more meet to be partakers of the inheritance of thy faints in light.

And teach us, O Lord our God, to ufe this world without abufing it, and to enjoy the things of it, without lofing our part in thy love, which is better than life. Whatever we have of the world, O may we have the fame with thy leave and love, fanctified to us by the word of God, and prayer; and by the right employment and improvement thereof to thy glory, who àrt the gracious Giver of all our good things. And whatsoever we want of the things of this life, O Lord our heavenly Father, leave us not deftitute of any of those things that accompany falvation, but adorn our fouls with all fuch graces of thy Holy Spirit, as may enable us to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things, by fuch a converfation as does become it.

Help us, O gracious Lord, in the whole of our duty to thee our God; and alfo in the discharge of all relative duties which we owe to men, whether fuperiors, equals, or inferiors (all with whom we have our converfation in the world :) that we may walk wifely toward them that are without, and kindly to ward them that are within; and not be juftly offenfive unto any ; but.(what in us lies) useful and beneficial to all. And thus let us país the time of our fojourning here, in thy fear and favour, and to thy honour and glory; that at our laft review thereof, thy name may have the praife, and our fouls the comfort, in the C 2

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hour of death, and in the great day of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

And now that thou haft renewed our lives and thy mercies to this morning, help us, good God, to renew our defires, and refolutions, and endeavours, to live in the obedience of thy holy will, and to the bonour of thy bleffed name. O reftrain us from the evils and follies into which we are prone to fall; and quicken us to the offices and duties which we are averfe to perform. And grant that we may think and speak, and will and do, the things becoming the children of our heavenly Father; and fo find the ftrong confolation of thy gracious acceptance in Jefus Chrift our Saviour; who, when we pray, has taught us to fay, Our Father, &c.

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A fourth Morning Prayer.

LORD God, that beareft prayers, and art nigh to all that call upon thee in truth, having thy ears open to a world of creatures, that continually depend upon thee ! As we are moved by our own neceffities, fo are we encouraged by the daily experience of thy mercies ftill to fhelter ourfelves under the fhadow of thy wings, and to continue our fuits and fupplications at the throne of thy grace. And we beg of thee, who fashioneft all the hearts of the fons of men, that thou wilt prepare our hearts to come into thy holy prefence, and to call upon thy bleffed name, in a due

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and acceptable manner. O! pour upon us the fpirit of grace and of fupplications; and let thy good Spirit help our infirmities, and teach us to pray, and to ask fuch things, and in fuch a way, as fhall be moft agreeable to thy will, and moft advantageous to our fouls.

We have taken upon us to fpeak unto thee, the Sovereign Majefty of heaven and earth, who are but poor worms, and finful duft and ashes ; that have too juft caufe to be afraid, left our great and manifold fins had provoked thee to hide thy face from us, and to fhut up thy loving kindness in difpleasure against us. For we have done foolishly and wickedly, in not hearkening to the calls of thy word, nor yielding to the motions of thy Spirit, to walk in the ways which thou haft fet before us. Our iniquities are increased over our heads, our trefpafs is grown even up to heaven, and our fins are a fore burden, too grievous and heavy for us to bear. They are infinite debts, and fad accounts; for which if thou, O Lord, fhouldft enter into judgment with us, we could not anfwer thee one of a thousand: but muft lay our hands upon our mouths, and plead nothing but guilty, having our whole dependance upon thy mercy.

O God be merciful to us, miferable finners, for his fake, whom thou haft exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to thy people, and forgiveness of their fins be merciful to us, we pray thee, and heal our fouls, that have greatly finned against thee. O heal

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our backflidings, renew us to repentance, eltablish our hearts in thy true fear and love, and eftablish our goings in thy holy ways; that we may not be fo wavering and bent to backfliding, nor revolt from thee to return to folly, after thou in mercy haft fpoken peace to our fouls; but may go on conquering and to conquer all the enemies of our fouls, and all the hindrances of our falvation, till Satan be bruised under our feet.

O thou God of all grace! bring fuch thoughts to our minds, and lay fuch confiderations home powerfully upon our hearts, as thou knowet moft effectual to prevail with us, to work us in thy will, and to keep us from our iniquity, within the bounds of our duty, till thou receive us into the bleffed kingdom of thy glory. And, in the mean time, fanctify to us all thy dealings with us; and bless us in all our undertakings, and in all our conditions, fruitions and relations. Make us bumble in an high eftate, contented in a low, and still duly careful of our fouls in all following after the things now which will bring us true peace and comfort at

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Difpofe of us, we beseech thee (our God) and of all that concerns us this day, to the glory of thy name. O keep us at all times, and in all places and companies, from the evil of fin, and from all other evils, to which the greatness of our fins does make us liable. And take thou, O heavenly Father, the gracious charge, and guidance, and government

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of us; and fo lead us here in all our ways, with thy counsel, that hereafter thou mayeft receive us into thy glory; through thy tender mercies, and our Saviour's abundant merits: in whose own words, we beg all things needful for ourselves and others, at thy hands. Our Father, &c.

A fifth Morning Prayer.

LORD our God! thy name is mott excellent in all the earth: thou hast fet up thy glory above the heavens, and thou art wOIthy to be celebrated with everlasting praises of men and angels: for thou haft created all things and for thy pleasure it is that they are and were created. Thy hands, O Lord, have made us and fashioned us, and thou haft breathed into our noftrils the breath of life: yea, ftill thou holdeft our fouls in life, and giveft us every good thing that makes our lives a blessing and a comfort to us. Thou haft formed us for thyfelf, that we fhould fhew forth thy praife, and live to thy glory, as we do continually live upon thy bounty.

But, O Lord our God! we have not brought thee the glory which thou haft made us capable of, and fo many ways obliged us to instead of that, O how greatly have we dishonoured thee our God, in the whole courfe and conduct of our lives! Time after time, forgetting our gracious Giver of all our good things, who art never unmindful of us And O how foon have