Eternity on which felicity or eternal misery attends O Lord increase our Faith and settle us in that Faith that is precious and pure that by it we may be able to resist the Devil and overcome and conquer the World and the Flesh that it may be the substance of things not seen and that thereby we may be like Noah to prepare an Ark against a Deluge condemning the World O give us the trying Faith of Abraham the living Faith of dying Jacob and the living Faith of Moses to chuse affliction rather than sin that we may esteem the reproach of Christ the greatest riches that we may by that Faith obtain Promises work Righteousness Now the God of Peace that brought again our Lord Jesus Christ the great Shepherd through the everlasting Covenant keep us Amen A Prayer for Fryday Evening GReat and glorious Lord in Jesus Christ a tender Father to humble and penitent sinners let conscience of duty and not custom attend our approaches unto thee the Lord of Life and Glory thy mercies of this day are more than we can conceive but the requitals we have made how inequivolent are they How seldom did we look up to thee that always seest us at what a low ebb are our thoughts of thee O lay our hearts as low and much lower in reference to our selves Let us not O our God find our return of mercies according to our miscarriages let us not thereby be disappointed of our rest and refreshment this approaching night Blessed be thy Name that thou hast laid help on one that is able to save O save us by him let his Blood plead and his Person satisfie and let him prevail for us and his offering up of himself clear us Lord we believe help our unbelief O that our hearts were more heavenly and more removed from this drossie earth that we might in nothing be careful O help us to be good and do good in our Generation Help us to chuse affliction rather than sin that we may follow the great high Priest of our Profession by the Cross to the Crown and by the Grave to Glory Mind us of our end and give us wisdom to consider in this day of ours the things that belong to our peace before they be hid from our eyes and seeing our time is but short let our zeal be the greater Let the blessing pronounced in the Mount be our portion Let us both be pure and poor in spirit Give us to mourn for sin that we may be comforted Let us be armed with meekness and hungering and thirsting after righteousness and satisfie us Let mercifulness peace and sufferings for righteousness sake comfort us here and hereafter in and through Jesus Christ in whose Name we farther call on thee in his own words Our Father c. A Prayer for Saturday Morning MOst holy most glorious Lord the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for whose sake alone we beg pardon for all our sins secret and known of ignorance or knowledge of youth or riper years against thy Law or Gospel Deliver thy poor Creatures from all those curses denounced against sin and sinners None ever confessed and forsook sin but found mercy O sanctifie us throughout with thy holy Spirit that we may live the life of faith and not of sin being assured that it shall go well with the righteous they shall eat the fruit of their doings Blessed Lord give us grace to walk worthy the mercies of the last nights refreshments Let thy good providence be over us this day preserve us in our concerns Deliver us both Souls and Bodies that desire to fear thy holy Name that we may be praising the riches of thy free grace Let us be blessed in our goings out and comings in Let thy glory be our greatest design in whatsoever we undertake Prepare us for our later end and our great account and let Eternity be always eyed by us Let our thoughts words and actions be considered and poised Let every day put us in mind of the great day that in every day we may be drawn a step nigher unto Christ our Redeemer in whom and for whom we bless thee for ever Amen A Prayer for Saturday Evening O Most blessed Lord thou art acquainted with our down-lying and uprising and art near to all them that call on thee in truth and sincerity Let not iniquity prevail over us Let thy grace be sufficient for us against sin and Sathans wiles and help us to be thankful both in heart and life for what thou art pleased to bestow upon us by way of providence Help us in time of health to prepare for sickness and death in time of plenty to prepare for want and to lay up a store of never sading treasure Sanctifie both days labour and nights rest and pardon the sins of the whole week past and help us in thy day following to be so sitted and qualified that we may be as diligent for thee as we have been for our selves that it may be a day of rejoycing Let it be such a Sabbath as that it may be an earnest of an eternal Sabbath where we shall rejoyce and praise thee for ever Grant that by practising holiness we may enjoy happiness seeing that it must and shall go well with the Godly their great evils shall be removed and sin pardoned the mercy of mercies he cannot be miserable who has a God so merciful as to pardon his sin O grant us this mercy what ever else thou deny thy will be done for outward comforts so that we by the riches of this thy free grace have such pardon of sin as we be not disturbed in inward comforts Grant that by living to thee here we may enjoy thee hereafter Let us be content with tossings so that we may enjoy the desired Haven