the goods of others, and the avaritious increasing of our own. Wash us, throughly, from our iniquity, and cleanse us from our sin. 17. O God of mercy, forgive us our breach of promise to men, and of our holy vows made to thee our God our wilful or careless lying, our false accusation or false witnessing, our perverting righteous judgment by bribery or false information, and causing the innocent to suffer; our leading the blind out of his way; our accusing others, and justifying ourselves, our false excuses and feigned pretences, our jealousies and suspicions, and all the iniquity of our hearts and tongues. Hide thy face from our sins, and blot out all our transgressions. 18. O God of mercy, pardon our envy and our discontented hearts, our ambition and curiosity, our rejoicing in the evil of our neighbor, and our repining and displeasure at his advancement, our violent and distracting carefulness for the things of this world, our alarms in every sad accident, and all our covetous thoughts and degenerate and unworthy practices. Lord Jesu, be merciful to us miserable, but penitent and returning, sinners. O that our head were waters, and our eyes a fountain of tears, that we might weep day and night till thou wert reconciled to thy people. Thy congregation is an assembly of adulterous and treach erous men. We have bent our tongues like a bow for lies, but we are not valiant for the truth upon earth; we have proceeded from evil to evil, and we have not known thee. [Every one deceives his neighbor, and wearies himself to commit iniquity: for these things thou hast visited us in anger, thou hast fed us with wormwood, and given us water of gall to drink. Thou hast sent the sword upon us to consume us, and the spirit of division to scatter us abroad.] But in thee, O Lord, is our confidence and our glory; for thou dost exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth; for in these things thou dost delight. O Lord, therefore, correct us, but with judgment, not in thine anger, lest thou bring us to nothing: we we pray not against sorrow; but pray thee to multiply our penitential sorrows upon us; that we may truly mourn for our offences against thee, and may with great caution take care we may no more offend thee, and redeem the time which we have spent in vanity; and employ the remaining portion of our days in the ways of peace and righteousness, of wisdom, and the fear of God; that when thou shalt send thy angels to gather the wheat into thy granary, we may be bound up in the bundle of life, and dwell in the house of God, for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. FOR FOR GOOD FRIDAY. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and lovest not that a sinner should die: before thee and before thy angels there is joy in heaven at the conversion of a sinner; thou hast promised pardon to contrition, and salva. tion to perseverance: O grant that we may never presume on thy mercy, or despise the riches of thy goodness; but that thy forbearance and longsuffering may lead us to repentance: create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, truly, mourning for our sins, and forsaking them, condemning ourselves, and justifying thee, crucifying the old man, and becoming new creatures, may obtain of thee mercy and remission, that, though we are now, worthily, punished for our sins, by the comfort of thy Grace, we may be, mercifully, relieved, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O most blessed, most gracious Saviour, who by thy obedience unto death, even the death of the Cross, didst become the sacrifice of the world; the great example of patience, the Lord of life, the good shepherd, and the mediator between God and man; let thy wounds heal, thy blood cleanse, thy death make us to live; and thy Spirit make us to work righteousness all our days; that we may, by thy aid and by thy example, obey our heavenly Father with all our powers, and with all our faculties, with our reason and our affections, with our souls souls and with our bodies, with our time and with our substance, in prosperity and adversity; that we may bear our cross patiently, and do thy work cheerfully, and be ready to benefit mankind with great charity and great industry, that being followers of thy life, and partakers of thy death, we may receive a part in the resurrection of the just, O most blessed, most gracious Saviour, Jesus. Amen. (On this day may be used, with great propriety, the prayers for fools, madmen, and heretics; and also the Meditations and Prayers for Monday, week before the Sacrament. Vide p. 128.) IN thee, O Lord, I have put my trust, let me, never be put to confusion, but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness; incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may alway resort thou hast promised to help ine, for thou art my house of defence and my castle. For For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for thou art my hope, even from my youth. Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; my praises shall be always of thee. O let my mouth be filled with thy praise, that I may sing of thy glory and honor all the day long. Thy righteousness, O God, is very high and great things are they which thou hast done: O God, who is like unto thee? O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me? and yet didst thou turn and refresh me yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again. Thou hast brought to me great honor, and comforted me on every side. Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulness, O God, playing upon an instrument of music: unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou holy one of Israel. My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee: and so will my soul whom thou hast delivered. Blessed be the Lord God, even the God of Israel, which only doth wondrous things. And blessed be the name of his Majesty for ever, and all the earth shall be filled with his Majesty. Amen, Amen. Glory be to the Father, &c. O most |