A Morning Prayer for a Servant. I blefs and praise thy holy name for all thy mercies to my foul and body: and as thou haft given me another day, give me grace to spend it to thy honour and glory: Oh! what would become of me, if thou should'ft enter into strict judgment with me! how should I ftand before thy tribunal, covered with the guilt and shame of my fin! O God, I repent, awaken thou my repentance; I repent of [here mention thofe fins, which most burden thy confcience.] Therefore be thou reconciled unto me, and pardon me, for the fake of Jefus Chrift; and not only pardon, but deliver me from the power and dominion of my fins. I I confefs my corruption, do thou confirm and strengthen me; create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me: and inflame my heart with thy holy faith and love; that I may delight in thy commandments; that may walk before thee in uprightness and fear, in faithfulnefs and honesty; conftantly and chearfully depending upon thee; and doing the duty of my station, not with eye-fervice, but with fingleness of heart, as knowing that I fhall be accountable to thee at the laft day, as well for thofe duties, which I owe my master and mistress, as for those which are more immediately to be paid to thee my Creator, Preferver and future Judge. Keep my tongue from all opprobrious and reproachful language; from all lying and flandering; and my hands from all injustice and deceit. Give me always a thankful, humble, and contented spirit; that I may ever praise thy infinite bounty and mercy; even for every act of kindness or charity, which I receive from Men. Send thy bleffing upon this whole family to which I belong; fow in all our hearts the feeds of unfeigned charity, that we may all enjoy the comforts of a mutual affection, and asfiftance and aid in our several stations; and grant that we may meet in the family of heaven, there to adore and praise thee, love and enjoy thee to all eternity, through Jefus Chrift our Lord; Lord; in whose most holy name and words, I presume to say, Our Father, &c. An Evening Prayer for a Servant. Hou, O God, art my ftrength, and the rock of my fal vation; yet I have forgotten thee, tho' thou haft given me my being; and gavest thine own Son, not only to free me from the punishment due to my fins, but from the flavery and dominion of them, and to procure for me life everlafting; the displeasure of man, whofe breath is in his noftrils, has drawn me from my duty to thee my God; and I have been more folicitous for the bread that perishes, than for thy favour, which is better than all the world. Thus I have finned against my knowledge, thy word, and the motions of the Holy Ghoft, by repining and murmuring at thy providence, and being discontented with my condition, [here mention thy particular fins.] Of which, O my God, and of all my fins, I répent, and humbly beg the affiftance of thy grace, that I may do works meet for repentance, and ferve thee in truth, and with an upright heart, all the days I have to live. O Lord, have mercy upon me, and forgive me all my offences; and give me grace to withstand the world, fleshand the devil; and fincerely to endeavour to reform and amend my life, that I may every day grow and increase in goodness, and be fo much the fitter for death, the nearer I approach thereto : So that whenever it comes, let it find me in an unfhaken faith, an humble refignation and fubmiffion, an holy contempt of earth, and a devout love of heaven, which is a fit frame of spirit for a dying perfon. It is true, and I am contented that thou haft called me to be a fervant; but thou haft called me to be a fon alfo, and an heir of eternal life: Ögive me grace to discharge my duty faithfully. Watch over me, and the whole family to which I belong, and let thine angels pitch their tents about us this night; that we may lie down fecurely; and let our sleep be sweet and refreshing to us, for Jefus Chrift his fake; in whose most holy name and words, I beg all things that I am any way bound to pray for, faying: Our Father, &c. 2 A A Prayer for Faith in God. Lmighty and everlasting God! give unto me the increase of faith, that I may obtain that which thou doft promife; and make me heartily to believe what thou haft revealed, and to love that which thou doft command, thro' Jefus Chrift, our Lord. Amen. A Prayer for an holy Hope. God, in whom is all my dependance, and the hope of all the ends of the earth, let me never be deftitute of a well grounded hope, nor yet poffeffed with a vain prefumption; fuffer me not to think that thou wilt either be reconciled to my fins, or reject my repentance: but grant me fuch a hope, as may be anfwerable to thy righteous promises; even fuch a hope, as may