OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. A Prayer to be used at the Commencement of the Year. O GOD our heavenly Father, who hast given us life and being, and on whom we depend for our fupport and preservation, who by thy kind providence haft 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 affiftance 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 concerns, both fpiritual and temporal. Prepare us, O Lord, for every change or trial through which thou mayeft fee fit to lead us, and cfpecially 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 wisdom 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 manfions which thou haft prepared, according to thy goodness and mercy, declared unto mankind through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. A Prayer adapted to the Spring Seafon. LORD, the Creator and Preferver of all things, who, with unerring wisdom, maintaineft the beauty and order of thy works; we we look up with joy and confidence untö thy gracious power, which causes the returning seasons to know their place; thou hast sent forth thy spirit, thou haft renewed the face of the earth. Blefs, we beseech thee, the springing of the year, and enrich the earth with the rain of heaven; may grafs grow for the cattle, and herbs and fruits for the fervice of man; may our pastures be cloathed with flocks, our vallies covered with corn, and the year crowned with thy goodness; and may we so improve the various bleffings of thy providence in this world, as to be prepared for the unchangeable felicities of thine everlafting kingdom. Amen. A Prayer to be used during the Seafon of Harvest. ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all goodness, in whofe power alone it is to' give fruitful feasons, and to fill our hearts' with food and gladnefs; we lift up our eyes unto thee, from whom our hope cometh, beseeching thee to preserve unto us the appointed weeks of harvest, and to give us seasonable weather for ripening and gathering in the fruits of the earth, that in due time we may enjoy them. Suffer not the hopes of the husbandman to fail; may the poor be satisfied with bread; continue to bless us with the bounties of thy providence; and may we evermore live to thy praise in a wife, grateful, and temperate enjoyment of thy mercies, who art the only giver of all good. Amen. For feafonable Weather. GOD, our heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the earth is fruitful and bringeth forth its increase for our fuftenance and comfort; we humbly befeech thee to fend us in this our neceffity fuch seasonable weather, that we may receive the fruits thereof in due time; and grant that we may |