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If you have prospered any among us so that we have grown rich, and have forgotten the God who gave us everything; or if you have brought any into poverty, and in our poverty we have not acted as we should; or if you have left any brother to his own heart, and he has found out that he is a fool; if any of us have grieved you; oh, lay not this sin to the charge of your church, and lay it not to the charge of the offender either, but let a sweet forgiveness be bestowed, let a restoration be granted by your Spirit, and let the church be right with God. Oh, how we pray for this!

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Lord, bless our church and let nothing spring up in this church that would grieve your Holy Spirit. We know that there are some among us that do not walk after your commandments, some that grow cold, some that are negligent in prayer, some that add nothing to the strength of your service.

Oh, will you continue to look upon the faithful, and to make them yet more faithful; and to look upon the wandering, and the backsliding, and to restore them, lest they be an occasion of grief unto your Israel, as Achan was who had hidden away the goodly Babylonish garment, and the wedge of gold in his tent.

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Father, cleanse us from secret faults. Purge us! You have purged us with hyssop once, and we are clean; now wash us with water, even as you, blessed Jesus, did wash your disciples’ feet, and make us clean everywhere, that we may be your priests and kings, sanctified wholly; and make us a people zealous of good works.

“Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.” (Psalm 51:7–8)

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Oh we desire perfection. We know what it is to make a conscience of our every thought. We have looked upon every act of our lives, and desired that in all things we might be conformed to your will.

You know that this makes us walk very tenderly at times, and with much brokenness of spirit before you, because the more we look into our lives, the more we see to lament; and in proportion as you make us holy, in that very proportion do we spy out our unholiness, and find nests of sin where we never dreamt that the loathsome things had been.

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Lord, many of us have been forgiven, years ago. We have walked with you now, with holy joy and confidence, some of us for a quarter of a century, and others for more; yet Lord there may be something between us and you even now, and if there be, “Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why you prosecute me” (Job 10:2).

If you see in your servants any wrong thing encouraged, any evil desire cherished; if there is anything that we delight in that you do not delight in; if we have any habit which grieves you; if in anything we vex your Holy Spirit—our Father, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us; and then point out to us the trespass, and teach our feet to keep the ways of your commandments, and to trespass no more; for our heart is right towards your statutes and we desire holiness.

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Our prayer shall be, Father, if our sin is not yet forgiven, we would put our head into your bosom and sob out, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son” (Luke 15:21).

Grant the kiss of forgiveness to each of your children this morning, and may we feel that you are faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9); and in the joy of this, may we feel peace with you.

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Oh Lord, our chief desire this morning before you is to be right with you. Oh make us right with you, great Father. There are some in your presence who are not right with you at all; your countenance they cannot behold, and you cannot accept their offering; for it is true of them, as of Cain, “sin is crouching at the door” (Genesis 4:7).

Oh God roll every sin away; but we know they must first feel the burden of it, they must come to you and confess it, they must accept the great Substitute and rest in Jesus.

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Oh Lord, teach us this very morning the art of praise. Let our soul take fire, and like a censer full of frankincense, may our whole nature send forth a delicious perfume of praiseful gratitude unto the ever blessed One, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Oh Lord, our chief desire this morning before you is to be right with you. Oh make us right with you, great Father.

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“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name.” (Psalm 103:1)

Grant us grace that we may not bring you blessings, merely because you feed us, and clothe us, and because we receive so many mercies at your hand; but may we learn to praise you even when you put us under the rod, and when the heart is heavy, and when mercies seem but scant. Oh, that when the flocks are cut off from the stall, and there is no harvest, we may nevertheless rejoice in God.

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Our Father, blessed be your name forever and ever. Oh that we praised you more! We must confess we never bless you as we ought, and our life is far too full of murmuring, or at the best too full of self-seeking, for even in prayer we may do this; and there is too little of lauding, and adoring, and praising, and magnifying, and singing the high praises of the Lord.

Oh God, will you teach us to begin the music of heaven! Grant us grace to have many rehearsals of the eternal Hallelujah.

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