and when by sin we had undone ourselves, thou gavest us a Saviour, even thy eternal Word made man, who by his holy life and bitter sufferings reconciled us to thee, and both purchased salvation for us, and revealed it to us, better than an angel from heaven could have done, if thou hadst sent him to us sinners on such a message. But, alas! how light have we set by our Redeemer, and by all that love which thou hast manifested by him, and how little have we studied, and understood, and less obeyed that covenant of grace which thou hast made by him to lost mankind.

But, O God, be merciful to us, vile and miserable sinners; Forgive the sins of our natural pravity, and the follies of our youth, and all the ignorance, negligence, omissions, and commissions of our lives; and give us true repentance for them, or else we know that thou wilt not forgive them. Our life is but as a shadow that passeth away; and it is but as a moment till we must leave this world, and appear before thee to give up our account, and to speed for ever as here we have prepared. Should we die before thou hast turned our hearts from this sinful flesh and world to thee by true faith and repentance, we shall be lost for evermore. O, wo to us, that ever we were born, if thou forgive not our sins, and make us not holy before this short, uncertain life be at an end! Had we all the riches and pleasures of this world, they would shortly leave us in the greater sorrows. We know that all our life is but the time which thy mercy allotteth us to prepare for death; therefore we should not put off our repentance and preparation to a sick bed. But now, Lord, as if it were our last and dying words, we earnestly beg thy pardoning and sanctifying grace, through the merits and intercession of our Redeemer. O thou that hast pitied and saved so many millions of miserable sinners, pity and save us also, that we may glorify thy grace for ever; surely thou delightest not in the death of sinners, but rather that they return and live: hadst thou been unwilling to show mercy, thou wouldest not have ransomed us by so precious a price, and still entreat us to be reconciled unto thee. We have no cause to distrust thy truth or goodness; but we are afraid lest unbelief, and pride, and hypocrisy, and a worldly, fleshly mind, should be our ruin. O save us from Satan and this tempting world, but especially from ourselves! Teach us to deny all ungodliness and fleshly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this world. Let it be our chiefest daily work toplease thee, and to lay up a trea

sure in heaven, and to make sure of a blessed life with Christ, and quietly to trust thee with soul and body. Make us faithful in our callings, and our duties to one another, and to all men ; to our superiors, equals, and inferiors; bless the king, and all in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Give wise, holy, and peaceable pastors to all the churches of Christ, and holy and peaceable minds to the people. Convert the heathen and infidel nations of the world; and cause us and all thy people to seek, first, the hallowing of thy name, the coming of thy kingdom, and the doing of thy will on earth as it is done in heaven. Give us our daily bread, even all things necessary to life and godliness, and let us be therewith content. Forgive us our daily sins, and let thy love and mercy constrain us to love thee above all; and for thy sake to love our neighbours as ourselves, and in all our dealings to do justly and mercifully, as we would have others do by us. Keep us from hurtful temptations, from sin, and from thy judgments, and from the malice of our spiritual and corporeal enemies; and let all our thoughts, affections, passions, words, and actions, be governed by thy word and Spirit, to thy glory. Make all our religion and obedience pleasant to us, and let our souls be so delighted in the praises of thy kingdom, thy power, and thy glory, that it may secure and sweeten our labour by day, and our rest by night, and keep us in a longing and joyful hope of the heavenly glory: and let the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God our Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with us now and for ever.

Amen.

SACRED HYMNS.

The Prayer of a Penitent Sinner, collected out of the Psalms.

And to thy statutes frame!
Which when entirely I respect

Then shall I know no shame.

What mortal man can fully see

The errors of his thoughts?
Then cleanse me, and deliver me
From all my secret faults.
From every presumptuous crime
Thy servant Lord restrain;
And let them not at any time
Dominion obtain.

Thou art my God; thy spirit is good;

Thy servant's soul instruct

In thy commands, and to the land

Of uprightness conduct;

With upright heart I'll speak thy

When I have learn'd thy word.

Fain would I keep thy laws always;
Forsake me not, O Lord.

xix. 12.

cxliii. 10.

praise,cxix. 7, 8.

A Psalm of Praise to our Redeemer: especially for the Lord's

Forget not all his benefits;

But bless the Lord, my soul: Who all thy trespasses remits,

And makes thee sound and whole.

Who did redeem and set thee free

From death's infernal place;
With loving-kindness crowneth thee,
And with his tender grace.
As far as is the sun's uprise
In distance from its fall;
So far our great iniquities

He sep'rates from us all.

Behold what wondrous love on us
The Father hath bestowed!
That we should be advanced thus,
And called the sons of God.
Because thy loving-kindness is
Better than length of days,
And preciouser than life itself,
My lips shall speak thy praise.

Thus will I bless thee all my days,
And celebrate thy fame:
My hands I will devoutly raise

In thy most holy name.

With marrow and sweet fatness filled,

My thankful soul shall be;

My mouth shall join with joyful lips

In giving praise to thee.

Psalm ciii. 3.

4.

12.

John i.

Psalm lxiii. 3.