derness towards all under my charge, as knowing that both they and I serve one Master in heaven, who, without respect to persons, will call us all to an equal

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O Lord, let me never want thy grace to suppress every inclination that leads me from my duty. Let no kind of extravagance, excess, or disorder, find encouragement in my house. Make me a zealous observer of good discipline, and watchful against all undue liberties. Suffer me not to be unjust to any one, nor connive at what ought to be reproved. Take from me all immoderate solicitude, and let no excess of worldly care withdraw my heart from the important concern of eternity. May my chief solicitude be, how to regulate all my concerns to thy honour and glory. I crave thy blessing this day and for ever, on all I am to do or suffer, and humbly offer myself, and all I possess, to thy glory. Help me, O my God, according to my necessities, now, and for ever. Amen. For Parents.

ASSIST me, O heavenly Father, in discharging my duty to my children. Endue me with true Christian discretion, to discern what to grant, and what to deny. Let neither passion, ill-humour, nor fondness, make me yield to them in

anything that may be prejudicial to either soul or body. Enable me always to give them good example; to preserve them from bad company, or from hearing or doing what may induce them to commit evil; and whenever they do amiss, to give them timely correction, more out of love than from passion. Deliver me from all manner of prodigality-intemperance-idleness-vanity-neglect, or ill management, that may prevent me from providing for their comfortable subsistence in this life, as also from preparing them for happiness hereafter, by being over solicitous to make them great in this world.

Direct me, O God, in every particular that contribute to their Christian education, and enable me to remove from them whatever may do them hurt. Deliver me from all indiscreet partialities-from discouraging them-or showing any unreasonable uneasiness, which may force them upon rash methods for the remedy of the troubles they find at home. Be thou a father to them, and supply, by thy goodness, whatever is wanting in me. Preserve them against the corruption of the world, from sin, and all evil, and excite them to all good. Deliver them from the effects of a vain and inconstant mind, and make them thy faithful ser

vants here, that they may come at length to that happiness which Christ has pur chased for them. Amen...} For Children under their Parent's Care.

O HEAVENLY Father, who commandest us to love, obey, respect, and honour our parents, grant that I may always comply with this thy command, by being ever faithful in the performance of all it en joins, and in never doing any thing cons trary thereunto.

May I ever deny myself, in all lawful things, to please my parents; and obey them in whatever they can justly require or expect from me. Let me never contradict them, nor so dispute against their proposals as to make them uneasy. · May I always consult them in all that concerns them or myself. May I ever be deaf to those who suggest the despising or neglecting of my parents' advice. May I never afflict them by following bad counsel, wicked company, or any evil ways. May I always study to be their comfort, in recompense for all the care, trouble, and love they have had for me. May I never show impatience at their infirmities, much less mock at any weakness to which they are subject.mi DeDirect me, O my God, in every thing relating to my duty, and suffer no change of circumstances to withdraw me from it.

May Dinamo lawful concern whatever offend my parents on earth, nor displease thee, my Father, who art in heaven.

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O GOD, who hast ordained the holy state of matrimony, wherein I am engaged, grant me grace to comply with all its obligations, and to perform them in such a manner as is becoming a Christian, not an unbeliever.

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Preserve my love undefiled, according to thy divine command, and let the duty of love help to conduct me with comfort thro' all the obligations and difficulties of my state. Grant me discretion to manage all circumstances for the best, a true love for peace, and such a discreet compliance, as to resign my own thoughts and inclinations for preserving it. Inspire me with true humility and patience, that I may submit to and bear with all crosses in the manner thy apostle requires. Furnish me with all other helps, that whatever difficulties may occur, I may persevere with cheerfulness in discharging the duties of my state, and never yield 80% far to any weakness, ill-humour, or impatience, as to weaken, much less to break the bond which thou hast sanctified, and which cannot be dissolved but by death. May I always be faithful and

indefatigable in the discharge of the du ties of my state, doing and suffering what ever falls to my lot, with such absolute submission to thy will, that both in peace and trouble, in prosperity and adversity, I may ever remember to resign myself cheerfully, O God, to thy pleasure or permission; and under all difficulties, still labour to work out my salvation. A Prayer which may be daily said by a Woman with Child.

O LORD God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, who hast made us all out of nothing, and redeemed us by the precious blood of thy only Son: look down upon thy poor handmaid here prostrate before thee, humbly imploring thy mercy, and begging thy blessing for herself and her child, which thou hast given her to conceive. Preserve, I beseech thee, the work of thy hands, and defend both me and the tender fruit of my womb from all perils and all evils: grant me in due time a happy delivery, and bring my child safe to the font of baptism, that it may be there happily dedicated to thee, to love and serve thee faithfully * for ever. But, O my God, I have too much reason to fear lest my great and manifold sins should hinder thee from hearing my prayers, and draw down thy judgments on me and mine, instead of