Let no malice or ill-will abide in me. Give me grace to forgive all that have offended me; and forgive my many offences against Thee, and against my neighbour.

Make me ever ready to give, and glad to distribute; that thy gifts, paffing through my hands, may procure for me the prayers of the poor; and that I may lay up in ftore for myself a good foundation against the time to come, that I may attain eternal life, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Thy Will be done.

FORTIFY my foul, bleffed Jefus, with the fame fpirit of fubmiffion with which Thou underwenteft the death of the Cross, that I may receive all events with refignation to the will of God; that I may receive troubles, afflictions, disappointments, fickness, and death itself, without

amazement; these being the appointment of thy juftice for the punishment of fin, and of thy mercy for the falvation of finners.

Let this be the conftant practice of my life, to be pleased with all thy choices, that when fickness and death approach, I may be prepared to fubmit my will to the will of my Maker.

And O that, in the mean time, my heart may always go along with my lips in this petition,-THY WILL BE DONE. Amen.

It is appointed unto men once to die; but after this the judgment.

May the thoughts of death, and of what must follow, by the grace of God, mortify in me all carnal fecurity, and fondness for this world, and all that is in it, the luft of the flesh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life. And O that I may make my calling and election fure, that I may die in peace, and reft in

the manfions of glory, in hopes of a bleffed refurrection and a favourable judgment at the great day.

And may the confideration of a judgment to come oblige me to examine, to try, and to judge myself, that I may prevent a fevere judgment of God by a true repentance, and lead a life anfwerable to amendment of life, and that I may find mercy at the great day.

All that are in the graves fhall hear his voice, and come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the refurrection of damnation.

May that dreadful word oblige me to work out my falvation with fear and trembling, that through the merits of Jefus Chrift, I may escape that dreadful doom!

And may the hopes of heaven and happiness fweeten all the troubles of this mortal life!

O Lord Jefus, who haft redeemed us with thy precious blood, make me to be numbered with thy faints in glory everlasting. Amen.

O let my name be found written in the Lamb's Book of Life at the great day!

I thank Thee, O Lord, for all the favours of my life, and especially for that Thou haft vouchfafed me time and a will to think of and prepare for death, while I am in my full ftrength, while I may redeem my mifspent time, and bring forth fruits meet for repentance.

Let us confider death as a punishment, to which, as finners, we are juftly condemned.

But then let us look on it in another view, namely, as a facrifice for fin, which God will mercifully accept of, in union with that of his Son, if we submit to it as due to our offences.

It being a facrifice, it ought to be

voluntary ;-being a debt, it ought to be made out of love to justice ;and, being a fatisfaction, we must be humbly refigned.

My God, I humbly submit to it, and to thy justice; and truft in thy mercy and goodness, and promifes, both now, and at the hour of death. Death is inevitable; the time uncertain; the judgment, which follows, without appeal; and followed by an eternity of happiness or misery. Lord, grant that I may confider this as I ought to do.

Let me remember, that I shall come forth out of the grave, juft as I go in; either the object of God's mercy, or of his wrath, to all eternity. He lives to no purpose, who is not glorifying God.

Our greatest hopes should lie beyond the grave.

No man must go to heaven when he dies, who has not fent his heart thither while he lives.