expects more from you; and 'tis high Time for you, good Philotheus, to lengthen your Prayers, and to begin to add fome Ejaculations over and above; fuch as thefe are, which follow:

Ejaculations at Waking, or Rifing.

Wake, O my Soul, and fing

A Praises to God.

Glory be to thee, O God, for watching over me this Night.

Lord, raife me up at the last Day, to-Life everlafting.

Morning Prayer.

Arly in the Morning will I cry unto thee; Lord, hear my Prayer.

Glory be to thee, Lord God Almighty; Glory be to thee, for renewing thy Mercies to me every Morning Glory be to thee, for refreshing me this Night withSleep, and for preferving me from the Perils of Darkness.

O do away, as the Night, fo my Tranfgreffions; fcatter my Sins as the Morning Cloud.

Lord, forgive whatever thou haft feen amifs in me this Night, my[Here if you are confcious to your felf of any Sin committed in the Night, confefs it.] O Father of Mercies, wafh me throughly from my Wickedness, and cleanfe me from my Sin.

And let thy holy Spirit fo prevent, and accompany, and follow me this Day, that I may believe in thee, and love thee, and keep thy Commandments, and continue in thy Fear all the Day long.

Lord, make me chafte and temperate, humble and advifible, diligent in my Studies, obedient to my Superiors, and charitable to all Men.

Lord, deliver me from Sloth and Idleness; from youthful Lufts, and ill Company, from all Dangers bodily and ghoftly; and give me Grace to remember thee, my Creator, in the Days of my Youth,

Bless,

Blefs, and defend, and fave the KING, and all the Royal Family, and all Orders of Men amongst us, Ecclefiaftical or Civil: Lord, give them all Grace, in their feveral Stations, to be inftrumental to thy Glo ry, and the publick Good.

Together with them, I commend to thy divine Providence, [my Fr ther and Mother, my Brethren and Sifters,] all my Friends and Relations, all my Superiors in this Place, and all my Fellow Scholars: O Lord, vouchfafe us all thofe Graces and Bleffings which thou knoweft to be moft fuitable for us.

Unto thee, O my God, do I dedicate this Day, and my whole Life: O do thou fo blefs and profper met in my Studies, that I may every Day. grow more fit for thy Service.

Hear me, O Lord, and pardon my Failings, for the Merits of thy Son Jefus, in whofe holy Words I fum up all my Wants, Our Father

which art in Heaven, &c.

Directions

Directions for reading Holy Scripture.

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HEN you have faid your Morning Prayer, good Philotheus, you may then go cheerfully to your Study,

and rely upon the Divine Goodness for a Bleffing.

But firft, if you have Time; I-advife you to read-before-fecond-Peal, fome fhort Pfalm, or Piece of a Chapter out of the Gofpel, or Hiftorical Books, because they are the most eafy to be understood, remembring the Example of young Timothy, who was bred up to know the Scripture from a Child, 2 Tim. iii. 15.

But if you want Time on ordinary Days to read the Scripture, be fure to read fomewhat of it on Sundays and Holidays, and confider that you have it daily read to you in the Hall before Dinner and Supper, and at Night when you are just going to Bed, that you may

clofe

clofe the Day with Holy Thoughts; and if you hearken diligently to it when it is read, you do in Effect read it your

felf.

Now to make your Reading the more profitable to you, begin with one or more of thefe Ejaculations.

Ejaculations before reading Holy
Scripture.

W Herewithal, Lord, fhall a

Young Man cleanfe his

Way? Even by ruling himself after thy Words, Pfal. cxix. 9.

Lord, open my Eyes, that I may fee the wonderful Things of thy Law.

O Heavenly Father! I humbly beg thy Holy Spirit fo to help me at this Time to read and understand, and to remember and practise thy Word, that it may make me wife to Salvation.

When you are thus prepared, good Philotheus, then begin to read, and confider, that it is God's moft Holy B Word