art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we defire or deferve; pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us thofe things whereof our confcience is afraid, and giving us thofe good things which we are not worthy to afk, but thro' the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift thy Son our Lord. Amen.

14. Almighty and merciful God, of whofe only gift it cometh, that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable fervice; grant, we befeech thee, that we may fo faithfully ferve thee in this life, that we fail not finally to attain thy heaverly promifes, through the merits of Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

15. Almighty and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity; and that we may obtain that which thou doft promife, make us to love that which thou dott command, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

16. Keep, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy church with thy perpetual mercy. And because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our falvation, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

17. O Lord, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanfe and defend thy church; and because it cannot continue in fafery without thy fuccour, preferve it evermore by thy help and goodness, thro' Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

18. Lord, we pray thee, that thy grace may always prevent and follow us; and make us continually to be given to all good works, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

19. Lord, we beseech thee, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pare hearts and minds to follow thee the only God, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

20. O God, forafmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; mercifully grant, that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

21. O Almighty and moft merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we befeech thee, from all things that may hurt as: that we being ready both in body and foul, may cheerfully accomplish thofe things that thou wouldest have done, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

22. Grant, we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people pardon and peace, that they may be cleanfed from all their fins, and ferve thee with a quiet mind, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

23. Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy houthold the church in continual godliness, that through thy protection it may be free from all adverfities, and devoutly given to ferve thee in good works, to the glory of thy name, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

24. O God, our refuge and ftrength, who art the author of all godlinefs; be ready, we beseech thee, to hear the devout prayers of thy church; and grant that those things which we afk faithfully, we may obtain effectually, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

25. O Lord, we beseech thee, abfolve thy people from their offences; that thro' thy bountiful goodnefs we may all be delivered from the bands of thofe fins, which by our frailty we have committed: grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jefus Chrift's fake, our bleffed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

26. Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people, that they plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O Almighty God, who haft inftructed thy holy church with the heavenly doctrine of thy Evangelift Saint Mark; give us grace, that being not like children carried away with every blast of vain doctrine, we may be established in the truth of thy holy gofpel, through Jefus Chriß our Lord. Amen.

14. St. Philip and St. James.

O Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlafting life; grant us perfectly to know thy Son Jefus Chrift to be the way, the truth, and the life; that following the fteps of thy holy Apoftles, Saint Philip and Saint James, we may stedfaftly walk in the way that leadeth to eternal life, through the fame thy Son Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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15. St. Barnabas.

O Lord God Almighty, who didft endue thy holy Apoftle Barnabas with fingular gifts of the Holy Ghoft; leave us not, we befeech thee, deftitute of thy manifold gifts, nor yet of grace to use them alway to thy honour and glory, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

16. St. John Baptift. Almighty God, by whofe providence thy fervant John Baptist was wonderfully born, and fent to prepare the way of thy Son our Saviour, by preaching of repentance; make us fo to follow his doctrine and holy life, that we may truly repent according to his preaching, and after his example conftantly fpeak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently fuffer for the truth's fake, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

17. St. Peter.

O Almighty God, who by thy Son Jefus Chrift didit give to thy Apoftle Saint Peter, many excellent gifts, and commandeft him to feed thy flock; make, we befeech thee, all bishops and paftors diligently to preach thy holy word, and the people obediently to follow the fame, that they may receive the crown of everlasting glory, through Jefus Chrift our Lord.

Amen.

18. St. James.

Amen.

Almighty God, who called ft Luke the phyfician, whofe praife is in the gospel, to be an evangelift and phyfician of the foul; may it pleafe thee, that by the wholfome medicines of the doctrine delivered by him, all the difeafes of our fouls may be healed, through the merits of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

23. St. Simon and St. Jude.

O Almighty God, who haft built thy church upon the foundation of the apoftles and prophets, Jefus Chrift himself being the head corner-flone; grant us fo to be joined together in unity of spirit by their doctrine, that we may be made an holy temple acceptable unto thee, through Je fus Christ our Lord. Amen.

