O'God be merciful to me a Simmer. I Have permitted my Affections to wander licentiously,and not made a covenant with mine eyes, nor guarded my ears and tongue from vanity; nor avoided all occasions and proVocations to Wantonrefs. O Godbe merciful te me a Sinner. I Have not efteemed Godliness as my greatest Gain; nor been content with that which Thou has allotted me; nor been fo careful as I ought to preserve and increase my own and oth ers Goods, as need required, and occafions were offer'd;' nor according to my power reliev'd the Poor. O God be merciful tome a Sinner. I Have not always given a juft and candid judgment of oth. ers words and actions, and spoken well of 'em as far as truth and juftice would permit; and defended their good Names i gainst the Detractions and Caluninies of their enemies; nor been free from undervaluing good, and flattering bad men; nor from Lying, Pride, and unjustly Upholding, or care!esiy Elafting my own Credit. O God be merciful to me a Sinner, I Have often coveted what was my Neighbor's, by the inward motion of my heart, when he cou'd not, and, with Ahab, greedily defired fomewhat elfe for the value, when I knew he would not part with it; and fecretly murmur'd at the Providence of God; undervalned my own things; been unthankful for 'em; too paffionately purfued this World's Goods, to the neglect of my Soul; and been griev'd at others Profits, Promotions, or Pleafures, fo as to wish, or rejoyce in their Loffes, or Calamities. O God be merciful to me a Sinner. §. 22.1 Have finned with a high prefumptuous hand against Thee, in imagination, delight, confent, action, custom, habit, perfeverance; against the light of my own confcieuce; and the holy motions of thy ever Blefled Spirit. O God be merciful to me a Sinner. ALL this I have done, and much more that may be added to this heap of Sins and Transgreffions, which I have finfully forgotten, carelefly paffed over, or foolishly been ignorant of, to thy difhonor, and my own disconfort. O God be merciful to me a Sinner. Holy, bleffed, and glorious Trinity, three perfons and one God: have mercy upon me a miferable finner. REMEMBER not, Lord, my offences, nor th' offences of my forefathers, neither take Thou vengeance of our fins: fpareme, good Lord, and fpare all thy people whom Thou haft redeemed with thy moft preclous bloud, and be not angry with us for ever. Spare us good Lord. I, Afinner, do befeech Thee to hear me, O Lord God, and that it may pleafe Thee to give me true repentance, to forgive me all my fins, negligences, and ignorances, and to indue me with the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend my life according to thy holy Word; and to do my Duty towards God, and my Duty towards my Neighbor. Befeech Thee to hear me, good Lord. §. 23. THAT it may pleafe Thee to give me a Sanctified knowledge of, and belief in God the Father, who hath made me and all the world; and God the Son, who hath redeemed me and all mankind; and God the Holy Ghoft, who fanctifieth me and all th' elect people of God. Befeech Thee to hear me, good Lord. §. 24. THAT it may pleafe Thee t'afford me thy help to renounce the devil and all his works; the pomps and vanities of this wicked world; and all the Sinful lufts of the flesh. Befeech Thee to hear me, good Lord. THAT it may pleafe Thee to give me understanding and grace rightly to believe all th' articles of the christian Faith. Befeech Thee to hear me, good Lord, THAT it may please Thee to give me an heart to love and dread Thee: and to keep thy holy Will and Commandments. and to walk in the fame all the days of my Life. Befeech Thee to hear me, good Lord. S. 25. THAT it may pleafe Thee, at the Lord's Supper (which I'm about [or, I hope fhortly] to partake of,) to ftrengthen and refresh my foul by the Body and Bloud of Chrift, as my Body is by Bread and Wine. Befeech Thee to hear me, good Lord. §. 26. CC it may please Thee, my Lord God, our Heavenly Father, who art the giver of all goodness, to fend thy grace to me, and to all people, that we may worship Thee ferve Thee, and obey Thee as we ought to do. Befeech Thee to hear me, good Lord. CHAT it may pleafe Thee to fend us all things that beneed G 2 ful ful both for our Souls and Bodys, and to be merciful unto us and forgive us our fins. 3 all dangers ghoftly and bodilys GOOD Lord deliver us. FROM all fin and wickedness, and from our ghoftly enemy, and from everlasting death, GOOD Lord deliver us. ALL this, O God, I truft Thou wilt do of thy mercy and goodness, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. And therefore I fay, Amen. So be it. S. . 27. LORD [God the Father] have mercy upon us. CHRIST [God the Son] have mercy upon us. *LOR [God the Holy Ghost] have mercy upon us." Being under a Threefold mifery, of Punishment, Guilt, and Ignorance, I Thrice implore Mercy. fee §. 45. §. 28. Out Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And for give us our trefpiffes, as we forgive them that trespass aagainst us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever and ever. Amen. S. Mat. 6. §. 29. ALMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts be o pen, all defires known, and from whom no fecrets are hid; Cleanfe the thoughts of my heart by th' infpiration of thy Holy Spirit, that I may perfectly love Thee, and worthily magnify thy Holy Name, through Christ our Lord. Amen. S. 30. The Decalogue, or Ten Commandments. Exod. 20. GOD fpake these words and faid, I am the LORD thy God: Chou shalt have none other Gods but Me. Lord have mercy upon me, and incline my heart to keep this law. CHOU shalt not make to thy felf any graven image, nor the likenefs of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: For I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, and vifit the fins of the Fathers up on the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; and fhew mercy unto thoufauds in them Commandments. that love Me, and keep my Lord have mercy upon me, and incline my heart &c. THOU shalt not take the Name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his mein vain. Lord Lord have mercy upon me, and incline &c. REMEMBER that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day.Six days fhilt thou labor, and do all that thou haft to do; but the feventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God. In it thou fhalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, thy man fervant, and thy maid-fervant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the LORD made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refted the feventhday: wherefore the LORD bleffed the feventh day, and hallowed it. Lord have mercy upon me, and incline my heart to keep &c. Onon thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Lord, have mercy upon me, and incline &c. CHOU fhalt do no murder. Lord, have mercy upon me, and&c. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Lord, have mercy upon me, &c. Lord, have mercy upon dc. Lord, have mercy &c.— CHOU fhalt not bear falfe witnefs against thy Neighbor. And incline c.. Chou shalt not covet thy neighbor's houfe; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his fervant, nor his maid,nor hisox, nor his afs, nor any thing that is his. Lord, have mercy upon me; and write all the fe thy laws in my heart, I befeech Thee. S31. Almighty Lord, and everlasting God, vouchfafe, I befeech Thee, to direct, Sanctify, and govern both my heart and body in the ways of thy Laws, and in the works of thy Commandments; that thro' thy moft mighty protection, both here and ever, I may be preferv'd in body and foul; through our Lord and Savior Jefus Chrift. Amen. S. 32. Oth' Epiftle, Joel. 2.v.12. CHEREFORE to heathen. v. 19. §. 33. Gofpel, S. Luke 23. 1. GLORY be to Thee, O Lord, V.49. PD the. THANKS be to God for his boly Gospel. to these thing S. 34. TH' Epiftle is first read in Remembrance of that first Miffion of th' Apoitles when they went before their Masters face to every City whither Chrift would come S. Luke 1o. 1. that C Part.F that it may be as the Harbinger for the Gospel; which is last read because th' Epiftle ufually contains inftruction in the Myfteries of Salvation, but the Gofpel prefents th' Example of Jefus, toth' Imitation whereof all my knowledge is but fubfervient. Eph. 4. 13. And I ftand up at the reading the Gof pel (as was injoyn'd by th' ancient Liturgies, and is by ours, both t'exprefs an extraordinary reverence to my Lord's own words and alfo that I may fhow my felf ready to obey,by a pofture fit prefently to execute his Commands & to follow Him whith ersoever He calls me. Th'ancients used to fay, before & after the Gospel, as above; and if I remember the fad Tidings of condemnation which the Law lately founded in my ears,Oh how welcome muft the Prospect of fo sweet a Savior, and the News of fo gracious a Pardon be to me! §. 35. The Nicene, alias Conftantinopolitan Creed, (as after my Kalendar, ftill standing. ABELJED in one God &c.. GLORY be to the Father &c.. As it was &c. §. 36. THO' we have two Compofures befides th' Apof. ties Creed, [as this, and S. Athanafius's] yet being only explanations of fome Articles more fully, which fome Hereticks queñion'd, and being grounded on, and agreeing with th' Apofties, hence the primitive Councils accounted them the fame; and Epiphanius calls the Nicene, the Creed deliver'd by the holy Apoftles. And fo it is call'd in old Roman Offices, as Bifhop Usher has obferv'd. And we learn from Vincentius Lyrinenfis, that,, A man is not another tho' bigger than when he was a child; his Limbs grow in largeness, not „in number; if he had more, or fewer Limbs he would be ,, monftrous or defective, but the regular increase doth not hinder him from being the fame: So in the Articles of the Faith, if they were more or fewer it were anoth ,, er Faith, but not if fome particulars be more largely ex plain'd. دو " S. 37. that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth unto the Lord: and look what he layeth out, it shall be paid him again. Prov. 19.17. §. 38. CHEgrace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghoft be with us all evermore. Amen. 2. Cor. 13. 14. §. 39. TH' other Office for this day may be read either before or after this Morning- or the following Evening-Ser |