according to their several necessities. And this we beg, for Jesus Christ's sake, our Lord.

WEDNESDAY MORNING.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve, pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord.

We glorify thy name, that through him thou hast opened a way of access to thyself, and hast set him forth as a propitiation through faith in his blood, that all who believe may be justified from all things. We flee for refuge to lay hold of this hope set before us. Our iniquities are, indeed, gone over our heads as a heavy burden; they are too heavy for us to bear. But we come to thee pleading thy own most gracious declaration, that thou hast no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, but hadst rather that he turn from his evil ways and live. Spare us, therefore, good Lord; and grant that we, whose consciences by sin are accused, by thy merciful pardon may be absolved, through Christ our Lord.

O Lord, our heavenly Father, who has safely brought us to the beginning of this day; defend us

in the same with thy mighty power, and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger; but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always what is righteous in thy sight.

Bless us as a family. Unite our hearts to fear thy name. Teach us to love one another with a pure heart fervently; to bear each other's burdens; and so to fulfil the law of Christ. Give us grace to be faithful in our several occupations, and to do our duty in that state of life into which it hath pleased thee to call us. Bless us in our social connexions and employments. May our chief companions and friends be such as fear thee. Let all our delight be in the saints that are in the earth, and in such as excel in virtue. Bless us in our necessary dealings with the world. Make us honest in all our concerns. Deliver us from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue; and let integrity and uprightness preserve us. Hold thou up our goings in thy paths, that our footsteps slip not. Enable us to walk wisely towards them that are thine enemies, and to afford them no just occasion to blaspheme. Let the very words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart, be always acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, our strength and our Redeemer.

We humbly pray thee to pour down these blessings upon all men, particularly on our fellow Christians, and on those to whom we are more immediately related,

Give unto them whatever thy infinite wisdom knoweth to be necessary or profitable, both for their temporal and eternal welfare.

Hear us, we beseech thee, O Father of mercies, in these our supplications, for them, and for ourselves. Accept our hearty thanks for all thy goodness towards us; more especially for the protection and refreshment of the past night. And mercifully spare us to meet together in the evening, to renew our prayers and praises, which we offer up in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour; to whom, &c.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.

O Lord, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the worlds were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.

Upon thy mercy-seat in the heavens thou waitest to be gracious; and we, thy sinful creatures, draw nigh unto thee, as unto a God in Christ, reconciling the world unto thyself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.

We bless thee, O Lord, that though we have sinned, we have an Advocate with thee, Jesus Christ the righteous, who is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world.

We pray thee, to create and make in us new and contrite hearts; that we, worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness. Grant us, according to the riches of thy glory, to be strengthened with might, by thy Spirit, in the inner man. Let Christ dwell in our hearts by faith, that, being rooted and grounded in love, we may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that we may be filled with all the fulness of thee our God.

Thou hast brought and defended us, O heavenly Father, through the dangers of another day; and hast blessed us with every needful blessing, in our going out and coming in. But, we beseech thee, O God, to touch our hearts with the solemn and affecting truth, that we know not what shall be on the morrow. Keep us constantly mindful, that in the midst of life we are in death. Of whom may we seek for succour but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? Yet, O Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.

Give ear, O Lord, to our prayers for our fellow creatures. Put the ungodly in fear, that they may know themselves to be but men. Incline them

seriously to think on their ways, and turn their feet unto thy testimonies. Let all those who trust in thee rejoice; because their redemption draweth nigh.

Be gracious unto such as, in this transitory world, are suffering, either for their sins or for righteousness' sake; and sanctify their sufferings to the good of their souls.

Look with compassion on all whom the sorrows of death are encompassing about. We commend their souls into thy hands, as into the hands of a faithful Creator and most merciful Saviour; humbly beseeching thee, that they may be precious in thy sight. Wash them in the blood of that spotless Lamb that was slain to take away the sins of the world, that they may be presented pure and without spot before thee.

And teach us in every daily spectacle of mortality, to remember how frail and uncertain our own condition is; and so to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. And all this we ask for thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ's sake: to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end.

THURSDAY MORNING.

ALMIGHTY, everlasting Lord, the faithful and the true God, who keepest thy appointed covenant, that day and night shall not fail; we adore thee for thy unchangeableness and truth, and we