To love my family and dependents, by taking due care of them,

and making provision for them;

To overcome evil with good;

To keep every appetite

in sanctification and honour;

To have my conversation,

without covetousness,

And be content with such things as I possess.
To put away lying, bitterness,
evil-speaking, and all malice;

and to speak the truth in love.

Not to indulge in sloth,

Not to walk with lasciviousness,
Not to be captivated by desires
inordinate and violent,

of what sort soever they may be.

RULES OF CAUTION; CALLED THE HEDGE OF THE LAW.

TO break the Serpent's head,

By guarding against his temptations;

Constantly to remember our latter end;
To live soberly, and watch always;

To cut off opportunities, from the enemy,
who seeks opportunities;

Never to allow ourselves in idleness;
Not to converse with vain

or disorderly persons;

To frequent, and love, the company

of the good;

To make a covenant with our eyes;
To bring our body into subjection;
To give ourselves much unto prayer;
To retire from the world, by the exercise of
penitence, abstinence, and mortification.
With these thorns, Lord, let me be
hedg'd around,

That I wander not after vanity.

Hold me in with bit and bridle,

When I would break away from thee.
O thou, who hast invited me,

Compel me to come in to my own happiness.

That all things were created by thy Almighty Power and Love; That all have been renewed and restored by the goodness and mercy

exhibited in the person of thy WORD, the Lord JESUS CHRIST;

Who for us men, and for our salvation, was conceived, made flesh, and born, did suffer, and was crucified, descended into hell,

and rose from the dead,

Ascended into heaven,

And sitteth on the right hand of God;
From whence he shall come again,
And judge the quick and the dead.
I also believe, that, by the illumination
and powerful operation

of the Holy Spirit,

A people has been called,

From all quarters of the world,

to be knit into one society,
united, and distinguished,

by belief of the truth, and holiness of life: That, as members of this body,

We partake of the communion of saints,
And forgiveness of sins,

in this world;

And, by virtue of the same membership,
do assuredly expect

the resurrection of the body,

and life everlasting, in the world to come.

THIS pure and holy faith,

Once delivered to the saints,
Lord, I believe :

Help thou mine unbelief.

Strengthen in me that which is weak,
And add that which is wanting.

Jude 3.

Mark ix. 2. 4.

This faith let me have grace

always to exercise and improve;
By loving thee, O Father,
In return for thy tender affection;
By fearing thee, O Almighty,
From an awful sense of thy power;
By committing my soul, in well doing,

to thee, O most faithful Creator.
Let me seek and attain salvation
in thee, O JESUS, my Saviour:
From thee, O CHRIST, the Anointed,
Let me have the unction of thy chosen ;
From thee, the only begotten,

The adoption and inheritance

of the sons of God.

Let me worship and serve thee, O Lord,
On account of thy Conception,

On account of thy Birth,

in faith;

in humility;

in patience;

On account of thy Sufferings,

And an irreconcileable hatred of sin :

On account of thy Cross,

By crucifying carnal affections;

On account of thy Death,

By dying unto the world;

On account of thy Burial,

By burying evil thoughts and suggestions

under the influence of those that are good, and by frequent meditations on death and

the grave:

On account of thy Resurrection,

By walking in newness of life;

On account of thy Ascent into heaven,

By setting my affections on things above;
On account of thy place

at the right hand of the Father,

By preferring the happiness of heaven
in all my thoughts and desires;
On account of thy return from thence,

By a constant godly fear

of that second advent;

And on account of thy judging the world,

1 Peter iv. 19.

Gal. v. 24.

Rom.vi. 4.

Col. iii. 2.

Ps. lxv. 5.

By so judging myself,

That I may not be condemned.
Let my belief in thee, O Holy Spirit,

be such as may qualify me to partake
of all thy necessary and saving inspirations:
Let my faith in the Church entitle me
to a part in its calling and election,
To sanctification in its holiness,
To membership in its universality,
To fellowship with the saints, by sharing
In their prayers and sacraments,

In their watchings and fastings,
In their holy sighs and tears,
And, if thy providence shall call me to them,
In their afflictions and sufferings;

By all these establishing me

in a firm assurance

of the forgiveness of sins,

Of the resurrection from death,

And of translation to immortal glory.

THOU, who art the hope

of all the ends of the earth,

And of them that remain

in the broad sea:

xxii. 4. 5.0 thou, in whom our fathers trusted,

9.

10.

And thou didst deliver them;
In whom they placed their hopes,

and were not confounded:

O thou, who wast also my hope

when at my mother's breasts, And by whose providence I have been sustained ever since I was born:

Be thou still, and evermore,

cxlii. 6. My hope and portion in the land of the living.
Confirm my mind more and more,
By the goodness of thy nature,
By the endearments of thy titles,
By thy types and thy figures,

Ps. cxix.

116.

By thy word and by thy workst;
And having thus attain'd

to a peaceful resting and reliance upon thee,
Lord, let me not at last

be disappointed of my hope.

*Note A. + Note B.

AN ACT OF INTERCESSION.

LORD, on whom the eyes of all do wait, Ps. cxiv.
Remember every creature for good,

And visit the whole world with thy mercy.
O, thou preserver and lover of men,
Think graciously upon mankind,

And, as all are under sin and unbelief,

15.

Rom. xi.

So let thy pity and pardon extend to all. 32.
O thou, who, for this end,

Didst die, and arise from the dead.

That thou mightest be the Lord

Both of the dead and living;
Since, whether we live or die,

Still we are thine, O Lord;
Let thy mercy be ever upon us,
Both in life and in death.
O, thou helper of the helpless,
Our seasonable refuge in trouble,
Remember all that lie under extremity,
And call upon thee for succour, or protection.
O thou, who art the God

of grace and truth,

Establish and strengthen in thy truth

Them that stand;

Restore the weak, and raise up them that fall

Through heresy or sin.

Thou, who art the wholesome defence

And strength of thine anointed,

Think upon the congregation

Which thou hast purchased
and redeemed of old;

Be of one heart, and of one soul.

And let all that believe

Thou, Lord, who walkest

In the midst of the golden candlesticks,

xiv. 8. 9.

Ps.xxviii.

9.

lxxiv. 2.

Acts iv.

32.

Rev. ii. 1.

Remove not, we pray thee, our candlestick ;...5.

But set in order the things

Which are wanting among us.

Send forth, we pray thee,

O Lord of the harvest,

Labourers in all points fitted,

by thy grace,

to do the work of that harvest.

iii. 2.

Luke x. 2.