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CONTENTS. 
 
 RELIEF — ~ — 17 
 
 Obfervations on the belief — — lj 
 
 Commandments — — — 17 
 
 Lord's prayer — • — — 19 
 
 Obfervations on the Lord's prayer — « — 19 
 
 Ejaculation In going into church — — 10 
 
 after divine fervice — — 20 
 
 « OH waking in the morning — — 20 
 
 > — for night, on the approach of /Jeep — 23 
 
 Morning lymn — — 21. 21. 22. 22 
 
 Evening hymn — — 23. 23. 24. 2 j. 
 
 Hymn in praife of Div:?;? Providence — 25 
 
 Obfervations on prayer — — — 26 
 
 Invocation^ 29. 33. 37. 44. 48. 54. 61. 66. 72. 79. 84. 90. 
 96. 102. 106. 112. 116. 121. 130. 132. 138 
 
 Prayers. 
 For the morning — 32. 47. 65. 82. ICO. 115. 131 
 
 the evening 36. 42. 52. 58. 70. 89. 93. 104. 109. 124 
 
 thankfgiving — 1 > 43. 77. 90. 94. 95 
 
 ■ a happy death and refurrettion, 43. 48. 53. 59. 84. 90. 95. 
 
 106. III. Il6. 120. 138. 143 
 
 — repentance and pardon of fin , 29. 32. 37. 42. 48. 66. 71. 
 
 78. 84. 94. 126 
 — — — acceptance of prayer — — — 36 
 
 — purity and charity ■ 42. HO. 143 
 confiancy and divine a ffijlance .— 52. 105 
 
 — mccknef and purity of heart — — 53 
 
 ajjijlance under the infirmities of life — 53. 58. 143 
 
 grace to rcfijl anger , pride, end their conjequences 58. 75 
 
 zeal; and forgivenefs of the fins of others 59. 76. 124 
 
 gratitude — — — 59. 89 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 For refolutkh fnd fortitude in danger and afiiclion 65. 125 
 
 — imploring mercy for remarkable fimiers 70. 13$ 
 
 — *-j*fl fafe of the jujtUi of Gad — — y t 
 
 — defence againft fin — _ 76. g 3 . I0I 
 *~ jufuce — _ 75 
 
 — honefly and zeal in cur engagements as fervants — 94 
 
 — abflintnce — . — IO i 
 
 Againft cenforioufnefs — — — 104 
 
 For temper ame — — — 104 
 
 — application to the temporal concerns of life — 1 05 
 
 — preparation for the Lord's fuppcr — 110*125 
 
 — contrition of fpir it — — — •— . in 
 
 — obedience to fuperiors — - — 115 
 
 — confidence in the promises of God — — m 119 
 
 — humility — — — 120 
 « — friends, benefactors, &c. — — 124 
 Reflections on the Lord's J upper , introduclory to Sunday's de- 
 votion • 127 
 
 For acknowledgment of divine mercy ~— — 131 
 
 ■— general confeffon — — — 137 
 
 — following the example of pious per fons •• 1 43 
 « — grace, and the completion of the ends of life — • 144 
 
 — a wife and family — — 1 45 
 
 — a hufband and family — — — - 145 
 From a parent for children — — 146 
 For obedience io parents — — — 146 
 
 — Juccefs in a calling or profejfion — — 147 
 Over the fick — — 1 47. 147. 148 
 
 Extracts of Psalms. 
 
 For pardon of fits — — — 29 
 
 Thank — ??. 45. 54. 67. 112. 121. 130. 139 
 
 Prophetical of the Meffiah — ■ — 62. 79. 85. 96 
 
 For repentance — — — — 45 
 
 Again/2 the vanity cf human life — — 33. 49. 61 
 
 The excellency of the commandments — 30. 44 
 
 Truft and confidence in God — 37. 38. ic6. 132. 
 
 Under a confiioufnefs of a good intent ion — 66 
 
 The happiuefs of good, and the mifery vf bad men — 72 
 
 3 Praifi 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 Praife and admiration of the Almighty — 73. 97. 139 
 
 Duty of a magi/Irate — — — 9 r 
 
 to magijlratcs — — — 9 l 
 
 Humility — — — 9* 
 God's proteclion cf good men — — 102. 117 
 
 For divine affiance under a confcioufncfs of guilt — 102 
 
 — affiance in dijlrefs — — — 1 1 2 
 
 Ttie power and majejly of God. < — — ■ 116 
 
 Extracts from Scripture. 
 
 Prediction of the coming of Ckrijl — — 30 
 
 Part of our Saviour's fermon — — 30. 86 
 
 Birth of Chrijl — ~ — 34- 4& 
 
 Caution for a Chrijlian life — - — 34 
 
 Appearance of angels at the birth of Chrijl — 38 
 
 Defcription of the life of a true Chrijlian — 39. 50 
 
 The hopes of a Chrijlian — — 39 
 
 Purity and humility in Chrifl — — — 4^-73 
 
 Character of the Mefah — — - 5° 
 
 Chrijl 's firjl appearance on his mijjicn • ; 55 
 
 triumphant entry into Jerufalem . 55 
 
 Jujlice and candour effential to Chrijlianity — 63 
 
 ChriJYs prediction of his own fuferings — — 67 
 
 Tejlimony of St. Peter concerning Chrijl 68 
 
 Prophetical of the Mejfiah ' 80 
 
 E feels of the refurreclion of Chrijl 8 7 
 
 Confidence in God, and refolution to obey his laws — IC7 
 
 Self-denial • %7 
 
 Martyrdom of St. Stephen ■ ' 9 2 
 Love of God to man, and the duty of Chrijlian charity — 98 
 
 Sovereign e feels of Chrijlian charity • 1 03 
 
 Poetry. 
 
 Hymn to charity « ■ —""" ' 3 l 
 
 Contemplation of the wonders of creation ~ 34 
 
 Confiancy in religious obedience ■ 35 
 
 7 he Chrijlian s contemplation * 4° 
 
 Thank/giving - 4 1 - 57 
 
 On the crucifixion » • ■ 47 
 
 Repentance 
 
G O. N T E N T S. 
 
 Repentance — — — if 
 
 The Jhortnefs and vanity of life — — rj 
 
 Triumph over the world • . . m r6 
 
 Morning hymn of Adam and Eve . 63 
 
 Confequences of our firfl parents tranfgrejjion . ; 69. 99 
 
 A fummer- evening s meditation ■ . 69. 74 
 
 Repentance of our firjl parents ■ — g 2 
 
 Sentence pronounced on them - — - . . %y 
 
 Pfalm xviii. ufed at the Foundling- hofpital . 88 
 
 Lamentation of Eve (tf), c« £««§■ expelled paradife 02 
 
 Comfort in refl and confidence in God — — 02 
 
 Propitiation by the death of Chrijl , 99 
 A Chrifliatf s meditation >— ,• 148 
 
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 Page 53, line 5. for Afternoon or Night read Evening* 
 37. 11. dele Second pan 'of 
 
 After p, 45. for 56. read 46. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 LET us magnify the Lord, is the firft precept of religion* 
 The higheft honour man receives, is the permiflion to 
 worfhip his God ; and his higheft excellency the capacity of 
 doing this dutyi It is this which levels the Tons of earth, 
 and exalts them to the rank of the fons of God j and 
 children of the inheritance of everlafting joys ! — What then 
 fhall I fay ? As a friend to God and man, can 1 with-hold 
 my tears, when I reflect on what I daily fee, of the grofs 
 ignorance and negligence, of thofe who ought to be dear to 
 me, as fellow-creatures and fellow- fubje&s, however dif- 
 tinguifhed by rank or condition ? 
 
 If we believe the declarations made in the fcriptureSf con- 
 cerning the Meffiah j common fenfe will teach us to apply 
 out faith to the great ends and purpofes of immortality : and 
 every negleS of it will appear equally vicious and abfurd. 
 What the beft and wiieft men in all ages have declared con-* 
 cerning their hopes, and the reafons of their conduft, fhould be 
 confidered with awful refpedt, not as a fpeculatlve idea, but 
 a moral virtue, and the root from whence all other virtues 
 fpring. If there is no God, what is virtue ? — If there is one, 
 and he takes cognizance of human affairs, as the fovereign 
 of the univerfe, his fubjecb muft pay him homage. 
 
 Though faith is a belief in things not feen, the mind is fo 
 framed, as not to be the lefs capable of conviction concerning 
 them ; and confequently a chrijlian, muft mean a perfon fatis- 
 fied, that there is a ftate of rewards and punifhments in a 
 life to come ; and that the promifes of God, in relation to 
 fuch life, will not/*// him. But is this principle rooted in 
 the heart, in thefe countries, which are fo fpkndidly en- 
 lightened by the gofpel ?— Here nature fhrinks, and the blooi 
 
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 refufes to run its appointed courfe ! If this principle were 
 imprefled on our hearts, fhould we not fee the chrijlian religion 
 diffufe an univerfal happinefs j and even make the king of 
 terors fmile ? 
 
 We know what was the opinion and practice of the moll: 
 diftinguifhed favourites of heaven, that ever appeared on the 
 theatre of the world ; thofe good men, whofe lives furnifhed 
 matter for part of the facred writings, and thofe who wrote 
 them t and fince their time, in every fucceeding age, we 
 find the moft celebrated friends to mankind, have all con- 
 curred in one grand teitimony. 
 
 Let minute philofophers, and vain boafters of fcience, 
 reafon as they will, the acts of the under/landing, as well as 
 of the will) by which we now embrace the gofpel of Chrifl, 
 and make it a rule of conduct, are the fpring and motive to 
 all the conjijlent faith, that ever exifted. The faith which 
 hath its foundation in the understanding of the moft rational 
 beings, is fupported by a religion, which in its whole tenor, 
 is confonant to the reafon of man, in an improved ftate : 
 every flep beyond this doth, indeed, involve us in difficulties ; 
 for men may, and do argue, 'till they confound their reafon, 
 and with it difcharge their faith. 
 
 What was the faith of our great progenitor Abraham : " he 
 looked for a city, which had foundations, whofe builder 
 and maker, is God ? " Can we fay that he was lefs diftin- 
 guifhed for the Jlrength of his under/landings than the goodnefs 
 tf his heart? He believed in a ftate of rewards and punifh- 
 ments after death, and trufted in the promifes of God. 
 
 The Patriarchs declared that they fought a better country 
 than they were then in poiTeflion of; not a temporal one 
 only, but an eternal inheritance: they believed that if they 
 acled up to the lights which were given them, the great 
 father of mankind, would reward them with heavenly hap- 
 pinefs. 
 
 Mofes declares, that M he rather chofe to fuffer affiiclion, 
 than to enjoy the pleafures of fin." In faith, he faw him, 
 who is invifblc, and remained fixed and fteadfaft, " in hopes 
 ti the recompenfe of reward." His under/landing taught 
 
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 him to diftinguifh good from evil ; and he ftcadily purfucd 
 the dictates of it. 
 
 The hoftof Martyrs, who followed Mofes thro' every age 
 fince his time, "chofe to be tortured, and not to accept a 
 deliverance " upon any terms contrary to their hopes, or in 
 other words, to their underjtanding ; and why was this, but 
 that " they might obtain a glorious refurrettion?" Do not 
 reflections of this kind fire the foul with the love of God, 
 and confidence in his mercy ? 
 
 If we look back as far as Adam, in his Irate of innocence, 
 we have the utmoft reafon to believe, that he was completely 
 happy, as an intelligent creature : fenfible from whom he 
 derived his exijlence, he faw himfelf in a {late of dependance. 
 This naturally excited his praife and adoration. Man love* 
 pleafure, and what can we conceive more pleafing and de- 
 lightful to fuch a Being, than the adoration of his maker? 
 
 When Adam trefpaffed, and returned by deep repentance 
 to a fenfe of duty, he believed in the prcmife made him of a 
 conditional happinefs. This was the ftrongeft motive to a 
 continuance of That repentance ; and the humiliation of his 
 heart taught him the gentle, plaintive, manly voice of 
 prayer ! 
 
 Thus it appears, thrft a firm reliance on the word of God; 
 and full confidence in his truth, his power, his mercy and good- 
 nefs, is a part of the humility of dependant creatures ; and 
 teaches them to adore and fupplicate ! Where are we wander- 
 ing ? Into what ftrange paths do we deviate, when That 
 becomes irkfome, which is our fupreme intereit, and Ihould 
 be our higheft delight ! 
 
 It feems difficult to determine which has the greatefl (hare 
 in prayer, the underjianding, the will, or the affeftions. In 
 fpite of our propenfities to evil, it is as natural for the un- 
 demanding to prefer good to evil, as it is to the heart to love 
 That which is amiable in our eyes ; and reject whatever is 
 deteftable to our hearts. We are reduced then to the necef- 
 fity of declining all thoughts or reafonings on the fubjecr, 
 or we cannot continue to trefpafs, without a confeioufnefs 
 that we offend, not only againft our maker, but our own rea- 
 fon, out frame and conjlitution. 
 
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 In every view, the mind of man leads him as naturally to 
 pray for the afliftance, on which the prefervation of his foul 
 depends, as to believe that the foul is immortal. If he believes 
 the foul is immortal, he concludes that he is an accountable 
 Be'mg. And as his body craves for food, for fupport of his 
 animal nature, and he feeks the prefervation of it by this 
 means: he finds that his foul alfo languifhes, with a defire 
 of* fpiritual nourifhment. He feeds with equal eagernefs j 
 but in this repaft of prayer, he is admitted Into the prefence 
 of his maker. 
 
 With regard to the degree of our piety, fomething may de- 
 pend on the frame of the conftitution, or the habit of the body 
 at certain times j but the more our infirmity prevails, the 
 more it ferves to humble us. Such is our imperfect ftate, 
 there is no one who is not prone to fpiritual evil. The ftrength 
 of mental powers, and the tendernefs of affections, are turned 
 as the will directs. The molt knowing are, in the ftricteft 
 ienfe, the molt pious, or the moft Impious per ions. We muft 
 apply our reafon to our religion, as well as to other things; 
 or renounce the chief glory of our rationality, It is not lefs 
 obvious that perfons of inferior understandings; by the force 
 of a good heart, are often fincerely devoted to the ier'vice of 
 their maker. £ 
 
 Whatever caufe it proceeds from, with regard to educa- 
 tion, organization, or ajfeSlions ; the higher the thoughts of 
 man afcend, the more clearly he will perceive, that as he had 
 a beginning, or was made ; he muft have an end, when his 
 prefent make is changed : both muft be under the fame 
 intelligent power. The nearer he approaches to his divine 
 original, the more furely will death, the change which he is 
 fentenced to fuffer, fecure to him the high reward, which the 
 Author of nature hath prefentcd to his view. 
 
 If we further confider the indigence and inability of man 
 to do any thing without divine afliftance j and that he believes 
 fuch afliftance will be given him, if he afks for it, in humility 
 and faith ; the firft law in nature being felj '-prefervation, will 
 it not induce him to appeal to That Being, who alone can 
 fuccour him ? Where then, O man, is thy reafon, when thou 
 neglecteft this duty ? 
 
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 In thefc circiin»Oancfs, : him in! 
 
 c' • . : will tear the fiery from his heart; and he 
 
 will fall down in prayer ! The hopes he will entertain, that 
 he fhall alleviate, the pains which he feels in his body; the 
 pangs of his foul, and the wronvs which he fuffers from the 
 world : even the lowe he bears to thole who have wronged 
 him, will foften his heart, and it will break forth in prayer ! 
 
 Men often reject the humble fuit of a fellow-creature, 
 becaufe they have not the feelings of a man : they diftruft the 
 finceiity of the fuitor ; or they l;ave not the ability to fuccour. 
 Jn the firjl cafe, what language is fit to deplore their con- 
 dition ? In the fecond, prudence may temper their piety: 
 In the IaJ? t the mind finds relief by confidence, in That 
 Being, who certainly knows the heart; who beftows his 
 mercy, with the tendernefs of a father, the clemency of a 
 prince, and the wifdom and juftice of a God ! 
 
 It is not pofiibleto imagine any ftate or condition of man, 
 which does not call for fupport from the author and preferver 
 of his Being : and rarely do we find any of the human race, in 
 the leaji cultivated fiat V, without fome notions of a fupreme 
 Being ! The light of the gofpel eclipfes all others. This re- 
 velation teaches mankind, to pray to the one only true Ged, and 
 father of all ; thro* the mediation of Jefus Chrift his «SW, and 
 the influence of the Holy Spirit ; one incomprehenfible Su- 
 preme ! This allures us, that God is moved, by the prayers of 
 men: and common experience proves, that when had men can 
 be induced to pray , their morals and temper gradually become 
 bvLter. It alfo proves that perfons of a good difpofition, are 
 kept in conjlant awe ; and go on progreflively, to that per- 
 fection, for which the beji are, perhaps, molt difHnguifhcd by 
 this very means. For, '« as prayer is the exercife of a devout 
 temper and difpofition, it will naturally increafe in us fuch 
 difpofition, and make us more religious, and better men." 
 And where it is totally neglected '> there generally reigns, a 
 total unfitnefs for any commerce of the heart with God ' 
 By what criterion mall we judge, if the heart of man is at 
 peace with G«J ; but as he delights in his appeals to heaven, 
 3nd feels the pleafure which his confidence in God pro- 
 duces ? 
 
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 The moft ingenious divines, object to the fondnefs of men's 
 endeavours to explain the nature of prayer ; or attempting 
 to defcribe the efFedt which prayer has on the Almighty. 
 tVe can reafon only from analogy. Afk the poor and refer- 
 able, why he begs alms ; he will tell you, it is becaufe he feels 
 his wants, and believes it is in the power, and that it may be in 
 the will, of the perfon importuned, to relieve him. But, in the 
 cafe of prayer, the power and will of God ftand confeft; and 
 we obey his commands, while we importune him with fincerity : 
 for he requires us to a/k y and upon that condition promifes 
 we fhall receive, in fueh manner as is moft agreeable to his 
 infinite wifdom. Every man, of whom it can be faid, he 
 hath faith in the promifes of God \ may be affured, that he fhall, 
 according to the condition propounded, receive That which 
 is promifed ; though the time, and circumftances of the 
 favour, muft neceilarily remain in the hands of the Al- 
 mighty. 
 
 It is felf-evident, that a finite creature cannot meafure in- 
 finite jujiice, nor infinite mercy: we know not the exact de- 
 gree of the heinoufnefs of our feveral offences : we cannot 
 diftinguifh between the general and particular providence of 
 God. What then can we do ; but fall down and worjhip, and 
 humbly hope for mercy? 
 
 In the Chriftian world, the light fhines with refplendent 
 brightnefs, as far as mortal eye can bear it. Truth in the ab- 
 flradl, is fo far made an object of our fenfes, that we believe 
 and confefs a Saviour, who vifited the world in human nature, 
 and taught a doctrine, more pure and fublime, than all the 
 annals of moral ifts, or any other record of time, canfurnifh: 
 let all the depths of knowledge, which human wifdorn ever 
 fathomed, be funk level to our view, nothing can equal it. 
 The more we confider the dignity and character of this Per- 
 fon, thro* whofe mediation we implore the mercies of God ; 
 the more the Deity meets us as a friend, and accommodates 
 himfelf to our powers ; and the ftronger evidence we draw, 
 from the things, which are the objects of our fenfes, the more 
 our faith is cberijhed. 
 
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 Chrift being perfecf man, as well as per] md giving 
 
 the brighter! tokens of his love to human nature ; whilft he 
 exalts the dignity of it, to tlie high eft pitch of our ap| 
 henfions, he encourages us to be ftcadfafr. in our faith in 
 him, always abounding in works which arc grateful to him. 
 
 We fee him on earth, furrowing or rejoicing, as he finds 
 the proper objects of his threats, or congratulations. He con- 
 tinually appeals to the Father of mankind, his God, and our 
 God. He puts the words in our mouths, how we may moft 
 properly addrefs the Almighty: and, above all, to afk in his 
 own name. — And in his name we Chrijlians pray. 
 
 We follow him from his birth, at which angels were fcen 
 and heard to rejoice exceedingly. Some years after we be- 
 hold him making a triumphant entry into Jerufalem ; not 
 with the fplendid fhew of an earthly potentate, to'pleafe the 
 fancies of men with a tinfel glitter; but to fill the heart with 
 joy> even with the hopes of immortal happinefs. Numbers of 
 the Jews fhouted " Hofdnnah (a) to the Son of David. Bleffed 
 is He that cometh in the name of the Lord!" — BlefTed indeed was 
 He, who had power to open the eyes of the blind, who en- 
 abled the dumb to fing, and the lame to dance with joy. 
 Touched by his gracious hand, the palfied limb acquired its 
 genial warmth, and was reftored to all the purpofes of life. 
 
 We fee him exerting his authority, as one vetted with 
 a commiflion from heaven. As a fubject for our conjiant 
 humiliation, and deepeff. dread of fin, we revolve in our thoughts 
 the atrocious infolence which he experienced, from thofe for 
 whom he had ufed fuch means to fave from destruction. 
 In the agonies of pity, and of pain, we hear him imploring 
 forgivenefs for his murderers. They felt the earth tremble, 
 and law the moon appear in blood : they beheld the vail of 
 the temple rent, without any vifible caufe : and the rocks 
 burft : the yawning graves alfo yielded up their inhabit- 
 ants. Nature was convulfcd, as fympathizing with her ex- 
 piring Lord. This is the perfon in whofe name we pray. 
 
 Thus 
 
 (a) This term Hofannah was applicable to fcveral folemn religious 
 feftivals among the Jews, and an exclamation of praife to God. 
 
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 Thus did the Almighty ordain, that, after a life of fortoW 
 pmd a death of ignominy, the merits of this divine perfon, 
 by virtue of his fovereign power as the Redeemer of man- 
 kind, mould preferve us, if we live according to his laws de- 
 livered down; and with condition that we pray in his name, 
 as our Advocate and A4ediator 'at the throne of heaven, 
 If we truft that this is him who was to redeem Ifracl, and 
 the gentile world, from captivity to fin and death, we mail 
 reap the glorious fruits of his meritorious fuft'erings. 
 
 How wonderful would the perverfenefs of the rulers of the 
 Jews, and their incredulity appear •, if we did not daily fee, 
 how lame, and deaf, and blind in morals, a great part of 
 mankind is, at this day ! 
 
 As men and Chrijllans, we are the children of God in the pure 
 and genuine fenfe of the word. If God is the Father, the 
 Friend, the Protector of mankind ; it is the duty of every one 
 in his ftation, in the manner his inclination fjiall lead him, 
 preferving the good order of the world, to promote the caufe 
 of piety. We are bound, by the charity which our religion 
 teaches, to remind each other of our duty, but particularly 
 thofe, whofe indigence requires moff. help, 
 
 It is not to be imagined, that the vulgar, unaided by the 
 more intelligent, can comprehend the whole fcope of the 
 argument, or the refiftlefs power of the motives to the wor- 
 fhip of the One Supreme Almighty Lord of the univerfe, 
 who, from the fpirituality of his nature, fo far furpalTes our 
 comprehenfion. But he, who believes in Chrljl, muft be 
 extremely deficient in underflanding, if he does not difcern, 
 that we can worfhip God only in Spirit and Truth.— He, 
 who hath made us what we are, and given us fuch powers 
 as we poiTefs, demands the exercife of thofe powers : and to- 
 wards whom can they be exercifed, except Him from whom 
 fhey are derived J . 
 
 It once pleafed the almighty wifdom to appoint certain rites 
 and ceremonies^ as typical of a fubljmer worfhip. Even in 
 this, a fenfe of obedience to the divine mandate, fo far fpi- 
 ntuJized their devotion. The Mofaical inftitution being 
 done away, the greater dlfpenfatlon, in the Saviour of the whole 
 world, took place; and he hath taught us how to pray, and 
 what we mould make the fubjeel: of our prayers. 
 
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 Let us confider the goodly frame of the vlfiblc wo;, 
 raid all its glories ; what would it be, reflecting man, with- 
 out an intelligent fpiritual power, to fee, contemplate, and 
 adore, the Divine Original ? What end would tho fhort fpan, 
 allotted to man, fignify in the great fcale of Beings, if it 
 - not for the gratification of his immortal part, in the 
 worfhip of the Deity? 
 
 That devotion, in the Ckriftian world, often degenerates 
 into form, is too amply verified, in the pageantry of the 
 church of Rome. — And in fome countries; at certain periods 
 of time, as great ablurdities have been committed; as the" 
 horrible fupcriHtions of the heathen nations. Thefe offered 
 whole hecatombs ct' human facrirkes, to appeafe the wrath. 
 of an avenging power, which their imaginations reprefented 
 to be the true object of their devotion. 
 
 It is obvious to the mind of every Chriftian, who has read 
 the facred writings, divefted of all grofs prejudices, that love 
 and gratitude and praife are due to God. As to the mat- 
 ter, and quality of our prayers; I have granted, that the 
 Lord's prayer, and a collect, or other well-digefted prayer, 
 in the morning and evening of every day; and the public duties 
 on thefabbath; fuppofing the heart fincere; maybe fuffici- 
 ent to keep up a communication with God : I alfo concur 
 with the ingenious Critic, that " fudden fenfations of grat,\ 
 and adoration, arifing from the providence and works of God, 
 may be confidered as worfhip," in the pureft fenfe of the 
 Word. I will add, that let young perfons be encouraged in 
 fuch devotion ; and they will receive the comforts and fup- 
 ports of religion, at the very moment that they are fulfilling 
 relative duties, by performing the labours of the day. But is 
 it probable that fuch good will happen to them, unlefs they 
 are early taught the reverence due to religion? If they 
 not uniformly read the word nf God, and delight in fuch ap- 
 peals to him by prayer, as they rind in books of devotion, 
 can it be expected they will do juit fo much as may be rea fon- 
 dly expected of them ; and that all efforts to incline them 
 to read and think arc vain? Such criticifm would not fbn3 
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 If the common run of mortals are not habituated to look trp 
 to God, as the author of every good, how can the love of 
 him reign in their hearts? How can their minds be imprinted 
 with a confeioufnefs of his prefence? If all the virtue, that 
 man can boaft, is continually fubjecl: to be aj/aulted, with 
 impure thoughts ; what prefervative can there be fo efficacious 
 as prayer? 
 
 The repetition of words, in fome meafure, neceflarily di- 
 verts the thoughts from an object which the mind condemns; 
 and wifhes to banifh: but being words addrefled to God; 
 were it only a continual repetition of his name, That man 
 mult be a thoughtlefs wretch, who feels not his condition 
 mended, in fome degree, by this fimple act. And if his fpirit 
 is fo much the more at reft, what can he do better than indulge 
 his pleafure in fuch repetition [a). " When my heart is troubled^ 
 I will think upon God" was the refolution of a penitent of the 
 iirft magnitude. And why would he do fo, but that he knew 
 it would give him comfort? 
 
 To believe that God attends to our prayers, is furely an 
 encouragement to pray. To confefs that all things are under 
 his fovereign power and guidance, is to believe that the for- 
 rows and troubles which affli£t us, come from his hand. 
 Can we fay, " It is good for me to have been in trouble," 
 without thinking that the trouHe was fent, to awaken us 
 to a fenfe of our offences pail; and to arm us with refolution 
 of amendment for the future? 
 
 In this difpofition of mind, the heart is filled with faith- 
 in the mercy of God. We truft in his readinefs to attend 
 to our miferies ; and we take refuge in his goodnefs and 
 power ' 
 
 And how is it with thofe, who, whether it proceeds from 
 carelefsnefs or principle, neglect all application to the Al- 
 mighty? The duty becomes very difficult. When extreme 
 mifery invites to a trial of their powers, the tafk cannot be 
 pleafanty nor free from doubts of its efficacy: yet even then, 
 I apprehend, that men experience its fovereign effects, be- 
 yond all other arts of curing a diftempered mind. 
 
 (a) I was told in Perfia, that, when the Mahommcdans think they 
 3tie dying, they repeat the name of the Deity continually, Allah, Allah! 
 
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 It is difficult to fay how far the force of rooted prejudices 
 may carry men: but to fuppofc that we are not the objects 
 of the almighty mind, is very degrading to humr.n nature; 
 feeling thofe longings in our brcafrs after a diftant happin 
 which can come only from the firft. almighty Caufc. And 
 to fuppofe that we are the conusant objc&s of the concern 
 of God ; and that he requires no homage, no uniform tri- 
 bute, to remind us that we are dependent on Him, feems 
 to be as inconfiftent with common fenf, as contrary to the idea 
 of our being accountable: or that there is any difference be- 
 tween <rood and evil. 
 
 If there is any thing in our nature, to be traced from ana- 
 logy, to fuppofe that we are under the parental protection of 
 God, and yet excufed from paying the honour due to him as 
 a parent, is no lefs an abfurd and uncomfortable doctrine; as 
 in effect it excludes us from that communication, which 
 chears our hopes, and prevents our finking under the evils 
 to which we are continually expofed, and which we {o often 
 actually fuffer. 
 
 To apply this reafoning to my object: whether young per- 
 fons have the gift of memory, fo as to be able to repeat a great 
 number of prayers, is not the quefHon. It muft be preformed 
 that the generality of mankind, in the docile part of life, 
 enjoy a fufficient ftrength of memory, to repeat a few Jhcrt 
 prayers, and to garni fh their minds with the words of a Hxmn 
 or two, or any other pious addrefs to heaven, which may 
 ferve them during the whole courfe of their lives. 
 
 I have introduced prayers for obedience to parents, fidelity 
 in fervitude, repentance under tranfgreffions, a >■ of 
 
 dying, &c. There are many children able to compafa ftich 
 a tafk in a very few days, or hours. Teachers who have com- 
 mon fenfe, being in their own perfons pioufly inclined, eafiJy 
 accomplifh a work of this kind, as experience abundantly 
 proves : there is nothing wanting but inclination. Not to 
 burthen with a fanatical multitude of words, but to imprefs 
 a deep fenfe of the fubjecf. of the fhortefr. prayers. Thus 
 may piety be rendered as familiar as any other fubjecr; and 
 the eternal obligations of religion become eafy and delight- 
 ful. 
 
 Am 
 
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 Among trie fuperior ranks of life, I have heard fome reftiie 
 away the fubftance of religion; and reprefenting thofe whom 
 Providence hath placed in a lower condition, as incapable of 
 knowing much, neglected to teach them That which the 
 great Founder of our religion commanded all of Us to learn : 
 and then with the fame infolence of fuperiority, treat them 
 with a cold difdain, becaufe they know fo little. Where is the 
 humanity, the piety, the common fenfe, or common juftice, 
 of fuch a procedure? 
 
 If the general plan of education^ among all ranks, were 
 to teach young perfons the full meaning of the words they 
 utter in prayer; we fliould become more obedient to the pre- 
 cepts of our religion. The arguments operate with equal 
 force on the peafant and philofopher ; and, allowing for 
 the difference of education^ on the young and old. Without 
 diftindtion of fuperior or inferior, in what we call condition, 
 he who believes that Chrift will come to judge the living 
 and the dead, if he is not mad, or an Idiot, will conclude, 
 that he muft endeavour to live according to the gofpel; and 
 earneftly repent of his fins, or be punifhed in a future* ftate. 
 
 It is not the rank or condition of mankind which is con- 
 cerned in the queftion. The moft exalted in ftation, and 
 the founded in morals, are but the miferable finners which 
 in prayer they declare themfelves to be. If we fay what we 
 do not mean, we become miferable indeed; for we affront 
 the Deity to his race. Happy it is when we are not given 
 over to what the pfalmift calls an impudent mind-, or fo con- 
 quered by a habit oi'Jinning, as to be pail the recovery of our 
 freedom. 
 
 With regard to the diftinction of the unlettered pupil, we 
 muft rather ftrive to exalt his mind, than deprefs our fubjedt 
 below its proper dignity; calling in the aids, even of fancy\ 
 to render devotion pleafing. In the firft ages of Chriflianity 
 finging had its fhare in private devotion: but as our churches 
 are now open, and under no perfecution, as in thofe days, 
 and yet that this part of worfhip gives loud notice to the world, 
 though we mean to be private, it jnay, in moft cafes, be better 
 excufed. Family devotion, in large families, in houfes detached, 
 or having apartments commodioufly lituated, whether they be 
 5 chapels 
 
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 chapels or not, the finging being generally moft grateful to the 
 common people and domeftic fervants, it may . It is no 
 
 lefs true, that we are ftrangely remits, in differing this part of 
 our devotion to fink into the hands of companies of fingers^ and 
 be monopolized by villagers, whole ambition it is to give a . 
 cimen of their abilities in this way, whilft the lcaft part of their 
 intention is to excite devotion in themfelves or others. 
 
 In the reformed churches abroad, they teach their children 
 as regularly to ling pfalms, in a proper and agreeable metre, 
 as they do to ready with a true accent. JVc fuffer our devo- 
 tion to be trifled with in this particular. 
 
 I have introduced fome pfalms and hymns which have been 
 fet to mufic (a) : thefe may be fung or read. The reft is fup- 
 plied by hymns and pious pieces collected from the beft 
 writers, the elegancy of which may render them pleafing and 
 edifying to the vulgar. Poetry on fuch fubjecls, flowing har- 
 monioufly and familiarly, not debafed by vilionary or fanatical 
 conceits, nor clouded in difficult or abftrufe doclrines, whe- 
 ther fung or read, may afford (o much the greater delight, 
 even to the unlettered hearer, as the loftinefs of fentiment 
 apd expreffion amounts to. 
 
