the world. This mercy, O most merciful Father, vouchsafe to give unto us and all thy servants, through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer, in whose most holy name and words, we sum up all our wants, saying,

Our Father, &c. See page 4.

FRIDAY MORNING.

Let us pray.

O ETERNAL and most blessed Saviour Jesus, thou art the bright morning star, and the sun of righteousness, thou dost enlighten our eyes with thy glories, and our hearts with thy comfort; thou art the fountain of health and life, of peace and truth, of rest and holiness; thou givest to them that want, thou comfortest them that suffer, thou forgivest them that repent, and hearest the prayers of all them that call upon thee; we adore thee and praise thy glories, and rejoice in thy Salvation, and give thee thanks for thy blessing and defending us this night, from all the evil which we have deserved every day, and from all the violences and snares by which the enemy of mankind would have hurt us, or destroyed us, unless he had been restrained by thy eternal goodness, and thy almighty.

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We acknowlege, O God, and Father of our life, that we are less than the least of all thy mercies,

and our iniquity is greater than we can bear: our thoughts are vain, our conversation trifling, our actions criminal, our devotion cold, our duties imperfect, our repentance little, our holiness such as to be our reproach. O God, our Judge, we confess before thee, that we neither know thee as we ought, nor have taken care that we might; we live in the world to ourselves, but without a just regard of thee and of Religion; we daily receive thy blessings, and yet we provoke thee every day; we tremble not at thy judgments, though we have deserved them, nor fear till the evil day comes upon us. Every thing can tempt us to sin, and we fall infallibly; but by all the supports of thy Spirit and the methods of thy mercy, we are not brought to obey thee as we ought; our state is sad, our condition is sinful, our hopes are broken, and we often forget ourselves, and still neglect and despise our own danger..

But, O God our Father, merciful and gracious, have mercy upon us. Be pleased to admit thy servants to a full pardon of all our sins, let us not persevere in any one sin, nor pass from one sin to another. Smite us not, O God, in thy anger, and let not thy wrath descend upon our guilty heads. O God, let not thine arrows smite us, nor thy judgements consume us; preserve us from all expressions of thy wrath, and let us rejoice in thy mercies and loving kindnesses for ever and ever.

And that thy servants may reasonably and humbly hope for thy final mercies and deliverance, be pleased to give us all that we need in order to the performance

performance of our duty, and work all that in us by which we may please thee. Instruct us in thy truth, and prepare the means of Salvation for us, providing for the necessities, and complying with the capacities, of every one of us. Take from us all blindness of heart and carelessness of spirit, all irreligion, and wilful ignorance. Create in us a love of holy things, and open our souls that we may perceive and love and retain the things of God with diligence, and humility, and industry. Keep us, O God, from vicious compliances, and evil customs, and let not the reverence of any man cause us to sin against thee; keep us upright in our Religion and worshipping of thee, and let no change of the world engage us in a state of life against our duty, for Jesus Chrift's sake our blessed Lord and Saviour.

Keep us, O God, by thy Holy Spirit, from all the sins of idleness and intemperance, from injustice and sensuality, from the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes, from the pride of life and vanity of spirit, from being careless of our duty or false in our trust, from breach of promise or reproachful language, from slandering or traducing any man, from false accusation and false witness, from faction and envy; Grant us thy grace, that we may be diligent in our business, just and reasonable in our charges, provident of our time, watchful in our duty, careful of every word we speak. O make us to be pleased in the offices of Religion, useful to those that employ us, dutiful to our superiors, loving to each other, conscientious

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in private, humble in public, patient in adversity, religious and thankful in prosperity.

O Blessed God, take care of our souls, and of our bodies: keep us from severe and tedious sicknesses; let us never fall into want, or be unprovided for in our age, and forsake us not, O God, when we are grey-headed; grant us such measures of thy Spirit, that we may abstain from all appearances of evil, and from all occasions of it, and that we may take care to do whatsoever is honest and of good report, that having lived in thy faith and fear, we may rejoice in the day of our death, and find mercy at the day of Judgment, through the goodness of our God, and by the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

Bless and sanctify, defend and fave all Christian kings, princes, governors, and states; grant that all powers, civil and ecclesiastical, may join together in promoting the honor of God, and the kingdom of the Lord Jesus, and may find the blessings of God, and the rewards of the Lord Jesus in this world, and in the world to come,

In mercy remember all them that are miserable and afflicted, persecuted or poor, that have lost their health or their peace, their innocence or their hopes restore them, O Lord, to all good, and to all useful comforts, and let not the enemy of mankind invade thy portion, or destroy any soul for whom thou hast paid the price of thy most precious Blood. Hear us, O God, in mercy, and bless all our relations, profper all our labors, sanctify all our intentions, forgive us all

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our sins, relieve all our necessities, and defend us from all dangers, and especially from our own selves, from our evil habits, and foolish customs, from our weak principles, and prevailing infirmities, from the power of the devil, and from thy wrath, and bring us in mercy and truth, in holiness and comfort, in labor and certainty, to a fruition of the glories of God, in the inheritance of our Blessed Saviour. Grant this, O God our Father, for the merits and by the Redemption and intercession of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in whose prevailing name and words we further call upon thee, saying, Our Father, &c. See page 4.

FRIDAY EVENING.

O ALMIGHTY God, who dwellest in light inaccessible, before whom the greatest mountains are like the dust of the balance, in whose sight the heavens are not pure, the angels tremble, the saints are charged with folly, and all the world shall fear in thy glorious presence; we confess to thee, O Lord, Father of heaven and earth, all those sins which we have committed openly before the world, and secretly in thy presence only; for thou knowest all things, and nothing is hid from thy righteous eyes. Thou art the God of mercy and pity, and thou wouldest have all whom thou

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