for me, or defire my prayers, whatever thy infinite wisdom knows to be most expedient for us. Requite all those who have been any ways inftrumental to my good, according to their works; and forgive thofe that have done or wished me evil, and grant them repentance and better inclinations. All which offer upunto thee, and humbly befeech thee to grant for the fake, and through the merits of thy dearly beloved Son Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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The Thanksgiving.

Lmighty God, Father of all mercies, offer up unto thy divine majefty my unfeigned praises, in return for all those numberless mercies and benefits, which thou haft vouchfafed unto me; but more particularly blefs thy holy name for the mercies have received, for my deliverance from finand the temptations which have been conquered by me, and for all the good that have done; for preferving me in health and fafety; for the plentiful provifion which enjoy by thy goodnefs; and for the continuing to me the enjoyment of fo many comforts; as alfo for delivering me from the evils which have moft justly deserved, and to which I am continually exposed by the weakness of my nature, and the power of the enemy. Yet above all laud and magnify thy glorious name for the Incarnation, birth, life, paffion, death, refurrection and afcenfion of our Saviour, thy Son Jefus Chrift, who is the foundation of all thy mercies, and the author and finisher of our faith, in whose name alone we have a right to pray to thee,and to fum all our prayers and praifes, faying,

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Our Father, &c.

The Morning Prayer for Sunday.

Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth, thy infinite wif dom and power is the daily fubject of my praife and adoration, who acknowledge my dependance upon thee; and am thankful for thy great goodness towards me and all thy works; but more particularly for our redemption, the work of thy divine love, thro' thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord, who was deliver❜d for our offences, and raised again for our juftification. bless thee alfo for the appointment of one day in fe

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ven for our reft, and thy more peculiar worship; and grant that may obferve it according to thy commandment, as a means to promote a holy and virtuous life, and to prepare our fouls for the enjoyment of the moft glorious and delightful praises, which is the happiness and employment of angels and the fouls of just men made perfect. And altho' have offended thee by my negligent performance of thofe holy duties, which fought to perform on this thy holy-day, be not provoked to withdraw the affiftance of thy Holy Spirit from me, and to leave me to the folly and vanity of my own will, but forgive me all my past offences, and mercifully hear my prayers, and let my cry come unto thee in the day of my neceffity. Grant that may neither think, fay, nor do any thing on this day, but what may best serve to promote the end for which thou haft instituted the fame; and make me diligent, not only to fave my own foul, but, as much as in me lies, the fouls of others alfo, by my advice and example. Preferve the univerfal church, and bless every chriftian affembly with thy gracious prefence, hear the prayers they fhall this day put up, and make the word effectual to the pulling down the kingdom of fatan, and to the building up of the church of Chrift in found faith and real virtue; that fo thy word, coming with power into every confcience, may have a due and faving effect upon the minds of all that hear and read the fame. Give a plentiful portion of thy good Spirit upon all who by fickness, imprisonment, or any other impediment, are detained from partaking of the means of grace enjoy; and mercifully relieve and help them in their ftraits and afflictions. Direct the forrowful heart to proper means of comfort; and fend from thy holy place awakening convictions to all that forget God, make a mock at fin,and flight the dangers they are in, and the miferies they are exposed to, that they may escape the punishment of the reprobate. And, Omoft gracious Father! pardon my fins and imperfections, and relieve all my neceffities, for the fake of Jefus Chrift, who hath taught me thus to pray:

Our Father, &c.

Directions.

Here, if time will permit, must be added the prayers of general Interceffion, Thank giving, and the concluding Prayer, as you will find them in p. 6, 7 and 8, of these

Devotions.

Directions

Directions and Prayers for the Evening.

Directions.

IT night fpare fome time before thou goeft to bed for thy devotions, and laying afide all business and company, retire to thy clofet, when begin with

The Preparatory Prayer.

God! fend into my foul thy Holy Spirit to help my inO firmities; and fo difpofe my mind, and prepare my heart, that my prayers and praifes may be acceptable in thy fight, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Directions.

To this add the prayer in page 4, for a right ufe of the holy fcriptures, and then read fome portion of holy fcripture, and of this New Whole Duty of man, in the manner as directed in the morning, on page 4. And, having compofed thy thoughts, pray to God to enlighten your memory in the examination of your past life, faying,

A Prayer for Sincerity in the Acknowledgment of our Sins to God.

