out of my duty to thee, my God; and let me never be so awed by them as to make bold with thee, and trespass upon thee to escape them, or to ingratiate myself with them. Thou hast been my help, be thou pleased to come in now to my succour, and shew thyself graciously and powerfully on my behalf. Do it, Lord, for the glory of thy name, for the merits of thy Son, and for thy own mercy's sake, that I may see thy hand, and praise thy power, and admire thy love, and adore thy grace and goodness, while I have my being. Amen.

A Prayer upon the Remembrance of former Sins.

WHO can understand his errors? who can call to mind the innumerable offences of all his life; when, ever since we could do any thing, alas! what have we done, that is free from sin? But, O the heinous offences, the pre umptuous sins, the great transgressions, whereof I have been guilty, which stare me in the face, and recoil upon my heart, and cast down my soul within me, because I have committed them with so many foul aggravating circumstances against such light and love, means and mercies, calls and warnings, convictions and experiences, and all the sundry and mighty obligations from the Lord which I have had; Iam covered with confusion, O my God, and filled with bitter remorse, and ghastly fears, as often as I look back upon such blots, and falls, and scandals of my life. O, if they should rise up in the judgment against me, they could not but

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utterly sink and ruin me. But, Lord my God, help me so to remember that thou mayest forget them; so to charge them upon myself, that thou mayest never lay them to my charge; so to keep them before my eyes, to abase and humble my soul, that thou mayest hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities; especially those that are so confounding and terrible to my thought. O let me ever walk humbly before thee, seeing I have so shamefully sinned against thee; and though thou hast kept me from the deserved shame in this world, O let not thy indulgence embolden me to repeat or slight the wickedness; but let this thy goodness, O my God, work in me a more deep and serious repentance.

And thou, Lord Almighty, who alone canst bring good out of evil, be thou pleased to make my past falls an occasion of my surer standing for the future. O embitter the pleasures of sin to me, and hedge up the ways of wickedness, as with briars and thorns, before me, that I may loath as much as ever I have loved the of fensive things, and never return again to such folly. O let the flames wherewith I have been scorched, terrify me from being any more concerned; and let the sense and remembrance of all the former offences of my life quicken and awaken me, as into deep repentance for them, and into the more careful circumspection and watchfulness against them, that I may not be so strange to thee, my God, as I have been, but pass the time of my sojourning here in fear, and be more tender, and wary, and vigilant, all the days of my life. Amen, Amen.

A Prayer under Fears and Doubts of our spiritual Condition.

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LORD my God, I hope thou hast of thy rich mercy changed and renewed me in some measure, and wrought a good work upon me: bring me out of my natural and damnable condition, into the state of grace and salvation; but yet the carnal nature is so predominant over me, and many sins so lively and strong in me, and still I find the good things of thy spirit in so much weakness and imperfection upon me, that the sorrows of my heart are enlarged, and my soul is disquieted within me, seeing too fre quent cause to question, whether my spots are the spots of thy children; whether I have known the grace of God in truth, and whether I do not deceive myself in reckoning upon that which I neither am or have.

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Mine eyes are to thee, O God the Lord, leave not my soul destitute. From the ends of the earth will I cry to thee: when my heart is overwhelmed within me, lead me to the rock that is higher than I. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy sore displeasure. Forsake me not, O my God; be not far from me: make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation. Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low; hear me speedily, my spirit fails. Save me, O God, for the waters are come into my soul; I sink in the deep mire where there is no standing. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.

O shew me the true state of my soul, and make me to know the things that are freely given of God; and deliver me, gracious Lord, from all those offensive matters that provoke thee to hide thy face from me, and that wrap up my soul in clouds and darkness, and make me so much a stranger to peace and comforts. O grant me a clear discovery of the evidences of my calling and election; and seal a comfortable assurance of thy blessed love in Christ Jesus to my soul. O thou that didst bid the winds and waves, Peace, be still, and they obeyed thee; settle my discomposed mind, and quiet my troubled breast, and bring me to see the light of thy countenance, and the joy of thy salvation. O thou that art of power to establish us, be pleased to establish my heart with grace, and let me be rooted and grounded in the faith, that I may not stagger through unbelief,, but hold the beginning of my confidence stedfast to the end. Rejoice the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul: and let the joy of the Lord be my strength, to make me victorious over my sins, and always to abound in thy work; never pleased so much with any thing as to do the thing pleasing to my God, and through Jesus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer under the Dread of God's Wrath and everlasting Damnation.

LORD, the great and dreadful God, against whom I have so greatly sinned! and who for my sins art justly displeased; when I consider the holiness of thy laws, and the

strictness of thy justice; and when I reflect upon the heinous and innumerable sins of my heart and life, my flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments. O who

may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? Who can bear up for ever under all the vials of thy wrath, to the uttermost poured out, when thy mercy shall be clean gone, and thou shalt cast off, and shew favour no more? Yet, even that damnation would be my woeful portion, which I could no more avoid than abide, shouldest thou, O Lord, enter into judgment with me, and proceed as thou mightest against me; I could then hope for no better than to be deprived of all the comforts of this life, and to be delivered into the bitter pains of eternal death. But though the wages of my sins be that death, yet the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. O for his dear sake, who has satisfied thy justice, and appeased thy wrath for all our offences, even thy Son, who was delivered up into the hands of sinners, that he might deliver us from the wrath to come, and suffered and died once, that we might not suffer and die for ever. O God, the Father of heaven, have mercy upon me, a miserable sinner; and from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation, good Lord deliver me, and help me in the fear of thee, my God, to flee from the wrath to come, and to rid my hands, and my heart, of every cursed thing that provokes the Lord to kill and cast sinners into hell.

O thou blessed Saviour of the world, save me from my sins, and from all their dismal ef