tented in a low one, and still careful about our souls in all conditions.

We depend on thee, O Lord, for direction and success in all our undertakings. We bless thee that thou hast promised to them that acknowledge thee in all their ways, that thou wilt direct their paths. O Lord, we desire to put ourselves under thy gracious conduct and fatherly protection; that thou mayest choose our inheritance for us, and dispose of us and all that concerns us, to the glory of thy name. Grant us all things needful and convenient for our present pilgrimage state. Give us day by day our daily bread, and save us at all times from distrusting thy providence. May we be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, make our requests known unto God. May we set the Lord always before us, and while we live upon thy bounty, may we continually live to thy praise. And do thou so guide us in all our ways with thy counsel, that thou mayest hereafter receive us to thy glory.

And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus, Christ, and the love of God our heavenly Father, and the comfortable

fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us, and all we ought to pray for, this day and for evermore. Amen. !

TUESDAY EVENING.

MOST great and ever-blessed God: we thine unworthy creatures desire at this time, with all humility, to bow ourselves down in thine awful presence, acknowledging thine infinite perfections and glories. [We adore thee, as the first and the last, the greatest and the best of beings; who art possessed of knowledge and power, wisdom and righteousness, holiness and truth, mercy and goodness, beyond what all other beings can conceive.] We We pay thee our homage, as the author and support of universal nature, the lord and life of the creation. We acknowledge ourselves thy creatures, whose bodies and souls were formed by thine hand, and are continually maintained by thy care and favour.

Most justly, therefore, mightest thou have expected from us the most constant gratitude, duty and obedience: but we

humbly confess before thee, with the deepest humiliation, shame and sorrow, that we have been very much wanting in those returns; yea, that we have all grievously offended thee. [We confess, O most holy God, that we are polluted and guilty creatures, and so most unworthy and unfit to appear in thy presence. We were shapen in iniquity, and in sin did our mother conceive us; and we have from our very childhood been renewing our transgressions în our thoughts, our words and our actions; and all these are attended with circumstances of high aggravation.] We own and lament, O most gracious Sovereign, that we have in numberless instances broken those wise and holy laws, which thou gavest us for our good; so that we have deserved thy righteous displeasure, and might have been made examples of justice, and spectacles of misery. [We might long since have been cut off from all the comforts of life, and been sent down to everlasting darkness, where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.]

But we humbly implore thy pardoning mercy in Christ Jesus our Lord, thine only-begotten and well-beloved Son; who

hath by thine appointment, O compassionate Father, visited this world of ours, not only to give us the most excellent instructions, confirmed by the most astonishing miracles, and recommended by the most amiable example; but also to redeem us to God by his blood, and to offer up his own life a sacrifice for us. Who being delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification, is now ascended into heaven, there to make a prevailing intercession for all that come unto God through him.

We would approach thy sacred presence with all becoming regards to him, humbly pleading that atoning blood which he shed on the cross, and that all-perfect merit and righteousness of his, by which alone sinners may draw near unto thee with acceptance. And we entreat thee for his sake, and in regard to our relation to him, fully and freely to forgive us all our numberless transgressions, and to be graciously reconciled to us; yea, to take us, unwor thy as we are, into the number of thy dear children. For his sake we also humbly entreat thee to free us from the power of sin, and send down, O thou God of all grace, thine Holy Spirit upon our hearts,

in a rich abundance, to inspire us with a hatred of every thing that is displeasing to thee, and to form us to a love of universal goodness, and a desire of making continual improvements in it.

[Fill us, O Lord, we humbly beseech thee, with a fervent love to thy blessed self. In all things may we be obedient to thine only precepts, and submissive to thy wise and gracious disposal. May we be united to Christ by a sincere faith, which shall work by love, and shew itself in keeping his commandments. May we be led by the Holy Spirit of God, and cherish his influence on our hearts, as the spirit of holiness and of life, To our brethren of mankind may we be strictly just, and affectionately kind, doing to others as we could reasonably desire they should do to us, and rejoicing in every opportunity of advancing their temporal or spiritual happiness.]

While we continue here in this uncertain world, give us, if it be thy blessed will, food to eat, and raiment to put on, health of body and cheerfulness of mind, and whatever other enjoyments thou seest necessary to make our journey through life comfortable. But let us not have our