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save your souls. Be ye doers of The Gospel. St. Matt. v. 43. the word; and not hearers on- E have heard that it hath ly, deceiving your own selves. been said, Thou shalt love For if any be a hearer of the thy neighbour and hate thine word and not a doer, he is like enemy. But I say unto you, unto a man beholding his natu-love your enemies, bless them ral face in a glass; for he be-that curse you, do good to holdeth himself,and goeth his them that hate you, and pray way, and straightway forget-for themwhich despitefullyuse teth what manner of man helyou and persecute you: that was. But whoso looketh into ye may be the children of your the perfect law of liberty, and Father which is in heaven; for continueth therein, he being he maketh his sun to rise on not a forgetful hearer, but athe evil and on the good, and doer of the work, this man sendeth rain on the just and shall be blessed in his deed. If on the unjust. For if ye love any man among you seem to them which love you, what rebe religious, and bridleth not ward have ye? do not even the his tongue, but deceiveth his Publicans the same? Orif ye own heart, this man's religion salute your brethren only, what is vain. Pure religion and un-do ye more than others? do defiled before God and the Fa-not even the Publicans so? Be ther is this: to visit the father-ye therefore perfect, even as less and widows in their afflic-your Father which is in hea tion, and to keep himself un-ven is perfect. spotted from the world.

FORMS OF PRAYER

TO BE USED IN FAMILIES.

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MORNING PRAYER.

The Master or Mistress having called together as many of the Family as can conveniently be present; let one of them, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling:

UR Father, who art in Heaven; Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into Temptation; But deliver us from Evil; For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

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ment of God's ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, in

servation, especially through

the night past.

whom we live and move and have our

mercy and pre- being; we, thy needy creatures, render thee our humble praises, for thy preservation of us from the beginning of our lives to this day, and especially for having delivered us from the danWhen distur-gers of the past night. To thy watchful probances of any vidence we owe it, *(that no disturbance hath come nigh us or our dwelling; but, that we are brought in safety to the beginning of this day.) For these thy mercies, we bless and magnify thy glorious Name; humbly beseeching thee to accept this our morning sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; for his sake who lay down in the grave, and rose again for us, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

Find befall a Family, instead of this, say, that not. withstanding our dangers, we are bro't

in safety to the beginning of this day. Dedication of soul and body to God's ser

grace to enable

ND, since it is of thy mercy, O gracious

Father, that another day is added to our lives; we here dedicate both our souls and our vice, with are. solution to be bodies to thee and thy service, in a sober, righgrowing daily teous, and godly life: In which resolution, do in goodness. thou, O merciful God, confirm and strengthen us; that, as we grow in age, we may grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer forbie BUT, O God, who knowest the weakness and corruption of our nature, and the manifold us to perform temptations whichwe daily meet with; we hum that resolution. bly beseech thee to have compassion on our infirmities, and to give us the constant assistance of thy Holy Spirit; that we may be effectually restrained from sin, and excited to our duty. Imprint upon our hearts such a dread of thy judgments, and such a grateful sense of thy goodness to us, as may make us both afraid and ashamed to offend thee. And, above all, keep in our minds a lively remembrance of that great Day, in which we must give a strict account of our thoughts, words, and actions; and according to the works done in the body, be eternally rewarded or punished, by him whom thou hast appointed the Judge of quick and dead, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For grace to N guide and keep particular, we implore thy grace and pro

us the following

tection for the ensuing day. Keep us temday, and for perate in our meats and drinks, and diligent in God's blessing our several callings. Grant us patience under on the business any afflictions thou shalt see fit to lay on us, and of the same.

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minds always contented with our present On Sunday Morncondition. Give us grace to be just and ing instead of this upright in all our dealings; quiet and say, and let thy Holy Spirit accompa peaceable; full of compassion; and rea- ny us to the place dy to do good to all men, according to of thy public worour abilities and opportunities. Direct ship, making us seus in all our ways (and prosper the rious and attentive, works of our hands in the business of our and raising minds from the several stations.) Defend us from all dangers and adversities; and be graci- world to the consithoughts of this ously pleased to take us and all things deration of the next, belonging to us under thy Fatherly care that we may ferand protection. These things, and what- vently join in the ever else thou shalt see necessary and prayers and praises convenient to us, we humbly beg, through listen to our duty of thy Church, and the merits and mediation of thy Son Je- with honest hearts, sus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen. in order to practise

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our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.

