reigneft ever one GOD, world without end. Amen.

Vifit, I befeech Thee, O LORD, this habitation with Thy mercy, and us Thy fervants with falvation. Repel far from us all snares and dangers of the enemy. Grant us to live in Thy fear, and to die in Thy favour. Prepare our fouls with heavenly virtues for heavenly joys, making us righteous here that we may be glorified hereafter. Let Thy holy Angels dwell among us to keep us in peace and fafety; and Thy bleffing be upon us for ever, through JESUS CHRIST, our LORD. Amen.

Now, and in all dangers and afflictions of foul and body, in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, fave and deliver us, O fweet SAVIOUR and Redeemer, JESU. Amen. Amen.

DEVOTIONS FOR MONDAY.

O LORD, look down from heaven, behold, vifit, and relieve Thine afflicted fervant. Look upon me with the eyes of Thy mercy, give me comfort and fure confidence in Thee, defend me from the danger of the enemy, and keep me in perpetual peace and fafety, through JESUS CHRIST, our LORD. Amen.

Pfalm xxx. Dixi, cuftodiam.

I faid, I will take heed to my ways: that I offend not in my tongue.

I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my fight.

I held my tongue, and fpake nothing: I kept filence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me.

My heart was hot within me, and while

I was thus mufing the fire kindled: and at the last I fpake with my tongue;

LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

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Behold, Thou haft made my days as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of Thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.

For man walketh in a vain fhadow, and difquieteth himself in vain; he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who fhall gather them.

And now, LORD, what is my hope : truly my hope is even in Thee.

Deliver me from all mine offences: and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish.

I became dumb, and opened not my mouth for it was Thy doing.

Take Thy plague away from me: I am even confumed by the means of Thy heavy hand.

When Thou with rebukes doft chaften man for fin, Thou makeft his beauty to confume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but

vanity.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and with

Thine ears confider my calling: hold not Thy peace at my tears.

For I am a ftranger with Thee and a fojourner, as all my fathers were.

O fpare me a little, that I may recover my ftrength: before I go hence, and be no more seen.

Glory be to the FATHER, and to the SON and to the HOLY GHOST;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

The First Leffon. Genefis iii. 1-20.

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Now the ferpent was more fubtil than any beaft of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he faid unto the woman, Yea, hath GOD faid, Ye every tree of the garden? faid unto the ferpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midft of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither fhall ye touch it, left ye die. And the ferpent faid unto the woman, Ye fhall not surely die for Gon doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your

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eyes fhall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they fewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD GOD walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themfelves from the prefence of the LORD GOD amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD GOD called unto Adam, and faid unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myfelf. And He faid, Who told thee that thou waft naked? Haft thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man faid, The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, fhe gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD GOD faid unto the woman, What is this that thou haft done? And

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