nay though our Ship viz. this Body breaks let us that is our Souls be secured in the Lord Châ—â—â—â— Let our crosses end in comforts our miseries in matchless joyes our tears in true tunes for Heaven and let our conquest over all end in the praise of our great Captain All these and what thou knowest may better fit us for thy self grant for thy promise and for thy Sons sake to whom be Eternal Glory Amen A Prayer for a Woman with-child before her time of Delivery MOst Holy Lord Blessed be thy great Name for thy mercy shewed to thine Hand-maid thou hast given her good hopes through grace to become a joyful Mother thou art Righteous in all thy ways thy threat for sin is just that in sorrow the Woman should bring forth yet thou of thy great mercy hast taken off from me the reproach of Woman and hast given me strength to conceive and to nourish it hitherto O preserve both me and it at the time of Travel Let me bring forth and let the work be compleated by thee by whom Creatures are wonderfully made Prepare thy poor Creature by Faith and Prayer for that hour that
alass it is my cursed Corruption that makes me think thy Cross my Burthen Lord therefore uphold me by thy Grace that I may count thy Yoke easie and find Joy in those Sufferings with thee Christ I know the cause of thy Grief and Terror to be the Consideration of thy Sin but I pray thee why lookest thou so to thy Sins that thou lookest not also to my Mercies Why wouldst thou so extol thy evil deeds that thou shouldst so extenuate my rich Mercies or in any way compare the one with the other Was it for thy good deeds that I first entred into friendship with thee and thinkest thou now that for thine evil deeds I will forsake thee Seeing it is among my praises that the work that I begin I will perfect I like it well indeed to see thee grieved for the Sins thou hast committed against me but I would have thee also be comforted in the Mercies I have shewed thee Call to mind my works of Old and what I have done to thee and for thee since thou canst Remember How cared I for thee in thy tender years look back now and see did not the Angel of my presence lead thee when thou hadst no wisdom no strength to Govern thee Did I not then begin to acquaint thee with the Knowledg and Fear of my Name Canst thou deny now that my Mercy preserved thee from thy Sins whereunto thy Nature was prone and ready to have declined And when thou sinnedst with what long patience have I waited thy turning and how lovingly have I winked at thy transgressions And when I had given thee Grace to repent of thy Sins and to seek my Favour and Mercy for the Sins of thy youth with a melting Heart and a mourning Eye canst thou deny that I have filled thy Heart with my Joys and made thy tongue burst out in Glorifying Speeches and why then wilt not thou trust in my Mercies to the end Soul I were Lord most unthankful if I should not confess that many a time in the multitude of my thoughts thy mercies have comforted me but ah alas I have not answered thy loving kindness for after many mercies received I have sinned against thee contrary to my light and my Sins are now before me witnessing that I am unworthy to taste any more of thy Mercies Christ Is my mercies for a day or for a year or is it for ever and ever to them whom I have made mine by my Sufferings Wilt thou restra in my Mercies and limit them within so narrow Bounds as to think they cannot be Extended over all thy Transgressions Wilt thou measure my mercies with so narrow a Span as to think I have no more to Give than thou hast an Heart to Receive Is it not among my praises that I am able to give to my Children more than they are able to think or ask of me Knowest thou not that as the Heavens are above the Earth so my thoughts are above thine Hast thou not considered that my Mercies is above all my Works how much more than is it above thee who art nothing in Comparison of my Works And if above thee how much more above all that thou canst do Why then wilt thou match thy Sins with my Mercies If I require such Mercies in my Children as I will have one to forgive another not only Seven times but Seventy times seven times what pitty compassion and readiness to forgive is in my Self Therefore my beloved despair not for the multitude of thy sins but be comforted with the promises of my Mercy I have made them without any exception of time for at what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sins I have promised to put away his wickedness out of my remembrance I have made them without exception of sins for albeit your sins were as Scarlet they shall be made as white as Snow I have made them without exception of Persons for whosoever shall depart from his wicked ways I shall receive him Let this threefold universality of my promise sustain thee that thy Infidelity contract not my Mercies into narrower bounds than I have extended them Soul Be merciful O Lord to my Infidelity I believe in Christ Lord help my unbelief Stablish and Confirm my unstable heart with thy good and holy Spirit My Conscience doth in such sort condemn me that I stand in fear of thy Justice for thou art greater than the Conscience and wilt much more condemn me if thou dost enter into Judgment with me Christ O my beloved consider that the cause of thy disquietness is because that with the one Eye thou lookest unto thy Sins and unto thy