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with a price.

Sleeps; Lord be thou our fun and our shield. Refresh our bodies with quiet and comfortable reft: keep us from sudden fears and dreadful alarms; and let our souls be refreshed with a sense of thy love and the light of thy countenance, which is better than life.

Reltore us to another day in safety, and prepare us for the duties and events of it: And by all the supports and comsorts of this life let us be enabled, both in body and in foul, to glorify thee; always remembering that we are not our own, but bought

And forasmuch as we are now brought one day nearer to our end, Lord, enable us fo to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom ; let us be ever mindful of that time when we must lie down in the duft; prepare us for our great change, that when we come to die indeed, it may be no surprisë or terror to us; but we may with com

; fort put off the body and resign the spirit, knowing whom we have trusted.

Let our family be bleffed in him, in whom all the families of the earth are blessed : 'Bleffed in all fpiritual bleffings in heavenly things by Christ Jefus, and with temporal bleflings as far as thou feest good for us. Give us health and pro.perity, but efpecially let our fouls prosper, and let all that belong to us belong to Christ, that we, who live together here, may be for ever with the Lord in heaven.

Look, O Lord, with pity upon a loft world, and set up Christ's throne where Satan's seat now is. Send thy gospel where it is not known; and make it successful where it is known; and make it mighty through God to the pulling down of the strong-holas of fin. Let the church of Chrift greatly flourith, and ket not the gates of hell prevail against it ; but may Jesus see of the travail of his soul, and be satisfied.

Rule in the hearts of our rulers. Own thy mini-
fters in their work, and make them wise to gain souls
to thee. Be zracious to all that are near or dear to
us, and make them near and dear to thee by the blood
of the covenant. Comfort and relieve all that are in
forrow and affliction ; lay no more upon them than
they are able to bear, and fanctify every visitation to
the good of their souls. Do for us, we pray thee,
abundantly above what we are able to ask or think,
according to the riches of thy grace in Jesus Christ
our Lord and Saviour; in whose name and words we
further call upon thee, saying, Our Father, &c.
A PRAYER before the receiving of the SACRA-

MENT of the LORD'S SUPPER,
OST holy, blessed and gracious Lord God,

with all humility and reverence I here present myself before thee, to seek thy face and intreat 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 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 my 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. 1, who deserve not the crumbs, am called to eat of the

children's bread. O thou who haft called me to the marriage-fupper of the Lamb, give me the weddinggarment; work in me a disposition of soul, and all those pious and devout affections, which are suited to the folemnity of this ordinance, and neceffary to qualify me for an acceptable and advantageous participation of it. 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 finned against thee; I have done foolishly, and foolishness is bound up in my heart. I have finned, and have come short of the glory of God; I have come short of glorifying thee, and deserve to 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 towards the world and the flesh, and the gratifications of sense; but towards God, and Christ, and heaven, I move very slowly: There is in my

carnal mind a wretched aversion to divine and spiritual things. I have mis-spent my time, and trifled away my opportunities; I have followed after lying vanities and, forfaken my own mercies ! God be mer. ciful to me a finner! for how little have. I done fince I came into the world, of the great work that I was sent into the world about?

Thou haft taken me into covenant with thee; I have been fet apart for thee, and sealed to be thine ; Thou haft laid me, and I have laid myself under all possible obligations to love thee and serve thee, and live to thee : But I have started aside like a broken bow. I have not made good my covenant with thee, nor hath the temper of iny mind nor the tenor of my conversation been agrecable to that hely religion which I make profeffion of. I am bent to backilide

from the living God; and if I were under the law, I were undone : But I am under grace, a covenant of grace, which leaves room for repentance, which invites even backsliding children to return, and promiseth that their backslidings shall be healed. Lord, I take hold of this covenant, seal it to me at thy table. There let me.find my heart truly humbled for fin, and forrowing it after a godly fort. Othat I may there look on him whom I have pierced, and mourn, and be za bitterness for him ; that there I may fow in tears, and receive a broken Christ into a broken heart; and there let the blood of Chrift, which speaks better things than that of Abel, be sprinkled upon my conscience, to purify and pacify that ; There let me be affured that thou art reconciled unto me, that mine iniquities are pardoned, and that I shall not come into condemnation.

And that I may not come unworthily to this bluffed ordinance I beseech thee lead me into a more intimate and experimental acquaintance with Jesus Chrift, and him crucified; with Jesus Christ, and him glorified; that knowing him, and the power of his elurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, and being by his grace planted in the likeness of both, I may both dilern the Lord's body, and shey forth the Lord's death.

Lord, I defire by a true and lively faith to close with Jesus Christ, and consent to him as my Lord .

God. I here give up myself to him as my Prophet, Prieft, and King, to be ruled, and Laught, and faved by him. This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend : None but Chrift, none but Christ. · Lord, increase this faith in me, perfect what is lacking in it; and enable me in receiving

the bread and wine at thy table, by a lively faith to receive Christ Jesus the Lord. O let the great gospel-doctrine of Christ's dying to save finners which is represented in that ordinance, be meat and drink to my soul, meat indeed and drink indeed. Let it be both nourishing and refreshing to me: let it be both my strength and my song, and the spring both of my holiness and of my comfort. And let such deep impressions be made upon my soul as may abide always upon me, and have a powerful infiaence upon my whole conversation, that the life I now live in the flesh I may live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Lord, I beseech thee fix my thoughts, let my heart be engaged to approach unto thee, that I may. attend upon thee without distraction. Draw out my defires after thee: Make me to hunger and thirst after righteousness, that I may be filled ; and to draw near to thee with a true heart, and in full assurance of faith ; And since I am not straitened in thee, O let me not be straitened in my own bosom. Draw me, Lord, and I will run after thee; O send out thy light and thy truth, let them lead and guide me. Pour out thy Spirit upon me, put thy Spirit within me, to work in me both to will and to do that. which is good, and leave me not to myself. Awake, O north-wind, and come thou south, and blow upon my garden; come, O blessed Spirit of grace, and enlighten my mind with the knowledge of Chrift, bow my will to the will of Christ, fill my heart with the love of Christ, and confirm my resolutions to live and die with him.

Work in me a principle of holy love and charity towards all men, that I may forgive my enemies, and may keep up a spiritual communion in faith,