And, O Lord, we pray that we may grow in grace. If we have the reality of religion, how far are our works from being found perfect before God! Strengthen in us the things that remain that be ready to die; and help us to reach after the higher attainments and privileges of the divine life. May we be followers of God as dear children, and feel it the joy of our lives to be holy as Thou art holy, and merciful as Thou art merciful. May thine eye be more to us than the inspection of all our fellow-creatures; and thy approbation be dearer than the applause of a thou-honour is not only secured, but prominently sand worlds.

hast not only provided for our safety, but our | Him that speaketh from heaven. And all that prosperity. Thou hast not only promised Thou hast kindly employed to enforce the that the righteous shall hold on their way, messages of thy word we have disregarded; but wax stronger and stronger. Thou dost for we have contemned the examples of the not despise the day of small things; but good, the admonitions of friendship, the reThou givest more grace; and hast command- proaches of conscience, the rebukes of thy ed us to ask and receive that our joy may be providence, and the strivings of thy Holy full. Spirit; and well do we deserve that the kingdom of God should be taken away from us. O let us not confess our sins without feeling and lamenting them, but with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, with self-abhorrence, self-condemnation, and self-despair.

And now, O Lord, what shall we render for all thy benefits towards us? We can never discharge the obligations we are under, but we pray that we may be sensible of them; and though we can make no adequate, may we make suitable returns; and ever ask from the heart, as well as with the lip, Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?

And may we show forth thy praise. May we speak well of thy name. May we be concerned to bring others to love and serve Thee; and to share with us in all the good which Thou hast spoken concerning Israel.

O let our children be thy children, our friends thy friends, our servants thy servants. May our neighbours, and our enemies too, be visited with thy salvation.

Dwell in our families. Let thy goings be seen in our sanctuaries. Let the people praise Thee, O God, yea let all the people praise Thee. Let the whole earth be filled with thy glory.

Bless the Lord, ye his angels that excel in strength, that do his commandments hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his that do his pleasure. Bless the Lord, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Amen, and Amen.

FRIDAY EVENING.

And under a deep impression of our guilt, may we seek relief alone from Him who is the hope and the consolation of Israel. Viewing Him as dying for the ungodly, may we believe in his name. May we know that He bare our sins in his own body on the tree, and that by his stripes we are healed. And may we find in Him, not only righteousness but strength. May He impart to us, not only forgiveness of sins, but repentance unto life. May we never separate in our regards, what He has joined together in the scripture; nor suppose that we are justified by his blood, unless we are sanctified by his Spirit.

We believe we can never be happy in sin, and we do not desire it: Lord, deliver us from it, and lead us in the way everlasting. Make us holy like thyself, that we may be made happy in thyself. We are naturally disqualified for all communion with a holy God; work in us to will and to do of thy good pleasure; produce in us those principles and dispositions which will attach us to thyself as our exceeding joy; and enable us to say, Whom have I in heaven but Thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.

Under all our ignorance, weakness, fears, and depressions, may thy Spirit help our infirmities with supplies of wisdom, strength. and comfort.

AGAIN, O Lord of all, we desire to bow in thy presence. May we approach Thee with all the encouragements that can be derived from thy character as the God of love. We May we faithfully study our character, and are not left to feel after Thee in the dark-be always willing to come to the light, that if ness of nature; nor to worship Thee as the evil our deeds may be reproved. May we unknown God. We cannot find Thee out peculiarly observe ourselves under the opeunto perfection; but we know that Thou art ration of those events which are designed to good and ready to forgive, and plenteous in try us; that we may judge of the reality and mercy unto all them that call upon Thee. degree of our grace. May we often review life, and see how we have at any time been ensnared or overcome, that we may in future become more wise and circumspect. And while we watch, may we also pray lest we enter into temptation. May we never trust in our own hearts, nor depend upon any past experience or present resolution, but be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

For Thou hast given us thy word, which Thou hast magnified above all thy name; and Thou hast favoured us with the gospel, which has turned the dawn of Judaism into perfect day so that on us who were sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, has risen a great light, the light of life.