Fathers Justice with the other and that is the reason of thy disquietness but doth not look unto me in whom his Justice is satisfied and thy Sins already punished Tell me I pray thee dost thou think to get within thy self and in the holiness of thy Disposition that which will Exempt thee from the fear of his Justice or art thou content to seek it of me If in thy self thou seekest it remember what thou art a doing Wilt thou have the Lord bound and obliged to thee Wilt thou be thine own Saviour or shall it be said his mercy saved thee not If no Misery were in thee whereupon should his mercy be manifested and if thy Disposition in the Earth were every way such as it should be then what remaineth but that the praise of his Mercy should less appear turn thee therefore unto me and seek thy self in me If thou wilt know what is thine thou art a sinner let my praise be reserved to my self I am thy Saviour Esteemest thou that my wounds are ineffectual or that there is no force in my sufferings countest thou this as that my Vertue and Merit cannot cure them Will a Phisician pour out a rare Ointment where no need is or else where it cannot profit and thinkest thou that my Father would have my Blood to be shed in vain If his Justice terrifie thee remember it was satisfied in me and that he pronounceth this Sentence himself This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased I came into the World not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Tarry not from me because thou art a sinner but for that cause come to me and I will refresh thee Soul O Lord I know that there is a cleansing and reconciling Vertue in thy Blood that Life is in thy Death but still I fear my sins deserve thou shouldest neither apply thy Vertue nor thy Merit to me for ah alas I find that yet the old Man is strong and lively in me and that yet the motions of sin have power in me to bring forth fruit unto death Christ Be not I pray thee injurious to the work of my Grace in thee complain not so of thy Corruption but that thou mayest give unto me mine own Praise Canst thou deny but that thou hast felt my
thou keep'st not strict watch Be much in the exercise of thy Weapons especially the Sword of the Spirit viz. the Word and learn to imitate thy Captain he repels Sathans blows with a Scriptum est It 's written O Christian quit thy â—lf like a man Nay in a word Be in the exercise of all thy Armour least by disuse and disaccustom'dness thereunto thou be to seek when thou shouldst be upon thy Guard Let nothing offend thee neither Prosperity nor Adversity Strength nor Weakness Let not Insidelity prevail over thee He that hath sent thy Captain and given him how shall he not with him freely give thee all things O blessed King and Captain that hath left poor Christians such a Store-house such a Magazine O Christian set upon thy Warfare make use much of that powerful Javelin Prayer Get the art of casting it that in case at any time thou standest in need and be in a strait thou mayst make use of the same And let me caution thee against two things that thou be not too secure in time of thy Peace and Prosperity nor too much careful in time of Trouble and Adversity And now for thy Prosperity and Success thou need'st not be afraid for thy King and Captain will be all in all to thee and for thee So sight on EZEKIEL chap. 37. v. 3. Son of man can these dry Bones Lord Soul The Prayers of a Righteous Man availeth much A broken Heart Mercâ—ntâ— Mori Far well Vaine World A Direction to an Holy Life THough 't is true that never any Man was or can be saved by the Merits of his own Righteousness or Holiness yet 't is as great and as infallible a truth that never any was or can be saved without Holiness Shall I instance The most Righteous Abel the Meekest Moses the most patient Job the Holiest David the Wisest Solomon the Strongest Sampson nay the most Evangelical Prophets and Apostles were they saved by their own Righteousness Nay neither were they saved without their own Righteousness which is palpably evident in Scripture But a little to demonstrate the nature of Holiness It is that that makes us resemble God our Creator and Maker its Nature also is such as that it always aims at God its Center As it is of and from God so it always draws the Soul to God It is a sure guiding Thred to direct the Soul thorow the Nocturnal Labyrinth of a crooked World to the Celestial Canaan of splendid Glory and permanent Happiness Moreover It is Diametrically oppugnant to all Evils in a word It differs â—â—om all Sin and Evil as Light doth from â—arkness What communion has God with Belial And know O Man or Woman whosoever thou art Holiness is indispensably necessary if thou desire to be Happy Wouldst thou be Happy or wouldst thou not Wouldst thou enjoy God or wouldst thou not If thou wouldst not shut and lay by for I do not desire to aggravate thy Torments for know that the Word read or preached will be the savor of Life unto Life or the savor of Death unto Death If thou wouldst be directed in that Narrow Way that leads to Happiness here is a few Directions for thee But methinks I hear thee say How comes it to be of such indispensable necessity to be so holy Answer Of the many Reasons together with Arguments that might be drawn from both Sacred and Prophane Writings I shall prefix only two with some Scriptures 1. The first is Because