of thy bountiful Liberality; for Thou haft caufed our Land to bring forth plenteoufly; Thou haft crowned the Year with thy Goodnefs, [and turned our Dearth and Scarcity into Cheapness and Plenty,] fo that our Garners are full, affording all Manner of Store, and our Poor may be fatisfied with Bread. Whilft Thou art thus loading Us with thy Benefits, enable Us to make a fober, thankful, and charitable Ufe of them; and by becoming fruitful in every good Work, may We fhew forth thy Praife, and abundantly utter the Memory of thy great Goodnefs, through Jefus Chrift, our merciful Savior and Redeemer.

Amen.

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This only to be faid when great Scarcity prevailed before the Harveft,

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