for a Seafon, before that everlasting Fulness of Joy which is in thy Prefence for evermore; but that duly confidering the vast Difproportion there is betwixt this Life, and my eternal State, I may live as becomes the Gofpel of Christ, working out my Salvation with the greatest Care and Circumfpection; that when the great and terrible Day of the Lord fhall come, I may be admitted to the Inheritance of the Saints in Light, thro' the Merits, and for the Sake of my bleffed Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Chrift the Righteous.

O Lord! I pray not for myfelf alone, but for the whole Race of Mankind, and in a more efpecial Manner for this Church. and Nation to which I belong. Let the Virtue and Efficacy of Chrift's Death and Paffion be extended far and wide, and grant that true Religion and Virtue may every where flourish and abound.

Blefs all Orders and Degrees of Men amongst us, eipecially thy Servant our Sovereign Lord King GEORGE, our gracious Queen Charlotte, his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family; Endue them with all those Graces and Virtues which may enable them to discharge their feveral Trufts in fuch a

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Manner as may promote thy Honour and Glory, and the Peace and Profperity both of Church and State.

Hear the Prayers of the Sick and Needy and of all that labour under any Trouble or Affliction; and of thy fatherly Goodnefs comfort and relieve them according to their Neceffities.

I commend to thy particular Favour and Protection, my- and all my Relations and Friends; let thy Fear be ever before their Eyes; let thy Bleffing always reft upon them; and grant them all Things neceffary for Life and Godlinefs.

Accept, O Lord, I humbly befeech thee, the Evening Sacrifice of my unfeigned Praises, which I now offer up to thy Divine Majefty, for thy great and manifold Mercies vouchfafed unto me; and more particularly for the Mercies of the Day paít; for preferving me in Health and Safety; for providing fo plentifully for me, and continuing to me the Enjoyment of fo many Comforts. And I moft humbly befeech Thee to continue thy Mercy and Goodness towards me and all belonging to me. fend us this Night from all Dangers both of Soul and Body; grant us quiet and refrefhing Sleep; and if thou art pleased to

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add another Day to our Lives, give us Grace to employ it in fuch a Manner as may be well-pleafing in thy Sight; thro' the Merits, and for the Sake of thy beloved Son Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. Our Father, &c.

A Prayer for Friday Morning.

O MOST Holy, moft Merciful, and moft Gracious Lord God; thou art the inexhaustible Fountain of all Good, the Source and Spring of all our Comforts here, and the fure and certain Foundation of all our Hopes hereafter: Look down from Heaven, the Habitation of thy Holiness, upon me, who humbly beg Leave to renew my Praises to thy Divine Majefty, in whom I live, and move, and have my Being.

O Lord! I acknowledge, that under thy Protection I have this Night flept fecure, and by thine infinite Goodnefs it is, that I am now in Health and Safety: Praised therefore be thy Name, O Lord: O let all that is within me praise thy holy Name; as long as I live I will magnify thee, O God, for thou art my Creator, my Preferver, and my conftant Benefactor.

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unworthy Returns I have made for the manifold Favours I have received from Thee; and grant me for the Time to come, fuch a Senfe of thine infinite Goodness and Mercy, that I may love thee with all my Heart, with all my Soul, and with all my Strength; that I may ftudy to please thee in all Things, and be afraid of nothing fo much as thy Difpleafure.

To this End, O gracious Lord, make me truly fenfible of the Vanity of this World; that I may not be carried away with the Force and Power of fenfible Objects, nor brought under the Dominion of thofe Lufts, which war against the Soul. Give me Grace fo to ufe the World, as not to abuse it; and grant, that neither the Cares of this Life, nor the Deceitfulness of Riches, may ever make me neglect the great Work thou haft given me to do. Root out of my Heart all covetous Affections and Defires, and let it be my great Care and Concern. to provide for Eternity, and to lay up a Treafure in Heaven, which faileth not.

Deliver me, O my God, from Pride and Vain-glory; from a fond Conceit of myfelf, or a mean Opinion of others; from a cenforious and uncharitable Spirit; from an envious and malicious Temper; and from all thofe finful and corrupt Affections that

are fo hateful in thy Sight; and O be thou pleafed to endue me with that Wisdom, which is from above; which is firft pure, and then peaceable; with that Meeknefs and Humility which is in thy Sight of fo great Price; and with all thofe holy and Christian Difpofitions that thou lovest and delighteft in.

Make me always mindful of my own Frailty, of the Shortnefs and Uncertainty of this Life, and of the Eternity of the next. Make me careful fo to live, as I fhall with I had done when I come to die; O let not Sickness or Death ever furprise me unawares, or find me in a State unprovided; but grant that I may finish the great Work of my Salvation before the Night comes when no Man can work; that fo having laid up a good Foundation of Hope and Comfort against the Day of Trouble and Sickness, I may, whenever thou shalt be pleafed to call me hence, chearfully refign up my Soul into thy Hands! And Oh, do thou vouchfafe to receive it to thy Mercy, through thy Merits and for the Sake of thy dear Son Jefus Chrift the Righteous.

Be with me, O Lord, this Day: Let thy Bleffing accompany all my honeft Labours and Endeavours; and grant that I may take nothing in Hand but what is agreeable to

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