law; that this covenant is established upon better promifes in the hand of a mediator. Lord, we fly for refuge to it, we take hold of it as the hope fet before us. O receive us graciously into the bond of this covenant, and make us accepted in the beloved, according to the tenor of the covenant. Thou haft declared concerning the Lord Jefus, that he is the beloved fon, in whom thou art well pleafed, and we humbly profefs that he is our beloved Sa viour, in whom we are well pleafed: Lord, be well pleafed with us in him.

O that our hearts may be filled this day with pleafing thoughts of Chrift, and his love to us, that great love wherewith he loved us. O the admirable dimentions of that love, the height, and depth, and Jength, and breadth of the love of Chrift, which. paffeth knowledge! Let this love conftrain us to lovehim, and live to him, who died for us, and rose again. O that it may be a pleasure and mighty fatiffaction to us to think, that while me are here praying at the footstool of the throne of grace, our bleffed Saviour is fitting at the right hand of the throneof glory, interceding for us. We earneftly beg that. through him we may find favour with thee our God, and may be taken into covenant and communion with

thee.

We humbly pray thee, for his fake, forgive all our fins, known and unknown, in thought, word, and deed: Through him let us be acquitted of the guilt, and accepted as righteous in thy fight: Let us not come into condemnation, as we have deferved; let our iniquity be taken away, and our fin covered: and let us be cloathed with the fpotlefs robe of Chrift's righteoufaefs, that the fhame of our nakednefs may O let there be no cloud of guilt to interpole between us and our God this day, and to intercept our comfortable communion with him. And let our lufts be mortified and fubdued, that our own corruptions may not be as a clog to us, to hinder the afcent of our fouls heaven-wards.

not appear.

We pray thee aflift us in all the religious fervices of this thine own holy day: Go along with us to the folemn affembly, for if thy prefence go not up with us, wherefore should we go up? Give us to draw nigh to thee with a true heart, with a free heart, with a fixed heart, and in full affurance of faith. Meet us with a bleffing: Grace thine own ordinances with thy prefence, that fpecial prefence of thine which thou haft promifed when two or three are gathered together in thy name. Help us against our manifold infirmities, and the fins that do most eafily befet us in our attendance upon thee: Let thy word come with life and power to our fouls, and be as good feed fown in good foil, taking root, and bringing forth fruit to thy praife; and let our prayers and praises be fpiritual facrifices, acceptable in thy fight through Christ Jefus; and let those that tarry at home divide the fpoil.

Let thy prefence be in all the affemblies of good chriftians this day: Grace be with all them that love the Lord Jefus Chrift in fincerity; let great grace be upon them all. In the chariot of the everlafting gofpel let the great Redeemer ride forth triumphantly, conquering, and to conquer; and let every thought be brought into obedience to him: Let many be brought to believe the report of the gospel, and to many let the arm of the Lord be revealed: Let finners be converted unto thee, and thy faints edified, and built up in faith, holiness, and comfort, unto falvation; Compleat the number of thine elect, and haften thy kingdom..

Now the Lord of peace himfelf give us peace always by all means.. The God of hope fill us with joy and peace in believing for Chrift Jefus fake, our bleffed Saviour and Redeemer, who hath taught us to pray, Our Father, which art in heaven, &c.

A Family Prayer for the Lord's Day Evening.

ETERNAL and for ever bieffed and glorious Lord God! Thou art God over all, and rich in mercy to all that call upon thee, mot wife and powerful, holy, juft, and good; the King of Kings and Lord of Lords; our Lord and our God.

Thou art happy without us, and haft no need of cur fervices, neither can our goodness extend unto thee; but we are miferable without thee, we have need of thy favour, and are undone, for ever undone, if thy goodness extend not unto us, and therefore, Lord, we entreat thy favour with our whole hearts; O let thy favour be towards us, in Jefus Chrift, for our happiness is bound up in it, and it is to us better than life. We confefs we have forfeited thy favour, we have rendered ourselves utterly unworthy of it; yet we are humbly bold to pray for it in the name of Jefus Chrift, who loved us, and gave himself for us.

