in Jefus Christ, at the hour of death, and in the day of judgment. Amen.

Ephef. iv. 6. Let not the fun go down upon your wrath.

Lord, grant that I may lie down to sleep with the fame charitable difpofitions, with which I defire and hope to die.

I befeech Thee for all my enemies; not for judgment and vengeance, but for mercy, for the remiffion of their fins, and for their eternal happiness.

Pfa. xiii. 3. Lighten mine eyes, O Lord, that I fleep not in death.

Deliver me from the terrors of the night, and from the peftilence, that walketh in darknefs.. Let my fleep be free from fin; preserve me, O Lord, from evil dreams, and evil demons.

Into thy hands I commend myself, my fpirit, foul, and body, O Lord, thou God of truth. Grant that I may remember Thee upon my bed..

Pfa. iv. 9. I will lay me down in peace, and take my reft; for it is Thou, Lord, only that makeft me dwell in fafety.

May the Saviour and Guardian of my foul take me under his protection this night and evermore !

SUNDAY MEDITATIONS.

PRAYERS, THANKSGIVING, &c.
A Daily Form of Thanksgiving.

Almighty God and most merciful Father, who day after day doft minister to finful man infinite occafions of praifing Thee, accept my unfeigned thanks for all the bleffings, I have, and every day receive, from thy good providence.

That of thy own mere goodness, and without any merit of mine, or of my forefathers, Thou haft given me being from honeft and religious parents, and in a part of the world, where the Christian religion is purely taught, and thy facraments duly adminiftered.

That Thou didst endue me with reafon and perfect fenfes; and, to make these more comfortable to me, didst give me a found and healthful body.

That Thou gaveft me early knowledge of Thee, my Creator and Redeemer. That Thou haft preserved me ever fince my birth, and hast vouchfafed me health and liberty, and a competency of means to fupport me.

That Thou haft redeemed me by thy Son, and given me a fhare in his merits; fanctified me by thy Holy Spirit, and haft heaped many favors upon me.

That Thou haft given me honest friends, to ad

monish, to counfel, to encourage, and to fupport me, by their interest and advice.

That Thou haft been my refuge in tribulation, and my defence in all adverfities; delivering me from dangers, infamy, and troubles. For all known or unobferved deliverances, and for the guard thy holy Angels keep over me, I praise thy good providence.

When I went aftray, Thou didst reduce me; when I was fad, Thou didft comfort me; when I offended Thee, Thou didst forbear and gently correct me, and didft long expect my repentance, and when, for the grievoufness of my fins, I was ready to despair, Thou didst keep me from utter ruin; Thou haft delivered me from the fnares and affaults of the Devil; Thou haft not only preferved my foul, but my body, from deftruction, when fickneffes and infirmities took hold of me.

O Lord and Father, I cannot render due thanks and praise for all these mercies, bestowed upon me. Such, as I have, I give Thee; and humbly befeech Thee to accept this my daily. facrifice of thanksgiving.

Pardon, O God, all my former ingratitude; and that I have paffed so many days without obferving, without admiring, without acknowledging and confeffing, thy wonderful goodness to the most unworthy of thy fervants.

For (now I foberly confider my dependence upon Thee) as there is no hour of my life, that I do not enjoy thy favors, and taste thy good

nefe; fo (if my frailty would permit) I would fpend no part of my life without remembering

Thee.

Praise the Lord then, O my foul, and all, that is within me, praise his Holy Name.

Glory be to Thee, O Lord, my Creator. Glory be to Thee, O Jefus, my Redeemer. Glory be to the Holy Ghoft, my Sanctifier, my Guide, and Comforter.

All love, all glory be to the high and undivided Trinity, whofe works are infeparable, whofe dominion endureth world without end. Amen.

When I seriously confider, great God, my dependence upon thy Providence, and that the favors and mercies, I have received, are infinitely more in number, than the acknowledgments I have made, I am justly afhamed of my ingratitude, and afraid, left my unthankfulness provoke Thee to hinder the current of thy bleffings from defcending upon me.

Forgive, O merciful Father, my past negli gence, and give me grace for time to come to obferve and to value thy kindneffes, as becomes one, who has received fo much more, than he deferves.

Preserve in my foul, God fo constant and clear a fenfe of my obligations to Thee, that upon receipt of every favor I may immediately turn my eyes to him, from whom cometh my falvation. That thy manifold bleffings may fix fuch impreffions upon my foul, that I may always praise Thee faithfully here on earth, until it fhall

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please Thee, of thy unbounded mercy, to call me nearer the place of thy heavenly habitation, to praise my Lord and deliver to all eternity. PROVIDENCE.

God has more ways of providing for us, than we can poffibly imagine; it is infidelity to defire to confine him to our ways and methods. Matth. viii. Lord, fave us, we perish.

Nothing can better exprefs our own inability and our whole dependence upon God. Two fure conditions of obtaining help.

Since thy mercy, O God, is ever ready to help all, that call upon Thee in time of distress, let thy goodness anfwer my wants. Keep me under the protection of thy good providence, and make me to have perpetual fear and love of thy Holy Name, through Jefus Chrift.

The more deftitute we are of human aid, the more ought we to trust to that providence, which God is pleased to exert in extreme neceffity. O God, give me grace never to condemn thy providence; let me adore the wisdom of thy conduct, the holiness of thy ways, and the power of thy grace.

How many fins fhould we commit, if God did not vouchfafe to oppose our corrupt will! Bleffed be his holy name for not leaving me to my own choice.

Pfa. xc. 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.