and great salvation upon the poor malefactor there suffering, remember me now in such mercy, Lord, for thy own mercy's sake. O Son of David, have mercy upon me. Both now and ever, vouchsafe to hear me, O Christ; graciously hear me, O Lord Christ; and let thy mercy be shewed upon me, as I do put my trust in thee. O glorify this thy mercy in my salvation, and not thy justice in my de

struction.

Though confusion is now my portion, yet help me, Lord, so to bear thy just indignation, and to obtain such benefit to my soul, out of the punishment of my body, that I may not hereafter awake to shame and everlasting contempt. And though I am now under the sentence of a temporal death, yet spare my soul, O most merciful Lord, and deliver me not into the bitter pains of eternal death. O that I may have all the shame, and sorrow, and evil things in this life, that thou mayest spare me forever; and shew forth all the wonders of thy grace, and power, and mercy to prepare me for, and snpport me under the deserved punishment which I am shortly to suffer, and to give me hope in my death, even in this infamous death; and after death some part in thy kingdom, if but to be the least and lowest in the house of my God, for the sake of thy own tender mercies, and for the infinite merits of the great Redeemer of the world, my only Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen.

Prayer and Praise upon the Occasion of our blessed Saviour's Coming into the World.

LESSING, and honour, and glory, and power, be to him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever.—— O Lord God of our salvation! thou hast remembered us in our low estate, out of that mercy of thine which endures forever. Thou hast raised up a great salvation and mighty deliverance for us; to heal the sinful, to help the miserable, and to save that which was lost. No one but thy blessed Self, O Lord, the gracious Giver, knows the greatness of that gift, which thou hast conferred upon us, (the greatest that thou couldst give, or man receive) in giving thy only Son to be our Almighty Saviour, to deliver us from the eternal miseries of hell, and to make us meet to be partakers of the heavenly inheritance of thy saints in light. O how wonderful have been the designs of thy love, and the counsels of thy wisdom, to recover our poor lost souls, and to work for them a salvation worthy of God! that God should be manifested in the flesh, to destroy the works of the devil; and that the eternally beloved of thy soul should be made Son of Man, to make us, sinful men, the children of God! O what manner of love has the Father bestowed upon us! exceeding all that ever we are able to say of it! O that we and all men may praise thee, Lord, for thy goodness, and such thy wonderful works to the children of men; that we may ever, with all admiration, and reverence, and thankfulness,

receive and ponder this great mystery of gödliness; and that we may return the glory of salvation up to thee, who hast sent the joy of salvation down to us, that our souls may magnify the Lord, and our spirits rejoice in God our Saviour; and blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that has so visited and redeemed his people.

And now that thou hast laid help upon one that is mighty, and found a ransom for us, and made the all-sufficient provision to save us; 0 help thou us, Lord our God, as we ought, to entertain and welcome the joyful news, that Jesus Christ is come into the world to save sinners. Father of mercies, prepare us for the blessed Saviour which thou hast prepared for us: that he who came into the world in the fulness of time, may come into our souls with the fulness of his grace, and with all the blessings and consolations of his coming: and that as he was miraculously formed in the Virgin's womb, he may be spiritually formed in our hearts. O thou great Lord, and lover of our souls! remember our souls in mercy, with the favour which thou bearest to thy people; and visit us with the joy of thy salvation. O make the way of our salvation plain before us, that we may know where our help lies, and what we must do to be saved. And incline and quicken us, O Lord, with all readiness to take that way, and to embrace that grace of God which brings salvation; and to comply with the gracious designs of thy mercy, to do us the greatest good, and to make us forever happy. O blessed Saviour, be thou an

effectual Saviour to us; and save us from the wrath to come. So redeem us here from all iniquity, that hereafter thou mayest redeem us from everlasting misery. Thou camest down to earth, to raise us up to heaven; and tookest our nature, to make us partakers of thine. O that we may experience the mighty power of thy salvation upon us, to heal our depraved natures, to sanctify our sinful souls, and to make us such lovers and followers of thy holy ways, that we may have in us Christ the hope of glory and those good things of thy spirit, which do accompany salvation. And for all the great and strange things which thou hast so graciously done for us, in revealing thy salvation, and opening the doors of hope to us, and putting us in the way to that blissful end of our faith, the eternal salvation of our souls, which thou hast purchased for us. Unto thee, O blessed God, our Saviour, in the unity of the ever glorious Trinity, be all thanks and praise, and honour and glory, rendered by us, and all thy church, now and for evermore. Amen.

A Prayer on the Occasion of our blessed Saviour's Death.

GOD the Father of mercies, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom every mercy is vouchsafed and derived unto us; thou didst create us after thy own blessed image, in a holy and happy estate, but we have defaced thy first handy-work, and put ourselves not only in a case of strangeness unto thee, but of enmity against thee; in Adam all die; and by the

offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation: yet thou hast not used us as enemies, to leave us in the sad ruins of our fall, but hadst an eye of pity to us, lying in our blood, to bid us live: though thy own eternal beloved Son was fain to die, to save us from that everlasting death which is the due wages of our sins, yet him thou sparedst not, that thou mightest spare us, and make us the eternal monuments of thy saving mercy. O what amazing unspeakable love is this, that even when enemies we should be reconciled to God by the death of his Son! but the cursed nature of sin, to be hated with a perfect hatred, that had need of such an atonement! O the dreadful justice of God, how should we ever stand in awe of it! that required such a satisfaction! O the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that would redeem our poor lost souls at such a costly rate! and shed his own precious blood to save us! And O the precious death of our Lord Redeemer, to be had in everlasting remembrance! By it we abide, and upon that we depend for the pardon of all our sins, and for our whole acceptance with God, both here and forever. Tho' we could not satisfy thy justice, O God, for our sins, should we suffer eternally; yet thy Son has satisfied in full, and nothing at all remain on their score for whom thou art pleased to accept his infinite satisfaction. And seeing there is à Balm in Gilead, and a Physician that is able to heal us, O let not our souls be unhealed: let not the great things which our Lord Redeemer hath done and endured for poor los t sinners, be