every way towards thee, that thou mayest mercifully accept me, and all my service for the sake of thy beloved Son, my blessed Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen.

The Soldier's Prayer.

LORD God of Hosts! who hast all the

creatures in heaven and in earth ready to fight thy battles, and execute thy pleasure; thou didst not sow any seeds of enmity in our nature but didst create man endued with all the principles of love, and dispositions of peace. It is from our lust and sins that the wars and fightings come among us. First we fell out with our God, and our own happiness; and ever since it is a contentious quarrelsome world that we live in, where restless men are jostling one another, and striving for that ease and content which the world has not for them. Now that I am in this military station, O Lord, instruct and enable me to behave myself therein as I ought. O make me the faithful soldier of Jesus Christ, in that spiritual warfare wherein I am to combat with the enemies that war against my soul. And that I may have peace with my God, let me have no peace with my sins, nor any part or consent with the rebels against Heaven; nor be carried away with any ungodly examples, into such wickedness, against which thou, O God, hast declared thy wrath from heaven.O grant that I may never so strive with my Maker, nor allow myself in such a habit of mind, and course of life, as are enmity against

God; but ever dread more to fall into thy hands than theirs, that can but kill the body; and shew myself the more zealous for thee, the more I see others set themselves against thee. O Lord most High; make me valiant for thy cause, as well as that for man, wherein I am now engaged. And preserve me, O my God, from the blasphemy, the lewdness and debauchery, the rudeness and violence that are most incident to men of this profession; that I may not be infected with their contagion, but preserve my integrity, amidst all the temptations wherewith I am surrounded.

Though the sword is in my hand, let the peace of God rule in my heart; and though I am a soldier, let me not be a man of blood, delighting in war; but a ready servant of my country, a faithful instrument for our common defence and safety, and a dutiful subject to the powers ordained of God, for the Lord's sake. O my Strength and my Redeemer, strengthen my heart and hands for the service to which I am called; and make me successful and victorious through thy blessing and power from on high.

It is thou, Lord, only, that makest us dwell in safety: O cover my head in the day of battle, and in all times of danger, be thou my shield. and buckler. And either keep the evil from me, or arm me for it, that I may not be ruined by it, but gain good out of it, and find bodily hurts making for the good of my soul; and even the temporal death but a gate opened to eternal life. And seeing I go with my life in my hands, and am more exposed than other

men to dangers and death, O make me more careful of my soul, more mindful of my latter end, and more diligent to put and keep myself in a preparation and readiness to die. And whether I prosper or miscarry in the attempts, and enterprizes wherein I am now concerned, O let my soul be ever precious in thy sight, and safe in thy hands. Help me, O my supreme Commander, thou great Captain of our salvation, so to live, that I may find it the greatest gain to die: and let me go on, as Christ's faithful soldier, so conquering and to conquer the enemies of thy glory, and the hindrances of my own and other's salvation, that having overcome may sit down in thy kingdom, and triumph in thy sweet love, and in thy heavenly joy, and the most glorious praises, world without end.

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Amen.

A Prayer for the Melancholy and Dejected.

Most good and gracious Lord! thou know

est our frame, and art a God full of compassion, to pay and relieve thy servants under their trouble and oppression. Look down, we humbly pray thee, with thy wonted pity, and remember in tender mercy the work of thine hands, our disconsolate friend; this troubled soul, that is even distracted in suffering thy terrors; while thy wrath lies hard upon him, and all thy waves and billows are gone over him, to disturb his peace, and oppress his mind and unfit him rightly to use his reason, or discharge his duty. O thou that speakest the winds

and waves into obedience and calmness, settle and calm his discomposed breast; speak peace and satisfaction to his troubled mind; and give him comfort and sweet repose, in the sense of thy pardon and love. Lord, help his unbelief, and increase his faith, that he may not be faithless, but believing. Though he now walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. In the multitude of the thoughts and sorrows that he has in his heart, O let thy comforts come in to refresh his soul. Be thou pleased, Lord, to deliver and ease him of the load that lies upon his spirit; and let in the beam of thy heavenly light, to scatter and dispel all the clouds and darkness in which his mind is wrapt up. O direct to the means most proper for his help, and bless and prosper them, so that they may be efficacious to promote his recovery out of this low and doleful estate. Incline his ears to wholesome counsels, and fashion his heart to receive due impressions. O gracious Father! pity his frailty, and forgive his iniquity; and heal him, Lord, both in soul and body; rebuking his distemper so that his disquieted soul may return to its rest. O raise him up, and make him whole. Yea, make haste, O Lord, to shew such mercy upon him, even for thy own mercy's sake in Jesus Christ, our blessed Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

A Prayer for the Lunatic and Distracted.

O

LORD, the only wise God! thou givesr understanding, and takest it away as thou

pleasest; and thou art holy and righteous in all that ever thou dost. Though the reason and meaning of many of thy works are unknown to us, yet still thou knowest well what thou hast to do; and we must be dumb, and open not our mouths, when it is thy doing. The stroke which thou hast laid upon thy poor creature would be just upon any of us; and we must acknowledge it owing only to thy mercy, that it is any better with us. But in tender compassion of his pitiable condition, we take upon us to beg thy merciful relief in his behalf. For thou Lord, that givest sense and discretion, canst as easily renew them when impaired: and thou that madest thy servant out of nothing, canst also bring him to himself again, and help him to use his reason aright as he ought.

O dispel the clouds in which now his soul is wrapped up, that he may come to a good understanding of himself, and the things of his peace; reduce and heal the broken and crazed faculties, or else settle and quiet them, pacify and compose them. Have pity we beseech thee, O Lord, upon him, and impute not unto him any thing that is now said or done amiss by him; but in mercy pass by it, as if it had not been said or done at all.

O that thou wouldst direct to some means for help in this case, and make him tractable to the use of remedies, and willing and ready to comply with the advice of his friends, till he shall be in a better capacity to manage and help himself: and where no means will reach to work the cure, thou that canst open the doors which