truth meet together, and righteousness and peace kiss each other. Thus can even we rejoice in thy power and justice, thy holiness, mercy, and love; and bless thee that the light of the knowledge of this thy glory shines in the hearts of thy people, in the face of Jesus Christ. Blessed be thou, the just God and the Saviour.

O how unworthy we are of the least of thy mercies! We all are sinful and guilty. We have turned every one to his own way. We would give thee glory by an open and free confession, that in many things we have all offended thee. From our youth up, even till now, we have been in a great trespass.

We dare not justify ourselves in thy sight, for if we should attempt it, even our own mouths would condemn us. We have omitted to perform many plain duties. We have done many things for which our consciences justly accuse us. All our righteousnesses are defiled. All our prayers and services are polluted.

Yet spare us, good Lord, spare us, according to thy great compassion and thy tender mercy. Lord God of our salvation, it is thy gracious promise on which our souls rely, that if we confess our sins, thou art faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We now confess our sins, and we ask that they may be forgiven, and that our souls may be purified from sin. plead thy justice, for Jesus bore our sins in his own body on the tree. We plead thy faithfulness, according to thy many precious promises. Let us now by faith obtain those promises.

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Cleanse, we beseech thee, the thoughts of our hearts, by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that

we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy name. Strengthen us for the duties of this day. Suffer us not to be tempted above what we are able to bear; but with every temptation make a way to escape. Incline and enable us to walk in that

way.

Hold thou up our goings in thy paths that our footsteps slip not. Set a watch before our mouths, and keep the door of our lips, that we offend not with our tongue. May we always speak that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers. Enable us also to keep our hearts with all diligence, seeing that out of them are the issues of life. Increase our faith, enliven our hope, and enlarge our charity, that we may faithfully serve thee, and in all things glorify thy holy name. May our hope be in the Lord, and we be waiting for his coming.

We pray for all our relatives and friends. Give them prosperity both of body and soul.1 Grant that grace and peace may be multiplied to all those that

1 When any member of the family is sick, add

We particularly commend unto thee that member of our family now in affliction; may faith, patience, submission, and resignation be granted in this hour of trial, and in thy own good time remove the affliction. And, Lord, grant that all our tribulations here below may lead us to look at the things which are above, and work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Ever give us a spirit of sympathy, and tender feeling, and love for each other; and may we always be ready to weep with those that weep, and rejoice with those that rejoice.

When any member of the family is on a journey, add

O Lord, we beseech thee, regard with thy favour, protect and defend him who is now absent from us. Take him under thy special care. Preserve him from every temptation. Prosper him in his undertakings. May he be a blessing wherever he goes; and bring him in health and peace among us again, that we may together have fresh cause to praise and bless thy holy name.

call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. Seek and save the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Let the light of life shine into every benighted heart. Increase, especially among the people of this nation, the number of those who know, and love, and serve thee. Bless our rulers, and guide our statesmen; teach thy ministers, and prosper thy people, that there may be no complaining in our streets; and that it may be said of us, Happy is the people that is in such a case; yea, blessed is that people whose God is the Lord."

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These prayers we offer up in the name and through the mediation of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Our Father, &c.

EVENING FAMILY PRAYER.

O ETERNAL God, whose name is love, and who so loved the world, that thou gavest thy only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life, help us, by thy Holy Spirit, to believe in Christ Jesus, and trusting in him to have access unto thee.

We feel our need of a Saviour for sinners; for we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. When we look back even on the past day, thy law accuses us of many sins, and our own consciences justly condemn us. We have been forgetful of thy presence; our conversation has been light and trifling; and we have not with a single eye sought thy glory, or copied the holy life of our Saviour Christ. He left us a perfect example, but how seldom do we tread in his steps: how little have we of his meekness

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and lowliness of heart, of his zeal and love! have sinned against the light of thy word, and the checks of our own consciences.

Grant us thy grace, that we may not be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Give us true repentance, and such a sense of our sinfulness as may lead us to despair of salvation by any works of our own; and bring us humbled and penitent to the foot of the cross. Help us by faith to behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Teach us to renounce our own righteousness, and to depend wholly on Jesus Christ.. May we be able to say and feel, "In the Lord have I righteousness and strength."

[Teach us to come to Jesus Christ, and now to look to him, not only for pardon and peace, but also for grace and strength. We are weak, but Jesus is strong grant that we may be made strong in and through him. Draw us to Christ, that we may receive out of his fulness all that we need; repentance, remission of sins, and the gift of thy Holy Spirit; that he may dwell in our hearts by faith, and we may be rooted and grounded in love.]

We commend ourselves to thy care during the night. Let no evil come nigh us. May our last thoughts be with thee; and when we awake up, may we be still with thee. Refresh our bodies with the quiet repose of the night, and renew our spiritual strength. Teach us ever to watch and pray, and to be always ready, seeing we know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of Man shall come.

Extend thy merciful care to all that are near and dear to us. We pray for all our relatives. May those that are endeared to us by the ties of nature, be

yet more dear by the stronger bonds of grace. Grant that we may be all one in Christ Jesus our Lord. We pray for our Christian friends, for our neighbours, and all with whom we have any intercourse.

Bless those that minister before the Lord. May all Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, be faithful, wise, humble, and devoted servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every where raise up pastors according to thine own heart, which shall feed thy people with knowledge and understanding. Grant thy blessing to every Missionary now preaching Christ to the Gentiles. Cause Jew and Gentile, in every place, to turn to the Lord, that they may be saved. Bring on the happy day, when the Saviour shall return, and there shall be one fold and one Shepherd; and they shall not hurt nor destroy in all thy holy mountain.

O thou giver of every good and perfect gift, we praise and bless thee for thy great and continued mercies to us. All things thou givest to us richly to enjoy. We receive from thee full provision for all our temporal wants, and thou forgivest our iniquities.

[Like as a father pitieth his children, so thou our Lord and Father pitiest them that fear thee. Thou knowest our frame; Thou rememberest that we are dust. Thou hast had compassion on us in our low and lost estate, and thou gavest thy Son to die for us; and now thou offerest and givest us thy Holy Spirit, to soften our hard hearts and to help our infirmities. Thou justifieth us freely by thy grace, adoptest us into thy family, and givest us a hope full of glory.]

Behold what manner of love thou our Father hast bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! God of mercy, grant, we beseech thee,