 To obtrude low or obfeure fenfe, or bad poetry, in devo- 
 tion, is doing an injury to the caufe of piety ; however authors 
 may gratify themfelves in fpite of nature, which alone makes 
 poets. For though the unlettered are fometimes catched by 
 the ear, with a very barren compofition, uttered by ai favourite 
 leader; yet, if he were to difplay a good genius, he would 
 make the more converts ; as the moft fkilful hufbandman, 
 under Providence, bids faireft for the largeft crop. 
 
 This Manual contains very little that is fuperior to common 
 capacities. The fubjedts of the fmall portions of the reading 
 pfalms, &c. are diftinguifhed. This fcems to be wanting in 
 our liturgy. Nothing fhould be read, which doth not edify; 
 and nothing which the underftanding comprehendcth not, can 
 intereft the affeSlions^ or the wilL 
 
 The 
 
 (a) See the Foundling Hofpital fJolle&ion, in which feveral cf the 
 beft matters have been concerned, though the compositions arc plain 
 eafy. 
 
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 The private family devotion, here propofed, is made as ftiort 
 and comprehenfive as poffible. It is divided into feven parts, 
 for each day in the week; and each part fubdivided into three, 
 one for the morning; one for the evening, and another for 
 night; the two prefenting the choice of either. 
 
 Whatever might be the cuftom of the primitive Chrijlians, 
 I do not fuppofe however that many will read, and lefs pro- 
 bably pray, more than twice in twenty-four hours. My de- 
 fign, by introducing fuch a variety of words and thoughts, 
 is to keep the attention alive, and not tire it: trufting that 
 the flender tribute of ten minutes, can hardly be deemed a 
 heavy burthen. If ten minutes more were employed, ftill it 
 amounts but to the third part of one poor hour. 
 
 Having made this difpofition for dedicating the heart to 
 God, by a peculiar devotion of time\ be it in the morning, 
 or noon, or afternoon, or night, according to the circum- 
 stances and fituation of individuals; I have clofed every day's 
 devotion with a prayer, either on death or the refurreftion. 
 The hiftory of man, being comprifed in living, dying, and 
 rifmg again; in this comparative view, each feems to de- 
 mand its diftincl: confideration. 1 mean to render the thought 
 of death, as familiar, as it is important. This, in the great 
 profpecl: of life, ought to be a conjlant and awful monitor; 
 to reftrain us from evil. 
 
 The thought, that it may pleafe the benignant Lord of all, 
 to accept this humble offering, is a happinefs worth the whole 
 labour of my life; and I fhall rejoice, even though I Jhouldnot 
 fucceed. If perchance I Jhould find myfelf inftrumental to 
 the gracious defigns of his providence, in promoting the 
 everlafting welfare of any fellow-creature 3 whether he be 
 poor or rich is very immaterial, 
 
 J.H. 
 
 Feb. 1774, 
 
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 MANUAL of DEVOTION, &c. 
 
 <Tht Foundation of the Ckriftian Religion. 
 
 Belief. 
 
 I Believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and 
 earth : And in Jefus Chrijl his only Son our Lord ; who 
 was conceived by the Holy Gbojl \ born of the Virgin Mary j 
 fuffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, and 
 buried j he defcended into hell ; the third day he rofe again 
 from the dead ; he afcended into heaven, and fitteth on the 
 right hand of God the Father Almighty ; from thence he 
 (hall come to judge the quick and the dead. 
 
 1 believe in the Holy Ghoft ; the holy catholick church; 
 the communion of faints ; the forgivenefs of fins ; the re fur* 
 re&ion of the body, and the life cverlafting. Amen. 
 
 Thefe articles of faith being digefted and eftabliflied in 
 our hearts ; to be confiftent we muft a5i as knowing there 
 is a ftate of rewards and punifhments after death ; and that 
 the judge of the quick and dead, here referred to, requires 
 obedience to the commandments of God. 
 
 The Commandments. 
 
 1. THOU /halt have no other gods but me. 
 
 II. Thou fhalt not make to thyfelf any graven 
 image, nor the likenefs of any thing that is in heaven above, 
 or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. 
 Thou fhalt not bow down to them, nor worfhip them : for 
 I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and vifit the fins of 
 
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 the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth gene- 
 ration of them that hate me ; and fhew mercy unto thous- 
 ands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 
 
 III. Thou (halt not take the name of the Lord thy God in 
 \~au\ : for the Lord will not hold him guiltlefs that taketh his 
 name in vain. 
 
 IV. Remember that thou keep holy the fabbath-day. Six 
 days (halt thou labour, and do all that thou haft to do; but 
 the feventh day is the fabbath of the Lord thy God : In it 
 thou fhalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy fon, and thy 
 daughter, thy man-fervant and thy maid-fervant, thy cattle, 
 and the ftranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days 
 the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea and all that in them 
 is, and refted the feventh day : wherefore the Lord blefled 
 the feventh day, and hallowed it. 
 
 V. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may 
 be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 
 
 VI. TIigu fhalt do no murder. 
 
 VII. Thou fhalt not commit adultery. 
 
 VIII. Thou {halt not fteal. 
 
 IX. Thou fhalt not bear falfe witnefs againfl thy neigh- 
 bour. 
 
 X. Thou malt not covet thy neighbour's houfe, thou fhalt 
 not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his fervant, nor his maid, 
 nor his ox, nor his afs, nor any thing that is his. 
 
 If moral obligations are of eternal force, and faith without 
 morality is of no value in advancing our happinefs j obedience 
 is our chief good ; and from this we are to hope for all the 
 fruits of our labours on earth, thro' the merits of Chrijl. The 
 chrijlian faith is fupported by a fyftem of morals, no lefs 
 than thefe commandments, delivered to Mofes the great leader 
 of the Jews by God himfelf, with all the majefty and authority 
 of the deity, and under all the folemn tyes of a divine law. 
 It hath been iince confirmed by J ejus Chrijl y our great law- 
 giver, mediator and redee?ncr, who declares that he came not to 
 dejlroy, but to fulfil the law. Thefe are therefore as eflential 
 to ChriflianS) as they ever were to Jews. If we are obedient 
 to the commandments of God, from a juft fcnfe of their being 
 
 fuch, 
 
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 fuch, we mall find no difficulty in complying with the com- 
 mands of his Son, with regard to the conftatU ufe of t!ic form 
 diftinguifticd by the name of" the Lord's prayer, which when 
 we pray we are commanded to ufe, viz. 
 
 The Lord's prayer. 
 
 AUR Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 
 Thy kingdom come. Thy v/ill be done in earth, as it 
 is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive 
 us our trefpafles, as we forgive them that trefpafs againff. us. 
 And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us from evil : 
 for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for 
 ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 This prayer is of the higheft importance, from the wifdom 
 and fanclity of the author, as well as for its contents. It 
 is the firft which we ufually learn : the fenfe of it is plain, 
 beyond difput:, and for this reafon it is put into the mouths of 
 babes. It is likewife of fo comprehenfive a nature, as to carry 
 with it the ftrongeft marks of its divine original. There 
 are numerous comments and explanations of it, by very pious 
 and learned men ; but a child, 1 fay, may comprehend it; 
 and particularly as we beg forgivenefs of our fins, on the 
 terms and condition of forgiving others their trefpafles againft 
 us. As we are commanded, when we pray, to fay this 
 prayer ; how can we attempt to approach the throne of mercy, 
 without faying it ; or how live under a refeiitment of 
 injuries, or in circumftances wherein hatred, malice, or 
 revenge prevail in the heart, when the forgivenefs allied, 
 is upon the terms of forgiving others ? 
 
 We chrijilans^ for the molt part ufe an ejaculatory prayer [a) 
 when we firft come into church ; and another after the fer- 
 vice is ended ; as well to prepare the mind for the folcmn 
 bufincfs we come to perform, as to entreat the Almighty, 
 that what we have heard and laid in his prefence, may have 
 a due influence on our lives. This fhort a£t of devotion can 
 
 never 
 
 (/i) Epculatory prayer fignifies, agreeable to the common kal'c of 
 the words, fudden, or that which is done in a h He. 
 
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 never be omitted, without a manifeft violence on the mind. 
 We mull either forget what we are to do, or depend on our 
 own powers, without application for affiftance from him, 
 whom we intend to worfhip, in the beft manner we are able : 
 and the bsft manner muft imply application for his aid. To 
 cover the face to be thought to pray, and not to do it, is 
 mockery, even in the fight of men ; but fuch behaviour in the 
 eyes cf the all-feeing God, is in efFeft: inviting his refentment. 
 
 An ejaculation on going into church, 
 
 C\ Lord, I befeech thee, grant, that the words of my mouth, 
 and the meditations of my heart, may be acceptable to 
 thee, thro' Jefus Chrift my Redeemer. 
 
 After divine fervice, before leaving the church, 
 
 rjRANT, O God, that the words which I have now 
 heard, and uttered, maybefo grafted on my heart, that 
 I. may live in conftant obedience to thy holy laws, thro* 
 Jefus Chrift my Redeemer. 
 
 As it is not the number of the words we utter, which con^ 
 flitutes true devotion, but the habitual fentiments of the 
 heart, and the offering of our thoughts, at proper times, in a 
 fuitable manner ; can we awake to falute the fun, and rife 
 from the grave of fleep, without an addrefs to heaven ? 
 This deferves our ferious thoughts. 
 
 A morning ejaculation,- on waking, 
 
 TTNTO thee, I lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwelleft 
 
 in the heavens. Early do 1 cry unto thee ! O incline 
 
 my heart, that I may call my ways to remembrance, and 
 
 diligently obey thy commandments, thro* Jefus Chrifi my 
 
 Saviour, 
 
 As verfe is mofl pleafing to the fancy, and moft familiar 
 to the memory, and harmony in found as well as fenfe is 
 beft adapted to the praifes of God, this v/ill ever be valu- 
 able in devotion. The poor unlettered hind oppreft with 
 
 labour 
 
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 labour and care, may for a time lofe all memory of evils 
 part, when he hears angelic thoughts expreflcd in the fweet 
 language of harmonious verfe. The fevcral hymns fol- 
 lowing, arc upon this principle recommended to the choico 
 of individuals. 
 
 J morning hymn (a). 
 
 TJTASTE, O my foul, exulting rife, 
 And with the glorious orb of 'day y 
 Prepare thy morning facrifice, 
 And join creation 3 choral lay. 
 
 may each fenfe with joy attend, 
 
 The grateful rites my foul prepares ; 
 My lips their holy incenfe blend, 
 
 And pour with fervent zeal my pray'rs! 
 
 Glory to thee, my God and king, 
 
 Whofe facred guard my tent hath kept; 
 
 J3eneath the fhelter of whofe wing, 
 In fweet fecurity I flept. 
 
 Second morning hymn (b), 
 
 1 NSPIR'D by thy Almighty pow'r, 
 
 I now refrefh'd, to light awake, 
 And grateful hail the pleafing hour 
 
 When, Balmy Sleep ! thy bands I break. 
 
 Still, ftill, Almighty King, protect 
 
 Thy fervant, thro* each circling day, 
 
 And with thy guiding aid direct 
 
 My wand'ring feet, too prone to ftray. 
 
 Then while life's dreary vale I roam, 
 To thee the votive fong I'll raife, 
 
 And when thy mandate calls mc home, 
 
 in heavenly choirs I'll chant thy praife. 
 
 (a) By a lady. {b) By the fa* 
 
 Third 
 
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 Third morning hymn [a). 
 
 COON as the dawn has ftreak'd the fky, 
 To thee, my God, my voice I'll raife; 
 
 Soon as the light falutes mine eve, 
 
 To thee I'll tunt my fong of praife. 
 
 Thy hallowM name my, heart fhall warm ; 
 
 To thee my foul her pray'r fhall pour ; 
 To thee, who ftill fecur'd from harm, 
 
 Preferv'ft me in the midnight hour. 
 
 Still, gracious God, my heart direct ; 
 
 May all my labours feek thy praife ; 
 Do thou my heedlefs feet protect, 
 
 And ftill to thee my wonder raife. 
 
 Fourth morning hymn (/>)♦ 
 
 A WA K E my glory, 'ere th' aproaching morn 
 
 Doth with a radiant fun the fky adorn j 
 Awake each faculty, awake and fing, 
 In holy raptures my Almighty King. 
 
 In notes divine, let my glad voice proclaim 
 His mighty goodnefs, and eternal name : 
 Let my true praifes reach th' heavens above, 
 And fill my foul with rapture and with love. 
 
 But O my God, thy wonders are too great 
 For tongue to fpeak, or verfe to celebrate ; 
 So vaft thy mercies, and thy truth fo high, 
 They pierce the clouds, and reach beyond the fky. 
 
 It 
 
 {a) This hymn, written by the fame lady, is rendered more familiar 
 to the unlettered. 
 
 (b) Except fome lines which I have fince altered, this is the hymn 
 which was taught me in my childhood ; and I now prefent it as con- 
 figuring the greater variety ; it is not lefs poetical in the figure, but it 
 hath not fo much fenfe and matter, as the third hymn. 
 
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 It js another great event, in the circle of every twenty- 
 four hours, to reft from our cares and labours, and fall into 
 the arms of fleep on the pillow, as we hope for reft in the 
 grave. 
 
 Ejaculation for nighty on the approach of Jleep. 
 
 l/'EEP me, O Lord, under the fhadow of thy Almighty 
 power, and preferve me from the dangers of this night. 
 Blot out my tranfgreflions, and when my lajl bourthdW come, 
 O let me as gently pafs from life to death, as I now drop 
 into fleep : and receive me, O God, into thy eternal reft, 
 for Jefus Chriji his fake ! 
 
 Hymn for the evening (a). 
 
 71/fy ful thy grateful homage pay, 
 
 For all the blcflings thou haft known, 
 For thofe that mark'd thy recent day, 
 
 And each unnumber'd moment flown. 
 
 Now night in folemn pomp array'd, 
 
 O'er half the globe extends his reign, 
 
 Now mines the floor of heaven inlaid 
 
 With radiant orbs, a wond'rous train ! 
 
 Grant me, O Lord, each day to live, 
 Still confeious of that coming hour. 
 
 When death demands, and I (hall give 
 An awful tribute to his power ! 
 
 Second evening hy?nn[b). 
 
 f\ God, with confidence infpir'd, 
 
 I now return to needful reft ; 
 
 With faith and hope my bofom nVd, 
 
 I feel the comforts of the bleft. 
 
 But when my erring nature fails, 
 
 O let my pow'rful Saviour plead j 
 
 His facred blood alone avails, 
 
 His facred blood, for me decreed I 
 
 Onuy 
 
 {a) (A) By the fame lady as the three morning hymns, 
 
O may my foul in thee repofe, 
 
 To thee, her hopes, her fears refign j 
 
 And grant my eyes in peace may clofe, 
 Confiding in thy pow'r divine. 
 
 Third evening hymn (a). 
 
 T? TERNAL glory, Lord, be thine, 
 For ev'ry blefling I have known : 
 May grateful fongs of praife be mine, 
 
 And may thofe fongs afcend thy throne ? 
 
 My heavy eyes in fleep I'll clofe, 
 Secure in thy Almighty care : 
 
 And bid my weary limbs repofe, 
 
 Confiding ftill that thou art near ! 
 
 Then when the fleep of death fhall come, 
 With hope and faith, let me obey 
 
 That pow'r, which calls me to the tomb, 
 Expectant of eternal day / 
 
 Fourth evening hymn (b). 
 
 CLEEP is a death, O make me try* 
 
 By deeping, what it is to die ; 
 And down as gently lay my head, 
 Within my grave, as on my bed* 
 
 Howe'er I reft, great God let me, 
 Awake again at laft with thee : 
 And thus afTur'd, behold 1 lie 
 Securely, or to wake, or die ! 
 
 Thefe 
 
 (a) I requefted a hymn more familiar in the fentiment, than the 
 former two j and was ©bliged with this, by the fame lady : and it fecms to 
 be preferable, for the ufe of the unlettered. 
 
 (£) The fame remark, as made on the fourth morning hymn, may be 
 obferved on this for the evening. 
 
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 Thefe arc* my drowfy clays ; in vain 
 
 I now tL wake, to flcep again : 
 
 O come that hour, when I fhall never 
 
 Sleep again, but wake for ever ! - 
 
 The hymn in praife of Divine Providence, written by the 
 celebrated Mr. Addifon, containing his profefiion of belief in 
 the efficacy of prayer, deferves a place in this work j and can 
 ftand in no page with more propriety. 
 
 TLJOW are thy fervants bleft, O Lord! 
 
 How fure is their defence! 
 Eternal wifdom is their guide, 
 Their help, Omnipotence, 
 
 In foreign realms, and lands remote^ 
 
 Supported by thy care, 
 Thro* burning climes I pafs'd unhurt, 
 
 And breattid in tainted cur. 
 
 Thy mercy fweeten'd ev'ry foil, 
 
 Made ev'ry region pleafe : 
 The hoary Alpine hills it warm'd, 
 
 And fnooth'd the Tyrrhene feas* 
 
 Think, O my foul ! devoutly think ! 
 
 How with affrighted eyes, 
 Thou faw'ft the wide extended deep, 
 
 In all it's horrors rife ! 
 
 Confufion dwelt in ev'ry face, • 
 
 And fear in ev'ry heart ; 
 When waves on waves, and gulphs on gulphs, 
 
 O'ercame the pilot's art ! 
 
 Yet then, from all my griefr, O Lord ! 
 
 Thy mercy Jet me free, 
 }l hiljl in the confidence of 'pray 1 V, 
 
 My foul took hold on thee ! 
 
 fjr the* in dreadful whirls we hung? 
 
 High on the broken wave, 
 I knew thou ivert not jlow to hear? 
 
 Nov impotent to five. 
 
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 The (loim..aw laid, the winds retirM-, 
 
 Obedient to thy will ; 
 The fea /te roar' d at thy command, 
 
 At thy command was fill. 
 
 In midft of dangers, fears, and death, 
 
 Thy mercy I'll adore, 
 And praife thee for thy ?nercies paf, 
 
 And humbly hope for more. 
 
 My life, if thou preferv'ji my life, 
 
 Thy facrifice fhall be; — 
 And death, if death muft be my doom, 
 
 Shall join my foul to thee. 
 
 Were we to prepare our minds by a conftant exercife of 
 an evening and morning faciifice, from the pillow, in the 
 full perfuafion of the Providence of God, it might add 
 ibftnefs to our {lumbers, and fplendor to the light. We 
 might rife and mix with the world, in a firmer confidence 
 of being fhielded by the arm of omnipotence. 
 
 Hath not Chrifl commanded that our light mould mine be- 
 fore men, that we may glorify our Father who is in heaven ? 
 How can we do this more effectually, than by our whole 
 houfe ferving the God of our fathers, by offering up to him 
 the daily incenfeofour prayers? 
 
 There are yet fome perfons among us, who collect their 
 relations and dependants, their friends and domeftics, or as 
 many of them as the # nature of their fituation will admit, 
 living under the fame roof, to offer up the oblation cf prayer, 
 as constantly as the morning and the night returns. Lefe 
 ftudious to polish their manners, form their tafte, and 
 adapt their conceptions to the ftandard of the diminutive 
 cuftoms cf the world, they boldly accept the invitations oi 
 their reafon and faith : they roufe from the downy bed of 
 (loth, and break the fhackles which faihion and the diflipa- 
 tion of the times have fo artfully gilded. Daily they take a 
 comprehehfive view of heaven and earth ; and convcrfing 
 with the nobleft objects which the foul is capable of enter- 
 taining, furvey both worlds, and prepare for eternity ! 
 
 The 
 
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 1 he hfe of every man, is hourly drawing to the I It 
 
 fhould be the grand bulincfs of his days to make tbefe brij 
 and fparkling; and by purging them from the foul dn 
 render them fvvect and refre/hing. Is it poffi le t 
 them more delicious than the fprings of pleafure, at»which 
 youth is wont to drink to eagerly ? Yes : the young cannot 
 enjoy all the advantage of age, tho* the aged may relifh the 
 higheft fweets of youth. The genuine delights of religion 
 comprehend all that memory or fancy, judgment or affecHon < 
 furniih to the foul of man: and the power of religion is 
 found in prayer, in cah Kt, and the contem- 
 
 plation of the perfections of God. 
 
 The tafte of ZpoKti nation may be fo vitiated, as to fh rink 
 back with difdain, at the mention of a manual of devotion \ 
 as a fever of the blood may deftruy all defire of food, at 
 the moment that the body languifhes mo ft and tends to its 
 d 'Ablution for want of nourifhment. 
 
 Calm, pure, elevated, manly devotion, is the foul of life, 
 to the moft animated of the children of men : preafant as 
 light to the eye, water to parched ihirft, re it to the tired, or 
 pardon to the defponding prifoner, expecting an ignominious 
 death ! 
 
 Were our minds truly pofTefied of a pit fenfe of our rela- 
 tion to God, the employment c f the fhort intervals here re- 
 commended, might conftitute the moft picaiant of our tran- 
 fient moments; and we might learn by taking conftant heed 
 to our ways, to make all the hours of our lives fwcet, as one 
 continued prayer. 
 
 In regard to the variety, which conftitutes thefe diurnal 
 devotional exercifes ; tho' they differ from thofe, which con- 
 fift of a multiplicity of prayers only, y< t are they not lefs 
 reverential to the deity, nor do 1 apprehend they will ad- 
 minifter lefs to the great ends of piety. Much intenfenefs of 
 thought is not the property of common mortals ; therefore the 
 ufe of many prayers, or very long ones, at one and the fame 
 time, is not fuited io general ov^zWqc. 
 
 To avoid the eiror of too much expectation of good, and 
 too little attention to devotioi), the remedy may poftibly be 
 found in the method which I have taken : I am fupported in 
 
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 it by a very high authority : the breaks in our common 
 liturgy are founded on the fame principle. If this admirable 
 collection and compofition were divided into a choice, for two or 
 three times, the caufe of piety would probably receive no 
 injury. However this may be, private family devotion, thus 
 fhortcned and varied, may be deemed the more confident, 
 Milton fpeaking of our firft parents, fays, 
 
 <c Lowly they bowed adoring, and began 
 
 " Their orifons, each morning duly paid 
 
 * c In various Jl'ile j for neither various fti!c 
 
 <c Nor holy rapture wanted they, to praife 
 
 " Their Maker, in fit Jirains pronouncd,ox fung 
 
 * c Unmeditated, fuch prompt eloquence 
 
 " Flow'd from their lips, in profe or numerous verjkp 
 
 " More tuneable than needed lute or harp y 
 
 " To add more fweetnefs."' 
 
 The opinion of this great poet, might pofllbly be for the 
 difufe of forms, according to the' enthufiafm of his time j and 
 if every one were poiTeiTed of fuch powers as he was, the 
 principle might be warranted : my meaning with regard 
 to variety, is founded on a perfuafion, that with all poflible 
 afiiftance, even from forms of prayer, the mind will wander; 
 but the more it is brought home by the aids of fancy, and 
 variety of mode and expreflion, the fairer it bids for fuch im- 
 preflions as are moil grateful to the deity, 
 
 M o k- 
 
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 Monday Morning. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 OBE joyful in the Lord : ferve him with gladnefs, and 
 ife his name for ever. 
 For bi is God; it is he who hath made us, and not we 
 
 'ves. 
 Let us come into his prefence with thankfgiving. Let us 
 give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name. 
 Glory be to tbee y O Lord, 
 
 P S A L M S. 
 
 For pardon of fin s 
 
 r~\ Lord, rebuke me not in thine indignation, norchaften 
 me in thy difpleafure ! 
 
 Have mercy upon me, for I am weak. O heal me, for my 
 heart is vexed! 
 
 Turn thee, O God, and deliver my foul: O favc me for 
 thy mercies fake ! 
 
 For in death, who can remember thee: and who can give 
 thee thanks in the grave ? 
 
 I am weary of my fins : O Lord deliver my foul ! 
 
 Away from mc, all ye that work vanity : for the Lord wilj 
 hear the voice of my zveeping. 
 
 Hear my petition, O Lord, and receive my prayer. 
 
 Unto the will I lift up my foul : my God y I have put my trujl 
 in thee: O let mc not be confounded, neither let mine 
 enemies triumph over me. 
 
 None who hope in thee will ever be afhamed ! — 
 
 Glory be to tkee, L:i I ' 
 
 Tht 
 
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 The excellency of the commandments. 
 
 "VK/Herewithal fhall a young man cleanfe his way: even 
 .' by ruling himfelf after thy commandments 
 
 BlefTed art thou, O Lord : O te?ch me thy flatutes. 
 
 Let me talk of thy commandments, and have refpect unto 
 thy ways. 
 
 My delight fhall be in thy ftatutes : and I will not forget 
 thy word.— Glory he to thee, Lord ! 
 
 Prediclion of the coining of fefus Chrijl. 
 
 Ifaiah xl. 
 
 /^Omfort ye, comfort ye, my people, faith your God : 
 fpeak ye comfortably to feiufalem, and cry unto her, 
 that her warfare is accomplifhcj, that her iniquity is par- 
 doned ; for fhe hath received of the Lord's hand double for all 
 her fins. The voice of him that crieth in the wildernefs, 
 Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make firait in the defer t a high 
 iv ay for cur God! Every valley fall be exalted, and every moun- 
 tain and hill Jhall be made low, and the crooked jhall be made 
 frait, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord jlwll 
 be revealed, and all fejh Jhall fee it together, for the mouth of the 
 Lord hath fpoken it. 
 
 Part of our Saviour's fermon on the mount. 
 
 "IXyHEN ye pray, ufe not vain repetitions as the heathens 
 do : for they think they fhall be heard for their 
 much fpeaking. — Moreover, when ye fafl, be not as the hy- 
 pocrites, of a fad countenance : for they disfigure their faces 
 that they may appear unto men to faft. Verily I fay unto 
 you, they have their reward.*— Lay not up for yourfelves trea- 
 fures upon earth, where moth and rufl do corrupt, and where 
 thieves break through and Jleah — But lay up for yourfelves 
 treafures in heaven, where neither moth nor rufl: doth cor- 
 rupt, and where thieves do not break through and fteal. — 
 Behold the fowls of the air ; for they fzv not, neither do 
 they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father 
 
 feedeih 
 
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 '' them. Arc ye not much better than they? Which of you 
 by taking thought can add one cubit unto his ftature ?— And 
 why take ye thought for -idcr the lilies of the 
 
 field hew they grow, they toil not, neither do they fpin.— And* 
 yet 1 fay unto ^ou, that even Solomon in all his glory was not 
 arrayed like one of theft i — Wherefore if God fo cloath the 
 grafs of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cajl 
 into t , fhall he not much more cloath v$//, O ye of 
 
 little faith ? — Therefore take no thought, faying, What fhall 
 we eat ? or what fhall we drink ? or wherewithal fhall we be 
 cloathed? — (for after all thefe things do the Gentiles feek) 
 for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all 
 .\-s. — But feek ye firjU the kingdom of God and bis 
 righteoufnefs, and all theft things fhall be added unto you. 
 
 Hymn on Charity. 
 
 A Paraphrafe en the thirteenth chapter of the firjl etijUe to the 
 Corinthians. 
 
 M "Pj ID fweeter founds adorn my flowing tongue, 
 Than ever man pronoune'd or angel fung : 
 Had I all knowledge human and di\ infc, 
 That thought can reach or fcience can define : 
 
 And had I power to give that knowledge birth 
 In all the fpeeches of the babling earth : 
 Did Shadrach's zeal my glowing breafl infpire, 
 To weary tortures and rejoice in fire- 
 
 Or had I faith, like that which Ifrael faw, 
 When Mofes gave them miracles and law : 
 Yet, gracious charity, indulgent gueft, 
 Were not thy power exerted in my brcr.ft, 
 
 Thofe fpeeches would fend up unheeded pray'r, 
 That fern of life, would be but u r. 
 
 A cymbal's found were better than my voice, 
 fere form, my tloquexct were nc 
 
 Blaft 
 
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 Bleft charity, modeft, eafy, kind, 
 Softens the high, and rears the abject mind ; 
 Knows with juft rein, and gentle hand to guide 
 Betwixt vile fhame, and arbitrary pride : 
 
 Not foon provok'd, fhe eafily forgives, 
 And. much me fuffers, as fhe much believes : 
 Soft peace me brings, wherever fhe arrives - 9 
 She builds our quiet, as fhe forms our lives : 
 
 Lays the rough paths of peevifh nature ev'n, 
 And opens in each heart a little heav'n. 
 Each other gift which God on man beftows, 
 It's proper bound, and due restriction knows, 
 
 To one fix'd purpofe dedicates it's pow'r, 
 And fmifhing its act, exifts no more. 
 Thus in obedience to what heav'n decrees, 
 Knowledge fhall fail, and prophecy fhall ceafe : 
 
 But lading charity's new ample fway, 
 
 Not bound by time, nor fubjecT: to decay ; 
 
 In happy triumph mall for ever live, 
 
 And endlefs good diffufe, and endlefs praife receive." 
 
 I . Morning prayer, 
 
 r\ Almighty and everlafiing God, whofe Providence ha9 
 brought us to the return of light; defend us, we 
 befeech thee, by thy power ', that we may avoid every kind of 
 fin and danger. Let the daily tribute of our thanks flow from 
 our hearts \ and accept, O God, we befeech thee, our re- 
 pentance, according to thy gracious promifes declared to 
 mankind, by Jefus CbriJ}. Grant, for his fake, that we 
 may live foberly and righteoufly the remaining days of our 
 lives, to the falvaticn of our fouls, and the glory of thy holy 
 name. 
 
 2. Our Father, &c. 
 
 3. For repentance. 
 
 A Lmighty God and heavenly Father, who in thy great 
 
 mercy haft piomifed forgivenefs of fins, to all who with 
 
 hearty repentance, and true faith, turn unto thee: have 
 
 5 mercy 
 
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 Htercy upon us' Pardon and deliver us from all our fmb , ~ 
 Confirm and ftrengthen us in all goodn-fs ! — And bring us, 
 
 Lord, to tverlafl'tng life, through Jcfus Chrijl our Redeemer. 
 Amen. 
 
 Monday Afternoon or Night, 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 rHOU Lord art good, and worthy to be had in perpe- 
 tual remembrance ! for thy mercy is everlufting, and thy 
 truth endureth to all generations ! 
 
 Unto thee, O Lord, do we lift up our fouls, and magnify 
 thy name for ever and ever ! 
 Glory be to thee, Lord, 
 
 Psalms. 
 On the vanity of human life. 
 
 ORD, let me confider myend, and the number of my 
 
 days: that I may be certified I have but a fhort time to 
 live. 
 
 Behold, thou haft made my days as it were a fpan long: 
 and mine age is even as nothing in refpect of Thee : verily 
 every man living is altogether vanity ! 
 
 Man walketh in a vain fhadow, and difquieteth himfelf in 
 vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who fhall gather 
 them. 
 
 And now, Lord, V/hztJhculd be the objed of my hope? My 
 hope is in Thee! 
 
 Glory be to thee, O Lord. 
 
 Thankfgiving. 
 
 1 Will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart j 
 
 I will fpeak of all thy marvellous works ! 
 
 I will be glad and rejoice in Thee; yea my long will I 
 make of thy name, O thou Mod High ! 
 
 For Thou wilt judge the zvorld in righteoufnefs: and mini- 
 fter true judgment unto the people. 
 
 Thou alfo wilt be a defence for the opprefied : even a re- 
 fuge in time of trouble. 
 
 E And 
 
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 And they that know thy name, will put their truft in Thee ; 
 for thou, Lord, haft never failed them that feek Thee!— 
 Glory be to thee*, Lord, 
 
 The birth of Chrif. 
 
 Matth. i. 1 8. 
 
 '"p H E birth of Jefus Chrijl was on this wife : When as 
 his mother Mary was efpoufed to Jofepb, before they came 
 together fhe was found with child of the Holy Ghoft. Then 
 Jofeph her hufband, being a juft man, and not willing to 
 make her a public example, was minded to put her away 
 privily. But, while he thought on thefe things, behold the 
 angel of the Lord appeared unto him, in a dream, faying, 
 " Jofeph, thou fan of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary 
 thy wife -, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghofl. 
 Andjhejhall bring forth a Son, and thoujhalt call his name Jefus, 
 for He Jhall fave his people from their fins!" 
 
 Caution for 'a Chrijlian life. 
 Romans xiii. 
 
 '"p H E night is far fpent, the day is at hand ; let us there- 
 fore caft off the works of darknefs, and put on the armour 
 of light. Let us walk honeflly, as in the day; not in rioting 
 and drunkennefs ; not in chambering and wantonnefs; not in flrife 
 and envying: but put ye on the tord Jefus Chr\ft\ and make 
 not provifion for the fejh, to fulfil the lufls thereof. 
 
 In contemplation of the wonders of creation. 
 
 '"P H E fpacious firmament on high, 
 
 With all the blue etherial fky, 
 And fpangled heav'ns, a mining frame, 
 Their great Original proclaim. 
 Th' unwearied fun, from day to day, 
 Does his Creator's power difplay, 
 And publifhes to every land, 
 The work of aa Almighty hand. 
 
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 Soon as th 1 evening fhades prevail, 
 The moon takes up the vvond'rous tale, 
 And nightly to the lift'ning earth 
 Repeats the ftory of her birth : 
 Whilft all the ftars that round her burn, 
 And all the planets in their turn, 
 Confirm the tidings as they roll, 
 And fpread the truth from pole to pole. 
 
