mightily upon our hearts by thy grace, till our souls are fitted for that glory which is unspeakable and everlasting. Amen.

A Prayer on the Commemoration of any Saint.

GOD of all grace, who art pleased to call out of this present world a peculiar people to thyself; and so far to discover thy grace, and pour out thy Spirit upon many of thy servants, to make them shine as lights in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; eminent in all praise-worthy things, and great examples to the rest of mankind! We bless thy name, O Lord, that thou hast not left this miserable world destitute of such helps and patterns, both to shew us a more excellent way than the way of the world; and also to shew us how practicable is our duty; and what encouragement we have to take the holy good way, wherein others with such happy success have gone before us; that we, in our sluggishness, might be excited to be followers of them, as they were of Christ. And seeing we are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, O that we may lay aside every weight, and the sin that does most easily beset us, and run with patience the race set before us! Teach and enable us, O King of Saints, to make the good use and advantage of thy gifts and graces, shining forth in the inoffensive useful lives of such as have given thy holy religion the best recommendation, by letting men see their good works and how much more excellent it makes the righteous than their neighbours.

O that we may never persecute thy saints, nor madly despise those who are as the apple of thine eye, whose great care is to approve themselves faithful in thy covenant, and zealous for thy glory; and not only to preserve their integrity, and keep themselves unspotted from the world, but to do good in their generations, and turn many to righteousness. May we ever hold such in highest reputation while living, as well as count their memories precious when they are dead. O heavenly Father! let them be dearest to us that are so to thyself. And let all our delight be in such excellent ones, the saints that are in the earth, of whom the world is not worthy, however they be so frequently and greatly abused by the world, as if unworthy to live in it. O let us not be conformed to this world, nor follow the multitude to do evil; but be followers of those, who thro' faith and patience, do already inherit thy glorious promises, and so live the life, that we may die the death of the righteous. Help us, Lord our God, so to imitate thy saints here, in their holy living, that hereafter we may be numbered with them in the glory everlasting. As we desire and hope for their blessed end, O let us love and follow their godly way, and make the communion of saints a point of our practice, as well as an article of our faith; being lovers of all good men, honouring them that fear the Lord, and esteeming them very highly in love for their work's sake: And the Lord increase the number of the true converts, and thy faithful people and those that be followers of God, as dear

children in all places. Olet thy kingdom come; and thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven, that thy church may grow, and prosper, and flourish; till we with all thy servants departed in the Lord, meet together in the kingdom of our Father, to live in thy presence and love; and to enjoy and praise thee, world without

end. Amen.

A Soliloquy for the pious Soul's solace, by way of paraphrase on the Creed.

ET not your heart be troubled, saith the Lord of Love, [our dear compassionate Redeemer,] ye believe in God, believe also in me, the messenger of his love, sent to be the Saviour of the world.

Why art thou cast down then, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me; when

I believe in God,

and am not exposed, as one forlorn, to shift for myself, and to make me a happiness out of my own stock, or want it; but I have a God to repair unto, and depend upon, and to expect all that ever I can desire from him. And this God is

The Father,

Not only of our Lord Jesus Christ, by eternal generation, but my Father, by a late creation, which has brought me out of nothing to what I am; not only to being, and life, and sense, but to the use of reason,, and to the enjoyment of all that ever I have in the world. Yea, I am bold to father myself upon him also by a spiritual adoption; and am persuaded that a woman may sooner forget her sucking child, than the Lord will forsake that work of his hands which he has now created in Christ Jesus: nor is he less able than willing to do me good, being

Almighty,

and what is too hard for Omnipotence? or who can pluck me out of his hands, to whom the very powers of hell are but weakness?Though I am weak as a shaken reed myself, yet my help stands in the name of the Lord, who is the

Maker of Heaven and Earth.

And what can any of his creatures do against me, when God himself is for me? He that made all, will he see his child want a competency in the world? Or should I be turned out of the earth, yet all heaven is the Lord's; and when he is my portion, I am sure of that which is infinitely better than all the world's good; which, alas, is but a poor drop from the eternal Fountain of all goodness. And what can be better than him that made it, and gave it all that goodness which, it has? Myself, and whatever I see in the world was once nothing; and the great Lord, who was most blessed before all worlds, and would have been nevertheless blessed though we had never been at all he has brought us into being, not for any need he had of us, but to communicate of his goodness to us

In Jesus Christ,

and what so sweet as Jesus in my mouth!-No such music in my ears; no such gladness