PRAYER I.

FROM THE SCRIPTURES.—Morning or Evening.

Unto thee, O Lord, do we lift up our souls. Thou art worthy to receive blessing, and honor, and glory, and power; and for thy pleasure and thy praise, they are and were created. O Lord, we are ashamed, and blush to lift up our faces before thee; for our iniquities are increased over our heads, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. If thou contend with us, we are not able to answer thee one of a thousand. The imaginations of the thoughts of our hearts have been evil, only evil, and that from our youth up.

How seldom art thou, O God, in all our thoughts. How unadvisedly have we spoken with our lips, when our spirits have been provoked within us. How have we grieved that Holy Spirit by which we are sealed unto the day of redemption. Thou mightest justly swear in thy wrath that we should never enter into thy rest. But, oh, the riches of the patience and forbearance of our God! how long suffering is he towards us, not willing that any should perish. O, that his goodness might lead us to repentance, and his long suffering prove our salvation!

Weary and heavy laden with the burden of our sins, we come to our Lord for rest. We would look unto him whom we have pierced with our sins, and mourn in bitterness. We would smite upon our breasts, and cry, God be merciful to us. May the love of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, make us free from the love of sin and death. We bless thee that thou hast laid our help upon one so mighty to save, and who hast redeemed us from the curse of the law by being made a curse for us. We bless thee that he is still our advocate at thy right hand, and ever livest to make intercession for us. We bless thee for all the other benefits with which thou loadest us. Thy goodness is thy glory, and therefore do thy saints praise thee. Every day will we bless thee, and praise thy name for ever and ever. And let the people praise thee, O God; yea, let all the people praise thee. O, let all the nations upon earth be glad, and sing for joy. Let thy salvation and righteousness be openly showed in the sight of the heathen, and let all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our God. Add to thy church daily of such as shall be saved. Make thy ministers mighty in the scriptures, thoroughly furnished unto every good work. Bless the schools of the prophets in our land. Purify those fountains; and may streams issue therefrom, to make glad the city of our God, and refresh the whole earth. Make those

who abound in the goods of this world to be rich in good works, and willing to communicate of their store. Make the kings of the earth to be nursing fathers, and the queens to be nursing mothers to thy church; and soon may the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ; in whose name we offer up our prayers, and in the full meaning of whose blessed words we would sum up all our petitions at a throne of grace: Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

PRAYER II.

FROM THE SCRIPTURES.-Morning or Evening,

O thou great and glorious God, who art from everlasting to everlasting, the same yesterday, today, and for ever, we would endeavor to lift up our hearts with our eyes and hands unto thee in the heavens. Who is a God like unto thee? glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders. O Lord, behold we are vile; what shall we answer thee? We will lay our hands on our mouths, and our mouths in the dust, if so there may be hope,

crying, unclean! unclean! It is of thy mercy that we are not consumed, because thy compassion fail not. If thou shouldst be strict to mark iniquity against us, who could stand? but there is forgiveness with thee, and plenteous redemption. O God, we would acknowledge and bewail our sins. We have walked in the ways of our own hearts, and in the sight of our own eyes, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he hath set before us. Even the good that we would, that we do not; and the evil that we would not, that we do. O, wretched creatures that we are, who shall deliver us? Truly our hope is in thee, O God. All our desire is before thee, and our groaning is not hid from thee. Though our sins have been as scarlet, let them be white as snow; though red like crimson, let them be as wool; and make us will. ing and obedient. O God, have compassion upon us, subdue our iniquities, and cast all our sins into the depth of the sea. O, that we may be found in Christ, not having our own righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith. Justified by faith, may we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. May the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. May it fill us with all joy and peace in be. lieving, and make us abound in hope. May we

adore the height, and depth, and length of that great love of Christ which passeth knowledge. O, that his way may be known upon earth, and his saving health among all nations. O God, give thy. Son the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost part of the earth for his possession.. Revive thy work in the midst of the years. Disappoint all those who take counsel together against the Lord, and against his anointed. Let no weapon formed against thy church prosper. May wisdom and knowledge be the stability of our times, and the fear of the Lord our treasure. May all Christians be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment. Hasten the time when wars shall cease unto the end of the world, and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, nor kingdom against kingdom, but swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, and spears into pruninghooks, and men shall learn war no more. Grant these prayers, O heavenly Father, for the sake of thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ, in whose own words we would pray for ourselves, and all mankind : Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the