Upon Fasting Days , &c. For we confess , O Lord , that of our selves we are utterly unworthy that Thou shouldst have any respect to our Offerings : For we have Sinned , we have done Unrighteously , we have done Wickedly ; we have Sinned against Heaven and before Thee ; and are not worthy to be call'd . Thy Children , or Servants : But where Sin hath abounded , Grace hath much more abounded ; and Thy Grace is sufficient for us , and gives us Encouragement to say , God be merciful to us , Sinners . And may the Multiplication of thy Mercies , as they multiply our Obligations , so proportionally increase our Sense thereof , and true Gratitude to so Great and Glorious a Lord and Benefactor .

And since thou hast constituted the Blessed Orders and Hosts of Angels in Heaven , both for Ministry to thy Glory , and to minister for them , who shall be Heirs of Salvation , We humbly beseech thee , O Lord our God , that with our Entrance to thy Holy Altar , there may be an Accession of thy Holy Angels , who ministring with us , may with us Glorifie Thy Beniguity : For all Honour , and Glory , and Worship , and Service , and Obedience , is due unto Thee , and to Thee we offer it ; to Father , Son , and Holy Spirit , Now and for Ever . Amen .

Accept , We beseech Thee , O Lord , our Oblations , which I thy unworthy Servant do here offer unto Thee of what is thine own , for my self , and for All here present , and for all Faithful Christians , especially those who desire to be remembered here at thy Holy Altar ; in Recognition of thy Just and Absolute Dominion over us , and all the World ; and as a Symbolical Oblation of our Selves , and all we have unto Thee ; and to be consecrated for a Memorial of the Great Propitiation , which thy Son , our Saviour , Jesus Christ made upon the Cross , by the Sacrifice of himself , for the Sins of the whole World . Accept , we beseech Thee , O Lord , Them and Us by Him : By whom to Thee , and to whom with Thee and thy Holy Spirit , be all Honour and Glory , Now and for Ever . Amen .

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ , and the Love of God the Father , and the Communication of the Holy Spirit be with you all . Amen .

Lift up your Hearts .

Let us give Thanks unto our Lord God .

It is very meet , right , and our bounden Duty , that we should adore , worship and glorifie Thee , and at all Times , and in all Places , give Praise and Thanks unto Thee , O Lord , Holy Father , Almighty Everliving God , for all thy Goodness and Loving-kindness to us , and to all Men ; for our Creation , Preservation , and all the Blessings of this Life ; but above all , for thy admirable and inestimable Love in the Redemption of Mankind by our Lord Jesus Christ : For whom , and by whom we humbly offer unto thee our most hearty Thanks and Praise .

Thy Excellence , O God , though in it self incomprehensible to Mortals , yet hast thou to our view and observation so admirably displaid it in thy Works ; in the various Kinds , Qualities , and Orders of thy Creatures ; the curious Frame and Composure of the Individuals , even the most minute ; the exact Accommodation of all to a mutual Subservience of one to another ; and in the Beauty and unconceivable Extent of all ; that thy Wisdom , Power , Goodness and Greatness is therein convincingly manifest to all .

The Host of Heaven worshippeth Thee : A thousand thousands minister unto Thee ; and ten thousand times ten thousand attend upon Thee .

When we consider the Heavens , the Work of thy Fingers , the Sun , the Moon , and the Stars which thou hast ordained , Lord , that is Man , that Thou art mindful of him ! and the Son of Man , that Thou regardest him ! All Nations ( in respect of Thee ) are but as a Drop of a Bucket , and as the small Dust of the Ballance ; as nothing , yea less than Nothing and Vanity . What then are we , a little handful of thy poor Creatures , among so many Millions of our own Kind , besides so many Myriades of thy more excellent Creatures , which continually attend upon Thee , and with profound Reverence cover their Faces before Thee , that thou shouldest have any regard unto us !

But such is thy Providence , which extends to All thy Creatures , even to the Sparrow upon the House-top ; and so boundless thy Love and Goodness , that though the Glory of thy Majesty might justly deter the Purest of Mortals from any Address to Thee , thou dost not only graciously invite us , but by thy most Gracious Commands , hast made ( or rather reinforced ) that our Duty , which otherwise , of it self , were a most desireable Favour : And though the Holiness of thy Majesty might make such sinful Wretches tremble to approach thy Presence ; yet such is thy Clemency , that , for our Encouragement , thou hast provided for us , both a Propitiation for our Sins , and a Mediatour for our Infirmities , in Christ Jesus , thy beloved Son , and our blessed Lord and Saviour ; By whom thou didst create all things , and in whom , and through whom , thou hast most admirably demonstrated , in thy infinite Wisdom , at once , both thy Justice and Severity against Sin , and thy Mercy and Clemency to thy poor Creatures , to the Admiration even of thy Blessed Angels .

