to assist and relieve them according to the abilities thou givest me, as a faithful steward of those good things thou hast entrusted me with for their use.

"O grant me a thankful heart for all thy mercies; for thy infinite goodness in making me thy own handywork, and giving me a being capable to love thee! For all thy fatherly tenderness to me, care of me, and gracious dealings with me in my whole life. For thy wonderful patience and forbearance in not cutting me off in my sins, but exercising me with thy adorable gracious providences, to awaken and bring off my soul from sin and folly; for delivering me out of all my dangers, and from all my fears and terrors. For making me thy care hitherto, and giving me the comfortable hopes that thou dost and wilt continue me so for calling me to rejoice before thee, for making me to sit as an acceptable guest at thy table, treating me as a reconciled friend, giving me the sacrifice of thy dear Son, whom my sins had slain, in token of thy perfect reconcilement to me, and passing by all my unworthiness. For loving us, and that so, as to give him, the Son of love, out of thy bosom for our redemption. For finding thyself a ransom for us, which we could not have thought of, which we dared not to have asked. For that thy inconceivable love, O most gracious Lord Jesu, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, who takest away the sins of the world, which thou hast borne, and dost bear to us; which brought thee from thy Father's glory to visit us, to take upon thee our nature, to become miserable with us, and to humble thyself to the lowest condition of men: for all the good which thou hast done, and the evil which

thou hast suffered for us in thy body and in thy soul. For all that bitter pain, and shame, and sorrow of thy soul unto death: for the agony and bloody sweat, and terrors and dereliction of thy Father, which thou hast endured for and from my sins, in making atonement for them to thy Father's wrath, which they had provoked. (O that I may add no more to this sad weight, but may be faithful to thy love for ever.) For those tender expressions of thy love vouchsafed to thy servants and followers, to shew us how much thou lovest mankind, and to provoke our hearts to love thee, the tenderest of lovers. For those comforting and encouraging words to them, while thy soul so much needed to be comforted. For those kind invitations to us to pray unto thee, and in thy name; for praying for us upon earth, interceding for us continually in heaven. For promising to visit us, and to comfort us with thy Spirit, and fulfilling thy word so graciously to thy servants. For promising to prepare places for us, and to take us to thyself: O fit us for thyself, and let our souls long to be with thee.

"For granting me to be born in thy Church, and of religious parents; for washing me in thy baptism, making me a lively member of thy body, and instructing me in thy doctrine of truth and holiness. For permitting me to love thee; for bringing me to thy table, and making me rejoice before thee: for pardoning my sins, and saying that thou art the propitiation for them, and presenting me to thy Father reconciled in thyself. For feeding my soul with thy precious body and blood, giving me those pledges of thy love, and assured conveyances of grace, and strength, and

comfort, and immortal happiness with thyself. For saying to my soul so graciously, that thou wouldest not have given me these good things if thou wert not reconciled to me, that thou art my Saviour, and wilt be my Saviour for ever, and that this thy precious blood shall save me from the terrors of the great day. O pardon my unworthiness of these thy inestimable favours, and pardon my sins against thy love.

"Sanctify the friendship which thou hast granted me with [these] thy servants; O that our prayers may be heard for each other, while our hearts are united in thy fear and love, and graciously unite them more and more so. Strengthen the hearts of us thy servants against all our corruptions and temptations, enable us to consecrate ourselves faithfully and entirely to thy service, grant that we may provoke each other to love and serve thee, and grow up together before thee in thy fear and love, to thy heavenly kingdom; and by thy infinite mercies vouchsafe to bring us to rejoice together before thee for ever.

"Out of thy fulness, O most gracious Lord Jesus, let me receive grace for grace, humility, meekness, purity, holiness, resoluteness and constancy in devotion, attentiveness and recollection of mind in coming before thee; patience in waiting upon thee, weanedness from the world; resigation to thy holy will, and contentedness in all conditions; sincerity and uprightness of heart before thee, my God, and towards thee, my God, and towards all men, and universal charity. I adore thy condescending love, O Lord God our sanctifier, in giving thyself to thy creatures, and vouchsafing to be with thy Church and servants always;

to assist, sanctify, strengthen and comfort us; to carry on and perfect the work of redemption in each of our hearts; to seal us to thy heavenly kingdom, to unite us to thyself, and to each other, by vouchsafing to be the Lord and principal of all our life: for thy gracious motions and holy inspirations to me a wretch; O pardon my rebellings against thee, my grievings of thee; be not provoked to leave my poor soul; graciously assist me, and make me meekly attentive and readily obedient to all thy secret motions, that thou mayest conform me in all things to thy holy will.

(*) At night say, "the day

past, and

bringing me in peace to the end of it now before thee."

"O my God, I praise thee for thy continual preservation of me; for thy fatherly protection over me, [(*) the night past, for refreshing me with comfortable sleep, and bringing me in peace to the light of this day,] and for all the outward comforts which thou surroundest me with, for the measure of health and strength which thou givest me, and for leave now humbly to pray unto thee: O accept of my poor services, pardon the sinfulness of these, and of all my holy duties: receive me into thy gracious protection and keeping [(*) this. day.] Let me be in thy fear all the day long, and set thee before my face continually: O bless me and all my dear friends [(*) this day especially] with the blessings of thy children. Amen."

Our Father, &c.

(*) This night.

(*) This night especially.

Undressing, say the fourth Psalm.

Kneeling down before stepping into bed.

"Good Lord, pardon my sins against thy love: let me lie down this night reconciled to thee my God, and in peace and charity with all the world."

At lying down.

"Lord, pardon my unworthiness of the least of all thy mercies, particularly of these comfortable conveniences which thy fatherly tenderness doth provide for

my repose; sanctify them to me, O gracious Lord, and comfort all that want them; all that are now in pain, sickness, trouble, sorrow, and all that labour in the agony of death. Grant that I may lie down with thee, and rise up with thee, and when I awake up, whether in life or in eternity, O let me be present with thee. Fill my heart with thy fear and love, and vouchsafe to be the first and last in all my thoughts; that whether sleeping or waking, living or dying, I may be thine. O thou Shepherd of Israel, who never slumberest nor sleepest, vouchsafe to watch over me, and keep me this night, and preserve me from sin and danger, and all illusions of the enemy, for thy infinite mercies. Amen."

Waking in the night.

"I adore thy condescending Majesty, O my God, who vouchsafest thyself to be the pilot of the ship,