and peace, that the God of love and peace may be with us.

Lord, give us to love our neighbour as ourselves with that love which is the fulfilling of the law; to love one another with a pure heart, fervently, that hereby all men may know that we are Chrift's difciples.

And as we are taught of God to love one another, give us to abound therein more and more, and as we have opportunity, to do good to all men, and as much as in us lies, to live peaceably with all men, always following after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

Lord, make us able to love our enemies, to blefs them that curfe us, and to pray for them that defpitefully ufe us, and to do good to them that hate us, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another in love, as Chrift forgave us.

6. We must pray for the grace of felf-denial.

Lord, give us grace to deny ourfelves, to take up our crofs daily, and to follow Chrift, to keep under the body, and bring it in fubjection.

Lord, keep us from being lovers of our ownfelves, from being wife in our own conceit, and leaning to our understanding.

Lord, give us to feek not our own only, but every one his brother's welfare.

And grant that none of us may live to ourselves, or die to ourselves, but whether we live or die, we may be the Lord's, and may live and die to him.

7. We must pray for humility and meeknefs.

Lord, give us all to learn of Chrift to be meek and lowly in heart, that we may find reft to our fouls; and that herein the fame mind may be in us that was alfo in Chrift Jefus."

Lord, hide pride from us, and cloathe us with humility, and put upon us the ornament of a meek and a quiet fpirit, which in thy fight is of great price.

Lord, give us grace to walk worthy of the vocation

wherewith we are called, with all lowlinefs and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.

Let anger never reft in our bofoms, nor the fun ever go down upon our wrath; but enable us to fhew all meekness towards all men, because we ourselves also were sometimes foolish and disobedient.

Let us be cloathed as becomes the elect of God, holy and beloved, with bowels of mercies, kindnefs, humblenefs of mind, meeknefs, and long-fuffering, that being merciful, as our father which is in heaven is merciful, we may be perfect as he is perfect.

8. We must pray for the grace of contentment and patience, and a holy indifferency to all the things. of fense and time.

Lord, teach us whatsoever ftate we are in, therewith to be content; let us know both how to be abased, and how to abound; every where, and in all things, let us be inftructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to fuffer need; and let godliness, with contentment, be great gain to us, and little with the fear of the Lord, and quietnefs, is better than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

Lord, grant that our conversation may be without covetoufnefs, and we may always be content with fuch things as we have; ftill saying, the will of the Lord be done.

Enable us in our patience to poffefs our own fouls; and let patience always have its perfect work, that we may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Lord, give us grace to weep as though we wept not, and to rejoice as though we rejoiced not, and to buy as though we poffeffed not, and to ufe this world as not abusing it, because the time is fhort, and the fashion of this world paffeth away.

9. We must pray for the grace of hope; a hope in God in Christ, and a hope of eternal life.

Let patience work experience in us, and experience hope, fuch a hope as maketh not ashamed. Through

patience and comfort of the fcriptures, let us have hope, and be faved by hope.

Let the God of Jacob be our help, and our hope always be in the Lord our God.

Let us begotten again to a lively hope by the refurrection of Jefus Chrift, and let that hope be to us as an anchor to the foul, fure and fteadfast, entering into that within the veil, whither the forerunner is for us entered.

Let us have Chrift in us the hope of glory, and never be moved away from that hope of the gofpel; but enable us to give diligence unto the full affurance of hope unto the end.

6. We must pray for grace to preserve us from fin, and all appearances of it, and approaches towards it.

Now we pray to God that we may do no evil, but may be blameless and harmless as the children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and preverfe generation.

Turn away our eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou us in thy way: remove from us the way of lying, and grant us thy law graciously.

Incline not our hearts to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with them that work iniquity, and let us not eat of their dainties.

O cleanse us from our fecret faults, keep back thy fervants alfo from prefumptuous fins; let not them have dominion over us, but let us be upright, and innocent from the great tranfgreffions; and grant that thereby we may prove ourselves upright, before thee, by keeping ourfelves from own iniquity.

Let thy word be hid in our hearts, that we may not fin against thee, and thy grace be at all times fufficient for us, ready to us, and mighty in us, and never e give us up to our own hearts luft, to walk in our own counfels.

Enable us to walk circumfpectly, not as fools, but as wife, fo circumfpectly that we may cut off occafion from them which defire occafion to blafpheme that

worthy name by which we are called, and with welldoing may put to filence the ignorance of foolish men, and may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

7. We must pray for grace to enable us both to govern our tongues well, and to use them well.

Lord, enable us to take heed to our ways, that we offend not with our tongue, and to keep our mouth as it were with a bridle, that it may not be hafty to utter any thing.

Set a watch, O Lord, before our mouth, keep the door of our lips, that we may not offend in word.

Let our fpeech be always with grace, feasoned with falt, and enable us always, out of the good treasure of our heart to bring forth good things. Let our mouth fpeak wifdom, and our tongue talk of judgment; and let not thy words depart out of our mouth, nor out of the mouth of our feed, or our feed's feed, from henceforth and for ever.

Enable us always to open our mouth with wisdom, and let the law of kindness be in our tongue : give us to know what is acceptable, that our tongue may be as choice filver, and our lips may feed many.

8. We must pray for grace to direct and quicken us to, and to ftrenghten and affist us in our duty, in the whole course of our converfation..

Let the grace of God, which hath appeared to us, and to all men, bringing falvation, effectually teach us to deny all ungodlinefs and worldly fleshly lufts, and to live foberly, righteously and godly in this prefent world, looking for the bleffed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jefus Chrift, who gave himfelf for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

1. That we may be prudent and difcreat in our duty.

Thou haft faid, if any man lack wifdom, he must afk it of God, who gives to all men liberally, and up

braideth not, and it fhall be given him. Lord, wẽ want wifdom, make us wife as ferpents, and harmlefs as doves, that wisdom may make our face to fh ine and may be better to us then weapons of war.

Enable us to walk in wifdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

Give us to order all our affairs with difcreation, and to behave ourfelves wifely, in a perfect way, with a perfect heart.

2. That we may be honeft and fincere in our duty. Let our wifdom be not that from beneath, which is earthly, fenfual, devilish, but wifdom from above, which is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, with out partiality, and without hypocrify.

O that we may always have our converfation in the world in fimplicity and godly fincerity, not with flethly wisdom, but by the grace of God.

Lord, uphold us in our integrity, and fet us before thy face for ever, and let integrity and uprightness preferve us, for we wait on thee.

Let our hearts be found in thy ftatutes, that we be not afhamed, and let our eye be fingle, that our whole body may be full of light.

3. That we may be active and diligent in our duty. Lord, quicken us to work the works of him that fent us, while it is day, becaufe the night comes wherein no man can work; and what good our hand finds to do, to do it with all our might, becaufe there is no work or knowledge in the grave, whither we are going.

Lord, grant that we never may be flothful in any good bufinefs, but fervant in fpirit, ferving the Lord; ftedfaft and unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forafmuch as we know that our labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Lord, make us zealously affected in every good work, and what we do, enable us to do it heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men.