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which are requifite and neceffary as well for the body as the foul. Wherefore I pray and befeech you, as many as are here prefent, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace; faying after me;

A general confeffion to be faid of the whole congregation after the Minifter.

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LMIGHTY and moft merciful Father; We have erred and ftrayed from thy ways like loft fheep; We have followed too much the devices and defires of our own hearts; We have offended against thy holy laws; We have left undone thofe things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things B 3 which

which we ought not to have done ---But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miferable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confefs their faults. Reftore thou them that are penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Chrift Jefus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and fober life, to the glory of thy holy name, Amen.

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UR Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trespass against us: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver

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us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Then fhall the Minifter fay, O Lord, open thou our lips. Anfw. And our mouth fhall fhew forth thy praise.

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Then fhall be said the XCVth Pfalm, or the Cth Pfalm; except on Eafter-day, when a proper Anthem is appointed. the end of each of these the following doxology to be used; Min. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invifible, the only wife God;

Anfw. Be honour and glory, through Jefus Chrift, for ever and

ever. Amen.

1 Tim. i. 17. Rom.

xvi. 27.

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"and to the Holy Ghost," &c. and propofes one of the two following in its place; viz. "Glory be to God, by Jefus Chrift, through "the heavenly affistance of the Holy Spirit;

"As it was in the beginning, is now, and 66 ever shall be, world without end. Amen. "Or, in the words of the text, Eph. iii. 21. "Unto God be glory in the church, by Christ Jefus, throughout all ages, world without "end. Amen."

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The former of thefe doxologies of Dr. Clarke is rejected, because Glory cannot be faid to have been to God by Chrift in the beginning, but only in thefe last days in which God hath spoken to us by his Son Hebr. i. 2.

The other is not admitted, as it is a wrong tranflation of the text-which ought to be, "To God be glory in the church in Chrift Jefus, i. e. the Christian church, &c. Compare 1 Theffal. ii. 14. Gal. i. 22. Rom. xvi. 7. &c.

fhew ourselves glad in him with pfalms.

For the Lord is a great God; and a great King above all Gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth; and the ftrength of the hills is his also.

The fea is his, and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land.

O come, let us worship, and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For he is the Lord our God; and we are the people of his pafture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts; as in the provocation, and in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and faw my works.

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