EVENING PRAYER.

The Family being together, a little before Bed time, let the Master or Mistress, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling;

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UR Father, who art in Heaven; Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Merciful God, who art of purer Confession of eyes than to behold iniquity, and hast sins, with promised forgiveness to all those who confess prayer for contrition and parand forsake their sins; we come before thee don. in an humble sense of our own unworthiness, * Here, let acknowledging our manifold trangressions of him who reads thy righteous laws *. But, O gracious Father, make a short who desirest not the death of a sinner, look pause, that eveupon us, we beseech thee, in mercy, and for- ry one may segive us all our transgressions. Make us deep- the sins and cretly confess ly sensible of the great evil of them; and work failings of that in us an hearty contrition; that we may obtain day.

forgiveness at thy hands, who art ever ready to receive humble and penitent sinners; for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ, our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

ND lest, through our own frailty, or the

grace reform A Nem lesions which encompass us, we be and grow better drawn again into sin, vouchsafe us, we beseech thee, the direction and assistance of thy Holy Spirit. Reform whatever is amiss in the temper and disposi tion of our souls; that no unclean thoughts,unlawful designs, or inordinate desires, may rest there. Purge our hearts from envy, hatred, and malice; that we may never suffer the sun to go down upon our wrath; but may always go to our rest in peace, charity, and good will, with a conscience void of offence towards thee and towards men: That so, we may be preserved pure and blameless, unto the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

The Interces

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ND accept, O Lord, our intercessions for all mankind. Let the light of thy Gospel shine upon all nations; and may as many as have received it, live as becomes it. Be gracious unto thy Church; and grant that every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry, may serve thee faithfully. Bless all in authority over us; and so rule their hearts and strengthen their hands,that they may punish wickedness and vice, and maintain thy true religion and virtue. Send down thy blessings temporal and spiritual, upon all our relations, friends, and neighbours. Reward all who have done us good, and pardon all those who have done or wish us evil, and give them repentance and better minds. Be merciful to all who are in any trouble; and do thou, the God of pity, administer to them according to their several necessities, for his sake who went about doing good, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

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The ThanksO our prayers, O Lord, we join our ungiving. feigned thanks for all thy mercies; for our being, our reason, and all other endowments and faculties of soul and body; for our health, friends, food,and raiment,and all the other comforts and conveniences of life. Above all we adore thy mercy in sending thy only Son into the world to redeem us from sin and eternal death,and in giving us the knowledge and sense of our duty towards thee. We bless thee for thy patience with us, notwithstanding our many and great provocations; for all the directions,assistances,and comforts of thy Holy Spirit; for thy continual care and watchful pro vidence over us through the whole course of our lives; and

particularly for the mercies and benefits of the past day : Beseeching thee to continue these thy blessings to us; and to give us grace to show our thankfulness in a sincere obedience to his laws through whose merits and intercession we received them all, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

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IN particular we beseech thee to continue Prayer for thy gracious protection to us this night. God's protecDefend us from all dangers and mischiefs, and tion through the from the fear of them; that we may enjoy night following. cuch refreshing sleep, as may fit us for the duties of the following day. Make us ever mindful of the time when we hall lie down in the dust; and grant us grace always to ve in such a state, that we may never be afraid to die: So at living and dying we may be thine, through the merits ad satisfaction of thy Son Christ Jesus, in whose Name we fer up these our imperfect prayers. Amen.

HE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with ns all evermore.

Amen.

* On Sundays and on other days, when it may be convenient, it will be proper to begin with a Chapter, or part of a Chapter, from the New Testament.

SELECTIONS OF PSALMS,

To be used instead of the Psalms for the day, at the Discretion of the Minister.

SELECTION I.

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Their sound is gone out into all lands; and their words into the ends of the world.

Psalm xix. Cali enarrant. heavens declare the In them hath he set a taglory of God; and the bernacle for the sun; which firmament showeth his handy cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and reOne day telleth another; joiceth as a giant to run his and one nigh certifieth an-course.

work.

other.

It goeth forth from the utThere is neither speech nor termost part of the heaven, language; but their voices are and runneth about unto the heard among them. end of it again; and there is

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