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our God is the God of faivation. We have from thee the mercies of the day in its day, according as the neceffity of the day requires, though we come far fhort of doing the work of the day in its day, according as the duty of the day requires.

We blefs thee for the ministration of the good angels about us, the serviceableness of the inferior creatures to us, for our bodily health and ease, comfort in our relations, and a comfortable place of abode, that thou haft not made the wilderness our habitation, and the barren land our dwelling; and especially that thou continueft to us the ufe of our reafon, and the quiet and peace of our confciences.

We blefs thee for our fhare in the public tranquillity, that thou haft given us a good land, in which we dwell fafely under our own vines and fig-trees.

Above all, we blefs thee for Jefus Chrift, and his mediation between God and man, for the covenant of grace made with us in him, and all the exceeding great and precious promifes and privileges of that covenant, for the throne of grace erected for us, to which we may in his name come with humble boldness, and forthe hope of eternal life through him.

We confefs we have finned against thee; this day we have finned and done foolishly: O God, thou knoweft our foolishness, and our fins are not hid from thee; we mifpend our time, we neglect our duty, we follow after lying vanities, and forfake our own mercies. We offend with our tongues: are we not carnal and walk as men, below Chriftians? Who can underfland his errors! Cleanfe us from our fecret faults..

We pray thee give us repentance for our fins of daily infirmity, and make us duly fenfible of the evil of them, and of our danger by them, and let the blood of Chrift, thy Son, which cleanfeth from all fin, cleanfe us from it, that we may lie down to night at peace with God, and our fouls may comfortably return to him, and repofe in him as our reft.

And give us grace to repent every day for the fins of every day, fo that when we come to die, we may have the fins but of one day to repent of, and fo we may be continually easy.

Do us good by all the providences we are under, merciful or afflictive; give us grace to accommodate ourselves to them, and by all bring us nearer to thee, and make us fitter for thee.

We commit ourselves to thee this night, and defire to dwell in the fecret place of the Moft High, and to abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Let the Lord be our habitation, and let our fouls be at home in him.

Make a hedge of protection (we pray thee) about us, and about our house, and about all that we have round about, that no evil may befal us, nor any plague come nigh our dwelling. The Lord be our keeper, who neither flumbers nor fleeps: Lord, be thou a fun and a fhield to us.

Refresh our bodies (we pray thee) with quiet and comfortable reft, not to be disturbed with any distrustful difquieting cares and fears; but efpecially let our fouls be refreshed with thy love, and the light of thy countenance, and thy benignity, which is better than life.

When we awake, grant that we may be ftill with thee, and may remember thee upon our beds, and meditate upon thee in the night-watches, and may improve the filence and folitude of our retirements for communion with God and our own hearts: that when we are alone, we may not be alone, but God may be with us, and we with him.

Reftore us to another day in fafety, and prepare us for the duties and events of it; and by all fupports and comforts of this life, let our bodies be fitted to ferve our fouls in thy fervice, and enable us to glorify thee with both, remembering that we are not our own, we are bought with a price.

And forafmuch as we are now brought one day near.

er our end, Lord, enable us fo to number our days, as that we may apply our hearts unto wifdom: Let us be minded by our putting off our clothes, and going to fleep in our beds, of putting off the body, fleeping the fleep of death, and of making our bed in the darkness fhortly, that we may be daily dying in expectation of it, and preparation for our change, that when we come to die indeed it may be no furprise or terror to us, but we may with comfort put off the body, and refign the fpirit, knowing whom we have trufted.

Lord, let our family be bleffed in him, in whom all the families of the earth are bleffed, bleffed with all ́ fpiritual bleffings in heavenly things, by Chrift Jefus, and with temporal bleffings as far as thou feeft good for us Give us health and profperity, but especially let our fouls profper and be in health, and let all that belong to us belong to Chrift, that we who live in a houfe together on earth, may be together for ever with. the Lord.

Look with pity upon a loft world, we beseech thee, and fet up Chrift's throne there where Satan's feat is ; fend the gospel where it is not, make it fuccefsful where it is; let it be mighty through God to the pulling down of the ftrong holds of fin.

Let the Church of Chrift greatly flourish in all places, and make it to appear that it is built upon a rock, and that the gates of hell cannot prevail against it: and suffer not the rod of the wicked anywhere to reft upon the lot of the righteous.

Let the land of our nativity be ftill the particular care of thy good providence, that in the peace thereof we may have peace. Let glory dwell in our land, and upon: all the glory let there be a defence..

Rule in the hearts of our rulers. We pray thee con-tinue the king's life and government long a public blesfing; make all that are in places of public trust faithful to the public intereft; and all that bear the fword, a terror to evil doers and a protection and praise to them

that do well. Own thy minifters in their work, and give them skill and will to help fouls to heaven.

Be gracious to all that are dear to us: Let the rifing generation be fuch as thou wilt own, and do thee more and better service in their day than this has done.

Comfort and relieve all that are in forrow or affliction, lay no more upon them than thou wilt enable them to bear, and enable them to bear what thou doft lay upon them.

Do for us, we pray thee, abundantly above what we are able to afk or think, for the fake of our blefied Saviour Jefus Chrift, who is the Lord our Righteoufnefs. To him with the Father and the eternal Spirit, be glory and praise, now and for ever. Amen.

A Family Prayer for the Lord's Day Morning.

OST gracious God, and our Father in our Lord. Jefus Chrift; it is good for us to draw near to thee; the nearer the better; and it will be beft of all, when we come to be nearest of all in the kingdom, of glory.

Thou haft thy being of thyself, and thy happiness in thyfelf: We therefore adore thee as the great Jehovah : We have our being from thee, and our happiness in thee, and therefore it is both our duty and our interest to feek thee, to implore thy favour, and to give unto thee the glory due unto thy name.

We bless thee for the return of the morning light, and that thou caufeft the day-fpring to know its place and time. O let the day spring from on high vifit our dark fouls, and the Sun of Righteoufnels arife with healing under his wings.

We bless thee that the light we fee is the Lord's : That this is the day which the Lord hath made, hath máde for man, hath made for himself, we will rejoice and be glad in it: That thou haft revealed unto us thy holy fabbaths, and that we were betimes taught to put

a difference between this day and other days, and thatwe live in a land, in all parts of which God is publicly and folemnly worshipped on this day.

We bless thee that fabbath liberties and opportunities are continued to us; and that we are not wishing in vain for these days of the Son of Man; that our candlestick is not removed out of its place, as justly it might have been, because we have left our first love.

Now we bid this fabbath welcome: Hofanna to the Son of David, bleffed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hofanna in the higheft. O that we may be in the fpirit on this Lord's day; that this may be the fabbath of the Lord in our dwelling; in our hearts, a fabbath of reft from fin, and a fabbath of rest in God. Enable us, we pray thee, so to sanctify this fabbath, as that it may be fanctified to us, and be a means of our fanctification: That by resting to day from our worldly employments, our hearts may be more and more taken off from present things, and prepared to leave them; and that by our employing our time to day in the worship of God, we may be led into a more experimental acquaintance with the work of heaven, and be made more meet for that bleffed world.

We confefs we are utterly unworthy of the honour and unable for the work of communion with thee, but we come to thee in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is worthy, and depend upon the affiftance of thy bleffed Spirit to work all our work in us, and fo to ordain peace for us.

We keep this day holy, to the honour of God the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, in remembrance of the work of creation, that work of wonder, in which thou madeft all things out of nothing by the word of thy power, and all very good; and they continue to this day according to thine ordinance, for all are thy fervants. Thou art worthy to receive blesfing, and honour, and glory, and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and

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