OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. A Prayer to be used at the Commencement of the Year. GOD our heavenly Father, who hast given us life and being, and on whom we depend for our support and preservation, who by thy kind providence hast brought us to meet together at the beginning of another year, accept, we beseech thee, our united thanksgivings for all thy mercies. extended towards us through the years of our past lives; and grant, O Lord, to us thy fervants, the continued protection of thy providence, and the affistance of thy grace throughout the future days which may be allotted us on earth. To thee, O God, would we commit ourfelves, our families and friends, befeeching thy thy bleffing on all our fpiritual and temporal. concerns, both Prepare us, O Lord, for every change or trial through which thou mayeft fee fit to lead us, and efpecially for our great and final change, if that be appointed this year to any of us; and as each fucceeding year brings us nearer to that awful period, teach us, O Lord, fo to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wifdom while we remain here, so that at length we may attain the end of our faith and hope, even the everlasting falvation of our fouls, and an admittance into thofe bleffed mansions which thou haft prepared, according to thy goodness and mercy, declared unto mankind through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer adapted to the Spring Seafon. LORD, the Creator and Preserver of all things, who, with unerring wifdom, maintaineft the beauty and order of thy works; we |