art a God full of compaffion, and gracious, longfuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Thou art a God of pardons, merciful, flow to anger, and of great kindness; that doft not always chide, nor keep thine anger for ever.

T'hou, even thou art he that blotteft out our tranfgreffions for thine own fake, and wilt not remember our fins, which we are here to put thee in remembrance of, to plead with thee, and to declare, that we may be juftified.

And now, we beseech thee, let the power of our Lord be great, according as thou haft fpoken, faying, the Lord is long-fuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and tranfgreffion. Pardon, we befeech thee, the iniquity of thy people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou haft forgiven, even until now.

For who is a God like unto thee, that pardonest iniquity, and paffeft by the tranfgreffion of the remnant of thine heritage, who retaineft not thine anger for ever, becaufe thou delighteft in mercy. O that thou wouldst have compaflion upon us, and fubdue our iniquities, and caft all our fins into the depth of the sea.

2. The merit and righteoufnels of our Saviour Jefus Chrift, which we rely upon as our main plea in our petition for the pardon of fin.

We know, that as thou art gracious and merciful, fo thou art the righteous God, that loveth righteoufnefs, and wilt by no means clear the guilty. We cannot fay, Have patience with us, and we will pay thee all; for we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags. But Jefus Christ is made of God to us righteoufnefs; being made fin for us, though he knew no fin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

We have finned, but we have an advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous, who is the

propitiation for our fins, and not for ours only, but for the fins of the whole world.

It is God that juftifieth, who is he that fhall condemn? It is Chrift that died, yea, rather that is rifen again, and now is even at the right-hand of God, who alfo maketh interceflion for us, and whofe blood fpeaketh better things than that of Abel.

We defire to count every thing lofs for Christ, and dung, that we may win Chrift, and be found in him, not having any righteoufnefs of our own, but that which is through the faith of Christ.

This is the name whereby we will call him, the Lord our righteoufnefs. In him, Lord, we believe, help thou our unbelief.

Lord, remember David and all his troubles, the Son of David. Remember all his offerings, and accept his burnt facrifice; and turn not away the face of thine anointed, who by his own blood is entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the prefence of God for us.

Haft not thou thyfelf fent forth thy fon, Chrift Jefus, to be a propitiation for fin, through faith in his blood, to deliver thy righteoufnefs, for the remiflion of fins, to declare at this time thy righteoufnefs, that thou mayeft be just, and the juftifier of him that believeth in Jefus; and we now receive the atonement.

3. The promises God hath made in his word to pardon and abfolve all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy gofpel.

Lord, is not this the word which thou haft fpoke, that if the wicked forfake his way, and the unrighte ous man his thoughts, and return unto the Lord, even to our God, that thou wilt abundantly pardon, wilt multiply to pardon?

To thee, the Lord our God, belong mercies and forgiveneffes, though we have rebelled against thee.

Is not this the covenant which thou haft made with the houfe of Ifrael, that thou wilt take away their fins,

that thou wilt forgive their iniquity, and remember their fin no more; that the iniquity of Ifrael fhall be fought for, and there fhall be none; and the fins of Judah, and they fhall not be found?

Haft thou not faid, that if the wicked will turn from all his fins that he hath committed, and keep thy ftatutes, he shall live, he fhall not die, all his tranfgreffions fhall not be mentioned unto him?

Haft thou not appointed, that repentance and remiffion of fins fhould be preached in Christ's name unto all nations?

Dideft thou not promife, that when the fins of Ifrael were put upon the head of the scape goat, they fhould be fent away into the wilderness, into a land not inhabited? And as far as the east is from the weft, fo far doft thou remove our tranfgreffions from us ?

O remember thefe words unto thy fervants, upon which thou haft caufed us to hope.

4. Our own mifery and danger because of fin.

For thy name fake, O Lord, pardon our iniquity, for it is great; for innumerable evils have compaffed us about, our iniquities have taken hold upon us, fo that we are not able to look up: Be pleafed, O Lord, to deliver us; O Lord, make hafte to help us.

O remember not againit us former iniquities; let thy tender mercy fpeedily prevent us, for we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our falvation, for the glory of thy name; deliver us, and purge aaway our fins, for thy name's fake.

Remember not the fins of our youth, nor our tranfgreffions; according to thy mercy remember thou us, for thy goodness fake, O Lord.

5. The bieffed condition which they are in whose fins are pardoned.

O let us have the bleffedness of thofe whofe tranf greffion is forgiven, and whose fin is covered; of that man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, andin whofe fpirit there is no guile.

O let us have redemption through Chrift's blood, even the forgiveness of fins, according to the riches. of thy grace, wherein thou haft abounded towards us, in all wifdom and prudence. That being in Chrift Jefus, there may be no condemnation to us..

That our fins, which are many, being forgiven us we may go in peace: And the inhabitant thall not fay, I am fick, if the people that dwell therein be forgiven their iniquity.

2. We must likewife pray that God will be reconciled to us, that we may obtain his favour and bleffing, and gracious acceptance.

1. That we may be at peace with God; and his an. ger may be turned away from us.

Being juftified by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, and through him let. us have accefs into that grace wherein believers ftand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Be not thou a terror to us, for thou art our hope in. the day of evil.

In Chrift Jefus let us, who fometimes were afar off, be made nigh by the blood of Chrift; For he is our peace, who hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us, and that he might reconcile us to God by his crofs, hath flain the enmity thereby, fo making peace. Through him therefore let us, who had made ourselves ftrangers and foreigners, become fellow-citizens with the faints and of the houshold of God.

Fury is not in thee, who would fet the bryars and thorns against thee in battle, thou wouldest go through them, yea, thou wouldest burn them together; but thou haft encouraged us to take hold on thy ftrength, that we may make peace, and haft promifed that we fhall make peace; O let us therefore acquaint ourfelves with thee, and be at peace, that thereby good

may come unto us.

Heal us, and we shall be healed; fave us and we fhall be faved, for thou art our praife. Be not angry

with us for ever, but receive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee. Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy falvation.

2. That we may be taken into covenant with God, and admitted into relation to him.

Be thou to us a God, and take us to be to thee a people, and make us a willing people in the day of. thy power.

Though we are no more worthy to be called thy children; for how shouldest thou put us, that have. been rebellious, among the children, and give us the pleasant land? But thou haft faid that we shall call thee our Father, and not turn away from thee. Shall we not therefore, from this time, cry unto thee, our Father, thou art the guide of our youth.

Lord, we take hold of thy covenant, to thee we join ourselves in a perpetual covenant; O that thou wouldeft caufe us to pafs under the rod, and bring us into the bond of the covenant, that we may become:

thine.

Make with us an everlasting covenant, even the fure mercies of David.

3. That we may have the favour of God, and an intereft in his special love.

We entreat thy favour, O God, with our whole heart, be merciful unto us according to thy word, for in thy favour is life; yea, thy loving kindness it better than life itself.

Lord, make thy face to fhine upon us, and be gracious unto us; Lord, lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, and give us peace.

Remember us, O Lord, with the favour that thou beareft unto thy people: O vifit us with thy falvation, that we may fee the good of thy chofen, and may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, and may glory with thine inheritance.

4. That we may have the bleffing of God.

O God, be merciful unto us, and bless us, and cause