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very Form thereof, denying the Lord that bought them, and all the Revelations that he has made of his Will; trampling upon all that is facred, and not only think, but fay, There is no God.

This, O Lord, is the fad and deplorable State of this finful Nation; which I unfeignedly grieve for, and lament before thee; and the more, becaufe my own Sins (with Sorrow I confefs it) have contributed to fill up the Measure of our Iniquities.

I confefs, O God, that I have grievously offended thee by [Here you may name your particular Sins.]

It is of thy Mercy, O God, that we are not confumed, and because thy Compaf fions fail not: For fhouldeft thou have dealt with us after our Sins, and rewarded us according to our Iniquities, we had long before this been like as Sodom and Gomorrah, or fwept away by fome other fudden and fevere Destruction.

But, O merciful Father, thou haft shewn thyfelf to be a God gracious and merciful, flow to Anger, and of great Kindness, not willing that any fhould perish, but that all fhould come to Repentance: thou haft fpared us when we deferved Punishment,

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and in the Midft of Judgment haft remembered Mercy.

In Mercy, O God, awaken us all to a true and deep Senfe of our manifold and often repeated Provocations; and for thy Name's Sake, and for the Sake of thy Son Jefus Christ our Lord, pardon the great and crying Sius of this whole Nation; and in a more peculiar Manner, I beseech thee to pardon me, who now humble myfelf before thee, and forgive all my Sins, which have helped to increase thy fevere Displeasure against us.

Wash away all our Sins in the Blood of the ever-bleffed Jefus and Oh! be thou reconciled unto us, who are now seeking unto thee in Fafting and Prayer: fpare thy People, O good Lord, fpare them; and grant that we may fo turn from all our evil Ways, that Iniquity may not be our Ruin.

Make us, in this our Day, to feek the Things that belong to our Peace, before. they are hid from our Eyes; left that dreadful Day come upon us, when all Opportunity of reconciling ourfelves to our offended God shall be taken from us.

And do thou fo effectually convince every one of us of the great Evil of Sin, and what dreadful Punishments will inevitably

tably fall upon those who perfift in it, that we may forfake all our Sins and Wickednefs, and turn unto thee the Lord our God. Fill us with fuch a godly Sorrow for our Sins, as may work in us a true Repentance not to be repented of; and grant that we may now be fo truly humbled for them, that this may be fuch a Faft as thou haft chofen: A Fast that may loose the Bands of Wickednefs wherewith we have been fo long tied and bound, that we may be fet free from every evil Way, and may no longer abufe thy Mercies, nor despise thy Judgments; but may become a peculiar People zealous of good Works; that so thou mayeft turn from thy Difplcafure againft us, and delight over us to do us Good, to build us up, and not to destroy us. Hear, O Lord, and anfwer my Prayers, that go not out of feigned Lips: O let them prevail with thee for Mercy for myfelf and all this People; even fuch a Meafure of thy Grace, as will at length reclaim us, through the Merits and Interceffion of thy dear Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer

A Prayer upon the fame Occafion; which be used after the Evening Service.

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O GOD, thou art great, and doft wonderous Things, thou art God alone: Thou takest Vengeance of thofe that contemn thy Laws, but haft in all Ages wonderfully condefcended to the Interceffions of thy Servants, which have feared thee, and called upon thy Name; behold with Pity and Compaffion this Church and Nation, now humbling itself before thee; accept our Humiliation, and hear the Prayers. which have been this Day offered up at the Throne of Grace; and grant they may be effectual, through the Interceffion of thy dear Son, to obtain Mercy and Pardon for the finful People of this Land.

O Lord, I confefs that thou mayest juftly be difpleafed with us, for our great and manifold Provocations, and that we are no more worthy to be called, or dealt with as thy Sons or Servants, whom neither thy Judgments have driven, nor thy Mercies led to Repentance: O be thou graciously pleased to look upon us in the Son of thy Love, and give us fuch a deep Senfe of the Evil of our Doings, that we

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may truly repent of, and fo effectually turn from all our Tranfgreffions, that thou mayeft be reconciled, and at Peace with us; and that our Humiliation and Repentance may fo effectually work upon every one of us, that we may cleanse ourselves from all Filthinefs both of Flesh and Spirit, perfecting Holiness in thy Fear; and that inflead of thofe abominable and crying Sins, which fo openly now reign. among us, Religion, and all the bleffed Fruits of it, may flourish and increase in

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Remove from us, O merciful Father, the Evils which our Sins have brought upon us, and avert thofe dreadful Judgments which we have juft Cause to fear; and however thou mayeft think fit to punish and correct us, yet take not from us, O Lord, I beseech thee, the Light of thy glorious Gofpel; but grant that it may break in fo powerfully upon all our Hearts, that we may fee the great Danger we are in, and may refolve in good Earneft to give up ourfelves to thy Obedience.

Stir up, O God, every Soul among us, to root out of our Hearts all Pride, and Wrath, and Bitterness; all Hatred, Malice, and Defire of Revenge; and whatsoever

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