need thy grace to nullify our corrupt affections. We pray that we may be enabled to come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may find mercy and grace to help in every time of need. Let these supplications be heard and answered, for the sake of him who hath given us abundantly above all that we can ask or think. Amen.

IV.

For the Evening of Easter Day.

LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, we thank thee that thou hast brought us safely to see another

return of this day, and to share in the services of thy church in commemoration of thy blessed Son's resurrection. Grant to us all that these services may not pass away wholly without fruit; that this and others of the festivals of the church may find us every year not less but more fit and disposed to celebrate them worthily, and more thankful to thee for the benefits which they are intended to celebrate. We pray of thee to forgive us for all our inat

tention and carelessness during thy worship this day. Teach us to feel that such inattention is a mark of the state of our souls; that we attend to all that we care for, and that if we do not attend to thy word, and to our prayers and praises of thee, it is because we care not for them. Grant that we may feel our own state more truly, and then the tidings of salvation will not be heard with indifference. If we have derived any good from any part of the public worship this day, grant that it be not lost to us. Encourage every thought of good which thou hast put into our minds, and strengthen every such thought, and add to them. Let not the thoughts and pleasures of our daily life steal them from us, but let them be kept alive to bring forth fruit daily. Let thy word be continually more plain to us, and more welcome; let it be continually more and more pleasant to us to pray to thee. Encourage our great weakness by some of thy gracious answers to our prayers, that feeling the comfort of thy help, we may not fail ever to ask for it. We pray to thee for all our relations and friends in all places. May this day have been to them all a day of happiness and

spiritual blessing. Assist us to remember them in our prayers, according to our bounden duty, praying for them and for us that we may be drawn together to thee, and kept with thee always. Give thy blessing upon our particular work here, and bless us. Grant to us thy spirit of wisdom, that we may use the means which thou hast put within our reach, and that we may be truly benefited by all our teaching, and learn to know thee and thy Son Jesus Christ. Bring home to our hearts with power the lesson of thy Son's resurrection. Grant that we may have our resurrection likewise, from the death of sin first, and also from the death of the body. Grant that we may hear thy Son's call with joy, and obey it, when he bids us to arise from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, and when he bids us come out of our graves, and come to judgment. May we too rise from death, and be with thy Son for ever. Finally, we give thee our humble thanks for all thy goodness to us, as this day, so alway. We bless thee for all our many earthly blessings, our health, and strength, and plenty. Above all, we bless thee for our spiritual blessings, and

for the means of grace which thou hast vouchsafed to us. May all of us retain thy blessings in our hearts, filling us with love to thee, and to one another. May we not be of the number of those who draw back from where they once stood, but of those who push forward to win their crown. God be merciful to us sinners, and bless us, and give us grace to follow our Lord Jesus Christ in life and in death, and to hold fast to him in faith, and to cast our sins down, and to take up our cross daily at the foot of his cross, and to put our whole trust in him to forgive us and to heal us. Blessed be thy holy name now and evermore, and hear us, and grant our petition for the sake of Jesus Christ, our only Saviour and Redeemer.

V.

For the Evening of Whitsuntide.

LMIGHTY and everlasting God, in whom alone is man's strength, from whom all good things come to us, the will to

please thee, and the power to fulfil it; look

down upon us thy servants here assembled before thee at the end of this thy holy day, and suffer not that which we have heard with our ears or read with our eyes this day, to have been heard or read in vain. O Lord Jesus Christ, of whose only grace it cometh that thy outward ordinances are profitable to our souls, grant that thy holy communion, of which some of us have been this day partakers, may be to them an abiding blessing: that through thy holy Spirit working in them and with them, it may become a real and lasting communion with thee. Put it into our hearts to think of thee sometimes amidst the stir of our daily life, and when the thought has come to us, O save us from the sin of turning away from it; but make us to follow it readily, and to cherish it, and by it to try what we are doing, whether we are doing it according to thy will or no.

If we should wickedly put such good thoughts from us, and grieve thy Holy Spirit; yet, O Lord, of thy great mercy do not leave us quite to ourselves, to take our own hard and careless way, but by any means whatever, yea, even by chastisements grievous to be borne, do thou save