BLESSED be God for my creation and birth; for giving me a being from honest parents fearing God, and in a Christian and Protestant country;-for the means of grace, the assistance of the Holy Spirit, and for the hopes of glory;-for all the known or unobserved favors, providences, and deliverances, by which my life has hitherto been preserved ;-most humbly beseeching thee, my God and Father, to pardon my neglect or abuse of any of thy favors, and that I have so very much forgotten thee, in whom I live, and move, and have my being.

Good Lord, forgive me the great waste

of my precious time, the many days and years of health, and the many opportunities of doing good, which I have lost; and give me grace, that for the time to come Ι may be truly wise, that I may consider my latter end, and work out my salvation with fear and trembling, ever remembering the night cometh when no man can work and that the day of my death may be better to me than the day of my birth.

O gracious God, grant that before thou takest from me that breath which thou gavest me, I may truly repent of the errors of my past life; that my sins may be forgiven, and my pardon sealed in heaven; when the good Lord shall vouchsafe me a better and an everlasting life through Christ. Amen.

PRAYER III.

Before receiving the Sacrament. (1.)

[Bp. Bloomfield.

ALMIGHTY God, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of our sins, did suffer death upon the cross: prepare me, I beseech thee, by thy grace, for the worthy celebration of that holy ordinance, which he has pleased to appoint for a continual remembrance of his death, for a pledge of his love, and for a sign and means of grace, to my great and endless comfort. Make me to discern the Lord's

body: to remember and adore the exceeding love of Christ my Saviour, in thus dying for me. Give me repentance unto life, not to be repented of. Endue me with a lively faith, a perfect love, and

a universal charity. Enable me spiritually to receive the body and blood of Christ my Saviour; that so all carnal affections may die in me, and that all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in me and that, being continually refreshed and strengthened by thy grace, I may persevere in all godliness unto my life's end, and finally receive an everlasting recompense, through the merits of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Our Father, &c.

PRAYER IV.

Before receiving the Sacrament. (2.)

[Mrs. Cornwallis.

ALMIGHTY God, merciful Father, by

whose protection I have been preserved,

and by whose clemency I have been spared, grant that the life thou hast prolonged may never be wasted in idleness, nor corrupted by wickedness: let my future purposes be good, and let not my good purposes be vain. Take not from me thy Holy Spirit, but enable me so to commemorate the death of thy dear Son, that I may be made partaker of his merits, and finally for his sake attain everlasting happiness. Grant that this awful remembrance may strengthen my faith; enliven my hope; increase my charity; that I may trust in thec with my whole heart; that I may do thy will with diligence, and suffer it with humble patience; so that, when thou shalt call me to judgment, I may obtain forgiveness and acceptance,