vinest Will and Pleasure, never murmuring at thy gentle chastisements and fatherly correction, never waxing proud and infolent, though I feel a torrent of comforts and profperous Succeffes. V. FIx my thoughts, my hopes and my defires upon heaven and heavenly things; teach me to defpife the world, to repent me deeply for my fins; give me holy purpofes of amendment, and ghoftly ftrength and affiftances to perform faithfully whatfoever Ifhall intend pioufly. Enrich my understanding with an eternal Treasure of Divine Truths, that I may know thy Will, and thou who workeft in us to will and to do of thy good Pleasure, teach me to obey all thy Commandments, to believe all thy Revelations, and make me partaker of all thy gracious promises. VI. my ways, TEach Each me to watch over all that I may never be furprised by fudden Temptations, or a carelefs fpirit, nor ever return to folly and vanity. Set a watch, O Lord, before my Mouth, and keep the door of my Lips, that I offend not in my Tongue neither against Piety nor Charity. Teach me to think of nothing but thee, and what is in order to thy glory and fervice; to speak of nothing but thee and thy glories ; and to do nothing but what becomes thy Servant, whom thy infinite Mercy, by the Graces of thy Holy Spirit, hath fealed up to the day of Redemption. LE VII. Et all my paffions and affections be fo mortified and brought under the dominion of grace, that I may never by deliberation and purpofe, nor yet by levity, rathnefs or inconfideration offend thy Divine Majefty. Make me fuch as thou wouldest have me to be: trengthen my faith, confirm my hope, and give me a daily increafe of charity, that this day and ever I may ferve thee according to all my opportunities and capacities, growing from grace to grace, till at last by thy mercics I fhall receive the confummation and perfe tion of grace, even the glories of thy Kingdom in the full full fruition of the Face and Excellencies of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft, to whom be glory and praife, honour and adoration given by all Angels, and all Men, and all Creatures, now and to all eternity. Amen. ¶ To this may be added the Prayer of Interceffion for others whom we are bound to remember, which is at the end of the foregoing Prayer; or else you may take fuch Special Prayers which follow at the end of the fourth Chapter [For Parents, for Chil dren, &c.] After which conclude with this Ejaculation. Now in all tribulation and anguish of Spirit, in all dangers of Soul and Body, in profperity and adverfity, in the hour of Death and in the day of Judgment, holy and moft bleffed Saviour, Jefus, have mercy upon me, fave me and deliver me and all faithful People. Amen. Between this and Noon ufually are said the publick After Noon or at any time of the day when a de- An Exercife to be used at any Time of the Day. IN the Name of the Father, and of the Son, c. The Hymn collected out of the Pfalms, recounting the ex- O be joyful in God all ye lands, fing praises unto the Pfal, 66, s. D 4 honour honour of his Name, make his name to be glorious. *O come hither and behold the works of God, how wonderful be is in his doings towards the children of men. He ruleth with his power for ever. Pial. 68. 5, 6. He is the father of the fatherless, and defendeth the caufe of the widow, even God in his holy habitation. He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an houfe, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity; but letteth the runnagates continue in fcarceness. Prel. 29. 3, 4° Ifa. 65. 5. It is the Lord that commandeth the waters, it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder. It is the Lord that ruleth the fea: the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation, the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice. Let all the earth fear the Lord: ftand in awe of him Plal. 33. 8. all ye that dwell in the world. Thou shalt fhew us wonderful things in thy righteousness, O God of our falvation, thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad fea. Glory be to the Father &c. Or this. Ifa. as. . O Lord thou art my God, I will exalt thee: I will praife thy Name, for thou hast done wonderful things thy counfels of old are faithfulness and truth. Pfal. 65.6,7. 3. Phul. 89. 9. Thou in thy frength fetteft fast the mountains, and art girded about with power. Thou ftilleft the raging of the fea, and the noife of his waves, and the madnes of the People. They also that remain in the uttermost parts of the earth fhall be afraid of thy tokens; thou that makest the out goings of the morning and evening to praise thee. O Lord God of Hofts, who is like unto thee? thy Pal. 85. 8,9. truth, most mighty Lord, is on every fide. Among the gods there is none like unto thee; O Lord, there is none that can do as thou doft. For thou art great aod doft wonderous things, thou art God alone. God is very greatly to be feared in the council of the Saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him. Righte 15. Righteoufnefs and Equity is the habitation of thy feat, mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Glory and Pfal. 96. 6. worfbip are before him, power and honour are in his Sanctuary. Thon, Lord, art the thing that I long for, thou art Pfal. 71.4, 5. my hope even from my youth. Through thee have I been bolden up ever fince I was born; thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; my praises shall be always of thee. Glory be to the Father, &c. After this may be read fome portion of Holy Scri- Ejaculations. My help ftandeth in the Name of the Lord who hath plal, 124.7. made heaven and earth. Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy fervant, Pfal. 80, 3and I shall be Safe. Do well, O Lord to them that be true of heart, and pfal 125. 4. evermore mightily defend them. Direct me in the truth, and teach me, for thou art my Pfal. 25. 5, Saviour, and my great Mafter. Keep me from fin and death eternal, and from my enemies vifible and invifible. Give me grace to live a holy life, and thy favour that I may die a godly and happy death. Lord, hear the prayer of thy fervant, and give me thy holy Spirit. The Prayer. Eternal God, merciful and gracious, vouchsafe the the love of thy mercies and the dread and fear of thy Majefty make me careful and inquifitive to fearch thy Will, and diligently to perform it, and to perfevere in the practices of a holy life, even till the laft of my days. II. KEep me, O Lord, for I am thine by Creation; guide me, for I am thine by purchase; thou haft redeemed me by the blood of thy Son, and loved me with the love of a Father, for I am thy child by adoption and grace: let thy mercy pardon my fins, thy providence fecure me from the punishments and evils I have deserved, and thy care watch over me, that I may never any more offend thee: make me in malice to be a child; but in understanding, piety and the fear of God, let me be a perfect man in Chrift, innocent and prudent, readily furnished and inftructed to every good work. III. K Eep me, O Lord, from the deftroying Angel, and from the wrath of God: let thy anger never rife against me, but thy Rod gently correct my Follies, and guide me in thy ways, and thy Sraff fupport me in all fufferings and changes. Preferve me from fracture of bones, from noifome, infectious and fharp ficknelles, from great violences of Fortune and fudden furprises: keep all my fenfes intire till the day of my death, and let my death be neither fudden, untimely nor unprovided; let it be after the common manner of men, having in it nothing extraordinary, but an extraordinary piety, and the manifeftation of thy great and miraculous mercy. IV. Et no riches make me ever forget my felf, no po verty ever make me to forget thee: Let no hope or fear, no pleasure or pain, no accident without, no weakness within, hinder or difcompofe my duty, or turn me from the ways of thy Commandments. O let thy fpirit dwell with me for ever, and make my Soul juft and charitable, full of honefty, full of Religion, refolute and conftant in holy purposes, but in flexible |