ple in ourselves, and without cenfuring what another perfon does, tho' contrary to what we do. But let us do in this, and in all other indifferent cafes, what we believe will tend moft to our own spiritual edification, without regard to what other people do; for every one is to give an account of his own deeds.

The Hymn, on Saturday Morning.
Ndulge, O GOD, my humble claim,
Thou art my hope, my joy, my reft;
The glories that compofe thy name
Stand all engag'd to make me bleft.
Thou great and good, thou just and wife,
Thou art my Father and my GOD;
And I am thine by facred ties,

Thy fon, thy fervant bought with blood.

With heart and eyes and lifted hands
For thee I long, to thee I look,

As travellers in thirsty lands

Pant for the cooling water-brook.

Nor fruits or wines that tempt our taste,
Nor all the joys our fenfes know,
Could make me fo divinely bleft,
Or raife my chearful paffion fo.
My life itself without thy love
No tafte of pleafure could afford;
'Twould but a tiresome burden prove,
If I were banish'd from the Lord.
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Amidst the wakeful hours of night,
When bufy cares afflict my head,
One thought of thee gives new delight,
And adds refreshment to my bed.

I'll lift my bands, I'll raise my voice,
While I have breath to pray or praife;
This work fhall make my heart rejoice,
And Spend the remnant of my days.

Another.

BRoad is the road that leads to death,
And thoufands walk together there;

But wifdom fhews a narrower path
With here and there a traveller.

Deny thyself; and take thy cross,
Is the Redeemer's great command;
Mortals must count their gold but dross,
If they would gain this heav'nly land.
The fearful foul that tires and faints,
And walks the ways of God no more,
Is but esteem'd almost a faint,

And makes his own deftruction fure.

Lord, let not all my hopes be vain,
Create my heart entirely new,
Which hypocrites could ne'er attain,
Which falfe apoftates never knew.

*Matt.x. 38. Luke xiv. 27. Luke xvi. 24. Mark viii. 34. x. 21.

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The Prayer, on Saturday Morning.

For obtaining fuch abftinence as is necessary to fubdue the flesh to the spirit.

Almighty and everlasting God, to whofe

good providence I afcribe my health and fafety, and owe the enjoyment of the comfortable refreshment of the night paft, and the avoidance of those evils which I have juftly deferved: for thefe, O Lord, and for all thy other mercies, I defire to adore and blefs thy glorious name; humbly befeeching thee to accept this my morning facrifice of praife and thanksgiving in and thro' the merits and mediation of my dear redeemer; who did faft forty days and forty nights, to teach us fuch abftinence as may fubdue our flesh to the spirit, whereby we may ever obey thy godly motions; and for his fake, O Lord, I humbly befeech thee to pardon all my fins, and grant that a due fense of thy mercies may be fo deeply impreffed upon my mind, that I may love thee above all things.

Vouchfafe me the affiftance of thy good fpirit to inure me by felf-denial to bring my body into fubjection, and to punish all thofe exceffes I have been guilty of in the use of thy creatures; and to enable me to withstand the

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* Matth. iv. 2. Mark i. 3. Luke iv. 2.

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temptations of this wicked world, and with an undaunted courage and refolution to bear up under all the trials and difficulties, which I fhall meet with in my chriftian warfare. Let my retirement from the world make me fee the vanity and emptiness of it, and teach me to relith the pleasures of fpiritual enjoyments; let me fpend my folitary hours in the improvement of my chriftian knowledge, and do thou open my eyes, that I may fee the wonderous things of thy law. Make me heartily to bewail my fins, and do thou work in me that godly forrow, not to be repented of; that so I may manifeft the fincerity of my love by a conftantand habitual care to do what is pleafing in thy fight. O Lord, fearch my reins and my heart, prove me and examine my thoughts, grant that I may fincerely examine the state of my own mind; that perceiving how bitter a thing it is to depart from the living God, I may no longer continue at a distance from the fountain of all joy and happiness; but be fo truly honeft and upright, and fo ftedfaft and immoveable in the ways truth and juftice, that no worldly interest or advantage, how promifing or great foever, tay be able to shake my integrity. And give me grace by confeffing and forfaking my fins

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* Pfalm cxxxix. 1. vii. 9. xxvi. 2.

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to be entirely converted unto thee, and to depend upon thy providence, so as to rest contented under all the difpenfations of thy infinite wifdom and goodness. And though thou fhouldft fee fit to deprive me of any, or even all the comforts of this life, yet,

O gracious father, leave me not deftitute of those things that accompany falvation, nor deny me thy favour, which is better than life itfelf. Whatever thou art pleased to deprive me of, yet take not from me, I befeech thee, the comforts of thy holy fpirit; but in all the troubles and disappointments of this world, in all the calamities and trials I fhall meet with here, be thou my only refuge and my fupport, my stay and my truft, my faviour and mighty deliverer.*

Stand by me in all trials, fuccour me in every temptation, fupport me in difcouragements, and advife me in all difficult cafes; but efpecially, O Lord, I moft importunately befeech thee, that when the time of my diffolution draws nigh, and things here begin to fail me, thou wouldst then vouchsafe to ftrengthen and fupport me, and at laft receive me into thy bleffed kingdom. And, till that time draweth nigh,

Let thy great goodnefs, O Lord, continue to