salvation; that we may look upon thee, our God, as a reconciled Father to us in Jesus Christ.

In his great name, and prevailing mediation, we enlarge our petitions, in behalf of the whole race of mankind that are now with us alive upon earth. O that all the ends of the world may remember themselves, and turn to the Lord, and see the salvation of our God! do good, O God, in thine own good pleasure, to Zion, and build thou the walls of Jerusalem, that we may see the good of it all the days of our lives. Continue thy mercies to this sinful land, whereof we are sinful members. Teach us to know the meaning of thy dispensations to us; and help us to improve by all thy dealings with us. O turn all our hearts to thee, as the heart of one man; and reform all our lives, according to the holy pattern and precepts of our Lord, that thou mayest cause thy anger towards us to cease; and go on still to take care of us, and never leave nor forsake us.

Bless abundantly the king's majesty, who now sways the sceptre of these realms. O Lord preserve his life, prolong his days, and prosper his government. Give him the hearts of his subjects, and the necks of his enemies. Make him the rejoicing of thy people, and a terror only to evil doers. O continue him long a zcaous defender of the faith, a promoter of thy fear, and asserter of our rights, that under his shadow we may be in peace and safety, enjoy. ing the liberty of the gospel, and the free profession and eftablishment of thy true and holy

religion and grant unto all magistrates and ministers continual supplies of all needful gifts and graces of thy holy Spirit, for the conscionable and the comfortable discharge of their several places. O bring all our neighbours near to thyself; and be thou a friend to all our friends, a father to the fatherless, a husband to the widow, a refuge to the oppressed, a physician to the sick, a helper to the friendless, a God of consolation to the distressed and sorrowful, whatever be their trouble and affliction. O bless to us whatever thou art pleased to allot us, and every thing that befals us. Make all work for our good; to build us up in thy grace, and to help us on to thy glory.

And as thou hast been good and kind to us the day past, and throughout our whole lives, for which we desire, O Lord, humbly and thankfully to admire thy love, and to bless thy name; so we beg that we may experience the continuance of thy gracious goodness to us,. and thy fatherly care over us, this present night. O preserve and defend, and bless and keep us, that no evil may befal us, nor any plague nigh our dwelling. Give us sleep and rest to refresh and strengthen us for thy service, and our duty: and prepare us, O Lord, for our last sleep in death, and for our departure out of this mortal life, and those great accounts that we must make before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ.. O instruct us and assist us, in that great work of preparation for our everlasting condition; that we may, in this only time of preparation, finish the great work which thou hast given us

to do, before the night of death overtake us, wherein we cannot work. That whenever thou shalt be pleased to give us the summons of death we may find nothing to do but to die, and cheerfully resign our spirits into thy gracious hands, who gavest them to us, through the riches of thy grace, and the worthiness of thy Son; in whose merits alone we trust, and for all that he has so wonderfully effected to recover and help us. To thy name, O blessed God of our salvation, be the praise, and honour, and glory, given by us and all thy people, from this time forth for evermore.

A fifth Evening Prayer.

Amen.

LORD, we desire to seek thy face, and to wait upon thee in the duties of thy worship; intreating thy gracious favour, with our whole hearts, that we may do all as we ought, with good acceptance to our God.And to whom should we make our applications but unto thee, the Father of mercies, and the fountain of all goodness, who art able to do exceeding abundantly for us, even above all that we ask or think; and who hast declared thy willingness to be importuned and solicited by us; and thy readiness to hear, and help, and answer us, in those things which we beg at thy gracious and bountiful hands, in the name and mediation of our gracious Lord and Saviour. O let our prayers be set before thee as incense, and the lifting up of our hands be as the evening sacrifice, pleasing to thee, our God, in the Son of thy love. It is in his blessed

name alone that we have the encouragement and boldness to beg of thy infinite goodness all that thou knowest to be needful and expedient for us; seeing there is in ourselves no good thing to reconamend us to thy favour and acceptance; but a proneness and inclination to what is displeasing in thy eyes, and destructive to our souls. For beside that we were by na ture the children of wrath, a seed of evil doers, the sinful offspring of rebellious parents, we have been daily trespassing against thee, and still adding to the heavy score of offences against thee. There is nothing in us, O Lord, but what may provoke thee to reject us; but there is enough in thy beloved Son, of all grace and goodness, to move thee mercifully to accept us. He was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness. of God in him; and that we might be saved through faith in his merits, where we could not be saved by any desert of our own works. 0 see our sins punished in our Saviour, who was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities and as the chastisement of our peace was upon him, so let the merit of his righteousness be upon us, and by his stripes let our souls be healed.

Nor do we only beg for pardon of our sins, but also for power against them, and grace sufficient for us to break them off, and to walk more pleasingly before thee in all the ways and duties of righteousness and holiness which thy word prescribes to us. O never suffer us to be tempted above what we are able! but make

our temptations less, or thy grace in us, and our spiritual strength, still greater than all our temptations that no iniquities may prevail against us, nor any presumptuous sin have dominion over us. O make us more conformable to the pattern and precepts of our Saviour; and more transformed into his holy image and likeness; that we may not profess the religion of Jesus Christ, to the wrong and disparagement of it, nor make the way of truth, by reason of us, to be evil spoken of: but let our light shine before men, to the glory of thee, our heavenly Father, and to the edification of those with whom we have our conversation,

And seeing the time of our abode in this transitory world is so very short and uncertain, and we have an everlasting state to abide in after our departure hence, where we must be happy or miserable eternally, according to what we do now in the body; O let us not here set up our rest, as if we were at home upon earth, nor flatter ourselves with the thoughts of long. life, or sure enjoyment of any of these things that perish in the using; but all the days of our appointed time may we wait till our change come: and not only live in expectation of it, but in the daily serious preparation for it, in the exercise of all those graces and good works that may make it unto us Christ to live, and gain to die that in life and death we may be always thine; still safe in thy hands, and acceptable in thy sight.

And, together with our own, we commend to thy mercy, O God of the spirits of all flesh,