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But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miferable offenders.---Spare thou them, O God, which confefs their faults.--Restore thou them that are penitent; according to thy promifes declared unto mankind in Chrift JESU our Lord, and grant, O moft merciful Father, for HIS fake, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and fober life,---to the glory of thy Holy name.

Amen.

¶ Prayer for Abfolution.

(2dly.) We humbly befeech thee, O Father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities; and, for the glory of thy name, turn from us all thofe evils that we most righteously have deferved; and grant, that in all our troubles, we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore ferve thee in holinefs and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory, through our only mediator

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and advocate, Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

(From the Litany.)

(Or 2dly.) O Lord we beseech thee, abfolve thy people from their offences ; that through thy bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the bands of thofe fins, which by our frailty we have committed. Grant this, O Heavenly Father, for Jefus Chrift's fake, our bleffed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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(Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity.)

A COMMUNITY of labourers cannot have occafion for this SHORT FORM on a SUNDAY, because the WHOLE morning fervice, as eftablished by law, ought to be duly performed on the LORD'S DAY; but this form, however, may be used by a PRIVATE FAMILY, if they are fituated at too great a distance from any township, to attend the public fervice; provided that they add thereto the reading of fome Select chapters of the Holy Scriptures, or elfe the Pfalms, Leffons, Collect, Epiftle, and Gospel appointed in, the rubrick for the day in which cafe the following Collect may be read on a SUNDAY, as the THIRD in this short form of prayer.

Sunday.

¶ For Sunday. (3dly)

GOD, forafmuch as without thee, we are not able to please thee: mercifully grant that thy HOLY SPIRIT may, in all things, direct and rule our hearts, through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen.

(Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity.)

For Monday. (3dly.)

ALMIGHTY GOD, unto whom all hearts be open, all defires known, and from whom no fecrets are hid; cleanfe the thoughts of our hearts by the infpiration of thy HOLY SPIRIT, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy Holy name, through (JESUS) CHRIST our LORD. Amen.

(Communion Service.)

¶ For Tuesday. (3dly.)

O GOD, who (haft promised to") reach the hearts of thy faithful people,

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by the fending to them the light of thy HOLY SPIRIT; grant to us, by the fame SPIRIT, to have a right judgement in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort, through the merits of CHRIST JESUS our Saviour; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the Unity of the fame SPIRIT, one GOD, world without end, Amen.

(Collect for Whitfunday.)

For Wednesday. (3dly.)

O Lord, from whom all good things do come, grant to us thy humble fervants, that (by the infpiration of thy HOLY SPIRIT,) we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the fame, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

(Fifth Sunday after Eafter.)

¶ For Thursday. (3dly.)

Lord, we beseech thee grant thy people grace, (through the inspiration of thy

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HOLY SPIRIT) to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow, thee the only God, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity.)

¶ For Friday. (3dly.)

Almighty God, who feeft that we have no power of ourselves to help ourfelves; keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly (by the infpiration of thy HOLY SPILIT,) in our fouls, that we may be defended from all adver fities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may affault and hurt the foul, through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. Amen.

(Second Sunday in Lent.)

For Saturday. (3dly)

O Almighty Lord, and Everlasting God, vouchsafe, we beseech thee, to

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