walking in a difguife, and only fhewing to be what I am not; that my praif may not be of men, but of God; and that I may have continual rejoicing in the testimony of confcience, and that peace of God which paffeth all understanding. O my Father, who seeft in fecret! let the pleafing of thy holy will, and the honouring of thy blefled name, and the enjoying of thy gracioas favour, be the great end, which I defign and aim at, in all my actions and undertakings: that thou, the great and good God, mayest in all things be glorified by me, through Jefus Christ.

Amen.

A Prayer for Humility.

MOST High God, infinitely glorious above all our expreffions, or our thoughts! Thou fittest on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grafshoppers: yea, before thee, all nations are as nothing, and counted to thee less than nothing and vanity. O what is man, that thou fhouldeft be fo mindful of him! yea that he fhould be fo unmindful of his own vileness and finfulness, to exalt and lift up himfelf, and to fwell with the conceit of his own worth and excellence! I defire, O Lord, to humble myfelf, that I have been no more humble; but have thought more highly of myfelf than I ought to think; and zain-gloriously fet off myself before men, when I deferve only to be despised, and nothing but confufion is my portion. thou that refifleth

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the proud, and giveft grace to the humble, give me the grace of humility, and make me mean and vile in my own eyes, that I may be accepted in thy fight. Make me, Lord, of the number of thofe poor in fpirit, thofe humble and contrite ones, to whom thou wilt look, and with whom thou wilt dwell.

O fet my fins in order before me, and make me to know my tranfgreffions, that I may not flatter myself in my own eyes, but carry it as becomes poor finful duft and afbes, who deferve to be trodden under foot, and to be caft out as the off-fcouring of all things; taking nothing but shame to myself, and giving all the glory to thee, of whatever is good in me. Great and

holy God! make me more ftudious to be thy favourite than to be fo accounted; and better pleased to do my duty than to hear of it: Neither of men let me feek glory, but the honour that comes of God only. And the more I have received from thee, the more let me afcribe unto thee: and not be proudly opinionated of myself; but give all thanks and glory to thee for any good wherein thou haft made me to differ: not loving or intending the praife of men, in doing the work of God; but performing all my offices, as one that is indeed (and not only called) thy humble fervant.

O difcover me fo to myself, that I may ftill walk humbly with my God, and be cloathed with humility; confider how frail I am, as a creature; and how vile, as a finner. Let me ever deteft and dread, and refift the pride that

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goes before deftruction; and fo humble myself under thy mighty hand, that thou mayeft exalt me in due time. And for all the good ever I have performed or enjoyed, not unto me, O Lord, not unto me, but to thy name be all the praife and glory, humbly and heartily acknowledged and rendered, now and for evermore. Amen.

A Prayer for Mindfulness of God's Prefence.

LORD, the infinite, incomprehenfible God! Thou art the high and holy One, who inhabiteft eternity, and dwelleft in the light which no man can approach to. And from thy glorious throne in heaven, thou lookeft down upon all the inhabitants of the earth and haft thy eyes in every place, and pondereft every thing. Though no mortal eye can fee thee; no created understanding is able to comprehend thee: Yet thou art here, and every where prefent, and now and evermore thou feeft us, and underftandeft our very thoughts afar off; and art thoroughly acquainted with all our ways. Yea, thou art so universally obfervant, as to have a particular concern for every perfon and action in the world. Great God, thou filleft heaven and earth with thy prefence, O fill my heart with thy grace, and the mindfulness of thy prefence with me; that I may fet the Lord always before me and evermore remember thee in all my ways.

O that ever I should forget God that made me! the God who quickens every thing that

lives; concurs with every thing that moves; and upholds every thing that has a being throughout the world! O that I fhould live fo much without thee in the world, in whom I ever live, and move, and am! and who hatt ftill been with me, and watchful for good over me all my days. Holy God, because I have regarded thee no more, thou mighteft make me fenfible of thy prefence, in judgments worthy of thyself. But O Lord, in mercy pardon all fuch my finful neglect and inadvertance. And as I am ever exposed to thy all-feeing eye, fo make me ever duly aware of it. And let the remembrance of thy prefence fway and guide me, in fecret and in company, at all times, in all places, and in all my actions: That I may demean myfelf as ever under the awful eyes of the great God of heaven and earth, and fear thee above all other powers; love thee above all other Gods, ferve thee before all other Lords, and truft in thee more than in any other refuge. Yea, let me rejoice under the shadow of thy wings, and herein folace myfelf, that thou art my right-hand, and ever with me. O let not the remembrance of my Lord be grievous to me; but let my meditations of God be fweet, as well as frequent; that delighting myself in the Lord, thou mayeft give unto me the defires of my heart; and fo guide me with thine eye, that as I am still manifeft, I may be alfo ftill accepted in thy bleffed fight, through Jefus Chrift.. Amen.

A Prayer for Tenderness of Heart.

LMIGHTY Lord, the God of all grace, who fpeakeft to the heart, and it obeys thee; and when it is grown callous and hard, canft make it foft and relenting; and give fight and sense even to fuch as are blind and past feeling! O fhew the power of thy heavenly grace, in working upon this ftupid, infenfible beart of mine, fo as to make me know, both the evil of my fins, and the things of my peace. And be thou pleased to give me fuch a fight of my fins, fuch humiliation of foul, and brokenness of heart, as may prepare me for all the promised mercies of God in Jefus Chrift. O Father of mercies! punish not my past fins, by leaving me to commit fin with greediness; nor ever give me up to fuch blindness of mind, and hardness of heart, as shall render me fenfeless and incorrigible. But quicken and awake my dull foul into a lively fenfe of fin, and tenderness of confcience, and due apprehenfion of my great and eternal concerns. O make me ever jealous over my heart, and watchful over my ways; continually fearing to offend, and endeavouring to please my God; keeping my heart with all diligence, that it be not hardened through the deceitfulness of fin; and keeping at that distance which thy holy word teaches us to keep from every evil and accurfed thing that is provoking in thy fight and deftructive to my foul.

O let me not continue in fin, that grace may

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