We bewail it before thee, that by the corruption of our natures we are become odious to thine holineís, and utterly unfit to inherit the kingdom of God, and that by our many actual tranfgreffions we are become obnoxious to thy juftice, and liable to thy wreath and curfe. Being by nature children of difobedience, we are children of wreath, and have reafon both to blush and tremble in all our approaches to the holy and righteous God. Even the iniquity of our holy things would be our ruin, if God fhould deal with us according to the desert of them.

But with thee, O God, there is mercy and plenteous redemption: Thou haft graciously provided for all thofe that repent and believe the gofpel, that the guilt of their fin fhall be removed through the merit of Chrift's death, and the power of their fins broken by his fpirit and grace; and he is both ways able to

fave to the uttermoft all thofe that come unto God by him, feeing he ever lives making interceffion for

us.

Lord, we come to thee as a father by Jefus Chrift the mediator, and earnestly defire by repentance and faith to turn from the world and the flesh to God in Jefus Chrift, as our ruler and portion. We are forry that we have offended thee, we are afhamed to think of our treacherous and ungrateful carriage towards thee. We defire that we may have no more to do with in, and pray as earnestly that the power of fin may be broken in us, as that the guilt of fin may be removed from us: And we rely only upon the righteoufnefs of Jefus Chrift, and upon the merit of his death, for the procuring of thy favour. O look upon us in him, and for his fake receive us graciously; heal our backflidings, and love us freely, and let not our iniquity be our ruin.

We beg, that being juftified by faith, we may have peace with God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation for fin, that he may be juft, and the juftifier of them which believe in Jefus. Through him who was made fin for us, though he knew no fin, let us who know no righteousness of our own, be accepted as righte

ous.

And the God of peace fanctifie us wholy, begin and carry on that good work in our fouls, renew us in the fpirit of our minds, and make us in every thing fuch as thou wouldeft have us to be. Set up thy throne in our hearts, write thy law there, plant thy fear there, and fill us with all the graces of thy fpirit, that we may be fruitful in the fruits of righteoufnefs, to the glory and praife of God.

Mortifie our pride, and cloath us with humility: mortifie our paffion, and put upon us the ornament of a meck and quiet fpirit, which is in the fight of God of great price. Save us from the power of a vain mind, and let thy grace be mighty in us to make us ferious

and fober-minded. Let the flesh be crucified in us with all its affections and lufts; and give us grace to keep under our body, and to bring into fubjection to into the laws of religion and right reafon, and always to poffefs our veffel in fanctification and honour.

Let the love of the world be rooted out of us, and that covetoufnefs which is idolitry; and let the love of God in Chrift be rooted in us. Shed abroad that love in our hearts by the Holy Ghoft, and give us to love thee the Lord our God with all our heart, and foul, and mind, and might; and to do all we do in religion from a principle of love to thee.

Mortifie in us all envy, harted, malice, and uncharitablenefs? pluck up thefe roots of bitterness out of our minds, and give us grace to love one another with a pure heart, fervently, as becomes the followers of of the Lord Jefus, who has given us this as his new commandment. O that brotherly love may continue among us, love without diffimulation!

We pray thee rectifie all our mistakes; if in any thing we be in an error, difcover it to us, and let the fpirit of truth lead us unto all truth, the truth as it is in Jefus, the truth which is according to godlinefs; and give us that good understanding which they have that do thy commandments; and let our love and all good affections abound in us yet more and more, in knowledge and in all judgment.

Convince us, we pray thee, of the vainty of this world, and its utter infufficiency to make us happy, that we may never fet our hearts upon it, nor raise our expectations from it: and convince us of the vileness of fin, and its certain tendency to make us miferable, that we may hate it and dread it, and every thing that looks like it, or leads to it.

Convince us, we pray thee, of the worth of our own fouls, and the weight of eternity, and the awfulness of that everlasting ftate which we are ftanding upon the brink of; and make us diligent and ferious in our preparations for it, labouring lefs for the meat