us grace, O God, that we may continue in thy fear all the day long; that we may live and act as having thee the constant witness of all our thoughts, words, and actions; and that it may be the purpose of our souls never to offend thee wilfully. Show us the way that we should walk in, and give us grace to follow the conduct of thy good spirit, that we may do our duty in that state of life in which thy providence has placed us. Preserve us from an idle and useless life. Let us ever remember that the night of death cometh when no man can work, and that now is the time to provide for eternity. Grant, gracious God, that no worldly pleasures, no worldly business, may ever make us lose sight of death, and forget the serious duties of religion. Fill our hearts with a dread of the punishment prepared for impenitent sinners, and also with a sense of those blessings which will be the sure reward of those who love thee and obey thy laws. Give us a tender compassion for the wants and miseries of our fellow creatures. Have pity upon all those unhappy people who still sit in darkness, and want the necessary means of instruction. Send them pastors after thine own heart, full of knowledge, compassion and zeal, who, pitying their sad condition, may instruct them in the ways of truth and eternal life. Bless all those societies which are formed for the extension of the Redeemer's king

dom upon earth. Increase the number and the graces of those who are zealous for thy glory and the conversion of sinners; may all our friends and relations be among the number of those in whom thou delightest. May our children be thy children, and our servants thine own faithful ones; so that when we shall all appear before thee to receive our final sentence, we may be received together into everlasting habitations. All which we ask in his name who has taught us, when we pray, to say: Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

PRAYER XI.

BISHOP WILSON.-. -Evening.

O Lord, the creator of the world, we do here in all humility present ourselves before thee, to pay our evening homage, beseeching thee to accept our souls and bodies as living sacrifices to thee, who hast redeemed both. But most unfit are they, to be to thee presented, until we have obtained thy grace, and pardon for the many sins by which they

have been defiled. Our whole nature is corrupt, exceeding prone to evil, and averse to good; our understanding is full of ignorance and errors, our will perverse, our passions easy to be excited, and our senses have been the inlets to all impurity. All the faculties of our souls and bodies have been abused. Lord, pity and cleanse, forgive and accept us, for thy mercy's sake, through Jesus Christ. O Lord, we beg that faith in Jesus Christ which can enable us to do all things; that we may be able to discover, to avoid, to resist, and root out whatever is evil in us. O most powerful advocate, we put our cause into thy hands; let thy blood and merits plead for us, and by thy mighty intercession obtain for us a discharge from all our sins. It was not in ourselves, O Lord, to begin the work of conversion; finish, we pray thee, what thou hast begun in us. May we close with thy grace, and persevere unto our life's end. Lord, the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall; in all our temptations, therefore, we beseech thee to succor us, that sin may never have the dominion over us. Vouchsafe us, gracious God, the graces of mortification and selfdenial, that our affections and flesh being subdued unto the spirit, and our hearts and members being mortified from all worldly lusts, we may always obey thy blessed will, through Jesus Christ. Give us, O Lord, hearts full of meekness and charity,

that we may willingly forget the evil we have received, and be always disposed to do good to others. We pray for those who never pray for themselves; that thou wouldst give unto them a true sense of their unhappy state, and grace and strength to break their bonds. May all who sincerely seek the truth be led into it by thy Holy Spirit; and to all such as are destitute of necessary instruction, vouchsafe a greater share of thy grace. Bless the pious endeavors of all those who strive to propagate the gospel of Christ, and may its divine truths be received throughout all the world. And now, O God, we ascribe it, with all grateful acknowledgments, to thy goodness, that we have this day been preserved from all evil and sad calamities, to which for our own sins we are justly liable, and that thou hast so bountifully supplied all our wants. Add this to the rest of thy favors, that we may never forget, but always delight to praise thy holy name for all the blessings we every day receive at thy hands. O God, possess our souls with such a deep sense of the many obligations we owe to thee, and especially of that great love which moved thee to give thy Son Jesus Christ to die for us, that religion may be the business of our life, our greatest pleasure to serve thee, and our highest delight to attain everlasting happiness. Thou needest not, O God, our servicebut; we beseech thee to accept of

our humble desire through Jesus Christ. Into thy hands we commend, this night, both our souls and bodies, which have by thee been preserved in safety all this day. And grant, O Lord and Judge of all mankind, that we may so pass all the days and nights of our lives in thy fear and to thy glory, that when the great day shall come, and no night follow, we may, by the merits of Christ, receive that crown of glory which thou hast promised to them that love thee. All which we humbly ask in the name of our blessed Saviour; in whose most perfect words we pray to be heard for ourselves and all mankind.—Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for Amen.

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PRAYER XII.

BISHOP WILSON.-Morning.

O most holy, blessed, and glorious Majesty of heaven and earth. Before thee, the author of our being, we humbly prostrate ourselves this morning. May thy good spirit assist us in our duty; may it fix our attention, excite our affections, and inflame