ways watchful against fin, as becomes thofe who fee thine eye ever upon us: Arm us against every temptation, uphold us in our integrity, keep us in the of our duty; and grant that we may be in thy fear every day, and all the day long.

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In every doubtful cafe let our way be made plain before us; and give us that wifdom of the prudent which is at all times profitable to direct; and let integrity and uprightnefs preferve us, for we wait on thee.

Sanctify to us all our loffes, croffes, afflictions, and difappointments, and give us grace to fubmit to thy holy will in them, and let us find it good for us to be afflicted, that we may be partakers of thy holinefs.

Prepare us for all the events of this day, for we know not what a day may bring forth: Give us to ftand compleat in thy whole will; to deny ourselves, to take up our crofs daily, and to follow Jefus Christ.

Lord, fit us for death, and judgment, and eternity, and give us grace to live every day as those that do not know but it may be our last day.

Lord, plead thy caufe in the world; build up thy church into perfect beauty; fet up the throne of the exalted redeemer in all places upon the ruins of the devil's kingdom. Let the reformed churches be more and more reformed, and, let every thing that is amiss be amended; and let thofe that fuffer for righteous. nefs fake be fupported and delivered.

Do us good in thefe nations; blefs the king, and all in authority, guide public counfels and affairs; overule all to thine own glory; let peace and truth be in our days, and be preferved to thofe that fhall

come after us.

Be gracious to all our relations, friends, neighbours, and acquaintance, and do them good according as their neceffities are. Supply the wants of all thy people. Dwell in the families that fear thee, and call upon thy name. Forgive our enemies, and

thofe that hate us; give us a right and charitable frame of spirit towards all men, and all that is theirs.

Vifit thofe that are in affliction, and comfort them, and be unto them a very prefent help. Recover the fick, eafe the pained, fuccour the tempted, relieve the oppreffed, and give joy to thofe that mourn in Zion.

Deal with us and our family according to the tenor of the everlasting covenant, which is well ordered in all things and fure, and which is all our falvation and all our defire; however it pleafeth God to deal with

us and with our house.

Now bleffed be God for all his gifts both of nature and grace, for those that concern this life, and that to come; efpecially for Jefus Chrift the fountain and foundation of all; thanks be to God for his unfpeakable gift.

We humbly befeech thee for Chrift Jefus fake to pardon our fins, accept our fervices, and grant an anfwer of peace to our prayers; even for his fake who died for us, and rofe again, who hath taught us to pray, Our Father, which art in heaven, &c.

An Evening-Prayer for a Family.

OST Holy, and bleffed, and glorious Lord God,

ferve; for because thou madeft us, and not we ourfelves, therefore we are not our own, but thine, and unto thee, O Lord, do we lift up our fouls: Thy face, Lord, do we feek: whither fhall we go for happiness but to thee, from whom we derive our being?

Thou art the great benefactor of the whole crea. tion: Thou givelt to all life and breath, and all things: Thou art our benefactor; the God that haft fed us, and kept us all our life long unto this day.

Having obtained help of God, we continue hitherto, monuments of fparing mercy, and witneffes for thee that thou art gracious, that thou art God and not man; for therefore it is that we are not cut off.

One day tells another, and one night certifies to another, that thou art good and doft good, and never faileft thofe that feek thee and truft in thee. Thou makeft the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to praife thee.

It is through the good hand of our God, upon us, that we are brought in fafety to the clofe of another day, and that after the various employments of the day, we come together at night to mention the loving-kindness of the Lord, and the praises of our God, who is good, and whofe mercy endureth for

ever.

Bleffed be the Lord, who daily loads us with his benefits, even the God of our falvation; for he that is our God is the God of falvation. We have from thee the mercies of the day in its day, according as the neceffity of the day requires, though we come far fhort of doing the work of the day in its day, according as the duty of the day requires.

We bless thee for the miniftration of the good angels about us, the ferviceablenefs of the inferior creatures to us, for our bodily health and ease, comfort in our relations, and a comfortable place of abode, and that thou haft not made the wilderness our habitation, and the barren land our dwelling and efpecially that thou continueft to us the use of our reason, and the quiet and peace of our confciences.

We blefs the for our fhare in the public tranquillity, that thou haft given us a good land, in which we dwell fafely under our own vines and fig trees.

Above all, we bless thee for Jefus Chrift, and his mediation between God and man, for the covenant of grace made with us in him, and all the exceeding great and precious promifes and priviledges of that covenant, for the throne of grace erected for us, to

which we may in his name come with humble bold. nefs, and for the hope of eternal life through him.

We confefs we have finned against thee; this day we bave finned and done foolishly; O God, thou knoweft our foolishness, and our fins are not hid from thee; we mifpend our time, we neglect our duty, we follow after lying vanities, and forfake our own mercies. We offend with our tongues, are we not carnal, and walk as men, below chriftians? Who can understand his errors? Cleanfe us from our fecret faults.

We pray thee give us repentance for our fins of daily infirmity, and make us duly fenfible of the evil of them, and of our danger by them, and let the blood of Chrift, thy Son,which cleanfeth from all fin, cleanse us from it, that we may lie down to night at peace with God, and our fouls may comfortably return to him, and repose in him as to our rest.

And give us grace fo to repent every day for the fins of every day, as that when we come to die we may have the fins but of one day to repent of, and fo we may be continually easy.

Do us good by all the providences we are under, merciful,or afflictive: give us grace to accomodate ourfelves to them, and by all bring us nearer to thee, and fo make us fitter for thee.

We commit ourselves to thee this night, and defire to dwell in the fecret place of the Moft High, and to abide under the fhadow of the Almighty. Let the Lord be our habitation, and let our fouls be at home in him.

Make an hedge of protection (we pray thee) about us and about our houfe, and about all that we have round about, that no evil may befal us, nor any plague come nigh our dwelling. The Lord be our keeper, who neither flumbers nor fleeps; Lord, be thou a fun and a fhield to us.

Refresh our bodies (we pray thee) with quiet and comfortable reft, not to be difturbed with any diftruftful difquieting cares or fears; but especially let our

fouls be refreshed with thy love and the light of thy countenance, and thy benignity, which is better than

life.

When we awake, grant that we may be ftill with thee, and may remember thee upon our beds, and meditate upon thee in the night watches, and may improve the filence and folitude of our retirement for communion with God and our own hearts; that when we are alone we may not be alone, but God may be with us, and we with him.

Reftore us to another day in fafety, and prepare us for the duties and events of it; and by all the fupports and comforts of this life, let our bodies be fitted to serve our fouls in thy service, and enable us to glorify thee with both, remembring that we are not our own, we are bought with a price.

And forafmuch as we are now brought one day nearer our end, Lord, enable us fo to number our days, as that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom : Let us be minded by our putting off our cloaths, and going to fleep in our beds, of putting off the body, fleeping the fleep of death, and of making our bed in the darkness fhortly, that we may be daily dying in expectation of and preparation for our change, that when we come to die indeed, it may be no furprize or terror to us, but we may with comfort put off the body, and refign the fpirit, knowing whom we have trufted.

Lord, let our family be bleffed in him, in whom all the families of the earth are bleffed, bleffed with all fpiritual bleffings in heavenly things by Christ Jefus, and with temporal bleffings as far as thou feest good for us Give us health and profperity, but efpecially let our fouls profper, and be in health, and let all that belong to us belong to Chrift, that we who live in a house together on earth, may be together for ever with the Lord.

Look with pity upon a loft world, we befeech thee, and fet up Chrift's throne there where Satan's feat

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