flicted, provide for the poor and needy, and do good unto all as their various cases and necessities may require. As thou hast brought me to the close of this day in safety, so I beg the continuance of thy care and protection this night. Watch over me, O thou Preserver of men, in my defenceless moments, and, after quiet and refreshing sleep, raise me up in the morning, fitted for the duties and events of another day. And when this succession of days and nights shall be no more, receive me into that state where I shall serve Thee with.. out intermission, and yet without weariness, through a long, happy, and endless day. Now unto the King eternal, immor. tal, invisible, the only wise God, be hon or and glory, for ever and ever....AMEN... VII-A Prayer for Tuesday Morning. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father! Thou art the great Parent of the universe, and the Supreme Lord of all; by whom all things were created at first, and are continually supported and governed. I adore the glorious perfections of thy nature, the boundless power, wisdom, and goodness which thou hast displayed in all thy works, and most gratefully acknowledge the liberal communications of thy bounty and beneficence to me, who am unworthy of the least of thy mercies. I bless Thee for every instance of thy kindness and favor that I have experienced through all my past life, and particularly for the watch. ful care of thy good providence, by which I have been secured from the dangers of the last night, and brought to see the light of another day, in peace and comfort. Thy mercies, O Lord, are new unto me every morning; great is thy faithfulness! And hence it is that I am not consumed, even because thy compassions fail not. Shouldst thou have dealt with me according to the number and weight of my transgressions, I should have long since been stripped of all my forfeited enjoyments, and have been wretched indeed, beyond all conception, and beyond all hope of being restored to thy favor. But, blessed be thy name, I am still continued in the land of the living, a monument of thy patience and forbear ance; furnished with a variety of good things relating to the life that now is, and encouraged to hope for far better blessings in the life to come, through thy wonderful love and grace manifested to a sinful world, by thy Son Jesus Christ. With admiration and gratitude would I contemplate the wise and gracious method thou hast contrived for re. covering lost sinners to thyself, by the teaching and example, the sufferings and death, the resurrection and ascension of this our once abased, but now glorified Redeemer; who is able to save, even unto the uttermost, all that come unto Thee by him; seeing that he ever lives to make intercession for us. Grant me, O most merciful God, an interest in the benefits of his Mediatorial. undertaking. Help me to seek and secure the blessings of pardon, peace, and eternal life, by a cheerful compliance with those terms of repentance, faith, and new obedience, on which they are offered to my acceptance. Enable me rightly to value and carefully to improve all my present privileges and all my futúre prospects, as becometh a Christian. And by that grace of thine, which bringeth salvation to men, teach me to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts, and live soberly, righteously, and piously in this present world; looking for that. blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, to re deem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Being bought with a price of such inestimable value, O let me never live as if I were at my own disposal; but engage me to serve and glorify Thee, not only with my body but with my spirit, which are thine. Let me chuse Thee, O thou greatest and best of Beings, as my Lord and my God, my Guide and Guardian, my Portion and Felicity; and let me cheerfully resign myself to be governed, directed, and disposed of by thine unerring wisdom, and according to the good pleasure of thy goodness. Help me this day, and every day, so to walk as to please Thee, and to be constantly improving in the divine life and likeness. Keep me by thy grace from falling into sin, which is the greatest of all evils; then may I be assured that thou wilt preserve me from every thing else that might do me hurt; and even cause all things to work together for my |