and Adoration, to thy great and glorious Majesty.

Bleffed be thy Name, O God, for fending thy Son our Lord Jefus Christ into the World to die for the Redemption of Mankind, and for all the Benefits and Advantages which I have received thereby.

Bleffed be thy holy Name that I was born of Chriftian Parents, and early dedicated to thee by Baptifm, and for all the Means and Opportunities which thou haft given me of becoming wife unto Salvation; for the Affiftances of thy good Spirit, and for inclining me fo early to love and fear thee.

I thank thee, O Lord, for all the temporal Bleffings I have received; for that Measure of Health which I have enjoyed; for the many Friends and Relations thou haft given me; and for that competent Maintenance and Provifion thou hast made for me. Particularly, O Lord, I bless thy holy Name, that thou haft protected me the Night paft from the Powers of Darknefs, and every evil Accident, and haft now raised me up in Health and Safety to praise thy Goodness.

O Lord, raife me up alfo, I pray thee, to Tewnefs of Life, and grant me fuch a Sense hy Goodness as may excite in

my Heart

a fincere Love to thee, and a holy Care to please and obey thee in all Things.

Pardon, I most humbly befeech thee, all my past Ingratitude, and undutiful Behaviour towards thee, and let me never forget the many and great Obligations thou haft laid upon me to become thy faithful and obedient Servant.

I confefs, O Lord, that I am not able of myself to please thee; but fince thou haft promised to give thy Holy Spirit to them that ask it, with an humble Reliance on thy moft gracious Promises, I beseech thee to vouchfafe me his divine Affistance, to enable me to do my Duty towards thee, and towards all Men.

Endue me, O moft gracious God, with a Spirit of true and fervent Devotion to thee my Creator and Redeemer; with an honeft, upright and charitable Heart towards all my Neighbours; and with a contented, meek and humble Mind, in every Condition and State of Life, in which thou shalt be pleased to place me.

O Lord, convince me more and more of the Vanity and Emptiness of all earthly Enjoyments, that my Heart being lifted above the Pleafures of this Life, it may furely there be fixed, where true Joys are to

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be found. Grant that I may feek thy Kingdom and the Righteoufnefs thereof in the first Place, and prefer thy Favour, and the Teftimony of a good Confcience, before the greatest Happiness this World can promife me. Letneither Hopes nor Fears, nei ther Pleasure nor Profit, be ever able to draw me from my Duty; but being stedfaft and immoveable, I may always abound in the Work of the Lord, knowing that my Labour fhall not be in vain in the Lord.

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And now, O Lord, I humbly pray thee to take me, and all that are near and dear unto me, this Day, under the Care and Protection of thy good Providence. We are fafe fo long as we are in thy Hands; O let us never caft away our Confidence in thee, nor place it any where but in thee. Be with us in all Dangers and Temptations; keep us from all Things that may hurt us; preserve us more efpecially from the Sin that does most easily betray and enfnare us. Give us fuch a Measure of Health, and other temporal Bleffings, as thou seest best and moft fitting for us; and grant us the Affiftance of thy good Spirit, that in our feveral Stations and Employments, we may keep a Confcience void of Offence both towards thee, and towards all Men, through

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Jefus Christ our Lord; in whofe holy Words, I commend both my own and the Wants and Neceffities of all Mankind. Our Father, &c.

A Prayer for Thursday Noon or any mediate Time of the Day.

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Lord, the great Creator and Governor of all Things, I fall down before thee in an humble Adoration of thy incomprehenfible Majefty, acknowledging that I depend entirely upon thee; praifing and magnifying thy moft glorious Power, Wisdom, and Goodness, which are every where confpicuous: and rendering unto thee my moft hearty Thanks, for all the Favours and Benefits which thou haft fo freely and undefervedly conferred upon me. Thou art bountiful to the whole World: All thy Works praife thee, O Lord, and we, the Children of Men, ought more particularly to bless thee and speak good of thy Name; for we have received fingular Marks and Tokens of thy Favour; being made after thy own Image, and endued with reafonable and immortal Spirits, that we may reflect on thee the Author of our Being, and become like unto thee in Wisdom, Holi

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nefs, Goodness, and Truth; but above all, I defire to remember that great Demonftration of thy Love, in giving thy dear Son to live among us, to die for us, and thereby to give us (upon the conditions of Faith and fincere Obedience) an affured Hope of immortal Life.

O Lord, I love thee, and renew the Oblation which I have often made of my Soul and Body to thee; I wait upon thee still for what thou feest Good for both; I hope in thy everlasting Mercy, humbly befeeching thee to pardon all my Forgetfulness of thee, and Ingratitude to thee; and I most earnestly implore the Grace of thy Holy Spirit to preserve in my Mind a powerful Sense of thee, an ardent Love to thee, and a holy Care to please and obey thee in all Things.

Give me the fame Mind and Spiritwhich was in Chrift Jefus our Lord; the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, and the Fear of thee; the Spirit of Meekness, Hu, mility, Purity,and Charity; and grant that may do thy Will with the like Chearfulnefs, Zeal, Conftancy, Patience, and Perfeverance, that he did.

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Bleffed be thy Name, O Lord, for all e Helps and Affiftances of thy good Spi