For our own land and nation, which we ought in a special manner to seek the welfare of, that in the peace thereof we may have peace. › We must pray earnestly for national mercies.

7. For all that are employed in the conduct of public affairs.

Counsel our counsellors, and teach our senators wisdom. O give them a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord, to make them of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. Ps 105:22. Isa 11:2, 3.

O remove not the speech of the trusty, nor take away the understanding of the aged ; nor ever let the things that belong to the nation’s peace be hid from the eyes of those that are entrusted with the nation’s counsels. Job 12:20. Luke 19:42.

Make it to appear that thou standest in the congregation of the mighty, and judgest among the gods ; and that when the princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham, the God of Abraham himself is among them ; and let the shields of the earth belong unto the Lord, that he may be greatly exalted. - Psa. Pex aii.’ 1s xlix.7. Ps 47:9

Let those that be of us build the old waste places, and raise up the foundations of many’ generations, that they may be called the repairer of the breaches, and restorer of paths to dwell in. Isa 58:12.

‹ For victory and success against our enemies abroad, that… · For magistrates, judges, and justices of the peace. ›

Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.