praise thy power, and admire thy love, and adore thy grace and goodness, while I have my being.— Amen, Amen.

A Prayer upon the Remembrance of former Sins.

WHO can understand his errors! Who can

call to mind the innumerable offences of all his life! when, ever since we could do any thing, alas! what have we done that is free from sin! but O the heinous offences, the presumptuous sins, the great transgressions whereof I have been guilty, which stare me in the face, and recoil upon my heart, and cast down my soul within me; because I have committed them with so many foul aggravating circumstances, against such light and love, means and mercies, calls and warnings, convictions, and experiences, and all the many and mighty obligations from the Lord which I have had; I am covered with confusion, O my God, and filled with bitter remorse, and ghastly fears, as often as I look back upon such blots, and falls, and scandals of my life. O, if they should rise up in the judgment against me, they could not but utterly sink and ruin me. But Lord, my God, help me so to remember that thou mayest forget them; so to charge them upon myself that thou mayest never lay them to my charge: so to keep them before my eyes, to abase and humble my soul, that thou mayest hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities; especially those that are so confounding and terrible to my thoughts. O let me ever walk humbly before thee, seeing I have so shamefully sinned against thee; and though thou hast kept me from my deserved shame in this world, O let not thy indulgence embolden me to repeat the wickedness;

but let this thy goodness, O my God, work in me a more deep and serious repentance.

And thou, Lord Almighty, who alone canst bring good out of evil, be thou pleased to make my past falls an occasion of my surer standing for the future. O embitter the pleasures of sin to me, and hedge up the ways of wickedness, as with briars and thorns, before me, that I may loath as much as ever I have loved the offensive things, and never return again to such folly. O let the flames where with I have been scorched, terrify me from being any more so concerned, and let the sense and remembrance of all the former offences of my life quicken and awaken me, as into the deeper repentance for them, so into the more careful circumspection and watchfulness against them, that I may not be so strange to thee my God, as I have been, nor trespass upón thee, and rebel against thee as I have done, but pass the time of my sojourning here in fear, and be more tender, and wary, and vigilant, all the days of my life. Amen, Amen.

A Prayer under Fears and Doubts of our Spiritual Condition.

LORD my God, I hope thou hast of thy rich mercy changed and renewed me in some measure, and wrought a good work upon me, bring me out of my natural and damnable condition, into the state of grace and salvation; for yet the carnal nature is so predominant over me, and many sins so lively and strong in me, and still I find the good things of thy Spirit in so much weakness and imperfection upon me, that the sorrows of my heart are enlarged, and my soul is disquieted within me, seeing too frequent cause to question, whether my

spots are the spots of thy children; whether I have known the grace of God in truth, and whether I do not deceive myself, in reckoning upon that which I neither am or have.

Mine eyes are to thee, O God the Lord, leave not my soul destitute. From the ends of the earth will I cry to thee: when my heart is overwhelmed within me, lead me to the rock that is higher than I. O Lord rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy sore displeasure. Forsake me not, O my God; be not far from me; make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low; hear me speedily, my spirit fails. Save me, O God, for the waters are come into my soul; I sink in the deep mire, where there is no standing. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.

O shew me the true state of my soul, and make me to know the things that are freely given me of God; and deliver me, gracious Lord, from all those offensive matters that provoke thee to hide thy face from me, and that wrap up my soul in clouds and darkness, and make me so much a stranger to peace and comfort. O grant me a clear discovery of the evidences of my calling and election; and seal a comfortable assurance of thy blessed love in Christ Jesus to my soul. O thou that didst bid the winds and waves, Peace, be still, and they obeyed thee; settle my discomposed mind, and quiet my troubled breast, and bring me to see the light of thy countenance, and the joy of thy salvation. O thou that art of power to establish us, be pleased to establish my heart with grace, and let me be rooted and grounded in the faith, that I may not stagger through unbelief, but hold the beginning of my confidence stedfast to the end. Rejoice the soul of thy servant; for un

to thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul; and let the joy of the Lord be my strength, to make me victorious over my sins, and always to abound in thy work; never pleased so much with any thing as to do the thing pleasing to my God, through Jesus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer under the Dread of God's Wrath, and everlasting Damnation.

LORD, the great and dreadful God, against whom I have greatly sinned; and who for my sins art justly displeased! when I consider the holiness of thy laws, and the strictness of thy justice; and when I reflect upon the heinous and innumerable sins of my heart and life, my flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments. O who may stand in thy sight, when once thou art angry! who can bear up for ever under all the vials of thy wrath, to the uttermost poured out, when thy mercy shall be clean gone, and thou shalt cast off, and shew favour no more! yet even that damnation would be my woful portion, which I could no more avoid than abide, shouldest thou, O Lord, enter into judginent with me, and proceed as most justly thou mightest against me, I could then hope for no better, but to be deprived of all the comforts of this life and to be delivered into the bitter pains of eternal death. But though the wages of my sins be that death, yet the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. O for his dear sake, who has satisfied thy justice, and appeased thy wrath for all our offences, even thy Son, who was delivered up into the hands of sinners, that he might deliver us from the wrath to come, and suffered and died once, that we might not suffer and die forever; O God, the Father of heaven, have mercy upon me,

a miserable sinner; and from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation, good Lord deliver me, and help me in the fear of thee, my God, to flee from the wrath to come, and to rid my hands and my heart of every cursed thing that provokes the Lord to kill and cast sinners into hell.

O thou blessed Saviour of the world, save me from my sins, and from all their dismal effects, and reconcile me to God, and make my peace through the blood of thy cross. Thou tookest upon thee our mortal nature, that thou mightest, through death, destroy him who had the power of death, and deliver them, who through fear of death, were all their life time subject to bondage. Have compassion, Lord, I beseech thee, on my infirmities, and suffer me not to fall a prey to my own fears, but be surety for thy servant, to undertake for all my heavy scores, wherein I have run myself in such great arrears to the justice of heaven; and give me everlasting consolation, and good hope, through grace, and being justified by faith, O let me have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Hide not thy face from me, O my Lord, lest I be like to them that go down into the pit; but revive my soul with the sense of thy love, and the hopes of thy full absolution, and everlasting salvation, that I may give thee thanks from the ground of the heart, and shew with gladness what thou hast done for thy redeemed, and joyfully sing thy praise, and keep in thy love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.-Amen.

A Prayer under strong Temptations.

OLY GOD! I desire to humble myself here before thee, for that continual proneness