thou in heaven thy dwelling-place: and when thou hearest, forgive.-1 Kings viii. 23-30. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day. Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. O God, be not far from me ; O my God, make haste for my help. O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.-Ps. lxxi. 8, &c.

Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry.— Acts i. 24.

Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is. Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ. For, of a truth, against thy holy child, Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius

Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word, by stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.—Acts iv. 24, &c.

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A GENERAL'S PETITIONS FOR SUCCESS IN BATTLE. Come now, therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people for they are too mighty for me; peradventure I shall prevail that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land.- Numb. xxii. 6.

Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us. -Josh. x. 4.

O my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. O my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel?

Behold, my

family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.-Judges vi. 13, &c.

Is not this the people that thou hast despised? Go out, I pray now, and fight with them.Judges ix. 38.

O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines.-Judges xvi. 28.

Shall I go up against the and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand?-1 Chron. xiv. 10. O Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.-2 Chron. xiv. 11.

O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? Art not thou our God? If when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand in thy presence, and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help. And now, behold, the children of come to cast us out of thy pos

session which thou hast given us to inherit. our God, wilt thou not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.-2 Chron. xx, 6, &c.

Thou art my God; hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord. Ọ God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves.Ps. cxl. 6.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over ?— Isa. li. 9.

Behold, O Lord, consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?— Lam, ii. 20.

Avenge me of mine adversary.— Luke xviii. 3.

SUBMISSION.

Be it according to thy word.-Exod. viii. 10. What saith my Lord unto his servant?-Josh. v. 14.

Now, behold, we are in thine hand; as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.-Josh. ix. 25.

My Father, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth. Judges xi. 36.

Do what seemeth thee good only the Lord establish his word.-1 Sam. i. 23.

Speak; for thy servant heareth. Lord

It is the let him do what seemeth him good.

1 Sam. iii. 10.

Now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said; and let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, the Lord of hosts is the God over Israel.-2 Sam. vii. 25.

The Lord do that which seemeth him good.— 2 Sam. 10, 12.

Behold, here am I; let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.-2 Sam. xxv. 26.

We are thy servants, and will do all that thou