 What though, in folemn filence, all 
 Move round this dark terrcftrial ball ; 
 What though nor real voice nor found 
 Amid their radiant orbs be found ; 
 In reafons ear they all rejoice, 
 And utter forth a glorious voice; 
 For ever Tinging, as they fhine, 
 The Hand that made us is divine. 
 
 Psalm which may befung. 
 For conjlancy in religious obedience. 
 
 HP EACH me, O teach me, Lord, thy way $ 
 
 So to my life's remoteft day, 
 By thy unerring precepts led, 
 My willing feet its paths fhall tread. 
 Inform'd by Thee, with facred awe 
 My heart fhall meditate thy law; 
 And, with celeftial wifdom fill'd, 
 To Thee its full obedience yield. 
 Give me to know thy words aright, 
 (Thy word my foul's fupreme delight) 
 That, purg'd from thirft of gold, my mind 
 In them its better wealth may find. 
 O turn from vanity mine eye, 
 To me thy quick'ning ftrength fupply, 
 And with thy promis'd mercy chear 
 A heart devoted to thy fear. 
 
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 4. Evening Prayer. 
 
 \fl O S T merciful God, and tender Father of mankind, 
 we befeech thee to receive the humble tribute of our 
 thanks, for all thy mercies vouchfafed unto us this day paft. 
 Forgive the numerous fins we have committed, and pardon 
 all our fccret faults (#). In thy awful prefence we offer up 
 the facrifice of our hearts: accept it, O Lord, as our even- 
 ing oblation, and hearken to our unfeigned prayer! Banifh 
 from us all evil thoughts: let not our own imaginations con- 
 fpire againfc us : and protect us from all the perils of this night. 
 Be thou our guard and our defence, and, as we now ceafe from 
 the cares and labours of the day, we truft that in thy good time, 
 O Lord, thou wilt bring us to eternal rejl, in Jefus Chrift, 
 our blelTed Saviour and Redeemer. 
 
 5. Our Father, &c. 
 
 6. For acceptance of prayer. 
 
 r\ Heavenly King, Almighty and Eternal God, we thy finful 
 creatures implore thy parental goodnefs !— Thou who art 
 the tender Father of mankind, accept the humiliation of our 
 hearts. AiTift us, O merciful Creator, that we may truft 
 in thee as our only good ! — Fill us with thy grace, that, thro* 
 faith in the blood of Chrift, we may live in obedience to thy 
 laws, and obtain remifiion of our fins, and all the benefits 
 of his paflion. To thee, O God, we offer up our fouls and 
 bodies, as a reafonable, holy and lively facrifice ! And al- 
 though our fins be fo numerous, that we are not worthy to 
 ftand in thy fight, we befeech thee, of thy goodnefs, to accept 
 our prayers! Receive them, O God of mercy, through the 
 mediation of Jefus Chrift our Saviour, by whom, and with 
 whom, in the Unity of the Holy Spirit, all honour and glory, 
 dominion and power be unto thee, O Father Almighty, 
 .World without end ! Amen. 
 
 {a) To mike fuch p'aufes as mny afford time for fome recollection, 
 as each may apply to him/elf the (ins he is confcious of. 
 
 7. For 
 
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 7. For pardon of fins , in the hour of death. 
 
 tpATHER of angels and men! Almighty Lord and 
 Creator of univerfal being, in whom do live the fpirits 
 of the juft made perfect ! O let our fouls be acceptable in 
 thy fight ! Wafh them in the blood of that immaculate Lamb 
 which was fhed for the fins of the world ; that the defilements 
 they have contracted may be purged away. And thou, O Lord 
 of life, and Saviour of the world, forgive our tranfgrcflions ! 
 Plead thou our caufe at the throne of mercy, and receive us 
 into everlalHng blifs ! 
 
 Second Part of Monday Night. 
 Invocation. 
 
 r\ God, what is man, that thou art mindful of him; and 
 the fon of man, that thou vifiteft him ? — 
 
 Who mall afcend into the hill of the Lord, or who fhall 
 rife up in his holy place ? — 
 
 Even he, that hath clean hands and a pure heart ; and that 
 hath not lifted up his mind unto vanity, nor fworn to deceive 
 his neighbour. 
 
 Glory be to thee, Lord! 
 
 Psalms. 
 For trujl in God, 
 
 T" 1 H O U waft my hope when I hanged yet upon my 
 mother's bread. 
 
 I have been left unto Thee ever fince I was born; thou art 
 my God; even from my mother's womb ! 
 
 Be not thou far from me, O Lord : thou art my fuccour, 
 hafte thee to help me. 
 
 O praife the Lord, ye that fear him, magnify him all ye 
 fans of men ! 
 
 For he hath not defpifed the low eftate of the poor: he hath 
 not hid his face from him; but when he called unto him he 
 healed him. 
 
 The poor fhall cat and be fatisfied ; they that feck after 
 
 the Lord fhall praife him; they fhall live for ever! 
 
 Let 
 
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 Let all the ends of the world rerhcmber themfelves, and 
 be turned unto the Lord, and all the kindred of the nations 
 worfhip before him. 
 
 For the kingdom is the Lord's, and He is the governor 
 among the people. 
 
 All they that go down into the dufi, fhall kneel before him: 
 and no man hath quickened his own foul. 
 
 They fhall return, and the heavens mail declare his righte- 
 oufnefs. 
 
 Glory be to thee, O Lord! 
 
 For confidence in God under all conditions, 
 
 *"p H O U, O Lord, art my defender : thou art my worfhip : 
 and the lifter up of my head. 
 
 I lay me down and fleep, and rife up again ; for thou, Lord, 
 fuftaineft me. 
 
 Salvation belongeth unto thee, O Lord, and thy bleffing 
 is upon thy people. 
 
 When I remember thee, my heart is glad, and my glory (a) 
 rejoiceth, my flefh alfo refteth in hope! 
 
 Thou fheweft me the path of life: in thy prefence is the 
 fulnefs of joy; and at thy right hand there is pleafure for ever- 
 more. 
 
 Thou, Lord, art my light and my falvation, whom fhall 
 1 fear ? Thou, Lord, art the/irength of my life, of whom fhall 
 I be afraid? 
 
 Appearance of angels at the birth ofChriJi 
 Luke ii. 15. 
 
 AND it came to pafs, as the angels were gone away 
 from them to heaven, the fhepherds faid one to another, 
 Let us now go even unto\Bethlehe?n^ and fee this thing which is come 
 to pafs, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came 
 with hafte, and found Mary and Jofeph and the Babe lying 
 in a manger. And, when they had (een it, they made known 
 abroad the faying which was told them concerning this Child, 
 
 (a) The foul and rational nature, 
 
 Defcrip- 
 
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 Defcription of the life cf a true Chrijlian. 
 
 Colojftans iii. I. 
 
 pUTon bowels of mercy, kindnefs, humblcnefs of mind, meek- 
 nefs, long-fuffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving 
 one another, if any man have a quarrel againft any; even as 
 Chrifr. forgave you, fo alfo do ye. And above all thefe things, 
 put on charity, which is the bond of perfechiefs. And let 
 the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which alfo ye are 
 called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of 
 Chrijl dwell in you richly, in all wifdom, teaching and ad- 
 monifhing one another, in pfalms, and hymns, and fpiritual 
 fongs, fmging with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And 
 whatfocver ye do, in word ox deed, do all in the name of the 
 Lord Jefusy giving thanks to God and the Father by him. 
 
 The hopes of a Chrijlian. 
 I John iii. ver. i. 
 
 DEHOLD what manner of love the Father hath be- 
 llowed upon us, that we mould be called the fons of 
 God: Therefore the world knowcth us not, becaufe it knew 
 him not. Beloved, now are we the fons of God, and it doth 
 not yet appear what we jhall be: but we know, that when he 
 fhall appear, we fhall be like him ; for we mail fee him as he is. 
 And every man, that hath this hope in him, purifieth himfelf, 
 even as he is pure. Whofoever committeth fin, tranfgxefieth 
 alfo the law, for fin is the tranfgreffion of the law. And 
 ye know, that he was manifefted to take away our fins; and 
 in him is no fin. Whofoever abideth in him, finneth not: 
 whoever finneth, hath not feen him, neither known him. 
 Little children, let no man deceive you : he that doeth righteouf- 
 nefs is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth lin 
 is of the devil \ for the devil finneth from the beginning. 
 For this purpofe, the Son of God was manifefted, that he might 
 deftroy the works of the devil. 
 
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 A Hymn. 
 
 The Chri/lian's contemplation, 
 
 T N vain the dufky night retires, 
 
 And fullen fhadows fly : 
 In vain the morn with purple light 
 Adorns the eaftern fky: 
 
 In vain the gaudy rifing fun 
 
 The wide horizon gilds; 
 Comes glitt'ring o'er the filver ftreams, 
 
 And chears the dewy fields : 
 
 In vain, difpenfing vernal fweets, 
 The morning breezes play; 
 
 In vain the birds, with chearful fongs, 
 Salute the new-born day : 
 
 In vain, unlefs my Saviours face 
 
 Thefe gloomy clouds controul t 
 
 And diflipate the fullen (hades 
 That prefs my drooping foul. 
 
 Oh ! vifit then thy fervant, Lord, 
 With favour from on high ; 
 
 A rife my bright immortal Sun, 
 And all thefe fhades will die, 
 
 O when fhall I behold thy face, 
 
 All radiant and ferene, 
 Without thofe envious dufky clouds 
 
 That make a veil between? 
 
 When fhall that long-expelled day 
 
 Of facred vifion be, 
 When my impatient foul fhall make 
 
 A near approach to Thee I 
 
 Hymn 
 
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 Hymn of Thank/giving (a). 
 
 p R A I S E to God, immortal praife, 
 For the love that crowns our days : 
 Bounteous Source of ev'ry joy, 
 Let thy praife our tongues employ: 
 
 For the blcftings of the field ; 
 For the ftoies the gardens yield; 
 For the vine's exalted juice; 
 For the gen'rous olive's ufe. 
 
 Flocks that whiten all the plain, 
 Yellow fheaves of ripen'd grain, 
 Clouds that drop their fatt'ning dews, 
 Suns that temp'rate warmth diffufe; 
 
 All that fpring, with bounteous hand, 
 Scatters o'er the fmiling land ; 
 All that lib'ral autumn pours 
 From her rich o'erflowing ftoresj 
 
 Thefe to thee, my God, we owe, 
 Source whence all our blefllngs flow ! 
 And for thefe my fbul fhall rarfe 
 Grateful vows and folemn praife! 
 
 Yet fhould rifing whirlwinds tear 
 From its ftem the ripen'd ear; 
 Should the fig-tree's blafted fhoot 
 Drop her green untimely fruit; 
 
 Should the vine put forth no more, 
 Nor the olive yield her ftore; 
 Though the ficlc'ning flocks fhould fall, 
 fad the herds defert the ftall ; 
 
 Should thine alter'd hand reftrain 
 
 The early and the latter rain, 
 
 Ulaft each op'ning bud of joy, 
 
 And the riling ear deftroy; Yet 
 
 (a) By Mrft; Aikix. 
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 Yet to Thee my foul fhall raife 
 Grateful vows and folemn praife ; 
 And, when ev'ry blefling's flown, 
 Love Thee— for Thyfelf alone. 
 
 8. Evening Prayer. 
 
 A Lmighty Lord, who by thy merciful tendernefs haft con- 
 ducted us in fafety to the conclufion of this day; forgive 
 our offences committed againft Thee, that we may retire to 
 reft in peace, and humble confidence of thy protection. Let 
 this return of the hour of fleep, remind us of the fhortnefs 
 of life, and teach us what it is to die ! — Preferve us, O God, 
 for Jefus Chrift his fake, in whofe moft blefled name, and 
 the comprehenfive words which he hath taught us, we offer 
 up our petition at thy throne. 
 
 g. Our Father , &c. 
 
 10. For repentance. 
 
 A/T O S T merciful Father of mankind, look down, we be- 
 feech .thee, from thy glory, and behold us miferable fin- 
 ners, who deplore our manifold violations of thy holy laws, 
 and all the weaknefies and depravity which have fo often gained 
 dominion over us ! O give us thy faving health, that we may 
 again recover our freedom from fin; and the enjoyment of 
 our minds in peace. Deliver us from the pangs of fear, by 
 That hope and truft in Thee which lead to everlafting life. 
 Let our earneft fupplications and prayers find admittance at 
 thy throne, O God, through the merits and interceffion of thy 
 Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Spirit, 
 one God, for ever and ever! 
 
 1 1 . For purity and charity. 
 
 • - 
 A/T OST merciful God, and tender Father, who didft fend 
 
 thine only Son into the world to fave mankind; we be- 
 
 feech thee to difpofe our hearts to repentance. Keep us in a 
 
 flate of conftant watchfulnefs and humility, that we may not 
 
 be entangled in the fnares of the world, nor the lufts which 
 
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 war again ft: the foul. Give us a true zeal for thy glory; and 
 companion for the ignorant and them vvhu walk in darkntft. 
 Mike us the inftruments of thy providence in bringing them 
 to a kn(c of their guilt \ that, through thy mercy, they may 
 forfakc the evil of their doings and live. Grant this, we bc- 
 ch thee, O God, for the lake of JefusChrift, our blcfiedLord 
 and Redeemer. 
 
 12. For Thanh f giving. 
 
 \\7 E praife and magnify thy glorious name, O Lord, 
 and offer up the incenfe of our prayers to Thee, in 
 the profoundeft gratitude and fincereft love. O cheer our 
 hearts with the brightnefs of thy countenance ; and let us 
 accept thy mercies paft, as an earneft of thy future favour. 
 Let not our fouls be forrowful as men without hope, but 
 confider the boundlefs mercies which Thou halt fhewn, in 
 every age, to all the children of men. Thus infpired with 
 the zeal of our truft and the awfulnefs of our fear, we devote 
 our hearts to Thee, in whom all comfort and joy are centered. 
 This we beg for his fake, whofe love for us extended even 
 to the fuffering an ignominious death ! 
 
 13. For a happy death, 
 
 O O K down, O Lord, from thy triumphant glory, and 
 behold us miferable finners proftrate before thee. Give 
 us grace to confider, that jnan hath but a jhort time to live, 
 and is full of trouble: as he cometh up, fo is he cut down, like 
 a flower; fleeing as it were aftxulow, and never continuing in 
 one fiay. To whom, O Lord, fhall we feelc for fuccour, 
 whilft our fins are fo juftly ofrenfive to thee. O fhut not thy 
 merciful ears to our prayers ! And thou, O Chrifr, the eter- 
 pal Judge of men, fuffer us not, in our lafl hours, for any 
 pains of -death , to fall from thee ! 
 
 F 2 Tues- 
 
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 Tuesday Morning. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 OGod, we praife and worfhip thee, the Creator and Go- 
 vernor of all things vifible and ihviftble. 
 
 Thou art greatly to be praifed and had in reverence by- 
 all who draw nigh unto thee ! 
 
 We acknowledge thee the one living and true God : God 
 in heaven above, and in earth beneath, and throughout all 
 the worlds : there is none befides thee ! 
 
 Thou who art gone up on high ; who haft led captivity 
 captive, and received gifts for men ; yea even for thine 
 enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them. 
 
 Praifed be thy name, even thine who helpeth us, and 
 poureth thy benefits upon us ! 
 
 He is our God, even the God of whom cometh our falva- 
 tion : God is the Lord, by whom we efcape death. 
 
 Psalms. 
 
 The excellency of the commandments. 
 
 /^\PEN thou mine eyes, O Lord : that I may fee the 
 wondrous things of thy law. 
 
 Make me to underftand the way of thy commandments : 
 and fo fhall I talk of thy wondrous works. 
 
 Take from me the way of lying: and catife thou me to 
 make much of thy law. 
 
 I have chofen the way of truth, and thy judgments have 
 I laid before me. 
 
 Give me undemanding, and I mall, keep thy law: yea, I 
 Uiall keep it with my whole heart.— Glory be to thee, Lord, 
 
 Repentance 
 
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 Repentance and Thanhfgiving. 
 
 *T" H E forrows of my heart arc enlarged : O bring thou me 
 out of my trouble. 
 Look, upon my advcrfity and mifery, and forgive all my 
 
 fin. 
 
 O keep my foul and deliver me, let me not be confounded 
 whilft I put my truft in thee. 
 
 Put me not to rebuke, O Lord, neither charted me in thy 
 heavy difpleafure. 
 
 Forfake me not, in thine anger : neither chaften me in 
 thy heavy difpleafure. 
 
 Forfake me not, O Lord my God : be not far from me. 
 
 Have mercy upon me, after thy great goodnefs ; ac- 
 cording to the multitude of thy mercies put away mine 
 offences. 
 
 O give me the comfort of thy help again : and ftablifh 
 me with thy free fpirit. 
 
 Let the facrifice of my troubled fpirit be acceptable to 
 thee, O God : defpife not my broken and contrite heart. 
 
 Thy loving kindnefs is better than life itfelf : 
 
 As long as I live will 1 magnify thee, and lift up my hands 
 in thy name. 
 
 Be thou my helper, O God, that under the fnadow of thy 
 wings I may rejoice. — Glory be to thee^ Lord. 
 
 T hank f giving. 
 
 C\ God, thou wilt not forget the poor ; the patient abiding 
 of the meek, will not perifh for ever. 
 Thy way is r.n undefiled way; thy word is tried in the fire. 
 Thou art th .'.er of all them that put their ttuftin 
 
 tb< . 
 
 For who is God, but the Lord; or who hath any ftrength 
 except thee, O God ! 
 
 The Lord liveth ; blefled be my ftrcng helper : and prarfed 
 be the God of my falvation. 
 
 For this caufe will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord : and 
 fing praifes unto thy name— Glory be to tbee, L:i d. 
 
 The 
 
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 The wife men from the Eaft miraculoufy informed of the birth 
 ofChnfl. 
 
 '"IP HEN Herod, when he had privily called the 
 
 wife men, enquired of them diligently what 
 time the ftar appeared : and he fent them to Bethlehem, and 
 faid, Go and fearch diligently for the young child, and when 
 ye have found him, bring me word again, that I alfo may gey 
 and worfhip him. When they had heard the king, they de- 
 parted ; and lo the ftar which they faw in the eaft went before 
 them, till it came and flood over where the young child was. 
 When they faw the ftar, they rejoiced with exceeding great 
 joy. And when they were come into the houfe, they faw 
 the young child, with Alary his mother, and fell down and 
 worfhipped him. And when they had opened their treafures > 
 they prefented unto him gifts, gold and frankincenfe and 
 myrrh. And being warned of God in a dream, that they 
 fhould not return to Herod, they departed into their own 
 country another way. 
 
 Purity and humility in Chrijl. 
 Epift. Rom. xii. i. 
 
 X 
 
 T Befeech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, 
 that ye prefent your bodies a living facrifice, holy and ac- 
 ceptable unto God, which is your reafonahle fervice : and be 
 not conformed to this world : but be ye transformed by the re- 
 newing of your mind, that ye may prove what is That good 
 and acceptable, and per feci; will of God. For 1 fay, thro' 
 the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, 
 net to think of himfelf more highly than he ought to think, 
 but to think foberly, according as God hath dealt to every 
 man the meafure of faith. For as we have many members 
 in one body, and all members have not the fame office ; fo 
 we being many, are one body in Chrifl, and every one, mem- 
 bers one of another. 
 
 Hymn, 
 
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 H V M N. 
 On the crucifixion of our Saviour f 
 
 •AH! whence thefe dire portents around, 
 
 That earth and heav'n amaze? 
 Wherefore do earthquakes cleave the ground, 
 Why hides the fun his rays ? 
 
 Not thus did Sinai's trembling head 
 
 With facred horror nod, 
 Beneath the dark pavilion fpread 
 
 Of the defcending God ! 
 
 What tongue the tortures can declare 
 
 Of this vindictive hour ? 
 Wrath he alone had will to fhare, 
 
 As he alone had pow'r ! 
 
 See ftreaming from the fatal tree 
 
 His all-atoning blood, 
 Is this the Infinite?— 'Tis Hel 
 
 My Saviour and my God ! 
 
 For me thefe pangs his foul aflail, 
 
 For me the death is borne! 
 My fins gave fharpnefs to the nail ; 
 
 And pointed every thorn. 
 
 Let fin no more my foul enflave ; 
 
 Break, Lord, the tyrant's chain ; 
 Oh fave me whom thou cam'ir. to fave, 
 
 Nor bleed, nor die in vain !" 
 
 Prayers. 
 14. For the morning. 
 
 C\ God of Mercy, behold thy fervants who are rifen from 
 the death of fleep ; accept the tribute of our thanks for 
 this, and all thy mercies. Defend us this day from all the 
 perils to which we are expofed. Let the bright example of 
 our blefttd Redeemer, be ever prefent to our thoughts ; 
 
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 that knowing our duty, we may difcharge it with a ftri& 
 attention to thy facred word •> and our whole lives become as 
 one continued prayer ! Give us, we befeech thee, fo true a 
 fenfe of our dependance on thee, that we may fubmit with 
 an humble and a contrite fpirit, to whatever thy Providence 
 fhall ordain; that in the highefl flow of profperity, or the 
 lowefl ebb of affliction, we may rejoice in the hopes of thy 
 mercy, through Jefus Chrtji our Saviour^ who hath com- 
 manded us when we pray to fay, 
 
 15. Our Father , &c. 
 
 16. For repentance, 
 
 'TURN us, O Lord, from the wickednefs we have com- 
 mitted, that we may do whatever is lawful and right. 
 Hear us, we befeech thee, and fave our fouls ! In thy awful 
 prefence we now acknowledge our tranfgreffions, and lament 
 our fins !— O Father Almighty, we have finned againft thee, 
 and our own confeience, and are not worthy of thy protec- 
 tion ; yet haft thou been gracioufly pleafed to preferve us 
 from deftru&ion. CorrecT: us, O Lord, but not in thine anger, 
 left we perifh for ever ! We befeech thee, by the blood of 
 Chrifi, to forgive our offences ; and in thy great mercy to 
 deliver us, for the fake of the fame Jefus Chriji y the Saviour 
 of the world ! 
 
 17. For a happy refurreclion, 
 
 A Lmighty Father, who didft fend thine only fon Jefus 
 Chrtji into the world, to vifit and redeem mankind ; 
 give us grace, we befeech thee, that in the laft day, when 
 he fhall come again in his glorious majefty, to judge both 
 the living and the dead, we may rife to the life immortal, 
 through Him, who liveth and reigneth, with Thee and the 
 Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. 
 
 Tuesday Evening or Night. 
 
 Invocation, 
 'T'HOU alone art from everlafting, without beginning of 
 days, or end of years. Thou liveft and reigneft for ever 
 
 and ever ! 
 
 We 
 
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 We magnify thcc, the high and lofty one, who iahabitefl 
 eternity ! 
 
 Thou dwell eft in light inac< and full of glory, 
 
 whom no mortal eye hath lecn, or t 
 
 Infinite art thou, O Gcd ' Thou dwelled not in temples 
 made with hands ! 
 
 The univerfe is thy temple : thou art prefent at all times, 
 in every part of thy dominion j and in thee we live, and move, 
 and have our being ! 
 
 Pjal m t 
 On the vanity of .. 
 
 "LJ EAR my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears confider 
 my calling : withhold not thy peace at my tears. 
 
 O fpare me a little, that I may recover my Jlrength[a) y 
 before I go hence, and be no more feen. 
 
 My mouth fhall {"peak of wifdom : and my heart (hall muie 
 of underitanding. 
 
 There be fome who put their truft in their goods ; and 
 boaft thcmfelves in the multitude of their riches : 
 
 But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement 
 unto God\ for him ; 
 
 For it coft more to redeem his foul j fo that he mutt let it 
 alone for ever. 
 
 We fee that wife men alfo die and perifh together; as 
 well as the ignorant and foolifh, and leave their riches for 
 others. 
 
 Some think that their boufit fhall continue : and their 
 dwelling places endure from one generation to another, and 
 that they fhall call the lands forever, after their own names. 
 
 But when thou with rebukes doff, chaften man for fin, 
 thou makeft his beauty to con fume away, like as it were a 
 moth fretting a garment: — every man therefore is but 
 vanity.— Glory be to thee, Lord! 
 
 Character 
 
 ( t ;) Strength in this place may be underftoed integrity of heart, a* 
 wtll as freedom from ficknels. 
 
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 Char after of the MeJJiah in relation to his forerunner 
 John the Baptijh 
 
 John i. j. 
 
 T N the beginning was the Wordy and the Word was with 
 Gody and the Word was God, The fame was in the be- 
 ginning with God. AH things were made by himy and without 
 him was not any thing made that was made. In him wa5 
 lifiy and the life was the light of men. And the light fhineth 
 in darknefs, and the darknefs comprehendeth it not. There 
 was a man lent from God, whofe name was John: the fame 
 came for a witnefs, to bear witnefs of the light, that all men 
 through him might believe. He was not That light, but was, 
 fent to bear witnefs of That light. That Was the true light 
 which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He 
 was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the 
 world knew him not. He came unto his own 9 and his own 
 received him not. But as many as received him, to them 
 gave he power to become the fons of Gody even to them that 
 believe on his name ; which were born, not of ftlood, nor of 
 the will of thcfejhy nor of the will of mariy but of God: and 
 the Word was made flefh and dwelt among us, (and we be- 
 held his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) 
 full of grace and truth. 
 
 Dcfcription of a chri/lian life. 
 Romans xii. 6. 
 
 TJAVING then gifts, differing according to the grace 
 that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophecy, 
 according to the proportion of faith ; or miniflry, let us wait 
 on our miniflring; or he that teacfyeth, on teaching; or he 
 that exhorteth, on exhortation : he that giveth, let him do it 
 with fimpl'i 'city ; he that ruleth, with diligence j he that fhew- 
 eth mercy, with chearfubnefs. Let love be without dijfimula- 
 thn. Abhor that which is evil ; cleave to that which is good. 
 Be kindly aiiectioned one to another, in honour preferring 
 one another j not flcthfid in bufmefs ; fcrzwd in fpirit, ferv- 
 
 ing 
 
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 ing tht Lord-, rejoicing in hope \ patient in tribulation \ con* 
 timing injhnt in prayer - f diftributing to the ncccflity of faints; 
 given to hofpitality. Blefs them that perfecute you j blci% and 
 curfe not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice ; and ivccp with 
 them that weep. Be of the fame mind one towards another. 
 Mind not high things, but condefcend to men of low 
 eftete. 
 
 Hymn on repentance {a), 
 
 C\ Thou eternal God of truth, 
 
 Benignant Lord of love j 
 Blot out the madnefs of my youth j 
 From thy dread books above. 
 
 Regard, all-powerful gracious Godj 
 
 Thine own Median bleeds ; 
 Avert thy juft avenging rod, 
 
 Ah ! due for my mifdeeds. 
 
 And let thy clemency divine, 
 
 The fulnefs of thy grace, 
 Confpicuous in my perfon fhine^ 
 
 And all my crimes efface. 
 
 Thy aid, my Saviour, fiill impart, 
 
 My mind from fear releafe ; 
 Still, ftill direct my contrite heart, 
 
 And foothe my foul to peace. 
 
 So fhall each mind by error fway'd, 
 
 From me thy precepts learn, 
 That long from thee their God has ftray'd 
 
 With humble hope return. 
 
 On the Jhortnefs and vanity cflife. 
 
 O FAR, Lord, my pray'r and let my cries 
 
 Accepted to thy throne arife: 
 O turn not thou thy face away, 
 Nor longer my relief delay j 
 
 But 
 {a) The compofition of the lady who wrote the hymns in this manual, 
 and the paftoral elegy, vol. ii. p. 20S. 
 
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 But mark my forrow from on high, 
 And pitying to my call reply. 
 Faft as the mountain fmoke decays, 
 On Time's light pinion flit my days : 
 As fades the fhadow of the fun, 
 With quick decline my moments run, 
 Juft verging to their clofe : my face, 
 Its vernal bloom, and youthful grace, 
 ExtinguifhM, withers on the eye, 
 As plants beneath a hoftile fky. 
 But thou, bleft guard of IfraePs fold, 
 Shalt ages fee, on ages roll'd, 
 And tliron'd above, to endlefs days 
 Extend thy honour, name, and praife. 
 
 Prayers. 
 
 i8. For the evening. 
 
 r\ God, the fure defender of all who put their truft in thee* 
 we molt humbly befeech thee to keep us this night under 
 the fhadew of thy protection : let thy almighty power fhield 
 us againft all dangers, and defend us againft all aflaults of 
 our Spiritual or bodily enemies, that we may dwell in a fafe 
 and peaceful habitation. Grant this, O Father, for the 
 fake of Jefus Chrifl^ our blefTed Lord and Redeemer ! 
 
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 19. For conjlancy and divine ajftfiance. 
 OS^ merciful God, who, according to the multitude' 
 
 of thy mercies, dolt fo put away the fins of thofe who 
 truly repent, that thou remembereft them no more, open 
 thine eyes of mercy upon us. Confider our contrition, and 
 accept our unfeigned tears ! Impute not unto us cur former 
 fins ; but ilrengthen us with thy holy fpirit. Receive us, O 
 God, under the fhadow of thy mercy, and preferve us, for 
 the fake of thy beloved fon Jtfu.$ Chrijly our Redeemer ! 
 
 20. Our Father % &c. 
 
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 21. For mceknefs and purity cf heart. 
 
 f\ Father Almighty ! humble our fouls in thy prefencc ! Remove 
 from us all proud looks, and let our hearts be ftrangcrs 
 10 the contempt of any fellow-creature. Let no vain hopes 
 deceive us, nor any evil defire pervert our hearts. Leave ua 
 not to the counfel of firmer s, nor let us fall into their fnares. 
 Set B fourgc over our thoughts, that the difcipline of wijdom 
 may rule our hearts, and meeknefs of fpirit give refl unto our fouls. 
 Let a habit of temperance reftrain our appetites, that neither 
 linefs nor wrath, nor any unchajle or evil defire may pre- 
 vail again ft us. Pardon .our ignorances and infirmities, and 
 teach us toferve thee in true faithfulnefs and fincerity of heart. 
 This we beg, O Lord of mercy, for the fake of the meek and 
 (defied Redeemer of the world ! 
 
 22. For ajfiftance under the infirmities of life. 
 
 A Lmighty God, the fountain of all wifdom, who knowefi 
 all our wants and neceflities, \ve befeech thee to have 
 companion on our infirmities ; and thofe good things which 
 lor our finfulnefs, we do not, and for our blindnefs we cannot 
 afk, vouchfafe to give us for the merits of thy dear fon Jefus 
 Cbrijl our Redeemer. 
 
 23. For a happy death* 
 
 A Lmighty Lord and Father of Spirits, we befeech thee 
 to give us a right fenfe of our condition — that while wc 
 furvive fuch daily fpec~tacles of mortality, we may confider the 
 uncertain duration of our own lives, and fo number our 
 tranfient days, and ferioufly apply our hearts to holy and 
 heavenly wifdom, that in the end we may be received into 
 life eternal, through the merits oi .Jefus Chrijl thine only fon 
 our Lord. Amen, 
 
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 Tuesday Night, 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 TX7Hatfoever ye would that men mould do unto you, fo do 
 unto them, for this is the law and the prophets, 
 Matth. vii. 12. 
 
 To do good and diftribute forget not 5 for with fueh facri- 
 fices God is well pleafed. Heb. xiii. 16. 
 
 put your truft in God, pour out your hearts before him j 
 for he is your hope* 
 
 Give not yourfelves unto vanity : if riches increafe, fetnot 
 your hearts upon them* 
 
 Psalms. 
 
 For confidence in God under affliftions. 
 
 T ET not them that trull: in thee, O Lord God of hofts, 
 be afhamed : let not thofe that feek thee, be confounded. 
 
 Hear mej O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, even in 
 the truth of thy falvation. 
 
 Hear me, I befeech thee, for thy loving kindnefs is com- 
 fortable : turn thou unto me according to the multitude of 
 thy mercies. 
 
 1 will remember thee on my Jjed, and think upon thee 
 when I am waking. 
 
 Hide not thy face from thy fervant, for I am in trouble. 
 
 When I am poor and in heavinefs, thy help, O God., 
 fhall lift me up. 
 
 The humble mall confider this, and be glad : feek ye after 
 God, and your foul fhall live ! — Glory be to tbee y O Lord. 
 
 Tbankf giving. 
 
 r\ God, my heart is ready, my heart is ready, I will fing 
 and give praife ! 
 Let heaven and earth praife thee, Q God, the fea and all 
 tfiat moveth therein. 
 
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 For thy mercy i c > greater than the heavens, and thy glory 
 is above all the earth. 
 
 Thou prefcrvcit the Jimfle ; /was in mifcry, and thou didft 
 help ///;•. 
 
 Turn again unto thy reft, my foul, for the Lord hath 
 rewarded thee. 
 
 I wiJl walk before thee, O Lord, in the land of the 
 living. 
 
 I will receive the cup of fahation, and call upon the name 
 of the Lord ! 
 
 I will offer to thee the facrifice of thanhfgiving, and I will 
 call upon thy name, O Lord ! 
 
 1 will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, for thou art gracious, 
 and thy mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 Thou art my God, and I will thank thee, thou art my 
 God, and I will praife thee !— Glory be to thee, Lord! 
 
 ChrifTs firjl appearance on his mij/ion. 
 
 Luke ii. 46. 
 
