in all our ways; forgive us that we brought so much of the week with us into the sabbath, and enable us to bring a great deal of the sabbath with us into the week, that we may be the fitter for the next sabbath if we shall live to see it. Make us meet for the everlasting sabbath which we hope to keep within the veil, when time and days shall be no more and let this day bring us a sabbath-day's journey nearer heaven, and make us a sabbath-day's work fitter for it. As we began this Lord's day with the joyful memorials of Christ's resurrection, so we desire to conclude it with the joyful expectations of Christ's second coming, and of our own resurrection, then to a blessed immortality, triumphing in hope of the glory of God. Bless the Lord, love the Lord, O our souls, and let all that is within us love and bless his holy name, for he is good and his mercy endures for ever. In praising God we desire to spend as much of our time as may be, that we may begin our heaven now; for in this, we hope to be spending a happy eternity. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, and our God, in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, be honour and glory, dominion and praise henceforth and for ever. Amen. A Prayer proper to be put up by Parents for their Children. O LORD our God, the God of the spirits of all flesh! All souls are thine, the souls of the parents, and the souls of the children are thine, and thou hast grace sufficient for both. Thou wast our fathers's God, and as such we will exalt thee; thou art our children's God, and also we will plead with thee, for the promise is to us and our children, and thou art a God in covenant with believers and their seed. Lord, it is thy good providence that hath built us up into a family we thank thee for the children thou hast graciously given thy servants; the Lord that hath bles sed us with them, make them blessings indeed to us, that we may never be tempted to wish we had been written childless. We lament the iniquity which our children are conceived and born in; and that corrupt nature which they derive through our loins. But we bless thee there is a fountain opened for their cleansing from that original pollution, and that they were. betimes by baptism dedicated to thee, and admitted into the bonds, and under the blessings of thy covenant: that they are born in thy house, and taken in as members of thy family upon earth. It is a comfort to us to think that they are baptized, and we desire humbly to plead it with thee, they are thine, save them; enable them, as they become capable, to make it their own act and deed, to join themselves unto the Lord, that they may be owned as thine in that day when thou makest up thy jewels. Give them a good capacity of mind, and a good disposition; make them towardly and tractable, and willing to receive instruction; incline them betimes to religion and virtue; Lord give them wisdom and understanding, and drive out the foolishness that is bound up in their hearts. Save them from the vanity which childhood and youth is subject to, and fit them every way to live comfortably and usefully in this world. We ask not for great things in this world for them; give them, if it please thee, a strong and healthful constitution of body, preserve them from all ill accidents, and feed them with food convenient for them according to their rank. But the chief thing we ask of God for them is, that thou wilt pour thy Spirit upon our seed, even thy blessing, that blessing of blessings upon our offspring; that they may be a seed to serve thee, which shall be accounted unto the Lord for a generation: give them that good part which never shall be taken away from them. Give us wisdom and grace to bring them up in thy fear, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, with meekness and tenderness, and having them in subjection with all gravity. Teach us how to teach them the things of God as they are able to bear them, and how to reprove. and admonish, and when there is need to correct them in a right manner; and how to set them a good example of every thing that is virtuous and praiseworthy, that we may recommend religion to them, and so train them up in the way wherein they should go, that if they live to be old, they may not depart from it. Keep them from the snare of evil company, and all the. temptations to which they are exposed, and make them betimes sensible how much it is their interest as well as their duty to be religious: and, Lord, grant that none of us may come short of eternal life, or be found on the left hand of Christ in the great day. We earnestly pray that Christ may be formed in their souls, betimes, and that the seeds of grace may be sown in their hearts while they are young; and may have the satisfaction of seeing them walking in the truth, and setting their faces heaven-wards. Give them now to hear counsel and to receive instruction, that they may be w in the r latter end: and if they be wise, our h rejoice, even ours. Prosper the means of their education. and give to them, ..ise ts shall " let our children may be their peace; the only true God, and nast sent, as may be life eternal O that they may betimes get wisdom, and get understanding, and never forget it: as far as they are taught the truth as it is in Jesus, give them to continue in the things which they have learned. It is our heart's desire and prayer that our children may be praising God on earth when we are gone to praise him in heaven, and that we and they may be together for ever, serving him day and night in his temple. If it should please God to remove any of them from us while they are young, let us have grace submissively to resign them to thee, and let us have hope in their death. If thou remove us from them while they be thou thyself a Father to them, to teach them, andprovide for them, for with thee the fatherless findeth mercy. Thou knowest our care concerning them, we cast it upon thee; ourselves and ours we commit to thee. Let not the light of our family religion be put out with us, nor that treasure be buried in our graves, but let those that come after us do thee more and better service in their day than we have done in ours, and be unto thee for a name and a praise. In these prayers we aim at thy glory; Father, let thy name be sanctified in our family, there let thy kingdom come, and let thy will be done by us and ours, as it is done by the angels in heaven; for Christ Jesus's sake, our blessed Saviour and Redeemer, whose seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. Now to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, that great and sacred name, into which we and our children were baptized, be honour and glory, dominion and praise, henceforth and for ever. Amen. A Prayer for the use of a particular Person before receiving of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Most holy, and blessed, and gracious Lord God, with all humility and reverence, I here present myself before thee, to seek thy face and entreat thy favour, and as an evidence of thy good will towards me, to beg that I may experience thy good work in me. I acknowledge myself unworthy, utterly unworthy of the honour; unfit, utterly unfit for the service to which I am now called. It is an inestimable privilege, that I am admitted so often to hear from thee in thy,word, and to speak to thee in prayer; and yet, as if this had been a small matter, I am now invited into communion with thee at thy holy table, there to celebrate the memorial of my Saviour's death, and to partake by faith of the precious benefits which flow from it. I who deserve not the crumbs, am called to eat the children's bread. O Lord, I thank thee for the institution of this blessed ordinance, this precious legacy and token of love, which the Lord Jesus left to his church, that it is preserved to this age, and administered in this land, that I am admitted to it, and have now before me an opportunity to partake of it; Lord, grant that I may not receive thy grace herein in vain. O thou who hast called me to the marriage-supper of the Lamb, give me the wedding garment; work in me a disposition of soul, and all those pious and devout affections which are suited to the solemnities of this ordi nance, and requisite to qualify me for an acceptable and advantageous participation of it. Behold the fire and the wood, all things are now ready; but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering? Lord provide thyself a lamb, by working in me all that which thou requirest of me upon this occasion. The preparation of the heart, and the answer of the tongue are both from thee; Lord, prepare my unprepared heart for communion with thee. Lord, I confess I have sinned against thee, I have done foolishly, very foolishly, for foolishness is bound up in my heart; I have sinned and have come short of being glorified with thee. The imagination of my heart is evil continually, and the bias of my corrupt nature is very strong toward the world, and the flesh, and the gratification of sense; but towards God, and Christ, and heaven, I move slowly, and with a great many stops and pauses. Nay, there is in my carnal mind a wretched aversion to divine and spiritual things. I have mispent my time, trifled away my opportunities, have followed after lying vanities, and forsaken my own mercies. God be merciful to me a sinner! for how little have I done, since I came into the world, of the great work that I was sent into the world about! Thou hast taken me into covenant with thee, for I am a baptized Christian set apart for thee, and sealed to be thine; thou hast laid me, and I also have laid myself under all possible obligations to love thee, and serve thee, and live to thee. But I have started aside from thee like a deceitful bow; I have not made good my covenant with thee, nor hath the temper of my mind, and the tenor of my conversation been agreeable to that |