time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? Why shouldest thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.-Jer. xiv. 7, 8, 9.

We have transgressed and have rebelled, thou hast not pardoned, thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied, thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through; thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people, all our enemies have opened their mouths against us; fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. Lam. iii. 42, 43, 44, 45, 46.

SINS OF THE NATION.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.-Ps. cvi. 6.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way.—Isaiah liii. 6. Our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we

know them; In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.-Isaiah lix. 12.

Behold we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains; truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel; we lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God. -Jer. iii. 22, 25.

We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee, do not abhor us for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory, remember, break not thy covenant with us.-Jer. xiv. 20.

They obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do, therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them.—Jer. xxxii. 23.

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us, consider and behold our reproach, our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens, we are

orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows, we have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us, our necks are under persecution; we labour and have no rest. The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us that we have sinned! For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim. Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days, as of old. But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art very wroth against us.-Lam. v. 1—5, 15—22.

INDIVIDUAL CONFESSION OF THE SINS OF THE

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O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day. And now for a little space, grace hath been showed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape; and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten

our eyes, and give us a little reviving. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? We have forsaken thy commandments which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this, should we again break thy commandments, wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day, behold, we are before thee in our trespasses; for we cannot stand before thee because of this.-Ezra ix. 6—15.

I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open that thou mayst hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned. have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have

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not kept the commandments nor the statutes, nor the judgments which thou commandest thy servants; now these are thy servants and thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power and by thy strong hand.-Neh. i. 5, 6, 7, 10.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways; behold thou art wroth, for we have sinned. We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay and thou our potter, and we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever.

Behold, see we beseech thee,

we are all thy people.—Isaiah Ixiv. 1—9.

INDIVIDUAL CONFESSION OF THE SINS OF THE

NATION.

O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him,