 A N D it came to pafs, that after three days they found him 
 in the temple (being twelve years old) fetting in the 
 midft of the doc~tors, both hearing them and afking them 
 queftions. And all that heard him were aftonifhed at his 
 underftanding and anfwers. And when they faw him they 
 were amazed: and his mother laid, "Son, why haft thou 
 thus dealt with us? Behold, thy father and I, have fought 
 thee forrowing." And he laid unto them, M How is it that 
 ye fought me ? Wift ye not that I muft be about ?ny father's 
 bufmefs ? " And they underftood not the faying which he 
 fpake unto them. And he went down with them, and came 
 to Nazareth, and was iubject unto them. 
 
 ChrijVs triumphant entry into Jerufalem, 
 
 Matthew xxi. 
 
 X17HEN they drew nigh unto Jerufalem, and were come 
 
 to Betkphage, unto the mount of Olives, then fent 
 
 Jcfus two difciples, faying unto them. Go into the village over 
 
 againfl 
 
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 agaftifl you, and Jlraitway ye fnall find an afs tied, and a colt with 
 her : loofe them and bring them unto me. And if any ?nanfay ought 
 unto you, ye Jhallfay, the Lord hath need of them; andjlraitway he 
 will fend them. All this was done that it might be fulfilled 
 which was fpoken by the prophet, faying, Tell ye the 
 daughter of Sion, behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek and 
 fitting upon an afs, and a colt the fole of an afs. And the dif- 
 ciples went, and did as Jefus commanded them ; and brought 
 the afs, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and 
 they fet him thereon. And a very great multitude fpread 
 their garments in the way : others cut down branches from 
 the trees, and ftrewed them in the way. And the multitudes 
 that went before, and that followed, cried, faying, Hofannah 
 to the fon of David, hleffed is he that cometh in the name of the 
 Lord : hofannah in the highejl ! And when he was come into 
 Jerufalem, all the city was moved, faying, Who is this ? And 
 the multitude faid, This is Jefus the prophet of Nazareth of 
 Galilee, And Jefus went into the temple of God, and caft 
 out all them that fold and bought in the temple, and over- 
 threw the tables of the money changers, and the feats of them 
 that fold doves, and faid unto them, // is written, My houfe 
 Jhall be called the houfe of prayer, but ye have made it a den of 
 thieves. 
 
 Hymn for triumph over the world (a)* 
 
 A WAKE, my foul ! lift up thine eyes, 
 See where thy foes againft thee rife j 
 In long array, a num'rous hoft, 
 Awake, my foul, or thou art loft ! 
 
 Here giant danger threat'ning {lands, 
 Muft'ring his pale terrific bands ; 
 There Pleafure's filken banners fpread. 
 And willing fouls are captive led. 
 
 See where rebellious paflions rage, 
 And fierce defires and luft engage; 
 The meaneft foe of all the train 
 Has thoufandsj and ten thoufands (lain. 
 
 {a) By Mifs Aikin, 
 
 Thou 
 
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 Thou trcad'ft upon enchanted ground, 
 Perils and fnares befet thee round ; 
 Beware of all, guard every part, 
 But moft, the traitor in thy heart. 
 
 Come then, my foul, now learn to wield 
 The weight of thine immortal fhicld j 
 Put on the armour from above, 
 Of heavenly truth and heavenly love* 
 
 The terror and the charm repel, 
 And powers of earth, and powers of hell • 
 The man of Calvary triumph'd here ; 
 Why mould his faithful followers fear ! 
 
 Thank/giving from Pfalm viii («). 
 
 LORD, how glorious is thy name, 
 Whofe pow'r the heav'ns and earth proclaim 3 
 Thy glory thou haft fet on high 
 Above the regions of the fky ; 
 Thou malt the infants voices raife, 
 In powerful notes to hymn thy praife, 
 Till even thine enemies confefs 
 Thy works, thy heav'nly pow'r exprefs. 
 
 When we the glorious fabric fee, 
 Sun, moon and ftars difpos'd by thee ; 
 Oh ! what is man, or his frail race, 
 That thou fhould'ft fuch a (hadow grace. 
 The heavens the angelic hofts contain, 
 But man thou form'ft on earth to reign * p 
 Whate'er on earth thy hands has made 
 Was under his dominion laid. 
 
 The herds that plough the fertile field, 
 The flocks that fleecy tribute yield ; 
 All that on dales, or mountains feed, 
 That fhady woods or defarts breed - t 
 
 All 
 
 (e) Set to mufic by Mr. Cooke, and ufed at the Foundling Hofpiul, 
 
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 All that thro* ether wing their way, 
 
 Or in the rolling ocean play : 
 
 Lord how glorious is thy name, 
 
 Whofc pow'r the heav'ns and earth proclaim. 
 
 Prayers. 
 
 24. For the night. 
 
 t\ God, who by the gracious difpenfation of thy Provi- 
 dence, has brought us to the conclufion of this day, en- 
 lighten our darknefs, and difpel the clouds of ignorance and 
 perverfenefs which hang over' our fouls ! Grant that we, 
 riling again to the enjoyment of the light, may be fo con* 
 dueled by thy Almighty arm, and cheered by thy coun- 
 tenance, that we may triumph in the hopes of thy mercies 
 in JefusChriJl. Let the fun of righteou fnefs, the imap.e of 
 thy glory, fhine on the earth : and with the return of day, 
 continue thy compaflion to our infirmities ; and bring us to 
 everlafting reft, for the fake of thy dear Son, who in his 
 great mercy hath taught us, when we pray to fay, 
 
 25. Our Father , &c. 
 
 26. For grace to rtfyl anger, pride and unqnietnefs. 
 
 A/TOST righteous God, to whofe all-piercing eye tin- 
 godlinefs and wrong are open as the day ; grant, we be- 
 feech thee, that whatever injuries or provocations we meet 
 with in the world, we may difcern the folly and widednefs of 
 pride, and anger \ and thus meekly commit our caufe unto 
 thee, O merciful Father, trufting in thine infinite w T ifdom 
 and goodnefs, thro' Jefus Chrijl our Redeemer ! 
 
 27. For ajjijlance under the infnnities of life, 
 
 I^Ather Almighty, who haft promifed to hear the petitions 
 
 of all who implore thy mercy in the name of Chrift, we 
 
 befeech thee mercifully to incline thine ears unto us, who 
 
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 now make our prayer and (application unto thee: and grant 
 that thole things which wc faithfully a(k according to thy 
 will, we may effectually obtain, Co the relief of our neceffities, 
 and the fctting forth of thy glory, thro' fejus Chrijl our 
 Redeemer. 
 
 28. For zeal and forgiven efs. 
 
 C\ God, we befoech thec to grant, that in all our fufferings 
 here on earth, we may ftedfaftly look up to heaven ; and 
 by faith behold the glory that fhall be revealed ; and being 
 afliftcd by thy Holy Spirit, learn to love and blefs our enemies 
 by the example of thofe martyrs, who prayed even for their 
 murderers, to thec, O blcfLd Jcfus, who ilandeft at the 
 right hand of God, to fuccour all thofe who fuffcr for thee, 
 our only advocate and mediator ! 
 
 29. For gratitude. 
 
 A Lmighty Lord and heavenly Father, who in thy bound* 
 lefs mercy hath preferved us, accept our gratitude, 
 that we, who have deferved punifhment at thy hands, are 
 cherifhed by thy comforts, and relieved by thy grace. Thou, 
 O merciful God, hail: watched over us, when we have 
 not thought of thee, or confeioufly offended thee. Forgive 
 our iins, O God ; and let our thankfulnefs and praife, 
 with wings of devotion fly to thy throne ! Thou who didft 
 fend thy Son from thy bofom, and the feat of thy glory, 
 to a life of pain, and a death of anguifh here on earth, 
 that we might be freed from the punifhment due to our 
 tran fgrelTions !— In what exalted words of adoration fhall we 
 pour out our hearts ! — O let them burn within us, and our 
 fpirits rejoice, in hopes of the continuance of thy mercies, 
 through the fame fefus Chrijl our bleflcd Saviour and Re- 
 deemer. 
 
 30. For a happy death. 
 
 C\ God, whofe bleffcd fon was manifefted, that he might 
 
 triumph over death, deftroy the works of the devil, 
 
 and make men heirs of a blifsftj] immortality ; grant, we 
 
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 befeech thee, that having this hope, we may be purified in 
 body and foul, and fo conform our lives to the precepts of 
 thy gofpel, that finally we may refign our breath to thee r 
 Q father of fpirits, trufting in thy great mercy, through 
 Jtfus Cbrift 7 the I^ord of life, and Redeemer of the world ! 
 
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 Wednesday Morning, 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 F F we Pay that \vc have no fin, wc deceive ourfclves, and 
 the truth is not in us: but if we confefs our fins, God is 
 faithful and juft to forgive us our fins, and to clcanfe us 
 from all unrighteoufnefs. I JJ:n i. 8, 9. 
 
 Not everyone that faith unto me, Lord, Lord, fhall enter 
 into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my 
 Father who is in heaven ! Matth. vii. 21. 
 
 Them that are meek fhall he guide in judgment; and fuch 
 as are gentle, them fhall he teach his way. 
 
 Psalms. 
 
 On the vanity of life. 
 
 "D E not afraid, though thou feeft one made rich; or if the 
 glory of his houfe be increafed : 
 
 he fhall carry nothing away with him when he dieth; 
 ker fhall his pomp follow him. 
 For, while he lived, he counted himfelf an happy man: 
 and f ) long as thou doeft well unto thyfelf, men will fpeak 
 good of thee. 
 
 Loid, thou haft been our refuge from one generation tc 
 another. 
 
 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth 
 and the world were made: thou art God from everlafting, 
 and woild without end. 
 
 Thou turneft man to deftruction : again thou fayeft, I 
 again, ye children of men. 
 
 For 1 thoufand years in thy fight are but as ytfUrdm : feL'i:^ 
 that is part as a watch in the night. 
 
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 As foon as thou fcattereft them, they are even as a Jleep: 
 and fade away fuddenly like the grafs. 
 
 In the morning it is green, and groweth up : but in the 
 evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. 
 
 For we confume away in thy difpleafure : and are afraid 
 at thy wrathful indignation. 
 
 When thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring 
 our years to an end, as it w§re a tale that is told. 
 
 The days of our age are three/core years and ten ; and though 
 men be fo ftrong, that they come to four/core years, yet is 
 their ftrength then but labour and furrow j fo foon pafleth it 
 away, and we are gone. 
 
 So teach us to number our days , that we may apply our hearts 
 unto wifdom! 
 
 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the lajl\ and be gracious 
 unto thy fervant. 
 
 O fatisfy me with thy mercy , and that foon; fo fhall I re-» 
 joice and be glad all the days of my life. 
 
 Shew thy fervants thy work, and their children thy glory ! 
 
 Glory be to thee, O Lord, 
 
 Prophetical of the Mefftah. 
 
 \T E R Y excellent things are fpoken of thee, thou city 
 V of God. 
 
 Of Sion it fhall be reported, that He was born in her: and 
 the Moft High fhall ftablifh her. 
 
 The Lord fhall rehearfe it, when He writeth up the people, 
 that He was born there. 
 
 The Lord fhall fend the rod of thy power out of Sion : 
 be thou ruler^ even in the midft among thine enemies. 
 
 The right hand of the Lord hath the pre-eminence: the 
 right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pafs. 
 
 The fame Stone, which the builders refufed, is become 
 the Head-Stone in the corner: 
 
 This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. 
 
 BlefTed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord ! 
 
 And let all that fear the Lord confefs, that his mercy en- 
 dureth for ever! 
 
 Glory be to thee, Lord, ■ 
 
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 Jm/Ha and candour ejfcntial to chrijiiunity. 
 Luke vi. 36. 
 
 DE ye therefore merciful, as your Father alfo is merciful. 
 Judge not, and ye fhall not be judged: condemn not, 
 and ye fhall not be condemned. Forgive, and ye fhall be for- 
 given: Give, and it fhall be given unto you; good meafurc, 
 prefled down, and fhalcen together, and running over, fhall 
 men give into your bofom ; for with the fame meafure that 
 ye mete withal, it fhall be meafured to you again. And 
 he fpake a parable unto them: Can the blind lead the blind? 
 fhall they not both fall into the ditch? The difciple is not 
 above his Mafter; but every one that is per feci , fhall be as his 
 Mailer. And why beholdeft thou the mote that is in thy bro- 
 thel's eye, and perceiveft not the beam that is in thine own 
 eye? Either how canft thou fay to thy brother, Brother, 
 let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thy- 
 felf beholdeft not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou 
 hypocrite, caft out firft the beam out of thine own eye, an3 
 then fhalt thou fee clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy 
 brother's eye. 
 
 The Morning Hymn ofhfam and Eve (a). 
 
 *Tp H E S E are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! 
 
 Almighty! thine this univerfal frame; 
 Thus wond'rous fair: Thyfelf how wond'rous then! 
 Unfpcakablc: who fitt'ft above thefe heav'ns, 
 To us invifible, or dimly feen 
 Tn thefe thy loweft works ; yet thefe declare 
 Thy goodnefs beyond thought, and pow'r divine. 
 Speak ye who beft can tell, ye fons of light, 
 Angels; for ye behold him, and with fongs 
 And choral fymphonies, day without night, 
 Circle his throne rejoicing. Ye in heav'n, 
 On earth, join all ye creatures to extol 
 Him firft, Him laft, Him midft, and without end. 
 
 Faireft 
 
 (a] Milton's Paradife Loft. This is fct to mufic in a very mafterly 
 sunnsr by Galkard, the chorufes by Cooke, 
 
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 Faireft of ftars (#), laft in the train of night, 
 
 If better thou belong not to the dawn, 
 
 Sure pledge of day, that crown'ft the fmiiing morn 
 
 With thy bright circlet, praife him m thy fphcrc, 
 
 While day arifes, that fweet hour of prime. 
 
 Thou fun, of this great world both eye and foul, 
 
 Acknowledge Him thy greater; found his praife 
 
 In thy eternal courfe, both when thou climb'ft, 
 
 And when high noon haft gain'd, and when thou fairfr, 
 
 Moon, that now meet'ft the orient fun, now fly'ft 
 
 With the fix'd ftars, tix'd in their orb that flies; 
 
 And ye five other wand'ring nies (£), that move 
 
 In myllic dance, not without fong; refound 
 
 His praife, who out of darknefs cali'd up light. 
 
 Air, and ye elements, the eldeft birth 
 
 Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run 
 
 Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix, (c) 
 
 And nourifh all things, let your ceafelefs change 
 
 Vary to our great Maker ftill new praife. 
 
 Ye mills and exhalations, that now rife 
 
 From hill, or (learning lake, dufky or gray, 
 
 Till the fun paint your fleecy fkirts with gold, 
 
 In honour to the world's great Author, rife; 
 
 Whether to deck with clouds th' uncolour'd flcy, 
 
 Or wet the thirfty earth with falling (howers: 
 
 Rifing or falling, ftill advance his praife. 
 
 His praife, ye winds that from four quarters blow, 
 
 Breathe foft or loud; and wave your tops, ye pines, 
 
 With every plant, 4 in fign of worfhip wave. 
 
 Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow 
 
 Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praife. 
 
 Join voices, all ye living fouls (*/); ye birds, 
 
 That finging up to heaven-gate afcend, 
 
 Bear on your wings, and in your notes, his praife. 
 
 Ye 
 
 (a) Venus, fometimes called the evening ftar. 
 
 (^) Jt*p*ter, Mars, Mercury, and Saturn; and it is fuppofed the 
 Auihai meant to comprehend the Earth; Venus, the Sun, and Moon, be- 
 ing already mentioned. 
 
 (c) Suppofing the four elements to mix and combine with each other, 
 
 (d) u Let every thing that hath breath praife the Lord 1 '• 
 
 
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 Yc that in waters glide, and yc that walk 
 The earth, and ftatcly treat!, or lowly creep; 
 Witncfs if I be filent morn or even, 
 To hill, or valley, fountain, or frefh made, 
 Mide vocal by my fong, and taught his praifc. 
 Hail, univcrfal Lord ! Be bounteous ftill, 
 To give us only good ; and if the night 
 Have gather'd ought of evil, or conceaPd, 
 DUperfc it, as now light difpjls the dark. 
 
 Prayers. 
 31. Morning Prayer. 
 
 Q L O R Y be to thee, O God ! We praife thy holy name 
 for thy providential care of us in the night pail ! Un- 
 worthy as we are to lift up our eyes unto Thee, have 
 mercy on us, and give us grace to perfevere in the right way. 
 Aflift us, O merciful Father, to perform all our duties to- 
 wards Thee, and our neighbour; and fo poiTefs our fouls 
 with an awful fenfe of thy prefence, and of the account 
 we muft one day give, that we may obtain eternal happinefs 
 in thy kingdom, through the merits and mediation of Jefus 
 Chrift. our Saviour ! 
 
 32. Our Father ■, &c. 
 
 33. For refolution in danger and affliclion* 
 
 T R D rflmighty, look down from thy throne on us who 
 fend up our prayers unto Thee. Save us, O Lord, from 
 all evil. Give us ftrength to exert our reafon, and conduct 
 us by thy merciful arm, that our hopes may never be brought 
 to confulion. Thou knoweft what is beft for us; and whe- 
 ther in life or death, preferve us, we befeech thee, O merci- 
 ful Father, for the fake of thy dear Son, Jcfus Chrift, our 
 only Saviour and Redeemer ! 
 
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 34. For Repentance. 
 
 C\ God eternal! whofe mercies reach unto the heaveri of 
 heavens, turn thee unto us, and ihew us the light of thy 
 countenance. The forrows of our hearts are enlarged, by the 
 confeioufnefs of our offences. Thine arrows {tick faft in us ; 
 and our wickednefs, like a fore burthen, is too heavy for us 
 to bear. Our hearts pant with the defire of thy pardon. 
 Turn thy face, O God, from our mifdeeds, and blot them 
 from thy remembrance. O let thine ears confider the voice' 
 of our complaint, that our fouls may flee unto Thee, and 
 enjoy thy plenteous redemption, by the blcod of Chrift, our 
 mighty Advocate and Interceflur at thy throne ! 
 
 Wednesday Evening. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 £*\ Lord, when our hour mail come, let thy fervants depart 
 in peace, in the fulnefs of hope, to partake of the fal ra- 
 tion which Thou haft prepared, as a light to lighten the 
 world, and the glory Gf the human race. 
 
 Psalms. 
 
 Under a confeioufnefs of a good Intention. 
 
 fT\ Let the wickednefs of the ungodly come to an end : but 
 guide thou the juft. 
 
 My help cometh of thee, O God, who preferveft them 
 that are true of heart. 
 
 Thou art the righteous Judge, ftrong and patient, altho' 
 thou art provoked every day. 
 
 For he that travaileth with mifchief will bring forth im- 
 godlinefs. 
 
 hold thou up my goings in thy paths, that my footfteps 
 flip not. 
 
 1 have called upon Thee, O God, for thou wilt hear me: 
 incline thine ear unto me, and hearken unto my woids. 
 
 Shew thy marvellous loving kindnefs, thou that art the 
 .-Saviour of them that put their truft in thee. 
 
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 Keep me as the apple of an eye: hide .. • flu- 
 
 do w of thj 
 
 I will warn my hands in innocency, O Lord, and fo will 
 I go to thine altar. 
 
 Lord, let me love the habitation of thy houfc, and the 
 where thine honour dwelleth. 
 
 Glory be to tkce> Lord! 
 
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 T> LESS ED is the man that hath let his hope in the Lord: 
 and turned not unto the proud, and to fuch as go about 
 with lies. 
 
 Unto thee, O God, do I give thanks; yea, unto Thee 
 do 1 give thanks. 
 
 Praife the Lord, O my foul ; and all that is within me 
 praife his holy name. 
 
 Praife the Lord, O my foul, and forget not his benefits. 
 
 Who forgiveth all thy fin and healeth all thine infirmities. 
 
 Who faveth thy life from deftru&ion ; and crowneth thee 
 with mercy and loving kindnefs ! 
 
 The Lord is full of compaflion and mercy; long fufferingj 
 and of great goodnels. 
 
 Glory be to thee> O Lord ! 
 
 CbriJVs prediction of his own fuffcringi and death, 
 Luke xviii. 31. 
 
 ^HEN y*fa t0 °k unto n ' m tne twelve, and laid unto 
 
 them : Behold, we go up to jerufa!em y and all things 
 
 that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man 
 
 fhall be accomplished : for he (hall be delivered unto the 
 
 Gentiles, and fhall be mocked, and fpitefully entreated, and 
 
 lpittcd on : and they (hall fcouige him and put him to death; 
 
 and the third day he fhall rife again. And they underftooii 
 
 none of thefe things: and this faying was hid from them, 
 
 neither knew they the things which were fpoken. And it 
 
 came to pafs, as he was come nigh unto JeriJjo^ a certain 
 
 blind man fat by the way fide begging; and hearing the muT- 
 
 us by, he affed what it meant. And they told him, 
 
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 that Jefus of Nazareth pafTeth by. And he cried, Jefus, thou 
 Son of 'David f , have mercy on ?ne. And they which went before 
 rebuked him, that he fhould hold his peace: but he cried fo 
 much th<_ more, Thou Son of David \ have mercy on me. And 
 J r us ^lood and. commanded him to be brought unto him: 
 and when he was come near, he afked him, faying, IVhat 
 wilt thou that I Jhould do unto thee? And he faid, Lord, that 
 I ?nay receive my fight. And Jefus faid unto him, Receive thy 
 fight \ thy faith hath faved thee. And immediately he received 
 his fight, and followed him, glorifying God : and all the peo- 
 ple, when they faw it, gave praife unto God. 
 
 The Ujlimony of St. Peter concerning Chrifl. 
 Acts x. 34. 
 
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 ETER opened his. mouth, and faid : Of a truth I per- 
 ceive that God is no refpe&er of perfons; but in every 
 nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteoufnefs, is ac- 
 cepted with him. The word which God fent unto the child- 
 ren of Ifrael, preaching peace by Jefus Chrifl: he is Lord 
 of all : that word, I fay, ye know, which was publifhed 
 throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee-) after the bap- 
 tifm which John preached: how God anointed Jefus of Na- 
 zareth with the Holy Ghoft, and with power; who went 
 about doing good, and healing all that were q^prefTed of the 
 devil: for God was with him. And we are witneffes of all 
 things which he did, both in the land of the Jews and in 
 Jerufalem ; whom they flew and hanged on a tree : Him God 
 raifed up the third day, and fhewed him openly; not to all the 
 people*, but unto witneffes chofen before of God, even to us, 
 who did eat and drink with him after he rofe from the dead: 
 and he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to tes- 
 tify that it is He which was ordained of God to be the Judge 
 of quick and dead. To Him give all the prophets witnefs, 
 that, through his name, whofocver believeth in Him fhall 
 receive rcmiffioo of fins. 
 
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 rj:fcquencc cf cur ftrj} parents tranfgrejjion (a). 
 
 COON as the force of that fallacious fruit, 
 
 That with ex h iterating vapor bland 
 About their fpirits had play'd, and inmoft pow'rs 
 Made err, was now exhal'd ; and grofler flecp, 
 Bred of unkindly fumes, with conicious dreams 
 Incumbcr'd, now had left them; up they rofe 
 As from unreic, and each the other viewing, 
 Soon found their eyes how opeiid, and their minds 
 How darken d: innocence, that as a veil 
 Had fhadow'd them from knowing ill, was gone j 
 Juft confidence, and native righteoufnefs, 
 And honour from about them, naked left 
 To guilty fhame 
 
 A fuminer -evening s meditation (b). 
 
 'T I S paft ! The fultry tyrant of the fouth 
 
 Has fpent his fhort-liv'd rage; more grateful hours 
 Move filent on; the fkies no more repel 
 The dazzl'd fight, but with mild maiden beams 
 Of temper'd light, invite the cherifh'd eye 
 To wander o'er their fphere; where, hung aloft, 
 Diaiis bright crefcent, like a filver bow 
 New ftrung in heav'n, lifts high its beamy horns^ 
 Impatient for the night, and feems to pufh 
 Her brother down the fky. Fair Venus mines 
 E'en in the eye of day; with fweeteit beam 
 Propitious mines, and makes a trembling flood 
 Of foften'd radiance from her dewy locks. 
 The fhadows fpread apace ; while meeken'd Eve, 
 Her cheek yet warm with blufnes, flow retires 
 Through the Hefperian gardens of the weft, 
 And fhuts the gates of day. 'Tis now the hour 
 When Contemplation, from her funlefs haunts, 
 
 The 
 
 (a) Mil'.ons Parailife Loft. 
 
 (b) Part of Mils Aikins Po;m, the firft thirty-five lines. 
 
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 The cool damp grotto, or the lonely depth 
 Of unpiere'd woods, where wrapt in folid fhade 
 She mus'd away the gaudy hours of noon, 
 And fed on thoughts unripen'd by the fun, 
 Moves forward; and with radiant finger points 
 To yon blue concave fwell'd by breath divine, 
 Where, one by one, the living eyes of heav'n 
 Awake, quick kindling o'er the face of ether, 
 One boundlefs blaze; ten thoufand trembling fires 
 And dancing luftres, where th'unfteady eye, 
 JsLeftlefs and dazzled, wandejs unconfin'd 
 O'er all this field of glories: fpacious field ; 
 And worthy of the Mafter : He, whofe hand 
 With hieroglyphics elder than the Nile 
 Jnfcrib'd the myftic tablet; hung on high 
 To public gaze, and faid, Adore, O man, 
 The finger of thy God ! 
 
 Frayers. 
 
 35. For the evening, 
 
 T> Emember not the offences we have committed againft 
 thee, O Lord, this day, nor take thou vengeance of our 
 fins paft. Spare us, O Chrift, O fpare us whom thou" haft re- 
 deemed with thy precious blood, that we may be daily renewed 
 in itrength to ferve thee in faithfulnefs. We befeech thee.* 
 by thine agony and bloody fweat, by thy precious death and 
 glorious refurreclion, to deliver us from all our fins. 
 
 36. Imploring mercy for remarkable fmners* 
 
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 L L powerful God, who halt fet thy glory above the 
 heavens, we befeech thee in thy goodnefs look down 
 in pity from thy throne, and turn the hearts of the un- 
 righteous to the wifdom of the juft. Rebuke them, O Lord, 
 with thy chaftifements, that they may be no longer entangled 
 in the work of their own hands. Put them in fear of thee, 
 that, knowing themfelves to be but men, they may fall down 
 in deep humiliation before thee. Enlighten their under- 
 ftandings and regulate their wills, that they may at length 
 
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 confider the glory of thy power, and adore thy juftice and 
 mercy. This wc beg, O Father eternal, for nib fake who 
 bled upon the cfofs for repentant finncr:, ! 
 
 57. Our Father, &c. 
 
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 38. For ajujlfenfe ofthejujlice and vnrcy of God. 
 Almighty Lord, and Father of mercies, who wouldcfr. 
 
 not that any of thy creatures fhould perifh ; poflefs our 
 hearts with fuch a fenfe of the happinefs of the blefled, that 
 wc may prefs forward in fteady hope of the enjoyment of it. 
 Thou Lord in mercy haft ordained, that men fliall ttemble 
 at thy frowns, that they may not, by evil doing, become in- 
 habitants of thofe regions, where peace and reft can never 
 dwell ; even that prifon of darknefs ordained for the devil and 
 his angels. O Father of all good, give us a due knCe of thy 
 juftice, that, while we fue for pardon from thy mercy, the 
 blood of thy dear Son may wafh away our ftains, and deliver 
 us from the jaws of hell. This we beg, O merciful God, 
 in his facred Name who died to redeem the world ! 
 
 39. For repentance and a happy death * 
 
 / "p O Thee, O God, we fend up our praifc, and pour forth 
 our hearts in ftreams .of gratitude, that thou haft graci- 
 oufly afforded us time to collect our fcattered thoughts, and 
 look back with forrow on the unnumbered fins we have com- 
 mitted. Thy hand, O Father, has prefcrved us from the jaws 
 of deftruelion : Thou haft given us this day, before we go 
 hence to the grave, where there is no repentance. Grant us 
 thy affiftance to triumph over the world; that, when our fpi- 
 ritual warfare is accomplifhed, we may receive the crown 
 of life. Let the fufferings of a bleeding Saviour plead our 
 caufe at thy throne, and fave us from death eternal ! Grant 
 this, O merciful God, for his fake, who died that we might 
 live for ever! 
 
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 Wednesday Night. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 'T 1 HIS is a true faying, and worthy of all men to be re- 
 ceived, That Jefus Chriil came into the world to fave 
 Jinners. I Tim. i. 15. 
 
 If any man fin, we have an Advocate with the Father, 
 Jefus Chrift the righteous; and He is the propitiation for our 
 fins. I John ii. I, 2. 
 
 Psalms. 
 
 For confidence in God* 
 
 I E T me delight to go into thine houfe, O Lord, all the 
 days of my life, and to vifit thy temple. 
 
 Hearken unto my voice when I cry unto thee; have mercy 
 upon me, and hear me. 
 
 My heart hath thought upon thee; and thy face, O Lord, 
 will I feek. 
 
 O hide not thy face from me; nor cafl thy fervant away 
 in difpleafure. 
 
 Thou haft been my fuccour : leave me not, neither for- 
 fake me, O God of my falvation. 
 
 Glory be to thee, Lord ! 
 
 On the happinefs of good \ and the mifery of bad men. 
 
 "p\E LIGHT thou in the Lord, and he fhall give thee 
 thy heart's defire. 
 
 Hold thee (till in the Lord, and abide patiently upon him : 
 but grieve not at him whofe way doth profper, nor againft 
 the man that doth after evil councils. 
 
 Leave off from zvrath, and let go difpleafure; fret not thy- 
 felf, elfe fhalt thou be moved to do evil. 
 
 Yet a little while and the ungodly ihall be clean gone: thou 
 fhalt look after his place, and he (hall be away. 
 
 But the meek fpirited (hall poflefs the earth; and fhall be 
 lefrefhed in the multitude of peace. 
 
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 The ungorlly borrowcth and payeth not agam : but the 
 righteous is merciful and liberal. 
 
 The Lord ordcrcth a gor.d man's going, and maketh Ins 
 way acceptable to bimfelf. 
 
 I have been young, and now am old, and yet faw I never 
 the righteous forfaken, nor his iced begging their bread. 
 
 Glory be to thee y O Lord ! 
 
 In praifc and admiration of the Almighty. 
 
 T)Ehold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him; 
 and upon them that put their truft in his mercy. 
 
 Come let us fing unto the Lord, let us heartily rejoice in 
 the ftrength of our falvation. 
 
 Let us come before his prefencc with thankfgiving, and 
 ihew ourfelves glad in him with pfalms. 
 
 For the Lord is Almighty; in his hands are all the cor- 
 ners of the earth, and the ihength of the hills is his alio. 
 
 The fea is his, and he made it, and his hands prepared 
 the dry land, 
 
 O come let us worihip and fall down and kneel before the 
 Lord our maker. 
 
 For he is the Lord our God : glory and worfhip are before 
 him: power and honour are in his fan&uary. 
 
 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad : let the 
 fca make a noife, and all that therein is. 
 
 For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth : and 
 with righteoufnefs to judge the world, and the people with 
 his truth. 
 
 Glory he to thee , Lord ! 
 
 Recommending humility, 
 Phil. ii. 5. 
 
 ET this mind be in you, which was alio in Qbriji ')'. 
 who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery 
 to be equal with God ; but made himfelf of no reputatk 
 and took upon him the form of a fcrvant, and was made* 
 in the likenefs of men ; and being found in fafhioii as a man, 
 
 K he 
 
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 he humbled himfelf, and became obedient unto death, even 
 the death of the crofs. Wherefore God alfo hath highly 
 exalted him, and given him a name which is above every 
 name ; that at the name of Jefus, every knee mould bow, 
 of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under 
 the earth ; and that every tongue mould confefs that Jefus 
 Chriji is Lord, to the glory of God the Father, 
 
 Afummer night's meditation (4), 
 . O be it lawful now. 
 
 To tread the hallow'd circle of your courts (£), 
 
 And with mute wonder and delighted awe, 
 
 Approach your burning confines. Seiz'd in thought, 
 
 On fancy's wild and roving wing I fail, 
 
 From the green borders of the peopled earth, 
 
 And the pale moon, her duteous fair attendant; 
 
 From folitary Mars; from the vali orb 
 
 Of Jupiter, whofe huge gigantic bulk 
 
 Dances in ether, like the lighted leaf; 
 
 To the dim verge, the fuburbs of the fyitetri, 
 
 Where cheerlefs Saturn 'midft his watry moons 
 
 Girt with a lucid zone, in gloomy pomp, 
 
 Sits like an exil'd monarch : fearlefs thence 
 
 I launch into the tracklefs deeps of fpace, 
 
 Where, burning round, ten thoufand funs appear 
 
 Of elder beam ; which afk no leave to mine 
 
 Of our terrejir'aljlar, nor borrow light 
 
 From the proud regent of our fcanty day ; 
 
 Sons of the morning, fir it-born of creation, \ 
 
 And only lefs than Him, who marks their track, 
 
 And guides their fiery wheels. Here mufl I flop, 
 
 Or is there ought beyond ? What hand unfeen 
 
 Impels me onward, thro' the glowing orbs 
 
 Of habitable nature ; faj remote, 
 
 To the dread confines of eternal night, 
 
 To iclitqdes of vail unpeopled fpace 
 
 The 
 
 ( »«; The laft 55 lines of Mifs Aikw*s Poem. See part of this fine 
 pice* j.age 589. 
 
