Ejaculations at Waking, or Rifing. A Wake, O my Soul, and fing Praifes to God. Glory be to Thee, O God, for watching over me this Night. Lord, raise me up, at the laft Day, to Life everlasting. Morning Prayer. E Arly in the Morning will I cry unto thee; Lord, hear my Prayer. Glory be to Thee, Lord God Almighty, Glory be to Thee, for renewing thy Mercies to me every Morning Glory be to Thee, for refreshing me this Night with Sleep, and for preferving me from the Perils of Darknefs. O do away, as the Night, fo my Tranfgreffions; fcatter my Sins as the Morning Cloud. Lord, forgive whatever Thou haft feen amifs in me this Night, my (Here, if you are confcious to yourself of any Sin committed in the Night, confess it.) O Father of Mercies, wash me throughly from my Wickedness, and cleanse me from my Sin. And let thy Holy Spirit fo prevent, and accompany, and follow me this Day, that I may believe in Thee, and love Thee, and keep thy Commandments, and continue in thy Fear all the Day long. Lord, make me chafte and temperate, humble and adviseable, diligent in my Studies, obedient to my Superiors, and charitable to all Men. Lord, deliver me from Sloth and Idleness; from youthful Lusts, and ill Company; from all Dangers bodily and ghoftly; and give me Grace to remember Thee, my Creator, in the Days of my Youth. Blefs, and defend, and fave the KING, and all the Royal Family, and all Orders of Men amongst us, Ecclefiaftical or Civil: Lord, give them all Grace in their feveral Stations, to be inftrumental to thy Glory, and the publick Good. Together with them, I commend to thy Divine Providence (my Father and Mother, my Brethren and Sifters) all my Friends B 51 Friends and Relations, all my Superi ors in this Place, and all my FellowScholars O Lord, vouchfafe us all thofe Graces and Bleffings which Thou knoweft to be moft fuitable for us. Unto Thee, O my God, do I dedicate this Day, and my whole Life: O do Thou fo blefs and profper me in my Studies, that I may every Day grow more fit for thy Service. Hear me, O Lord, and pardon my Failings, for the Merits of thy Son Jefus, in whofe holy Words I fum up all my Wants. Our Father, which art in Heaven, &c. Directions for reading the Holy W HEN you have faid your Morning Prayer, good Philotheus, you may then go chearfully to your Study, and rely upon the Divine Goodnefs for a Bleffing. But firft, if you have Time, I advife you to read, before fecond Peal, fome fhort Pfalm, or Piece of a Chap ter ter out of the Gofpel, or Hiftorical Books,, because they are the most easy to be understood, remembring the Example of young Timothy, who was bred up to know the Scripture from a Child, 2 Tim. jljo 15.5 b5a1 of 9'T But if you want Time on ordinary Days to read the Scripture, be fure to read somewhat of it on Sundays and Holidays, and confider that you have it daily read to you in the Hall before Dinner and Supper, and at Night when you are just going to Bed, that you may clofe the Day with holy Thoughts; and if you hearken, diligently to it when it is read, you do in effect read it yourself. Now to make your Reading the more profitable to you, begin with one or more of thefe Ejaculations. W Herewithal, Lord, shall a young Man cleanse his Way? Even by ruling himself after thy Words, Pfal. cxix. 9. B 6 Lord Lord, open my Eyes, that I may fee the wonderful Things of thy Law. O Heavenly Father! I humbly begthy beg thy Holy Spirit fo to help me at this Time to read and understand, and to remember and practise thy Word, that it may make me wife to Salvation. 3 When you are thus prepared, good Philotheus, then begin to read, and confider that it is God's moft holy Word you read and that all the while you are reading, God is fpeaking to you; and therefore read with Attention and Humility, and endeavour, as much as you can, to fuit your Affections to the Subject you read. For Inftance; if you read any of God's Commands, they fhould excite in you a Zeal to keep them. If you read any of God's Threatenings against Sinners, or his Judgments on them, they fhould excite in you a Fear to provoke him. When |