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nocent from all great and allowed transgressions. Give me, O God, such views of thy greatness and goodness and especially of thy love and mercy to a lost world, through thy Son Jesus Christ, as may fill my soul with reverence and admiration; with love and gratitude, with hope and confidence ; as may draw out my strongest desires after Thee, and engage me to repose and delight myself in Thee. Help me to yield an unreserved obedience to all thy commands, and an humble submission to all the diposals of thy provi dence. Let me always live and act under a sense of thy presence, and be careful to keep up such a daily intercourse and communion with Thee as may tend to cherish every pions disposition and affection, to fit me for nearer approaches to Thee, and an uninterrupted enjoyment of Thee in the world to come. Teach me, O thou Father of Spirits, seriously to consider the nature of my own soul, and to set a suitable value upon it. Conscious of the dig. nity and importance of this immortal principle, let me labour and resolve to secure its happiness, whatever present gratifications are to be resigned, or whatever temporal sufferings are to be endured to that end. Help me so to cultivate and improve my understanding, and so to govern my affections, pas

sions, and appetites, as shall not only prevent me from injuring myself or others, but best answer the great ends of my creation, and promote my noblest satisfaction and enjoyment. May I be clothed with humility and decked with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in thy sight of great price. May I be temperate in all things, pure in heart and chaste in conversation; maintaining a fixed abhorrence of all prohibited sensual indulgences. May I learn, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content; and let patience have her perfect work, that I may be complete and entire wanting nothing.

Give me, likewise, I beseech Thee, O Thou lover of righteousness, peace and truth, a proper temper towards my fellow creatures. Make me careful to render unto all their dues, and to provide things honest in the sight of all men. May I take pleasure in doing every good office in my power to all around me, and especially to those with whom I am most nearly connected by the ties of natural relation, affinity or friendship. And grant that in my general conduct, I may act under the influence of that wisdom which is from above; which is first pure, and then peaceable, gentle and easy to be en

rated, full of mercy and of good fruits,

without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Extend thy merciful regard to the whole world of mankind. Send the light of thy glorious gospel to the most distant parts of the earth; and make it every where effectual to enlighten the ignorant, to reclaim the vicious, and to promote the knowledge of divine truth, and the practice of universal holiness amongst men. Dwell in this land of my nativity; be Thou the watchful guardian of our rights and liberties; reform us from the highest to the lowest, and delight over us still to do us good. Relieve and comfort all that are in distress. Succeed the labours of the honest and industrious; cause the earth to bring forth her increase in due season, and satisfy our poor with bread.

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Accept, good Lord, of my grateful acknowledgment for all the blessings, spiritual and temporal, personal and relative, with which thou hast favoured me thus far in life, and particularly for the mercies of the day past. I would take encouragement from hence cheerfully to confide in the continuance of thy care and kindness. Into thy hands I commit the keeping of myself, and of all that are most dear to me this night. Protect us, if it be thy will, from every evil and danger, grant us quiet and

comfortable repose, raise us up again in health and safety the ensuing day, and preserve us to thy heavenly kingdom through the mediation of thy Son, Jesus Christ.-Amen.

Devotions for Friday Morning.

HYMN 20. S. M.-America.

1 SEE how the rising sun Pursues his shining way;

And wide proclaims his Maker's praise,

With ev'ry bright’ning ray.

2 Thus would my rising soul
Its heav'nly parent sing;
And to its great original
The humble tribute bring.
Serene I laid me down

Beneath his guardian care;
I slept, and I awoke and found
My kind Preserver near !

4 Thus does thine arm support
This weak defenceless frame ;
But whence these favours, Lord to me,
So worthless as I am?

50! how shall I repay

The bounties of my God?

This feeble spirit pants beneath

The pleasing painful load.

6 Dear Saviour to thy cross

I bring my sacrifice ;

Ting'd with thy blood, it shall ascend With fragrance to the skies.

7 My life I would anew

Devote O Lord, to thee;

And in thy presence I would spend
A long eternity.

Most glorious God! Thon art light, and in Thee is no darkness at all. The perfections of thy nature are bright, beautiful and majestic, far beyond all our ideas and conceptions. Thou art possessed of irresistible power and unerring wisdom; of unblemished purity, the most serene benignity, and consummate bliss. Thou dwellest in light inaccessible, and art the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning, and from whom all thy creatures derive whatever excellencies or advantages they possess. For Thou, O Lord, art the great source and original of all our natural powers and capacities; of all our moral attainments and improvements; of all the good we do, and of all the blessings we either enjoy or hope for.

I praise Thee, for the discoveries Thou hast made of thy transcendent glories, in the works of thine hands,

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