 (/■; Eluding to the ftars. 
 
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 The deferts of creation, wide and wild; 
 Where embryo fyffems Bad unkindled funs 
 Sleep in the tomb of chaos 9 Fancy droops 
 And thought aftoninYd flops her bold career. 
 Hut O thcu mighty mind! whofe powerful word 
 Said, thus let all things be, and thus they were, 
 Where mall J feck thy prefence r How unblam'd 
 Invoke thy dread perfection ? 
 
 5 the broad eye-lids of the morn beheld thee ? 
 ( h does the beamy moulder of Orion 
 Support thy throne ? O look with pity down 
 On erring guilty man, not in thy names 
 Of terror clad ; not with thofe thunders arm'd 
 That confeious Sinai felt, when fear appalPd 
 The fcatter'd tribes ; thou haft a gentler voice^ 
 That whifpers comfort to the f welling heart 
 Abafh'd, yet longing to behold her maker. 
 But now my foul, unus'd to ftretch her powers 
 In flight fo daring, drops her weary wing, 
 And feeks again the known accuftom'd fpot, 
 Drcft up with fun, and fhade, and lawns, and ftreams, 
 A manfion fair and fpacious for its gueft, 
 And full replete with wonders, Let me here 
 Content and grateful, wait th' appointed time. 
 And ripen for the fkies : the hour will come 
 When all thefc fplendors, burfting on my fight 
 Shall ftand unveiPd, and to my ravifh'd fenfe, 
 Unlock the glories of the world unknown. 
 
 Prayers, 
 
 40. Again/1 the confequences of pride andfmful habits. 
 
 VfOST righteous and merciful God, whofe power ex- 
 tends over heaven and earth ; guard us, we befeech 
 thee, from all external danger: let not the prince of dark- 
 neft inflame our evil defires, nor have dominion over us, that 
 may not, like him, excite thine anger to cafl us into per- 
 ; i. Humble us in thy light, O God j that knowing our 
 K 2 i'i .ul ties 
 
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 frailties and propcnfities to evil, we may conftahtly watch 
 all the acceffes to our hearts. Let not pride and deceitful- 
 nefs take pofTeflion of them, but imitating the glorious ex- 
 ample of our blefltd Redeemer, thro' his meritorious fuffcr- 
 ings and interceifion, be acceptable before thy throne, 
 O God ! 
 
 41. For defence agalnf Jm. 
 
 A Lmighty God, to whom all hearts are open, a/id 
 defires known, we befecch thee to guard us from all 
 aflaults and adverfities which may hurt our bodies, and from 
 all evils that may wound our fouls. Keep us, O Lord, in 
 fuch a ftate of watchfulnefs and humility, that we may d<* 
 nothing difpleafing in thy fight. Grant this, O heavenly 
 Father, for Jefus Chrifis fake ! 
 
 42. For the forgivenefi of the fins ofofbers. 
 
 A Lmighty Lord, and eternal Father, we befeech thee to 
 forgive the offences which we have committed againft 
 thee, and pardon thofe who have given council to do evil. 
 Thy blood, molt blefled Jefus, w T as flied for thine enemies ! 
 O turn the hearts of the ungodly to thy righteous paths, 
 that they may no longer rebel againft thy commandments. 
 Turn their hearts, O Lord, and let them behold the things 
 which belong to their peace, before they are hid from their 
 eyes for ever ! This we beg, O merciful Father, for the 
 fake of Jefus Chrift, who died to fave the world ! 
 
 43. Our Father, &c. 
 
 44. For fufiice. 
 
 /fLwighty Lord, the fovereign of the world, we befeech 
 thee to give us a true fenfe of our eternal obligations to 
 juflice. Let not felf-love, nor any vicious defire, tempt us to 
 violate the rights of others, to draw down thy dreadful 
 judgments on our guilty heads; but confidering the wcak- 
 cicfles and infirmities of our nature, we may act with fuch 
 
 can- 
 
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 candour, probity and humility, as we wifh to experience at 
 the hand of our neighbour. Guard us, O God, from all 
 pride and impatience of controul, that we may not be de- 
 ceived by a haughty or rebellious fpirit, or fuffer the dread- 
 ful calamities which thy indignation has fo often brought 
 upon the children of men. Let all the records of time, of 
 the final punifhment of the unjuft, ferve as our admonition ; 
 and infpire our breaft with fentiments becoming the difciplcj 
 of our blelTed Lord. Under this glorious calling, let us not 
 CCafe to contribute to the felicity of our king, the fecurity of 
 date, the happinefs of our mafters and fuperiors, and 
 the welfare of our equals and inferiors. Above all, let out 
 faithfulness in thy fervice, O Lord, give us the enjoyment 
 of perfect liberty ! This we beg, O merciful Father, for his 
 lake, who made reftitution to thy offended righteoufnefs, and 
 bled upon the crofs for the tranfgreffions of men ! 
 
 45. For thankf giving. 
 
 A Lmighty Lord and Sovereign of the univerfe, we offer 
 up our moit humble and hearty thanks for all thy good- 
 nefs and loving-kindnefs to us, and all mankind. We blefs 
 thec for our creation, and all the wonders of redemption. 
 Accept our gratitude, O Lord, for the unnumbered acts of 
 mercy which thou haft fhewn to us, in the prefcrvation of 
 our bodies, and the comforts of our fouls. Let us rejoice 
 jn thy falvation, that we may ever feek thy face in glad- 
 nefs of heart, thro' the intercefiion of our great Lord and 
 S av i ou r Jcfus Chrifi, 
 * 
 
 46. For praife and thanhfgiving. 
 
 C\ Merciful and tender Father, by whom we live and 
 move and have our being : where mall our wonder, or 
 our praifes ceafe ! O give us the comfort of thy help, and 
 fo cftablifh us with thy fpirit, that the exercife of our grati- 
 tude and love towards thee, may I -come the joy and com- 
 fort of our lives. Thou, Lord, art all in all: O let our 
 praifes afcend with a fweet favour to thy throne ; that we 
 may receive the blefling which thou halt promifed to thy 
 7 faith- 
 
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 faithful fervants. And grant, O merciful Father, that \w 
 may ever rejoice in thy truth, and glory in the falvation, 
 which thou haft fo gracioufly offered to the children of men, 
 thro' Jefus Chrljl our Redeemer ! 
 
 47. For repentance and a happy death* 
 
 f\ God, behold us from thy mercy's feat, and let thy grace 
 defcend upon our hearts, which iigh with unut erable 
 woe ! O let our prayers fly up to heaven, as incenfe, where 
 thy glittering altars fume ! Bend thine ears to our fupplica- 
 tions, unknowing, as'we are, what words to utter j let not 
 the doom of death difturb us, whilft hope in thee fprinpq 
 forward in our contrite hearts. Vile and corrupted as w« 
 are, thou knoweft our inmoft thoughts : O God grant us 
 That peace the world cannot give, that living on earth in 
 thy fear, we may enjoy the happinefs of the bleft in heaven? 
 thro' Jefus Chrijl our Saviour. 
 
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 Thursday Morning, 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 MY foul doth magnify thee, O God, and my fpirit re- 
 joiceth in my Saviour ! 
 For he that is mighty hath fhewn himfelf to the world, 
 and holy is his name ! 
 
 And his mercy is on them that fear him, throughout all 
 generations ! 
 
 For he remembcreth his mercy which he has promifed to 
 our forefathers, Abraham and his v fccd for ever ! 
 
 Psalms. 
 Prophetical of the MeJJiah. 
 
 'TPHOU art fairer than the children of men : full of grace 
 are thy lips, becaufe God hath bleifcd thee for ever. 
 
 Thy feat, O God, endurcth for ever : the fceptre of thy 
 kingdom is a right fceptre. 
 
 Thou haft loved rightcoufnefs and hated iniquity : where- 
 fore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of 
 gladncfs. 
 
 They fhall fear thee as long as the fun and moon endureth; 
 from one generation to another. 
 
 The mountains fhall bring peace, and the little hills 
 righteoufnefs unto the people. 
 
 He fhall judge the people according to right; and defend 
 the poor. 
 
 He fhall keep the Ample folk by their right, defend the 
 children of the poor, and punifh the wrong doer. 
 
 He fhall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool : 
 even as the drops that water the earth. 
 
 In 
 
[ So ] 
 
 In his time fhall the righteous flourifh : yea, and abund- 
 ance of peace fhail there be, fo long as the moon endureth. 
 
 They that dwell in the wildernefs fhall kneel before him: 
 his enemies fhall lick the dull:. 
 
 All kings fhall fall down before him : all nations fhall do 
 him fervice. 
 
 He fhall be favourable tto the fimple and needy : and fhall 
 prcferve the fouls of the poor. 
 
 He fhall deliver their fouls from falfhood and wrong, and 
 dear fhall their blood be in his fight. 
 
 His name fhall endure for ever; his name fhall remain 
 under the fun, among the poflerities : which fhall be blefied 
 through him j and all the heathen fhall praife him ! , 
 
 Glory be to thee, Lord I 
 
 Prophetical of the fufferings of Chrifl. 
 Ifaiah 1. 5. 
 
 *"pHE Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not re- 
 bellious ; neither turned away back. I gave my back 
 to the fmiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the 
 hair. I hid not my face from fhame and fpitting. For the 
 Loid God will help me, therefore fhall I not be confounded; 
 therefore have 1 let my face like a flint, and I know that I 
 fhall not be afhamed. He is near that juftifieth me; who 
 will contend with me ? Let us ftand together : who is mine 
 adverfary ? Let him come near to me. Behold the Lord God 
 will help me ; who is he that fhall condemn me ? Lo, they 
 all fhall wax old as a garment ; the moth fliall eat them up. 
 Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the 
 voice of his fervant, that walketh in darknefs, and hath r\o 
 light ? Lee him trult in the name of the Lord, and flay upon 
 his God. 
 
 Character eind defcriptlon of the Mcffiah. 
 Hebrews i. 1. 
 
 /^OD, who at fundry times, and in divers manners, fpake 
 
 in time part, unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in 
 
 thefe laft days fpoken unto us by his fon 3 whom he hath 
 
 appointed 
 
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 appointed heir of all things, by whom alfo he made the 
 Worlds; who being the brightnefs of his glory and the ex- 
 prefs image of his perfon, and upholding all things by the 
 Word of his power, when he had by himUlf purged Our fins, 
 fat down on the right hand of the Majefty on high ; being 
 made fo much better than the angels, as he hi th by inhe- 
 ritance obtained a more excellent name than they : for unto 
 which of the angels faid he at any time, Thou art my fin, this 
 day have I beget ten thee? And again, I will k to him a father, 
 and he Jhall be to me a fin? And again, when he bringeth 
 the firft begotten into the world, he faith, And let all the angels 
 of Gcdworfhip him. And of his angels he faith, who maketh 
 his angels fpiiits, and his minifters a flame of fire. But unto 
 the Sop he faith, Thy tin-one, O God, is for ever and ever \ a 
 fceptre of righteoufnefs is the fceptre of thy kingdom : thou 
 haft loved righteoufnefs, p.nd hated iniquity; therefore God, 
 even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladnefs 
 above thy fellows. And thou, Lord, in the beginning haft 
 laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are. the 
 work of thine hands. They fhall perifh, but thou remained j 
 and they all fhall wax old as doth a garment ; and as a vef- 
 ture fhalt thou fold them up, and they fhall be changed ; but 
 thou art the fame, and thy years fhall not fail. 
 
 Effefts of the refur reclion of Chr!/?. 
 Rom. vi. 9. 1 Cor. xv. 2. 
 
 C 
 
 HRI ST being rifen from the dead, dieth no more: death 
 hath no more dominion over him. — For in that he died, 
 he died unto fin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto 
 God.— Likewife reckon ye alfo to be dead indeed unto fin : 
 but alive unto God, thro* Jefus Chrift our Lord.— Chrift is 
 rifen from the dead and become the firft fruits of them that 
 flept — For fince by man came death, by man came alfo the 
 refurreclion of the dead. —For as in Adam all die : even fo 
 in Chrift fhall all be made alive. 
 
 Thi 
 
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 The repentance ofourfirjl parents (a)» 
 
 AND what may elfe be remedy or cure 
 
 T'o evils which our own mifdeeds have wrought, 
 HevtiW inftrucl: us praying, and of grace 
 Befeeching htm, fo as we need not fear 
 To pafs commodioufly this life, fuftain'd 
 By him with many comforts, till we end 
 In duft, our final reft and native home. 
 What better can we do, than to the place 
 Repairing where he judg'd us, proftrate fall 
 Before him reverent, and there confefs 
 Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears 
 Watering the ground, and with our fighs the air 
 Frequenting, fent from hearts contrite, in fign 
 Of forrow unfeign'd, and humiliation meek ? 
 Undoubtedly he will relent and turn 
 From his difpleafure ; in whofe look ferene, 
 When angry moft he feem'd and moft fevere, 
 What elfe but favour, grace, and mercy fhone ? 
 So fpake our father penitent, nor Eve 
 Felt lefs remorfe : they forthwith to the place 
 Repairing where he judg'd 'them, proftrate fell 
 Before him reverent, and both confefs'd 
 Humbly their faults ; and pardon begg'd with tears 
 Watering the ground, and with their fighs the air 
 Frequenting, fent from hearts contrite, in fign 
 Of forrow unfeign'd, and humiliation meek. 
 
 Prayers. 
 
 48. For the morning. 
 
 jd Lmighty, glorious and eternal God, the light of the day, 
 
 and the breath of all living ; where can we caft our eyes, 
 
 and not find motive for worfhipping thee ? In whom fhall we 
 
 rejoice 
 
 {a) Mill's Paradite Loft* 
 
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 rejoice but in thee? Thou, O God, art all in all! From 
 the dawning of the day un*o the midnight darknefs, wc offer 
 up our praifes at thy altars, O thou univcrfal omniprcfent 
 Lord ! Send us thy help from above ! Cheer us with the 
 rays of thy mercy, and guide us in thy ways ; fo fhall wc 
 triumph in our goings out , and comings in; and finally end our 
 lives in fure and certain hope of thy favour, through Jefus 
 Chrijl, our blcfled Lord and Saviour, in whole comprchenfive 
 words, we further offer up our petition at thy throne. 
 
 49. Our Father, &c. 
 
 50. For pardon of fins, and truji in God, 
 
 A/TErciful Lord of heaven, deliver our fouls, and let us not 
 be brought to confufion ! Set our hearts aright, O God, 
 that our hopes may be daily ftrengthened. Thou knoweft 
 all our defires, and our forrows are not hid from thee ! 
 Forfake us not, O Lord, and be not far from us, O God of 
 our falvation ! Caft us not away from thy prefence, but give 
 us the comfort of thy help, and eftablifh us with thy holy 
 fpirit ! If thou wert extreme to mark all that we have done 
 amifs, what hopes could we cherifh, or how abide thy dif- 
 pleafure ! O let our prayers afcend with a fweet favour to 
 thy mercy's feat, and obtain That forgivenefs, without 
 which we muft perifh everlaftingly ! This we beg, O Father 
 Almighty, for the fake of Jefus Chrift:, who died to redeem 
 the world. 
 
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 51. For defence againjl fin. 
 
 God, we befeech thee grant unto us, that as we have 
 been baptized into the death of thy blefTed Son, we may^ 
 
 be fo purified in our affections, as to be buried with him; 
 
 and thro' the grave and gate of death, pafs to a joyful refur- 
 
 reclion, for his merits, who died and was buried, and rofe 
 
 again for us, the fame Jefus Chrift our Lord* 
 
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 52. For repentance and thank/giving. 
 
 f\ Merciful God, let our caufe come before thy throne, 
 that our fouls may rejoice in thy falvation. Thou whq 
 deliverer! the poor from him that is too ftrong for him, prevent 
 our being confounded, and put to fhame, through the per- 
 verfenefs of our own hearts. We humble our fouls before 
 thee, that rejoicing in thy name cur prayers may return into, 
 pur own bofoms. O deliver our fouls, that we may be no 
 longer cloathed with rebuke and difhcncur. Thou, Lord^ 
 who haft plcafure in the profperity of thy fervants, let our 
 tongues be daily talking of thy righteoufnefs ; and thy good-, 
 nefs be the conftant fubjecl of our thoughts. Hear this our 
 prayer, O Lord, for his fake who died upon the crofs, for the 
 fins of the world ! 
 
 53. For a happy death. 
 
 f^\ Eternal God^ from whom we derive the breath which, 
 animates our frame, and by whofe fupreme decree, we 
 again return to duft ! Teach us to adore thy mercies, and 
 rejoice in thy unerring wifdorn, that when we fhall reft from 
 pur labours here on earth, our fpirits may be in peace : 
 and when he fhall come who will judge the world in righte- 
 oufnefs, we may be accepted by thee, O Father cf mercy. 
 through his interceflion who died to fave the world !. 
 
 Thursday Evening. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 ALL things in heaven and in earth are thine, OGod; 
 and thou art to be worshipped as Lord over all 1 
 Thine is the greatnefs and the power, the glory, the 
 aiajefty,' and the empire of the univerfe ! 
 
 Thou art perfect in wifdorn, wonderful in council, and 
 holy in all thy works I 
 
 PSALM^ 
 
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 Psalms. 
 
 Prophetical of the death of the Mefliah, 
 
 \/f Y God, my God, look upon me ; why haft thou for* 
 Taken me, and art fo far from my health and from the 
 words of my complaint ? 
 
 All they that fee me laugh me to fcorn : they moot out 
 their lips, and fhake their heads, faying, 
 
 He trujled in God thai he would deliver him, let him deliver 
 t'trn if be will have him. 
 
 They pierced my hands and my feet. 
 
 They parted my garments among them : and caft lots on 
 my vefture. 
 
 But be not thou far from me, Q Lord : thou art my 
 fucconr, hafte thee to help me. 
 
 praife the Lord, ye that fear him : for he hath not def« 
 pifed nor abhorred the low eftate of the poor: he hath not • 
 hid his face from him - } but when he called unto him he heard 
 Jiim. 
 
 All the ends of the world fhall remember themfelves, and 
 l>e turned unto the Lord : and all the kindreds of the nations 
 lhall worfhip before him. 
 
 Burnt offerings and facrifice for fin, haft thou not required : 
 {hen faid I, Lo I come ! 
 
 In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I 
 mould fulfil thy will. O my God ! I am content to do it ; 
 yea, thy law is within my heart. 
 
 1 have not hid thy righteoufnefs within my hea/t : my 
 talk hath been of thy truth and of thy falvation. 
 
 Glory be to thee, Lord! 
 
 On the vanity of life, 
 
 r IKE as a father pitieth his own children, even fo art 
 
 thou, Lord, merciful unto them that fear thee. 
 For thou knoweft whereof we are made, thou remembereft 
 that we are but duft. 
 
 3 Our 
 
C ™ 1 
 
 Our days are but as grafs ; we flourifh but as a flower of 
 the field. 
 
 For as foon as the wind bloweth over it, it is gone ; and 
 the place thereof fhall know it no more. 
 
 But thy merciful goodnefs, O Lord, endureth for ever an^ 
 ever, upon them that fear thee, and thy righteoufnefs upon 
 children's children. 
 
 Glory be to thee, Lord! 
 
 Part of our Saviour's fermon on the mount, 
 
 T> LefTed are the poor in fpirit : for theirs is the kingdom of 
 heaven. 
 
 BlefTed are they that mourn : for they fhall be comforted, 
 
 Blefled are the meek : for they fhall inherit the earth. 
 
 Blefled are they which do hunger and thirft after righteouf* 
 aefs : for they fhall be filled. 
 
 Blefled are the merciful, for they fhall obtain mercy. 
 
 BleiTed are the pure in heart : for they fhall fee God. 
 
 Blefled are the peace makers : for they fhall be called the: 
 children of God. 
 
 Blefled are they which are perfecuted for righteoufnefs 
 fake : for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 
 
 Blefled are ye when men fhall revile you, and perfecute 
 you, and fhall fay all manner of evil againft you for my 
 fake. 
 
 Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward 
 in heaven : for fo perfecuted they the prophets which were 
 before you. 
 
 Give to him that afketh of thee, and from him that woult} 
 borrow turn not thou away. 
 
 Ye have heard that it hath been faid, Thou fhalt love thy 
 neighbour and hate thine enemy. 
 
 But /fay unto you,, love your enemies, blefs them that^urfe 
 you ; do good to them that hate you ; and pray for them 
 which defpitefully ufe you and perfecute you. 
 
 That you may be the children of your father* 
 
 Fcr 
 
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 For f elf -denial. 
 Coloffians iii. r. 
 
 T F ye then be rifen with Chrift, feck thofc things which 
 are above, where Chrift fitteth at the right hand of God. 
 Set your affections on things above, not on things on the 
 earth : for ye ar« dead, and your life is hid with Chrift in 
 God. When Chrift, who is our life, (hall appear, then (hall 
 ye alfo appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your 
 members which are upon the earth ; fornication, unclean- 
 nefs, inordinate affection, evil concupifcence, and covetouf- 
 nefs which is idolatry : For which things fake the wrath of 
 God cometh on the children of difobedience : In the which 
 ye alfo walked fome time, when ye lived in them. 
 
 'The fenience pronounced on cur fir/} parents (a). 
 
 T-JAS TE thee, and from the Paradife of God 
 Without remorfe drive out the linful pair, 
 From haliow'd ground th* unholy, and denounce 
 To them and to their progeny from thence 
 Perpetual banifhment. Yet left they faint 
 At the fad fentence rigoroufly urg'd, 
 For I behold them foften'd, and with tears 
 Bewailing their excefs, all terror hide^ 
 If chearfully thy bidding they obey, 
 Difmifs them not difcon folate ; reveal 
 To Adam what fhall come in future days, 
 As I (hall thee enlighten ; intermix 
 My covenant in the woman's feed renew'd ; 
 So fend them forth, tho' for rowing, yet in peace (b) , 
 
 — - For fince I fought 
 
 By pray'r th* offended deity to appeafe, 
 Kneel'd and before him humbled all my heart, 
 Methought I faw him placable and mild, 
 
 Bending 
 
 (a) Milton's Paradife Loft. 
 
 (6) In what tender terms doth this great poet exprefs the loving-kind- 
 nefs and mercies of the Father of mankind! —Adam's reflexion that 
 follows is fimilar. 
 
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 Bending his ear ; perfuafion in me grew 
 
 That I was heard with favour ; peace return^ 
 
 Home to my breaft, and to my memory 
 
 His promife, that thy feed fhall bruife our foe i 
 
 Which then not minded in difmay, yet now 
 
 Aflures me that the bitternefs of death 
 
 Is paft and we fhall live ! Whence hail to thee^ 
 
 Eve rightly call'd, mother of all mankind, 
 
 Mother of all things living, fince by thee 
 
 Man is to live* and all things live for man, 
 
 Pfalm xviiii Set to tnufic by Dr* Heighington {d) k 
 
 I. 
 
 r\ God, fole object of our love, 
 Our refuge from our foes, 
 Our hope, our fortrefs, our defencej, 
 Our haven of repofe : 
 
 II. 
 
 When dangers, miferies and death 
 
 Encompafs'd us around, 
 In 'midft of terror and defpair 
 
 Thy mercies jftill we found. 
 
 in. 
 
 The Lord defcended from above, 
 And bows the heav'ns molt high^ 
 
 And underneath his feet he cafts 
 The darknefs of the Iky. 
 
 IV; 
 
 On Cherubs wings Jehovah comes 
 
 The helplefs to redrefs, 
 The finking hills and trembling earth, 
 
 The righteous Judge confefs. k 
 
 Hallelujah^ 
 
 {a) Foundling Hofpital colleftioni 
 
 PRAYERS 
 
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 Prayers. 
 
 54. For the cvcniuj. 
 
 r\ Lord of mercy, behold thy creatures, whom thy gooc: 
 
 hath preferved to this hour. To Thee we devote our 
 lives! O God, accept the offering ! Let our gratitude and 
 praife afcend with a fwcet favour to thy mercy's feat ! Thou, 
 who haft delivered us from the powers of darknefs, enlighten 
 our minds ; and, by the influence of thy holy Spirit, teach 
 us thy ways, that we may ever rejoice in thy falvation, and 
 adore thy mercy in our redemption by thy Son, our Lord, 
 in whofe moft bleffed name we further offer up our prayer: 
 
 55. Our Father ', &c. 
 
 56. Gratitude for divine mercy, 
 
 O 
 
 Benignant Lord, whofe fovereign mercy beholds the 
 children of men with tenderneis ineffable, gracioufly 
 extend thy favour to us thy fervants, that we may hereafter 
 live according to thy righteous laws. Let our relenting hearts 
 foften thy vengeance, and turn it into pity and companion ! 
 O tender Father, hear our petition, and let our tears wafh 
 away our mifdeeds ! Accept our daily prayers, as incenfe of- 
 fered at thy altar ! Accept them, almighty God, and let them 
 not be vain in thy fight! Thy mercies and loving kindnefs 
 furpafs all language to defcribe, or human powers to com- 
 prehend ! O blefs us with the effulgent light of thy counte- 
 nance, that during our pilgrimage on earth, we may rejoice 
 in the conftant hope of thy favour. Grant us thy gracious 
 protection, from all fpiritual and bodily enemies, that amidft 
 the changes of this tranhent life, we may fhew forth thy 
 praife, and with our expiring breath pour out our hearts in 
 gratitude for thy mercies in Jefus Chrift, our bleffed Lord 
 and Redeemer ! 
 
 M 57. For 
 
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 57» For thankfgiving. 
 
 *B L E S S E D ! thrice bleiTed be thy name, who in thine 
 abundant mercy haft beheld us with eyes of tender- 
 nefs and companion. Thou, O God, haft delivered our 
 fouls! Grant us a lively and joyful hope in the refurreclion 
 of Jefus Chrift, that we alfo may rife again to the enjoyment 
 of an inheritance in glory, which fadeth not away. With 
 faints and angels we praife thee, O God, and fing Hallelu- 
 jahs in triumphant joy 1 Blefiing and honour, might, majefty, 
 dominion and power, be unto thee, O Father, and unto the 
 Lamb that was (lain for the fins of the world ! To Whom, 
 with Thee and the Holy Spirit, all poflible adoration be given, 
 now and for ever ! 
 
 58. For a happy death, 
 
 A Lmighty and Eternal God, by whofe everlafting decree 
 it is appointed to man once to die, we befeech thee in 
 thy goodnefs to grant us fo unfhaken a confidence in thy 
 mercy, that whenever it fhall pleafe thee to call us hence, 
 we may be found acceptable in thy fight. Grant that we 
 may glory in thy ftrength \ and, maintaining thy caufe like 
 faithful foldiers, finiih our warfare with joy. Thou knoweft 
 whereof we are made: O look on us with eyes of com- 
 panion ! Be not extreme to mark our offences, but in thine 
 infinite mercy forgive them ! This we beg for the fake of Jefus. 
 Chrift, who died on the crofs for the fins of the world ! 
 
 Thursday Night, 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 TLI O L Y, holy, art thou, O God, and we reverence thy 
 name! 
 As the heaven is high above the earthy fo great hath been 
 thy mercy towards us. 
 
 Thy righteoufnefs is like the great mountains; thy truth 
 reacheth to the heavens: juftice and judgment are the ever- 
 lafting foundations of thy throne ! 
 
 Psalms. 
 
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 Psalms. 
 
 Duty of the magijlrate, 
 
 \1^ H O S O privily flandcreth his neighbour, let him be 
 punifhed. 
 
 Whofo hath alfo a proud look and high ftomach, let him 
 not be fuftcred to trouble the people. 
 
 Let their eyes look upon fuch as are faithful in the land, 
 that they may dwell with them. 
 
 Whofo leadcth a godly life, let them be their fervants : 
 
 That no deceitful perfon may dwell in their houfe; nor 
 any one that telleth lies, tarry in their fight. 
 
 Glory be to thee^ Lord! 
 
 Advice to magiftrates. 
 
 f ET them defend the poor and fatherlefs, and fee that 
 
 fuch as are in need and neceflity have right. 
 Arife, O God, and judge thou the earth; and let my fong 
 be of mercy and judgment. 
 
 O give them undeiitanding in the way of godlinefs ! 
 
 Let them take no wicked thing in hand, and hate the fins 
 of unfaithfulnefs; that no fuch may cleave unto them. 
 
 Let a froward heart depart from them, that they may not 
 fuffer the wicked to prevail. 
 
 Glory be to thee, O Lord/ 
 
 For humility. 
 
 [ OKD, let me not be high-minded ; nor have proud 
 looks : 
 Let me not exercife myfelf in great matters, which are too 
 high for me: 
 
 Hut refrain my foul and keep it low, like a child that is 
 weaned from his mother; yea, that my foul may be even as 
 a weaned child ! 
 Glory be to thee 3 O Lord! 
 
 M 2 Mar* 
 
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 Martyrdom of St. Stephen, /hewing charity even to murderers, 
 A&s vii. 55. 
 
 CTEPHEN, being full of the Holy Ghofl, looked up 
 ftedfaftly into heaven, and faw the glory of God, and 
 Jefus {landing on the right hand of God, and faid, Behold, 
 I fee the heavens opened, and the Son of man {landing on 
 the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud 
 voice, and {lopped their ears, and ran upon him with one 
 accord, and cafl him out of the city, and ftoned him: and 
 the witneffes laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, 
 whofe name was Saul. And they ftoned Stephen, calling up- 
 on God, and faying, Lord Jefus receive my fpirit. And he 
 kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not 
 this fin to their charge. And when he had faid this, he fell 
 afleep. 
 
 Lamentation of Sin, on being expelled from paradife (a). 
 
 TV/f U S T I then leave thee, Paradife? thus leave 
 
 Thee, native foil, thefe happy walks and fhades, 
 Fit haunt of Gods ? Where fhall I hope to find, 
 Quiet though fart, the refpite of that day, 
 That muft be mortal to us both ? O flow'rs, 
 That never will in other climate grow, 
 My early vifitation, and my laft 
 At ev'n, which I bred up with tender hand 
 From the firft op'ning bud, and gave you names j 
 Who now (hall rear you to the fun, or rank 
 Your tribes, and water from th'ambrofial fount? 
 Thee laftly, nuptial bow' V , by me adorn'd 
 With what to fight or fmell was fweet, from thee 
 How fhall I part, and whither wander down 
 Into a lower world, to this obfcure 
 And wild ? How fhall we breathe in other air, 
 Lefs pure, accuftom'd to immortal fruits? 
 
 (a) Milton's Paradife Loft. 
 
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 Comfort in rejl and confidence in God [a). 
 
 •The hour 
 
 Of night, and all things now retir'd to reft 
 Mind us of like repofe; fince God hath fet 
 Labour and reft, as day and night, to men 
 Succeflive ; and the timely dew of fleep, 
 Now falling, with foft flumb'rous weight inclines 
 Our eye-lids : other creatures all day long 
 Rove idle, unemploy'd, and lefs need reft: 
 Man hath his daily work of body or mind 
 Appointed, which declares his dignity, 
 And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways; 
 While other animals una&ive range. 
 And of their doings God takes no account. 
 To-morrrow, e'er fiefh morning ftreak the eaft 
 With firft approach of light, let us be rifen. 
 
 Prayers. 
 59. For the evsn'mg. 
 
 A Lmighty Creator and Preferver, by whofe mercy we 
 are brought to the conclufion of this day ! forgive, we 
 befeech thee, all the fins we have committed, and make 
 us hereafter fo watchful of our ways, that we may a& 
 worthy the character of Chrijlians. We now retire to reft, 
 O merciful and tender Father, trufting that thy goodnefs 
 will keep us in fafety, that we may rife refrefhed in health 
 and ftrength of body and mind. And when our prefent life 
 (hall end, O Lord receive our fouls into that happy ftate 
 which thou haft prepared for thofe who obey thy command- 
 ments. This we beg through Jefus Chrift, who died upon 
 the crofs for the fir.s of the world: and in whofe name and 
 words we further offer up our petition at thy throne! 
 
 60. Our Father, &c. 
 
 (a) Milton's Paradifc Loft. 
 
 61. For 
 
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 6 1 . For repentance* 
 
 C\ Almighty God ! Maker of all things, Judge of all men ! 
 fovereign Lord of heaven and earth — who receiveft 
 every creature that flies to thee for fuccour ! Let tears of re- 
 pentance flow from our eyes, and our hearts bleed with con- 
 trition, at the remembrance of our tranfgrefllons ! Thou, 
 Q bleiled Saviour, who didft fuffer a painful and ignomini- 
 ous death, that we might obtain pardon of our fins: thou 
 who madeft an all-fufficient facrifice for the fins of the whole 
 world, let not thy blood be fpilt in vain for us ! 
 
 62. For thankfgiving. 
 
 A Lmighty Lor*?, who filleft immenfity with thy prefence, 
 how (hall our hearts fhew forth thy praife! Thy mercy 
 reacheth unto the heaven of heavens! thy righteoumefs is 
 as the ftrong mountains j and thy judgments, O Lord, are 
 profound, beyond the deep abyfs. O God, how excellent 
 is thy mercy towards all the children of men, who put their 
 truft in Thee, and reft under the fhadow of thy wings! 
 Let us drink of thy pleafures as from the fpring of eternal life, 
 and in the contemplation of thy glory look towards the bright- 
 nefs of eternal day ! O fhew thy loving kindnefs unto us, 
 that our hearts may ling of thy mercy and truth ! Grant this, 
 O righteous Father of mankind, for his fake, who now fits 
 at thy right hand in glory everlafting !. 
 
