God, and the members and followers of Christ. O put such principles of grace and holiness into our hearts, as may make us to hate all iniquity, and to abhor every false way. Put thy Spirit within us, causing us to walk in thy statutes, and to keep thy judgments, and to do them. Do not merely lay thy commands upon us; but be pleased, O Lord, to enable us for the performance of them. And so quicken us by thy grace that we may make it our meat and drink to do thy will; and may run the way of thy commandments with enlarged hearts. O make our services acceptable to thee while we live; and our souls ready for thee when we die. And as long as we are in this world, keep us, O Lord our God, from the evil of it, and from the snares and dangers to which thou knowest we are continually exposed. O make our passage safe through all the changes, troubles, and temptations of this mortal life, and bring us finally to the unchangeable glories and felicities of the eternal world.

Be merciful to us, good Lord, and bless us, and keep us this day, in all our ways. Let us take nothing in hand, which is not warranted by thy word. O let us be in the fear of the Lord all the day long: let thy fear be ever before our eyes, to restrain us from the things which are displeasing to thee, and destructive to our own souls. And let thy love abound in our hearts, and sweetly and powerfully constrain us to perform whatever is acceptable in thy sight, through him that hath loved and redeemed us.

even the Lord our righteousness; in whose blessed name and words we continue praying; Our Father, &c.

The blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, be with us, and with all that belong to us, this day and for evermore. Amen.

Third Morning Prayer.

O LORD GOD, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth! thou keepest mercy for thousands; thou pardonest iniquity, transgression and sin; thou retainest not thine anger for ever, because thou delightest in mercy. How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God! therefore do the sons of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings; and therefore do we desire still to look up to that bountiful hand of thine, from whence we have received all our good things. O Lord our God! be thou pleased to look down mercifully upon us, and be gracious and favourable to us, as thou usest to be unto those that love thy name: O look not upon the sin of our nature, nor the sins of our hearts and lives, which are more than we can remember, and greater than we can express: behold, we are vile: we are exceeding guilty; we acknowledge that it is of thy mercies we are not consumed, even because thy compassions fail not. But look upon us in mercy, through the merits and mediation of thy Son our Saviour; pity us for his sake who did no sin, and was manifested to take away our sins;

by him let us have access to thy majesty, and for his sake bestow upon us the blessings which we so greatly need. Thou hast treasured up in Him an infinite fulness of all that we can ever want or wish: O that we may all receive out of his fulness grace sufficient for us! Let us receive from him those gifts which He is now empowered and commissioned to bestow: those gifts which are the purchase of his blood, and the necessary means of our salvation. Pour down upon us the abundance of thy grace. Accept and justify our persons: renew and sanctify our souls; and so transform us into thy blessed image, that we may be meet to be partakers of the inheritance of thy saints in light.

Teach us, O Lord our God, to use this world without abusing it, and to enjoy the things of it, without suffering them to engross our affections. Whatever we have of the world, O let it be sanctified to us by the word of God, and prayer. And whatsoever we want of the things of this life, O Lord our heavenly Father, leave us not destitute of those things that accompany salvation: but do thou adorn our souls with all the graces of thy Holy Spirit, that we may glorify thee in all things, and that our conversation may be such as becometh the Gospel of Christ.

Help us, O gracious Lord, in the whole of our duty to thee our God; and also in the discharge of all relative duties which we owe to men, whether superiors, equals, or inferiors: enable us to walk wisely towards them which are without, and kindly towards them that are within. Let

us never cast a stumbling-block in the way of others, or cause thy holy name to be blasphemed through our misconduct; but let us pass the time of our sojourning here in fear; that, having glorified thee on earth, we may be glorified by thee in the great day of our Lord Jesus Christ. And now that thou hast removed thy mercies to us this morning, help us, gracious God, to renew our desires and endeavours to serve and honour thee. O restrain us from the evils and follies into which we are prone to fall; and quicken us to the offices and duties which we are averse to perform. And grant that we may think, and speak, and act as becometh saints; ever remembering that we are bought with the precious blood of Christ, and ever striving to live unto him who died for us, and rose again; to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be glory and honour, world without end. Amen. Our Father, &c.

Fourth Morning Prayer.

O LORD GOD, that hearest prayer, and art nigh to all that call upon thee in truth, we are moved by our own necessities, and encouraged by thy daily mercies, to renew our supplications at the throne of thy grace. And we beg of thee, who fashionest all the hearts of the sons of men, to prepare our hearts, that we may now come into thy Holy presence, and call upon thy blessed name, in a due and acceptable manner. O! pour upon us the Spirit of and of supgrace plication; let thy good Spirit help our infirmities

and teach us to ask such things, and in such a way, as shall be most agreeable to thy will, and most advantageous to our souls.

Behold! we, who are but poor worms, and sinful dust and ashes, have taken upon us now to speak unto thee, the sovereign Majesty of heaven and earth: we have too just cause to be afraid, lest our great and manifold sins should have provoked thee to hide thy face from us, and to shut up thy loving-kindness in displeasure. We know that we have done wickedly, in not hearkening to the calls of thy word, or yielding to the motions of thy Spirit. Our iniquities are increased over our heads; our trespass is grown up even unto heaven: and our sins are a sore burthen, too heavy for us to bear. If thou, O Lord, shouldst enter into judgment with us for our actions, we could not answer thee for one of a thousand; we must lay our hands upon our mouths, and plead guilty before thee, and place our whole dependence upon thy mercy.

O God, be merciful to us, miserable sinners: for the sake of him whom thou hast exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to thy people, and forgiveness of sins; be merciful to us, we pray thee, and heal our souls, that have greatly sinned against thee. O heal our backslidings, renew us to repentance, and establish our goings in thy holy ways: let us not be so wavering and bent to backslide: let us not so revolt from thee, and return to folly after thou hast spoken peace unto us; but may we go on conquering and to conquer all the enemies of our