But we acknowledge how ungratefully we have received the benefit, and how little we have improved our privileges to the purposes for which they have been given. We have made light of these things though angels desire to look into them; we have neglected the great salvation; we have turned away from

Hitherto

Thus far Thou hast helped us. our enemies have not triumphed over us. And though we have seen many decline from their profession, we hope if Thou wert to ask, Will ye also go away? we should be able to say, with more conviction and affection than

ever, Lord, to whom should we go but unto | Thee? Thou hast the words of eternal life. Thou hast been with us in trouble; and many a shadow of death hast Thou turned into the morning. We can now discern thy wisdom and kindness in dispensations which once perplexed and dismayed us: and what we know not now we shall know hereafter.

Never leave us nor forsake us; but support and lead us through all these dark and sorrowful regions; and enable us with confidence to hail the hour when our sun shall no more go down, nor our moon withdraw herself; for the Lord shall be our everlasting light, and the days of our mourning shall be

-to Him be glory and dominion for ever and may we learn in whatsoever state we are Amen.

ever.

SATURDAY EVENING.

O LORD God of Hosts: Thou hast established thy throne in the heavens, and thy kingdom ruleth over all. It is a source of joy to our minds, and of encouragement to our hopes, that the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. In thy greatness we see thy all-sufficiency to accomplish all that Thou hast promised, to confer upon us all we need, and to do for us exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think.

It is therefore good for us to draw near to Thee; and it is our mercy to know that we can approach Thee with confidence of acceptance and success; founded not on any worthiness or works of our own, but on thine own grace in the appointment of a Mediator, who has put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, and opened a new and living way into the holiest of all by his own blood.

therewith to be content; yea in everything may we give thanks.

May we not only submit to our trials, but be grateful for them. They are designed for our profit, that we may be partakers of thy holiness. They evince a care of which we are unworthy, and which we have never properly repaid. Lord, what is man, that Thou shouldst magnify him; that Thou shouldst set thy heart upon him; that Thou shouldst visit him every morning, and chasten him every moment. So impatient and wayward and foolish have we been under thy hand, that we have forfeited all claim to the rod, and deserve to be stricken no more. It would be just in Thee to say, They are joined to idols, let them alone. But, O Lord, abandon us not to ourselves; treat us not with neglect. Employ whatever means are necessary to save and sanctify our souls. Try us as Thou pleasest; only while we are chastened of the Lord, let us not be condemned with the wicked.

Humble us under a view of our depravity through another day and another week, which is now hastening to join the days and weeks before the flood. Who can understand his errors? In many things we all offend. Hide thy face from our sins. Heal our backslidings, and receive us graciously; so will we

We have no other name to plead, and we need no other. Behold, O God, our shield, and look upon the face of thine Anointed; and for his sake, who groaned in the garden and died upon the cross, and now appears in thy presence for us, pardon our iniquity, for it is great: cleanse us from all unrighteous-render the calves of our lips. ness; deliver us from the power of darkness; and translate us into the kingdom of thy dear

Son.

On the coming day, let thy good Spirit lead us to thy holy hill and to thy tabernacle. May we go unto the altar of God as to our May we no longer be strangers and foreign- exceeding joy, and taste the blessedness of ers, but fellow-citizens with the saints and of those that dwell in thy house and are still the household of God; and because we are praising Thee. Teach us to value properly sons, send forth the spirit of thy Son into our the means of grace, and be concerned to dehearts, crying, Abba, Father. May our inter-rive from them the benefit they are designed course with Thee be free and delightful and constant; and not on peculiar occasions only, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, may we make known our requests unto Thee. May we live in thy pre

sence.

May we walk with God, and walk humbly with God; sensible of our deficiencies and desert; admiring thy condescension and patience; and bowing to all thy dispensations without murmuring or repining.

to afford. May we remember our accountableness for them. May we remember that they never leave us as they find us; but always prove the savour of life unto life, or of death unto death.

Let not our attendance add to our sin and condemnation. Let us not sing without devotion, pray without desire, and hear in vain; but be found in the number of those who know the joyful sound, and walk in the fear of the Lord, and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost.

May we walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time. May we And may those who will not be able to be zealous in the discharge of all those duties, hear the word, hear the rod, and hear it saythe performance of which depends on a sea-ing, As many as I love I rebuke and chasten. son so fleeting and precarious. May we consider one another, and provoke one another to love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as we see the day approaching.

