Sweet hope! unknown to the ungodly, into whose dark and callous bosom the beams of grace have never penetrated: Sweet hope! and more to be desired than all the treasures of Golgonda and Peru; to walk under the light of the divine countenance, to feel the joys which his presence imparts; to be safe in that ark which rides the waves in every storm. The ocean of death spreads before us vast and dark, and who knows that it will waft us to any shore? But lo! the ark of our safety appears, and the sun arising with healing on his wings, shews us our path upon the mighty waters. We commit ourselves with confidence into his hands, who guides our destiny, who has traversed, before, this "vast profound," whom the winds and the sea obey, and who, we know, will bring us in triumph and joy, into that better region, and that purer sky, where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. "I am now ready to be offered up and the time of my departure is at hand; I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

A Morning Prayer for a Family on the Lord's Day.*

WE praise and worship thee, O Lord, the Creator of Heaven and Earth; for thou spakest the word, and all things were made; thou commandest, and they were created. We admire and adore thy infinite wisdom and power in the things thou hast made, and we acknowledge our absolute dependence upon thee, and thy great goodness and bounty to us and all the world. Blessed be thou, who didst so love the world, that thou gavest thine only begotten Son to redeem it, who was delivered for † See New Manual,

*2 Tim. iii. 6, 7, 8.

offences, and raised again (as on this day) to justify save all such as fear and obey thee.

We give thanks to thee, O Lord, for all thy mercies ur souls and bodies, for appointing one day in seven thy more peculiar worship and service. All possible se and thanks be given to God, who created us; to us Christ, who redeemed us; and to the Holy Ghost, sanctifies us. Grant, O Lord, that by a wise and gious use of the means of grace, we may grow up to ate of holiness and righteousness, and that our souls be prepared for those glorious and delightful praises, ch in Heaven will be part of the happiness and emment of thy saints to all eternity.

O Lord, we confess that we have offended thee, by negligent performance of our holy duties, by our se of thy grace, and mis-spending this thy holy day, by many sins committed in the course of our lives. let not this provoke thee to withdraw the assistances hy Holy Spirit from us, and to leave us to the vanity folly of our own minds. We humbly beseech thee, ost merciful Father, to forgive us all our past offences. thou mercifully hear our prayers, and let our cry

et our whole behaviour on this day be such, that there y be nothing thought, said, or done by us, but what y best serve to promote the end for which thou hast tituted it; and, good God, make every one of us diliit, not only to save our own souls, but, as much as in lies, the souls of others too.

Bless thy universal church: Be thou graciously present all Christian assemblies throughout the world, and r the prayers they shall this day put up, and make I word effectual to the pulling down the kingdom of tan, and to the edifying the Church of Christ in sound th and real godliness. May thy word come with power to every conscience, and have a due and saving effect on the minds of all that hear it.

Bestow a plentiful portion of thy good Spirit upon all at by sickness, imprisonment, or any other lawful imdiment, are kept from partaking of the means of grace

that we enjoy; and be pleased mercifully to relieve and succour them in all their straits and difficulties. Those that are troubled in mind, do thou direct to proper means to obtain comfort and satisfaction. Give all that have no sense of thy Majesty, and live as it were without God in the world, awakening convictions of the dangers they are in, and the miseries they are exposed to, that they may escape them.

Pardon our sins and imperfections, and relieve all our wants, for the sake of Jesus Christ; in whose words we farther pray;

Our Father, &c.

A Concluding Prayer.

THE Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; and the Love of God; and the Communion of the Holy Ghost, be with us all. Amen.

An Evening Prayer for a Family on the Lord's Day.

ETERNALLY blessed, and infinitely glorious Lord God, who keepest mercy for thousands, and forgivest the iniquities of all truly penitent and returning sinners; We present ourselves this evening before thee, acknowledging our manifold sins, whereby we have exposed ourselves to thy just displeasure.

We have been unmindful both of our duty and interest; have broken thy holy laws, dishonored our holy religion, and miserably neglected the great salvation thy blessed Son purchased and procured for mankind.

We have come without due preparation to thy solemn worship, and been heedless and inattentive in hearing thy word. O how cold and flat have we been in thy praises! how earthly, dull, and distracted, in our prayers!

ow seldom have we been seriously exercised in holy itation! How seldom have we recollected thy multiI mercies to us, so as to become sensible of the many gations we are under to thee for them; or so thought ar ways, as to turn our feet to thy testimonies! at, O Lord, we humbly pray thee, for Jesus Christ's , to forgive us all our past offences. Direct and e us in the ways of truth and holiness: And that we always fear thee our God, help us to set thee always re us; and so to observe and consider thy all-seeing that we may dread to offend thee.

eform whatever thou seest amiss in the temper and osition of our minds; and be thou graciously pleased conduct us safe through all the temptations and bles of this world. To this end, enable us strictly llow the example of Jesus Christ, and manfully to under his banner, against the world, the flesh, and devil, vigorously opposing, and valiantly conquering he enemies of our souls. Help us, in conformity to leath, to die daily unto sin, and in conformity to his rrection, to rise to a life of holiness and obedience, so we may receive the prize of a glorious and incorible inheritance.

Lord, we render unto thee our most humble and kful acknowledgments, for thy many and undeserved cies. It was thy hand that formed us. It was Thou

gavest as life, and breath, and being. Our food and ent, our health and strength, our ease and liberty, use of our limbs, and the exercise of our reason and erstanding, are all derived from thee. We therefore der unto thee, O thou bountiful giver of all good, our ses and thanksgivings, for thy temporal mercies to us, ch we are utterly unworthy of.

But above all, O Lord, we praise thee for thy spiritual cies; for blessing us in heavenly things in Christ us, which tend to the renewing us after thy likeness this life, and to the sanctifying and preparing us for t which is to come.

For ever blessed be thy Name, that our compassionate deemer took upon him our human flesh. We praise

thee for his holy doctrine, and exemplary life; that he gave himself to death, to purchase our redemption; that be completed that great work by his glorious resurrection. We bless thee that he hath begotten us again to the lively hope of an inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled, that fadeth not away, which is reserved in Heaven for all, who, by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honour, and immortality. We praise thee for his glorious ascension into Heaven, there to intercede in thy presence for us; for sending the Holy Ghost to comfort and assist us; for appointing a succession of men to preach and propagate the knowledge and practice of his heavenly doctrine, and to administer the holy sacraments, the seals of thy covenant.

We thank thee, O Heavenly Father, for all the precious promises in the gospel of thy Son; and that thou hast made our duty so necessary to our happiness. Oh! that we may all so affectionately apply our minds to the consideration of thy manifold mercies, that they may work in our souls all those divine virtues, dispositions, and affections, which they are designed by thee to produce in us.

Extend thy mercy, O God, to the whole world, that thy name may be great among the Gentiles, from the rising of the sun, unto the going down of the same.

Bless thy universal church. Put an end to all schism and division, strife and contention; purify and cleanse it from profaneness and ungodliness, from superstition, heresy, and false doctrine; and make it the joy of the whole earth.

Be gracious to this sinful nation to which we belong; forgive our many and great sins; and particularly, we pray thee, pardon our abuse of time set apart for thy more. immediate worship: our unthankfulness for the light of thy gospel, and walking contrary to its precepts. Wash us thoroughly from our iniquities, and cleanse us from our sins; and grant that by unity and charity, and holiness of life, we may glorify thy great name, and adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Continue the light of thy gospel among us: defeat and