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fave your fouls. Be ye doers The Gospel. St. Matth. v. 43. . of the word; and not hearers only, deceiving your own felves. For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, fhalt love thy neighbour and he is like unto a man behold- hate thine enemy. But I fay ing his natural face in a glass: unto you, love your enemies, for he beholdeth himself, and bless them that curfe you, do goeth his way, and straight- good to them that hate you, way forgetteth what manner and pray for them which deof man he was. But whofo fpitefully ufe you and perfelooketh into the perfect law of cute you: that ye may be the liberty, and continueth there- children of your Father which in, he being not a forgetful is in heaven; for he maketh hearer, but a doer of the his fun to rife on the evil and work, this man fhall be bleff- on the good, and fendeth rain ed in his deed. If any man on the juft and on the unjust. among you seem to be reli- For if ye love them which gious, and bridleth not his love you, what reward have tongue, but deceiveth his ye? do not even the Publiown heart, this man's religion cans the fame? Or if ye falute is vain. Pure religion and your brethren only, what do undefiled before God and the ye more than others? do not Father is this: to vifit the even the Publicans fo? Be fatherless and widows in their ye therefore perfect, even as affliction, and to keep him- your Father which is in heafelf unfpotted from the world. ven is perfect.

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The Master or Mistress having called together as many of the Family as can conveniently be present; let one of them, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling:**

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Uk Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive those who trefpass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever.

Amen.

Acknowledgment LMIGHTY and everlasting God, in whom we live and move and have our

of God's mercy and preservation, espe

night past.

rially through the being; we, thy needy creatures, render thee our humble praises, for thy preservation of us from the beginning of our lives to this day, and especially for having delivered us from the dangers of the past night. To thy watchful

befal a Family, in

ing dangers, we

When distur providence we owe it, (* that no disturbance bances of any kind hath come nigh us or our dwelling; but, that stead of this, say, we are brought in safety to the beginning of thaunotwithstand this day.) For these thy mercies, we bless are brought in safe- and magnify thy glorious Name; humbly of thithe beginning beseeching thee to accept this our morning facrifice of praise and thanksgiving; for his fake who lay down in the grave, and rose again for us, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Chrift. Amen.

of day.

Dedication of soul and body to God's service, with a re

it is of thy mercy, O graci

ous Father, that another day is added

solution to be grow- to our lives; we here dedicate both our fouls and our bodies to thee and thy service, in a

fober, righteous, and godly life: In which resolution, do thou,

thou, O merciful God, confirm and ftrengthen us; the • as we grow in age, we may grow in grace, and in the know ledge of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift. Amen. ~

to enable us to per

Prayer for grace UT, O God, who knoweft the weak V form that resolution. and corruption of our nature, anc manifold temptations which we daily r with; we humbly befeech thee to have compaffion on infirmities, and to give us the conftant affiftance of thy Hul Spirit; that we may be effectually reftrained from fin, an excited to our duty. Imprint upon our hearts fuch a drea, of thy judgments, and fuch a grateful fenfe of thy goodne to us, as may make us both afraid and afhamed to offer thee. And, above all, keep in our minds a lively remè brance of that great Day, in which we muft give a ft account of our thoughts, words, and actions; and, accordin to the works done in the body, be eternally rewarded punished, by him whom thou haft appointed the Judge y quick and dead, thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen N particular, we implore thy grace and tection for the enfuing day. Keep us t perate in our meats and drinks, and diligen: i our feveral callings. Grant us patience un any afflictions thou fhalt fee fit to lay on u and minds always contented with our pref *On Sunday condition. Give us grace to be juft and Morning, instead of right in all our dealings; quiet and peacea' thy Holy Spirit ac full of compaffion; and ready to do goo company us to the all men, according to our abilities and op ̧‹ place of thy public worship, awaking us tunities. Direct us in all our ways (

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For grace to guide and keep us the folloteing day, and for God's blessing on the business of the same.

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tive, and raising profper the works of our hands in the bufin our minds from the of our feveral ftations.) Defend us from, a world to the copsi- dangers and adverfities; and be graciouf deration of the next, pleafed to take us and all things belonging t that we may fer us under thy Fatherly care and protection prayers and praises These things and whatever elfe thou shalt fe listen to our duty neceffary and convenient to us, we hur' with honest hearts, beg, through the merits and mediation of th in order to practise. Son Jefus Chrift our Lord and Saviour. Amen

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leep as may fit us for the duties of the following day. Make us ever mindful of the time when we fhall lie down

the duft; and grant us grace always to live in fuch a ite, that we may never be afraid to die: So that living id dying we may be thine, through the merits and fatisaction of thy Son Chrift Jefus, in whofe Name we offer up these our imperfect praye.s. Amen.

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of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of grace God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghoft, be with us all evermore. Amen.

On Sundays and on other days, when it may be convenient, it will be proper to begin with a Chapter, or part of a Chapter, from the New Teftament.

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To be used instead of the Psalms for the day, at the Discretion of the

Pfalm xix.

Minister.

SELECTION I.

Celi enarrant. TH HE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament fhoweth his handy

work.

One day telleth another; and one night certifieth another. There is neither speech nor language; but their voices are heard among them.

Their found is gone out into all lands; and their words into the ends of the world.

In them hath he fet a tabernacle for the fun; which comethforth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his courfe.

It goeth forth from the uttermoft part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

The law of the Lord is an undefiled law, converting the foul; the teftimony of the Lord is fure, and giveth wifdom unto the fimple.

The ftatutes of the Lord are right, and rejoice the hearts the commandment of the Lord is pure, and giveth light unto the eyes. Les

The fear of the Lord is clean, and endureth forever; the judgments of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.

More to be defired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; fweeter alfo than honey, and the honey-comb. Moreover, by them is thy fervant taught; and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Who can tell how oft he offendeth? O cleanfe thou me from my fecret faults.

Keep thy fervant also from prefumptuous fins, left they get the dominion over me.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be alway acceptable in thy fight,

O Lord, my ftrength, and my Redeemer.

Pfalm xxiv. Domini eft terra.
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the compafs of the world, and they that dwell therein.

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For he hath founded it. on the feas, and prepared it upon the floods,

Who fhall afcend into the hill of the Lord? or who fhall rife up in his holy place?:

Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure hearts and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor fworn to deceive his neighbour

He fhall receive the bleffing from