Let every one of us fee and feel the plague of his own heart, and fay, what have I done to bring these evils upon us? So that bringing forth fruits anfwerable to amendment of life, we may escape thy judgment now hanging over us; and above all, thy judgment against finners in the world to come. And this I beg for Jefus Chrift his fake. Amen.

Judgment Day.

GRANT, O Lord, that I may be of the number of those that shall find mercy at that day.

Zaccheus.

THE good Lord grant that I may give a proof of the fincerity of my converfion by a change of life.

WEDNESDAY MEDITA

TIONS.

COVETOUSNESS, FASTING, DIFFICULTIES, SELF-DENIAL.

All these things will I give thee.Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve.

GREAT and glorious God, who alone art worthy of our love and fervice, cure me of, and preferve me from, the fin and vanity of admiring this world.

Give me grace to renounce all covetous defires, all love of riches and pleasures;-to defire only what is neceffary, and to be content with what Thou, O Lord, thinkest so:

Not to be troubled at the lofs or want of any thing befides thy favour:

That no bufinefs, no pleasures, may divert me from the thoughts of the world to come:

That I may cheerfully part with all these things, when Thou requireft it of me:

And that I may be ever prepared to do fo, difpofe me to a temperance in all things, and to lay up my treasure in heaven, for Jesus Christ's fake. Amen.

Woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your confolation.

A man must have but little faith, who can read these words, and yet love riches, and the pleasures they afford.

Lord, grant that I may refift every temptation to the love of creatures; left they steal my heart from Thee, my God, whom I defire to love with all my foul.

I know that I must in a great measure renounce all other objects of my affection, in order to love

Thee with all my heart. Lord, give me grace and strength to put this in practice.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world: if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Grant, O God, that I may never hope to reconcile two things fo inconfiftent as the love of Thee and the world.

Bleffed are the poor in fpirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

To be poor in fpirit-is to be difengaged from wealth, to look upon it as a burthen, or as a trust. Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content.

And yet even the Chriftian world is not content without fuperfluities and excefs. Thefe diforders are not lefs criminal, because fo common.

Give me, O God, the eyes of faith, that I may fee the world just as it is;-the vanity of its promifes,

the folly of its pleasures, the unprofitableness of its rewards, the multitude of its fnares, and the dangers of its temptations.

Fafting.

JESUS Chrift fpared not his innocent flesh, but fafted; the finner cherisheth his continually, refufing it nothing. Fafting is in some sense a punishment and expiation for past sins, a remedy for present temptations, and a preservative against future.

My heart is fmitten, and withered like grafs; fo that I forget to eat my bread.

The humble and afflicted foul is not much concerned to please the appetite.

Woe unto you that are full, for ye Shall hunger; that is, Ye whose daily meals are feafts, who make profeffion of a life of fenfuality, who know not what it is to faft: woe to fuch Chriftians!