For National Bleffings.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, thou reigneft fupreme in all nations of the earth, and governest the several states and kingdoms of it by thy providence. We acknowledge with gratitude the many inftances of thy gracious care and goodness to this nation. We praise thee for the preservation of our religion, laws and liberties, when in danger from the fecret confpiracies or open attempts of our enemies. Give us, we beseech thee, fuch a deep and lively fenfe of the great things thou haft done for us, that we may never grow fecure and careless, but be the more watchful and zealous for the invaluable bleffings bestowed on these kingdoms; and may we, by a religious improvement of them, obtain the continuance of thy protection. May our civil and religious liberties, in their juft extent, be handed down inviolate to the latest pofterity. Let piety and devotion, brotherly kindness and

charity,

charity, and all other Christian virtues, fo flourish amongst us, that they may be, under the direction of thy providence, the flability of this nation. Amen.

For Prefervation in Child-bearing.

ALMIGHTY God, the Father of all

mercies, the God of all consolation; we prefent before thee our unfeigned thanks, for thy great mercy vouchsafed to thy fervant here in thy prefence, whom thou haft delivered from the pains and dangers of child-bearing (and made the living mother of a living and perfect child). May a grateful remembrance of thy goodness be ever impreffed upon her heart, and may that life which thou haft fpared, (and that infant life which thou hast given,) be devoted to thy obedience and fervice, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For

For Recovery from Sickness.

O LORD, our heavenly Father, who redeemeft the lives of thy fervants from destruction, and givest health, and life, and bleffing; accept the fincere and humble thanksgivings of thy fervant, whom thou haft raised from a bed of fickness, and reftored to fome good measure of health and strength: we praife thee for this gracious instance of thy goodness; may the remembrance of thy late mercy to him, have a happy and lasting influence upon his mind, and may that life, which thy mercy prolongs, be devoted to thy fervice, in a conftant obedience to thy holy commandments, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For the Recovery of a fick Child.. ALMIGHTY and most gracious God, thou art the length of our days, and the conftant fupport of our being. We rejoice in the goodness of thy providence,

and

and bless thy holy name for redeeming the life of thy fervant's child from fickness and diftrefs. In fubmiffion to thy will, we humbly pray that it may please thee to prolong it to years of reafon and underftanding, that it may be employed in thy fervice, and be an inftrument of much usefulness in the world, to the glory of thy holy name, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Though the foregoing Occafional Forms are calculated for a confiderable variety of circumstances ; yet the Minifter is at liberty to introduce such petitions of his own, as he may more perfectly adapt to the circumftances of the time, and his Congregation; and this he may do either by introducing them in fome proper part of the Service, or in his Prayer after Sermon, in which the Society hopes to enjoy the peculiar advantages of free Prayer, as diftinguished from the advantages of a pre-compofed Form.

THE

THE COMMUNION.

The Bread and Wine being put on the Table, the Minifter may begin the Service with the following Addrefs to the Communicants:

MY CHRISTIAN BRETHREN,

WE are affembled at this time, to commemorate the sufferings and death of our Lord Jefus Chrift: to declare our obligation and defire to improve in all goodness as becomes his difciples, to acknowledge ourselves members of his body, and our duty as fuch, to live with each other in mutual love, and in the continual exercise of chriftian charity. Be ye therefore now exhorted confcientioufly, and in the fear of God, to fulfil this part of your duty; shewing hereby your obedience to the great law