otherwise there is no appearing before God it â—eing the ordinary way God has appointed Heb. 12.14 Follow Peace with all Men â—â—d Holiness without which no Man shall â—ee the Lord. Without Holiness there can undoubtedly be no Happiness without Piety there can be no Purity and without Purity no coming to God for God is one that can behold no unclean thing and without coming to God nothing but misery Moreover he loseth all the advantages in respect of this life in particular that honour that God doth dignifie his people with It is Moses's great Title God gives him viz. My Servant It is in Scripture accounted by the Evangelist John an honour to bear Christ's Shooes much more an honour to suffer for Christ They that honour me I will honour 2. The comforts of this life the pleasures and delights that otherwise he might enjoy I mean not outward but inward pleasures and comforts which are the true Nay in a word Godliness is profitable for all things having the promise of this life and that which is to come 2. So long as a man remains going on in a way of impiety and unholiness he is not only kept from the beholding of God's face or countenance in any of God's Ordinances but also he doth more and more every day incur God's wrath displeasure and anger against him Psal 1.11 God is angry with the wicked every day Nay further he ingages himself more and confirms himself to be a Servant of the Devil and so instead of listing himself under the Banner of Christ he lists himself under the Banner of Satan and consequently becomes Col. 1.21 the enemy of God and his ways and not only an enemy but enmity it self Rom. 8.7 and can a man or woman be supposed to be in a good condition whilst at variance with God who is but as chaff before the wind and as stubble before the fire As I said before many Reasons and Arguments to prove the necessity of an holy Life might be drawn from Sacred and Prophane Writings and Arguments even from a Principle of Morality or humane Reason but seeing it is not our design at this time to produce them since so many Worthies have so palpably demonstrated and proved it with invinceable Arguments even as a Cloud of Witnesses we shall only note some few Scriptures which will stop the mouths of the most bloody Noro's tyrannizing Pharaoh's subtle Ahitophel's and persecuting Saul's Heb. 12.14 fore-cited Psal 93.5 Holiness becomes thine house for ever Rom. 6.19 22. 2 Cor. 7.1 1 Thes 3.13 and 4.13 Lev. 5.15 c. But indeed the best Motive to an holy Life is the consideration of the effects of Death of which in its place The first thing that I shall do shall be to give some few Directions in order to an holy Life whereby to get a better and nearer intimacy with God and to ingage the Heart more to love God and God more to love again or rather indeed God to love first and then the heart to love again for God must first love or else we cannot love him God must first work both to will and to do of his own good pleasure After acquaintance with God to keep up holy communion with him the first and best way will be to improve this acquaintance as much as in us hes for sure I am that though a man have attained to a competent knowledge of the things of God and hath found some Beams of God's radient love breaking out and breathing
of all my enjoyment for whom I bless thee and to whom with thy Holy Self and blessed Spirit be praises for evermore Amen A Prayer for Wednesday Morning HOly God grant me a pardon of all my sins and in particular the sins of this night past all my vain thoughts and cogitations Lord I cannot express them unto thee in particular yet thou knowest them all I pray thee Lord blot them out of the Book of thy remembrance cast them behind thy back let them never be seen any more either in this life or in the world to come to my condemnation Lord as thou art pleased every Morning to renew thy Mercies to me renew my heart within me that I may be occasioned to renew my thankfulness to thy self for thy bounty and benignity to me let the improvement of left-hand Mercies engage thee to a further supply of right-hand Mercies the improvement of temporal Mercies engage thee to a further supply of spiritual Mercies and let both be so improved by me that thou mayest have the Glory and I may have comfort in and through thy dear Son Jesus Christ Help me this day in all my transactions to remember thee and that I may set the Lord always before mine eyes that I may thereby resist every temptation as thy Servants Job Joseph and David did Let the soundness of my state be demonstrated by the regularity of my course Regulate and rectifie what thou seest irregular in my life that all my designs and purposes may be for thy Honour let Piety be my delight let sin be the object of my hatred accept what is good in me Be my counsel in my enterprizes and undertakings and direct my will that I may do nothing but what tends to thy Glory for Christ's sake Amen A Prayer for Wednesday Evening O Eternal God who art glorious in Holiness fearful in thy Praises doing Wonders Blessed by thy holy Name thou givest poor C eatures such as I occasion to rejoyce in thee and to seek unto thee through the mediation of thy dear and well-beloved Son Jesus Christ Lord let all Mercies be of great use to me for the drawing out of my heart after thy self Pardon me that I have been no more enamour'd with thy Son that he has