ness, mercifully give, though we, through our ignorance, may neglect to pray for it.

Enable us, with true resignation and confidence, to commit ourselves, with all our cares and concerns, into thy hands. May we bear patiently whatever trials may be allotted us; firmly trusting in thy word, that all things shall work together for good to them that love thee.

past mercies.

Give us a grateful sense of thy O how great is the sum of them! If we should count them, they are more in number than the sand.

We have this day received fresh favours, for which it becomes us to be very thankful this evening. We have to praise thee for the continuance of life. We might have been

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suddenly cut off, and sent into eternity, as in a moment.

We have to thank thee for the degree of health which we enjoy. We might have been groaning on the bed of sickness, as many of our fellow

creatures are.

We have to thank thee for the continued use of our reason and bodily limbs How many, from the loss of these, are a distress to themselves, and to their friends around them!

Lord! what are we, that thy mercies to us should be so many and great! O that, as we ought, we may love thee more, and serve thee better!

Of thy tender mercies in Christ Jesus, forgive what thou hast seen amiss in us in the course of the day

past; for in many things, alas! we offend, and that continually.

And be pleased, O thou Shepherd of Israel, who never slumberest nor sleepest, to protect us during the silent hours of the night. Preserve us from the attacks of ungodly men, from the wicked designs of evil spirits, and from disquieting thoughts and dreams.

Refresh us with a due portion of sleep, that we may be better fitted for the duties of another day, if we should be preserved to see one.

And whenever the hour of death shall come, may we be found ready. May we resign our departing spirits into thy hands; and may they be conducted by appointed angels to the mansions of eternal glory. We ask

all for Jesus Christ's sake, our most blessed Lord and Saviour.

Our Father, &c. .

The Grace of our Lord, &c.

MORNING PRAYER IV.

UNTO thee do we lift up our eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens! Behold! as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon thee, O Lord our God. Cast us not away from thy presence, though we are unworthy and sinful creatures; but for Jesus Christ's sake, hide thy face from our sins, and blot out all our transgressions.

Lift up, we beseech thee, O Lord,

the light of thy countenance upon us, and thereby put joy and gladness into our hearts, that we may enter upon the duties of this day with proper vigour and activity, and meet the several events of it with cheerfulness and resignation.

Thou knowest, O Lord, the perils to which we are exposed in the present world. Many and powerful are the adversaries of our souls, and our own strength is perfect weakness. Hold thou us up, and we shall be safe.

Make us, this day, to go in the path of thy commandments. O turn away our eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou us in thy way. Direct our view more steadfastly to the glorious hope set before us. Shew us the emptiness of the present world, and all it has to boast, that we may