Then say, Turn thee, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercies' sake. Psulm vi. 4, H EAR me, O gracious God and Father, and breathe into my heart that fpirit which renews us after thine own image, in righteoufness and true holiness. Bleffed Jefus, who feekeft out finners to make them good, do not reject me now, when I feek to thee to make me better. I am poor and naked, O! clothe me with thy righteousnefs. My good thoughts are changeable and inconftant; but, O! do thou establish and fix them by thy grace: fet up thy kingdom, O Jefu, in my heart: for to become thy faithful fervant is more to me than to have the empire of this world. Keep me steadfast in ferving thee, till thou takeft me finally to thyself. A prayer of resignation to the will of God. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven --Matt. vi. 10. Ο Lord Jesu, I give thee my body, my foul, my fubftance, my friends, my liberty, and my life; difpofe of me, and of all that is mine, as it feemeth beft to thee, to the glory of thy holy name. Lord, I am not now mine, but thine; therefore claim me as thy devoted right; keep me as thy charge, and love me as thy child; fight for me when I am affault E ed ed; heal me when I am wounded; and revive me when I am fainting. Amen. O Saviour of the world, fave me; who by thy cross and paffion has redeemed me; help me and fave me, I beseech thee, O my God. Give me, O Lord, fpiritual wifdom, that I may difcern what is pleafing to thee, and follow what belongs unto my peace; and let the knowledge and peace of God, and of Jefus Christ our Lord, be my guide and my portion all the days of my life. Amen. To the King eternal, immortal, invifible, and only wife God, who is the ever bleffed and adorable Trinity, be all honour and glory, thanksgiving and praise, now and for evermore. Amen. A prayer to conclude our devotions upon this day, and every day in the week. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. John xvi. 23. Almighty God, who haft promifed to hear the petitions of them that afk in thy Son's name; I beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears unto me, who have now made my prayers and fupplications unto thee! and grant that thofe things which I have faithfully afked according to thy will, may be effectually obtained, to the relief of my neceffi ties, and to the fetting forth of thy glory, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. THE The Bleffing. HE peace of God, which paffeth all understanding, keep my heart and mind in the knowledge and love of God, and of his fon Jefus Chrift our Lord; and the bleffing of God Almighty the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft, be with me now, and at the hour of my death. Amen. On Monday night, (and the rest of the week, at going to bed, say, I Will lay me down in peace and take Into thy hands I commend my fpirit, for thou haft redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, now, and at the hour of death. Amen. Amen, Amen, The Meditation for Tuesday Morning*. Upon God's Mercy and Christ's incarnation, to prepare us for a worthy receiving of the boly sacrament. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be-. gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John iii. 16. I. D RAW near, all ye that fear our Lord, and I will tell you what he has done for my foul; hear, and I will tell you what he hath done for yours, and the wonders of his bounty towards all the world. When we lay afleep in the fhades of nothing, his almighty hand awakened us into being; not to that of ftones, or plants, or beafts, over which he has made us abfolute lords; but to a body wonderfully made, and an immortal foul, little inferior to his glorious angels; he printed on our fouls his own fimilitude, and promifed to our obedience a fhare in his own felicity; he endued us with appetites to live well and happy, and furnished us with means to satisfy thofe appetites; creating a whole world to ferve us here, and providing a heaven to glorify us hereafter. 2. Thefe * Here you may observe the directions given on page 3. 2. These are the favours of God's infinite goodness: but what return have we made to him! bluth, O my foul, for fhame, at fo ftrange a weakness, and weep for grief at fo extreme an ingratitude. We childishly preferred a trivial apple before the law of our God, and the fafety of our fouls: we fondly embraced a little needlefs fatisfaction, before the pleafures of paradife, and the eternity of heaven. 3. Behold the unhappy fource of all our miferies, which ftill increafed its ftreams as they went farther on, till they exacted at last a deluge of justice, to drown their deluge of iniquity; and here, alas had been an end of man, a fad and fatal end of the whole world, had not our wife Creator foreseen the danger, and in mercy prevented the extremity of the ruin, referving for himfelf a few choice plants to replenish the earth with more hopeful fruit; yet they grew quickly wild, and brought forth four grapes, and their children's teeth were set on edge; quickly they afpired to an intolerable pride of fortifying their wickednefs against the power of heaven, by building the Tower of Babel 4. This rebellion provoked Juftice to a fecond deluge, and to bring again a cloud over the earth; but Mercy difcovered a E 3 bow |