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possess the hearts of his people, that they may never be wanting in honour to his person, and dutiful submission to his lawful authority; let his reign be long and prosperous, and crown him with immortality in the life to come, through thy mercies in Christ Jesus our Lord. · Amen.

MORNING

MORNING PRAYER FOR A FAMILY.

GOD, our Creator and heavenly Father, the giver of all good, upon whom we de pend now and for ever;

Under an awful sense of thy constant presence with us, we thy creatures and thy ser vants are assembled together, to thank thee for thy common blessings and undeserved goodness to us, and particularly to acknowledge the watchful care of thy good provi dence, by which we have been preserved during the defenceless hours of the night, and brought in health and safety to the light of another day.

Thy mercies, O God, are renewed unto us every morning. Let our gratitude and duti ful obedience to thy holy laws bear some proportion to thy favours, that we may be a family fearing thee, and glorifying thy name among men by our virtuous and godly behaviour.

We desire to set thee our God before us in all our ways, that thy blessing may go along with us in our several employments, and that we may never undertake any thing that we dare not beg of thee to prosper.

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If it be consistent with thy wise and good designs for us; we pray that we may be served from all dangers and sad accidents, and continued in health. But as we know not what is best for us, we would therefore

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refer our outward estate wholly to thee, and be solicitous only to be kept from the ways of sin, and to be carried forward in the paths of virtue and holiness, which lead to thee and thy favour.

Make us sincere in heart, and uncorrupt before thee, and just and upright in all our dealings with our fellow-creatures; and dispose us to acts of kindness towards them, to share in their distresses and relieve them, and to rejoice in and embrace all opportunities of doing them good, especially of promoting their eternal happiness.

Assist us also in the just government and subjection of our inferior appetites and passions to the laws of reason and true religion, and make us moderate in the use of lawful things, that we may be kept at the greatest distance from what is unlawful and sinful.

It hath pleased thee, the sovereign disposer of all things, to appoint the different orders and ranks of men for wise purposes of public good. Enable us all to be useful in our seve ral stations and capacities, and to discharge our duty towards each other with diligence and fidelity; not with eye-service, but fearing thee, O God, who seest in secret, and wilt reward thy servants in the future world, where greater piety and virtue will make the only difference in the rank of thy creatures one from the other.

These our humble requests we offer unto thee, O Father supreme, as the disciples of thy son Jesus Christ our Lord, whose holy

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example we ardently desire to follow, and in whose words we conclude these our prayers for ourselves and others :-Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass 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.

EVENING PRAYER FOR A FAMILY.

ETERNAL, ever blessed LORD God, our constant preserver and benefactor, by whose goodness we are brought to the close of another day; we thank thee for this and all thy mercies.

It is thy gracious design, O God, in lengthening our days to give us time for repentance, and for improvement in every thing holy and good, that we may be fitted for perfect and durable happiness with thee.

If we have this day overcomer temptations to evil, if we have in any respect obeyed thy holy will, and done good in the world, unto thee be the praise. But we take shame to ourselves that we have hitherto profited so little by thy forbearance and continuance of us in life. With unfeigned sorrow we con

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fess our sins before thee, seeking forgiveness at thy hands. And we thank thee, O Father of mercies, for the assurance of thy free pardon and acceptance, upon forsaking our sins, which thou hast afforded us by our Lord Jesus Christ.

Help us to correct and amend whatever has been amiss in our conduct and dispositions, and preserve us from falling into any former sins, of all which we now sincerely repent before thee, that we may grow wiser and better, by our past miscarriages. And for this end, let the example of Jesus, thy holy and beloved son, and our lord and master, be always before us, that we may follow his example in piety, integrity, purity, meekness, humility, and zeal for the good of others, and be approved by thee, at the last, as his true disciples; that when he, who is our life, shall appear again at the end of the world, we also may appear with him in glory.

With a sincere desire for the happiness of our fellow-creatures, we offer up our prayers for them unto thee, who art the common Father of all. Continue the care of thy goodprovidence over the nations that unhappily know not thee; and raise up chosen instruments to carry amongst them the knowledge of thee the only true God, and of Jesus Christ the messenger of thy truth to men.

Reform the errors of the christian world; grant that the worship of thee, O Father, in spirit and truth, established by thy son Jesus Christ, may every where be restored; that;

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