fee for ourselves, and our eyes fhall behold, and not another.

15. Upon occafion of marriage.

Give to thofe that marry, to marry in the Lord; and let the Lord Jefus, by his grace, come to the marriage, and turn the water into wine.

Make them helps meet for each other, and inftrumental to promote one another's falvation; and give them to live in holy love, that they may dwell in God, and God in them.

Let the wife be as a fruitful vine by the fide of the house, and the hufband dwell with the wife as a man of knowledge; and let them dwell together as jointheirs of the grace of life, that their prayers be not hindered. And make us all meet for that world, where they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

16. Upon occafion of the ordaining of minifters. Let the things of God be committed to faithful men, who may be able alfo to teach others; and make others fuch burning and fhining lights, as that. it may appear it was Chrift Jefus, who put them into the ministry; and let not hands be fuddenly laid

on any.

Give to those who are ordained to take heed to the ministry which they have received of the Lord, that they fulfil it, and to make full proof of it, by watching in all things.

Let thofe who in Chrift's name are to preach repentance and remiffion of fins, be endued with power from on high; give them another fpirit, and make them good minifters of Jefus Chrift, nourished up in the words of faith and good doctrine.

17. Upon occafion of the want of rain.

Thou haft kept back the rain from us, and caufed it to rain upon one city, and not upon another, yet have we not returned unto thee.

But thou haft faid, when heaven is fhut up that there is no rain, because we have finned against thee,

if we confefs thy name, and turn from our fins, thou wilt hear from heaven, and forgive our fin, and give rain upon our land.

We afk of thee the former and latter rain, and depend upon thee for it; for there are not any of the vanities of the heaven that can give rain, nor can the heavens give fhowers: but we wait upon thee, for thou haft made all these things.

18. Upon occafion of exceffive rain.

Let the rain thou fendeft be in mercy to our land, and not for correction; not a fweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Thou haft fworn that the waters of Noah fhall no more return to cover the earth; let fair weather, therefore, come out of the north, for with thee is terrible majesty..

19. Upon occafion of infectious difeafes.

Take fickness away from the midst of us, and deliver us from the noifome peftilence.

Appoint the destroying angel to put up his sword into the fheath, and to stay his hand.

20. Upon occasion of fire.

Thou calleft to contend by fire, we bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled: O Lord God, ceafe, we beseech thee, and let the fire be quenched, as that kindled in Ifrael was at the prayer of Moses. 21. Upon occafion of great ftorms.

Lord, thou haft the winds in thy hands, and bringest them out of thy treasures, even ftormy winds fulfil thy word: O preserve us, and our habitations, that we be not buried in the ruins of them, as Job's children were.

22. Upon occafion of the cares, and burthens, and afflictions of particular perfons; as,

1. When we pray with, or for those that are troubled in mind, and melancholy, and under doubts and fears about their spiritual state.

Lord, enable thofe that fear thee, and obey the voice of thy fervant, but walk in darknefs,

and have.

no light, to truft in the name of the Lord, and to ftay themfelves upon their God; and at evening-time let it be light.

Oftrengthen the weak hands, confirm the feeble knees, fay unto them that are of a fearful heart, be ftrong, fear not: answer them with good words, and comfortable words, faying unto them, be of good cheer, your fins are forgiven you; be of good cheer it is I; be not afraid, I am your falvation; and make them to hear this voice of joy and gladness, that broken bones may rejoice.

Let those who now remember God, and are troubled, whofe fpirits are overwhelmed, and whofe fouls refufe to be comforted, be enabled to trust in thy mercy, fo that at length they may rejoice in thy falvation, though thou flay them, yet to truft in thee.

Though deep calls unto deep, and all thy waves and thy billows go over them, yet do thou command thy loving-kindness for them in the day time, and in the night let thy fong be with them, and their prayer to the God of their life, though their fouls are caft down and difquieted within them, give them to hope in God, that they fhall yet praise him, and let them find him the health of their countenance, and their God.

O renew a right fpirit within them, caft them not away from thy prefence, and take not thy holy fpirit from them, but restore unto them the joy of thy fal. vation, and uphold them with thy free fpirit, that their tongues may fing aloud of thy righteousness, and she w forth thy falvation.

O bring them up out of this horrible pit, and this mirry clay, and fet their feet upon a rock, establishing their goings, and put a new fong in their mouth, even praises to our God: O comfort them again now after the time that thou haft afflicted them.

Though for a fmall moment thou haft forfaken them, and hid thy face from them, yet gather them, and have mercy on them with everlafting kindnefs.

O let thy fpirit witnefs with their fpirits, that they are the children of God; and by the blood of Chrift let them be purged from an evil confcience.

Lord, rebuke the tempter, even the accufer of the bretheren, the Lord that hath chofen Jerufalem rebuke him, and let poor tempted, troubled fouls, be as brands plucked out of the burning.

2. Thofe that are under convictions of fin, and begin to be concerned about their fouls, and their falvation, and to enquire after Chrift.

Those that are afking the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, that are lamenting after the Lord, and are pricked to the heart for fin, Ö shew them the good and the right way, and lead them in it.

To those who are asking what they fhall do to inherit eternal life, discover Chrift as the way, the truth, and the life, the only true and living way.

O do not quench the fmoaking flax, nor break the bruifed reed, but bring forth judgment unto victory. Let the great fhepherd of the theep gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bofom, and gently lead them, and help them against their unbelief,

Let not the red dragon devour the man-child as foon as it is born, but let it be caught up unto God,

and to his throne.

2. When we pray with or for those that are fick and weak, and distempered in body, that thofe who are fick and in fin may be convinced, those who are fick and in Chrift comforted.

Lord, thou haft appointed thofe that are fick to be prayed for, and prayed with, and haft promifed that the prayer of faith fhall fave the fick; Lord, help us to pray in faith for the fick, and as being ourselves alfo in the body.

When our Lord Jefus was here upon earth we find that they brought to him all fick people that were ta ken with divers diseases and torments, and he healed all manner of ficknefs, and all manner of disease among the people: and he hath ftill the fame power

over bodily diseases that ever he had; he faith to them. go and they go; come and they come; do this and and they do it; and can fpeak the word, and they fhall be healed. And he is ftill touched with the feeling of our infirmities: in the belief of this we do by prayer bring our friends that are fick, and lay them before him.

Lord, grant that those who are fick may neither defpife the chaftning of the Lord, nor faint when they are rebuked of him; but that they may both bear the rod and him that has appointed it, and may kifs the rod, and accept of the punishment of their iniquity.

Give them to fee that affliction cometh not forth out of the duft, nor fprings out of the ground; that they may therefore feek unto God, to the Lord more than to the phyficians, because unto God the Lord belong the iffues of life and death.

Lord, fhew them wherefore thou contendeft with them, and give them in their affliction to humble themselves greatly before the God of their fathers, and to repent and turn from every evil way, and make their ways and their doings good, that being judged and chaftened of the Lord they may not be condemned with the world. By the fickness of the body, and the fadnefs of the countenance let the heart be made better.

O Lord, rebuke them not in thine, anger, neither chaften them in thy hot difpleafure: have mercy upon them, O Lord, for they are weak: Lord, heal them, for their bones are vexed, their fouls alfo are fore vexed: return, O Lord, and deliver their fouls, fave them for thy mercy's fake; and lay no more upon them than thou wilt enable them to bear, and enable them to bear what thou doft lay upon them.

When thou with rebukes doft chaften man for fin, thou makeft his beauty to confume away like a moth; furely every man is vanity. But remove thy ftroke, we pray thee, from thofe that are even confumed by the blow of thine hand: O fpare a little, that they