the command of God, and have eaten forbidden fruit.

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But, bleffed, and for ever bleffed be God for the Saviour Jefus Christ, the eternal Son of God, and the only mediator between God and man, who took our nature upon him, and became man, that he might redeem and fave us.

Lord, I bless thee for his holy life, give me to follow his fteps. I bless thee for the true and excellent doctrine which he preached, give me to mix faith with it; I blefs thee for the miracles which he wrought to confirm his doctrine: And efpecially that he died the curfed death of the cross to fatisfy for fin, and to reconcile us to God; and that he rofe again from the dead on the third day, and afcended up iato heaven, where he ever lives, making interceffion for us, and hath all power, both in heaven and in earth; and that we are affured he will come again in glory to judge the world at the last day.

Lord, I thank thee, that I am one of his difciples; for I am a baptized Chriftian; and I give glory to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in whofe name I am baptized.

Lord be thou in Chrift to me a God, and make me one of thy people.

Be thou my chief good, and higheft end; let Jefus Chrift be my Prince and Saviour; and let the Holy Ghoft be my fanctifier, teacher, guide, and comforter.

Lord, enable me to deny all ungodlinefs and worldly fiethly lufts, and to live foberiy, righteously, and godly in this prefent world, always looking for the bleffed hope.

Work in me repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jefus Chrift; and give me to live a life of faith and repentance.

Lord, make me truly forry that I have offended thee in what I have thought, and fpoken, and done. amifs, and give me grace to fin no more.

And enable me to receive Jefus Chrift, and to rely. upon him as my prophet, prieft, and king, and to give up myself to be ruled and taught, and faved by

him.

Lord, grant me the pardon of my fins, the gift of the Holy Ghoft, and eternal life.

And give me grace to manifeft the fincerity of my faith and repentance by a diligent and confcientious obedience to all thy commandments.

Enable me to love thee. with all my heart, and to love my neighbour as myself.

Give me grace always to make mention of thy name with reverence and with seriousness, to read and hear thy word with diligence and attention, to meditate upon it, to believe it, and to frame my life according.

to it.

Lord, grant that I may receive all thy mercies with thankfulness, and bear all afflictions with patience and fubmiflion to thy holy will.

Lord, grant that my heart may never be lifted up with pride, difturbed with anger, or any finful paffion; and that my body may never be defiled with intemperence, uncleannefs, or any fleshly lufts; and keep me from ever speaking any finful words.

Lord, give me grace to reverence and obey my parents and governors; I thank thee for their inftructions and reproofs; I pray thee blefs them to me, and make me in every thing a comfort to them.

Lord, pity, help and fuccour the poor, and those in affliction and diftrefs.

Lord, blifs my friends, forgive my enemies, and ennable me to do my duty to all men.

Wherein I have in any thing offended thee, Ihumbly pray for pardon in the bood of Chrift, and grace to do my duty better for the time to come, and fo to live in the fear of God, as that I may be happy in this world, and that to come.

Lord, prepare me to die, and leave this world: O fave me from that state of everlasting mifery and tor

ment which will certainly be the portion of all the wicked and ungodly, and bring me fafe to the world of everlasting relt and joy with thee, and of everlasting reft and joy with thee and Jefus Chrift.

And give me wisdom and grace to live a holy godly life, and to make it my great care and bufinefs to ferve thee, and to fave my own foul.

All this I beg in the name and for the fake of Jefus Chrift, my bleffed Savour and redeemer, to whom with thee, O Father, and the eternal spirit, be honour, glory, and praife, henceforth and for evermore. Amen.

A Morning Prayer for a Family:

Lord our God, we defire with all humility and

Oreverence to adoret ce as a being infinitely bright,

and bleffed, and glorious; thou haft all perfection in thyfelf, and art the fountain of all being, power, life, motion, and perfection.

Thou art good to all, and thy tender mercies are over all thy works; and thou art continually doing us good, though we are evil and unthankful.

We reckon it an unfpeakable privilege, that we have liberty of accefs to thee through Jefus Chrift, and leave to call thee our father in him. O look upon us nów, and be merciful to us, as thou ufeft to do unto those that love thy name.

O give us all to account our daily worship of thee in our family the moft needful part of our daily bufinefs, and the moft pleasant of our daily comforts.

Thou art the God of all the families of Ifrael, be thou the God of our family, and grant that whatever others do, we and ours may always ferve the Lord; that thou mayeft cause the bleffing to reft on our house from the beginning of the year to the end of it; Lord, blefs us, and we are bleffed indeed.

We humbly thank thee for all the mercies of this s

night paft, and this morning, that we have laid us down and flept, and walked again, because thou haft fuftained us: that no plague has come nigh our dwellings; but that we are brought in fafety to the light and comforts of another day.

It is of thy mercies, O Lord, that we are not confumed, even because thy compaffions fail not, they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

We have refted, and are refreshed, when many have been full of toflings to and fro till the dawning of the day: We have a fafe and quiet habitation, when many are forced to wander and lie expofed.

We own thy goodnefs to us, and ourselves we acknowledge lefs than the leaft of all the mercy, and of all the truth thou haft fhewed unto us.

We confefs we have finned against thee, we are guilty before thee, we have finned, and have come hort of the glory of God: We have corrupt and finful natures, and are bent to backflide from thee; backward to good, and prone to evil continually.

Vain thoughts come into us, and lodge within us, lying down and rifing up, and they defile or disquiet our minds, and keep out good thoughts. We are too apt to burthen ourselves with that care which thou haft encouraged us to caft upon thee."

We are very much wanting in the duties of our particular relations, and provoke one another more to folly and paffion than to love and to good works. We are very cold and defective in our love to God, weak in our defires towards him, and unfteady and uneven in our walking with him; and are at this time much out of frame for his fervice.

We pray thee forgive all our fins for Chrift's fake, and be at peace with us in him who died to make peace, and ever lives making interceffion.

There be many that fay, Who will fhew us any good? But Lord, let not us be put off with the good of this world for a portion: For this is our hearts defire and prayer, Lord, lift up the light of thy

countenance upon us, and that fhall put gladness in our hearts, more than they have whofe corn, wine, and oil encreaseth.

Lord, let thy peace rule in our hearts, and give. law to us, and let thy peace keep our hearts and minds, and give comfort to us; and let the confola.tions of God, which are neither few nor fmall, be our strength and our fong in the house of our pilgrimage.

Lord, we commit ourselves to thy care and keeping this day: Watch over us for good; compafs us about with thy favour as with a fhield; preferve us from all evil, yea, the Lord preferve and keep our fouls; preferve our going out and coming in.

Our bodies, and all our worldly affairs we commit to the conduct of thy wife and gracious providence, and fubmit to its difpofals. Let no hurt or harm happen to us; keep us in health and safety; bless our employments, profper us in all our lawful undertakings, and give us comfort and fuccefs in them. Let us eat the labour of our hands, and let it be well with us.

Our precious fouls, and all their concerns we commit to the government of thy fpirit and grace.. O let thy grace be mighty in us, and fufficient for us, and let it work in us, both to will and to do that which is good, of thine own good pleafure.

O give us grace to do the work of this day in its day, according as the duty of the day requires, and to do even common actions after a godly fort; acknowledging thee in all our ways, and having our eye ever up to thee, and be thou pleased to direct our steps.

Lord, keep us from fin; give us rule over our own fpirits, and grant that we may not this day break out into paffion upon any provocation, or fpeak unadvifedly with our lips: Give us grace to live together in peace and holy love, that the Lord may command the bleffing upon us, even life for evermore.

Make us confcientious in all our dealings, and al