fend thy divine majesty. Make us such as thou wouldst have us to be; strengthen our faith, confirm our hope, and give us a daily increase of charity, that, this day and ever, we may serve thee according to all our opportunities and capacities; growing from grace to grace, till at last by thy mercies we shall receive the consummation and perfection of Grace, even the glories of thy kingdom in the full fruition of the face and excellences of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; to whom be glory and praise, honor and adoration, given by all angels, and all men, and all creatures, now and to all eternity. Amen. See page 4.

Our Father, &c.

SATURDAY EVENING.

O ALMIGHTY God, Father of spirits, thou· art the preserver of men and the great lover of souls; thou didst make every thing perfect in its kind, and all that thou didst make was very good: only we, miserable creatures, sons of Adam, having corrupted our ways before thee, dwell in a cloud of thy displeasure; behold us thy servants, sensible of our sad condition, weak and miserable, sinful and ignorant, full of need, wanting thee in all things, and neither able to escape death without a Saviour, nor to live a life of holiness without thy Spirit: O be pleased to renew our minds, and to sanctify our hearts: break off the bands and fetters

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of our sin; correct our evil inclinations; renew a right spirit within us, lest we should retire to the works of darkness, and enter into those horrible regions where the light of thy countenance never shineth.

We are ashamed, O God, that we have dishonored so excellent a creation. Thou didst make us upright, and created us in innocence. And when thou didst see us unable to stand in thy sight, thou didst renew thy mercies to us in the new Covenant of Jesus Christ; and now we have no excuse, nothing to plead for ourselves, much less against thee; but thou art holy and pure, and just and good. Make us to be like thee, holy as thou art holy, merciful as our heavenly Father is merciful, obedient as our holy Saviour Jesus, that our sins may be pardoned by his death, and our spirit renewed by his Spirit, that passing from sin to Grace, from ignorance to the knowlege and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ, we may pass from death to life, from sorrow to joy, from earth to heaven, from the present state of misery and imperfection to the glorious inheritance prepared for the children of light, the brethren of our Lord, our Judge and our Advocate, our blessed Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

O ALMIGHTY God, the Father of mercy and holiness, thou art the Fountain of Grace and strength, and thou blessest the sons of men by turning them from their iniquities; shew the mightiness of thy power and the glories of thy Grace, by giving us strength against all our enemies, and victory

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victory in all temptations, that we may not be servants of chance or violence, of interest or passion, of fear or desire, but that thy holy Spirit may conduct us, that in all contentions thy Spirit may prevail, and in all doubts we may choose the better párt, and in the midst of all contradictions and temptations we may be thy servants infallibly and unalterably. Amen.

Blessed Jesu, thou art our high-priest, and en compassed with infirmities, but always without sin, relieve and pity us, O gracious Lord, who are encompassed with infirmities, but seldom or never without sin. O God, our ignorances are many, our temptations ensnaring and deceitful, our resolutions weak, our dangers round about us: O be thou unto us wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and Redemption. Thou hast promised thy holy Spirit to them that ask him; let thy Spirit help our infirmities, give to us his strengths, instruct us with his notices, encourage us with his promises, alarm us with his terrors, confirm us with his courage, that we being readily prepared and furnished for every good work, may grow with the increase of God to the full measure of the stature and fulness of thee our Saviour; that though our outward man decay and decrease, yet our inner man may be renewed day by day; that our infirmities may be weaker, and thy Grace stronger, and at last may triumph over the decays of the old man. 0 be thou pleased to pity our infirmities, and in all our fights and necessities may we be defended and secured, prospered and conducted to the regions

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of victory and triumph, of strength and glory, through the mercies of God, and the Grace of our Lord Jesus, and the blessed communication of the Spirit of God and our Lord Jesus. Amen.

GIVE us pardon, O thou God of mercy and peace, for all the errors and follies, the ignorances and omissions, the rash words and imprudent actions of which any of us hath been guilty this day, or at any time before. We confess our sins every day, and yet every day sin against thee; and we pray unto thee for all the blessings that we need, and thou givest us all that we pray for and much more; but yet we regard thee not, but every day have new matter of shame and sorrow.

Lord have mercy upon us.
Christ have mercy upon us.

Lord have mercy upon us.

FOR if thou Lord wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, we shall not be able to abide or stand upright in judgment. Thy mercy is great, and thou hast blessed us this day, and kept us from the evils of our inclination, and the evils of temptation: and though in the things wherein our consciences do not accuse us we are not justified, but by thy mercies and loving-kindness in Christ Jesus, yet we rejoice in thy goodness to us, and praise thy bounties and thy love, and hope in thy mercies, and beg of thee that thou wilt pardon us and keep us this night and ever; sanctify and save us, bless us at home and abroad, in the works of

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our calling and the duties of religion, in our per sons and relations; make us to do what pleaseth thee, and to be what thou hast designed us to be, and to receive what thou hast promised, and to keep us from all the evil we have deserved, for Jesus Christ's sake, our dearest Lord and Saviour, in whose comprehensive form of words we sum up all our wants, saying,

Our Father, &c. See page 4.

THE MORNING OF A COMMUNION.

O KING of glory, Lord and Maker of the world, thou art a God knowing all things, and even all thoughts long before they are conceived, be thou present with us in the religious solemnity to which thou hast been, graciously, pleased to invite us this day. Deliver us from all the shame of our sins, from the corruption and evil inclinations that attend them, and from all the evils that may, justly, follow them. Cleanse our wills and our understanding from all lusts and concupiscence, from the deceits of the world, from the violence and snares of the devil, from all guile and hypocrisy, from every evil word and work, that we may serve thee faithfully, worship thee religiously, and pray unto thee acceptably, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.