Lord, I was in my baptifm given up to thee; receive me gracioufly, and love me freely.

Lord Jefus, thou haft encouraged little children to come to thee, and haft faid, that of such is the kingdom of God; I come to thee; O make me a faithful fubject of thy kingdom, take me up in thy arms, put thy hands upon me, and bless me.

O give me grace to redeem me from all iniquity, and particularly from the vanity which childhood and youth is fubject to.

Lord, give me a wife and an understanding heart, that I may know and do hy will in every thing, and may in nothing fin against thee.

Lord, grant that from my childhood I may know the holy fcriptures, and may continue in the good things that I have learned.

Remove from me the way of lying, and grant me thy law gracioufly.

Lord, be thou a Father to me; teach me and guide me; provide for me, and protect me, and bless me, even me, O my Father.

Blefs all my relations (father, mother, brothers, fifters) and give me grace to do my duty to them in every thing.

Lord, prepare me for death, and give me wifely to confider my latter end.

O Lord, I thank thee for all thy mercies to me; for life and health, food and raiment, and for my education; for my creation, preservation, and all the bleffings of this life; but above all for thine ineftimable love in the means of grace, and the hopes of glory.

Thanks be to God for his unfpeakable gift; blessed be God for JESUS CHRIST. None but Chrift, none but Chrift for me.

Now to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, that great name into which I was baptifed, be honour and glory,dominion and praise, for ever and ever. Amen. Our Father which art in heaven, &'c.

Another Paraphrafe on the Lord's Prayer, in the Words of the Affembly's Shorter Catechifm.

OUR Father in heaven, we come to thee as chil

dren to a Father able and ready to help us.

We beseech thee, let thy name be fanctified; enable us and others to glorify thee in all that whereby thou haft made thyself known, and difpofe of all things to thine own glory.

Let thy kingdom come; let Satan's kingdom be deftroyed, and let the kingdom of thy grace be advanced ; let us and others be brought into it, and kept in it, and let the kingdom of thy glory be hastened.

Let thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven; make us by thy grace able and willing to know, obey,, and fubmit to thy will in all things as the angels do in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread; of thy free gift let us receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and let us enjoy thy bleffing with them.

And forgive us our trefpaffes as we forgive them that trefpafs against us. We pray that for Chrift's fake thou wouldft freely pardon all our fins, and that by thy grace thou wouldst enable us from the heart to forgive o thers.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Either keep us, O Lord, from being tempted to fin, or fupport and deliver us when we are tempted.

For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever. Lord, we take our encouragement in prayer from thyfelf only, and defire in our prayers to praise thee, afcribing kingdom, power, and glory to thee: And in teftimony of our defires and affurance to be heard through Jefus Chrift, we fay Amen.

Another Prayer drawn out of my plain Catechifm for Children, (which was first published in the Year 1703,) which will be easy to thofe Children who have learned that Catechifm.

Lord, thou art an infinite and eternal Spirit, most wife and powerful, holy, juft, and good. Thou art the great God that madeft the world, and art my Creator; and thou that madeft me doft preserve and maintain me, and in thee I live and move and have my being. O that I may remember thee as my Creator in the days of my youth, and never forget thee.

Lord, give me grace to ferve and honour thee, to worship and obey thee, and in all my ways to truft in thee, and to please thee.

Lord, I thank thee for thy holy word, which thou haft given me to be the rule of my faith and obedience, and which is able to make me wife unto falvation.

I confefs, O Lord, that the condition which I was born in is finful and miferable. I am naturally prone to that which is evil, and backward to that which is good, and foolishness is bound up in my heart; and I am by nature a child of wrath, fo that if thou hadst not raised up a Saviour for me, I had been certainly loft and undone for ever. I have been disobedient to the command of God, and have eaten forbidden fruit.

But, bleffed, and for ever bleffed be God for the Saviour Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, and the only Mediator between God and man, who took our nature upon him, and became man, that he might redeem and fave us.

Lord, I blefs thee for his holy life, give me to follow his steps; I bless thee for the true and excellent doctrine which he preached, give me to mix faith with it; I bless thee for the miracles which he wrought to confirm his doctrine: And efpecially that he died the curfed death of the cross to fatisfy for fin, and to recon▾

cile us to God; and that he rofe again from the dead on the third day, and ascended up into heaven, where he ever lives, making interceffion for us, and hath all power both in heaven and in earth; and that we are affured he will come again in glory to judge the world at the last day.

Lord, I thank thee that I am one of his difciples; for I am a baptifed Christian; and I give glory to Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, in whofe name I was baptized.

Lord, be thou in Chrift to me a God, and make me one of thy people.

Be thou my chief good, and highest end; let Jefus Christ be my prince and Saviour; and let the holy Ghoft be my fanctifier, teacher, guide, and comforter.

Lord, enable me to deny all ungodlinefs, and worldly fleshly lufts, and live foberly, righteoufly, and godly, in this prefent world, always looking for the bleffed hope.

Work in me repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jefus Christ: and give me to live a life of faith and repentance.

Lord, make me truly forry that I have offended thee in what I have thought, and spoken, and done amifs, and give me grace to fin no more.

And enable me to receive Jefus Chrift, and to rely upon him as my prophet, prieft, and king, and to give up myself to be ruled and taught, and faved by him. Lord, grant unto me the pardon of my fins, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and eternal life.

And give me grace to manifeft the fincerity of my faith and repentance, by a diligent and confcientious obedience to all thy commandments.

Enable me to love thee with all my heart, and to love my neighbour as myself.

Give me grace always to make mention of thy name with reverence and seriousness, to read and hear thy word with diligence and attention, to meditate upon it, to believe it, and to frame my life according to it.

Lord, grant that I may receive all thy mercies with thankfulness, and bear all afflictions with patience and fubmiffion to thy holy will.

Lord, grant that my heart may never be lifted up with pride disturbed with anger, or any finful paffion; and that my body may be never defiled with intemperance, uncleannefs, or any fleshly lufts; and keep me from ever speaking any finful words.

Lord, give me grace to reverence and obey my parents and governors; I thank thee for their inftructions and reproofs: I pray thee blefs them to me, and make me in every thing a comfort to them.

Lord, pity, help, and fuccour the poor, and those in affliction and diftrefs.

Lord, blefs my friends, forgive my enemies, and enable me to do my duty to all men.

Wherein I have in any thing offended thee, I humbly pray for pardon in the blood of Chrift, and grace to do my duty better for the time to come, and fo to live in the fear of God, as that I may be happy in this world, and that to come.

Lord, prepare me to die, and leave this world; O fave me from that state of everlasting mifery and torment, which will certainly be the portion of all the wicked and ungodly, and bring me fafe to the world of everlasting reft and joy with thee and Jefus Chrift.

And give me wisdom and grace to live a holy, godly life, and to make it my great care and business to serve thee, and to fave my own foul.

All this I humbly beg in the name, and for the fake of Jefus Chrift, my bleffed Saviour and Redeemer, to whom with thee, O Father, and the eternal Spirit, be honour, glory, and praise, henceforth and for evermore. Amen.