 63-. For honejly and zeal in our engagements as fervants. 
 
 C\ Father of angels and men, thou mighty Lord and fu- 
 preme Director of all things in heaven and earth, we 
 befeech thee to give us a right mind in difcharging all the 
 duties to which we ftand bound by our temporal engage- 
 ments. Thine eye cannot behold the thing which is unjuft 
 without difpleafure. O let our zeal in the fervice we are en- 
 gaged, be accepted as gratitude for all thy mercies vouch- 
 safed unto us, that we may delight in the profperity of thofe 
 whom thy providence hath fet over us. Give them fuch a 
 fenfe of duty to Thee, that their piety, humilitx', and zealous 
 5 love 
 
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 love of Thee, may unite with ours, in the advancement of thy 
 glory and the good of mankind. This wc beg, O merciful 
 Father, for his fake who humbled himfelf as a frrvant, and 
 adminiftered to the neceflities of men, even Jtfus Cbriji^ our 
 blefled Lord and Redeemer I 
 
 64. For praife and thank f giving. 
 
 C\ Almighty Author of this goodly frame, whom all the ends 
 of the eartfa obey, and to whom all the luminaries of the 
 heavens pay their conftant homage, in their ftupendous order; 
 we befeech thee to exalt our fouls with the contemplation 
 of thy glories, and all the tremendous operations of thy 
 hands. We join the choirs of angels and archangels in 
 praifing and adoring thee, thou Firji^ thou Lajt, thou felf- 
 cxifting God ! O holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaothf 
 to Thee we pour forth our thanks ! Accept them, O Lord, 
 and let our gratitude fupplv our imperfect praife. This we 
 beg, almighty Father, for the fake of thy dear Son, who in 
 mercy redeemed this finful world! 
 
 65. For a happy death. 
 
 r T y H O U almighty Lord, whofe judgments are right and 
 true, and who in faithfulnefs caufeth us to be troubled; 
 in the multitude of our forrows we fly to Thee ! O comfort 
 our hearts and refrem our fouls with thy grace ! Thou haft 
 chaftened us, but not given us over unto eternal death ! 
 The days of the years of man, are but as a moment in thy 
 fight: O grant that we may fo apply our hearts to the graci- 
 ous ends of thy providence, in giving us life, that when our 
 hour (hall come, we may die the death of the righteous, and 
 our laft end be like his! Grant, O almighty Father, that 
 by the fufYerings of thy dear Son, we alfo may take out the 
 fting of death, and obtain a victory over the grave ! Let this, 
 O God, be the fupreme object of our hope of happinefs in 
 Jefus Chri/t, our blefled Lord and Redeemer! 
 
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 Fkjday Morning. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 Q* O M E unto Me, all ye that travel and are heavy laden, 
 and I will refrefh you. Matth. xi. 28. 
 So God loved the world, that He gave his only begotten 
 Son, to the end that all who believe in Him fhould not pe- 
 rifti, but have everlafting life. John iii. 16. 
 
 Psalms. 
 Prophetical of the death of the Mejfiah. 
 
 Wf H Y do the heathen fo furioufly rage together, and 
 why do the people imagine a vain thing? 
 
 The kings of the earth ftand up, and the rulers take coun- 
 cil together, againft the Lord, and againft his Anointed. 
 
 He that dwelleth in heaven fhall laugh them to fcorn; the 
 Lord {hall have them in derifion. 
 
 Then fhall He fpeak unto them in his wrath, and vex 
 them in his fore difpleafure. 
 
 I will preach the law, whereof He hath faid unto me, 
 Thou art my Son! 
 
 Thou wilt not leave his foul in hell, neither fuffer thy 
 Holy One to fee corruption. 
 
 He afked life of Thee, and Tfaou gaveft him a long life, 
 for ever and ever / 
 
 7 fa to ihee, Lord/ 
 
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 For confidence in Gcd under afflitllont, 
 
 VX/ H E N I am in hcavinefs I will think upon thee, O 
 God : when my heart is vexed, 1 will complain. 
 
 () Lord God of my falvation, I have cried day and night 
 before thee: O let my prayer enter into thy prefence; incline 
 thine ear unto my calling. 
 
 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and confider my dcfirej heark- 
 en unto mc, for thy truth and righteoufnefs fake. 
 
 Hear me, O Lord, and that foon, for my fpirit waxeth 
 faint : hide not thy face from me, left I be like unto them 
 that go down into the pit. 
 
 Glory be to thee^ O Lord! 
 
 In praife and adoration of the Almighty for his goodnefs and mercy v 
 
 *TH H E Lord looketh down from heaven, and beholds all 
 the children of men: from the habitation of his dwell- 
 ing He confidereth all that dwell on the earth. 
 
 Thou didft caufe thy judgment to be heard from heaven: 
 the earth trembled, and was ftill. 
 
 Promife unto the Lord your God, and keep it, all ye that 
 are round about Him: bring prefents unto Him that ought 
 to be feared. 
 
 Thou art the God that doeft wonders : and haft declared 
 thy power among the people. 
 
 He divided the kz^ and let them go through : Fie made the 
 waters to ftand on an heap. 
 
 In the day-time alfo He led them with a cloud : and all the 
 night through, with a light of fire. 
 
 He clave the hard rocks in the wildernefs: and gave them 
 drink thereof, as it had been out of the great deep. 
 
 He rained down manna alfo u^on them for to eat : and 
 gave them food from heaven. 
 So man did eat angels food : for He gave them meat enough. 
 
 Many a time turned He his wrath away, and would not 
 fufFcT his whole difpleafure to arife. 
 
 For He confidered that they were but flefh : and that they 
 were even a wind that pafTeth away, and cometh not again. 
 
 O remember not our fins of old. 
 
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 Help us, O God of our falvation, for the glory of thy 
 name : O deliver us, and be merciful unto our fins, for thy 
 name's fake. 
 
 Glory be to thee, O Lord! 
 
 The love of God to man, and the duty of Chrijlian charity 4 
 
 1 John iv. 7. 
 
 E> Eloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and 
 
 everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 
 He that loveth not, knoweth not God ; for God is love. In 
 this was manifefted the love of God towards us, becaufe that 
 God fent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might 
 live through Him. Herein is love; not that we loved God, 
 but that He loved us, and fent his Son to be the propitiation 
 for our fins. Beloved, if God fo loved us, we ought alfo to 
 love one another. No man hath feen God at any time. If 
 we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is 
 perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, 
 and He in us, becaufe He hath given us of his Spirit. And 
 we have feen and do terrify, that the Father fent the Son to 
 be the Saviour of the world. Whofoever fhall confefs that 
 Jefus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in 
 God ; and we have known and believed the love that God 
 hath to us. God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love, 
 dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made 
 perfect, that we may have boldnefs in the day of judgment; 
 becaufe as He is % fo are we, in this world. There is no fear 
 in love ; but perfect love cafteth out fear; becaufe fear hath 
 torment: he that fear eth, is not made perfecl in love. We love 
 Him, becaufe Hefr/l loved us. If a man fay I love God, and 
 hateth his brother, he is a lyar : for he that loveth'not his bro- 
 ther, whom he hath feen, how can he love God, whom he 
 hath not feen? And this commandment have we from Him, 
 that he who loveth God, love his brother alfo. 
 
 Effect i ofthefirfl tranfgrejfion (a). 
 
 p O R T H reaching to the fruit, fhe pluck'd, me eat: 
 
 Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her feat, 
 
 Sighing through all her works, gave figns of woe, 
 
 That all was lofl! 
 
 —Soon 
 (a) Milton's Paradife Loft, 
 
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 Soon as he heard 
 
 The fatal trefpafs done by Eve, amaz'd, 
 
 Aftonicd flood, and blank; while horror chill 
 
 Ran through his veins. He fcrupled not to eat 
 
 Again!!: his better knowledge, not deccivd; 
 
 But fondly overcome with female charm. 
 
 Earth trembled from her entrails, as again 
 
 In pangs, and nature gave a fecond groan , 
 
 Sky lour'd, and mutt'ring thunder, (omcfaJ drops 
 
 Wept, at completing of the mortal fin 
 
 Original* * 
 
 Propitiation by the death of Chrifi, as related by the angel t$ 
 Adam (a). 
 
 ■ Nor can this be, 
 
 But by fulfilling That which thou didft want, 
 
 Obedience to the law of God y impos'd 
 
 On penalty of death,, and fufPring death, 
 
 The penalty to thy tranfgreflion due, 
 
 And due to theirs which out of thine will grow: 
 
 So only can high jujlice reft appaid. 
 
 The law of God, exacl, He fhall fulfil 
 
 Both by obedience and by love, though love 
 
 Alone fulfil the law; thy punifhment 
 
 He fhall endure by coming in the flefh 
 
 To a reproachful life^ and curfed death; 
 
 Proclaiming life to all who fhall believe 
 
 In his redemption; and that his obedience^ 
 
 Imputed, becomes theirs by faith, his merits 
 
 To fave them, not their own y though legal works. 
 
 For this He fhall live hated, be blafphem'd, 
 
 Seiz'd on by force, judg'd, and to death condemn'd, 
 
 A fhameful and accurs'd, nail'd to the erofs 
 
 By his own nation, Jlain for bringing life, 
 
 But to the crofs He nails thy enemies. 
 
 The law that is againft thee, and the fins 
 
 Of all mankind, with Him there crucify'd, 
 
 Never to hurt them more who rightly truft 
 
 In this his fatisfa&ion;— fo he dies, 
 
 N 2 Bat 
 
 {a) Milton's Paradifc Loft. 
 
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 But foon revives ;— death over Him no pow'r 
 
 Shall long ufurp; ere the third dmvning light 
 
 Return, the ftars of morn fhall fee Him rife 
 
 Out of his grave, frefh as the dawning light, 
 
 Thy ranfome paid, which man from death redeems, 
 
 This death for man, as many as offered life 
 
 Neglect not, and the benefit embrace 
 
 By faith, not void of works : this Godlike acl 
 
 Annuls thy doom, the death thou fhouldft have dy'd, 
 
 In fin for ever loft from life; this acl 
 
 Shall bruife the head of Satan, crufh his ftrength, 
 
 Defeating^//* and death, his two main arms, 
 
 And fix far deeper in his head their ftings, 
 
 Than temp'ral death fhall bruife the Victor's heel, 
 
 Or theirs whom He redeems; a death like fleep, 
 
 A gentle wafting to immortal life. 
 
 Nor after refurreclion fliall He ftay 
 
 Longer on earth than certain times t'appear 
 
 To his difciples, men who in this life 
 
 Still follow'd Him; to them fhall leave in charge 
 
 To teach all nations what of Him they learn'd, 
 
 And his falvation; them who fliall believe 
 
 Baptizing in the profluent ftream, the fign 
 
 Of warning them from guilt of fin to life 
 
 Pure, and in mind prepar'd, if fo befall, 
 
 For death, like that which the Redeemer dy'd. 
 
 All nations they fhall teach ; for from That day 
 
 Not only to the fons of Abraham's loins 
 
 Salvation fhall be preach'd, but to the fons 
 
 Of Abraham's faith, wherever through the world j 
 
 So in his Seed all nations fhall be bleft ! 
 
 Prayers. 
 
 66. Morning Prayer, 
 
 f*\ Lord, almighty Ruler of the earth, of whofe great- 
 nefs and power all the glories of this world are but the 
 fainteft lnadows; thus proftrate we direct our prayers unto 
 Thee, and look with longing eyes towards the heaven of 
 heavens, where Thou fkineft in majefty fublime, too bright 
 
 for 
 
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 for mortal eyes ! Lead us, O Lord, in the paths of thy 
 righteoufnefs, and make us to attend to thy ways, that wc 
 may not perifh thro* our own imaginations, or the multitude 
 of their ungodlinefs, whofe hearts are let to do evil. AfTilt 
 us with thy grace, in all that we undertake, that putting our 
 truft in thee, we may ever be giving of thanks, and rejoice 
 in the love of thy holy name, through Jefus Chrijl our blcffed 
 Lord and Saviour ! 
 
 67. Our Father ■, &c. 
 
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 68. For defence againjl Jin, 
 
 OST merciful God, the mighty guardian and protector 
 of mankind, we befeech thee to continue thy mercies 
 to us ! Ponder our words, O Lord, andconfider our medita- 
 tions ! Thus furrounded by fnares and befet with tempta- 
 tions, let the remembrance of thy wonders of old, and the 
 repeated mercies which thou halt fhewn to us, keep our 
 gratitude in all its vigour j and the hopes of thy future favour 
 add ftrength to our vigilance and care. Guard our hearts, 
 O God, and keep the door of our lips, that we may never 
 trefpafs on thy righteous laws ! This we beg, O merciful 
 father, for the fake of our great IntercefTor and Redeemer, 
 Jefus Chrijl. 
 
 69. For abjlinence. 
 
 C\ Almighty and eternal God, who knoweft whereof we are 
 made, and how prone the flefh to rebel againft the fpirit ; 
 grant us, we befeech thee, fuch fortitude and awful dread of 
 offending thee, that we may fhun all temptation to excefs, 
 and by moderation in our aliment, fubdue every evil de- 
 lire, and fo reduce our appetites to a juft conformity to thy 
 will, that we may poffefs our fouls in all their ftrength and 
 harmony; and obeying thee in true holincfs of life, live to 
 thy honour, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlafting life, 
 thro' Jefus Chrijl our Lord. 
 
 Friday 
 
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 Friday Evening. 
 Invocation. 
 
 JUST and true are thy ways, O thou King of faints ! 
 Thou art good, and doeft good continually ; the earth 
 is full of thy goodnefs ; and all thy works proclaim thy over- 
 flowing bounty. 
 
 Every good and perfect gift cometh down from thee, who 
 art the Almighty Father of all ! 
 
 O Lord, thy goodnefs is above all praife; univerfal as thy 
 works, and endlefs as eternity ! 
 
 * Psalms. 
 God's prpteflion of good men. 
 
 C\ Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious : and his 
 mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 For he brought them out of darknefs, and out of the 
 lhadow of death : and brake their bands in funder. 
 
 Their foul abhorred all manner of meat j and they were 
 even heard at death's door. 
 
 But when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, he 
 delivered them out of their diftrefs. 
 
 O that men would therefore praife the Lord for his good- 
 nefs : and declare the wonders that he-doeth for the children 
 of men. 
 
 Glory be to thee^ O Lord! 
 
 Under a xonfeioufnefs of guilty for divine affjlance. 
 
 C\ Confider my adverfity, and deliver me, for I do not 
 forget thy law. 
 Great is thy mercyV O Lord : O quicken me as thou art 
 wont. 
 
 It grieveth me when I fee the tranfgrefFors : becaufe they 
 keep not thy law. 
 
 Confider, O Lord, how I love thy commandments : O 
 quicken me according to thy loving-kindnefs. 
 
 Thy 
 
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 Thy word is true from cverlafting : all the judgments of 
 thy righteoufnefs endure for evermore ! — 
 
 give me underftanding according to thy word. 
 
 My lips (hall fpeak of thy praifc, and my tongue {hall fing 
 of thy righteoufnefs ! 
 
 1 have gone aftray like a fhecp that is loft ; O feck thy 
 fervant, for I do not forget thy commandments. 
 
 I have longed for thy faving-hcalth, O Lord : — O let my 
 foul live, and it (hall praife thee ! 
 
 The righteoufnefs of thy teftimonies is everlafting : O 
 grant me underftanding, and I fhall live ! — 
 
 Glory be to thee y Lord! 
 
 The fever eign effects of cbrijVian charity. 
 I John iii. 13—24. 
 
 1V/TARVE L not, my brethren, if the world hate you. We 
 know that we have pafled from death unto life, be- 
 caufe we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother^ 
 abidcth in death. Whofoever hatcth his brother, is a murderer \ 
 and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in 
 him. Hereby perceive we the love of God, becaufe he laid 
 down his life for us : and we ought to lay down our lives for 
 the brethren. But whofo hath this World's good, and feeth 
 his brother have need, and ihuttcth up his bowels of com- 
 panion from him ; how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 
 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue ; 
 but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are 
 of the truth, and (hall afTure our hearts before him. For if 
 our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and 
 knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, 
 then have we confidence towards God. And whatfocver we 
 afk, we receive of him, becaufe we keep his commandments^ 
 and do thole things that are pleafing in his fight. And this 
 is his commandment , That we fhould believe on the name of 
 his fen Jefus Chrijl, and love one another, as he gave us 
 commandment. And he that keepeth his commandment* 
 dwelleth in Him, and He in him : and hereby we knziv tbt . 
 abide tb in us y by the fpirit which he hath given usi 
 
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 Prayers. 
 
 70. For the evening, 
 
 A/TOST merciful Father of mankind, by whofe tender 
 Providence we are brought in fafety to the ccndufion of 
 this day, accept our humble thanks, for this and all thy 
 mercies. In thy goodnefs, O Lord, we hope for prefent 
 and future blefiings : Give us thy grace, that as we live by 
 thee alone, our lives may be devoted to thee ! Let our gratitude 
 and love teach us to confider our abode on earth as a pre- 
 paration for blifs in heaven, that finally by thy mercy, in 
 Jefus Chrijl our Lord, we may be received into the everlafting 
 manfions appointed for thy faithful fervants. 
 
 7 1. Againjl cenforioufnefs. 
 
 C\ Tender Father of mankind, correct in us, we befeech thee, 
 whatever is cruel or malevolent : refrain our tongues 
 from evil, and our lips that they fpeak no guile ; that imitat- 
 ing the example of our blefled Lord, by unfeigned love, and 
 tender commiferation, we may mourn over the offences of 
 others; and by our beft endeavours, make them fenfible of the 
 errors of their ways. If it be thy pleafure, let u&fiiffer injuries 
 but not do them. Teach us, O God, to enter into the re- 
 cedes of our own hearts, and take an impartial view of them, 
 that we may fhudder at the feverity of our own judgments, 
 and finally efcape condemnation at the judgment feat of 
 Chrift, in whefe molt holy name we implore thy mercy \ 
 
 72. Our Father, &c. 
 
 73. For temperance. 
 
 A/TOST^racious Father of men and angels, who filleft all 
 things living with thy bounty, guard us we befeech 
 thee from all excefs, that no temptations cf appetite <may 
 obftrucl: the activity, or wound the purity of our fouls. Let 
 no intemperance fenfualize our affections, to keep our fouls 
 in bondage to fin : but give us ftrength, we befeech. thee, 
 
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 fo to fubduc our corruption, that \vc may fcrvc thee In 
 true fimplicity and purity of heart, and worthily feaft at the 
 table of our blcffcd Lord and Redeemer, in whofe moil holy 
 name we offer up our prayer ! 
 
 74. For application to the temporal concerns of life, and 
 
 rrfignation to Providence. 
 
 1 
 
 A Lmighty Lord, who haft ordained by thy unchangeable 
 decree, that man mall eat his bread in fweat and la- 
 bour ; give us, wc befeech thee, an aclive and induftrious 
 difpofition : let our di-ligence and innocency go hand in hand, 
 and admin'fter to their mutual fupport ; that our lives may 
 pafs in fafety, and our deaths be full of hope. Give us fo 
 true a relifh of our prefent condition, that the example of 
 humility, which Chrift hath fet before our eyes, may appear 
 as far beyond all earthly fplcndour, as the glories of heaven 
 outfhine the tranfient glitter of this world. Teach us, O 
 Lord, an entire fubmifiion to thy will, that being refigned 
 to thee, we may labour with diligence in our temporal, as in 
 our fpiritual duties, maintaining a fteadfafr. hope of That 
 ftate of happinefs, which thou hall: promifed through Jefus 
 Chrifl, the Lord of life and Redeemer of the world ! 
 
 75. For covflancy of mind, and divine ajjijlance. 
 
 t_I EAR us, O merciful Father, we humbly befeech thee^ 
 and let thy grace be ever prefent with thy weak un- 
 worthy fervants ! Regulate our perverfe affections, and vain 
 defires j and confine our hearts to fuch objecls as are pleafing 
 in thy fight. We are not able of our f elves, \o do or think 
 any thing that is good : O let thy fpirit affifl: our poor en 
 vours. Vanquifh the temptations which befet us ! Fix our 
 inconflant minds, and follow us through all our paths. Thou* 
 Lord art our hope ! Thou art cur refi ! In thee alone is 
 fure and true fatisfa&ion ; and all, without thee, is mifery 
 and torment! O grant us the happy fecurity of thy pc.:ce, 
 that we may abandon all the falfe appearances of happinds 
 here- below, and find foft eafe and tweet repofc in thy lova 
 
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 and favour. Hear our prayer, O God ! O merciful Lord 
 of heaven, hear us, and fhew us thy mercy, for the fake of 
 Jefus Chrijl our Redeemer ! 
 
 76. For a happy death, 
 
 A Lmighty Father of Spirits, in whofe hands are the Iflues 
 of life and death, give us comfort in the thought of our 
 approaching diffblution. Let our pah: mifdeeds ftand in 
 judgment before us, that being condemned at the tribunal of 
 our own minds, they may not tread our lives down to the 
 earth, nor condemn us at thy judgment feat. Our offences 
 againft thee are great and numerous ! O let our hearts 
 afcend on the wings of contrition, to feek for pardon at thy 
 hands. Thou, O Father, who art the righteous judge, 
 flow to anger, tho' provoked every day; let our forrows 
 bring forth fuch repentance, as may appeafe thy juft indigna- 
 tion ; that whenever it fhall pleafe thee to call us hence, we 
 may hear the comfortable found of the gracious invitation 
 promifed to thy faithful fervants, in Jefus Chrijl our Re- 
 deemer ! 
 
 Friday Night. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 /^HRIST being raifed from the dead, dieth no more; 
 death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he 
 died, he died unto fin once; but in that he liveth, he liveth 
 unto God ; likewife reckon ye alfo yourfelves to be dead 
 indeed unto fm, but alive unto God, through Jefus Chrijl 
 our Lord ! 
 
 Psalms. 
 
 For trujl in God and thankfgiving. 
 
 Q\ God, thou art my helper, thou art with them that uphold 
 my foul. 
 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and hide not thyfelf from my 
 petition. 
 
 I have 
 
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 I have put my truft in thee, and will not fear what flefh 
 can do unto me. 
 
 In thec do I put my trufl:, O Lord, and will not be afraid 
 of any thing that man can do unto me. 
 
 Unto thee will 1 pay my vows, unto thec will 1 give 
 thanks. 
 
 For thou haft delivered my foul from death, and my feet 
 from falling, that 1 may walk before thee in the light of 
 the living. 
 
 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me, for 
 my foul trufteth in thee, and under the fhadow of thy wings 
 fhall be my refuge. 
 
 I will call unto the moft high God, even unto the God 
 that fhall perform the caufe which 1 have in hand. 
 
 Set up thyfelf, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory 
 above all the earth. 
 
 My heart is fixed, O God ! my heart is fixed : I will ling 
 and give praife. 
 
 For the greatnefs of thy mercy reacheth unto the heavens, 
 and thy truth unto the clouds. 
 
 Set up thyfelf, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory 
 above all the earth. 
 
 Glory be to thee, O Lord / 
 
 Confidence in God, and refolution to obey. 
 1 Peter v. 5. 
 
 A LL of you be fubjcc~r. one to another, and be cloathed 
 with humility: for God rehfteth the proud, and giveth 
 grace to the humble. Humble yourfelves therefore under the 
 mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; 
 calling ajl your care upon him, for he careth for you. Be 
 fober, be vigilant : beeaufe your adversary the devil, as a 
 roaring lion, walketh about feeking whom he may devour ; 
 whom refift, ftedfaft in the faith ; knowing that the fame 
 afflictions are accomplifhed in your brethren that are in the 
 world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto 
 his eternal glory by Chriif. Jefus, after that ye have fufrered 
 a while, make you per/eel, ftablifh, ftrengthen, fettle you. 
 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever! Amen. 
 
 O 2 Athankf- 
 
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 A ihankfgiving, as from foundings and orphans (a). 
 
 Duet. 
 ATTUNE the fong to mournful drains ; 
 
 Of wrongs and woes, the fong complains ; 
 An orphan's voice ellays to fwell 
 The notes that tears by turns repel. 
 
 Recitative. 
 Left on the world's bleak wafte forlorn, 
 In fin conceiv'd, to forrow born, 
 By guilt and fhame fore-doom'd to fhare 
 No mother's love, no father's care : 
 No guide the devious maze to tread, 
 Above, no friendly fhelter fpread. 
 
 Duet. 
 
 Alone amidil: furrounding flrife, 
 And naked to the ftorms of life, 
 Defpair looks round with aching eyes, 
 And finking nature groans and dies. 
 
 Solo, 
 But who is he who deigns to claim 
 From all the wrong'd, a father's name ? 
 To rapture turn the changing drains, 
 'Tis God whofe hand the world fuftains, 
 He fmiling bends from mercy's throne, 
 And calls the fatherlefs his own. 
 To Grangers hands he gives the truft, 
 We feel that ftrangers hands are juft. 
 They to the poor his gifts difpenfe, 
 And guard the weak with his defence. 
 
 Chorus. 
 O Father, let us ftill be thine, 
 And claim thine heritage divine ; 
 Still bleft, while gratitude repays 
 Thy endlefs love with endlefs praife ! 
 
 (a) Compofed by Dr. Haivkefivortb j fet to mufic by Mr. Stanley, 
 and ufed at the Foundling Hofpital. 
 
 5 Pfalm 
 
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 Psalm ciii. (a). 
 
 ARISE my heart, my foul arife, 
 
 And fing his praife, until the fkics 
 Re-echo his afcending fame : 
 My foul, O celebrate his name ! 
 
 Like as a father to his child, 
 So foft fo quickly reconcil'd ; 
 He knows the fabrick of us all, 
 That duil is our original. 
 
 Man fiourifheth like grafs, a flower 
 That blows and withers in an hour ; 
 By fcorching heat, by blading wind 
 Deftroy'd, and leaves no print behind. 
 
 Ye ordered hoft of radiant ftars, 
 
 O ye his flaming minifters ! 
 
 All whom his wifdom did create, 
 
 Through his wide empire, celebrate 
 
 His glorious name ; with fweet accord 
 
 join thou my foul to praife the Lord ! 
 
 Prayers. 
 
 77. For the evening, 
 
 A Lmighty creator and preferver, by whofe mercy we are 
 brought to the conclufion of this day! Forgive, we 
 befeech thee, all the lins we have committed, and make us 
 tremble for fear of offending thee. We now retire to reft, 
 O God, trufting in thy goodnefs to keep us in fafety, that 
 we may rife refrefhed in health and ftrength of body and 
 mind. And when our prefent life fhall end, O Lord receive 
 our fouls into that happy ftate which thou haft prepared for 
 thofe who obey thy commandments. This we beg through 
 Jefus Chrift, who died upon the crofs for the fins of the 
 world ! 
 
 78. Our Father , &c. 
 
 79. For 
 {a) Ufvd at the Foundling Hofpital : fet to mufic by Mr. Cook. 
 
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 79. For purity of fpirit. 
 
 C\ Father of fpirits, almighty Lord, who beholdefr. all thy 
 creatures with eyes of mercy and companion : give us 
 thy grace, that we may reftrain our appetites within their 
 lawful bounds, and our imaginations, that they wound not 
 the purity of our fouls. Let the light of thy countenance 
 fhine upon us, that we may not fall into the fnares of fin, 
 or prefumptuoufly rebel againft thy commandments : but 
 obeying the dictates of our reafon, act as worthy of our own 
 nature, and of thee, O God, the author of our Being ! 
 Strengthen us, we befeech thee, that guarding the avenues 
 to our hearts, we may refift all the powers of darknefs, and 
 give proof of the Jtncerity of our obedience to the goipel of 
 Chrift. Grant us, O God, freedom from all wicked defires, 
 and vain thoughts, that we may poffefs our fouls in perfett 
 liberty, and conduct our lives with fuch awe before thee, 
 that we may be at length admitted into thy glorious, king^ 
 dom, through Jefus Chrift our Lord! 
 
 80. For preparation for the Lord's Supper. 
 
 C\ God, we befeech thee {o to prepare our minds, that we 
 may devoutly obey the commands of our blefled Lord ! 
 Let not the fnares of the devil encompafs us, nor foolifh fears 
 nor wicked pretences tempt us to evade the Ariel: injunction 
 to obey our bleffed Saviour in this memorial of him ! Let 
 it be to us as a fweet fmelling favour, diiTufing comfort 
 to our fouls, and arming our hearts with ftrength to obey all 
 his righteous laws ; that when our feet fhall flip, it may up- 
 hold us ! Grant, O merciful God, that we may fo devote 
 our hearts to thee, as not to fall into fin, or falling recover 
 quickly to a remembrance of the love thou haft fhewn us in 
 Jefus Cbrif? ; and our eternal obligations to righteoufnefs : 
 and finally by the meritorious death and fufferings which we 
 commemorate, obtain of thee, O Lord and Father, admif- 
 fion into thy kingdom, where everlafting peace and pleafure 
 fit enthron'd ! — 
 
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 8l. In contrition of fpirit and praife to the majefly of the 
 Almighty. 
 
 C\ Lord God Almighty, whofe prefence is bounded by no 
 fpace; who art always nigh unto them who are of a con- 
 trite heart, and relicveth the humble fpirit ; do thou brin* 
 our iniquities to our remembrance, that afflicting our fouL in 
 thy light, they may be cleanfed from their ftains. Let not 
 our eyes ccafe from tears 'till thou hdit pity on us ! — Out 
 of the abundance of our complaints do we fpealc ; and in 
 the bitternefs of our fouls, mourn before thee. O Lord, 
 hear us from thy holy feat, and from the throne of thy pre- 
 fence have mercy on us! Let us not juftify ourfelves, that 
 our own mouths may not condemn us ! — O look down from 
 heaven, from the habitation of thy glory, and behold us 
 miferable finners proftrate before thee ! Thou that faveft in 
 time of affliction, now hear our fupplications ! Thou that 
 inhabiteft eternity, and dwelleft with him who is of a con*- 
 trite fpirit, give us thy comfort from above , that we may 
 delight in thee, and lift up our faces towards thy holy- 
 temple ! This we beg, O Almighty Father of life, in thp 
 name, and through the mediation oVfcfus Chrift our blcfled 
 Lord and Saviour ! 
 
 82 . For a happy death. 
 
 O 
 
 Merciful God, who in thy boundJefs compaflion to 
 finful man, haft from the beginning ordained an inter- 
 cefTor : grant that his merits may fupply our imperfect 
 obedience ; and his blood wafh out our finful ftains ! Graci- 
 oufly receive our offerings of benevolence to all our fellow- 
 creatures, that when the hour of diffolution fhall come to 
 us, we may refign our breath in peace. To thee we devote 
 our fleeting hours : accept them, O Lord of mercy, how 
 fhort foever they fhall be, that our confidence in thy love, 
 through Chri/i, may be a grateful facrifice at thy altar. 
 This we beg, O Almighty Father, in the name of our 
 powerful interceffor, wlio now fits at thy ri^ht hand, in all 
 the triumphs of everlafting glory ! 
 
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 Saturday Morning, 
 
 Invocation 
 
 UPHOLD us, O Lord, with thy righteoufnefs ; that 
 our hearts may be eftablifhed unblameable in holinefs 
 before thee, at the coming of our Lord J ejus Chrljl f 
 
 Psalms. 
 
 Supplication and thankjglving, 
 
 1LJ E AR my voice, O God, in my prayer, and preferve my 
 life from wicked doers. 
 
 Let me rejoice, O Lord, and put my truft in thee, that 
 my heart may be glad. 
 
 Hafte thee, O God, to deliver me -, make hafte to help me, 
 O Lord ! 
 
 Let all thofe that feek thee be joyful and glad in thee, and 
 let all fuch as delight in thy falvation, fay alway, The Lord 
 be praijed ! 
 
 I am poor and in mifery, but thou art my helper and 
 redeemer. 
 
 Glory be to thee^ Lord! 
 
 For ajjijlancf in di/lrejs. 
 
 CET my mind to do good, O Lord, and aflift the poor and 
 helplefs man, that he may not be flain, nor vexed at 
 heart. 
 
 Deal with me, O Lord, according to thy name, for thy 
 mercy is fweet. 
 
 O deliver me, for I am helplefs and poor, and my heart 
 
 is wounded within me. 
 
 Deliver 
 
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 Deliver my foul, O God, from lying lips, and from .1 deceit- 
 ful tongue, that it may dwell among them that arc friends 
 unto peace. ; 
 
 Who imagine no mi (chief in their hearts, neither Air up 
 ftiife, norfharpen their tongues like a ferpent, 
 
 Thou art my God, O hear the voice of my prayer ! 
 
 Thou art the ftrength of my help, and haft covered my 
 head when danger has comparted me about. 
 
 O let my prayers be fet forth in thy fight as incenfc, 
 and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening facrificc. 
 
 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the 
 door of my lips. 
 
 Let me pour out my complaints before thee, and fhew thee 
 my trouble ; 
 
 For thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the 
 living. 
 
 O enter not into judgment with thy fcrvant, for in thy 
 fight can no man living be juftified ! 
 
 Glory be to thee, O Lord ! 
 
