Turn us, O God of our salvation
Who appointed it in his purposes, contrived it in council,
secured it in covenant, and sent his Son to effect it; the prayer
to him is for converting grace, either at first, for first
conversion is his work, and his only; or after backslidings, for
he it is that restores the souls of his people; and perhaps it is
a prayer of the Jews, for their conversion in the latter day;
when sensible of sin, and seeking after the Messiah they have
rejected, when the Lord will turn them to himself, and turn away
iniquity from them, and they shall be saved, ( Hosea 3:5 ) ( 2
Corinthians 3:16 ) ( Romans 11:26
) ,
and cause thine anger towards us to cease:
the manifest tokens of which are now upon them, being scattered
up and down in the world, and made a proverb, a taunt, and a
jeer; but will be removed, and cease, when they shall be
converted.