public Prayers, and approach thy Table with fervent, and heavenly Affections, and with holy Impatience for the Bleffings of thy Love. Give me Grace, for thy deareft Sake, to pay a fuitable Veneration to all facred Perfons, or Places, or Things, which are thine by folemn Dedication, and feparated for the Ufes of divine Love, and the Communications of thy Grace, or which may promote the Decency and Order of thy Worship, or the Edification of faithful People.

May I ever, O Lord, have awful Thoughts of Thee; may I never mention thy venerable Name, unlefs on folemn, juft, and devout Occasions; may I never mention it on. thofe Occafions without Acts of Love and Adoration. O let it be the great Bufinefs of my Life, to love and glorify thy holy Name by all the poffible Ways I can; by my Mouth, by my Converfation, by my public: Confeffion of Thee before Men, even to› Death, whenever thou art pleased to call me to it; by engaging all I can to glorify and love Thee. Fix in my Mind an habitual pure Intention of thy Glory in all my Actions, that whether I Eat or Drink, or whatever I do, I may do all to the Glory of Thee, my God.

O Lord, let thy unwearied and tender Love to me, make my Love unwearied and tender to my Neighbour, and zealous to proM. 6

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cure, promote, and preferve his Health and Safety, Happiness and Life; and ready to fuccour and relieve, to comfort and rescue, and pray for all, whom thy Love, or their own Neceffities or Miferies, recommend to my Charity. Make me Peaceful and Reconcileable, always ready to return Good for Evil, to repay Injuries with Kindness, and eafy to forgive; unless in those Instances, where the Impunity of the Criminal would be Injuftice and Cruelty to the Public. Make me like thy own Self, all Meekness and Benignity, all Goodnefs and Sweetness, all Gentleness and Long-fuffering. And, O thou Lover of Souls, let thy Love raise in me a compaffionate Zeal to fave the Life, the eternal Life of Souls, and by fraternal, and affectionate, and feasonable Advice, or Exhortation, or Reproof, to reclaim the Wicked, to win them to love Thee.

Create in me, O Lord, a perfect Abhorrence of all Impurity, that I may purify myfelf, as Thou, Lord, art pure. I know, O Lord, that I can never be Partaker of the Divine Nature, unlefs I escape the Pollution that is in the World through Luft. O do Thou therefore cleanse me from all Filthinefs of Flesh and Spirit, that I may perfect Holiness in thy Fear. Give me Grace to poffefs my Veffel in Sanctification and Honour, and to keep thy Temple holy, that thy Spirit may always there inhabit.

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Grace, O Lord, to fly all Incitements, Opportunities or Inftruments of defiling either my Neighbour or myfelf; to beat down my Body, and to bring it into Subjection: Let me live ever watching or praying, or profitably employed, that I may leave no Room, if poffible, for any unclean Spirit to enter into my Soul, and tempt me.

Lord, make me contented and thankful, and well pleased with that Portion thy wife Providence has allotted me in this World, and to acquiefce in thy Choice, as best for me. O let the World never more have place in my Heart; all my Affections I withdraw from that, to fix on Thee.

Be pleased, O Lord, to take me into thy Protection this Night, and defend me from all the Dangers of it; refresh my Body with fuch comfortable Reft and Sleep, that in the Morning, with my renewed Vigour, I may be the better difpofed to do Thee all faithful Service. Let not evil Spirits or evil Men approach to hurt me; let me lie down with holy Thoughts of Thee; and when I awake, let me be ftill with Thee.

Add this Paragraph on SUNDAY in the Evening.

"PARDON, O Lord, all those Imper"fections that have accompanied me this Day, in my Attendance in thy Houfe;

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"forgive the Deadness and Dulnefs of my Af"fections, the Wanderings of my Thoughts, " and the Distractions of my Mind. Sanctify "to me all thofe Means of Grace, which by "thy Bounty I have this Day been Partaker "of; and help me in the Week following "to live according to my Profeffion and my

Prayers, according to the Inftructions and "Exhortations which I have received out of thy holy Word; that my Converfation may "be as becometh the Gospel of Chrift: Let me not abuse thefe Means by refting in "them, but let them bring forth the peace. "able Fruits of Righteoufnefs."

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Shew Mercy, O Lord, to the whole World; let the Gospel of thy Son run, and be glorified throughout all the Earth; let it be made known to Heathens and Infidels; and let it be obeyed by all that are called Chriftians. Be merciful to this Nation wherein I live; grant that we may be fo humbled and reformed,. that we may be pardoned and fpared. Multiply thy Bleffings. upon our Sovereign, and all the Royal Family; give them Grace to exceed others as much in Goodness as in Greatnefs, and make them fignal Inftruments of thy Glory, and of the Public Good. Be gracious to all those that minifter in holy Things, that they may diligently watch over thofe Souls committed to their Care, inftructing them in faving Knowledge,

Knowledge, and guiding them by their own Examples, Praying for them, and. Bleffing them, exercifing fpiritual Difcipline in the Church, and rightly and duly adminiftering. thy holy Sacraments. Vifit in Mercy all the Children of Affliction; relieve all their particular Neceffities of Body and Mind, and lighten all their Burdens: give them Patience and Submiffion to thy bleffed. Will, and in thy due Time deliver them from all their Troubles. Blefs all my Friends and Relations, let them firft feek the Kingdom of God. and its Righteoufnefs, and then let all other Things be added unto them.

Adored be thy Goodnefs, O Lord, for thofe Mercies, both Temporal and Spiritual,. which Thou from Time to Time haft beftowed upon me; that thou haft fupported my Body with the good Things of this Life, and that Thou haft prepared for my Soul the Happinefs of the next; particularly, I defire to offer to Thee my humble and hearty Thanks for the Prefervation of me the Day paft from innumerable Accidents and Dangers: If I have escaped any Sin, it is the Effect of thy reftraining Grace: if I have avoided any Danger, it was thy Hand directed me, and to thy holy Name for both be given all Glory and Praife. Let the Senfe of all thy Ble fings have this Effect upon me, to make me better, and to lead me to Repentance. And all this. I beg for Jefus Chrift's Sake; in

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