A petition for peace with the reformation of the liturgy, as it was presented…

Then shall the Minister use this or the like Prayer. Most Holy God, we are as stubble before thee, the Consuming ¹Fire, How shall we stand before thy Holiness, for we are a sinful people, laden with Iniquity, that have gone backward and provoked the Holy one of Israel, when we were lost, thy Son did seek and save us, when we were dead in sin, thou madest us alive. Thou sawest us polluted in our blood, and saidst unto us live. In that time of love thou coveredst our nakedness, and enteredst into a Covenant with us, and we became thine own. Thou didst deliver us from the power of Darkness, and translate us into the Kingdom of thy dear Son; and gavest us remission of sin, through his blood. But we are grievous Revolters, we have forgotten the Covenant of the Lord our God; we were engaged to love thee with all our hearts, and to hate iniquity, and serve thee diligently, and thankfully to set forth thy praise. But we have departed from thee, and corrupted our selves by self love, and by loving the world, and the things that are in the world, and have fulfilled the desires of the Flesh, which we should have crucified. We have neglected our duty to thee, and to our neighbour, and the necessary care of our own Salvation. We have been unprofitable servants, and have hid thy Talents, and have dishonoured thee, whom in all things we should have pleased and glorified. We have been negligent in hearing and reading thy Holy Word, and in meditating and conferring of it, in public and private Prayer, and thanksgiving, and in our preparation to this Holy Sacrament, in the Examining of our selves, and repenting of our sins, and stirring up our hearts to a believing and thankful receiving of thy grace, and to love and Joyfulness, in our Communion with thee and with one another. We have not duly discerned the Lords Body, but have profaned thy Holy Name and Ordinance, as if the Table of the Lord had been contemptible. And when thou hast spoken peace to us, we returned again to Folly, we have deserved O Lord to be cast out of thy presence. And to be forsaken, ⟨p. 52⟩as we have forsaken thee, and to hear to our confusion, ²Depart from me, I know you not, ye workers of iniquity. Thou mayest justly tell us, thou hast no pleasure in us, nor wilt receive an offering at our hand. But with thee there is abundant mercy.