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.

2. For the continuance of the gospel among us, and the means of grace, and a national profession of Christ’s holy religion.

O let the throne of Christ endure for ever among us, even the place of thy sanctuary, that glorious high throne from the beginning. Ps 45:6. Jer 17:12.

Let our candlestick never be removed out of his place, though we have deserved it should, because we have left our first love. Never do to us as thou didst to thy place which was in Shiloh, where thou didst set thy name at the first. Rev 2:4, 5. Jer 7:12.

Let us never know what a famine of the word means; nor ever be put to wander from sea to sea, and from the river to-the ends of the earth, to seek the word of God. Amos 8:11, 12.

Let wisdom and knowledge be the stability of our times, and strength of salvation, and let the fear of the Lord be our treasure. Let the righteous flourish among us, and let there be those that shall fear thee in our land, as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations, that there may be abundance of peace, and the children which shall be created may praise the Lord. Isa 33:6. Ps 72:5; Ps 102:18.

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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.