lost unto us; but let the same be mercifully accepted upon cur account, and for our sins. O let not the blood of Jesus Christ, as to us, be shed in vain; but let it purge and purify us from all our sins, and make our peace with thee, the just and holy God, against whom we have greatly sinned; that we may be healed by his stripes, and find his death unto us the savour of life. Though we are sinful and unclean, yet what pollution and defilement cannot this Fountain, opened for sin and uncleanness, wash and cleanse us from! having therefore such an allsufficient Saviour to repair to, we will not be faithless, but believing that Christ is our Lord, and our God, who loved and redeemed us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. O that we may know him and the fellowship of his sufferings, and be so conformable to his death, that it may mortify the corruption of our nature, and the lusts that war in our members; and crucify the world unto us, and us to the world! The Lord pardon all our forgetfulness and disregard, and contempt of thy affection to us, and thy affliction for us; and make us to know more of the love wherewith thou hast loved us; and touch our hearts with such a powerful sense of thy love, that we may make better returns of love to the great Lord and lover of our souls; and that we may not forget or slight such unparalleled kindness and love of God our Saviour, stronger than death and better than life. O that the life which we now live may be by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us! Olet us not live any longer than we may abound in thy love. Blessed Lord; let this be ever prefered above our chief joy; and let nothing in the world ever be so dear to us as the altogether lovely Jesus, who has given the highest demonstration of love that ever could be given to our poor lost souls. And to thee our Almighty Redeemer, and sweet Saviour, be all the praise and glory given most humbly and heartily, now and eternally. Amen. Amen. Prayer and Praise on the Occasion of our blessed Saviour's Resurrection. LESSED be the God and Father of our BLE abundant mercy, has begotten us again to a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; and behold he is alive for evermore, Amen; and has the keys of death and of hell. The Lord liveth, and blessed be our Rock, and let the God of our Salvation be exalted. He that bore our griefs, and carried our sorrows, has wrought eternal redemption for us: with his own right hand and holy arm hath he got himself the victory; having loosed the bands of death, because it was impossible he should be holden by them. The glorious Son of Righteousness is risen with healing in his wings and hath shewed that he is able to save himself, and to save to the uttermost all that come to God through him. Our eyes therefore are to thee, O Lord, our Strength, and our Redeemer, who hast all power in heaven and in earth to whom nothing is impossible or difficult; who quickenest the dead, even souls dead in sin, as well as bodies dead in the grave; and hast life in thyself, to give it to whomsoever thou wilt. O that we may know thee, and the power of thy resurrection! and that we may feel it efficacious, to raise us out of the grave of our sinful corruptions, to newness and holiness of life! that having part in the first resurrection, the se cond death may have no power over us. Speak death to our sins, O Lord, that our souls may live, and forever bless thy name. Thou, Ó Christ, art our life; and in thee is all fulness of whatever we want. O give us the life which thou camest that we might have, and let us have it more abuudantly: yea, such a life from thee as may enable us to live unto thee, and that entirely and chearfully, even as long as we have any life and being. Amen. Prayer and Praise on the Occasion of our blessed Saviour's Ascension. THOU HOU art the King of Glory, O Christ ; thou hast ascended on high, and dragged the infernal foes after thy triumphant Chariot. And thou art exalted far above all principalities and powers, and enthroned in the highest glory in thy heavenly kingdom, where saints, and angels, and all the host of heaven, do admire and adore thee. Be thou exalted, Lord, and reign in the greatness of thy power and majesty, till thou hast brought all enemies in subjection under thy feet. But, Lord, remember us, now thou art in thy kingdom, where thou rulest and reignest on high. O regard the suppli Ff cations, and relieve the necessities of thy poor subjects and servants here below. Save, Lord, and let the King of Heaven hear us when we call. And that we may feel the powerful attraction of thy Grace and Holy Spirit, to draw up our minds and desires from the poor perishing enjoyments here below, to those most glorious and everlasting attainments above, where thou sittest at the right hand of God. O let us lay our treasure, and have our conversation with thee in heaven: and so love thy appearing, and desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, that when Christ who is our life, shall appear, we may also appear with him in glory and after our ascending and dwelling above in heart and spirit, we may at last personally ascend, in soul and body, to be ever with the Lord; there together with thy whole triumphant church, to see and admire, and love and bless, and praise and glorify thee, O blessed God our Saviour, world without end. Amen. A Prayer on the Occasion of the coming of the Holy Ghost. THOU infinite, eternal Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life, who workest all in all, and especially workest and abidest in the hearts. and souls of men! pardon, we beseech thee, all our resisting of thy motions, and quenching the flames which thou hast ever enkindled in our breasts. And be pleased so to enlighten our minds, and purify our hearts, that we may be fit to receive and entertain thee, as the Guide and Comforter of our souls. O blessed Truth lead us into all truth; and bring all needful things out of the word to our remembrance; and set them home powerfully upon our hearts, to influence our lives, and to do us good, in every time of our need. O work, Lord, the grace that is not in us; and establish and increase what thou hast already wrought upon us. Excite and stir us up to all good; and enable us for the performance of it, and engage us to consider and persist in it. O come down, Lord, as fire upon us, to consume our dross, and make clean our hearts, and inflame them with heavenly love, that we may rightly relish thy holy things, and be lively in following of thy holy ways. O be thou a powerful principle of life, and light, and love, and of all grace and holiness in our souls, to clear and illuminate our minds, to spiritualize and raise up our affections; to pacify and compose our consciences; and to bring our souls out of every dangerous, self-destroying course, into the paths of righteousness-and that way of life which is above to the wise, to depart from hell beneath. O blessed Lord, restrain us from grieving the Holy Spirit of God, whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption; and cast us not away from thy presence. Take not thy Holy Spirit from us. O make us so tract-, able to his holy motions, that we may experience his heavenly consolations. And let the joy in the Holy Ghost be more to us than all the pleasures of the world. O blessed Spirit! be thou ever with our spirits, to heal our distempers, and help our infirmities, and work |