rit, which thou haft already bleffed me withal: O vouchfafe ftill to continue to me thy gracious Favour and Protection; and as thou haft preferved me hitherto this Day, fo bless me the remaining Part of it; Keep me in Peace and Innocence, in Love to thee, and Charity to my Neighbour; and since in all my Ways I acknowledge thee, do thou direct my Paths, and teach me to manage all my Affairs with Prudence and Difcretion. Thou art my Hope and my Confidence, my Satisfaction and my Peace, my Glory and my Joy; O be thou pleased to conduct me by thy good Spirit, through all the Business and Enjoyments, through all the Temptations and Troubles of this Life ; and never leave nor forfake me, bring me at last to that blessed Place, where our Lord Jefus Chrift liveth and reigneth with thee, in the Unity of the fame Spirit, world without End. Amen.

A Prayer for Thursday Evening.

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Eternal and infinitely Glorious God, the great Creator, gracious Preferver, and wife Governor of the World; I thy unworthy Servant fall down before thee at

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this Time, to present my Prayers and Supplications before thy Throne of Grace.

I admire and adore the incomprehenfible Perfections of thy Nature, and gratefully acknowledge thy marvellous and undeferved Goodness towards me and all thy Creatures. I have nothing, O Lord, but what I received from thee; thou freely gaveft me my Being, and madeft me in a Capacity to know, and ferve, and enjoy thee for ever; and out of the fame infinite Bounty and Goodness thou haft continued to me the Being which thou at first gaveft me, and haft delivered me from a Multitude of Evils, which might have juftly befallen me, and beftowed Mercies and Favours both upon my Soul and Body, more than I can number. O that I could fay I had made Returns unto thee in any Meafure fuitable to the Benefits which I have received from thee: But alas! I muft with Shame acknowledge, thatI have been guilty of great Ingratitude towards thee, the Fountain of all Good; I have been an unprofitable and unworthy Servant, and have neither loved thee, ferved thee, nor obeyed thee, as I ought to have done.

O Lord, it is owing to thine infinite Mercy and Goodness, that I have now an

Opportunity of humbling myself before thee; O let thy Goodness and Forbearance, O Lord, lead me to a true and unfeigned Repentance of all my Sins; and for the Sake of thy beloved Son, (in whom alone thou art well pleafed) fpare me, O good Lord, fpare me, and be not angry with me for ever; wash away all my Sins in that Fountain, which thou haft opened for Sin and Uncleannefs, that nothing may interpose between thy Mercy and my poor Soul. Lay not to my Charge, O merciful God, the Sins which I have this Day committed; and not only pardon them, but give me Grace from henceforward entirely to leave and forfake them, and to amend my Life according to thy holy Word.

Make me always mindful that thou art every where prefent, and privy to my moft fecret Thoughts; that I may never dare to do any Thing but what is pleafing in thy Sight. Poffefs me, O Lord, with a lively Senfe of the Frailty of my Life, the Certainty of a Judgment to come, the unfpeakable Glories of Heaven, and the most dreadful Torments of Hell, that I may in good earneft fet about the great Work of my Salvation, and never be fo foolish, as to prefer the Pleasures of Sin, which are but G

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for a Seafon, before that everlafing Fulness of Joy which is in thy Prefence for ever more; but that duly confidering the vast Difproportion there is betwixt this Life, and my eternal State, I may live as becomes the Gofpel of Chrift, working out my Salvation with the greatest Care and Circumfpection; that when the great and terrible Day of the Lord fhall come, I may be admitted to the Inheritance of the Saints in Light, thro' the Merits, and for the Sake of my bleffed Saviour and Redeemer, Jefus Chrift the Righteous.

O Lord! I pray not for myself alone, but for the whole Race of Mankind, and in a more efpecial Manner for this Church and Nation to which I belong. Let the Virtue and Efficacy of Chrift's Death and Paffion be extended far and wide, and grant that true Religion and Virtue may every where flourish and abound.

Blefs all Orders and Degrees of Men amongst us, especially thy Servant our Sovereign Lord King GEORGE, our gracious Queen Charlotte, his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family; Endue them with all thofe Graces and Virtues which may enable them to discharge their feveral Trufts in fuch a

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Manner as may promote thy Honour and Glory, and the Peace and Profperity both of Church and State.

Hear the Prayers of the Sick and Needy and of all that labour under any Trouble or Affliction; and of thy fatherly Goodnefs comfort and relieve them according to their Neceffities.

I commend to thy particular Favour and Protection, my and all my Relations and Friends; let thy Fear be ever before their Eyes; let thy Bleffing always reft upon them; and grant them all Things neceffary for Life and Godliness.

Accept, O Lord, I humbly befeech thee, the Evening Sacrifice of my unfeigned Praifes, which I now offer up to thy Divine Majefty, for thy great and manifold Mercies vouchfafed unto me; and more particularly for the Mercies of the Day past; for preferving me in Health and Safety; for providing fo plentifully for me, and continuing to me the Enjoyment of fo many Comforts. And I moft humbly befeech thee to continue thy Mercy and Goodness towards me and all belonging to me. Defend us this Night from all Dangers both of Soul and Body; grant us quiet and refreshing Sleep; and if thou art pleased to