 ChrijTs appearance after his crucifixion. 
 Luke xxiv. 36. 
 
 TESUS himfelf flood in the midftof them, and faith unto. 
 J them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and af- 
 frighted, and fuppofed that they had feen a fpirit. And he 
 faid unto them, Why are ye troubled, and why do thoughts 
 arife in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that \\ 
 is 1 myfelf : hanJle me and fee, for a fpirit hath not flefh and 
 bones, as ye fee me have. And when he had thus fpoken, 
 he fhewed them his hands and his feet. And while they* 
 yet believed not for jcy, and wondered, he faid urvto them, 
 Have ye here any meat ? And they gave him a piece of a 
 broiled nfh, and of an honey-comb. And he took if, and did 
 cat before them : and he faid unto them, Thefe are the 
 words which I fpake unto you, while I was yet with you, 
 that all things mull be fulfilled which were written in the 
 law of Mofcs, and in the Prophets, and in the Pfalms, con- 
 cerning inc. Then opened he their underflanding, that they 
 
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 might underftand the fcrlptures j and he faid unto them, 
 Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Chrijl to fuffer, and 
 to rife fro n the dead the third day ; and that repentance and 
 remiiTion of fins fhould be preached in his name among all 
 nations, btg\ii\n%itjerufalem. And ye arewitnefTes of thefe 
 things. 
 
 The care of Chrijl for his followers. 
 John x. II. 
 
 JESUS faid, I am the good fhepherd : the good fhepherd 
 giveth his life for the fheep : but he that is an hireling 
 and not the fhepherd, whofe own the fheep are not, feeth 
 the wolf coming, and leaveth the fheep and fleeth ; and the 
 wolf carcheth, them and fcattereth the fheep. The hirer 
 ling fleeth, becaufe he is an hireling, and careth not for the 
 fheep. I am the good fhepherd, and know my fheep, and am 
 known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even fo know 
 I the Father : and I lay down my life for the fheep. And 
 other fheep I have, which are not of this fold : them alfo I 
 muft bring, and they fhall hear my voice, and there Jhall bi 
 onefold and one jhephera 1 . 
 
 Hymn in gratitude to God (a). 
 
 VyHEN all thy mercies, O my God, 
 
 My rifing foul furveys, 
 Tranfported with the view, I'm loft 
 In wonder, love, and praife. 
 
 O how friall words with equal warmth 
 
 The gratitude declare, 
 That glows within my ravifh'd heart ? 
 
 But thou canft read it there. 
 
 Thy Providence my life fufrain'd, 
 
 And all my wants redreir, 
 When in the filent womb I lay, 
 
 And hung upon the breaft. 
 
 (a) Addifen. 
 
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 To 
 
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 To all my weak complaints and eric*, 
 
 Thy mercy lent an car, 
 Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt 
 
 To form themfclves in pray'r. 
 
 Unnumber'd comforts on my foul, 
 
 Thy tender care beftow'd, 
 Before my infant heart conceiv'd 
 
 From whence thofe comforts flow'd. 
 
 Through every period of my life, 
 
 Thy goodnefs I'll purfue ; 
 And after death in diftant worlds, 
 
 The glorious theme renew. 
 
 When nature fails, and day and night 
 
 Divide thy works no more ; 
 My ever grateful heart, O Lord, 
 
 Thy mercy (hall adore. 
 
 Prayers. 
 
 83. For the morning, 
 
 (T\ Heavenly Father, almighty and everlafting God, who 
 haft fafely brought us to the begtning of this day j we 
 moft earneftly recommend ouffelves to thy merciful guidance 
 and protection ! Let thy good- providence be always over us, 
 and the grace of thy holy fpirit, direct us to do what is right 
 and juft in thy fight, through Jefus Ghrift our blefled Lord 
 and Redeemer.' 
 
 84. For obedience to fuperiors. 
 
 A Lmighty and eternal God, the fovereign ruler of men 
 and angels, who haft conftituted things in a wonderful 
 order; making all the creatures fubje& to man, and one 
 man to another : teach us, we befeech thee, to obey all 
 thofe whom thou haft fet over us, reverencing their perfons, 
 and fubmitting to their lawful commands ; chearfully taking 
 
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 thofe burdens which private neceffity, or public wifdom, may 
 require of us, for the common good. Let not the fpirit of 
 pride or mutiny, murmur, or diforder, enter our hearts, that 
 we may not be configned to the portion of the difobedienr, 
 or the revilers of dominion and authority. Grant this, moft 
 holy Gcd, for his fake, whofe obedience hath obtained the 
 glory of eternal ages, even Chrift the Saviour of the world ! 
 
 2$> Our Father, &c. 
 
 86. For a happy death, 
 
 PRANT, we befeech thee, Almighty God, that as thy 
 fon Jefus Chrift hath overcome death, and opened unto 
 us the gate of everlafting life, we may purify our hearts from 
 all fenfual affections, and worldly defires ; that calmly refign- 
 ing our breath to thee, O Father, we may be acceptable in 
 thy fight, and partakers of his glorious refurreclion ! 
 
 Saturday Evening. 
 Invocation. 
 
 71/TOS T glorious majefly cf heaven, the God of the fpirits of 
 all flefh ; who humbleft thyfelf to behold the things 
 that are in heaven and earth ; 
 
 Protecl and defend thy church / . O be favourable and gracious 
 unto us. 
 
 Accept cur prayer and interceflion for all men ; for the 
 king, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a 
 quiet and peaceable life, in all godlinefs and honefty. 
 
 Psalms. 
 Difplaying the power, ?najefly, and glory of God. 
 
 *TpHOU, O God, who art praifed in heaven and earth; 
 thou that hearefr. prayer, unto thee fhall all fleih 
 come ! 
 
 Bleffed ' 
 
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 Blcflcd is the man whom Thou chufeft, and received unto 
 Thee : he fhall dwell in thy court, and he (hall be fati&ficd 
 with the pleafurcs of thy houfe, even of thy holy tern; 
 
 Thou fhalt fhew us wonderful things in thy righteoufjn 
 O God of our falvation: Thou that art the hope of all the 
 ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad lea. 
 
 Who in his ftrength fetteth faft the mountains ; and is gird- 
 ed about with power ! 
 
 Who ftilleth the raging of the fea, and the noife of the 
 waves, and the madnefs of the people ! 
 
 They alfo that dwell in the uttermoft parts of the earth, 
 fhall be afraid at thy tokens : Thou that makeft the out- 
 goings of the morning and evening to praife Thee. 
 
 Glory he to thee, Lord! 
 
 'The mercies of God to men, 
 
 HT II O U vifiteft the earth, and blefTeft it : Thou makeft 
 it very plenteous. 
 
 The river of God is full of water: Thou prepareft their 
 corn : for fo Thou provideft for the earth. 
 
 Thou watereft the furrows : Thou fended rain into the 
 little valleys thereof : Thou makeft it foft with the drop? 
 of rain, and blefTeft the increafe of it. 
 
 Thou crowneft the year with thy goodnefs : and thy clouds 
 drop fatnefs. 
 
 They fhall drop upon the dwellings of the wildernefs : 
 and the little hills fhall rejoice on every fide. 
 
 The folds fhall be full of fheep : the valleys alfo fhall ftand 
 {o thick with corn, that they fhall laugh and fing. 
 
 Glory be to thee, O Lord! 
 
 The efficacy of the death of CkriJL 
 
 Rom. vi. 3. 
 
 XT NOW ye not that fo many of us as were baptized 
 unto Jefus Chrifl, were baptized into his death? There- 
 fore we are buried with him by baptifm, into death - y that 
 like as Chrijl was raifed up from the dead by the glory of the 
 Father, even fo we alfo fhould walk in ?iau?iefs cf life. 
 
 For 
 
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 for if we have been planted together in the likenefs of his death i 
 we {hall be alfo in the likenefs of bis refurreclion : knowing this, 
 that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of fin 
 might be dejlroyed, that henceforth we mould not ferve fin : 
 for he that is dead, is freed from fin. Now if we be dead 
 with Ckr'ift) we believe that we {hall alfo live with him ; know- 
 ing that Chrift, being raifed from the dead, dieth no more; 
 death hath no more dominion over him : for in that he died, 
 he died Unto fin once ; but in that he livetb, he Uveth unto God* 
 Likewife reckon ye alfo yourfelves to be dead indeed unto fin % 
 but alive unto God, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. 
 
 Adam's acknowledgments and lamentation (<?). 
 
 / T A HIS moft afflicts me, that, departing hence 
 
 As from his face, I mail be hid* depriv'd 
 His blefTed count'nance. Here I could frequent, 
 With worfhip, place by place where He vouchfafcf 
 Prefence divine, and to my fons relate, 
 On this mount He appear'd, under this tree 
 Stood vifiblej among thefe pines, his voice 
 1 heard; here with Him at this fountain talk'd* 
 So many grateful altars I would rear 
 Of grafly turf, and pile up every ffone 
 Of luftre from the brook, in memory 
 Or monument to ages, and thereon 
 Offer fweet-fmelling gums, and fruits* and fiow'rs. 
 In yonder nether world where fhall I feek 
 His bright appearances* or footfteps trace? 
 For though I fled him angry, yet, recall'd 
 To life prolonged and promis'd race, I now 
 Gladly behold though but his utmoft fkirts 
 Of glory, and far off his fteps adore ! 
 
 (*) Milton's Paradifc Loft. 
 
 Psalm 
 
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 Psalm I. (<;) 
 
 t} L E S T is the man whofe conftant feet 
 
 Strait in the paths of goodnefs tread: 
 Who with the proud ne'er takes his feat; 
 Nor is by ftiife nor malice led. 
 The law of God is his fupreme delight, 
 Jiy day his pattern, and his guide by night. 
 
 Like as a tree in happy foil, 
 
 With faireft leaves and flow'rs array'd, 
 
 Nature repays the planter's toil 
 With pleaiant fruit and grateful made. 
 
 So fhall the jult fee joy and peace 
 His faithful labours crown. 
 
 But ne'er fhall peace with chearing rays 
 Smile on the dark and guilty head, 
 
 Entangled more, the more he ftxays, 
 By folly and by vice milled. 
 
 Illufive views ftill difappoint his aim j 
 His airy projects vanifli like a dream. 
 
 When therefore from the realms of light 
 The righ:; 3 ous Judge on earth appears, 
 
 How fhall the wicked ftand his fight, 
 
 Oppreft with fhame, with guilt and fears ? 
 
 In humble confidence the juft fhall meet 
 The happy fentence of a blifs complete. 
 
 Prayers. 
 
 In confidence of the promifes of God, 
 
 f\ Mighty Lord, whofe feat is the habitation of righteouf- 
 nefs and equity, and before whofe face mercy and truth 
 fhine forth in heavenly glory ; we befeech Thee to give us 
 fuch confidence in thy gracious promifes, that we may always 
 rejoice in thy name; and walking in the light of thy coun- 
 tenance, make our boafl of thy righteoufnefs ! Thou, Lord, 
 
 arrf 
 (a) Set to mufic by Mr, Green, and ufed at the Foundling-hofpiial. 
 
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 art the glory of our ftrength ! O fhield us from the Ton of 
 perdition ! . Thy mercy is a ftrong rock, and thy ftatutes 
 ftand faft for ever. O remember how fhort our time is upon" 
 earth, and grant us thy favour. Let us diligently obey thy 
 commandments, that our days may not pafs away in fhame, 
 nor our years with difhonour ! Grant this, O merciful Lord,- 
 for his fake, whovifited the earth, in confirmation of thine 
 everlaftin£ covenant, to fubdue fin and the grave ! 
 
 87. For humility . 
 
 ]V/T O S T gracious and merciful God, who in thy great 
 goodnefs didft fend thine only Son upon the earth, 
 grant that the example of his meeknefs and humility, his 
 incomparable fweetnefs and condefcenfion, may make the 
 deepeft impreilions on our hearts ! Mortify in us all proud 
 thoughts, and vain opinions of ourfelves, that we may nei- 
 ther boaft of any thing which Thou haft permitted us to 
 pofTefs, nor be unmindful of the Hand from whence it came. 
 Make us to know our infirmities, that we may never feek 
 our own praife, nor delight in that which may be offered 
 to us by others. Grant, O Lord, that we may glory only 
 in difcharging our duty to Thee ; and by fhewing due honour 
 and refpect to our fellow-creatures, at length receive the 
 crown which Thou haft prepared for thy faithful fervants, 
 in thy kingdom of eternal glory, through Jefus Chrift, our 
 Advocate and Mediator ; in whofe prevailing words, we fur ». 
 ther fend up our petition to thy throne, 
 
 83. Our Father, &c. 
 
 89. For a happy death* 
 
 r\ God eternal, we look up with longing eyes to thy mercy- 
 feat for comfort in diftrefs. Let not our days pafs re- 
 gardlefs of the folemn hour when we muft yield up our breath 
 to Thee ! O thou fupreme almighty Lord of life, to Thee 
 we fly for fuccour, in fteady truft that Thou haft broken the 
 chains of fin and death, that' we cannot be held as prifoners 
 of the grave, O let the precious blood of Chrift, and his re- 
 
 furre&ion., 
 
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 furrcclion, fill our fouls with humble confidence in his me- 
 ritorious fufferings, to deliver us from all our troubles, and 
 to exalt us to everlafting blif* 1 
 
 Saturday Night. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 r*\ Lord, father and Goo 1 of my life, in whofe hand is the 
 foul of every living thing, and the breath of all man- 
 kind: 
 
 Teach me fo to number my days that I may apply my heart 
 Unto wifdom j let them not confume in vanity, nor my years 
 in trouble. 
 
 Make me to remember, O Lord, how fhort my time is; 
 and to know, and do the things which belong to my peace, 
 while as yet place of repentance is open to me. 
 
 Psalms. 
 
 Tbankfgivingi 
 
 ' C\ Lord, our Governor, how excellent is thy name in all 
 the world. Thou that haft fet thy glory above the hea* 
 vens! 
 
 When I confider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers j 
 the moon arid ftars which Thou haft ordained: 
 
 What is man, that Thou art mindful of him; and the fon 
 of man, that Thou vifiteft him? ' 
 
 Thou haft made him lower than the angels, and haft 
 Crowned him with glory and honour: 
 
 Thou madeft him to have dominion over the works of thy 
 hands, and haft put all things in fubjeclion under his feet. 
 
 Glory be to tkee, Lord/ 
 
 Praife and ihankf giving t 
 
 C\ Praife the Lord of heaven j praife Him in the height: 
 Praife Him all ye angels of his ; praife Him all his hofts : 
 Praife Him fun and moon $ praife Him all ye ftars, and 
 light: 
 
 Q_ Let 
 
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 Let them praife the name of the Lord ; for He fpake the 
 Word, and they were made; He commanded, and they were 
 created. 
 
 fie hath alfo eftablifhed them for ever and ever; He hatrf 
 given them a law which fhall not be broken. 
 
 Praife the Lord, fire and hail, fnow and vapours, wind 
 and itorm^ fulfilling his word : 
 
 ^Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: 
 
 Beafts, and all cattle; creeping things, and feathered fowls: 
 
 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes j and all judges 
 of the world : 
 
 Young men and maidens, old men and children, praife the 
 iiame of the Lord : 
 
 For his name alone is excellent, and his praife above hea* 
 yen and earth ! 
 
 Glory be to thee, Lord} 
 
 CbriJFs lamentation on the perverfenefs of the yews, 
 Luke xix. 4.1. 
 
 AND when He was come near, He beheld the city and 
 wept over it j faying, If thou hadfi known, even thou, at kaji 
 in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now 
 they are hid from thine eyes. For the days Jhall co?ne upon thee, 
 that thine enemies Jhall cafl a trench about thee, and compafs thee 
 round, and keep thee in on every fide, and Jhall lay thee even with 
 the ground, and thy children within thee : and they Jhall not leave 
 in thee one flone upon another ; becaufe thou knewefi not the time 
 of thy vi/itation. — And He went into the temple, and began 
 to caft' out them that fold therein, and them that bought, 
 faying unto them, It is written, My houfe is the houfe of prayer,, 
 hut ye have made it a den of thieves. And He taught daily 
 in the temple. 
 
 The works of theflejh, dndthe fpirit* 
 Gal. v. 16. 
 
 I Say then, walk in the fpirit, and ye fhall not fulfil theiuft 
 
 of the fiefh. For the Hem lufteth againft the fpirit, and 
 
 the fpirit againft the flefh: and thefe are contrary fhc one to 
 
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 the other; Co that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 
 But if ye be led by the fpirit, yc are not under the law. 
 Now the works of the flefh are manifeft, which arc thefej 
 adultery, fornication, uncleanncfs, lafcivioufnefs, idolatry, 
 witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, ftrifc, fc- 
 ditions, hercfies, envyings, murders, drunkennefs, revel- 
 lings, and fuch like : of the which I tell you before, as I have 
 alfo told you in time pair, that they who do fuch things mail 
 not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the fpirit 
 is /«w, joy, peace, long-fuff'ering, genttenefs, goodrtefs, faith, mak- 
 nefs, temperance: againlt fuch, there is no law. And they 
 that are ChrihVs have cruoiiied the flefh, with the affections 
 and lufts. 
 
 A H Y M N. The Chrijlian's hope (a). 
 
 \\7 HEN rifing from the bed of death, 
 O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear, 
 I fee my Maker, face to face, 
 O how fhall I appear ! 
 
 If yet while pardon may be found, 
 
 And mercy may be fought, 
 My heart with inward horror ihrink 3 . 
 
 And trembles at the thought. 
 
 When Thou, O Lord, (halt (hind difdos'd 
 
 In majefty fevere, 
 And fit in judgment on my foul, 
 O how fhall I appear ! 
 
 But Thou haft told the troubled mind, 
 
 Who does her fins lament, 
 The timely tribute of her tears 
 
 Shall endlefs woe prevent. 
 
 Then fee the forrow of my heart, 
 
 E'er yet it be too late; 
 And hear my Saviour's dying groans, 
 
 To give thefe forrows weight, 
 
 {a) From Addifon; let to mufic by Mr. Smith, asd fung at tht ; 
 Jjpg-hofpital. 
 
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 For never fhall my foul defpair 
 
 Her pardon to procure, 
 Who knows thy only Son has dy'd 
 
 To make her pardon lure, 
 
 Pray er s. 
 
 90. For the evening. 
 
 A Lmighty Lord and Keeper of Ifrael, thou fovereign Ruler 
 and fupreme Pefender of all the children of men, whofe 
 eyes are always open for the prefervation of thy creatures | 
 we humbly recommend ourfelves this night to thy watchful 
 pare and gracious protection. Vouchfafe, O God, to pie- 
 ferve us from all danger; and finally, \>y thine infinite good- 
 nefs and mercy, brjng us to eternal reft, for the fake of Jefus 
 Chrift, our Redeemer ! 
 
 fil. For the forghenefs of thefms of others. 
 
 A Lmighty Lord, we befeech Thee of thy goodnefs and 
 mercy to forgive the offences we have committed againft 
 Thee, and pardon thofe who have given council to do evil. 
 Thy blood, O blefled Jefus, was fhed for thine enemies; 
 turn the hearts of the ungodly to thy righteous paths, that 
 they may no longer rebel againft thy commandments. Turn 
 their hearts^ O Lord, and let them behold the things which 
 belong to their peace, before they are hid from their eye? 
 for ever! This we beg, O merciful Father, for the fake 
 of Jefus Chrift, who died to fave the world ! and in whofe 
 blefled name we continually offer up our praife. 
 
 92. Our Father , &c. 
 
 93. For friends , lenrfaclcrs, and enemies. 
 
 X/T O S T merciful Lord, thou Fountain of all good ; we 
 befeech Thee to extend thy favour and loving-kindnefs 
 to our friends and benefactors j reward them for the good, 
 which, through thy providence they have conveyed to us : 
 and bring our enemies into thy paths. Guard them from 
 
 all 
 
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 all fadnefs and afRiclion, but fuch as may be inflrumental 
 to thy glory, and their eternal welfare, Prefcrve their peribnj 
 from all violence; and let not the powers of darknefs prevail 
 agaiaft them. Quide them in thy paths, and make them 
 the inftnjments of thy mercies to mankind; that amidft all 
 the taunts and ingratitude of the world, they may ftand as 
 monuments of thy parental tendernefs and care; and final- 
 ly be received into thine evcrlafting kingdom, through Jefus 
 Chrift, the mighty Friend and Saviour of the world i 
 
 94. For preparation for receiving the facrament. 
 
 A Lmighty God, who in thine infinite mercy didft fend 
 thine only Son upon the earth, to die for the fins of the 
 world ; we befcech Thee fo to direcl: our wills, that we may 
 ,<conftantly live in the moft grateful remembrance of the in- 
 eftimable benefits obtained by his all-fufficient facrifice. 
 Th e day approaches wherein Thou hajl gracioujly offered an, 
 opportunity of commemorating his 7110JI meritorious death and paffton: 
 We befeech Thee to grant us thy grace, that we may never 
 incur the guilt of negligence, or contempt ; but prepare our 
 fpirits to obey his laft injunction and dying command. Let 
 no vain excufe, or wicked fuggeftion, divert us from the fet- 
 tled purpofe of our fouls; that, our eyes beholding the fal- 
 yation which Thou haft prepared, we may have fare and cer- 
 tain hope of the eternal happinefs promifed in thy gofpel, to 
 thofe who truly truft in Thee, through the meritorious death 
 and fufferings of the fame Jefus Chrift our Redeemer I 
 
 95. For fortitude, 
 
 A Lmighty Parent of the diftrcfled, and fupreme Defender 
 of all who truft in Thee; we befeech Thee to arm our 
 fpirits with conftancy and firmnefs, that bearing bodiiy 
 pain with patience and rcfolution, our fouls may rejoice 
 in thy falvation. Thy throne, O Father, is eftablifhed in 
 1 ighteoufnefs and equity, and who can ftand before it ? 
 But thy mercy and companion fhinc forth in all the majefty 
 of thy celeftial glory. O comfort us with thy grace; that 
 triumphing in thy ftrcngth, wc may encounter all the powers 
 
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 of darknefs ^jhich may invade our minds; and, with manty 
 courage and true confidence in Thee, maintain the dignity 
 with which Thou haft diftinguifhed our nature. Thus fol- 
 lowing* the example of thofe hofts of martyrs, who, glory- 
 ing in thy caufe, finifhed their courfe acceptably in thy fight, 
 receive the crown which Thou haft prepared, for his fake, 
 who died in ignominy and pain, even Jefus Chrift, the blefT- 
 ed Lord and Redeemer of the world ! 
 
 96. For repentance and a happy death, 
 
 A Lmighty God, and heavenly Father, who of thy great 
 mercy hath promifed forgivenefs of fins to all who with 
 true repentance and faith turn unto Thee; have mercy upon 
 us ; pardon and deliver us from all our fins ; confirm and 
 ftrengthen us in all goodnefs ; and, when the hour of death 
 fnall come, bring us to cverlafting life, through Jefus Chrift 
 our Lord ! 
 
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 Preface to Sunday's Devotion. 
 
 I Have in fcvcral parts of my work, entered into a clofe 
 examination of the caufes, why fuch numbers of us, 
 who diftinguifh the Chrijlian Sabbath, do not attend to the 
 facrifiee made for fin, on which That fabbath, and all that 
 relates to chriftianity, is founded. I have prefumed to fay, 
 that the phrafe unworthily receivings as underftood and applied 
 \o the Lord's Supper, is not grounded in the tendernefs 
 of the chriftian difpenfation ; and moreover, that neither th» 
 infirmities of human nature, nor any declaration in the 
 New Tcftament, warrant the fuggeftion. I fay, that thefe 
 words have done great mifchief to the chriftian caufe, in this 
 country, where chriftianity is generally well underftood. 
 To judge from the event, thefe words have operated with an 
 irreligious malignity ; and minds otherwife well-difpofed, are 
 perverted by the enchantment of them. 
 
 It is our unhappinefs to act in this inftance, as if our faith 
 flood on a bafis, fubjecl to totter, were we to change a word 
 In the Liturgy, in a part which is mere human compofition. 
 Could any fuch alteration poffibly change the mode of wor- 
 ihipping God, in fpirit or in truth ? Should we not adore 
 the Almighty in a more effectual manner, if the chrijlian 
 '//>, in our Lord's fupper, were univerfally obfervedr* 
 The ground is not fo tender but we might venture on it, 
 and expunge the words unworhily receiving. It were better 
 .to change it into abufe\ provided we at the fame time an- 
 uexed an explanation of what only can be properly meant 
 by abufe\ by which we might underftand abfolute hypocrify % 
 or grofs prefumption : for if at the time of receiving, the 
 party has a confeioufnefs of paft fins ; and who among the 
 moft, or lead finful of the children of men, is without 
 fuch confeioufnefs ; it is to be prefumed from the nature 
 of this inftitution, and its operation on the human mind, 
 that thofc who complied with the injunction could not fail 
 
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 of finding the moil happy effects with regard both to theiir 
 morals and faith. 
 
 Certain it is, that the cvilj as it now predominates, i9 
 greater than any that can be apprshended from any filch 
 explanation. For excepting a fmall number of the fenfible 
 common people of this land j and others, who in their zeal 
 for the chrljlian law^ adopt new modes of faith^ and run into 
 enthufiaftical abfurdities : except thefe, it doth not appear 
 to me, who have taken fome pains in the enquiry, that there" 
 ire to be found among the lower claries, one in fifty ftrictly 
 entitled to the glorious appellation of a ehrifticm. 
 
 If it mail be found that fo very few, of fuch of the 
 common people, turned of the age of fifteen, mew obe- 
 dience to Chrijiy refpe&ing this great article of the com* 
 rnemoration of his death, or the means he hath commanded 
 us to ufe in our remembrance of him : doth it not prove that 
 they are grown fo irreligicufly prefumptuous, as to imagine 
 they can ufe better means than God hath appointed ; or that 
 they have taken a refolution to ufe no means whatfoever^ 
 which bear the leaft affinity With this commemorative 
 jfacrifice ? 
 
 There is fomething in this neglect which tends to efta- 
 blifh the empire of infidelity. In all other chriftian countries 
 this part of chriftian duty, is as well received and obferved 
 by the indigent as the affluent. With us, in certain cafes, 
 it is a teft of a man's loyalty, and fo far it is eompulfive : 
 the individual muft anfwer for his Jincerity : but where the 
 future fiat e of the multitude is concerned, and we fee plainly 
 whence a great part of the evil arifes* to give up this point 
 were to renounce chriftianity* 
 
 If we leave the field to them who fo generally enter- 
 tain an erroneous opinion, in regard to this fundamen- 
 tal of the Chriftian faith, and its harmony with reafon, 
 what is to be the end I A rational obedience to the divine 
 precepts of the chriftian law, or an irrational difobedience 
 to all divine laws ? Reafon thus fullied and debafed* 
 by fuch a violence committed, may lead them into the 
 grofs abfurdities of beatbenifm, and perfuade them that they 
 have only to follow their animal nature. Heathens of old 
 
 acted 
 
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 acted more confidently with their faith, at lead in this in* 
 ftancc. Let us hope for better days, when the common 
 people, who are thus blind, will be reftored to light, and 
 behold the fun of rightcoufnefs in all its fplendor ! 
 
 I have further to obferve, that except the ufliering in the 
 day with prayer in common With other days ; it is prcfumed, 
 that the ordinary private devotion of the Sunday morning will 
 give place to the public worfhip. But ftill there is a more 
 than common refpicl due to it, and the fabbath, being a day 
 of reft, there is generally time for private devotional enter- 
 tainment in the evening, allowing for reafonable and in- 
 nocent recreations, according to the weather and feafon 
 of the year, without falling into the comfortlefs fequeftra- 
 tion, which fome who are fanatically inclined, obferve. 
 The contrary extreme may, indeed, be more fatal : but 
 whilft men are endowed with reafon, it is to be hoped they 
 will make ufe of it ; and not, under a notion of being the 
 faithful, a& as if they had renounced their nature. 
 
 SUN< 
 
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 Sunday Morning, 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 1AM the refurre&ion and the life, faith the Lord : he that 
 believeth in me, though he were dead, yet fhall he live ; 
 and whofoever liveth, and believeth in me, fhall never die* 
 - John xi. 25, 26. 
 
 P s a 1 m s. 
 
 Thank/giving, 
 
 t WILL fing praifes unto thee, O Lord, and give thanks 
 unto thee for a remembrance of thy hblinefs. 
 
 For thy wrath endureth but the tivinkling of an eye, and 
 in thy pleafure is life : heavinefs may endure for a night, but 
 joy cometh in the morning. 
 
 Thou haft turned my heavinefs into joy : thou haft put off 
 my fackcloth, and girded me with gladnefs* 
 
 Therefore fhall every good man fing of thy praife without 
 ceafing : O my God, 1 will give thanks unto thee for 
 ever. 
 
 Thankfgwingi 
 Phil. iv. 4. 
 
 T) Ejoice in the Lord alway, and again 1 fay rejoice. Let 
 your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is 
 at hand. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by 
 prayer and fupplication, with thankfgiving, let your re- 
 quefts be made known unto God. And the peace of God 
 which pafTeth all underftandiftg, (hall keep your hearts and 
 minds through Jefus Chrift. 
 
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 For attendance en public worjhip, 
 
 "'T'HE feftal morn, my God, is come, 
 That calls mc to thy honoured dome, 
 Thy prefence to adore : 
 My feet the fummons (hall attend, 
 With willing fteps thy courts afcend, 
 And tread the hallow'd floor. 
 
 Seat of my friends and brethren, hail ! 
 How can my gladfome tongue, then fail 
 
 To blefs thy lov'd abode ? 
 How ceafe the zeal that in me glows 
 Thy praife to feek, whofe walls inclofe 
 
 The manuon of my God ? " 
 
 Prayers. . 
 
 97. Morning Prayer, 
 
 f~\ Lord, our FatKerand our God, who in mercy had 
 
 brought us to behold the light of this day, which thou 
 haft fet apart for thy more immediate worfhip : we befeech 
 thee to defend us by thy almighty power, that we may offer 
 up the incenfejof our prayers to thee in thy holy temple, 
 with pure and contrite hearts. Let us not fall into any fin, 
 nor run into any danger. Do thou, O God, fo order our 
 goings, that they may be accepted by thee, through the 
 merits of the great Redeemer, by whom thou didft perform 
 the mighty a& we this day celebrate : and in whofe blefled 
 name we further call upon thee. 
 
 98. Our Father y &c. 
 
 99. In acknowledgment of divine mercy \ 
 
 V\7E praife and worfhip thee, O God, and glorify thy 
 
 facred name ! O Lord Almighty ; Heavenly king ; 
 
 God the Father eternal - } accept our thanks for thy glory and 
 
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 p6wcr in the wonderful manifestation of thy mercy and good- 
 nefs towards all the children of men ; particularly in fending 
 thine own fon to die for our fins, and to give bhnfelf a ran- 
 fom and propitiation for us miferable finners. We befeech 
 thee, O Lord, to receive our prayers on this day, peculiarly 
 devoted to thy fervice, in commemoration of the mighty 
 works of creation and redemption, by the blood of Chrift> 
 and his propitiatory facrifice. And thou, O Holy Ghofr, 
 our fpiritual guide and heavenly comforter, poilefs our hearts 
 with thy blefled gifts and graces, that we may henceforth 
 lead our lives according to the laws of Chrifl, in whom 
 with thee, Almighty Father, all glory and dominion center 
 in one God, for ever and ever ! 
 
 I 
 
 Sunday Evening. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 Know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he fhall ftand 
 at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my 
 fkin, worms deftroy this body ; yet in my ftefh fhall I fee 
 God : whom I fhall fee for myfelf, and mine eyes fhall be- 
 hold, and not another. Job xix. 25, 26, 27, 
 
 Psalms. 
 
 For confidence in God wider affliction* 
 
 T Should utterly have fainted : but that I believed verily to 
 fee thy goodnefs, O Lord, in the land of the living. 
 
 I wait thy pleafure, O Lord, I am ftrong : comfort my 
 heart, that I may put my truft in thee. 
 
 In thee, O I^ord, have I trufled, let me never be put to 
 confufion : deliver me in thy righteoufnefs. 
 
 Bow down thine ear and hear me: O God, deliver me. 
 
 To thy hands I commend my fpirit : for thou haft re- 
 deemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth. 
 
 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy : for thou hr.ft con- 
 sidered my trouble^ and haft known my fou] in adyerfity. 
 
 Shew 
 
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 Shew thy fervant the light of thy countenance, and fave 
 rnc tor thy mercies lake. 
 
 O how plentiful is thy goodnefs which thou haft laid up 
 for them that fear thee, and prepared for them that put 
 their truft in thee, and not in the fons of men. 
 
 Unto thee, O God, will 1 pay my vows, unto thee will I 
 give thanks. 
 
 For thou haft delivered my foul from death, and my feet 
 from falling : that I may walk before thee in the light ot 
 the living. 
 
 Glory be ii tbee> O Lord! 
 
 Humility and obedience to government. 
 Romans xiii. 1. 
 
 f ET every foul be fubject unto the higher powers ; for 
 there is no power but of God : the powers that be, 
 pre ordained of God. Whofoever therefore refifteth the 
 toiuer^ refifteth the ordinance of God : and they that refill 
 {hall receive to themfelves damnation. For rulers are not a 
 terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not 
 be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou 
 ftialt have praife of the fame : for he is the minifter of God 
 to thee, for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be 
 afraid t for he bearcth not the fword in vain ; for he is the 
 minifter of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that 
 doth evil. Wherefore ye muft needs be fubject, not only 
 for wrath, but alfo for confeience fake. For, for this caulo 
 pay ye tribute alfo ; for they are God's minifters, attending 
 continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all 
 their dues ; tribute to whom tribute is due, cuftom to whom 
 cuftom > fear (o whom fear ; honour to whom honour. 
 
