obedience; as in the courts of heaven, so in all the assemblies of thy servants here upon earth: for thou art great and dost wondrous things; thou art God alone; and thy goodness is equal to thy greatness. Thy mercy is over all thy works, and endureth for ever. Thou, Lord, hast been favourable to thy land, and dealt exceeding graciously with us: for which we desire to bless thy name, and to give thee all the glory. For it is of the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because thy compassions fail not : and that we are here alive to praise thee, and in any condition to keep a thanksgiving-day. That we are not now nothing, or worse than nothing, we must acknowledge it to be of thy free grace, O Lord, and thy mere mercy. That all the evils which have threatened us, have not befallen us; and that those evils which have come upon us, have not utterly destroyed and undone us: it is because thou, Lord, art gracious and merciful, and patient and kind, and, still doing good to poor sinful men, who deserve nothing but evil at thy hands.

O how much have we to say of the goodness of the Lord by our own experience, and thy help at hand still in all the times and cases of our need! how sweet and wonderful is it to recount all the instances of thy patience with us, and thy bounty to us! how from time to time thou hast signalized us with thy mercy, and made us remarkable for thy blessings and favours, most kind and precious, of many sorts! thou hast cast our lot in a land of light, where we live under the influences of thy gospel; and thereby are called to obtain' the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. And for all the happy advantages and good things of this life, which thou hast given us plenteously to enjoy, thou hast made us the envy of our neighbours, and the particular objects of thy kindL

ness. Though many times we have provoked thee to stretch forth thy hand, and to shake thy rod over us, and threaten to destroy us, yet in judgment still thou hast remembered mercy towards us; and after the clouds and darkness gathered about us, the dread and distress were on every side of us, thou hast caused the heavens again to clear up, and smile upon us; and returned with the visitations of thy love, and the joy of thy salvation.

In the late dangers, thou hast been to us a tower of defence; and in the time of our need, and perplexity, thou hast shewed thyself graciously and powerful on our behalf. Thou hast helped us for the glory of thy name, and redeemed us for thy mercy's sake not because we were worthy, but because thou hast a favour unto us! and therefore to thy name alone be all the praise. O what shall we render to the Lord for all his benefits! what can we give to thee our God, but the glory of thy own gifts and goodness unto us! O let not our hearts be shut and straitened towards thee, whose hand has been so wide open unto us. But do thou possess and enlarge these hearts of ours, with more and greater love and thankfulness to the gracious Giver of all our good things. And make us more sensible of thy goodness and love bestowed upon us, that we may give thee thanks from the ground of the heart, and have our mouths filled as with marrow and fatness when we praise our God with joyful lips.

O make us a truly thankful, as we are a greatly obliged people. And let us not only mention the loving kindness of the Lord, but glorify thy name in bearing much fruit; more answerable to such mercy and encouragement as we have received from above. We can never enough admire and magnify the riches of thy grace, and the multitude of thy

mercies: But O good Lord, enable us still more to love thee, and better to serve thee; and in so doing for us, thou wilt still further oblige us: because in loving and serving thee, we do best love and serve our own happiest interests. As our minds cannot

but muse, and our tongues speak of thy works; so let our lives be led to thy praise, that thou the great and good God, mayest in ail things be glorified by us, through Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Thanksgiving for Temporal Blessings.

RACIOUS God, the bountiful Provider for all the world's family! the eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thy hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. Every year thou renewest the face, and the fruits of the earth, and givest rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons; to fill the hungry with good things, and to fill all our hearts with food and gladness. O how many of thy creatures have bestowed their labours, and lost their lives, and been consumed to clothe and feed, and sustain and pleasure us! O at what vast expense art thou continually to maintain the whole world of creatures, that every where hang upon thee, for life and breath, and all things! Yet thou art not weary to do us good but still showerest down blessings plentifully upon us; to provide, not only necessaries, to keep us alive; but also a variety of comforts, to make our lives sweet and desirable. Yea, thou delightest in mercy, and hast pleasure in the prosperity of thy servants; and makest us now to find, by our happy experience, how abundantly good and kind thou art.

For Rain.

O Lord, thou hast sent a gracious rain upon thy inheritance, to refresh the dry and thirsty land, and cause it to yield its increase: giving us the joyful opportunity to serve and praise thee in the abundance of the provisions which thou art pleased so to make for us. O that men would praise thee for thy goodness, and for such thy wonderful works to the children of men! O good God, to thy name only be all the glory, now and eternally.

For Fair Weather.

Lord, thou hast in mercy shut the windows of heaven, and put a stop to the overflowing showers that threatened to drown the fruits of the earth: and hast caused this sweet and comfortable change to refresh thy unworthy servants, and to make all the creatures rejoice in thy goodness. Blessed be our God, that deals so graciously with us; and glory be to thy name, thou great Withholder of all the evils, and giver of all good. Let the people praise thee, O God, let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

For the Cessation of Infection.

O thou great Preserver of men! thou hast delivered our souls from the hand of the grave, and kept us alive, that we should not go down to the pit; the jaws of death were open upon us, and we went with our lives in our hands: our hearts failing us for fear of the destruction raging amongst us, when the very air, which we drew in to give us life, was to so ma

ny the sad messenger of death; and when thousands fell on every side of us, it has not come nigh us. But we have dwelt in the secret places of the Most High, and, under the shadow of the Almighty, have been kept in safety. O what shall we say, what shall we give unto thee, our present Help and only Saviour, in time of trouble! we are every way thine, O Lord; and to thee only be all the glory. We bless thee, our God, as those that are made alive from the dead. And O that the lives which have been given us at our requests, we may return them back to be spent in thy service! that we may love and please, and praise our God, while we have our being.

For the Restoration of Plenty.

GOD, the Fountain of all goodness! thou didst threaten with famine to destroy the blessings of the earth, which we have so wickedly abused: but remembering thy own tender mercies, and not our ill deserts, hast raised a new and plentiful supply for us. And now thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness. Thou hast loaded the earth with the fruits of thy bounty, and sent abundance of all good things for the service and comfort of man. O make us more sensible of the obligation which thy love has laid upon And as thou fillest us with thy good things, so fill our hearts with thy love and grace to use every gift aright to thy glory: that in the use and strength of what we are continually receiving from thee, we may devote ourselves to live unto thee, and to serve thee with gladness and rejoicing for all thy rich mercy to us in Jesus Christ.

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