Correct us not, Lord, in anger, lest thou bring us to nothing.

We beseech thee help and deliver us for thy name's sake.

Enter not into judgment with thy unworthy

servants.

For in thy sight, none living can be justified.

Favourably be pleased to accept our peti

tions.

Graciously behold the afflictions and sorrows of our hearts.

Lord may thy goodness and mercy be extended to us.

And may we finally obtain thy grace and favour.

Master. ALMIGHTY God, may we rejoice. in the assurance which thou hast given us, that there is forgiveness with thee for penitents; and we beseech thee to regard the contrition and sincerity of our souls, and for thy name's sake pardon our iniquities, and grant us thy salvation, according to the riches of thy grace, that being animated by the noblest motives, and actuated by the best principles in the prosecution of our various stations in life, we may in the future course of our pilgrimage, maintain our integrity, preserve our consciences clear, and approve ourselves to Thee, as dutiful subjects of thy moral kingdom, by a cheerful resignation to thy sacred will in all instances, wherein thou art pleased to make us acquainted, either by

the light of nature or revelation, ascribing to thy great name, honor and power everlasting. Amen.

Master. O Lord save us thy servants,
Family. Who put our trust in thee.
Be thou to us a strong tower,

From the assults of our enemy.

Our help standeth in the name of the Lord.

Who hath made heaven and earth.

Lord, hear our prayers,

And may our petitions be accepted,
Blessed be the name of the Lord,
Henceforth world without end.

Occasional Prayer for the Evening Service.

Master. ALMIGHTY God, lighten our darkness we beseech thee, and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, granting us moderate and refreshing rest, free from sinful imaginations, which too often are the effects of our corrupt natures; when we awake, let our souls be filled with heavenly thoughts and pious meditations, always remembering we are in the presence of God, who knows our downsitting and our upri ing, and who art acquainted with all our ways. If we should be so vain and thoughtless as to believe that the darkness would cover us from thee: yet the darkness and light to thee are both alike. And forasmuch as the closing our eyes to rest, so nearly resembles death, and our beds are but models of our graves out of which we must one day

be called by the sound of the last trump, to arise and come to judgment, let this, and every evening, and every morning, remind us of our dying hour. Make us therefore sensible how highly it concerns us while we have health of body and soundness of mind, to be armed, like good soldiers, with christian courage and resolution for our death bed conflicts with diseases and spiritual enemies, that, as death to many is a terror, it may be to us a friend, that we may with cheerfulness quit these houses of clay and fleshly tabernacles, and exchange the troubles of a painful pilgrimage in a vale of anxiety for heaven, with the blessed company of saints and angels, and enter into the joy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

Occasional Prayer.

Master. ALMIGHTY God, be pleased to accept of our praises and thanksgivings, offered unto thee for thy beneficent providence, which has hitherto attended us in every stage, and through all the vicissitudes of past life, making constant provision for our support and comfort, by innumerable blessings which have given us a relish for existence, and laid a foundation for the most animating hopes of deriving from thine inexhaustible munificence all further needed supplies of good, and affords us constant and most reviving evidence of thine unmerited paternal care and bounty, whereof we have had happy experience, and to which we are indebted for our present

agreeable circumstances : May we live under an habitual impressive sense of our dependence on Thee, and obligations to thine ever active providence, in acknowledging Thee in all thy ways; May we put our trust in Thee; through all the changing scenes of life, and with the warmest emotions of gratitude and most fixed resolution of holy obedience make it our constant devout enquiry what we shall render to Thee for all thy benefits.

Master. O THOU that hearest prayer, who hast not only invited and encouraged, but commanded us to maintain a sacred intercourse with heaven by prayer and supplication together with thanksgiving; pardon we beseech thee whatever has been amiss in our present address, and graciously accept us, as we desire with the profoundest humility and reverence to close our devotions.

Social.

OUR Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven; grant us thy daily blessing, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; suffer us not to fall into sin or temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen.

CONTENTS.

Devotional Exercises.

I. General Adoration and Prayer, shewing the benefit of Piety and Virtue.

II. Calculated to inspire the soul with exalted conceptions of God.

III. God's eternity and man's mortality, proper on the death of a friend or near relation.

IV. God's omnipresence; motive to caution and circumspection.

V. Thanksgiving and Prayer, with expressions of Hope and Joy in God.

VI. Breathings of a devout soul, on the views of divine favour.

VII. Ascriptions of praise to God, adapted to beget awe and holy caution.

VIII. Confession of sins, accompanied with prayer and resolution of repentance.

IX. Expressions of resolution to praise God on account of his perfection and providence.

X. Good men esteem it their felicity to approach God in acts of worship, suitable for Sabbath morning. IX. The majesty and power of God displayed in the operations of nature.

XII. The mind relieved in the view of Providences by the prospect of future reward.

XIII. Confession of sins with Prayers, in hopes of the mercy of God.

XIV. Rejoicing in the Lord, for good, who fills our hearts with delight and gladness.

XV. The goodness of God towards the righteous in his Protection and Support.

XVI. Shewing the Majesty and Glory of God, with joy and confidence in him.

XVII. Faith in God, and Jesus Christ, the way to increase and strengthen it.