from our spiritual slumber, sloth, and negligence. Breathe, Heavenly Spirit, upon our dying graces. Make us more lively in every duty, and more vigorous in the way of thy precepts.

Enable us to lay aside every weight, and to run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

May our eyes be ever directed unto Him, as our atonement, our righteousness, our pattern, and our guide.

Make us unfeignedly thankful for his death and passion, his resurrection, ascension and intercession. May we be happy partakers of the benefits of his mediation. Remember us, O Lord Jesus, as thou art now entered into thy kingdom.

Accept this our morning tribute of praise for the favours of the past

night: We might have awoke in the agonies of pain, or have been roused from our beds by some melancholy and distressing tidings; whereas we are in health and peace, and surrounded with mercies. O how great is thy goodness! Surely thou art worthy to be praised. Bless the Lord, O our souls.

Into thy hands we desire now to commit ourselves. May we be kept by thy power from sin and danger. Guide us in the path of duty. Keep our tongues from evil, and our lips that they speak no guile. Uphold us that our footsteps slip not. Disappoint the designs of our spiritual adversaries, and make our souls joyful in thy salvation,

Jesus Christ's sake.

Our Father, &c.

We ask all for

Amen.

The Grace of our Lord, &c.

EVENING PRAYER VI.

O LORD God Almighty! very great, and very glorious art thou! Help us to approach thee, at all times, with solemnity, reverence, and godly fear.

Thou art the sovereign Lord of all: thou madest all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created. Thou upholdest all things by thy mighty power: thou rulest over the armies of heaven, and the inhabitants of the earth thou puttest down one and settest up another; and none may say unto thee, What doest thou?

We are lost in wonder when we reflect upon thy greatness and majesty; and still more so when we reflect upon thy goodness and mercy.

Lord, what is man, that thou

shouldest be mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou shouldest visit him? Yet hast thou been mindful of us in a wonderful manner, and hast most graciously visited us in our helpless, lost, and ruined state.

Thou hast given thy only begotten and well-beloved Son to be a ransom for our sins; to suffer death upon the cross, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.

Glory be to thee, O Father, that when we were cut off and separated from thee by sin, thou didst devise means whereby thy banished ones might be brought back unto thee.

Glory be to thee, thou eternal Son of the Father! that thou wast pleased to take upon thee our nature, to become a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, in order that we, guilty

sinners, might be rescued from eternal damnation.

Glory be to thee, thou ever-blessed Spirit of all grace and truth! that thou hast been pleased to reveal these things unto us, that we might have access by faith, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

O holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, three persons and one God! what shall we render to thee, for the wonderful things thou hast done for the children of men !

O raise up, we pray thee, thy power; come among us, and with great might succour us. Quicken us from our spiritual drowsiness and insensibility. Give us a more lively sense of thy mercies, and hearts more grateful to thee for them.

We must confess with shame be