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out our transgressions, and not remember our sins. Turn us, O Lord, from every evil way. Be merciful unto us, O Lord. Pardon and deliver us from all our sins, confirm and strengthen us in all goodness, and bring us to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Remember with thy mercy our beloved friends and families: thou knowest where they are; thou knowest all their wants, and thou hast more than sufficient to supply all their needs. Take them this night into thy care and keeping. Let those who seek thee find thee a God at hand, and not afar off. Let those who as yet have not sought thee, be brought speedily to call while thou art near: give them no rest until they find a scriptural rest, and a gospel hope unto their souls. And grant that we and they may yet bend our knees in united prayer and praise together before thee: and especially when the voyage of life is ended, may we find ourselves in that haven of rest, that kingdom of peace, where sorrow cannot come, nor any thing enter that defileth. Bless and prosper those who are now going on deck. Refresh and keep those who are going to their beds, and hold the winds and the seas in thy hands for good unto us this night, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Savior. Amen.

O THOU omnipresent and omniscient Jehovah. Thou art about our path, and our lying down; and thou art acquainted with all our ways. There is not a word in our tongue, but lo! O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou understandest our thoughts afar off. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee. but the night shineth as the day the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Known, therefore, to thee, are our sins with every aggravation; and our necessities with all their circumstances. Thou requirest us to confess our guilt, aud to spread our wants before thee, in order that we ourselves may be suitably affected with them, and be prepared for the promised displays of thy goodness. We know not the evil there is it one sin; and our iniquities are more in num ber than the hairs of our head. Thou ar our Creator; but of the rock that begat u we have been unmindful, and have forgotten the God that formed us. Thou hast nourished and brought up children: but we have rebelled against thee. Thou hast given us laws, founded in a regard to our welfare as well as thine own glory: but we have said with our lives, if not with our lips, Who is he Lord, that we should obey his voice? Ve have loved and served the creature mor

than the Creator. Departing from thee, we have made flesh our arm. We have leaned

on broken roeds, and though they have disappointed our hopes, and pierced us through with many sorrows, we have often returned to the same wretched dependence. Thoa hast raised up for us a Savior; and the gospel has presented to our view a plan of redemption and renovation, which the angels desire to look into: but we have crowned all our guilt, by neglecting so great salvation, and turning away from Him that speaketh from heaven; and we deserve to be for ever excluded from all the blessings of the cross.

O deal not with us after our desert, but according to our necessity; and where sin has abounded, may grace much more abound. Over all our unworthiness may grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord. It is thy pleasure that we seek thee. The desires we feel are of thine own producing. We are willing to be saved in thy own way. We love thy salvation-we love it as it is free, and secures 1 to thyself the undivided glory: and we love it as it is holy, and designed to save us from the power as well as the penalty of sin. O visit us with thy salvation. Shine into our hearts, and give us the light of the knowledge of thy glory in the face of Jesus Christ. Enable us by faith to embrace thy unspeakable gift. May we sit at the feet of Jesus, and

glory in his cross. May we imbibe his spirit, and follow his example: and whatsoever we do, in word or deed, may we do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Wilt thou now be with us on our voyage; carry us safely on our way; supply all our daily wants; keep us from storms, from shipwreck, and from sudden death; and bring us to the close of the day in peace and safety, laden with rich experience of thy love.

We extend our wishes beyond the little circle now kneeling in thy presence. We have various absent connexions endeared to our hearts: O place them under thy agency, as the God of grace; and keep them unde thy care, as the God of providence.

We would remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them, and those that suffer adversity, as being ourselves also in the body. Let glory dwell in our land, and upon all the glory may there be a defence. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem; make bare thine arm in the sight of all the nations; and let all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our God.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with us all, now and for ever. Amen.

6. Evening.

O GOD, thy greatness is unsearchable. Thy name is excellent in all the earth. Thou hast set thy glory above the heavens. Thousands minister unto thee, and ten thousand times ten thousand stand before thee. We feel ourselves in thine awful presence to be nothing, less than nothing and vanity: nor do we presume to approach thee, because we are deserving of thy notice; for we have sinned, and have incurred thy righteous displeasure.

But our necessities compel us; and thy promises encourage us. Thou art nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and savest such as be of a contrite spirit. Thou hast provided a Mediator, who has magnified the law, and made it honorable; so that all who will may be accepted in the beloved.

O look thou upon us, and be merciful unto us, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Convince us of sin, both in its penalty and in its pollution; and may we mourn over it with a godly sorrow. Give us faith to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ; and believing, may we have life through his name. By holy resemblances, may we put on the Lord Jesus Christ: may the same mind be in us which also was in him.

And as he suffered for us, leaving us an