God will deny us nothing that we ask in the name of his Son.

PRAYERS through Jefus Chrift.

When we offer our prayers through his mediation, it is he, that prays; his love, that intercedes; his blood, that pleads; it is he who ob tains all from his Father.

PREPARATORY PRAYER.

O Holy Spirit of grace, give us a true fight of our miferies, and fincere shame and forrow, when we make confeffion of our fins; a feeling fenfe of our need of mercy, and hope of obtaining pardon, when we beg it for thy Son's fake. May we refign our will to Thee and to thy goodnefs, when we pray for temporal things; and, when we pray for spiritual graces, may we hunger and thirft after righteoufnefs! Give us real love for thy Holy Word, and grace to hear it with attention. May we thankfully close with all the means of grace and falvation! When we praise Thee for thy works of nature and of grace, and give Thee thanks for thy mercies; let us do it with high esteem and gratitude. Caufe us to hear thy holy word · with faith and attention, and to profit by what we hear, that we may return from thy church with a bleffing.

MORNING PRAYER.

Joshua xxiv. 15. Choose you this day, whom you will ferve.

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HOM have I in Heaven, but Thee, O Lord? There is none on earth, that I defire befide Thee. Thou art my God and I will thank thee. Thou art my God, and I will ferve Thee. Be Thou my only ruler and governor.

They that have a convenient place to fleep in, and they, that have the comfort of fleep, have both great reafon to be thankful; and even they, that want these mercies, ought to blefs God, if in the midst of their afflictions he is pleased to refresh them with the comforts of grace.

Gracious God, continue to me these favors fo long, and in fuch measure, as fhall moft contribute to thy honor and my falvation; and in great mercy fupport and relieve all, that want thefe bleffings.

What fhall I offer unto the Lord for his mercies, renewed unto me every morning? The facrifice of God is a troubled spirit; a broken and contrite heart God will not defpife! But moft unfit is mine to be presented to God before I have obtained his pardon through the merits of the Lord Jefus, for the many fins, by which it hath been defiled. ·

Jer. iii. 12. I am merciful, faith the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever. Only ac

knowledge thine iniquity, that thou haft tranfgreffed against the Lord thy God. Pfa. xxxii. 5. I acknowledge my fin unto thee, O God, and mine iniquities will I not hide.

I do therefore implore thy pardon, and plead thy gracious promifes, with full purpose of heart, by the affiftance of thy grace, never again to return to folly.

. Jer. xvii. 9. The heart is deceitful above all› things, and defperately wicked; who can know it? I cannot answer for my own heart; but there is no word, O Lord, impoffible with Thee. In Thee I do put my truft; let me never be put to confufion. Keep it ever in the heart of thy, fervant, that it is indeed an evil thing and bitter to offend the Lord. Keep me from prefumptu- › ous fins, that I may never grieve thy Holy Spirit, nor provoke Thee to leave me to myself. Matth. xxvi. 41. Watch and pray, that enter not into temptation.

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Lord, make me ever mindful of my infirmities and backflidings, that I may be more watchful, and more importunate for grace, for the time to come.

1 Pet. v. 8. Be fober, be vigilant; because your adverfary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, feeking whom he may devour.

O Lord, grant that this adverfary of our fouls may never find me off my guard, nor from. under thy protection.

Matth. xvi. 24.

If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross,

and follow me.

O`my Saviour, how long have I profeffed to follow Thee, without following the blessed steps of thy most holy life, thy patience and humility, thy difregard for the world, its pleasures, profits, honors, and idols. O Lord, obtain for me the spirit of mortification and felf denial, that I may follow Thee, as I hope to live with Theet forever. Amen.

Matth. vi. 24. No man can ferve two mafters. Ye cannot ferve God and Mammon.

May my fear and love never be divided be tween Thee and the world! May I never fet up any thing, O God, in competition with Thee in my heart! May I never attempt to reconcile thy fervice with that world, which is at enmity with Thee, my God and Father!

Mark x. 17. What shall I do, that I herit eternal life?

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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind; and thou fhalt love thy neighbour, as thyself.

O that this love of God may be the commanding principle of my foul! May I always have this comfortable proof of his love abiding in me, that I ftudy to please him, and to keep his commandments. May my love of my neighbour be fuch, as he has commanded, that I may forgive, and give, and love, as becomes a difciple of Je-, fus Chrift! Amen.

Ecclef. xii. 13. Fear God and keep his com→→ mandments, for this is the whole duty of man.. that is, the happiness of man.

May 1, great God, continue in thy fear all the day long! May I keep thy ftatutes, and obferve thy laws!

Heb. iv. 13. All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him, with whom we have to do.

Grant that I may always live and act, as having Thee, O God, the conftant witness of my conduct, for Jesus Christ's fake.

Ecclef. ix 10. Whatfoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might; for the night cometh, when no man can work.

Make me, O Lord, ever fenfible of the great evil of delaying the work which Thou haft appointed, left the night furprise me unawares.

1 John v. 14. This is the confidence, we have in God, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he beareth us.

That it may be unto thy fervant according to this word, I befeech Thee to hear me in the full import of that holy prayer, which thy bleffed Som hath taught us;

OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN; In whom we live, and move, and have our being; grant that I, and all Christians may live worthy of this glorious relation, and that we may not fin, knowing that we are accounted thine. We are thine by adoption; O make us thine by choice.

HALLOWED BE THY NAME.

O God, whofe name is great, wonderful, and holy, grant that I and all thy children may glorify Thee, not only with our lips, but in our