24. All Saints.

O Almighty God, who haft knit toge ther thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the myftical body of thy Son Christ our Lord; grant us grace fo to follow thy bleffed faints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to thofe unfpeakable joys, which thou haft prepared for them that unfeignedly love thee, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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§ 198. A Morning Prayer for a young Student at School, or for the common Ufe of a School.

Father of All! we return thee moft humble and hearty thanks for thy protection of us in the night season, and for the refreshment of our fouls and bodies, in the fweet repofe of fleep. Accept alfo our unfeigned gratitude for all thy mercies during the helplefs age of infancy.

Continue, we beseech thee, to guard us under the fhadow of thy wing. Our age is tender, and our nature frail; and, without the influence of thy grace, we fhall furely fall.

Let that influence defcend into.our hearts, and teach us to love thee and truth above all things. O guard us from temptations to deceit, and grant that we may abhor a lye, both as a fin and as a difgrace.

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our confcience accufes us, and make and keep refolutions of amendment.

Infpire us with an abhorrence of the loathfomeness of vice, and the pollutions of fenfual pleasure. Grant, at the fame time, that we may early feel the delight of confcious purity, and wash our hands in innocency, from the united motives of inclination and of duty.

Give us, O thou Parent of all knowledge, a love of learning, and a tafte for the pure and fublime pleasures of the underftanding. Improve our memory, quicken our apprehenfion, and grant that we may lay up fuch a ftore of learning, as may fit us for the station to which it fhall pleafe thee to call us, and enable us to make great advances in virtue and religion, and fhine as lights in the world, by the influence of a good example.

Give us grace to be diligent in our ftudies, and that whatever we read we may frongly mark, and inwardly digeft it.

Blefs our parents, guardians, and inftructors; and grant that we may make them the beft return in our power, for giving us opportunities of improvement, and for all their care and attention to our welfare. They afk no return, but that we fhould make ufe of thofe opportunities, and co-operate with their endeavours-O grant that we may not disappoint their anxious expectations.

Aflift us mercifully, O Lord, that we may immediately engage in the ftudies and duties of the day, and go through them chearfully, diligently, and fuccefsfully.

Accept our endeavours, and pardon our defects, through the merits of our bleffed Saviour, Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

$199. An Evening Prayer.

O Almighty God! again we approach thy mercy-feat, to offer unto thee our thanks and praises for the bleflings and protection afforded us this day; and humbly to implore thy pardon for our manifold tranfgreffions.

Grant that the words of various inftruction which we have heard or read this day, may be fo inwardly grafted in our hearts and memories, as to bring forth the fruits of learning and virtue.

Grant that as we recline on our pillows, we may call to mind the tranfactions of the day, condemn thofe things of which

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Grant that thy holy angels may watch over us this night, and guard us from temptation, excluding all improper thoughts, and filling our breafts with the pureft fentiments of piety. Like as the hart panteth for the water-brook, fo let our fouls thirst for thee, O Lord, and for whatever is excellent and beautiful in learning and behaviour.

Correct, by the fweet influence of Chrif. tian charity, the irregularities of our temper; and reftrain every tendency to ingratitude, and to ill-ufage of our parents, teachers, paftors, and mafters. Teach us to know the value of a good education, and to be thankful to those who labour in the improvement of our minds and morals. Give us grace to be reverent to our fuperiors, gentle to our equals or inferiors, and benevolent to all mankind. Elevate and enlarge our fentiments, and let all our conduct be regulated by right reason, attended with Chriftian charity, and that peculiar generofity of mind, which becomes a liberal scholar and a fincere Chriftian.

O Lord, beftow upon us whatever may be good for us, even though we fhould omit to pray for it; and avert whatever is hurtful, though in the blindness of our hearts we should defire it.

Into thy hands we refign ourselves, as we retire to reft; hoping by thy mercy, to rife again with renewed fpirits, to go through the business of the morrow, and to prepare ourselves for this life, and for a bleffed immortality; which we ardently hope to attain, through the merits and interceffion of thy Son, our Saviour, Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.