We ought to have served thee with our whole hearts, and to have employed our time, our thoughts, our tongues, and all our powers, for thy glory and the good of men. But alas, we have often trifled in thy worship, and hypocritically served thee with our lips alone, and have taken thy dreadful name in vain. Our thoughts have been guilty of vanity, folly, and impurity; our tongues, of idle, wrathful, and injurious words. We have not loved our neighbours as ourselves, nor sought each others welfare, temporal or spiritual, with that zeal and affection which our relation to each other, and thy love to us required. We have unprofitably abused thy talents, and done but little good in the world, in comparison with what we might have done.

And though thy wonderful mercy hath given us a Redeemer, and in him such a remedy for our sins, as is the astonishment of men and angels, we have been chargeable with unbelief, and a stupid neglect of this great salvation.

But deal with us, O Lord, not according to our deserts, but according to our necessity, and thy great goodness. Where our sin hath abounded, let thy grace much more abound.

There is enough in the merit of thy Son's obedience and sacrifice to expiate our guilt, and justify penitent believers in thy sight. We would therefore encourage ourselves in the Lord our God, and cheerfully rely upon thy pardoning mercy.

And while in the exercise of faith, we earnestly implore the forgiveness of our past sins, we desire cheerfully to return to thee, in the way of our duty, and humbly give up ourselves to thee as

our God, our Father, our Saviour, and our Sanctifier; beseeching thee to receive us upon the terms of thy covenant of grace. Renew and sanctify us by thy Spirit. Take from us the heart of stone, and give us hearts of flesh. Impart to us a divine and heavenly nature, and transform us into the image of thy holiness. Enable us to devote ourselves, and all that thou givest us, entirely to thee as thine own. Bring all the powers of our souls and bodies into a full subjection to thy government.

Shed abroad thy love in our hearts, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Shew us more of thine infinite goodness and perfections, and the wonderful mercy which thou hast given us in Christ; and let the beams of thy love so fire our breasts, that we may love thee with all our hearts and souls, with all our mind and strength; and may taste the beginning of the felicity of heaven; where we shall love thee more than we can now desire or conceive.

Give us more of the spirit of adoption; possess us with all child-like affections towards thee as our reconciled God and Father in Christ. Teach us to make thee our ultimate end, and to seek thy glory in all we do. And let thy exceeding love and mercy to us, engage us to love one another; to love all mankind; and even our enemies themselves. May we ever be ready to pardon the injuries we may receive, and to do good to all, to the utmost of our power.

Keep us, we beseech thee, from every thing in our words and actions by which we should dishonour thy name, and grieve thy Spirit. Quicken and animate us in every duty, whether person

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al, relative, or divine. And help us to spend this transitory life in a diligent preparation for death and eternity. Let our hearts and our conversation be in heaven. Be with us through all the changing scenes of life; and O forsake us not in our last extremity, but give us hope in a dying hour, and take our departing spirits to be with Christ.

Set up thy glory, O Lord, above the heavens, and let thy name be sanctified in all the earth. Convert the heathen and infidel world to the faith of thy Son. Give wise and upright rulers to the nations; and let the gospel of Jesus go forth as the sun, to enlighten the whole world. Reform the churches which are dark and corrupt. Cast down that tyranny and ungodliness which keep out knowledge, holiness, and peace. Preserve and bless the reformed churches, especially in these United States. Make our rulers faithful to their trust, that they may seek the true prosperity of their country. Teach thou our teachers. Give all thy churches able and faithful pastors, and abundantly succeed their labours, that their hearers may be fruitful in knowledge and holiness, peace and charity.

Bless all the members of this family, together with all that are near and dear to us, both in body and soul; and help us to serve each other in love. We thankfully acknowledge thy fatherly goodness manifested to us this day. Be pleased to continue it through the night watches. Give us such rest of body and mind as may fit us for the duties of the day ensuing. We ask all in the name of Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Mediator. Amen.

WEDNESDAY MORNING.

In the Method of the LORD'S PRAYER.

MOST glorious God, and most merciful Fa ther; thou dwellest in the highest heaven, but hast manifested thy glory through all the earth. With filial reverence and delight would we celebrate thy perfections. Thou art power, wisdom, and goodness itself; the creator of all things; the owner, the ruler, and the benefactor of the world; but especially of thy church and people. We adore thee that though, by sin, we thy children were become thine enemies; slaves to Satan and the world; and had exposed ourselves to the condemnation of thy law; thou in thy paternal love hast interposed to redeem us to thyself by Jesus Christ thy Son, and to regenerate us by thy holy Spirit. We bless thee that thou givest us leave to call thee our reconciled Father, and to entertain the hope of an immortal inheritance in thy heavenly kingdom. O with what wonderous love hast thou loved us, that we who had been rebels should be called and made the sons of God.

Thou hast advanced us to this dignity that we might be wholly devoted to thee, as thine own; that we might love thee with all our hearts, delightfully obey thee, and ever live to thy glory. Cause us and all the world to hallow, reverence, and sanctify thy great name. O may we live to thee as our ultimate end; and may thy shining image on our souls glorify thy divine perfections.

Cause all the kingdoms of the earth to cast off the tyranny of Satan and of sin; to acknowledge thy supreme authority; and to become the kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ. And O do thou perfect thy kingdom of grace in our souls, by engaging us to a more willing and absolute subjection to thy government: and we beseech thee to hasten thy kingdom of glory.

We pray that neither we, nor others, may be governed by the will of the flesh, or of man; by erroneous imaginations, or by that self-will which is the idol of the wicked; but by the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, which thou hast revealed in thy word. Make known thy word of truth and righteousness to all the world, and cause men to understand, believe, and obey the gospel of salvation; so that the earth, which is now too much like hell, may in holiness, peace, and love be made to resemble heaven.

We pray that thou, who art the God of our lives, and the author of all our outward comforts, wilt be pleased to maintain the life which thou hast given us here, till the work of life be finished. Grant us, we pray thee, such health of mind and body, such protection, and such supplies, as shall best fit us for our duty. Give us this day, and every day, our daily bread, and make us content therewith. Help us to acknowledge thy providence in our diligent labours; to serve thee faithfully with all that thou givest us; and to labour above all things for the meat which endureth to everlasting life.

We beseech thee of thy mercy, through the sacrifice and propitiation of thy beloved Son, forgive us all our sins and trespasses; all our omis