Let meditation and reading and pious conversation, and above all thy special presence, be substitutes for public ordinances. Thus send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; and let them that tarry at home divide the spoil. And have mercy upon all men, as we implore it through the mediation of the ever blessed Redeemer. In whose words we address Thee-Our Father, &c.

Enable us to realize the universality and perfection of thy agency in all our affairs; and since all thy ways are mercy and truth,Amen.

SIXTH WEEK.

SUNDAY MORNING.

O GOD, Thou hast made, and Thou upholdest all things by the word of thy power. The day is thine, the night is also thine; and by thy wise and kind appointment they are also rendered ours-The night to wipe off from our minds the cares of the day; to refresh our wearied bodies; and to renew our natural strength-and the day to summon us to new activities, and to afford us opportunities to glorify our heavenly Benefactor, to serve our generation, and to acquire knowledge, holiness and everlasting life.

ple; and are we unfit for services which require a spirituality to which we are naturally averse? Our encouragement is in the all-sufficiency of thy grace; and therefore blessed be thy name, we go with a lively hope derived from thy own promise, In all places where I record thy name, I will come unto thee and I will bless thee. Save now, O Lord we beseech Thee; O Lord we beseech Thee send now prosperity.

We cast our eyes over a world lying in wickedness; and our compassion and zeal are awakened. How many are perishing with hunger, while there is bread enough and to spare in our Father's house. How many are suffering under the miseries of this life, and the fears of another, but they have no comforter. The captive exiles hasten that they may be loosed, and that they may not lose their life in the pit; and by their condition, if not by their consciousness of it, are saying, Come over and help us. O send out thy light and thy truth, that all nations whom Thou hast made may come and worship before Thee and glorify thy name. We bless Thee that so many Societies have been form

To these duties every morning calls us; but this is the day which the Lord hath made more peculiarly for his own honour and our improvement; and therefore we will rejoice and be glad in it. It brings to our remembrance the creation of the world, when God rested from all his works which He had made, and pronounced them to be very good. And there is none like unto Thee, O Lord, among the gods, neither are there any works like unto thy works: they proclaim thy eter-ed for this noble purpose; and that so many nal power and godhead, so that we should be without excuse were we not to glorify Thee as God. But Thou hast said, Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind. We adore Thee therefore as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who having finished the work that was given him to do, entered into his rest: we call to our minds a risen Saviour, who has obtained eternal redemption for us; who dieth no more; who must reign till all his enemies are made his footstool.

May we enter into his rest and find it to be glorious. May we cease from all the wretched attempts to deliver and save ourselves; and believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God; that being justified by faith we may have peace through the blood of the cross; and standing in his grace rejoice in hope of the glory that shall be revealed.

We feel our depravity as well as our guilt; and therefore we pray, not only that Thou wilt forgive us our sins, but cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Create in us a clean heart; renew in us a right spirit; and in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by thy grace, may we have our conversation in the world.

We rejoice that the tabernacle of God is with men; and we bless Thee that Thou hast said, Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. We are now to repair from the retirement of the closet and the family altar, to the habitation of thy house, and to mingle with the multitude that keep holy-day. We are unworthy to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his tem

have counted the cost, and have gone forth to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. And we bless Thee for the smiles with which Thou hast crowned their efforts. Thou hast risen up out of thy place. Thou hast made bare thy arm in the sight of all the nations. Kings of armies do flee apace, and she that tarries at home divides the spoil-and princes shall come out of Egypt; and Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands unto God; and all the ends of the earth shall see his salvation, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

God save the king; and render him equal to all the importance and responsibility of his exalted station: and may he reign not only over a great and mighty empire, but over a moral and holy people, whose God is the Lord. Clothe thy priests with righteousness; let thy saints shout aloud for joy; let thy poor be satisfied with bread. Let the blind and the lame come to Jesus in the temple and be healed. May private trials subserve the designs of public instruction; and thy own presence make the chamber of sickness and the dwelling-place of sorrow, the house of God and the gate of heaven. And prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings by thy most gracious favour: and further us with thy continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in Thee, we may glorify thy holy name; and finally obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

SUNDAY EVENING.

PRAISE Waiteth for Thee, O God, in Zion,