they are so ranged, that besides the direction in the public, we may by frequent use thereof, be always armed with a compendious and ejaculatory prayer of the church's composure, pertinent to all occasions; which may be of excellent use to those who desire to be always on their guard against the enemy of their souls.

Of the Morning and Evening Prayer.

The Table of the Weekly and Festival Collects.

PART I.

Sundays and Festivals.
St. Barnabas.

{12Trinity.

12, 21, and 24th after

Annunciation.

3. Acceptance for his Purification.

sake:.

1. Comfort:

2. Illumination:

3. Direction :

1. Hearing:

2. Means

2. Reading :

of it, viz.

3. Fasting:

3. End of
it, viz.

to

4. Kinds

ofit, viz.

2nd after Epiphany.
1st after Ascension.
Whitsunday.
19th after Trinity.
St. Bartholomew.
St. Luke.

2nd of Advent.

Ist of Lent.

10 and 23rd after Trin.

Ist of Advent.
Ist after Easter.

(1. Convert us from sin: St. Andrew.

St. James.

St. Matthew.
4th of Advent.

2.Rescue us from temp-4th after Epiphany.

tation :

3. Enable us to do.
good :..

4. Bring us to glory:

1. Regeneration:
2. Charity:

18th after Trinity. 5th after Easter.

1, 9, 11, 13, 17, 25th after Trinity. Epiphany.

6th after Epiphany. ..... Nativity of Christ. Quinquagesima. Circumcision. Easter Even. Ashwednesday. 3rd after Easter. 4th after Easter.

3. Mortification:

{

4. Contrition:
5. Sincerity:..
6. Love of God and

his laws:

7. Heavenly desires: ..
1. Right:

8. Faith,

2. Firm:

6th and 14th after Trin.
Ascension day.
Trinity Sunday.
7th after Trinity.
St. Thomas.

2. Guarding of angels:.. St. Michael.

1. Safety by

I. Enemies :

2. Judgments:

3. Support under afflictions:

3rd of Lent.
Sexagesima.
Septuagesima.
4th of Lent.

3rd & 4th after Epiph.

4. Defence from evil, and supply of good:.. 8th and 15th after Trin.

3. The body and the soul both :....

1. Without the church,

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SECTION XXI.

OF THE TWO COLLECTS PECULIAR TO MORNING PRAYER.

I. GRACE and peace, which are the subjects of these two prayers, are blessings so useful that we must always ask them whensoever we pray. The Eastern church prayed thrice for peace in one day's service; and we may well ask it twice, and grace as often; especially having such ancient and devout forms to ask them in, whose method and order we will next unfold.

§. II. In this Collect are five parts:

The Analysis of the Morning Collect for Peace.
I. The person, to whom 1. His nature :. . . . . . O God, who art
we make this re-
quest,

II. The reasons, why
we make it,

III. The request it-
self, specifying,

IV. The ends for which
we make it,

f the author of peace and
lover of concord,

2. His attributes:.... {

1. Our happiness in
knowing him:

2. Our privilege in
serving him :.
1. The thing desired:
2. The persons for

whom . . . . . . . . . .
3. The time, when :
1. The securing our
faith:

2. The removing our
fears:

V. The means, by which we hope to prevail :

in knowledge of whom
standeth our eternal
life,

f whose service is perfect
freedom;
defend

{

us thy humble ser

vants

in all assaults of our
enemies;

that we, surely trust-
ing in thy defence,
may not fear the power
of any adversaries,
through the might of

Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.

A Practical Discourse on the Morning Collect for Peace.

§. III. O GOD, WHO ART THE AUTHOR OF PEACE AND LOVER OF CONCORD] Peace hath always been reputed the chiefest of earthly blessings; both because of its own excellencies, and because it is the parent and nurse of all other comforts. So that in the sacred dialectb peace is used to signify all good things, plenty and

a Chrysost. Homil. 3. in 3. ad Coloss.

b Numb. vi. 26. Et in salutationibus, Pax est? Gen. xxix. 6.

Comprehendit xaípew, vyraivew,
kaì evπpártei. Drusius. Si non
pax, nihil. Adag. Hebr. apud
Fagium.

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prosperity, health and joy, with the undisturbed fruition of all these. It is indeed the felicity of earth, where all is nothing without it, and the type of heaven, where all is comprehended in it; wherefore the Christians, according to God's command, did ever follow it in their lives, and beg it in their prayers; both for the heathens under whom they lived, and for the church of God. In obedience to the divine command, and in imitation of such examples, we also make it a part of our daily office to pray for peace. And sure none can approach the throne of grace, to ask this blessing, with greater encouragements than we have. For (as the church intimates) our God is the Author of peace, and owns the peacemakers for his children. And instead of that dreadful title, the Lord of hosts, is in the New Testament ever styled the God of peace; because he loves it, and procures it, and commands us to make it and seek it with all men. So that this petition can never be rejected, which is no more than, Lord, give us that which is agreeable to thy nature, pleasant in thy sight, and which we by thy command continually do follow after. And as he delights to preserve his servants in peace from all enemies without, so also to behold them live in unity and concord within among themselves. Hence he also commends and commands this, and did so firmly bind the souls of the first believers in the bands of amity and concord, that all the powers of darkness could not dissolve those holy combinations. Wherefore set these attributes of God be

c Heb. xii. 14. Jerem. xxix. 7. Psal. cxxii. 6.-Orbem quietum. Tertull. Apolog. Pro arcendis hostibus-et vel auferendis vel temperandis adversis, ut et pro gentium pace et salute. Cypr. Ep. ad Demetr.

d Isai. xlv. 7. Matt. v. 9. e Rom. xv. 33. et xvi. 20. Phil. iv. 9.

f Psal. xlvi. 9.

g Psal. lxxviii. 6. et cxxxiii. 1, 2. Rom. xv. 5, 6. Acts ii. 44.

fore you when you are to beg for peace, and let them encourage you to ask cheerfully, and teach you (as you desire to please him) to endeavour after peace and concord in your lives, that your actions may not contradict your prayers, wherein you own yourselves sons of the God of peace.

§. IV. IN KNOWLEDGE OF WHOM STANDETH OUR ETERNAL LIFE, WHOSE SERVICE IS PERFECT FREEDOM] It will further encourage our request, if we here make humble acknowledgments of, and pleasing reflections upon our happiness in having relation to such a God, the perfect knowledge of whom (John xvii. 3.) is the felicity of the saints of heaven, and his worship and service the safety of his holy ones on earth. It is the most ravishing of all the delights of eternity, for blessed spirits to take a full prospect of the immense treasures of the unexpressible love of the God of peace; and to behold how he rejoices over the endearing concord and inseparable amities of his chosen ones in his everlasting peace. And that little discovery which he hath made to us in this imperfect state, of his power and providence, his care and love, his delight in our concord, and procuring our peace, even this is a great help to bring us to those endless joys. For when we behold the miseries of the world, the rage of wicked men, and the malice of Satan, we might despair to escape them, and comply with them in evil for our present safety, and so lose our eternal happiness. But only that we know him who is able to secure us, and delights in our peace; and therefore we fly to him, call upon him, and encourage ourselves in him in the greatest appearance of danger; and thereby are kept through faith unto salvation, and brought at last to that eternal life, which we should scarce dare to hope for, but by our knowledge and experience of his power and mercy. This is the reason why we now