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The Cumberland Pacquet - 25 Feb 1812
The following is the New Form of Prayer, directed to be read in all churches
and chapels, and to be continued during his Majesty's present
indisposition: --

"O God, who commandest us when we are in trouble to open our hearts, and to
tell out our sorrows unto Thee in prayer, and dost promise to listen with
compassion to our humble supplications, give us grace so to approach Thee
that we offend not in word or thought. Put away from us every impatient
imagination, prevent every unworthy petition. Let not our prayers assume the
language of complaint, nor our sorrows the character of despair. Upon Thee,
O God, and upon the multitude of Thy mercies, we repose our grief, as we
rest our hope. Restore, we implore Thee, our beloved Sovereign to his
Family, and to his People. And whether it shall seem fit to Thine unerring
wisdom presently to remove from us this great calamity with which we are
afflicted, or still to suspend it over us, dispose us, under every
dispensation of Thy will, patiently to adore Thy inscrutable Providence, and
to bless Thy Holy Name for ever and ever. These Prayers and Supplications we
humbly offer up to the Throne of Grace, in the Name and through the
Mediation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen."
 
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