that the Merits of his Death and Sacrifice may not be lost upon me.

Give me a saving Faith and Knowledge;

A sincere Love for Thee, and for thy holy Word ;- An hearty Desire to please Thee ;- -A Fear of offending Thee;A Zeal for thy Glory, and a great Regard for every Thing that belongs to Thee.

Give me such a Love for my Neighbour as Thou hast commanded; a due Regard for my Betters, and an utter Abhorrence of all Manner of Fraud, Injustice, and Wrong.

Give me a tender Conscience, a meek and quiet Spirit, a charitable, an humble, and a contented Mind.

Give me a just Sense of my own Infirmities, a Dread of sensual Pleasures, a Power over my Appetites, and a Fear of the World, and its Idols.

Leave me not to my own Choice ;——— Keep me from Pride, and from presumptuous Sins: From wicked Principles, and wicked Company; and from the Vices of the Age and Place I live in.

Make me ever mindful of my latter End, and of the Account I must one Day give of my Life, and of the Talents with

which Thou shalt entrust me.And lead an innocent and an grant that I useful Life, by doing Good in my Gene

ration.

may

Take Possession of my Soul, until I am restored to thy divine Image, from which I am sadly fallen.

For these, and for all the Graces I stand in Need of, I plead thy gracious Goodness, and my Saviour's Merits and Promise to all that ask in his Name; And I know Thou wilt not deny me, because the very Will to ask these Mercies is from Thee, and thy good Spirit. Amen.

Rom. viii. 32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with Him also freely give us all Things?

THIS is indeed, O God, a sure Pledge of thy infinite Love for thy poor CreaUpon this I depend, When This is my

tures.

my Heart is in Heaviness.

Refuge, when I remember my Sins and thy divine Justice.- -O make me truly sensible of this thy great Love: And give me the Graces which that Love sees needful

for

for me, for Jesus Christ's Sake, the Son of

thy Love. Amen.

St. Luke xxiv. 26.

Ought not Christ to have suffered these Things, and to enter into his Glory?

IT was necessary for Thee, O Christ, to suffer, because Thou tookest upon Thee to answer for Sinners; and to shew us what Treatment our Sins deserve. O make my Sufferings in this Life, in Union with thine, acceptable to God; and enable me to bear them, as Thou didst, with Patience and Resignation, this being the only Way to Glory. Amen.

2 Car. r. 15. Christ died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them.

FROM this Moment, O. Christ, I consecrate that Life to Thee, which Thou hast redeemed from the Slavery of Sin and Satan, by thy most precious Blood. Fortify my Soul, I beseech Thee, against all the Temptations of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, by the Remembrance of this

thy

thy Love; that I may live to Thee, and to the Glory of God. Amen.

2 Cor. vi. 16. Ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my People.

MAKE me, O God, truly sensible of this great Honour and Blessing of being the Habitation of thy good Spirit; of the Holiness required of me, and of the great Danger of profaning a Temple consecrated to Thee.--Make me worthy of thy continual Abode and Presence. Take Possession of my Heart and Soul; and let me know, that Thou dwellest in me, by the Fruits of thy Spirit. Amen.

Heb. xii. 1, 2.

Let us run with Patience the Race that is set before us looking unto Jesus, &c.

GRANT, O God, that I may bear all the Troubles of this Life with a meek and patient Spirit, without repining at what Thou shalt appoint for the Punishment of Sin, and for the Salvation of the Sinner.

I will look unto Thee, O Jesus, when Thou wast in the Place of Sinners, with what Patience Thou didst bear the Scorn, the Indignities, the unrighteous Judgment, the miserable Death of the Cross: And this, by thy Grace, shall be my Pattern.

Amen.

St. Luke xxiii. 41. We receive the due Reward of our Deeds: but this Man hạth done nothing amiss.

I CONFESS, O God, with this Malefactor, That whatever I suffer in this Life, I suffer most justly for my Sins! And therefore, with the Submission of a penitent Criminal, under the righteous Sentence of Death, I offer my Life a Sacrifice of Obedience to thy Divine Justice, in Union with that of my Saviour's at what Time and in what Manner to Thee shall seem meet; trusting in the Merits of my Redeemer, at the Hour of Death, and in the Day of Judgment. Amen.