iniquities are more in number than the hairs upon our head. Thou art our Creator; but of the rock that begat us we are unmindful, and have forgotten the God that formed us. Thou hast

nourished and brought up children; but we have rebelled against Thee. Thou hast given us laws, founded in a regard to our welfare as well as thine own glory; but we have said with our lives, if not with our lips, Who is the Lord that we should obey his voice? Thou art the perfection of beauty, the centre of excellency, the source of all blessedness; and Thee we ought to have loved supremely; but we have loved and served the creature more than the Creator; we have loved idols, and after them we have gone. Instead of praying, Lord, lift Thou up the light of thy counte nance upon us, we have asked with the multitude, Who will show us any good? Departing from Thee, we have made flesh our arm. We have leaned on broken reeds, and though they have disappointed our hopes, and pierced us through with many sorrows, we have often returned to the same wretched dependence. Thou hast raised up for us a Saviour; and the gospel has presented to our view a plan of redemption and renovation, which the angels desire to look into. But we have crowned all our guilt, by neglecting so great salvation, and turning away from Him that speaketh from heaven; and we deserve to be for ever excluded from all the blessings of the cross.

O deal not with us after our desert, but according to our necessity; and where sin has abounded, may grace much more abound. Over all our unworthiness may grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. It is thy pleasure that we seek Thee. The desires we feel are of thine own producing. We are willing to be saved in thy own way. We love thy salvation-we love it as it is free, and secures to thyself the undivided glory; and we love it as it

is holy, and designed to save us from the power as well as the penalty of sin. O visit us with thy salvation. Shine into our hearts, and give us the light of the knowledge of thy glory in the face of Jesus Christ. Enable us by faith to embrace thy unspeakable gift. May we sit at his feet. May we glory in his cross. May we imbibe his spirit. May we follow his example; and whatever we do, in word or deed, may we do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.

We extend our wishes beyond the little circle now kneeling in thy presence. We have various absent connexions endeared to our hearts; O place them under thy agency, as the God of grace; and keep them under thy care as the God of providence.

We would remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them, and those that suffer adversity as being ourselves also in the body. Address to the hearts of the afflicted the promise, I will be with thee in trouble; thy shoes shall be iron and brass, and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. Let glory dwell in our land, and upon all the glory may there be a defence. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Make bare thine arm in the sight of all the nations; and let all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our God.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with us all, now and for evermore. Amen.

TUESDAY EVENING.

O THOU who wast, and art, and art to come, the Almighty. With Thee is the fountain of life. In the presence there is fullness of joy, and at thy

right-hand there are pleasures for evermore. It is our privilege as well as our duty, to draw near to Thee. It is the prerogative of our nature, that of all creatures in this lower world, we alone are made capable of knowing, resembling, serving, and enjoying Thee. All our degradations and misery have been produced by our alienation and absence from Thee; and all our happiness and perfection depend upon our re-union and intercourse with Thee. We, therefore, bless Thee for the revelation Thou hast given us, and by which we learn, that thy thoughts towards us are thoughts of peace, and not of evil. We rejoice in a new and living way into the holiest, by the blood of Jesus, who has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us unto God. We pray that the grand design of this sacrifice may be accomplished in each of us. May we feel that we are brought back from the dreadful, distance to which sin had conveyed us, and that we are one with God again; and henceforth, may the life that we lead in the flesh, be a life of communion with the Father of our spirits, and of devotedness to him. May thy service be the employment of our days, and the enjoyment of our hearts. May we love thy commands, and acquiesce in thy dispensations; and then we are at the gate of heaven.

We lament that this has been so little the case with us, since we have known Thee, or rather have been known of Thee. We ought to be ashamed to think, that after all the instructions of thy word, the ordinances of thy house, and the discipline of thy family, our ears are still so dull of hearing, and our hearts so slow to believe; that our souls so cleave unto the dust; that we live so much under the influence of things seen and temporal; and feel so little of the powers of a world to come. How obscure is our knowledge; how weak our faith; how low our hope; how

wavering our obedience; how lifeless our worship. O Lord clothe us with humility; and in this attire help us to present Thee the sacrifice of a broken heart and a contrite spirit, which Thou wilt not despise.

And since Thou art the God of all grace, and hast commanded us to ask and receive, that our joy may be full-afford us more of the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ, to give more decision to our character, and more earnestness to our zeal; that with enlarged hearts in the way of thy commandments we may run, and not be weary, and walk and not faint. May we always realize thy presence; and may the thought, that thine eye is upon us, operate as a check to sin, an excitement to duty, and a source of consolation. May we bear with firmness and submission the various trials of life and religion, and derive from them, all the advantage which they are designed to afford. May we glorify the Lord in the fires, and may every day of trouble afford us an opportunity to prove the truth of thy promise, the tenderness of thy care, and the supports of thy grace. May tribulation work patience, and patience experience, and experience hope.

But how few, how limited, and how light are the afflictions with which we are exercised. How much more reason have we to be thankful than to complain. Bless the Lord, O our souls, and all that is within us bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O our souls, and forget not all his benefits who forgiveth all our iniquities; who healeth all our diseases; who redeemeth our lives from destruction; who crowneth us with loving kindness and tender mercies.

We praise Thee for the protection, the supplies and the comforts of another day. Take us under thy care for the night on which we have entered. May no evil befall us, nor any plague come nigh our dwelling. Refresh our bodies, and

renew our strength, by needful repose; and when we awake, may we be still with God, and rise to love Thee more, and serve Thee better, than we ever have done; through our Lord and Saviour, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

WEDNESDAY MORNING.

AGAIN we lift up our eyes unto the hills from whence cometh our help our help is in the name of the Lord God, who made heaven and earth.

Thou art the Author of all existence, and the source of all blessedness. We adore Thee for making us capable of knowing Thee; for possessing us with reason, and conscience; and for leading us to inquire where is God my Maker that giveth songs in the night. We praise Thee for all the information with which we are favoured, to bring us to thyself; especially the revelation of the gospel. Here we look into thy very heart, and see that it is the dwelling place of pity. Here we see thy thoughts towards us, and find that they are thoughts of peace and not of evil. Here we see Thee waiting to be gracious, and exalted to have mercy. Here Thou hast told our consciences how the guilty can be pardoned, the unholy can be sanctified, and the poor furnished with unsearchable riches.

May we be found in the number of those who not only hear, but know the joyful sound, that we may walk in the light of thy countenance, in thy name rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness be exalted. May we take Thee, the God of truth, at thy word; and believe the record, that Thou hast given to us eternal life and that this life is in thy Son. And since it is not only a faithful saying but worthy of all acceptance, that He came into the world to save sinners to Him may