For as thou hast manifested by Wisdom , Power , and Bounty in thy Works of Creation ; So hast thou also thy Holiness , Justice , and Mercy in thy Works of Providence ; and most admirably in the Great Work of our Redemption .

When our First Parents , by Transgression of thy most Just and Reasonable Prohibition for Demonstration of thy Dominion , and of their Subjection and Obedience , had given a Great and Sensible Demonstration to all their Posterity , of the Evil Consequence of Sin , and of the Subtilty , Envy and Malice of Satan , thou didst immediately thereupon give a Memorable Demonstration of thy Justice in their Temporal Punishment , and of thy Clemency in thy Gracious Promise of a Saviour in due time to come , signified in the mean time in the Mystery of Sacrifices to all Mankind ever after .

And when ( notwithstanding in process of time ) the Wickedness of Men became Great in the Earth , and their Minds so corrupted , as set upon Evil continually ; and thou thereupon didst in thy Justice determine to wash away that Diluge of Sin with a Diluge of Waters , yet didsr thou in thy Judgment remember Mercy ; gavest them 120 years Warning , and out of that Corrupt Mass select and preserve one Family , that of thy Servant Noah , for a Root of a future Generation .

To these , besides the Light of Natural Reason , thou gavest Direction by certain Positive Precepts , to be transmitted to Posterity by Tradition and Instruction of the Parents : And when , notwithstanding all this , being again increased to a great Multitude , they conspired together in a Vain Vundertaking , thou didst confound their Language , and disperse them into several Parts of the Earth : And afterward from among the rest , didst select one Person , Abram , whom , after divers Exercises and Tryals of his Fidelity , thou mad'st the Father of another special Generation , for thy own peculiar and more immediate Regiment , and for a Great Example and Monument to all other Nations , and to the rest of Mankind , of thy Holy Providence and Government .

In his time thou mad'st Sodom and Gomorrah , and the Cities about them , a lasting Monument of Divine Vengeance to all , who after should live Ungodly ; and deliveredst Righteous Lot from that terrible Judgment , for Example to all others in the approaches of thy Judgments to confide in thy Mercy , in the Ways of Righteousness .

But leaving the rest to the use of the Common Means they had received , thou didst multiply and train up the Posterity of thy Servant Abraham , in a State of Subjection to other People , to teach them Obedience to thy Righteous Government ; then didst deliver them in so wonderful manner , as did demonstrate both thy Absolute Power over all Creatures , and thy terrible Judgments upon the Wicked , and thy special Favour to thy Faithful Servants , and to their Posterity after them . And when thou hadst so delivered them , thou didst Exercise them with thy Discipline Forty years in the Wilderness before thou broughtest them into the Promised Land of Rest ; for a Mystical Instruction of thy Divine Conduct of Souls , through the Wilderness of this World to the Coelestial Regions of Rest .

Thou gavest them in Writing a Righteous Law to direct their Actions , Righteous Judgments for the Exercise of Justice , and Holy Rites and Ceremonies for Mystical Admonitions and Instructions , concerning future Spiritual and Coelestial things . And when thou hast permitted that incredulous , stubborn , and disobedient Generation , for a Warning to all others afterward , to dye in the Wilderness , thou broughtest-in their Children into that Promised Land with an admirable irresistible Power ; and didst by them execute a Just and Terrible Judgment upon the former Inhabitants for their Wickedness .

When thou hadst brought them in , and setled them in that Good Land , thou didst leave a Remnant of the former Inhabitants , both in Mercy to them , and for Exercise and Tryal of thine own People : And when they , after all the Experiments they had seen of thy Great Goodness to them , and of thy Justice in punishing the Miscarriages both of others , and of themselves , had corrupted themselves , and transgressed thy Holy Laws and Institutions , Thou didst send them Prophets to admonish them , Judgments to correct them , and upon their Repentance , Saviours to deliver them ; and all this Methode again and again , many times repeated , and thy Judgments increased upon them , as their Sins and Provocations deserved and required , to prepare them for the Coming of the Great Saviour , the Messiah , who had been so long promised , and by so many Types , Figures and Prophesies all along , but more and more plainly , signified to them .

O how plentiful is thy Goodness , which thou hast laid up for them , who fear thee ; and which thou hast prepared for them , who put their Trust in thee , even before the Sons of Men !

We give Thanks to thee , O Christ , our Lord , because thou hast condescended that we should be Partakers of thy Body and Blood , to the Remission of Sins , and to Life Eternal .

We give Thanks to Thee , O Lord , our God , for our Participation of the Pure , Holy , and Heavenly Mysteries , which thou hast given us for our Benefit and Sanctification , and for the Health of our Souls and Bodies . Be pleased , O Lord , that it may be all effectually wrought in us , to thy own Glory and Service , and our great Growth in all Grace here , and Everlasting Happiness hereafter , through our Lord Jesus Christ ; By whom all Good is communicated to us , and by whom be all Glory to thee for ever and ever . Amen .

Glory be to God on high , &c.