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A Morning Prayer for a Family.

Lord our God, we defire with all humility and reverence to adore thee, as a being infinitely bright, and bleffed, and glorious; thou haft all perfection in thyself, and art the fountain of all being, power, emotion, and perfection.

Thou art good to all, and thy tender mercies are over all thy works; and thou art continually doing us good, though we are evil and unthankful.

We reckon it an unspeakable privilege, that we have liberty of access to thee through Jefus Chrift, and leave to call thee our Father in him. O look upon us now, and be merciful to us, as thou useft to do unto those that love thy.name.

O give us all to account our daily worship of thee in our family, the most needful part of our daily business, and the most pleasant part of our daily comforts.

Thou art the God of all the families of Ifrael, be thou the God of our family, and grant, whatever others do, we and ours may always ferve the Lord; that thou mayest cause the bleffing to reft on our house, from the beginning of the year to the end of it. Lord, clefs us, and we are bleffed indeed.

We humbly thank thee for all the mercies of this night past, and this morning, that we have laid us down and flept, and waked again, because thou haft fuftained us; that no plague has come nigh our dwelling; but that we are brought in fafety to the light and comforts of another day.

It is of thy mercies, O Lord, that we are not confumed, even because thy compaffions fail not; they are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness

We have rested and are refreshed, when many have been full of toffings to and fro till the dawning of the day: we have a safe and quiet habitation, when many are forced to wander, and lie exposed.

We own thy goodness to us, and ourselves we ac

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knowledge lefs than the least of all the mercy, and of all the truth thou haft fhowed unto us.

We confefs we have finned against thee, we are guilty before thee, we have finned, and have come hort of the glory of God: we have corrupt and finful natures, and are bent to backflide from thee; backward to good, and prone to evil continually.

Vain thoughts come intofus, and lodge within lying down or rifing up, and they defile or quiet our minds, and keep out good thoughts. We are too apt to burden ourfelves with that care which thou haft encouraged us to caft upon thee.

We are very much wanting in the duties of our par ticular relations, and provoke one another more to folly and paffion, than to love and to good works. We are very cold and defective in our love to God, weak in our defires towards him, and unfteady and uneven in our walking with him; and are at this time much out of frame for his fervice.

We pray thee forgive all our fins, for Chrift's fake, and be at peace with us in him who died to make peace, and ever lives, making interceffion.

There be many that fay, Who will fhow us any good? but, Lord, let us not be put off with the good of this world for a portion: For this is our hearts defire and prayer, Lord, lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, and that fhall put gladness into our hearts, more than they have, whofe corn, and wine, and oil increafeth.

Lord, let thy peace rule in our hearts, and give law to us, and let thy peace keep our hearts and minds, and give comfort to us; and let the confolations of God, which are neither few nor fmall, be our strength and our fong in the houfe of our pilgrimage.

Lord, we commit ourselves to thy care and keeping this day: Watch over us for good; compafs us about with thy favour as with a fhield; preferve us from all

evil, yea, the Lord preferve and keep our fouls; preferve our going out and coming in.

Our bodies and all our worldly affairs we commit to the conduct of thy wife and gracious providence, and fubmit to its difpofals. Let no hurt or harm happen to us; keep us in health and safety; blefs our employments, profper us in all our lawful undertakings, and give us comfort and fuccefs in them. Let us eat the labour of our hands, and let it be well with us.

Our precious fouls and all their concerns we commit to the government of thy Spirit and grace. O let thy grace be mighty in us, and fufficient for us, and let it work in us both to will and to do that which is good, of thine own good pleasure.

"O give us grace to do the work of this day in its day, according as the duty of the day requires; and to do even common actions after a godly fort, acknowledging thee in all our ways, and having our eyes ever up to thee, and be thou pleafed to direct our steps.

Lord, keep us from fin; give us rule over our own fpirits, and grant that we may not this day break out into paffion upon provocation, or speak unadvisedly with our lips: Give us grace to live together in peace and holy love, that the Lord may command the bleffing upon us, even life evermore. Make us confcientious in all our dealings, and always watchful against fin, as, becomes those who fee thine eye ever upon us: Arm us against every temptation, uphold us in our integrity, keep us in the way of our duty; and grant that we may be in thy fear every day, and all the day long.

every doubtful cafe, let our way be made plain before us; and give us that wifdom of the prudent, which is at all times profitable to direct; and let integrity and uprightnefs preferve us, for we wait on thee.

Sanctify to us all our loffes, croffes, flictions, and difappointments, and give us grace to fubmit to thy holy will in them, and let us find it good for us to be afflicted, that we may be partakers of thy holiness..

Prepare us for all the events of this day, for we know not what a day may bring forth: Give us to ftand complete in thy whole will; to deny ourselves, to take up our crofs daily and to follow Jefus Chrift.

Lord, fit us for death, and judgment, and eternity, and give us grace to live every day as thofe that do not know but it may be our last day.

Lord, plead thy caufe in the world; build up thy church into perfect beauty; fet up the throne of the exalted Redeemer in all places upon the ruins of the devil's kingdom. Let the reformed churches be more and more reformed, and let every thing that is amifs be amended; and let thofe that fuffer for righteoufnefs' fake be fupported and delivered.

Do us good in thefe nations; bless the king, and all in muthority; guide public counfels and affairs; overJule all to thine own glory; let peace and truth be in our days, and be preferved to those that fhall come after us.

Be gracious to all our relations, friends, neighbours, and acquaintance, and do them good according as their neceffities are. Supply the wants of all thy people. Dwell in the families that fear thee, and call upon thy name. Forgive our enemies, and thofe that hate us; give us a right and charitable frame of fpirit towards all men, and all that is theirs.

Vifit thofe that are in affliction, and comfort them, and be unto them a very prefent help. Recover the fick, eafe the pained, fuccour the tempted, relieve the oppreffed, and give joy to thofe that mourn in Zion.

Deal with us and our family according to the tenure of the everlafting covenant, which is well ordered in all things and fure, and which is all our falvation, and all our defire; however it pleafeth God to deal with us and with our house.

Now bleffed be God for all his gifts both of nature and grace, for those that concern this life and that to come; especially for Jefus Chrift the fountain and

foundation of all; thanks be to God for his unfpeakable gift.

We humbly beseech thee, for Christ Jefus fake, to pardon our fins, accept our fervices, and grant an anfwer of peace to our prayers, even for his fake who died for us, and rofe again, who hath taught us to pray, Our Father which art in heaven, &c.

An Evening Prayer for a Family.

OST holy, and bleffed, and glorious Lord God, whose we are, and whom we are bound to ferve; for, because thou madeft us, and not we ourfelves, therefore we are not our own, but thine, and unto thee, O Lord, do we lift up our fouls; thy face, O Lord, do we feek; whither fhall we go for happinefs, but to thee, from whom we derive our being?

Thou art the great benefactor of the whole creation, thou giveft to all life and breath and all things: thou art our benefactor, the God that haft fed us, and kept us all our life long unto this day. Having obtained help of God, we continue hitherto monuments of sparing mercy, and witneffes for thee that thou art gracious, that thou art God, and not man; for therefore it: is that we are not cut off.

One day telle another, and one night certifies to an other, that thou art good, and doff good, and never faileft thofe that feek thee, and trust in thee. Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and oft ing to praife thee..

It is through the good hand of cur God upon us, that we are brought in fafety to the clofe of another day, and that after the various employments of the day, we come together at night to mention the loving-kind-nefs of the Lord, and the praises of our God, who is good, and whose mercy endureth for ever.

Bleffed be the Lord, who daily loads us with his be nefits, even the God of our falvation; for he that iss

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