With men of vanity and lyes ; The fcoffer and the hypocrite

Are the abhorrence of mine eyes.
Among thy faints will I appear

With bands well wash'd in innocence;
But when I ftand before thy bar,
The blood of Chrift is my defence.
I love thy habitation, Lord,

The temple where thy honour dwells:
There shall I hear thy holy word,

And there thy works of wonder tell.
Let not my foul be join'd at last
With men of treachery and blood,
Since I my days on earth have past
Among the faints in fear of GOD.

Another.

WHEN rifing from the bed of death,
O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear,

I fee my Maker face to face,

O! bow fhall I appear!

If yet, while pardon may be found,

And mercy may be fought,

My heart with inward horror fhrinks,
And trembles at the thought.

When thou, O Lord, fhall ftand difclos'd

In Majefty fevere,

And fit in judgment on my foul,

Oh! how fhall 1 appear !

But

But thou haft told the troubled mind,
Who does her fins lament,
The timely tribute of her tears
Shall endless woes prevent.

Then fee the forrows of my heart,
E're yet it be too late;

And bear my Saviour's dying groans,
To give thofe forrows weight..

For never fhall my foul despair

Her pardon to procure,

Who knows thy only Son has dy'd

To make her pardon fure.

The Prayer, on Tuesday Morning.

For the obtaining God's grace and protection:

Almighty God, the creator and preferver

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of mankind; I thy creature, whom thou haft made, and to this moment haft ferved, do now, as I promised in the holy facrament, prefent myself before thee, to offer up the morning facrifice of my unfeigned praifes and thanksgivings: for, as thy mercies are renewed to me every morning, and thy goodness follows me all the day long; as thou vifiteft me in the night feafon, and every moment of my life is a new inftance of thy mercy; fo it is my abfolute duty to lay hold of every opportunity to magnify thy glorious name,

evermore praising thee and faying: It is by thy goodness, O Lord, that I have this night flept fecure, and am now raised up in health and fafety: praised therefore be thy name, O God; for of thee only cometh my falvation: thou art the God of my health, my faviour and mighty deliverer; as long as I live I will magnify thee, O Lord; for a joyful and pleafant thing it is to be thankful.

Oh! give me a heart always tuned to thy praises, which is my happiness as well as my duty. Imprint on my mind fuch a deep fenfe of thy mercies, that I may never provoke thee to withdraw thy favours from me.

Let not

the bleffings thou bestowest on me make me in love with this world: let neither covetousness nor ambition, neither pride nor vanity, neither a contempt of others, nor a fond conceit of myself, be the refult of thy loving kindness toward me: but,

Endue me with fuch a humble and contented mind, fuch a meek and refigned spirit, fuch a quiet and peaceable temper and behaviour, as becomes a creature and a finner. Oh! inspire my foul with pure and pious difpofitions, and instead of thofe filthy rags of my righteousness, cloathe me with the righteoufnefs of the faints. Let the confideration of

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unworthinefs fupprefs in me all proud and afpiring thoughts, and all covetous and ambitious defires; that being meek and lowly in mine own eyes, my heart may be a clean receptacle for my faviour, and that I may find reft unto my foul, and be filled with that grace, which thou haft promised to a humble and contrite heart: fo I fhall, as I ought, be fitted and prepared for every condition, and especially for my great and laft change.

Strengthen my faith in the time of fickness and trial, and forfake me not when my ftrength faileth me. Let thy merciful ears, O Lord, be then open to my prayers: O! let not the cruel enemy of fouls affright me with his terrors, but give thy holy angels charge over me; and let the confolation of thy holy spirit fortify my mind, and diffipate my fears, and be a reviving cordial to my foul, at that last and momentous period of my life, when I fhall ftand in fo much need of thee.

Give me an unfeigned repentance of all my fins, great love to thee, and charity to my neighbour, an entire fubmiffion to thy bleffed will, and (if thou feeft fitting) fome foretaste and affurance of my falvation. But if thou, in thy great wisdom, shalt not fee fitting to vouchsafe

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me fo great a mercy, yet, O gracious father, let me not fail, in the great day of judgment, to hear that blessed fentence pronounced unto me, Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Grant this, O moft gracious God, for thy mercy's fake in Jefus Christ our Lord; in the full extent of whose words, I defire to be heard for myself, and all mankind, when I call upon thee, faying, Our Father, &c.

The Meditation for Tuesday Evening. Of the great advantages of frequent communion.

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AN intimate intercourse with temporal

things, and familiarity with the delights and fatisfactions of fenfe, are but too apt to take off our minds from ferious thoughts, and to impair that vigour and refolution which ought to be employed about the one thing needful. On the contrary, frequent communion keeps a lively sense of religion upon our minds, and invigorates them with fresh ftrength and power to perform our duty to God, our neighbour, and ourselves; without this, O my foul! we can no more maintain a fpiritual life, than we can our temporal, with

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