fant to the Lord, as in the days of old, in former years.

Let pure religion and undefied, before God, and the Father, flourish and prevail every where, that kingdom of God among men, which is not meat and drink, but righteoufnefs, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghoft. O revive this work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known, and let our times be times of reformation.

9. For the breaking of the power of all the enemies of the church, and the defeating of all their defigns againfi her.

Let all that fet themfelves, and take counsel together against the Lord, and against his anointed, that would break their bands afunder, and caft away their cords from them, imagine a vain thing. Let him that fits in heaven laugh at them, and have them in derifion; speak unto them in thy wrath, and vex them in thy fore difpleafure. Give them, O Lord, what thou wil give them; give them a mifcarrying womb, and dry breafts.

O our God, make them like a wheel, and as fubble before the wind: Fill their faces with fhame, that thay may feek thy name, O Lord, and that men may know, that thou, whofe name is Jehovah, art the Moft High over all the earth.

Put them in fear, O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men, and wherein the proud enemies of thy church deal proudly, make it to appear that thou art above them.

Let them be confounded and turned back that hate Zion, and be as the grafs upon the house-tops; which withereth before it groweth up.

Let no weapon formed against thy church profper, and let every tongue that rifeth against it in judgment be condemned.

Make Jerufalem a burdenfome ftone for all people, and let all that burden themfelves with it be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth fhould be

gathered together against it; fo let all thy enemies perith, O Lord, but let them that love thee be as the fun when he goes forth in his ftrength.

Lord, let the man of fin be confumed with the fpirit of thy mouth, and deftroyed with the brightnefs of thy coming: And let thofe be undeceived that have been long under the power of strong delufions to believe a lie, and let them receive the truth in the love of it.

Let Babylon fall, and fink like a mill-ftone into the fea; and let the kings of the earth, that have given their power and honour to the beaft, be wrought upon at length to bring it into the new Jerufalem.

10. For the relief of fuffering churches, and the fupport, comfort, and deliverance of all that are perfecuted for righteoufnefs fake..

We defire in our prayers to remember them that are in bonds for the teftimony of Jefus, as bound with them, and then which fuffer adverfity, as being ourfelves alfo in the body. O fend from above, and deliver them from thofe that hate them, and bring them forth into a large place.

O let not the rod of the wicked reft upon the lot of the righteous, left the righteous put forth their hands into iniquity.

Awake, awake, put on ftrength, O arm of the Lord; awake as in the ancient days, as in the generations of old, and make the depths of the fea a way for the ranfomed of the Lord to pafs over.

For the oppreffion of the poor, and the fighing of the needy, now do thou arife, O Lord, and fet them in fafety from them that puff at them.

O ftrengthen the patience and faith of thy fuffering faints, that they may hope, and quietly wait for the falvation of the Lord.

O let the year of thy redeemed come, and the year of recompences for the controverfy of Zion.

O that the falvation of Ifrael were come out of

Zion; and when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob fhall rejoice, and Ifrael fhall be glad.

O let not the oppreffed return afhamed, but let the poor and needy praife thy name.

Lord, arife, and have mercy upon Zion, and let the time to favour her, yea, the fet time come; yea, let the Lord build up Zion, and appear in his glory. Lord, regard the prayer of the deftitute, and do not defpife their prayer.

O Lord God, cease we beseech thee, by whom fhall Jacob arife, for he is small? O caufe thy face to fhine upon that part of thy fanctuary that is defolate, for the Lord's fake.

Let the forrowful fighing of the prifoners come before thee, and according to the greatnefs of thy power, preferve thou thofe that for thy name's fake are appointed to die.

Let those whofe teachers are removed into corners, again fee their teachers, though they have the bread of adverfity, and the water of affliction.

11. For the nations of Europe, and the countries about us.

Thou, Lord, art the governor among the nations; Who fhall not fear thee, O King of Nations? Thou fittest in the throne judging right; judge the world therefore in righteoufnefs, and minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

Lord, haften the time when thou wilt make wars to cease to the ends of the earth; when nation fhall no more lift up fword against nation, nor kingdom against kingdom, but fwords fhall be beaten into plow-fhares, and fpears into pruning-hooks, and they fhall not learn war any more.

Make kings nurfing fathers, and their queens nurfing mothers to the Ifrael of God.

And in the days of these kings, let the God of heaven fet up a kingdom which fhall never be deAtroyed, even the kingdom of the Redeemer. And

whatever counfels there are in mens hearts, Lord, let thy counsel stand, and do thou fulfil the thoughts of thy heart unto all generations.

12. For, our own land and nation, the happy islands of Great Britain and Ireland, which we ought in a special manner to feek the welfare of, that in the peace thereof we may have peace.

We must be thankful to God for his mercies to our land.

We blefs thee that thou haft planted us in a very fruitful hill, and haft not made the wilderness our habitation, or the barren land our dwelling, but our land yields her increafe.

Lord, thou hast dealt favourably with our land; we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have told us what work thou didst for us in their days, and in the times of old: And, as we have heard, fo have we feen; for we have thought of thy lovingkindrefs, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

Thou haft given us a pleasant land, it is Immanuel's Jand, it is a valley of vifion, thou haft fet up thy tabernacle among us, and thy fanctuary is in the midft of us.

We dwell fafely under our own vines and figtrees, and there is peace to him that goeth out, and to him that comes in.

And because the Lord loved our people, therefore he hath fet a good government over us, to do judgment and justice; to be a terror to evil doers, and a protection and praife to them that do well.

2. We must be humbled before God for our national fins and provocations.

But we are a finful people, a people laden with iniquity, a feed of evil doers; and a great deal of reafon we have to figh and cry for the abominations that are committed among us.

Iniquity abounds among us, and the love of many is waxed cold.

We have not been forfaken, nor forgotten of our

God, though our land be full of fin against the Holy One of Ifrael.

3. We must pray earnestly for national mercies..

1. For the favour of God to us, and the tokens of his prefence among us, as that in which the happiE nefs of our nation is bound up.

O the hope of Ifrael, the Saviour thereof in time. of trouble: Be not thou as a ftranger in our land, or a way-fearing man that turns afide to tarry but for a night; but be thou always in the midst of us, we are called by thy name, O leave us not: Though our iniquities teftify against us, yet do thou it for thy name's fake; though our backflidings are many, and we have finned against thee.

Turn us to thee, O Lord God of Hofts, and then cause thy face to fhine, and we shall be fafe; O stir up thy ftrength, and come and fave us.

Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy falvation, yea, let that falvation be nigh them that fear thee, that glory may dwell in our land. Let mercy and truth meet together, righteoufnefs and peace kifs each other. Let truth fpring out of the earth, and righteoufnefs look down from heaven; yea, let the Lord give that which is good: let righteoufnefs go before him, and fet us in the way of his fteps.

2. For the continuance of the gofpel among us, and the means of grace, and a national profeffion of Chrift's holy religion.

O let the throne of Christ endure for ever among us, even the place of thy fanctuary, that glorious high throne from the beginning.

Let our candlestick never be removed out of his place, though we have deferved it fhould, because we have left our first love. Never do to us as thou didft to thy place, which was in Shiloh, where thou didit fet thy name at the first.

Let us never know what a famine of the word means; nor ever be put to wander from sea to sea,