of this vain and evil world. Watch over them during the weakness and inexperience of their youth; and prepare them for the duties to which Thy providence shall call them.

We commend to Thy fatherly care the poor, and destitute; the prisoner, and captive; the sick, and the afflicted. Send help from above to those who are under sore temptations :-strengthen the feeble knees, and raise up those who have fallen :-and teach us all to exercise patience, and forbearance, and loving kindness, towards each other.

We offer these our imperfect prayers, in the name of our only Saviour, JESUS CHRIST.

Our Father, &c.

The grace of our Lord, &c.

TWENTY-EIGHTH MORNING.

O LORD GOD, our Heavenly Father, who art th Giver of all good things, we desire to thank Thee for Thy mercies during the past night, and for all the numberless blessings which we enjoy. We would begin this day with Thy solemn worship; thus acknowledging Thine hand in the bounties of Thy providence, and professing our gratitude and obedience unto Thee. We would, also, praise Thee for the gift of JESUS CHRIST Thy Son, by whom we obtain pardon of sin, and all things necessary for our everlasting salvation. Adored be Thy name that Thou hast not left us in ignorance of Thee; but hast given us Thy holy word; and hast caused us to abound with the means of grace. We would daily remember these Thy spiritual gifts; and we would now resolve to spend this day in a manner worthy of our Christian profession.

Assist us, O LORD, by Thy Holy Spirit, to bring these our prayers to good effect. Strengthen us against our temptations:-direct us in every difficulty:-comfort us in all our sorrows, and adversities; and enable us to fulfil every part of that Christian duty in which we have been instructed.

May we love our neighbour as ourselves; and do unto all men as we would that they should do unto us. May we honour and obey the civil authority. May we submit ourselves to all our governors and teachers. May we hurt nobody by word or deed. May we be true and just in all our dealings; and bear no malice nor hatred

in our hearts. May we keep our hands from stealing; and our tongues from evil-speaking, lying, and slandering. May we preserve our bodies in temperance, soberness, and chastity. May we not covet other men's goods; but learn, and labour truly, to get our living; and to do our duty in that state of life to which it hath pleased God to call us.

Pardon all our negligence in time past; and give us grace continually to examine ourselves; and to amend our lives according to Thy holy word.

We desire to add our humble supplications for all those whom it is our duty to remember in our prayers. Have compassion on the poor and the afflicted:-send them help, O LORD, in their hour of need; and sustain them with Thy heavenly consolations, when all human aid shall fail. We pray for the young and the ignorant: -may they be instructed in the way in which they ought to walk; and may they become instruments by which the knowledge of Thee and of Thy Son JESUS CHRIST shall extend to distant generations.

Hear us, O LORD, in these our imperfect prayers, which we humbly present to Thee, in the name of our blessed Saviour JESUS CHRIST.

Our Father, &c.

The grace of our Lord, &c.

FIRST SUNDAY MORNING.

ALMIGHTY AND EVER-BLESSED GOD! Thou art the King Eternal, Immortal, and Invisible: Thou sittest in the highest heavens; and art exalted above all blessing and praise :-before Thee the angels veil their faces; and the heavens are not pure in Thy sight. Thou didst create all things:-Thou upholdest all things :-Thou sustainest the lives of the creatures whom Thou hast made-And Thou governest all events, by Thine unceasing Providence. Thou art continually present with us; and seest the secrets of all hearts;—and Thou wilt hereafter, bring every work into judgment, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

We bless Thee, that, of Thy great goodness, Thou hast sent Thy Son JESUS CHRIST to redeem for ever from death and hell our immortal souls, which were made in Thine own image; and that Thou hast given us an assurance of our own resurrection, by raising Him from the dead on the third day.

We praise Thee for these Thy sabbaths, on which we maintain a perpetual commemoration of this victory of our once crucified and now ascended Lord; and are continually instructed, by the ministers of His gospel, in all things which concern our everlasting salvation. Grant, we beseech Thee, that we may this day hear Thy sacred word with reverence and holy fear, with serious and deep attention, and with all humility and thankfulness. Enable us to join in the prayers of Thy people, with devout and contrite hearts; and be Thou

pleased so to bless both our public worship, and our private meditations, that we may be made partakers of Thine everlasting promises in CHRIST JESUS, and may advance in all holiness.

O LORD, strengthen our faith on this day by means of those religious exercises in which we shall engage : -deliver us from every slavish fear of Thy wrath ;fix our hope on our ever-blessed Redeemer ;—and give us joy and peace in believing. Let us love Thee, for the unnumbered bounties of Thy providence; and, especially, for Thy mercies in our redemption through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Give us an increasing sense of our unworthiness, and a clearer knowledge of those peculiar sins which most easily beset us; that we may more fully comprehend the riches of Thy grace in Christ; and may, also, better know how to reform that which hath been evil in us.

We pray, that Thy Gospel may from time to time. be so delivered to us, that we may grow in all wisdom. Suffer not, that any of us should continue self-deceived. Let not death overtake us unprepared; but do Thou, by Thy Holy Spirit, give such effect to the preaching of Thy word, and to all other means of grace, that we may, each of us, heartily repent, and unfeignedly believe, and bring forth abundantly fruits meet for repentance, to the praise and glory of Thy name.

Let Thy blessing every where accompany the preaching of Thy Gospel on this day. May the God of Grace pour forth the abundance of His Spirit on the ministers and on the hearers. May they who have lived in sin be awakened to a sense of their danger. May the un