men, among whom I may be called to live, by thy providence. Watch over me, Holy Father, this day for good, and keep me from all evil. May my foul and body ever be active in thy service, that, when I have finished my time here, thou mayest bring me to everlasting life hereafter, through Jesus Chirist, our Saviour. Amen. AN AN EVENING PRAYER, FOR A CHILD. ......... GREAT Father of all Mercy! thy fer vant bows before thee, gratefully impressed with the instances of thy goodness, in guiding and protecting me during the day. Thou hast supplied my wants; thou haft guarded me from danger; thou art permitting me again to prepare for the refreshment of repose. I most heartily thank thee, that I am happily born of pious and indulgent Parents, whose tender folicitude is ever for my welfare and happiness, not only for this, but the life to come. May I daily profit by their instructions and example. I bless thee for those teachers who are fet over me; may I, and my companions, ever be fubmifsfive to their prudent laws, and benefit by their precepts, that we may become wife, like those who have gone before us. More especially, may we learn, with diligence, those things which concern our eternal peace. Yielding myself up to thy providential care, prevent me, I beseech thee, from all evil. While I lay afide that raiment with which I am clothed, may may I be mindful, at all times, that foon I must yield up this body to the bed of death, and appear before thee, the immortal Father of Spirits. May this ever be serioufly impressed upon my mind, that I may, with diligence, prepare for my latter end; and so at last be received with joy into thy ever-blessed kingdom of glory, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Chrift. Amen. A PRAYER, FOR A SICK PERSON. ......... ALMIGHTY LMIGHTY GOD, and most merciful Fa ther, thou art the Great Physician, both for the fouls and the bodies of mankind. Life and death are in thy hand. Thou art the Great Comforter of the Afflicted; thou art the refuge and strength of the Weak, in the day of trouble; thou visitest, with thy confolations, those who are forrowful; the hiding-places of obfcurity conceal them not from thy all-pervading eye. To thee, I present my petitions; thou art the Hearer of Prayer; let my fupplications afcend with acceptance, in this the day of my visitation. Let thine eye view with compassion, thy creature, upon my bed of languishment. While my body is thus fettered down with fickness, and feverely handled by the messengers of death, in the midst of thy chastisements, thew mercy, and support my spirit with thy confolations. Through thy loving-kindnessess in Christ Jesus, spare me yet, I beseech thee, as a living monument of thy goodness. Command my distempers to be removed, S moved, that I may not die, before I live to thy service. Be pleased to thew the mightiness of thy Power, and the glories of thy Grace, in recovering me again to health; in paffing by the thousands of my infirmities and follies; in purifying my heart and all my faculties; that my fpirit may be cleanfed from all fin, and I, in all things, become thy pious worshipper. If thou, O God, art yet pleased to preferve my life, bestow upon me the forrow of an humble and fincere penitent for my bypast offences, and the purposes of a converted finner, to be more cautious of my future conduct; give me the love and gratitude of a pardoned offender; the pious zeal of a redeemed prifoner, who has efcaped from the bondage of fin; and the lively hope of thy Saints, who feel thy present goodness, and are not fatisfied but with the profpects of Eternal Life. Ever-gracious and holy Father in Heaven, let thy Glory rather be reflected from the fountain of thy Mercy, than refracted from the troubled streams of thy displeasure, towards thy servant. Whether in gentleness and tender mercy, thou art willing to deal with me as to the concerns of this body, or whether this fickness of mine shall be unto death, thy will be done; but O Lord God Almighty, let my immortal spirit ever be precious in thy fight. Eternal and Merciful King of Heaven, I humbly implore thee, and paffionately entreat thee, through Christ Jesus, that |
