us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee? Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.-Ps. lxxxv. 1.

O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? How long shall they utter and speak hard things, and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.-Ps. xciv. 1, &c.

Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.-Ps. cviii. 12.

Lord, I cry unto thee; make haste unto me ? give ear unto my voice when I cry unto thee; let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity.-Ps. cxli. 1, &c.

O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee. Be thou their arm every morning;

our salvation also in the time of trouble.-Isa. xxxiii. 2.

Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself; O God of Israel, the Saviour.-Isa. xlv. 15.

Judgment is far from us; neither doth justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall as the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day, as in the night; we are in desolate places, as dead men: we roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.-Isa. lix. 9.

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory. Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me? Are they restrained? Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not. Thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return, for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. We are thine.—Isa. lxiii. 15.

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord ? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore ?-Isa. lxiv. 12.

Arise, and save us.—Jer. ii. 27.

Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments? Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Thou hast

planted them; yea, they have taken root: they grow; yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. But thou, O Lord, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and tried my heart towards thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein ?-Jer. xii. 1, &c.

O Lord, thou knowest; remember me, and visit me; and revenge me of my persecutors. Take me not away in thy long-suffering; know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. I sat not in the assembly of the

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mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone, because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation. Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed ? Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail ?—Jer. xv. 15, &c.

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. -Jer. xvii. 14.

Ah Lord God! behold thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm; and there is nothing too hard for thee. Thou showest loving-kindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name. Great in counsel and mighty in work; for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men; to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.—Jer. xxxii. 17.

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again; he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and

thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.Micah vii. 18, &c.

Lord, save me.-Matt. xiv. 30.

Lord, help me.-Matt. xv. 25.

Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David. -Matt. xx. 30.

Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.— Mark ix. 24.

Lord, increase our faith.-Luke xiii. 5.

Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died; but I know that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.— John xi. 21.

SELF-DEDICATION.

I will wash mine hands in innocency; so will I compass thine altar, O Lord: that I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.-Ps. xxvi. 6.

Thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. With my soul have I desired thee in