in them. Let me lay up thy kind words of promise, O my Father, as the richest treasure; and confide in them as the surest tenure: counting nothing so firm, as what God hath said; and despising all the wealth, and honours, and pleasures of the world, in comparison of Thyself, and thy Son, and thy Spirit, and thy love, and thy grace, and thy glory; all which I earnestly beg of thy bountiful hands, for Jesus Christ his sake. Amen.

A PRAYER FOR REPENTANCE.

O MOST holy Lord God, against whom I have greatly sinned, and who for my sins art most justly displeased! thou hast revealed thy wrath from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men; and hast declared, that except we repent, we shall all perish. Thou wilt not save any without repentance; though, upon our repentance, thou hast assured us of thy gracious pardon and acceptance. When we return unto thee, and humble ourselves before thee, thou wilt show us thy mercy, and grant us thy salvation. O gracious Lord! great indeed is thy mercy, to vouchsafe unto us this remedy. O how averse am I to repent! yea, how unable am I to perform this necessary work! Thou searcher of hearts, thou seest that my heart is hardened, through the deceitfulness of sin: I can not, I can not humble myself aright: my heart must for ever remain obdurate, if thou do not soften it by thy grace: I can no more turn to thee with all my heart, than I can turn the course of a river back to its fountain: unless thou draw me, I can never run after thee; if thou endue me not with power from

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on high, I must continue for ever a miserable captive to sin and Satan.

O thou that didst cause water to gush out of the stony rock, break and melt my rocky heart: thou that fashionest all the hearts of the sons of men, take away from me the heart of stone, and give me a heart of flesh: teach me to look on him whom my sins have pierced, and mourn; cause me to be in bitterness for all the offences that I have committed against thee, the Lord of love, and the God of all my mercies. O give me true repentance for them; such repentance as thy holy word requires, and such as thy gracious goodness in Christ Jesus will mercifully accept give me that repentance unto life, which is never to be repented of. Thou knowest, Lord, I desire to have that brokenness of heart, and that deep contrition, which thou wilt not despise : O that thou wouldest vouchsafe it to me! O that I might so repent and be converted, that my sins. might be blotted out, and that a season of refreshing might come to me from thy presence! Turn thou me, O good Lord, and so shall I be turned; renew me in the spirit of my mind, that I may bring forth fruits meet for repentance; not only confessing and bewailing my sins, but also hating and forsaking them, yea, loathing and abhorring them from my inmost soul. I cannot recall my sins, O Lord, thou knowest: but, O that I might never repeat them more! O that I might have such a sense of thy loving-kindness, as should effectually divorce me from all my former ways! Let me henceforth walk with all possible care and circumspection, and make it the great business of my life to keep myself in thy fear and love. Let the past time suffice to have wrought my own will: henceforth let me have

grace determinately to forsake all evil ways and evil thoughts; that so thou mayest have mercy upon me, and abundantly pardon all my multiplied transgressions. Hear me, O God, and answer me through the infinite riches of thy grace and goodness, in Christ Jesus my only Saviour. Amen.

A PRAYER FOR HUMILITY.

O MOST high God, infinitely glorious above all our expressions, or our thoughts! Thou sittest on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers: yea, before thee all nations are as nothing, and counted to thee less than nothing, and vanity. O what is man, that thou shouldest be so mindful of him! yea, that he should be so unmindful of himself, as to overlook all his own vileness and sinfulness, and to swell with the conceit of his own worth and excellence! I desire, O Lord, to humble myself for the pride of my heart, and to confess with shame, that I have thought more highly of myself, than I ought to think; and vain-gloriously set off myself before men, when I deserved nothing but shame and confusion. O thou that resistest the proud, and givest grace to the humble, give me the grace of humility: and make me vile in my own eyes, that I may be accepted in thy sight. Make me, Lord, of the number of those poor in spirit, those humble and contrite ones to whom thou wilt look, and with whom thou wilt dwell.

O set my sins in order before me, and make me to know my transgressions; that I may not flatter myself in my own eyes, but look upon myself as

sinful dust and ashes; deserving only to be trodden under foot, and to be cast out, as the off-scouring of all things. Let me never take any thing but shame to myself; but at all times give thee the glory of whatever is good in me. Great and holy God! make me more studious to be thy favourite, than to be so accounted: and better pleased to do my duty, than to hear that I have done it. Neither let me seek glory of men, but the honour that cometh of God only. And the more I have received from thee, the more let me ascribe unto thee: and not be proudly opinionated of myself; but give all thanks and glory to thee, for any good, wherein thou hast made me to differ. Let me not desire the praise of men, whilst I am doing the work of God; but let me perform all my offices, as one that would approve himself to thee, the heart-searching God.

O discover me so to myself, that I may still walk humbly with my God, and be clothed with humility; considering how frail I am as a creature, and how vile as a sinner. Let me ever hate and resist the pride that goeth before destruction; and so humble myself under thy mighty hand, that thou mayest exalt me in due time. And for all the good that ever I have performed or enjoyed, not unto me, O Lord, not unto me, but to thy name, be all the praise and glory, humbly and heartily acknowledged and rendered, both now and evermore. Amen.

A PRAYER FOR TENDERNESS OF HEART.

ALMIGHTY Lord, the God of all grace, who speakest to the heart and it obeys thee; and when it is grown callous and hard, canst make it soft and re

lenting; and give sight and sense even to such as are blind and past feeling! O show the power of thy heavenly grace, in working upon this stupid, insensible heart of mine; that I may know the evil of my sins, and the things belonging to my peace. And be thou pleased to give me such a sight of my sins, such humiliation of soul, and brokenness of heart, as may prepare me for all the promised mercies of my God in Christ Jesus. O Father of mercies, punish not my past sins, by leaving me to commit sin with greediness: nor ever give me up to such blindness of mind, and hardness of heart as shall render me senseless and incorrigible. But quicken and awaken my dull soul, into a lively sense of sin, and tenderness of conscience, and due apprehension of my great, 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: enable me to keep my heart with all diligence, that it be not hardened through the deceitfulness of sin: and to stand at a distance from every evil and accursed thing, that is provoking in thy sight, and destructive to my soul.

O let me not continue in sin, that grace may abound; nor abuse that mercy which has so long borne with me, and been so abundantly good to me: but give me, O my God, such an abundant increase of spiritual life, as may produce in me a greater quickness of spiritual sense, and make my conscience quick of feeling, even as the apple of my eye; that I may so feel my sins here, as to prevent my feeling them for ever, when there shall be no remedy. From hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandments, good Lord, deliver me. Give me a heart so soft and tender, as to smite and correct