We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and flanderers, and to turn their hearts. We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them. We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to accept our fincere repentance, to forgive us all our fins, negligences, and ignorances; and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy word.

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

Then

Then shall be read the first lesson, taken out of the Old Testament; which shall be Exodus xx. or Deuteronomy v. at the Discretion of the Minister. And after that shall be faid one of the following portions of Pfalm cxix.

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Pfalm CXIX.

LESSED are they that are undefiled in the way, and

walk in the law of the Lord.

Blessed are they that keep his teftimonies; and seek him with their whole heart.

For they do no wickedness: they walk in his ways. Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandments.

O that my ways were made fo direct, that I might keep thy statutes!

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So shall I not be confounded, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy righteousness.

I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

Or this.

LORD, thy word endureth for ever in heaven.

Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another: thou haft laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.

They continue this day according to thine ordinance; for all things serve thee.

If my delight had not been in thy law, I should have perished in my trouble.

I will never forget thy commandments; for with them thou hast quickned me.

I am thine; O fave me: for I have fought thy commandments. The ungodly laid wait for me to destroy me: but I will confider thy teftimonies.

I have seen an end of all perfection; but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Then shall follow the second lesson out of the New Testament; and after that shall be faid Pfalm xix.

Pfalm XIX.

HE heavens declare the of God, and the fir

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mament sheweth his handy work.

One day telleth another, and

one night certifieth another.

There is neither speech nor language; but their voices are heard among them.

Their found is gone out into all lands; and their words into the end of the world.

In them hath he fet a tabernacle for the fun, which cometh forth as a bridegrooom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.

It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

The law of the Lord is an undefiled law, converting the foul; the teftimony of the Lord is fure and giveth wifdom unto the fimple,

The statutes of the Lord are right, and rejoice the heart: the