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(For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,

for ever.

Amen.)

Father in heaven, let thy kingdom come, for thine is the kingdom, thou art God in heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms of the heathen; Let thy will be done, for thine is the power, and there is nothing too hard for thee: Let thy name be fanctified, for thine is the glory, and thou haft fet thy glory above the heavens.

Father in heaven, fupply our wants, pardon our fins, and preserve us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, and thou art Lord over all, who art rich to all that call upon thee: None can forgive fins but thou only; let thy power be great in pardoning our fins: And fince it is the glory of God to pardon fin, and to help the helpless, Help us, O God of our falvation; for the glory of thy name deliver us, and purge away our fins, for thy name fake.

We defire in all our prayers to praise thee, for thou art great, and greatly to be praifed. We praife thy kingdom, for it is an everlasting kingdom, and endures throughout all generations, and the fceptre of thy kingdom is a right fceptre: Thou loveft righteoufnefs, and hateft wickedness. To thee belongeth mercy, and thou rendereft to every man according to his works. We praise thy power, for thou haft a mighty arm, ftrong is thy hand, and high is thy right band, and yet judgment and juftice are the habitation of thy throne, mercy and truth fhall go before thy face. We praife thy glory, for the glory of the Lord fhall endure for ever. Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghoft; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. O let God be praised in his fanctuary, and praifed in the firna. ment of his power; let him be praised for his mighty acts, and praifed according to his excellent greatnefs.. Let every thing that hath breath praife the Lord Hallelujah.

And forafmuch as we know that he heareth us, and whatsoever we afk, according to his will, in faith, we have the petitions that we defired of bim, we will triumph in his praife. Now know we that the Lord beareth his anointed, and for his fake will bear us from his holy heaven, with the faving ftrength of his right hand; and therefore, in token not only of our defire, but of our affurance to be heard in Christ's name, we fay, Amen, amen.

Our Father which art in heaven, hollowed be thy name, &c.

CHAP. IX.

Some fhort forms of Prayer, for the use of those who may not be able to collect for themselves out of the foregoing materials.

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A Prayer to be used by Children.

GOD, thou art my God, early will I feek

thee.

Thou art my God and I will praife thee; my father's God, and I will extol thee.

Who is a God like unto thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praifes, doing wonders?

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is When none upon earth that I defire befide thee. my flesh and my heart fail, thou art the ftrength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Thou madeft me for thyfelf, to fhew forth thy praise.

But I am a finner; I was shapen in iniquity, and in fin did my mother conceive me.

O God be merciful to me a sinner.

O deliver me from the wrath to come, through Christ Jefus, who died for me, and rofe again.

Lord give me a new nature. Let Jefus Chrift be formed in my foul, that to me to live may be Christ, and to die may be gain. Lord, I was in my baptifm given up to thee; receive me gracioufly, and love me freely.

Lord Jefus, thou haft encouraged little children to come unto thee, and haft faid, that of fuch is the kingdom of God: I come to thee; O make me a faithful fubject of thy kingdom, take me up in thy. arms, put thy hands upon me, and blefs me.

O give me grace to redeem me from all iniquity, and particularly from the vanity which childhood and youth is fubject to.

Lord, give me a wife and an understanding heart, that I may know and do thy will in every thing, and may in nothing fin against thee.

Lord, grant that from my childhood I may know the holy Scriptures, and may continue in the good things that I have learnt.

Remove from me the way of lying, and grant me thy law graciously.

Lord, be thou a father to me, teach me, and guide me; provide for me, and protect me; and bless me, even me, O my Father.

Blefs all my relations (father, mother, brothers, fifters) and give me grace to do my duty to them in every thing.

Lord, prepare me for death, and give me wifely to confider my latter end.

O Lord, I thank thee for all thy mercies to me; for life and health, food and raiment, and for my education; for my creation, prefervation, and all the bleffings of this life; but above all for thine ineftimable love in the redemption of the world, by our Lord Jefus Chrift, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

Thanks be to God for his unfpeakable gift; bleffed be God for Jefus Christ. None but Chrift, none but Chrift for me.

Now to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft, that great name into which I was baptifed, be honour and glory, dominion and praise, for ever and Amen.

ever.

Our Father which art in heaven, &c.

Another Paraphrafe on the Lord's Prayer, in the words of the Affemblies Shorter Catechifm.

OUR Father in heaven, we come to thee as chil

dren to a father able and ready to help us.

We befeech thee, let thy name be fanctified; enable us and others to glorify thee in all that whereby thou haft made thyfelf known, and defpofe of all things to thine own glory.

Let thy kingdom come; let Satan's kingdom be deftroyed, and let the kingdom of thy grace be advanced; let us and others be brought into it, and keep it, and let the kingdom of thy glory be hastened.

Let thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven; make us by thy grace able and willing to know, obey, and fubmit to thy will in all things, as the angels do

in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread; of thy free gift let us receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and let us enjoy thy bleffing with them.

And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us. We pray that for Christ's fake thou wouldeft freely pardon all our fins, and that by thy grace thou wouldest enable us from the heart to forgive others.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us

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from evil. Either keep us (O Lord) from being tempted to fin, or fupport and deliver us when we are tempted.

For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever. Lord, we take, our encouragement in. prayer from thyself only, and defire in our prayers to praife thee, afcribing kingdom, power, and glory to thee: And in teftimony of our defires and affurance to be heard through Jefus Christ, we fay Amen.

Another Prayer drawn out of my plain Catechifm for Children, (which was firft published in the year 1702) which will be eafy to thofe children who have learned that Catechifm.

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Lord, thou art an infinite and eternal fpirit, moft wife and powerful, holy, juft and good. Thou art the great God that madeft the world, and art my creator; and thou that madeft me doft preferve and maintain me, and in thee I live and move and have my being. O that I may remember thee as my creator in the days of my youth, and never forget thee.

Lord, give me grace to ferve and honour thee, to worship and obey thee, and in all my ways to truft in thee, and to please thee.

Lord, I thank thee for thy holy word, which thou haft given me to be the rule of my faith and obedi. ence, and which is able to make me wife unto falvation.

I confefs, O Lord, that the condition I was born in is finful and miferable. I am naturally prone to that which is evil, and backward to that which is good, and foolishness is bound up in my heart; and I am by nature a child of wrath, so that if thou hadst not raised up a faviour for me, I had been certainly loft and undone for ever. I have been difcbedient to

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