often, broken its precepts. I have sinned against its truths and promises and threatenings. I have been little conformed to the Son of God in the holiness of his life, in the end of his death, and in the power of his resurrection. It becomes me to confess with penitence and grief, that great is the difference between what I am, and what I ought to be, as the disciple of Christ Jesus, favoured with the discoveries, the aids and the hopes of the gospel. Pardon, O merciful Father, my unworthiness, and forgive my sins. Excite in me an earnest concern to walk, henceforth, more suitably to my high and holy profession. May I do honour to the gospel. By my life, by the lives of all those who profess it, may its power and glory be spread through the world. May all men be converted to the faith of Jesus, and so be converted to virtue, Christ, and to God. With mercy, O universal parent, visit my country. Bless with thy favour my relations and friends. Afford consolation and relief to the afflicted. Help me, thy servant, in the discharge of every Christian duty through this day; and preserve me to the everlasting day of light, holiness and glory, according to the purposes of thy mercy declared in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen.

TUESDAY EVENING.

O MOST gracious God! Thou art every where, and knowest all things. My thoughts, and words, and actions, are equally open to thy view, at all times, and in every place. On thee I cannot impose, and to thee can no worship be acceptable, which is not accompanied with the sincere homage of the heart. Retired from the world to pay my adoration to thee, the all-seeing God, help me to perform the whole of this evening's religious exercise in such a frame of mind, as will render it acceptable to thee, and beneficial to myself.

Though thou comest not under the notice of any of my senses, yet to my understanding innumerable objects afford clear and striking proofs of thy being, perfections, and providence. Whether I consider the heavens, which are stretched out over the empty space; the earth, which is hung on nothing; the countless variety of creatures, animate and inanimate, by which I am surrounded; or my own frame, capacities, and powers,-my reason traces convincing evidence of thy constant agency and government.

I most devoutly praise thee for bringing me into being, and endowing me with intelligence, that I may contemplate thy perfections with exalted satisfaction and delight, and enjoy the gifts of thy liberal and unceasing munificence. I thank thee that, in pursuance of the schemes of thy benevolence, thou hast hitherto preserved me amidst innumerable dangers; continued to me the use of my reason and my senses in any degee of perfection; furnished me with various sources of enjoyment; and rendered my existence in the present state a blessing, for which I have abundant reason to be grateful. But I desire most highly to value the state through which thou art now conducting me with paternal benignity and care, as affording me opportunities and means of acquiring a fitness for a life of endless duration and unspeakable felicity to come. I extol and magnify thy great and glorious name, that, by the promise and resurrection of Jesus, thou hast given me a full assurance of such a life, and, by his precepts and examples, thou hast shown me the way to secure it. How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God, how great is the sum of them! In vain should I attempt to count the number, or estimate the value,

of thy favours. They relate to every period

of

my being; and thy goodness in bestowing them transcends my highest praise. O that, in return for thy boundless love and mercy, I may continue to love thee more and serve thee better, through the whole of my existence !

If it be decreed by thee, that I shall this night sleep the sleep of death, when thou shalt awake me out of it, may I be found a proper object of thy mercy, and a fit subject for thy glorious and everlasting kingdom. If, on the contrary, it be thy will to prolong my days on earth, may I frequently reflect with seriousness on the solemn professions of repentance, which I have made before thy throne, and on the aggravations, which will attend my guilt, if, after having made such professions, I should indulge myself in the practice of any sin. May past experience of my weakness, and a lively apprehension of the danger to which my virtue is at all times exposed in this state of trial, dispose me to keep out of the way of temptation.

Knowing that I shall come far short of what thou requirest me to be, if I do no more than refrain from sin, may I not content myself with

the bare preservation of my innocence, but be continually growing in grace and advancing towards perfection. To aid me in the prosecution of this most momentous business of life, be graciously pleased to allot me those circumstances, and to place me in those situations, which will be most favourable to my improvement in all goodness. What they will be thou best knowest, and let thy will be done. By unwearied and persevering endeavours to render the conformity of my temper and conduct with thy holy will continually more and more exact, may I be enabled to rejoice in any condition to which thou shall see fit to appoint me, casting all my cares upon thee, and looking forward, with an eye of humble confidence, to the glorious and happy issue, in which thou wilt make all things terminate to the righteous.

O benevolent Father of the human race! so order the affairs of the world, that ignorance, error, and vice may every where retire before the spreading diffusion and growing power of knowledge, truth, and virtue, till the whole earth shall become enlightened, reformed, and happy.