hasting to the coming of that blessed day, when we shall be dissolved and be with Christ; that when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, we also may appear with him in glory. Enable us now to ascend and dwell with thee in the constant exercise of faith and love; that in the last day, we may personally ascend in soul and body, to be for ever with the Lord; there, together with thy whole triumphant church, to see and admire, to love and bless, to praise and glorify, thee, O blessed God our Saviour, world without end. Amen.

A Prayer on the Occasion of the coming of the Holy Ghost.

O THOU infinite, eternal Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life, who workest all in all; and especially workest and abidest in the souls of men! pardon (we beseech thee) all the guilt we have contracted in resisting thy motions, and quenching the flames which thou hast at any time enkindled in our breasts. And be pleased so to enlighten our minds and purify our hearts, that we may be fit to receive and entertain thee, as the guide and comforter of our souls. O thou Spirit of truth, lead us into all truth; and bring all needful things out of the word to our remembrance; and set them home powerfully upon our hearts, to influence our lives, and to do us good in every time of our need. Whatsoever grace is lacking in us,

O form it in our hearts by thy holy Spirit; and establish and increase what thou hast already wrought in us. Excite and stir us up to all good; and enable us for the performance of it; and engage us to continue and persist in it.

O come down, Lord, as fire, upon us, to consume our dross, and to make clean our hearts, and enflame them with heavenly love; that we may devoutly relish thy holy things, and be lively in following thy holy ways. O be thou a powerful principle of life, and light, and love, and of all grace and holiness in our souls; to illuminate our minds; to spiritualize our affections; to pacify our consciences; and to bring our souls out of every dangerous, self-destroying course, into the paths of righteousness, even to that way of life, which is above to the wise, to depart from hell beneath. O blessed Lord, restrain us from grieving thy holy Spirit whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption. And cast us not away from thy presence. Take not thy holy Spirit from us. O make us so tractable under his holy motions, that we may experience his heavenly consolations. And let the joy in the holy Ghost be more to us, than all the pleasures of the world. O blessed Spirit ; be thou ever with thy spirits; to heal our distempers, and help our infirmities, and work mightily upon our hearts by thy grace; until our souls are fitted for that glory, which is unspeakable and everlasting. Amen.

A Prayer on the Commemoration of any Saint.

O God of all grace, who art pleased to call out of this present world a peculiar people to thyself, and to pour out thy Spirit upon them, and to make them shine as lights in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; and to set them forth as examples to the rest of mankind: we bless thy holy name, that thou hast not left us destitute of such helps and patterns, as might serve to show us, how practicable is our duty, and what encouragement we have to set ourselves to the performance of it. Stir us up, we pray thee, to take that more excellent way, wherein they (with such happy success) have gone before us; and constrain us to become followers of them, as they were of Christ. And seeing that we are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, O that we may lay aside every weight, and the sin that does so easily beset us; and run with patience the race that is set before us! Teach and enable us, O King of Saints, to make a right improvement of those gifts and graces, whereby thy servants of old adorned their holy profession; and so to imitate their virtues, as to convince the world, that the righteous is indeed more excellent than his neighbour.

O that we may never persecute thy saints, nor madly despise those who are as the apple of

thine eye; whose great care is to approve themselves faithful in thy covenant, and zealous for thy glory. May we ever hold such in the highest reputation whilst living, as well as count their memories precious when they are dead. O heavenly Father, let them be dearest to us that are dearest to thyself. And let all our delight be in the saints that are in the earth; of whom the world is not worthy, notwithstanding they are so abused by the world, as if unworthy to live in it. O let us not be conformed to this world; nor follow the multitude, to do evil; but be followers of those, who (through faith and patience) do already inherit thy glorious promises; and may we so live the life of the righteo, that we may also die their death. Help us, O Lord our God, so to imitate thy saints here in their holy living, that hereafter we may be numbered with them in glory everlasting. As we desire and hope for their blessed end, O let us love and follow their Godly way; and make the communion of saints an object of our pursuit, as well as an article of our faith. Let us be lovers of all good men; honouring them that fear the Lord; and esteeming them very highly in love for their work's sake. And, O Lord, increase the number of thy faithful people in all places, and add daily to the church those who shall be followers of God, as dear children. Let thy kingdom come: and thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven : that thy church may grow and flourish; until we, with all thy servants departed in the Lord,

meet together in the kingdom of our Father, to live in thy presence, and to enjoy thy love, and to glorify thy name, world without end. Amen.

A Prayer under Abuses and Provocations.

O Most high and wise, holy and righteous Judge of all the earth, the great author and lover of peace and truth: thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. How far I have been accessary to bring down these troubles upon my own head, and how much worse than these I deserve at thy hands, is all naked and open before thee. I submit, Lord, to thy correction, whomsoever thou shalt use as the instrument of thy displeasure. And O that the ill-will of men may quicken me the more to examine myself for that which is offensive in thy sight; and make me more careful to have my heart_right with God, and to be approved in thy sight.

But seeing my heart condemns me not in the present case, for being the cause of all this wrath and clamour, and malice, and vengeance; and that I apprehend myself now to suffer wrongfully; being slanderously reported, falsely accused, shamefully and despitefully used, and hated without a cause; I come with boldness to pour out my complaint before thee, O God, and to shelter myself under the shadow of thy wings. Plead my cause, O Lord, with them