been no more amiable to my Soul even the fountain of all my Mercies the well-spring of all Goodness the Author of all my Enjoyments and by whom all my sins must be pardoned if they be pardoned O Lord look upon his satisfaction and intercession for me O divest me of the rags of my sin and invest me with the Robes of Christ's Righteousness let the stream of his precious Blood obliterate those crimson and scarlet stains that sin hath made in my poor Soul O Lord what time might I have redeem d wherein I might have had more communion with thy self and thy Son Christ and done more for thy Honour if I had been wiser Lord help me this night to experience more of thy love to my Soul by coming in with fresh supplies of Grace received Grace is not sufficient for me my nature is very much declining and therefore grant me fresh streams of Love and Grace that thereby I may acquiesce in and upon thee knowing thou art a God sufficient for all these things I stand in need of I bless thee for my preservation and sustentation thou hast preserved and sustained me with O sustain my Soul with fresh influences of thy Countenance and as I am about to betake my self to my rest draw thou the Curtain of thy Fatherly Protection about me Help me to sanctifie thee in my heart laying my head to my pillow And that for Christ's sake Amen A Prayer for Thursday Morning MOst Holy God before whose presence the Angels themselves who are such spotless Creatures vail their faces even them thou chargest with folly and if them what mayest thou charge such a sinful wretch as I with Nay Lord the best of my actions they are full of impurity Help me Lord to lay my face in the dust and to confess my uncleanness one of an uncircumcised Heart and Ears that since I could do any thing could sin and since I could sin I could almost do nothing but sin O Lord pardon me for the greatness of my sins is intollerable they are more than I am able to bear Help me to lay them on him who is mighty â—o save No sin O Lord is so great but thy Mercy is greater No sin is too great for thee to pardon Pardon sins of omission and commission actual and original do all away in the Blood of Christ O Lord let not the sinning away of received Mercies prevent future Mercies Pardon my vain and sinful thoughts this night or whatsoever thou hast seen amiss in me and accept my requests O Lord as a Sacrifice in Jesus Christ renew that league my very Dreams have broke and accept my thankfulness for thy prottecting Providence thou might est have made my bed my grave my sleep my death and cut me off from the land of the living but blessed be thy Name thou hast yet made me praise thee in the land of the living praises to thy holy Name Let the Mercies of this night stir me to an holy and close walking with thee all this day let me be actuated by thy Spirit they being only in a right frame to whom thy Sprit is leader and guider Bless my undertakings and let them be for thy Glory through thy Son the Mediator of the New Covenant Jesus Christ the Righteous to him and to thy self for him be praises Amen A Prayer for Thursday Evening MOst Holy Lord and in thy Son our most merciful Father speak to my Soul that I may hear and live that I though but a wilde Olive-branch may be grafted into the true Vine let me no longer be a stranger to the Covenant of Grace O Lord I have been very sinful and rebellious against thy self in all my deportment I have many times sinned against my own knowledge I have sinned against light and against love Pardon all my miscarriages not only this day but all my days O do all away in the blood of Jesus Christ and let me appear in my Elder Brother's Carments invest me with his Righteousness but first of all divest me of my own let thy Grace increase in me but let sin decrease let me grow in Grace as I grow in years and that no day may pass over my head wherein I have not learned something that tends to my Souls health Help me every day to learn something that may tend to the mortifying of some lust for my establishment in the truth and for the direction of my feet in the paths everlasting Pardon me that I have done no more for thee this day that I have redeemed no more time O Lord I might have redeemed more time if I had been wise wherein I might have had more Communion with thy self and might have engaged
Righteous that we may die the Death of the Righteous Deliver us from a vain and darkned Understanding and from working Uncleanness with greediness Enable us to put off as touching our Conversation the Old man and put on the New Man being renewed in the spirit of our Minds that we may be created after the Image of God in Righteousness and true Holiness Prepare us for another Life and let not one day pass over our heads without some serious meditations of Eternity how soon it may be we cannot tell ere we may launch into its Ocean that bankless Sea and then woe unto us if our Ship be unsound Let these thoughts make us careful about our Souls Help us to use the things of this transitory World but as journey necessaries to a permanent and lasting World but let us be truly desirous of the permanent Riches with an insatiable desire Make us wise Merchants for that durable riches that none can rob us of Now Lord pardon our sins and accept our services in Chrst to whom with thee and thy Eternal Spirit be praises Amen A Prayer for Wednesday Evening