Second Week. Our Father, &c. The Lord bless us, and keep us! The Lord make his face to shine upon us, and be gracious unto us! The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us, and give us peace, both now and evermore! Amen. Third Week. Our Father, &c. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, bless, preserve, and keep us! The Lord mercifully with his favour look upon us! and so fill us with all spiritual benediction and grace, that we may so live together in this life, that, in the world to come, we may have life everlasting. Amen. Fourth Week. Our Father, &c. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all, this day [night] and for evermore. Amen. FAMILY PRAYERS. First Week. SUNDAY MORNING. O THOU Lord of the Sabbath, who hast set apart this day for thyself, and hast commanded us to keep it holy to thy name, look down upon a family of sinful creatures, assembled together to acknowledge thy goodness in bringing us to see it. We adore thee for thy patience and forbearance in not dealing with us according to our deserts, nor rewarding us according to our iniquities. And we beseech thee to pour down upon us the abundance of thy grace, that we may rest this day according to thy commandment. Let not thy Sabbath be a weariness to us, but our delight. May we honour thee, by not doing our own ways, nor finding our own pleasure, nor speaking our own words. Sanctify unto us thy appointed means of grace. Send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead us; let them bring us to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacle. May we go with the multitude to thy house of prayer, with the voice of joy and praise, with the multitude that keep holy-day. There may we give thee the glory which is due unto thy name, and worship thee in the beauty of holiness. May we see thy power and thy glory, so as thy servants see them in the sanctuary; and be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. Grant, O Lord, that the Scriptures, which thou hast caused to be written for our learning, may be applied to our hearts in the demonstration of the Spirit, and of power. May we in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, through a crucified Redeemer. Hear our prayers, O God, for all thy ministers [especially for him whom thou hast set over us;] and endue them with the grace of thy Holy Spirit. Give unto them the spirit of love, and of power, and of a sound mind. Make them able ministers of the New Testament, faithful stewards of thy mysteries. Help them to take heed to themselves and to the doctrine; that so, according to thy promise, they may both save themselves and those who hear them. We beseech thee to inspire continually the Universal Church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord; and grant that all they who do confess thy name, may agree in the truth of thy holy word, and live in unity and godly love. May numbers be added to it, every Sabbath-day, of such as shall be saved. Look in mercy upon such as have hitherto neglected thy Sabbaths. Teach them to improve those that remain; and so to redeem the time which they have lost, that they may be numbered among thy true people. Remember for good as many as, through sickness, or any other impediment, may be prevented from attending the ordinances of thy house, and the habitation which their soul loveth. Let thy presence be with them in their private meditations, even as with those who shall assemble together in the place where thy honour dwelleth. We pray thee, also, to have compassion upon those who as yet belong not to thy visible Church. O thou who art a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel, shine upon the nations which are sitting in darkness, and in the shadow of death. Give the word, that great may be the company of the preachers, who shall go forth into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. Let nation after nation be converted to the Christian faith, till the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and the earth be filled with the knowledge of thy glory, as the waters cover the sea. Hear, we beseech thee, O heavenly Father, these our imperfect petitions; and answer them in the multitude of thy tender mercies, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our only Lord and Saviour; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Our Father, &c. The grace of our Lord, &c. SUNDAY EVENING. O LORD God of hosts, thou art God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; and beside thee there is none other. Thou art our God, and we will praise thee; thou art our God, and we will exalt thee. We thank thee that thou hast permitted us this day to attend the ordinances of thy house, and to worship thee in the congregation of thy people, with the voice of joy and praise. We praise thee for every opportunity which hath been afforded us of becoming wise unto salvation. We bless thee for casting our lot in a land where the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. We heartily thank thee, O heavenly Father, for giving us thy blessed word, to direct us in the way of life. Let it not be unto us a sealed book, and a dead letter; but open our understandings to understand the Scriptures, that we may believe and obey them to the saving of the soul, Above all, we praise thee for the gift of thy Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. And we entreat thee, Almighty God, to grant us perfectly to know him to be the way, the truth, and the life; that, under |