28. Resolved, never to give over, nor in the least to slacken my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be.

29. Resolved, when I fear misfortunes and adversities, to examine whether I have done my duty, and resolve to do it; and let it be just as Providence orders it, I will as far as I can, be concerned about nothing but my duty, and my sin.

30. Resolved, never to do anything but duty; and then according to Eph. vi. 6-8, do it willingly and cheerfully as unto the Lord, and not to man; knowing that whatever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord.

31. Resolved, to exercise myself much in this all my life long, viz. with the greatest openness to declare my ways to God, and to lay open my soul to him; all my sins, temptations, difficulties, sorrows, fears, hopes, desires, and everything, and every circumstance, according to Dr. Man

ton's twenty-seventh sermon on the 119th Psalm.

32. Resolved, after afflictions, to inquire what am I the better for them; what good I have got, and what I might have got by them.

CONFESSION OF SINS AFTER SELF-EXAMINA

TION.

O LORD God Almighty, the Judge of all the earth, keeping covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, have mercy upon me a miserable sinner, coming back to thee in the name of Jesus Christ. My conscience accuses me of many transgressions and much disobedience. If in anything I have not greatly sinned, or have in a measure fulfilled thy will, this was the

work, and to thee alone be praise. But, O how unfaithful have I been to my engagements, and how often have I transgressed thy law, and been disobedient to thy holy will!

I desire especially to confess and to bewail those sins for which my own heart more particularly condemns me.

And how much of my sinfulness is unknown to myself! But thou art acquainted with all my ways: Oh, cleanse Thou me from my secret faults, and all my known transgressions. Wash me through that precious blood which cleanses from all sin. Give me grace to look to Him who was pierced for my sins, and to mourn for them with that godly sorrow which works repentance unto salvation.. Oh, vouchsafe unto me a holy sorrow of

heart, a lively faith in Christ, and a sure hope of thy mercy through him, that I may, with a pacified conscience, a believing and penitent, and a grateful and thankful spirit, go to partake of the memorials of his death. Hear me for his name's sake. Amen.

DEVOTIONAL POETRY.

A HYMN OF PRAISE.

O GOD, thou art my God alone,

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Early to thee my soul shall cry,

A pilgrim in a land unknown,

A thirsty land whose springs are dry.

Oh, that it were as it hath been,

When, praying in the holy place,

Thy power and glory I have seen,

And marked the footsteps of thy grace

Yet, through this rough and thorny maze, I follow hard on thee, my God;

Thine hand, unseen, upholds my ways,

I safely tread where thou hast trod.