Thee to accept of this my daily sacrifice of thanksgiving.

Pardon, O God, all my former ingratitude; and that I have passed so many days without observing, without admiring, without acknowledging and confessing, Thy wonderful goodness to the most unworthy of Thy servants.

For (now I soberly consider my dependence upon Thee) as there is no hour of my life that I do not enjoy Thy favours, and taste of Thy goodness, so (if my frailty would permit) I would spend no part of my life without remembering Thee.

Praise the Lord, then, O my soul, and all that is within me praise His holy name.

Glory be to Thee, O Lord, my Creator. Glory be to Thee, O Jesus my Redeemer. Glory be to the Holy Ghost, my Sanctifier, my Guide and Comforter.

All love, all glory, be to the high and undivided Trinity, Whose works are inseparable, and Whose dominion endureth world without end. Amen.

When I seriously consider, great God, my dependence upon Thy providence, and that the favours and mercies I have received are infinitely more in number than the acknowledgments I have made, I am justly ashamed of my ingratitude, and afraid lest my unthankfulness should provoke Thee to hinder the current of Thy blessings from descending upon me.

Forgive me, O merciful Father, my past negligences, and give me grace for the time to come to observe and to value Thy kindness, as becomes one who has received so much more than he deserves.

Preserve in my soul, O God, such a constant and clear sense of my obligations to Thee, that upon the receipt of every favour, I may immediately turn my eyes to Him from whom cometh my salvation. That Thy manifold blessings may fix such lasting impressions upon my soul, that I may always praise Thee faithfully here on earth, until it shall please Thee, of Thy unbounded mercy, to call me nearer the place of Thy heavenly habitation, to praise my Lord and Deliverer to all eternity. Amen.

PROVIDENCE.

God has more ways of providing for us, of helping us, than we can possibly imagine; it is infidelity to desire to confine Him to our ways and methods.

"Lord, save us, we perish."-Matthew viii. 25. Nothing can better express our own inability, and our whole dependence upon God. Two sure conditions of obtaining help.

Since Thy mercy, O God, is ever ready to help all that call upon Thee in time of distress, let Thy goodness answer my wants.

Keep me under the protection of Thy good providence, and make me to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy Name, through Jesus Christ.*

The more destitute we are of human aid, the more ought we to trust to that providence which God is pleased to exert in extreme necessity.

*Second Sunday after Trinity.

O God, give me grace never to condemn Thy providence; let me adore the wisdom of Thy conduct, the holiness of Thy ways, and the power of Thy grace.

How many sins should we commit, if God did not vouchsafe to oppose our corrupt will! Blessed be His holy Name, for not leaving me to my own choices.

"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."-Psalmı xc. 12.

BIRTH-DAY.

Blessed be God for my creation and birth; for giving me a being from honest parents, fearing God, and in a Christian and Protestant country; for giving me perfect members and senses, a sound reason, and an healthful constitution; for the means of grace, the assistances of the Holy Spirit, and for the hopes of glory; for my good education; for all the known or unobserved favours, providences, and deliverances, by which my life has hitherto been preserved; most humbly beseeching Thee, my God and Father, to pardon my neglect or abuse of any of Thy favours, and that I have so very much forgotten Thee, in whom I live, and move, and have my being.

Good Lord, forgive me the great waste of my precious time; the many days and years of health, and the many opportunities of doing good, which I have lost; and give me grace, that for the time to

come I may be truly wise, that I may consider my latter end, and work out my salvation with fear and trembling, ever remembering "that the night cometh when no man can work ;" and that the day of my death may be better to me than the day of my birth.

O gracious God, grant that before Thou takest from me that breath which Thou gavest me, I may truly repent of the errors of my life past; that my sins may be forgiven, and my pardon sealed in Heaven; so that I may have a place of rest in paradise with Thy faithful servants, till the general resurrection; when the good Lord vouchsafe me a better and an everlasting life, through Jesus Christ. Amen.

NEW-YEAR'S DAY.

Blessed be God, who has brought me safe to the beginning of another year.

Blessed be God, that I am of the number of those who have time and space for repentance yet given them.

My God, make me truly sensible of this mercy, and give me grace to consider often how short and how uncertain my time is that there is one year more of a short life passed over my head; and that I am so much nearer eternity; that I may in good earnest think of another life, and be so prepared for it, as that death may not overtake me unawares.

Lord, pardon all my misspent time, and make me

more diligent and careful to redeem it for the time to come, that when I come to the end of my days, I may look back with comfort on the days that are past.

Grant that I may begin this new year with new resolutions of serving Thee more faithfully; and if, through infirmity or negligence, I forget these good purposes, the good Lord awaken in me a sense of my danger.

My heart is in Thy hands, O God, as well as my time; O make me wise unto salvation; that I may consider in this my day the things that belong unto my peace and that I may pass this, and all the years I have yet to live, in a comfortable hope of a blessed eternity, for the Lord Jesus' sake. Amen.

LORD'S DAY.

"When will the Sabbath be gone, that we may sell wheat?"-Amos viii. 5.

Deliver us, gracious God, from this sin of covetousness, from being weary of Thy Sabbaths, which are ordained to preserve in our hearts the knowledge of Thee, and of Thy Son Jesus Christ.

O that we may desire, and rejoice in the return of this day, and serve Thee faithfully on it; and that we may enjoy an everlasting Sabbath with Thy saints, for Jesus Christ His sake. Amen.

O that I may be glad when they say unto me, Come, let us go to the house of God!