for thee the more I fee others fet themselves against thee. O Lord moft high! make me valiant for thy caufe, as well as that for man, wherein I am now engaged. And preferve me, O my God, from the profanenefs and blafphemy, the lewdness and debauchery, the rudeness and violence that are most incident to men of this profeffion; that I may not be infected with their contagion, but preferve my integrity, amidst all the temptations wherewith I am furrounded.

Though the fword is in my hand, let the peace of God rule in my heart; and though I am a foldier, let me not be a man of blood, delighting in war; but a ready fervant of my country, a faithful inftrument for our common defence and fafety, and a dutiful fubject to the powers ordained of God, for the Lord's fake. O my ftrength and my Redeemer, ftrengthen my heart and hands for the fervice to which I am called; and make me fuccessful and victorious, through thy bleffing and power from on high. 'Tis thou, Lord, only, that makest us to dwell in safety: O cover my head in the day of battle; and in all times of danger, be thou my shield and buckler. And either keep the evil from me, or arm me for it, that I may not be ruined by it, but gain good out of it, and find bodily hurts making for the health of my foul; and even the temporal death but a gate opened to eternal life. And feeing I go with my life in my bands, and am more expofed than other men to dangers and death, O make

me more careful of my foul, more mindful of my latter end, and more diligent to put and keep myself in a preparation and readiness to die. And whether I profper or miscarry in the attempts and enterprifes wherein I am now concerned, O let my foul be ever precious in thy fight, and fafe in thy hands. Help me, O my fupreme Commander, the great Captain of our falvation, fo to live, that I may find it the grateft gain to die: and let me go on (as Chrift's faithful foldier) fo conquering and to conquer the enemies of thy glory, and the hindrances of my own and others falvation that, having overcome, I may fit down in thy kingdom, and triumph in thy fweetest love, and in thy heavenly joy, and thy most glorious praises, world without end. Amen.

A Prayer for the Melancholy and Dejected.

MOST good and gracious Lord! thou knoweft our frame, and art a God full of compaffion, to pity and relieve thy fervants under their trouble and oppreffion. Look down, we humbly pray thee, with thy wonted pity, and remember in tender mercy the work of thy hands, our difconfolate friend; this troubled foul, that is even diftracted in fuffering thy terrors; while thy wrath lies hard upon him, and all thy waves and billows are gone over him, to disturb his peace, and opprefs his mind, and unfit him rightly to use his reafon, or difch..rge his duty. O thou that speak eft

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the winds and waves into obedience and calmnefs, fettle and quiet his discompofed breast; fpeak peace and fatisfaction to his troubled mind; and give him comfort and fweet repofe, in the fenfe of thy pardon and love. Lord, help his unbelief, and increase his faith, that he may not be faithlefs, but believing. Though he now walk in darkness and has no light, let him truft in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. And in the multitude of the thoughts and forrows that he has in his heart, O let thy comforts come in to refresh his foul. Be thou pleased, Lord, to deliver and ease him of the load that lies upon his fpirit; and let in the beam of thy heavenly light, to scatter and difpel all the clouds and darkness in which his mind is wrapt up. O direct to the means moft proper for his help, and bless and profper them fo, that they may be efficacious to promote his recovery out of this low and doleful eftate. Incline his ears to wholefome counfels, and fashion his heart to receive due impreffions. O gracious Father! pity his frailty, and forgive his iniquity; and heal him, Lord, both in foul and body; rebuking his distemper fo, that his difquieted foul may return to its reft. O raise him up, and make him whole. Yea, make hafte, O Lord, to fhew fuch mercy upon him, even for thy own mercy's fake in Jefus Chrift, our bleffed Saviour and Redeemer.

Amen.

A Prayer for the Lunatic and Distracted.

LORD, the only wife God! thou giveft understanding, and takeft it away as thou pleaseft; and thou art holy and righteous in all that ever thou doft. Tho' the reason and meaning of many of thy works is unknown to us; yet ftill thou knoweft well what thou hast to do; and we must be dumb, and open not our mouths, when it is thy doing. The ftroke which thou haft laid upon thy poor creature, would be just upon any of us; and we must acknowledge it owing only to thy mercy that it is any better for us. But in tender compaffion of his pitiable condition, we take upon us to beg thy merciful relief in his behalf. For thou, Lord, that giveft fense and discretion, canft as easily renew them when impaired and thou that madeft thy fervant out of nothing, canft alfo bring him to himself again, and help him to ufe his reafon aright, as he ought.

Odifpel the clouds in which now his foul is wrapped up, that he may come to a good underftanding of himself, and the things of his peace; reduce and heal the crazed and broken faculties; or elfe fettle and quiet them, pacify and compofe them. Have pity, we beseech thee, O Lord, upon him and impute not unto him any thing that is now faid or done amifs by him; but in mercy pafs it by, as if it had not been faid or done at all.

O that thou wouldeft direct to fome means for help in this cafe, and make him tractable

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to the use of remedies, and willing and ready to comply with the advice of his friends, till he shall be in better capacity to manage and help himself and where no means will reach to work the cure, thou that canft open the doors which are barred against us, and art never at fuch a lofs but thou knoweft how to deliver; O reveal thy glorious arm (without means) to bring falvation from above; and do the work worthy of God, to command that deliverance which is out of our prospect to fee effected; that thy name may have all the glory of fuch thy great and wonderful mercy in Jefus Chrift. Amen.

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A Prayer for infenfible Sinners.

LORD, the great Almighty God, who quickeneft the dead, and calleft thofe things that are, not, as if they were with thee nothing is impoffible; but the things that refift all the skill and power of man, thy divine virtue and glorious operation (with the greatest facility) brings to pass. Thou, the living

God, canft fpeak life to fouls dead in trefpaffes and fins; and make even fuch as lie in the grave of all their habitual corruptions, hear the voice of the Son of God, and live. It is the great work of thy eternal spirit, Lord, to convince the world of fin; and to make inconfiderate careless finners to know themselves, and be concerned as they ought about the case of their fouls. O that thefe poor infenfible wretches

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