Bleffed be thy name, thou everlasting and almighty Father, for thy gracious protection and prefervation of me this day!

Lord, thy mercies are not to be numbered: under a fenfe of them, and of my own manifold unworthiness, I am ashamed to lift up my face unto thee but thou defireft not the death of a finner thou didst fend thy dear fon into the world, that whofoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlafting life; Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief: Lord, I repent, I grieve, I lament for my mildoings; have mercy upon me, for thy great goodnefs; for Jefus Chrift's fake, pity, pardon, and blot out all mine offences.

Graciously vouchfafe unto me thy fatherly affiftance, and the comfort of thy bleffed Spirit, that I may be preferved henceforth from all the defilements of iniquity: may ferve thee with a pure heart and quiet mind, and bring forth fruits meet for

repentance.

To thee, Lord, do I humbly dedicate myself, my foul, and my body; ftrengthen my good refolutions, and preferve me from all the allurements of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Accept my most unfeigned thanks, for all thy mercies vouchfafed to me, but efpecially for the bountiful provifion made for my fpiritual and temporal wants, in this houfe of refuge: Oh may thy bleffing defcend on the heads of all its

inhabitants; may we be wife to know our own good, and to return the kindness of our benefactors in unceafing praife and thanksgiving; blefs them, O God, with thy choiceft bleffings: kindly remember all my friends and relations, and be merciful to all mine enemies: grant me thy full forgiveness, as truly, O Lord, as I forgive all those who have in any respect injured

me.

Trufting on thy Providence, I lay me down. to fleep let my bed ever remind me of that hour when I shall lie down in death, to awaken no more in this world; under an awful fense of which may I live in conftant preparation for that great event; which, if it fhould happen this night (as every moment of our frail life is uncertain,) O Lord moft holy, O God moft mighty, O holy and most merciful Father, for Jefus Christ's fake, have mercy upon me; pardon all that is paft; deliver me not into the bitter pains of eternal death; but take me under thy divine protection, and into thy kingdom of glory. Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is great, and thou haft promised to receive the petitions of thofe who afk in thy dear Son's name; relying on whofe all-fufficient merits, I conclude my imperfect prayers, in the words which he himself taught us.

Our Father, &c.

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A Family Prayer for the Evening:

(From Archbishop WAKE).

To be read by one of the Superiors in cach Ward.

Emember not, Lord our offences, nor the

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offences of our forefathers; neither take thou vengeance of our fins; spare us good Lord, fpare thy people, whom thoù haft redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever.

Apfwer. Spare us, good Lord.

O God, we confefs, with fhame and confufion of face, that we are not worthy of the leaft regard from thee, whom we have fo much offended, and whofe patience and long fuffering we have fo often and grievously abused.

O Lord! we have finned, we have done wickedly, we have broken thy holy Commandments, by thought, word, and deed, by doing thofe things which thou haft forbidden, and leaving undone the things which thou haft commanded. And to make ourfelves altogether finful, we have gone on in a continued courfe of fin and rebellion against thee; and have perfifted in it, notwithstanding all the motions of thy holy Spirit, and the checks of our confciences to the contrary. Yea, this very day, we have not ceafed

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to add new fins to all our former guilt. And now, O God, what fhall we fay, or how shall we open our mouths, feeing we have done thefe things? O LORD, to us belong fhame and confufion of face, because we have rebelled against thee; but with thee there is mercy, therefore fhall thou be feared. Have mercy upon us, O God, after thy great goodness, according to the multitude of thy mercies, do away cur offences ; wash us thoroughly from our wickednefs, and cleanse us from our fins; and grant us grace fo truly to repent of, and turn from our evil doings, that our iniquities may not be our ruin. Give us a deep fense of our fins past, and a hearty forrow and contrition for them. And fo endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit, that for what remains of our lives, we may walk more circumspectly before thee, redeeming the time, because 'the days are evil.

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To this end, purify our fouls from all corrupt defires and affections; mortify all our carnal lufts and appetites; make us as conftant and zealous to deny, as we have been heretofore ready to gratify and indulge them. Raife up a spirit of piety and devotion, of love and charity, of humility and felf-denial within us; and grant that thefe, and all other Chriftian graces and virtues, may increase and abound in us; remove from

* Here let a fhort stop be made, for every one to call to mind, wherein fhe bas offended the day before.

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us all envy, hatred, and malice, and whatsoever elfe is contrary to our duty towards thee, or towards our neighbour; and so establish us in thy fear, that it may never depart from our minds; but be a conftant fecurity to us against all those temptations which either the devil, the world, or our own flesh, shall hereafter minister unto us, to draw us into fin, or to hinder us in our duty.

More particularly, we pray thee to pity and pardon whatsoever we have done amifs this day: O let us not lie down to rest under thy displea fure! But grant us that forgiveness of our fins now, which we may never have any future opportunity to afk of thee.

[Accept our most fincere thanks and praises for all thy mercies from time to time vouchsafed unto us, but especially for thy particular providence in the fingular bleffings afforded us in this Houfe; make us duly fenfible of them, duly thankful for them; and grant us grace fo to improve this precious feafon of mercy, that we may obtain thy favour, and recover our loft happinefs; and be pleased to fhed the riches of thy love, on the heads of all thofe who are any ways concerned in the management, government, or fupport of this charitable defign; return their kindness fourfold into their bofoms, and blefs their benevolent endeavours to the welfare of their own, and of every foul who shall partake of their tender and liberal bounty.]

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