PART I.

PRAYERS

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FAMILIES

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PRIVATE PERSONS.

A Morning Prayer for a FAMILY on the Lord's Day.

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WE E praife and worship thee, O Lord, the Creator of Heaven and Earth for thou fpakeft the Word, and all Things were made; thoù commandeft, and they were created!

We admire and adore thy infinite Wifdom and Power in the Things thou haft made, and we acknowledge our absolute Dependance upon thee, and thy great Goodness and Bounty to us and to all the World.

Bleffed be thou, who didst so love the World, that thou gaveft thine only begotten Son to redeem it, who was delivered for our Offences, and raised again (as on this Day) to juftify and fave all fuch as fear and

obey thee.

We give Thanks to thee, O Lord, for all thy Mercies to our Souls and Bodies, for appointing one Day in feven for thy more peculiar Worship and Service. All poffible Praise and Thanks be given to God, who created us; to Jefus Chrift, who redeemed us; and to the Holy Ghoft, who fanctifieth

us.

Grant, O Lord, that by a wife and religious Ufe of the Means of Grace, we may grow up to a State of Holinefs and Righteoufnefs, and that our Souls may be prepared for thofe glorious and delightful Praifes, which in Heaven will be Part of the Happiness and Employment of thy Saints to all Eternity.

O Lord, we confefs that we have offended thee, by the negligent Performance of our holy Duties, by our Abufe of thy Grace, and mif-fpending this thy holy Day, and by many Sins committed in the Courfe. of our Lives. But let not this provoke thee to withdraw the Affiftance of thy

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Holy Spirit from us, and to leave us to the Vanity and Folly of our own Minds. We humbly befeech thee, O moft merciful Father, to forgive us all our paft Offences. Do thou mercifully hear our Prayers, and let our Cry come unto thee.

Let our whole Behaviour on this Day be fuch, that there may be nothing thought, faid, or done by us, but what may best ferve to promote the End for which thou haft inftituted it; and, good God, make every one of us diligent, not only to fave our own Souls, but, as much as in us lies, the Souls of others too.

Blefs thy univerfal Church: Be thou gracioufly prefent in all. Chriftian Affemblies throughout the World, and hear the Prayers they fhall this Day put up, and make thy Word effectual to the pulling down the Kingdom of Satan, and to the edifying the Church of Chrift in found Faith and real Godlinefs. May thy Word come with Power into every Confcience, and have a due and saving Effect upon the Minds of all that hear it.

Beftow a plentiful Portion of thy good Spirit upon all that by Sickness, Imprifonment, or any other lawful Impediment, are kept from partaking of the Means of Grace,

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that we enjoy; and be pleafed mercifully to relieve and fuccour them in all their Straits and Difficulties. Those that are troubled in Mind, do thou direct to proper Means to obtain Comfort and Satisfaction. Give all that have no Senfe of thy Majesty, and live as it were without God in the World, awakening Convictions of the Dangers they are in, and the Miseries they are exposed to, that they may escape them.

Pardon our Sins and Imperfections, and relieve all our Wants, for the Sake of Jefus Chrift; in whofe Words we farther pray, Our Father, &c.

A concluding Prayer.

The Grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the Love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost, be with us all. Amen.

An Evening Prayer for a FAMILY on the Lord's Day.

ETERNALLY bleffed and infinitely glorious Lord God, who keepeft Mercy for thoufands, and forgiveft the Iniquities of all truly penitent and returning Sinners; we present ourselves this Evening before Thee, acknowledging our manifold Sins,

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whereby we have exposed ourselves to thy juft Displeasure.

We have been unmindful both of our Duty and Intereft; have broken thy holy Laws, dishonoured our holy Religion, and miferably neglected the great Salvation thy bleffed Son purchased and procured for Mankind.

We have come without due Preparation to thy folemn Worship, and been heedless and inattentive in hearing thy Word. O how cold and flat have we been in thy Praises! how earthly, dull, and distracted in our Prayers!

How feldom have we been seriously exercised in holy Meditation! How seldom have we recollected thy multiplied Mercies to us, fo as to become fenfible of the many Obligations we are under to thee for them; or fo thought on our Ways, as to turn our Feet to thy Teftimonies!

But, O Lord, we humbly pray thee, for Jefus Chrift's Sake, to forgive us all our past Offences. Direct and guide us in the Ways of Truth and Holinefs: And that we may always fear thee our God, help us to fet thee always before us; and fo to obferve and confider thy All-feeing Eye, that we may dread to offend thee.