pray for fpiritual graces, may we hunger and thirst after righteousness. Give us a real love for thy Holy Word, and grace to hear it with attention. May we thankfully clofe with all the means of grace and salvation. When we praise Thee for thy works of nature and of grace, and give Thee thanks for thy mercies, let us do it with high esteem and gratitude. Caufe us Caufe us to hear thy Holy Word with faith and attention, and to profit by what we hear, that we may return from thy church with a bleffing.

MORNING PRAYER.

Choose you this day whom you will Serve.

WHOM have I in heaven but

Thee, O Lord? and there is

none on earth that I defire befides

Thee. Thou art my God, and I will thank thee; Thou art my God, and I will serve thee. Be Thou my only ruler and governor.

They that have a convenient place to fleep in, and they that have the comfort of fleep, have both great reason to be thankful. And

even they that want thefe mercies, ought to blefs God, if in the midst of their afflictions he is pleased to refresh them with the comforts of grace.

Gracious God, continue to me these favours fo long, and in fuch measure, as shall moft contribute to thy honour, and my falvation. And in great mercy fupport and relieve all that want these bleffings.

What shall I offer unto the Lord for his mercies renewed unto me every morning?—The facrifice of God is a troubled Spirit: a broken and a contrite heart God will not defpife.

But most unfit is mine to be to

God presented, until I have obtained his pardon, through the merits of the Lord Jefus, for the many fins by which it hath been defiled.

I am merciful, faith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou haft tranfgreffed against the Lord thy God.

I acknowledge my fin unto thee, O God, and mine iniquities will I not hide.

I do therefore implore thy pardon, and plead thy gracious promifes, with full purpose of heart, by the affiftance of thy grace, never again to return to folly.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and defperately wicked; who can know it?

I cannot answer for my own heart; but there is no word, O Lord, impoffible with Thee. In Thee I do put my truft; let me never be put

to confufion.

Keep it ever in the heart of thy fervant, that it is indeed an evil thing and bitter to offend the Lord.

Keep me from presumptuous fins, that I may never grieve thy Holy Spirit, nor provoke Thee to leave me to myself.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

Lord, make me ever mindful of my infirmities and backflidings, that may be more watchful, and more importunate for grace, for the time

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to come.

Be fober, be vigilant, because your adverfary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, feeking whom he may devour.

O Lord, grant that this adversary of our fouls may never find me off my guard, or from under thy pro

tection.

If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his crofs, and follow me.

O my Saviour! how long have I profeffed to follow Thee, without following the blessed steps of thy most holy life,-thy patience and humility, thy great difregard for the world, its pleafures, profits, honours, and all its idols.

O Lord, obtain for me the fpirit of mortification and felf-denial, that may follow Thee, as I hope to live with Thee for ever. Amen.

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No man can ferve two mafters. Ye cannot ferve God and mammon.

May my fear and love never be divided between Thee and the world. May I never fet up any thing, O God, in competition with Thee in the poffeffion of my heart. May I never attempt to reconcile thy fervice with that world which is at enmity with Thee, my God and Father!

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God