nor can our goodness extend unto thee; but without thee we are miserable. We therefore entreat thy favour with our whole heart. Thy loving-kindness is better than life.

We confess that we have forfeited thy favour, and are utterly unworthy of any blessing from thee. But we are emboldened to pray for mercy, in the name of Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us.

[We bewail it before thee that, by the depravity of our hearts, we are become odious to thine holiness, and utterly unfit to inherit the kingdom of God: and we confess that, by our many actual transgressions, we are become obnoxious to thy justice, and liable to thy wrath and curse.]

We have reason to blush and tremble in all our approaches to thee, the righteous and holy God. Even the iniquities of our holy things would be our ruin, if thou shouldst deal with us according to the demerit of them.

But with thee, O God, there is mercy and plenteous redemption. Blessed be thy name, thou hast graciously provided for all who truly repent and believe the

gospel, that the guilt of their sins shall be removed through the merit of thy Son's death, and the power of them broken by his Spirit. We rejoice in the assurance we have, that he is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto thee through him, seeing that he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Lord, we come to thee through this blessed mediator, earnestly desiring, by repentance and faith, to turn from the world and the flesh, unto thee as our God and Father in Jesus Christ, as our ruler and our portion.

[We are sorry that we have offended thee; we are ashamed to think of our ungrateful and treacherous carriage towards thee. O look upon us in mercy, through thy well-beloved Son, on the merit of whose righteousness and death we rely, as the only ground of our hope towards thee. For his sake receive us graciously and love us freely. Heal our backslidings, and let not our iniquity be our ruin.]

We desire to have nothing more to do with sin; and pray as earnestly that the power of it may be subdued in us, as that the guilt of it may be removed from us. May the God of peace sanctify us wholly.

Renew us in the spirit of our minds, and make us in every thing such as thou wouldst have us to be.

Mortify our pride, and clothe us with humility. Subdue our angry passions, and put on us the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. Help us to crucify the flesh, with all its affections and lusts; to keep under our body, and bring it into subjection to the laws of reason and religion; that we may always possess our vessel in sanctification and honour.

Let the love of the world be rooted out of us, and that covetousness which is idolatry; and let the love of God in Christ be shed abroad in our hearts, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Mortify in us all envy and hatred, malice and uncharitableness; and engage us to love one another with a pure heart fervently, as becomes the followers of the blessed Jesus, who has given us this as his new command

ment.

We pray thee to rectify all our mistakes. If in any thing of moment we be in an error, discover it to us, and let the Spirit of truth lead us into all truth. May

we know the truth as it is in Jesus: the the truth which is according to godliness. Give us that good understanding which they have that do thy commandments.

Convince us more effectually, we pray thee, of the vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to make us happy; of the vileness of sin, and its tendency to make us miserable of the worth of our souls, and the awfulness of that everlasting state, on the borders of which we are standing; and make us serious and diligent in our preparation for it.

May we labour less for the meat which perisheth, and more for that which endureth to everlasting life. May we be governed by that faith which is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. May we use the world so as not to abuse it, knowing that the world, and the fashion of it, passeth away, and we are passing away with it.

[O let thy grace be mighty in is to prepare us for that great change, which will shortly, and may suddenly, come; which will remove us from a state of trial to that of retribution; and do thou at length make us meet for the inheritance of the saints in light.]

And prepare us, O Lord, we beseech thee, for whatever we may meet with between this and the grave. We know not what is before us, but thou knowest; and we desire cheerfully to leave ourselves in thy hands, who orderest all things well. We beg of thee to fit us, by thy grace, for all the services, and all the sufferings to which thou mayest call us. Arm us

against every temptation, and help us at all times, and in all conditions, to glorify God, to keep a good conscience, and to be found in the way of our duty, that we may maintain our hope and joy in Christ, and have a bright believing prospect of eternal life.

[Here bring in the Intercession, when there is time for it, p. 13.]

Bless abundantly all the members of this family, and make us blessings to each other. Whether parents or children, masters or servants, old or young; help us faithfully to discharge the duties of our several stations, in an honourable, acceptable and useful manner; and give us all a happy meeting at last in the house eternal in the heavens.