both encourage and enable me to purify myself from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit, that fo it may indeed bring me to everlasting life, through Jefus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen. A Prayer for the Love of God and his Laws, OST mighty Lord God, who alone canft order theun ruly willsand affections of finful men; grant unto me thy fervant, that I may love the thing which thou commandeft, and defire that which thou doft promise, that so among the fundry and many changes of the world, my heart may furely there be fixed where true joys are to be found. And because of the weakness of my mortal nature, I can do no good thing without thee; grant me the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments, I may please thee in will and deed, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer A A Prayer for Sincerity towards God. Lmighty God! to whom all hearts are open, all defires known, and from whom no fecrets are hid, and doft not only require outward acts of duty, but the inward difpofition of the mind; teach me in all my religious actions always to have an eye to thy authority, to obey thy laws, and to make the fenfe of my duty the prevailing motive of my piety: fo that no privacy nor retirement may encourage me to offend thee, nor any loffes, nor croffes may hinder me from doing or fuffering thy bleffed will and pleasure. Oh! grant me always that fincerity of intention, that devotion. may not be made a pretext to cheat and defraud my neighbour; nor yet the exercife of juftice and mercy towards men, be made a plea for the neglect of my duty towards thee, my God; and that my charity to the poor may never ferve to cover my intemperance; nor my fobriety exempt me from feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, when it is in my power. And finally make my life all of one piece, that all the duties thou commandeft may be fhewn forth by my actions, that, my greatest defire and aim being thy glory, I may be accepted by thee through the all-fufficient merits of Jefus Chrift. Amen. G A Prayer for Sincerity towards Men. Rant, O Lord! that in all my dealings and converfation with my fellow-creatures, I may always ufe true fimplicity and fingleness of heart, and never compass any defign by falfe devices and appearances; nor betray my neighbour by not performing my promife: that I may never abuse men into a false opinion of themselves, by reprefenting them to be better than I know them to be; nor permit my tongue to speak otherwife than out of the abundance of my heart: fo that my outward actions may be exactly agreeable to my purposes and intentions; and this I beg in the name of thy Son, Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. A Prayer for Humility. OST gracious God, who haft fent thy beloved Son to take upon him our human nature, that he might be to us a perfect pattern of humility, and haft commanded us to copy out fo fair an original, enable me by thy grace to imitate the fame; and make me fenfible of my own vilenefs by reafon of my fins, which are evident proofs of my weakness and folly; of my bafeness and ingratitude, which make me contemptible in thy fight, and ought to cover my foul with shame and confufion, instead of pride and vanity. Check all my vain and afpiring thoughts, and wean me from any fond opinion of my own abilities and excellencies. Grant that I may give to thee the glory of all the good I enjoy; for it is from thee I receive all that I have; and all the good that I do is the effect of thy grace: it is thy Holy Spirit that worketh in me both to will and to do thy good pleasure. Oh! ftrengthen my faith and good refolutions, that I may never purchase the praise of men by mean flatteries, and finful compliances; nor ever entertain their applaufe, even upon the best account, with too great delight, left it corrupt the purity of my intentions, and rob me of that reward thou haft promised to all thofe that glorify thy name. And efpecially, I pray, make me patiently to bear the indignities I may receive from others; because I have deserved them from thee, and because thy Son has suffered the fame upon my account; grant this, O Lord! for the fake of the fame thy Son Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. A A Prayer for the Fear of God. Lmighty God! whofe po power is infinite, and whose judgments are to be feared, poffefs my foul with an holy awe and reverence towards thee, that I may give thee the honour due unto thy name, and never prophane any holy thing, nor facrilegiously invade what thou haft fet apart for thy fervice. I believe that as thou art infinite injuftice, thou wilt not clear the guilty, which should make me tremble at the |