way everlasting. Enable us, with all seriousness and impartiality, to examine ourselves before we sit down at Thy holy table. With Thee, O Lord, is the preparation of the heart, and the answer of the tongue. Send down upon us the Holy Spirit to enlighten, and qualify us for a suitable approach to Thee at Thy holy table. May the Spirit lead us into all truth, and quicken and excite our faith, hope, and love. O blessed Jesus do Thou be with us in our weakness, to support us in all our duties.

May our true state and character be revealed to us, and may we be enabled to embrace Thee as all our salvation and as all our desire. We know, O Lord, that we are not straitened in Christ, but that we are straitened in ourselves. Open our eyes, O Lord, that we may indeed behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world. May He have compassion upon us and save us with an everlasting salvation.

O Lord, we especially pray Thee on this the evening previous to a Communion Sabbath to pardon our sins, and to give us grace to forgive and pardon those who have done or wished us ill. Remove from us all pride, thoughtlessness, and vain glory. May we sit at Christ's feet as little children and learn His blessed words.

And now, O Lord, we put all our trust and

confidence in Thee and in Thy great mercy. Save us, O Lord, from the love of the world and the fear of man, and cause Thy face to shine upon us.

For a Sacramental Sabbatb.

MORNING.

LORD, we adore and praise Thee for the institution of our Lord's Supper, and for its administration in this land. Mercifully forbid that we should receive this, Thy grace, in vain. Give us, and all who are to approach Thy holy table this day, humility. May we be clothed with the wedding-garment, and draw near to Thee at Thy table, with a lively faith, and receive the Lord Jesus Christ into our hearts, as our only foundation and hope of glory. Withdraw our thoughts and affections from the world and the love of the world. May we, by faith, be enabled to see Christ, bearing our sins in his own body upon the tree— wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities—and making a complete atonement for the sins of His people. O Lord, enable us to look upon Him whom our sins have pierced, and to mourn. Enable us to feed

upon his broken body and shed blood, to our spiritual nourishment and growth in grace. May our union and communion be confirmed, and may we renew our engagements to be Thine, in time and eternity. May we receive abundantly of the Spirit, that we may be enabled affectionately to meditate upon His death and sufferings-to judge ourselves—to be sorry with a godly sorrow for our sins—and to hunger and thirst after Christ and His righteousness. O blessed God, enable us to feed upon Christ by faith-to receive of His fulness-to trust in His merits-to rejoice in His love—to give thanks for His grace, and to have love towards all men, especially towards those who believe, and are called according to His purpose. In Thine infinite mercy, O Lord, forbid that any one of us should eat and drink unworthily, not discerning the Lord's body.

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For a Sacramental Sabbath.

EVENING.

E unite together, this evening, O most blessed God, in thanking and praising Thee for Thy great forbearance and kindness to us. Thou hast not only this day supplied all our temporal and spiritual wants, but Thou hast,

in Thy great love, called us into Thy banqueting house, and spread Thy banner over us. We adore and praise Thee for once more puting into our hands the bread of life, and the cup of salvation. Thou hast most mercifully, in these tokens, given us an assurance of our pardon, and a pledge of eternal life. Bless the Lord, O our souls, and let all that is within us bless His Holy name-who forgiveth all our iniquities, who healeth all our diseases, who redeemeth our life from destruction, who crowneth us with loving-kindness and tender mercies.

And, O Almighty God, we now humbly pray Thee to crown, with Thy rich and effectual blessing, the services in which we have engaged on this Thy holy day. May all that we have seen, heard, and handled of the Word of Life, have a salutary effect upon our souls for good. Above all, O Lord, may the affecting view we have this day seen, of Thy great love to us in the death of Thy beloved Son, and of His dying for us, inspire us with greater gratitude and affection. O Lord, may we all mourn over our sins-having beheld, in the broken body and shed blood of Christ, the strongest evidence of Thy hatred of sin. O Lord, give us grace to repent of our sins-to turn from them-and to resist them. May we indeed experience that Christ hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows-that the chas

tisement of our peace has been laid upon Him, and that by his stripes we are healed. Accept, O Lord, of the vows which we have this day made, and give us grace to keep them. In our weakness and frailty, be mercifully pleased, to make Thy grace sufficient for us, and to perfect Thy strength in our weakness.

For a Sacramental Chanksgiving Day.

MORNING.

LORD, be pleased to keep us ever mindful of the vows which are upon us.

Forbid

that by elapsing into sin we should bring a reproach upon our Saviour's name, and crucify unto ourselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. As we have received Christ Jesus the Lord, enable us to walk worthy of him unto all well-pleasing, and to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. May we walk in love and in great humility, and may Christ's body and blood nourish and sustain our immortal souls unto life eternal.

Enable us, O Lord, to return to Thy House this day, and to worship Thee in Spirit and in truth-by giving Thee all the thanks and all