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Eternal God, who searchest the hearts and trieft the reins of man, and knoweft his thoughts long before, dispose me frequently to examine the ftate of my own mind, and to compare my actions with the rule of thy laws: raife in me an abhorrence of whatsoever offends thee, that may always turn my feet unto thy teftimonies; and let neither felflove, floth, negligence, nor any other darling paffion fo impofe upon or divert me from fearching into the corruptions of my own heart, as to escape my repentance; but vouchsafe me the affiftance of thy Holy Spirit, that may fo impartially judge and condemn myself, that may not be condemn'd at thy fearful judgment-feat; and that in a full difcovery of my own vilenefs may humble myself under the rod of thy divine justice, and, from my heart condemning all those follies whereby f have provoked thy wrath and indignation against me, 7 may carneftly folicit thy pardon and forgiveness, thro' the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Directions,

Directions.

Then examine your confcience after the following Method.

A fhort Form of Examination of Confcience.

HAT fin have this day committed in thought,

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What opportunity of doing good have neglected? Have omitted or carelessly performed my religious duties? Have done any injuftice to my neighbour in his body, family, goods or reputation?

Am willing to make him reftitution, as am able? Am ready, as God has forgiven me in Chrift Jefus, to forgive fuch as have offended me?

Directions.

To the above may be added fuch other Questions as your particular Circumstances may require, and then confefs your own guiltins to Almighty God in this or fome fuch for m as follows:

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A Form of Confeffion.

Lmighty God, just and terrible in judgments obftinate and rebellious finners, but of infinite mercy to fuch as truly repent, and turn unto thee; look upon me with the eyes of mercy, who now confefs that am not worthy to lift up my hands to the throne of thy grace. Thou haft, by innumerable inftances, manifefted thyfelf to be a moft kind and indulgent father; but, alas! 7 have abused thy goodness, and made very ungrateful returns: therefore 7 lament and bewail the corruption of my nature, moft forrowfully confeffing before thee, that have too great a defire after the things of this world, which have taken fuch hold of my affections, that J neither love thee, serve thee, nor obey thee as 7 ought to do. Oh! how cold are my devotions! How wandering, dead and distracted are my prayers! And how imperfect are all my religious duties! Give me then, O God! an heart to humble mySelf before thee, for 7 have greatly offended thee, by luft and intemperance; by peevifhnefs, paffion and anger; These particuby covetousness and ambition; by pride and envy; lars may be by prejudice and ill-will towards my neighbour; by varied acmurmuring and repining at the difpenfationsofthy accufation of cording to the providence, and by an unwillingness to refign my- every one's felf to thy all-wife difpofal. Therefore my hope confcience.

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is only in thy mercy, which beg thro' the infinite merits of my dear Redeemer. For, 7 know that am loft and undone for ever, if thou rejecteft me. Oh then! turn not thy face from me, nor caft thy fervant away in difpleafure; but have mercy upon me thro' the interceffion of thy beloved Son; and for the fake of his meritorious death and paffion, for all that he has done and fuffered for me, forgive all the fins and follies of my life paft, cleanfe me from all my fecret and unknown tranfgreffions, and be reconciled unto me, who am heartily forry for my fins, and grieved that have offended thee. Referve not my fins to be punished in the day of thy fierce anger; but fpare me and grant that may never fall into thofe evils, which my fins have justly deferved of thy justice. There is nothing 7 fo much defire as to be of the number of thine elect; for, thy favour is better than life itself, and the most perfect freedom is not to be compared to thy fervice. Grant me ftrength by the affiftance of thy Holy Spirit to forfake all my fins, and to reform whatever has been amifs in the temper and difpofition of my mind, or in any of the actions of my life, that when depart hencef may be received into that bleffed ftate where fin and death shall have no dominion over me; all which beg for the fake and in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Directions.

After which acknowlegdment of our oven corruption and unworthiness, and interceffions to God for pardon and grace, renew your refolutions of amendment, and beg for merthro' Chrift; and this not flightly, and only as of course, but with as much devout earnestness, as if you were fure that death were as near approaching as your sleep, which, for aught you know, may be fo indeed: and therefore you should no more venture to go to bed and to fleep unrecommended to God,than you would dare to die in that miferable ftate.

Then offer up unto God the tribute of your evening facrifice of prayer and thankf giving, as well for his usual and daily prefervations, as for his extraordinary deliverances; and above all endeavour by the confideration of his mercies to have your heart the more closely knit to him, remembering that every favour received from God, is a new engagement upon you to love and obey him ftill more and more.

The Evening Prayer for every Day.

N. B. On Sundays inftead of this Prayer ufe that for Sunday Evening, on page 14

Moft glorious Lord God! who haft created the heavens and the earth, and all things therein, and upholdeft them all by the word of thy power, what am 7, that

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