 Prophetical of the character and commiffwn of the Mejftah : 
 from Ifaiah. 
 
 " A Virgin fhall conceive, a virgin bear a foil ! 
 
 From Jc/fe's root behold a branch arife, 
 Whofc facred flow'r with fragrance fills the ikies. 
 
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 The etherial fpirit o'er its leaves fhall move, 
 And on its top defcends the myftick dove. 
 Ye heav'ns ! from high the dewy nedtar pour, 
 And in foft iilence fhed the kindly fhow'r ! 
 The fick and weak the healing plant {hall aid, 
 From dorms a fhelter, and from heat a {hade. 
 All crimes fhall ceafe, and ancient fraud {hall fail ; 
 Returning juftice lift aloft her fcale ; 
 Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, 
 And white-rob'd innocence from heav'n defcend. 
 Swift fly the years, and rife the ex peeled morn ! 
 O fpring to light, Aufpicious Babe be born ! 
 See nature haftes her earlieft wreaths to bring, 
 With all the incenfe of the breathing fpring : 
 See lofty Lebanon his head advance, 
 See nodding forefts on the mountains dance j 
 Sec fpicy clouds from lowly Sharon rife, 
 And Camel's flow'ry top perfumes the fkies ! 
 Hark ! a glad voice the lonely defart chears j 
 Prepare the way ! a God, a God, appears ; 
 A God, a God I the vocal hills reply, 
 The rocks proclaim th' approaching deity. 
 Lo earth receives him from the bending fkies ! 
 Sink down, ye mountains, and ye vallies, rife : 
 With heads declin'd, ye cedars, homage pay; 
 Be fmooth ye rocks, ye rapid foods give way ! 
 The Saviour comes, by antient bards foretold j 
 Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold ! 
 He from thick films fhall purge the vifual ray, 
 And on the fightlefs eye-ball pour the day. 
 *Tis' he th' obftrucled paths of found fhall clear, 
 And bid new mufic charm th* unfolding ear. 
 The dumb fhall fing, the lame his crutch forego, 
 And leap exulting like the bounding roe ; 
 No figh, no murmur, the wide world fhall hear. 
 From cv'ry face he wipes offev'ry tear. 
 In adamantine chains fhall death be bound, 
 And hell's grim tyrant feel th* eternal wound. 
 
 As 
 
As the good fhcphcrd tends his fleecy care, 
 Seeks frefhcft pafture, and the purefl air, 
 Explores the loft, the wand'ring fhcep directs, 
 By day o'erfees them, and by night protects ; 
 7 he tender lambs he raifes in his arms, 
 Feedfl from his hand, and in his bofom warms; 
 Mankind fhall thus his guardian care engage, 
 'The promised father of the future age. 
 No more fhall nation againft nation rife, 
 Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes ; 
 Nor fields with gleaming ftccl he covcr'd o'er, 
 The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; 
 But ufelefs lances into fcythes fhall bend, 
 And the broad falchion in a plough-fhare encj. 
 Then palaces fhall rife ; the joyful fon 
 Shall finifh what his fhort-liv'd fire begun ; 
 Their vines a fhadow to their race fhall yield, 
 And the fame hand that fow'd, fhall reap the field* 
 The fwain in barren defarts with furprife 
 See lillies fpring, and fudden verdure rife, 
 And ftarts amidlr. the thirfty wilds to hear 
 New falls of water murm'ring in his ear: 
 On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, 
 The green reed trembles, and the bulrufh nods. 
 Waftc fandy vallies, once perplex'd with thorn. 
 The fpiry fir and fhapely box adorn ; 
 To leaflefs fhrubs the flow'ry palms fucceed, 
 And od'rous myrtle to the noifome weed. 
 Tiie lambs with wolves fhall graze the verdant mead, 
 And boys in flow'ry band, the tyger lead ; 
 The fleer and lion at one crib fhall meet, 
 And harmlefs ferpents lick the piigrim's feet. 
 The fmiling infant in his hand fhall take 
 The crefted bafilifk and fpeckled fnake j 
 Pleas'd the green luftre of the fcales furvey, 
 And with their forky tongue fhall innocently play. 
 Rife crown'd with light, imperial Salem rife ! 
 Exalt thy tow'ry head and lift thy eyes ! 
 7 See 
 
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 See a long race thy fpacious courts adorn $ 
 
 See future fons, and daughters yet unborn, 
 
 In crowding ranks on ev'ry fide arife, 
 
 Demanding life, impatient for the fkies ! 
 
 See barb'rous nations at thy gates attend, 
 
 Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend ; 
 
 See thy bright altars throng'd with proftrate kings.; 
 
 And heapM with products of Sabtsan fprings ! 
 
 For thee Idume's fpicy forefls blow, 
 
 And feeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow* 
 
 See heav'n its fparkling portals wide difplay, 
 
 And break upon thee in a flood of day ! 
 
 No more the rifing fun fhall gild the morn, 
 
 Nor evening Cynthia fill her filver horn , 
 
 But loft, diffolv'd in thy fuperior rays, 
 
 One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze 
 
 O'erflow thy courts : The Light Himfelf 'fhall fhin£ 
 
 Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! 
 
 The feas fhall wafte, the fkies in fmoke decay, 
 
 Rocks fall to duft, and mountains melt away ; 
 
 But fix'd His word, His faving pow'r remains ; 
 
 Thy realm for ever lafts, thy own Mejfiah reigns ! 
 
 Psalm cxlv. Set to mufic [a). 
 
 t 
 
 '"prIE Lord doth them fupport that fall. 
 
 And makes the proftrate rife : 
 For his kind aid all creatures call, 
 Who timely food fuppiies* - 
 
 n. 
 
 Whatever their various wants require, 
 
 With open hand he gives j 
 And he fulfills the juft defire 
 
 Of every thing that lives. 
 
 (a) Ufcd at the Foundling Hofp'taL 
 
 He 
 
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 III. 
 
 He grants the full rcqueft of thofe 
 
 Who him with fear adore, 
 And will their troubles foon cempofc 
 
 When they his aid implore. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The Lord preferves all thofc with care, 
 
 Whom grateful love employs : 
 But fmners, who his vengeance dare, 
 
 With dreadful wrath deftroys. 
 
 V. 
 
 My time to come in praifes fpent, 
 
 Shall {till advance his fame; 
 And all mankind, with one confent, 
 
 For ever blefs his name. 
 
 Prayers. 
 
 IOO. A general confejjion^ &c* 
 
 Lmighty and moft merciful Father, w r e have all gone 
 altray from thy righteous ways. We have followed the 
 imaginations and defnes of our own hearts ; and in unnumber- 
 ed initances tranfgreit thy holy laws. We have left undone 
 thofe things which we ought to have done; and we have 
 done thofe things which we ought not to have done ! O God, 
 there is no righteoufnefs in us: but thy mercy and com- 
 panion are as boundlefs as thyjuftice. Spare us, good Lord, 
 fparc us miferable offenders who confefs our fins unto thee. 
 Afliir. us in our repentance for them; and pardon our 
 iniquities, according to thy gracious promifes declared unto 
 mankind, by Chriji Jefus our Saviour : And grant for his 
 fake, O merciful Lord, and tender Father of mankind, 
 that hereafter we may live foberly and righteoufly, to the 
 falvation of our fouls, and the glory of thy holy name. 
 
 10 1. Our Father , &c. 
 
 102. ///I- 
 
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 102. Imploring mercy for remarkable /inner s. 
 
 ALL powerful God, who haft fet thy glory above the 
 heavens, we befeech thee to look down in pity from 
 thy throne, and turn the hearts of the unrighteous to the 
 wifdom of the juft ! Rebuke them, O Lord, with thy 
 chaftifements, that they may not be any longer entangled in 
 the work of their own hands. Put them in fear of thee, that 
 knowing themfelves to be but men, they may fall down in 
 deep humiliation befoie thee. Enlighten their underftand- 
 ings and regulate their wills, that they may at length con- 
 fider the glory of thy power, and adore thy juftice and mercy. 
 This we beg, O Father Eternal, for his fake, who bled upon 
 the crofs for repentant finners ! 
 
 103. For a happy death. 
 
 "LJEAR us, O merciful Father, and extend thy goodnefs 
 to us thy fervants. Sanctify all thy corrections to us, 
 that the fenfe of our weaknefs may fo add ftrength to our faith^ 
 that me may confider death as a palTage to heavenly joys. 
 Let all our temporal afflictions be loft in the contemplation 
 of thy love to man, that the grave may not divide us 
 from thee ! O Eternal Father, the guardian of ipirits, the 
 mighty defender of thy faithful fervants, hear our fuppliea- 
 tions j that whenever it fhall pleafe thee to remove us hence, 
 we may be received into thofe regions, where ficknefs, pain 
 and forrow fhall be no more ; even to dwell with thee in 
 blifs eternal ! This we beg for his fake, who vifitcd the 
 manfions of the grave, that we might rife to everlafting 
 life ! 
 
 Sunday Night. 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 \/l/E brought nothing into this world, and it is, certain we 
 
 can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the 
 
 Lord hath taken away ; blefled be the name of the Lord. 
 
 1 Tim. vi. 7. Job i. 21. 
 
 c Psalms. 
 
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 P S A L 
 
 T hank/giving. 
 
 A/f Y foul fhall make her boaft in the Lord : the humble 
 mall hear thereof and be glad. 
 
 O praife the Lord with me, and let us magnify his name 
 together ! 
 
 The poor cry, and thou Lord heareft them, yea, and faveft 
 them out of all their troubles. 
 
 O hear and fee how gracious the Lord fc : blefied is the 
 man that trulteth in him ! 
 
 What man is he that defireth to live : and would fain fee 
 good days ? 
 
 Let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips that they 
 fpeak no guile. 
 
 Efchew evil and do good ; feek peace and enfue it. 
 
 Thine eyes, O Lord, are over the righteous -, and thy ears 
 are open to their prayers. 
 
 Glory be to thee, O Lord f 
 
 Praife and adoration. 
 
 WILL magnify thee, O God my king: and I will 
 
 praife thy name for ever and ever ! 
 
 Every day will I give thanks unto thee, and praife thy 
 
 name for ever and ever ! 
 
 Great art thou, O Lord, and marvellous : worthy to be 
 
 praifed : there is no end of thy greatnefs. 
 
 One generation fhall praife thy name unto another, and 
 
 declare thy power. 
 
 I will talk of thy worfhip, thy glory, thy praife, and 
 
 wondrous works. 
 
 The memorial of thine abundant kindnefs is fhewed, and 
 men fhall fing of thy righteoufnefs. 
 
 Thy kingdom is an everlafting kingdom, and thy do- 
 minion endureth throughout all ages. 
 
 The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord, and thou givefl: 
 them meat in due feafon. 
 
 S 2 Thou 
 
f 140 I 
 
 Thou openeft thine hand, and filleft all things. living with 
 plenteoufnefs. 
 
 I will not put my truft in princes, nor in any child of man, 
 for there is no help in them. 
 
 For when the breath of man goeth forth, he (hall turn 
 again to his earth, and all his thoughts fhall perim. 
 
 ElefTed is he that hath the Almighty for his help, and 
 whofe hope is in the Lord his God; 
 
 Glory be to thee, Lord ! 
 
 Gratitude to God for his mercies, 
 Ephefians v. 1. 
 
 B 
 
 E ye therefore followers of God, as dear children ; and 
 walk in love, as Chrift hath alfo loved us, and hath given 
 himfelf for us, an offering, and a facrifice to God for a fweet 
 fmelling favour : but fornication and all unckannefs, let it not 
 be once named amongft you, as becometh faints; neither 
 filthinefs, nor foolijh talking, nor jejling, which are not con- 
 venient, but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, 
 that no whoremonger, nor unclean perfon, nor covetous 
 man who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom 
 of Chrift, and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain 
 words : for becaufe of thefe things cometh the wrath of God 
 upon the children of difobedience. Be ye not therefore 
 partakers with them : for ye were fometimes in darknefs, but 
 now are ye light in the Lord : walk as children of light; 
 (for the fruit of the fpirit is in all goodnefs and righteoufnefs 
 and truth) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 
 And have no fellowfhip with the unfruitful workers of dark- 
 nefs, but rather reprove them : for it is a fhame even to 
 fpeak of thofe things which are done of them in fecret. 
 But all things, that are reproved, are made manifeft by the 
 light; for whatfoever doth make manifeft, is light ; where- 
 fore he faith, awake thou that fleepeft, and^arife from the 
 dead, and Chrift fhall give thee light. 
 
 Hymn 
 
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 Hymn on the lajl judg 
 
 XTATURK and death fhali with furprife 
 
 Behold the pale offender rife 
 And view the judge with confeious eyes. 
 
 Then fliall with univcrfal dread 
 The facred my (lie book be read 
 To try the living and the dead. 
 
 The judge afcends his awful throne, 
 He makes each fecret fin be known, 
 And all with fhame confefs their own. 
 
 Thou mighty formidable king, 
 Thou mercy's uncxhaufted fpring, 
 Some comfortable pity bring. 
 
 Forget not what my ranfom cofr, 
 Nor let my dear-bought foul be loft, 
 In ftorms of guilty terror toft. 
 
 Thou who for me didft feel fuch pain, 
 Whofe precious blood the crofs did ftain, 
 Let not thofe agonies be vain. 
 
 Thou whom avenging powers obey, 
 Cancel my debt, too great to pay, 
 Before the fad accounting day. 
 
 Surrounded with amazing fears, 
 Whofe load my foul with anguifh bears, 
 I figh, 1 weep : accept my tears. 
 
 Reject not my unworthy pray'r, 
 Preferve me from the dangerous fnare 
 Which death and gaping hell prepare. 
 
 Proftrate my contrite heart 1 rend : 
 My God, my father, and my friend, 
 Do not forfake me in my end ! 
 
 Well may they curfc their fecond birth 
 Who rife to a reviving death : 
 Thou great creator of mankind, 
 Let guilty man companion find. 
 
 Thanhf. 
 
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 Thankf giving hymn (a) t 
 
 *T*0 celebrate thy praife, O Lord, 
 
 1 will my heart prepare ; 
 To all the liitn'ing world thy works, 
 . Thy wond'rous works declare. 
 
 The thought of them fhall- to my foul 
 
 Exalted pleafure bring; 
 Whilft to thy name, O thou mofr. high, 
 
 Triumphant praife I fing. 
 
 Thou mad'ft my haughty foes to turn 
 
 Their backs, in fhameful flight : 
 Struck with thy prefence, down they fell j 
 
 They perifh'd at thy fight. 
 
 Againft infulting foes advane'd, 
 
 Thou didft my caufe maintain ; 
 My right afTerting from thy throne, 
 
 Where truth and juftice reign. 
 
 Our hopes are fix'd, that now the Lord 
 
 Our fov'reign will defend ; 
 From heav'n rehftlefs aid afford, 
 
 And to his pray'r attend. 
 
 Thy fure defence through nations round. 
 
 Hath fpread his glorious name, 
 And his fuccefsful actions crown'd 
 
 With majefty and fame. 
 
 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, 
 
 One co-eternal Three, 
 The higheft praife and humbleft thanks 
 
 Now and for ever be ! 
 
 P R AY E R S. 
 
 104. In charity for the dijlrejjed. 
 
 f\ Lord Almighty, thou fovereign ruler and guardian of 
 
 mankind, who extendeft thy goodnefs over all the face 
 
 of nature ; we befeech thee, in thy mercy, to comfort and 
 
 fuccour 
 (*) Set to mufic, and ufed at the Foundling Hofpital. 
 
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 iuccour all thofc who in this tranfitory life arc in furrow, 
 , or any other adverfity. Comfort and relieve 
 them, we befeech thee, according to their fcveral neceffititt: 
 give them patience under their fuffcrings, and a happy iilue 
 out of all their afflictions. This we beg, O merciful 
 lather, for his fake who died to fave the world ! 
 
 105. Our Father^ Sec. 
 
 106. For following the example of pic us perfens 
 
 f} Almighty Father and God of Ifrael, who haft remem- 
 bered thy moil faithful fervants with a peculiar mercy, 
 leaving their example to all fucceeding ages ; grant that 
 we may meditate on the conduct of fuch pious perfons, as 
 were moft diitinguifned in their time, that devoting our 
 hearts to thee, we may never depart from thy truth and 
 righteous ways. We praife thy holy name for all thy fer- 
 vants departed this life, in thy faith and fear, befeeching 
 thee to give us grace to follow their good example, that 
 with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom. 
 Grant this, O Father, for Jefus Chriff. his fake, our only 
 Advocate and Mediator ! 
 
 107. For divine ajfylance. 
 
 A SSIST us, O Lord, with thy divine favour, and fur- 
 ther us with thy continual help, that in all our works 
 begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy 
 holy name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everiafting life- 
 through Jefus Chrift our Saviour. 
 
 1 08. For a happy rcfurreflizn. 
 
 C\ Merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, 
 
 who is the refurre&ion of the dead, we be leech thee 
 
 to raife us from the death of fin, unto the life of righteouf- 
 
 nefs, that when we fhall depart from hence we may fleep 
 
 in 
 
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 in Chrift, and at the refurrection in the laft day, receive 
 the blefling which he v/ill then pronounce to all his good 
 and faithful fervants, in thefe comfortable words ; Come 
 ye blejfed of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you 
 from the foundation of the world! Grant this, O merciful 
 God, through the merits of the fame Jefus Chrift the great 
 Redeemer of mankind. 
 
 109. For grace and the completion of the ends of life, 
 
 f\ Almighty Lord of life, look down from thy glory, 
 and behold us with the eyes of thy mercy ! Grant us 
 thy grace, that we may worfhip thee with an active and 
 willing mind, free from the fhackles of the anxious cares 
 and delufive pleafures of this World. Give us fortitude to 
 live as true difciples of thy Son, that delighting in thy fer- 
 vice, our lives may be a pleafing offering to thee, and thy 
 acceptance of them return with joy into our bofoms. O 
 eternal God, the almighty preferver of all thy creatures, who 
 haft given us but a fhort time to live on earth, let tliis be 
 devoted to thee ! Day by day we worfhip thee, O God ; and 
 when the night returns, let us offer up the joyful incenfe of 
 our prayers ! O fatisfy our fpiritual and temporal wants, 
 and let our prayers .bring fuch comforts to us, that our 
 fouls may rejoice in the hopes of that eternal weight of 
 glory, which thou haft prepared for thy faithful fervants. 
 Grant that by charity to the fouls and bodies of our fellow 
 creatures, we may imitate the example of the great Law- 
 giver whom thou didft fend from heaven. Let his Of- 
 ferings for us fo fulfil the end of his coming, that we may 
 look forward to our proper home, and with him partake of 
 thy glory. Gracioufly hear us, O God, and by thy mercy 
 keep us in thy paths ! Let all the children of men rejoice in 
 thy favour, through the fame Jefus Chrift, who defcended 
 to the grave, that thofe who truly believe in him might rife 
 to life immortal ! 
 
 APPEN- 
 
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 APPENDIX to Daily Prayers, 
 
 HO. For a wife and family. 
 
 A>f S T gracious and tender Father, who haft confe- 
 crated marriage for the happinefs of mankind; let not the 
 inquietudes or infirmities of my nature ruffle or difcompofe 
 my fpirit. Grant that under all the changes and chances of 
 life, I may enjoy a chearful and grateful mind, with a ftri£t 
 attention to my duty towards Thee; and fidelity and afte&ion 
 to my wife*. Let thy grace abound in her heart, that being 
 a pious guide, and bright example to my family, and dif- 
 charging her duty in contentment and humility, thy bleflings 
 may crown htr days, and both of us abide in mutual love, 
 to the end of a holy and happy life, that finally we may be re- 
 ceived into thy joys, for the fake of Jefus Chrijl our blefled 
 Lord and Redeemer 1 
 
 III. For a hu/band and family. 
 
 C\ God and Father of life, whofe goodnefs extends to all the 
 children of men 3 I befeech Thee let thy heavenly bene- 
 diction reft upon me, that I may acl: as the inftrument of thy 
 providence towards my hufband and family. Give me lb juft 
 a fenfe of my duty, that my kindnefs and gentlenefs of man- 
 ners, my fobriety and zeal, and the fear of Thee, O God, 
 may fhew them the way to everlafting peace ! Thou who art 
 the tender Parent of mankind, O lead them by thy merciful 
 arm into the paths of righteoufnefs, that brotherly love, and 
 Chriftian meeknefs, may be the law of their lives, and they 
 the comfort and fupport of mine. Incline their hearts to 
 induftry, and their hands to labour, that they may eat 
 the bread of innocence. This I beg, O Lord of mercy, fof 
 
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 the fake of Jefus Chrift thy Son, who died upon the crofs 
 to redeem the world from the eft'ecls of fin and folly ! 
 
 112. From a parent or relation , for children* 
 
 \Ji O S T merciful Father and eternal God, who through 
 all ages haft given teftimony of thy mercy to the child- 
 ten of men j be Thou a Father unto the children committed 
 to my care: give them* I befeech Thee, healthy bodies, and 
 understanding minds, that they may diligently walk in thy 
 paths, as thy faithful fervants. Preferve them from the evils 
 of unbridled appetites, and hatightinefs of fpirit, that thy 
 providence may lead them through the dangers and tempta-* 
 tions of their youth. Enable me, O Lord, and all their fu- 
 periors, to give them fuch prudent counfel, and (hew them 
 fuch a holy example, that they may not fall a fadrifice to the 
 guilt and folly of evil companions. Aflift me to.provide for 
 their welfare, and let their own induflry and application, 
 under thy providence* furnifh the means of their living iri 
 comfort. And finally I implore thy mercy, to give them 
 grace to follow thy commandments, that they may obtain 
 the inheritance which Thou haft promifed, in the glories 
 of thine eternal kingdom, through Jefus Chrift our blefled 
 Lord and Redeemer ! 
 
 113. For obedience of a child to parents and rnajlers* 
 
 A Lmighty Lord and heavenly Father, who loveft obe- 
 dience better than facrifke, and delighteft in the offer- 
 ings of all the children of men, who perform their duty t0 
 Thee; give me, I befeech Thee, a meek and contrite fpirit, 
 Infpire my heart with an abhorrence of all undutifulnefs and 
 difobedience. Let no falfehood or evafion betray my foul j 
 that I may dare to confefs the truth to thofe who have a right 
 to require it. Make me patient under reproof, anJ diligent 
 in performing my duty. Let my gratitude and fubmiflion ta 
 my parents and fuperiors be accepted as obedience to Thee. 
 Grant this, I befeech Thee, O Lord, my Father and m> God * 
 for Jefus Chrift his ftke! 
 
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 114- For fucccfs in a calling or prcfejjion, 
 
 C\ Eternal God, the fovcreign Difpofer of all events, who. 
 by thy providence haft called me to my bufmeft (or pro- 
 feflion) grant that I may fo employ my time as to promote 
 my own good, and the welfare of others. Let all my in- 
 tentions be pure, and my actions juft and faithful. Give 
 me fuch prudence and temperance, fuch Chriftian love and 
 charity, that my bufmefs (or profeflion) may be fanclified 
 by my religion, and my labour by my care; that when 
 I fhall have ferved in the ftation wherein Thou haft placed 
 me, and ended my days, I may receive the reward which 
 Thou haft pramifed in Jefus Chrift, my only Advocate ancj 
 Pcdeepier. 
 
 Prayer $ over afick, or dying perjbn* 
 115. Firjl. 
 
 C\ Father Omnipotent, hear our prayer ! Be not extreme 
 to mark the offences of this our afflicted brother, Purify 
 him, O God, we befeech Thee, from all his tranfgreffions ! 
 — Let the blood of that immaculate Lamb, which was fhed 
 for the fins of the world, wafh out all his ftains. Thou, 
 O blefled Saviour, who didft fufFer an ignominious death 
 even for thine enemies, that Thou mightft bring them to 
 a fenfe of tbeir guilt > behold this thy fervant, who fendeth 
 up his prayers to Thee, and let not thy blood be fpilt in vain 
 for him ! 
 
 1 16. Second, fir the fame < 
 
 r\ Lord Almighty, who filleft immenfity with thy prefence, 
 and vouchfafeft to behold all the children of men with 
 the tendernefs of a father and a friend ; look with an eye 
 of pity and companion on this our afflicted brother, that amidft 
 all his fufferings he may be defended by thy mod gracious 
 and ready help ; and finally by thy mercy received intq 
 •verlafting happinefs, for the fake of Jefus Chrift, who died 
 upon the crofs for the fins of the world ! 
 
 T 3 Third, 
 
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 117. Third, for the fame 
 
 r\ God, the almighty Father and Protector of men; look 
 down, we befeech Thee, from the throne of thy triumph- 
 ant glory, and behold us miferable fnner 5 proftrate before Thee. 
 Teach this our dear afflicted brother to kifs the rod of afflic- 
 tion, that he may have a right fenfe of his fins and infirmities. 
 Hear us, O Father, and fuccour him in his ficknefs. Give 
 him a fure confidence in Thee, that he may look forward 
 beyond the grave; and behold with an equal mind all the 
 fleeting joys and tranfient miferies of the prefent life, in ex- 
 pectation of that day when the eternal Judge fhall revifit the 
 earth, in the glorious majefty of heaven, and pronounce, to 
 all true penitents, that joyful fentence, " Come ye blefTed 
 of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from 
 the foundation of the world." — And do Thou, O blefled 
 Redeemer of mankind, whofe blood was fhed for repentant 
 finners, plead his caufe at the throne of mercy, and bring him 
 with joy into the prefence of our Father and our God/ 
 
 A Chrijlian meditation, 
 
 XJL EAR me, O Lord, and God of my life, when I call 
 upon Thee; ponder my meditation, and forgive the 
 wanderings of my heart. 
 
 When I confio'er thy woriders of ola*, and the unnumbered 
 rnercies which Thou haft fhewn to me, and all the fons of 
 men, my heart is exalted with joy, and my fpirit refleth in. 
 hope! 
 
 Yet am I unworthy tp ftand in thy fight; for my tranf- 
 grefiions and infirmities are numberlefs! 
 
 Give me thy aid, O Lord, that I may humble my fouj 
 before Thee, and fue for thy pardon. 
 
 Let patience and humility, temperance and benevolence, 
 reign in my heart, that my thoughts being fubdued unto 
 Thee, my words and actions may be rendered acceptable in 
 thy fight!—- 
 
 Forgive the diftractions of my imagination, the pollutions 
 pf my heart, the anger and foolilhneis of my thoughts and 
 yfordsl O thou, 
 
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 thou Flrft Caufe of all ; Author of my being, omnffcient, 
 omnipotent God, who ruleft the hearts of men ! let no delu- 
 f;on extinguifh the light Thou haft given me : that my rea- 
 fon and faith, triumphing over my pride and folly, my foul 
 may bend to the duft in thy prefence. 
 
 Grant that I may delight in the forgivenefs of injuries, as 
 evidence of that true greatnefs which can only flow from a 
 fincere obedience to thy laws ! 
 
 Let nothing, with which the world can gratify a haughty 
 fpirit, come in competition even with temporal fufferings, 
 whillt I maintain my integrity towards Thee; that the con- 
 ditions of heavenly happinefs, taught by the great Lawgiver 
 of the Chriftian world, may be ever prefent to my mind ! 
 
 Grant me, O Lord, fuch refignation to Thee, that, if it 
 fhould be thy will, my pangs in a tormenting death, may 
 excite my companion for the authors of it, in the benign- 
 ant words of my blefTed Lord, " Father forgive them, for 
 they know not what they do." 
 
 1 am a finful man, O Lord ! finful in habit, finful in na- 
 ture, and unworthy to look up to heaven ! O be merciful 
 unto me, and grant me fuch ftrength and refolution that I may 
 never fall again from Thee ! 
 
 Thy judgments, O Lord, are right, and in faithfulnefs 
 haft Thou caufed me to be troubled. O mighty God of Ifrael, 
 the foul that is troubled, and the fpirit that is vexed, crieth 
 unto Thee! Hear me, O God, from thy holy temple; — for 
 thy mercies are infinite! 
 
 Turn Thee unto me, according to the multitude of thy 
 tender mercies -, and blot out the remembrance of my mif- 
 deeds. 
 
 Cleanfe mc from my fecret fault '/, and the fms to which 
 1 am by temper and constitution prone. 
 
 Father of life! Parent of mercy ! Benignant Lord ! Almighty 
 Sovereign ! — Grant me fuch a meafure of thy grace, that 
 1 may recoiled!: my offences, and learn how to repent of them. 
 Give me a contrite heart, that I may worthily lament my fins, 
 and making fuch confeflion of them as Thou fhalt accept, 
 the joy may return into my bofom ? and my footiteps Aide 
 
 no more ! 
 
 Grant, 
 
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 Grant, O God, that thy Spirit may lead me forth, ancj 
 direct, my paths in righteoufnefs, that with zeal and purity 
 of mind, truth and finglenefs of heart, I may difcharge thy 
 will on earth as it is done in heaven. 
 
 Let the life and death of my Redeemer be ever prefent to 
 my thoughts, that confecrating my days to his example, the 
 glories which beamed around his facred head, amidft the 
 forrows which He fuffered, may conduct me in triumph 
 through the world. — An^ jet all earthly fplendor, which 
 comes in competition with life and immortality, appear as 
 death and the grave ! 
 
 Grant me, O Lord, fuch a meafure of thy fovereign aid, 
 and influence of thy holy Spirit, that I may grafp my fleet- 
 ing hours, and compafs every defign my reafon warrants, 
 and my foul afpires at. 
 
 O let me acl as an infrrument of thy mercies to mankind ! 
 
 Give me flrength to meet my diflblution with an humble 
 yet undaunted fpiritj being always ready at thy call. 
 
 Prefcrve the energy of my hapei y that, whatever thy pro- 
 vidence hath ordained, I may purfue That which is right, and 
 the happinefs of others be my joy ! 
 
 Whether I fce}c thy honour in the fields of blood, if my 
 country fhould demand my fervice; or purfue the common 
 bufinefs of the world. Whether I fearch for fcience, or enjoy 
 the innocent pleafures this glorious frame affords : {fill grant 
 that I may enter into the reccfles of my mind and unbofom 
 my heart before Thee, in whofe friendfhjp there can be na 
 difappointment. 
 
 Banifli from me all anxious defires, that I may polTefs my 
 fpirit in meeknefs and refignation; and fufFer r no.t the noife 
 and buttle of the world, or the deluding blandifhments of life, 
 to captivate my heart; that whilft 1 behold my body as duft 
 and allies, my foul may be exalted with the contemplation 
 of happinefs in the regions of immortality! 
 
 Give me the jufteft conception of love for my king, my 
 country, and mankind : bul let no vanity or excefs of zeal, 
 fully the purity of my love and gratitude towards Thee; or 
 divert the current of my thoughts from the Fountain of 
 reafon, and the Source of all felicity ! 
 
 Thou> 
 
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 Thou, Thou art all !— To Thee, O God, I offer up my 
 prayer, from the rifing of the fun until the midnight darknefs ! 
 Let all my hopes and all my wilhes be diiccted to thy glory ! 
 
 I befeech Thee fill my heart with fuch knowledge of thy 
 ivord, that I may dwell in fafety under the fhadow of thy 
 mercy! Let thy memorial be fwecter to me than the praifes 
 of an applauding world: and the riches of thy wifdom than 
 millions of gold and filvcr ! 
 
 Shed thy influence on my foul, O Lord almighty ' that 
 I may poflefs fuch fortitude as will always lead me in thy 
 paths. Thou, O God, art truth, and all my fefearches, in 
 which I remember Thee not, are full of error and delufion ! 
 
 Thou, O mighty Lord of heaven, who covereft the earth 
 as with a cloud, and extended the rays of thy omnifcience to 
 all intelligent Beings; thy wifdom is profoundcr than the deep, 
 and brighter than the meridian fun. Let all fcience, and 
 the glories of this fading world, appear as darknefs, in com- 
 panion of that heavenly wifdom, which fpringeth from hope 
 in Thee! 
 
 Make thy will appear to me as the light, that difcerning thy 
 laws and abiding in thyftatutes, nature reftored by thy gofptl, 
 and reafoH enlightened by thy ^raw, I may approve what is 
 holy, juft, and purej and ever love and fear Thee, and adore 
 thy unchangeable perfections ! 
 
 Strengthen the powers of my mind, O Lord, that I may 
 daily learn, and tonjlantly praclife whatever fhall be acceptable 
 to Thee, till That period, when by thy mercy I (hall behold 
 with mine eyes^ the brightnefs of thine incomprehenfible 
 wifdom and glory ! Grant this, O tender Father, through 
 the blood of my crucified Saviour, and for the fake of his 
 never-failing mediation at thy throne! 
 
 Finally I pray that all the ends of the earth may remember 
 Thee, O Lord ; and all nations worfhip before Thee ! 
 Cherubims and feraphims pay homage unutterable by mortal 
 tongue before the majefty of thy throne ! O Father omni- 
 potent, {hew thy mercy to me y and accept this tribute of ir.y 
 gratitude and humble prai [el 
 
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