by purity and holiness, and to each other by brotherly love and charity.

Have mercy upon this wicked and ungrateful nation: pardon our many grievous sins and provocations, which cry unto Thee for vengeance from every part of the land. Pardon our unreformedness under the judgments wherewith Thou hast visited us; and our ingratitude for the mercies which Thou hast been pleased to vouchsafe us. Spare us, good Lord, spare Thy people, whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy Son's most precious blood; and for whom Thou hast wrought so many great and wonderful works. Oh! spare us, I beseech Thee; and if it be Thy blessed will, glorify Thyself by our reformation, and not by our destruction.

Stir up the hearts of Thy servants whom Thou hast set over us, that they may be zealous and happy instruments of promoting Thy true religion and virtue; and may be blessed in their deed. Grant us evermore princes to rule in righteousness; and pastors after Thine own heart. Send forth painful labourers into Thy church; and bless all those who wait at Thine altar with sincere piety, soundness of doctrine, and exemplary holiness of life and conversation.

Have pity, O Lord, on all that are in affliction: Be a father to the fatherless; and plead

the cause of the widow; comfort the feebleminded; support the weak; heal the sick; relieve the needy; defend the oppressed; and administer to every one according to their several necessities.

Bless all whom I have injured by word or deed, in soul, body, goods, or reputation: of Thine infinite mercy pardon these my sins, and remove the evil effects and influences of them, wheresoever they have reached. Reward all that have done me good, and pardon all that have done or wished me evil; and work in them and me all that good which may make us acceptable in Thy sight.

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Vouchsafe, O Lord, to pour down the best of Thy blessings upon my and all my relations, friends, and neighbours: Hear, I beseech Thee, our prayers for each other: and graciously unite our hearts more and more: Enable us to consecrate ourselves entirely to Thy service, and to be true to Thee in all our holy vows, and engagements: Grant we may mutually provoke each other to love and serve Thee; and may grow up together before Thee in Thy fear and love during the short remainder of our lives here, that we may hereafter meet in Thy heavenly kingdom, to rejoice together before Thee for ever and ever. Amen.

*Here name those you are more particularly bound to pray for.

General Thanksgiving.

O MOST gracious and most bountiful Lord! Who art good, and doest good, and art pleased in mercy; I desire to bless and adore Thy holy name for all the manifestations of Thy goodness to me and all mankind. I bless Thee for making us after Thine own image, capable of knowing, serving, and enjoying Thee for ever; and for restoring us when lost, to the hope of immortal happiness, by the sufferings and death, the resurrection and intercession of Thy Blessed Son Jesus Christ; Who came into the world to redeem us from the punishment of our sins by His blood, and from the power of them by His Grace; and by both to bring us to His glory.

O Lord, I bless Thee for all Thy spiritual and temporal blessings to my friends, relations, and benefactors. More particularly I adore and magnify Thy mercy to me, Thy most sinful and unworthy servant. I thank Thee for the use of all Thy present good things; and for the hope of the future; for my natural and spiritual life; and for Thy great bounty in vouchsafing to me so many advantages for the comfortable support of the one, and the happy improvement of the other, above what Thou af

fordest to multitudes of my fellow creatures. I praise Thee for Thy preventing and assisting grace; for any good motions Thou hast raised in my heart; for being kept from any wilful sin, or enabled to overcome any temptation. I thank Thee, O Lord, for every degree of holiness, and for every increase of knowledge in divine or useful truths.

Blessed be Thy holy name, O God! for Thy renewed goodness to me this day; for Thy patience and long-suffering towards me notwithstanding my continued provocations; for the protection and guidance of Thy Spirit and Providence; for delivering me from innumerable accidents and dangers; for all the benefits I have received; for any good I have thought, or said, or done.

Lord, give me grace so to use and improve all Thy blessings here, that they may be an earnest to me of those richer blessings, which Thou hast prepared in heaven for those that love Thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord; to Whom with Thee, and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

Our Father, Which art in Heaven &c.

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ &c.

ANOTHER PRAYER FOR THE EVENING.

Most great and glorious Lord God! the creator, preserver, and governor of the world, and our most merciful Father in Jesus Christ! I humbly beseech Thee, for His sake, mercifully to assist me in the supplications and prayers which I am now about to offer up to Thine adorable Majesty; and grant that the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart, may now and ever be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. - I confess, O God, that by my innumerable transgressions of Thy holy laws I have rendered myself altogether unworthy of the least of Thy favours, and most justly liable to the severest of Thy judgments. But, O gracious Father! I most earnestly beseech Thy divine goodness, that Thou wouldest be pleased to deal with me, not according to my deserts, but according to the multitude of Thy tender mercies in Thy beloved Son Jesus Christ. For His sake, Who is the propitiation for our sins, and our advocate with Thee, be merciful to me in the free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins: and let Thy Holy Spirit work in me such a sincere and hearty sorrow for them, as may engage me to depart from all iniquity, and to