GLorious and most Righteous Lord for ever to be admired of all thy Saints thy ways are ways of love and mercy thy daily care to thy people do attest it we are wonderfully engaged to offer thee praise both with hearts and voices Accept of our thanks and praises as well as prayers for an Evening Sacrifice and take charge of us we beseech thee Let us not be disappointed of our hopes Let not Sin nor Sathan molest us in the comforts of this night Let not the sins of the day past provoke thee or prevent us in thy favours to us-ward Let us rest in the assurance of thy favour sealed by thy good Spirit upon our hearts that we be not left comfortless and grant that though our Bodily Eyes be closed with sleep yet let our Spiritual Eyes to wit the Eyes of Faith continually watch Let thy work of Grace begun in us be daily strengthened Let the power of sin decay but the power of Grace revive Enable us to rise with Christ and to seek those things that are above that we may glorifie thee here by finishing the race that is set before us Keep us from abusing or slighting thy Mercies and Judgemnts and watch over us for good Let not our self-flattery prove to us soul-mockery Make us faithful rather than formal in all our duties towards thee Deliver us from worldly mindedness the great enemy to real holiness Give us the grace of humiliation for sin and the spirit of reformation from sin O suffer us not to sin against Mercy lest we lose our best friend O let the service of God which is perfect freedom free us from the service of sin Now unto him that is able to keep us be Glory for ever Amen A Prayer for Thursday Morning HOly and Eternal Glorious Lord God infinite are thy Mercies to us ward thy patience and long suffering are exceeding great in regard of our continued provocations even in our thoughts which are only evil and that continually our words also have been stout against thee nothing but infinite mercy could forbear such wretches blessed be our God that hath laid help yea our help upon one that is mighty to save all those that come unto God by him O whither should such sinners go but to him that hath the Keys of Heli and Death that calls to the weary and heavy laden to come to him and accept of ease and rest O Lord draw us that we may run after thee that we may run the way everlasting the way of thy commands and be followers of that which is good hating the Garments spotted by the Flesh building up our selves in the most holy faith Enable us O our God with all diligence to make our Calling and Election sure adding to our Faith Vertue and to Vertue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly Kindness and to Brotherly Kindness Charity O let these Graces shine and abound in us that we may neither be barren nor unfruitful Give us precious faith in our Lord Jesus who hath washed and quickned us Make us the compleat Workman-ship of Christ Jesus created unto good works Sanctifie us through thy Truth thy Word is Truth and give us that Spirit that may guid us into all Truth Lead us this day and all the rest of our lives by thy Grace and at last bring us to Glory through Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen A Prayer for Thursday Evening MOst gracious Lord thou art the great preserver of those that trust in thy Promises and observe thy Precepts Blessed be thy holy Name for this day past that thou hast kept us from the dangers of this day incident to us Blessed be thou Lord for all thy Providence and Provision for Health and Strength Food and Rayment for the present Comforts of this Life and the hopes of a future Let all our sins be pardoned for the sake of our Lord who only is worthy O vouchsafe to continue thy goodness this night that we may receive that refreshment that is for tryed ones Watch over us for good and let a quiet and peaceable rest fit us for our Calling according to thy will Help us to live by Faith and to walk by Faith that we may have that Peace that none can take away Let us die daily to sin and be strengthened daily with all might in the inward man Help us to consider the effects of sin is shame and the wages of sin is death Give us the comforts of our being in Christ that we may beassured that we are freed from condemnation by our christian conversation who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit O let thy Spirit so lead us that it may be our testimony that we are thine Let all that we suffer here be an evidence of that Glory to be revealed in us Let all things work together for the best Let neither tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword be able to prevail against us so as to seperate us from the love of God which is in Christ for whom we bless thee and to whom be praises for ever Amen A Prayer for Fryday Morning MOst Holy and most gracious Lord thou art near unto all that call upon thee in truth and fulfillest the desires of those that fear thee Thou art good and dost good thy mercies are over all thy works Blessed be the Lord for his refreshing mercies of the last night Day unto day and night unto night shew forth thy tenderness over us by thy providences and provision O deliver us from all sins and evil for thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory Help us to live blameless with those with whom we have to deal O give us wisdom to remember our later end Let us remember the approaching of