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den under foot, and to be cast out as the offscouring of all things; taking nothing but shame to myself, and giving all the glory to thee, of whatever is good Great and holy God! make me more studious to be thy favourite than to be so accounted; and better pleased to do my duty than to hear of it : Neither of men let me seek glory, but the honour that comes of God only. And the more I have received from thee, the more let me ascribe unto thee: and not be proudly opinionated of myself; but give all thanks and glory to thee for any good wherein thou hast made me to differ: not loving or intending the praise of men, in doing the work of God; but performing all my offices, as one that is not only called, but in deed, thy humble servant.

O discover me so to myself, that I may still walk humbly with my God, and be clothed with humility consider how frail I am, as a creature and how vile, as a sinner. Let me ever detest and dread, and resist the pride that goes before destruction; and so humble myself under thy mighty hand, that thou mayest exalt me in due time. And for all the good I have ever performed or enjoyed, not unto me, O Lord, not unto me, but to thy name be all the praise and glory, humbly and heartily acknowledged and rendered, now and for evermore. Amen.

A Prayer for Mindfulness of God's Presence.

LORD, the infinite, incomprehensible God! Thou art the high and holy One, who inhabitest eternity, and dwellest in the light which no man can approach to. And from thy glorious throne in heaven thou lookest down upon all the inhabitants of the earth: and hast thy eyes in every place, and ponderest every thing. Though no mortal eye

can see thee: no created understanding is able to comprehend thee: Yet thou art here, and every where present' and now and evermore thou seest us, and understandest our very thoughts afar off; and art thoroughly acquainted with all our ways. Yea, thou art so universally observant, as to have a particular concern for every person and action in the world. Great God, thou fillest heaven and earth with thy presence, O fill my heart with thy grace, and the mindfulness of thy presence with me; that I may set the Lord always before me and evermore remember thee in all my ways.

O that ever I should forget God that made me ! the God who quickens every thing that lives; concurs with every thing that moves; and upholds every thing that has a being throughout the world! O that I should live so much without thee in the world, in whom I ever live, and move, and am! and who hast still been with me, and watchful for good over me all my days. Holy God, because I have regarded thee no more, thou mightest make me sensible of thy presence, in judgments worthy of thyself. But O Lord, in mercy pardon all such my sinful neglect and inadvertence. And as I am ever exposed to thy all-seeing eye, so make me ever duly aware of it. And let the remembrance of thy presence sway and guide me, in secret and in company, at all times, in all places, and in all my actions : That I may demean myself as ever under the awful eyes of the great God of heaven and earth, and fear thee above all other powers; love thee above all other Gods, serve thee before all other Lords, and trust in thee more than in any other refuge. Yea, let me rejoice under the shadow of thy wings, and herein solace myself,that thou art at my right hand, and ever with me. O let not the remembrance of my Lord

be grievous to me; but let my meditations of God be sweet, as well as frequent; that delighting myself in the Lord, thou mayest give unto me the desires of my heart; and so guide me with thine eye, that as I am still manifest, I may be also still accepted in thy blessed sight, through Jesus Christ. Amen.

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A Prayer for Tenderness of Heart..

LMIGHTY Lord, the God of all grace, who speakest to the heart, and it obeys thee; and when it is grown callous and hard, canst make it soft and relenting; and give sight and sense even to such as are blind and past feeling! O shew the power of thy heavenly grace, in working upon this stupid, insensible heart of mine, so as to make me know, both the evil of my sins, and the things of my peace. And be thou pleased to give me such a sight of my sins, such humiliation of soul, and brokenness of heart, as may prepare me for all the promised mercies of God in Jesus Christ. O Father of mercies! punish not my past sins, by leaving me to commit sin with greediness; nor ever give me up to such blindness of mind, and hardness of heart, as shall render me senseless and incorrigible. But quicken and awake my dull soul into a lively sense of sin, and tenderness of conscience, and due apprehension of my great and eternal concerns. O make me ever jealous over my heart, and watchful over my ways; continually fearing to offend, and endeavouring to please my God; keeping my heart with all diligence, that it be not hardened through the deceitfulness of sin; and keeping at that distance which thy holy word teaches us to keep from every evil and accursed thing that is provoking in thy sight and destructive to my soul.

O let me not continue in sin, that grace may abound; nor kick against the bowels of mercy, that so long has borne with me, and been so abundantly good to me: But give me, O my God, such a ful ness of new life as may beget in me a greater quickness of spiritual sense; and make my conscience quick of feeling, even as the apple of my eye; that I may so feel my sins, here, as to prevent my feeling of them for ever, when there shall be no remedy. From hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandments, good Lord deliver me. And give me a heart so soft and tender, as to smite and correct me for every, even the least, sinful evil; and to hold me back not only from gross and scandalous offences, but from all that is suspicious, or that has a tendency to sin; from the occasions of falling, and all appearances of evils. O let me so observe thee with child-like tenderness, and awful regard, all the days of my life, that I may not slavishly dread thee; so as to be con. sumed with terrors in the great day of thy wrath, but may then receive the blessed portion of thy children, who lived still looking and preparing for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer for the Fear of God.

LORD, the great and dreadful God, in whose hands is my time; at whose mercy is my soul, and all that concerns me both now and for ever. Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry! The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and happy is the man that feareth always! But to harden our hearts against thy fear, is not only folly and im piety, but madness and ruin. I am afraid, O Lord,

because I have feared thee no more; but have made so bold with thy glorious Majesty, and with thy holy laws who canst, whenever thou pleasest, avenge thee of thy adversaries, and kill and cast sinners into hell, that I have been so fearless in the ways of sin, where I should not have dared to be seen, and so timorous in the cause of God, where I should not have feared the face of any man. O absolve me, I beseech thee, good Lord, from all such guilt that lies upon me, and put thy fear into my heart, that I may never experience what a fearful thing it is to fall into thy hands. O incite my heart to fear thy name! And let thy fear be ever before my eyes, to restrain me from the evil of my ways. O let me so stand in awe of thee, that I may not dare to provoke thee. Let me not be so much afraid of any man that shall die, as of the Almighty ever-living God; nor so fear any loss or suffering that can but take away a temporal good, as I fear the sin and wickedness that would deprive me of the good ev. erlasting. O let me fear the Lord and depart from evil; and have my God in such regard, that I may not offer wilfully to violate thy holy laws, but fear to dishonour thy name, or to rebel against thy word, or to rest short of what thou requirest at my hand. And O that thy fear may not only keep under some of my sins, but regulate my whole life, and sway my very heart; that I may do thy will entirely from the heart, and go on to perfect holiness in the fear of God.

May I fear thy name, and not blaspheme it; fear thy wrath, and not provoke it; fear thy word, and not despise it; fear thy goodness, and not abuse it; fear thy omniscience, and not make bold with secret sins; fear thy omnipotence, and not strive with my Maker in any case. And give me, O my God, the