SUNDAY MEDITATIONS.

PRAYERS, THANKSGIVINGS, &C.

A Daily Form of Thanksgiving.

Almighty God and most merciful Father, who, day after day, doft minister to finful man infinite occafions of praifing Thee, accept of my unfeigned thanks for all the blefsings I have, and every day receive, from thy good providence.

That of thine own mere goodness, and without any merit of mine, or of my forefathers, Thou haft given me a being from honeft and religious parents, and in fuch a part of the world where the Chriftian Religion is purely taught, and thy Sacraments duly administered.

That Thou didst endue me with reafon and perfect fenfes; and, to make thefe more comfortable to me, didst give me a found and healthful body.

That

That Thou gaveft me an early knowledge of Thee, my Creator and Redeemer.

That Thou haft preferved me ever fince my birth, and haft vouchfafed me health and liberty, and a competency of means to fupport me.

That Thou haft redeemed me by thy Son, and given me a fhare in his merits; fanctified me by thy Holy Spirit, and haft heaped many favours

upon me.

That Thou haft given me honest friends, to admonish, to counfel, to encourage, and to support me, by their intereft and advice.

That Thou haft been my refuge in tribulation, and my defence in all adverfities; delivering me from dangers, infamy, and troubles. For all known or unobferved deliverances, and for the guard thy Holy Angels keep over me, I praise thy good providence.

When I went aftray, Thou didst reduce me; when I was fad, Thou

didit comfort me; when I offended Thee, Thou didst forbear and gently correct me, and didst long expect my repentance; and when, for the grievoufnefs of my fins, I was ready to defpair, Thou didft keep me from utter ruin; Thou haft delivered me from the fnares and affaults of the Devil; Thou haft not only preserved my foul, but my body, from deftruction, when fickneffes and infirmities took hold of me.

O Lord and Father, I cannot render dute thanks and praife for all these mercies bestowed upon me: Such as I have I give Thee; and humbly befeech Thee to accept of this my daily facrifice of thanksgiving.

Pardon, O God, all my former ingratitude; and that I have paffed fo many days without obferving, without admiring, without acknowledging and confeffing, thy wonderful goodnefs to the moft unworthy of thy fervants.

For

For (now I foberly confider my dependance upon Thee) as there is no hour of my life that I do not enjoy thy favours, and tafte of thy goodness, so (if my frailty would permit) I would fpend no part of my life without remembering Thee.

Praise the Lord then, O my foul, and all that is within me praise his Holy Name.

Glory be to Thee, O Lord, my Creator. Glory be to Thee, O Jefus, my Redeemer. Glory be to the Holy Ghost, my Sanctifier, my Guide, and Comforter.

All love, all glory, be to the high and undivided Trinity, whofe works are infeparable, and whofe dominion endureth world without end.

Amen.

When I seriously confider, great God, my dependance upon thy Providence, and that the favours and mercies I have received, are infinitely more in number than the acknowledgments I have made, I am justly

afhamed

afhamed of my ingratitude, and afraid left my unthankfulness fhould provoke Thee to hinder the current of thy bleffings from defcending upon me.

Forgive, O merciful Father, my past negligences, and give me grace for the time to come to obferve and to value thy kindneffes, as becomes one who has received fo much more than he deferves.

Preserve in my foul, O God, fuch a conftant and clear fenfe of my obligations to Thee, that upon the receipt of every favour, I may immediately turn my eyes to him from whom cometh my falvation. That thy manifold bleffings may fix fuch lafting impreffions upon my foul, that I may always praife Thee faithfully here on earth, until it fhall pleafe Thee, of thy unbounded mercy, to call me nearer the place of thy heavenly habitation, to praise my Lord and deliverer to all eternity.