8. For the breaking of the power of all the enemies of the church, and the defeating of all their designs against her.

‘Let all that set themselves, and take counsel together against the Lord, and against his anointed, would break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from them, imagine a vain thing. Let him that sits in heaven laugh at them, and have them in derision; speak unto them in thy wrath, and vex them in thy sore displeasure. Give them, O Lord, what thou wilt give them; give them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts. Ps 2:1–5. Hos 9:14.

O our God, make them like a wheel and as stubble before the wind. Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord, and that men may know, that thou whose name is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth. Ps 83:13, 16, 18.

Put them in fear, O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men; and wherein the proud enemies of thy church deal proudly, make it to appear that thou art above them. Ps 9:20 Exod 18:11.

Let them be confounded and turned back that hate Zion, and be as the grass upon the house tops, which withereth before it grow up. Ps 129:5, 6.

Let no weapon formed against thy church prosper, and let every tongue that riseth against it in judgment be condemned. Isa 54:17.

Make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people, and let all that burden themselves with it be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth should be gathered together against it; so let all thy enemies perish, O Lord, but let them that love thee be as the sun when he goes forth in his strength. Zech 12:3. Judg 5:31.

Lord, let the man of sin be consumed with - Spirit of thy mouth, and destroyed with the brightness of thy coming. And let those be undeceived that have been long under the power of strong delusions to believe a lie, and let them receive the truth in the love of it. 2 Thess 2:2, 8, By LOYAL:

Let Babylon fall, and sink like a ‘millstone into the sea, and let the kings of the earth, that have given their power and honour to the beast, be wrought upon at length to bring it into the new Jerusalem. Rev 18:2, 21; Rev 17:17; Rev 21:24.

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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.