Withdraw our Minds from the Love of this World, and place them upon Heaven and heavenly Things. Give us Grace to ufe the Blefings which thou art pleafed to bestow upon us, with Temperance, Sobriety, and Moderation; with an entire Truft and Dependence on thy fatherly Care and good Providence, and with a perfect Submission to thy bleffed Will in all Things.

O Lord! root out of our Hearts all Pride and Envy; all Hatred, Malice, and Ill-will. Put away from us all Cenforioufness and Uncharitablenefs, all Lying and Slandering, and whatever elfe is contrary to a truly Chriftian Spirit: and endue us, we most humbly pray Thee, with that Meekness and Humility which is in thy Sight of fo great Value, and with all thofe holy and Christian Difpofitions which thou lovest and delighteft in.

Inftruct us in all the Particulars of our Duty which we owe to Thee, our Neighbour, and ourselves. Guide us by thy Right-hand, and conduct us by thy good Spirit, through all the Business and Affairs of this Life. Teach us to act with Faith

fulness

fulness and Honefty in every Thing that we undertake; and give us fuch a Dread of thy Difpleafure, and fuch a Sense of thy continual Prefence with us, as may. fecure us, by thy Grace, against all the Temptations of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil.

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Be with us, O Lord, this Day, where- This is to ever we go, and in whatfoever we Preferve us from the Dangers of evil day MornCompany; from the Deceitfulnefs of ouring; and what fol own Hearts; and defend us more efpe-lors may cially from thofe Sins, that are most apt be used in to betray and enfnare us. Let thy Blefead there fing accompany all our honeft Labours;

and vouchsafe us fuch a Meafure of Health, and other temporal Bleffings, as thou seeft best and most fitting for us. We defire, O Lord, to leave ourselves, and all our Concerns, in thy Hands; humbly befeeching Thee to take us, and all that belong to us, under the Protection of thy good Providence; and fo to blefs, direct, and guide, us in this Life, that we may at last obtain that greatest of all Bleffings, the eternal Salvation of our immortal Souls, through the Merits, and for the

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Sake, of thy dear Son, and our alone Saviour Jefus Chrift: for whom our Souls adore and praise thy glorious Name, and in whofe moft holy Words we fum up our own, and the Wants of all Mankind, faying, Our Father, &c.

Dispose our Hearts, O Lord, we humbe used on bly befeech thee, to a serious Attendance a Sunday Morning, upon thee in all holy Duties. Make us inftead of duly mindful of all thy facred Inftitutions,. the forego and grant that we may never so far foring Paragraph. get the Intereft of our Souls, as to neglect the religious Obfervance of the Chriftian Sabbath. And as thou haft brought us to the Beginning of this facred Day; fo be thou graciously pleased to take us into thy Protection, and to affift us in a right Discharge of the Duties of it. Withdraw our Minds from the Care and Bufinefs and Pleasures of this Life, which will fhortly have an End, that we may more freely attend upon the great Concerns of that far better Life, which is to last for evermore. Give us awful Thoughts of thy great Majefty, and a lively Sense of our own Wants; that our Prayers and Praises, and all our Services, may be of

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fered up in fuch a ferious and devout Manner, as may render them acceptable. in thy Sight. Make us attentive to thy Holy Word, and to all the good Inftructions that fhall this Day be given us and grant that we may not reft in mere out, ward Performances; but, by a right Ufe, of thy holy Ordinances, may grow in Grace, and become every Day better Chrif tians, and fo improve in all virtuous and godly Living, that, when this fhort Life shall have an End, we may dwell with Thee in Life everlafting, through the Merits of thy Son, and our alone Saviour Jefus Chrift: for whom our Souls blefs and praise thee, and in whofe moft holy Words we fum up our own, and the Wants of all Mankind, faying, Our Father, &c.

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An EVENING PRAYER for a FAMILY.

XXXMOST merciful and gracious Lord God! the great Creator, Preferver, and Governor, of the World! Thou art infinite in Mercy and Goodness to all that call upon thee faithfully, and haft promised, that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou wilt be in the Midft of them. Look down, we humbly befeech thee, upon us thy unworthy Creatures, who are here affembled before thee, acknowledging that thou art a God greatly to be feared for thy Power and Juftice, greatly to be beloved for thy infinite Perfections and Goodness, and greatly to be praised for thy Bounty and merciful Kindnefs. But as for ourselves, we confess, O Lord, that we are vile and finful Creatures; that we have, in many Things, acted contrary to thy moft holy Will, and have neither -loved thee, feared thee, nor obeyed

thee,