While wretched we, like worms and moles,

Lie grov'ling in the dust below; Almighty grace renew our fouls, And we'll afpire to glory too.

Another.

FAR from my foul, fad thoughts, be gone,
And leave me to my joys:
My tongue fhall triumph in my God,
And make a joyful noife.

Darkness and doubts had veil'd my mind,
And drown'd my head in tears,
Till Sov'reign Grace with faining rays
Difpell'd my gloomy fears.

Oh! what immortal joys I felt,
And raptures all divine,
When Jefus told me I was his,
And my beloved mine.

In vain the tempter frights my foul,
And breaks my peace in vain ;
One glimpfe, dear Saviour, of thy face
Revives my joys again.

The Prayer on Thursday Evening. For peace and quietnefs of confcience. Lord God, our heavenly Father, who, for the greater confirmation of our faith and confidence in thy mercy, haft in the holy gofpel declared, that who

hofoever believeth in thy Son Jefus hrift, fhall not perish, but have everfting life; and that this is life eternal, know thee, the only true God, and fus Chrift whom thou haft fent; ineafe this knowledge, and confirm this ith in me evermore. Grant that I may ave fuch a lively faith, as will fhow itIf by love and good works; fuch a vicrious faith, which may enable me to vercome the world, and confirm me to e image of thy Son Jefus Chrift. Grant he fuch a due fenfe of thy infinite mer, fhown to mankind in fo much mifery, may never depart out of my mind. fteadfastly believe, O bleffed Jefus, that nou didft fuffer upon the crofs, to fave e and all the world from the guilt and unishment of our fins. O give me that race that I may die to fin, and rife again nto righteousness. Accept of my imerfect forrow, repentance, faith, and imerfect refolutions; and let the precious merits of my crucified Saviour fupply all ny wants and imperfections. Thou haft aid, come unto me, all ye that are weary nd heavy laden, and I will refresh you. O bleffed Jefus, I come unto thee in all humility, and deeply fenfible of my great inworthinefs; O'do thou bear this burlen of fin for me, and refresh me with comfortable hopes of thy mercy and forgive

giveness, and the truth of thy falva

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I adore thee, my God, and make an entire refignation of myfelf, and of all that I am and have, into thy hands; defiring now, and to all eternity, to depend on thee, my God, and my inheritance.

To thee I owe all thofe comforts of life, health, peace, and plenty I enjoy, and a freedom from all those pains, and mi feries, and evils, I am fubject to, and have deferved at thy hands. I defire, above all things, to give moft humble and hearty thanks to thee, O God the Father, for the redemption of the world by thy Son Jefus Christ our Lord, and for the means of grace which thou haft ordained by the word and facraments, and the hopes of glory.

I beseech thee, in and through our Lord Jefus Chrift, who was pleased to fuffer death upon the crofs for our redemption, to pardon all the fins I have at any time committed; and grant I may find the power of his death, in my dying to fin and rifing unto righteousnefs; that henceforth being freed from fin, all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in me, now and for evermore.

I beseech thee continue to my foul that grace I received in the holy facrament, that I may order all my words and ac tions, and all my conversation with fuch

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care and prudence, as to give no offence or occafion of falling to any; but that I may be a good example to others, and adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

O let thy Holy Spirit always direct and rule my heart, and of thy great goodnefs bring me to life eternal, and give me grace to do my duty in that ftate of life whereunto thou haft been pleafed to call me; and make me therewith content. Continue to me, I beseech thee, the blefsings I enjoy, fupply me with those I want, and turn from me all thofe evils which I moft righteously have deferved, or which either the malice of the devil, or the wickednefs or misfortunes of the world may bring upon me.

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Let all things that befall me in this world work together for my good in the other; and grant me always thofe things, whether profperous or adverfe, that may beft conduce to, and be most profitable for my eternal falvation: wherefore, I refign, O Lord, and give myself up to thy providence: I fubmit myself to all the events which it fhall please thee to bring upon me: do with me what thou feeft goed: and let thy holy will be done in me, and by me, for the fake Part II. K

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of Jefus Chrift our Lord, who has taught us when we pray, to fay, Our Father, &c.

The Meditation for Friday Morning.

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On a thankful remembrance of the death of Christ. Thanks be unto God for his fpiritual gift. 2 Cor. ix. 15. 1. OW, my foul! to faith we must join a thankful remembrance of the death of Chrift, and of those benefits which we receive thereby. Herein is love, not that he loved God, but that he loved us, and fent his Son to be the propitiation for our fins. This is a mercy far above all other mercies; nay, it is even this which sweetens all other mercies to us.

2. Had there been no redemption, our creation had only made us capable of endless torments, and it had been better for us never to have been born, than to have been born to inevitable ruin; which must have been our lot and portion, had not the Son of God, by his one oblation of himself, once offered upon the cross, made a full, perfect, and fufficient facrifice and fatisfaction to God for the fins of the whole world.

3. We muft declare and publifh to all the world what God had done to fave mankind from that damnation which

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