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thee for the ensuing year, and the rest of our lives. But it is with thee to dispose our hearts to thy service, as it is to lengthen our days; be pleased to make us wise unto salvation; that we may consider, while it is yet day, the things that belong unto our peace; and that we may, by the help of thy Holy Spirit, pass this year, and all the years we have yet to live, in fulfilling our resolutions of holier obedience, and in the comfortable hope of a blessed eternity.'

For Ash-Wednesday.

WE beseech thee, O Lord, to assist us in faithfully improving the season of retirement and extraordinary devotion, to which we are now called by thy Church. Give us such a sight of our sins which expose us to thy wrath, and such a sense of the uncertainty of life, upon which our preparation for eternity depends, that we may diligently use all the means of pardon and increased grace, for the time to come. Strengthen us, in imitation of our Lord, to exercise abstinence and mortification, to take up our cross, and to watch and pray, that being weaned from the pleasures of sense, we may feel the constraining power of thy love. May all the ensnarements of the world fail to draw us from our duty. And may thy Holy Spirit work in us such sorrow for sin, and such purposes of amend

ment, that the new life which we begin here in tears, may conduct us to eternal life, in thy blessed kingdom.

For Good-Friday.

[To be added to Friday Morning, First Week.]

WE are before thee, O Lord, this day, in which the Church commemorates the atoning death of the Saviour, in the lowest prostrations of soul and body, with hearts full of grief and sorrow for those sins of ours, which crucified the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame. O make his death availing to our pardon and eternal life. Take away our guilt with his blood. Cleanse our impurities with his grace. Henceforth we desire not to live but unto Christ who died for us. Assist us,

O blessed Spirit, to purify ourselves, and to tread in the steps of this humble, meek, and patient sufferer. Keep in us such a lively sense of our Saviour's agony and bloody sweat, that we may bitterly hate sin, the cause of his torments; and teach us the value of our immortal souls, for which he became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Confirm our courage in the christian warfare, that as good soldiers we may fight manfully under the banner of our crucified Saviour, and that nothing either in life or death may ever separate us from his love.

For Easter.

WE praise thee, we worship thee, we give thanks to thee, O blessed Jesus, for thy glorious resurrection, whereby thou hast made known the power of thy divinity, and proved thyself to be the true Messiah! Grant that thy victory over the grave may strengthen us against the fear of death; that we may look upon it as a deliverance from sin and sorrow, and as a passage to a happy eternity; and that the infinite value of thy sufferings may support us under the sense of that guilt of which we heartily repent, and those penalties which we dread.

O blessed Redeemer, help us to rise from the death of sin, unto the life of righteousness, that we may spend the remainder of our days in securing that everlasting happiness which thou hast purchased, by thy atoning death.

For the Ascension.

WE rejoice, O blessed Jesus, in thy triumphant ascension, which the Church commemorates this day-when thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers, and didst sit down at the right hand of thy Father, adored by angels, and interceding for sinners. Oh, wean our minds from the vanities of this world, and place our affections

entirely on things above, that we may spend the remainder of our life in securing an eternal inheritance. And do thou, O God, quicken and enlarge our desires after those pleasures which are at thy right hand for evermore; that through faith and patience, having finished the race which thou hast set before us, we may be received into the joy of our Lord.

For Whit-Sunday.

WE gratefully commemorate, O Lord, that descent of the Holy Ghost for which thy Church praises thee this day. O divine Comforter, enter into our souls, and dwell there; that it may appear by our conversation and course of life, that thy grace doth rule in our hearts, and abide with us. O adorable Spirit, who cleanseth the thoughts of the heart, forgive us, we humbly entreat thee, if at any time we have resisted thy blessed inspiration, and quenched the holy flames thou didst kindle in our breasts; and so purify our hearts with thy celestial grace, and mortify and kill all vices in us, that we may be fit to receive and entertain thee as our guide and comforter. Then shall we know and love thee, and constantly do the things that are right; and so walking by the influences of thy grace here, we shall be fitted for thy glory hereafter.

For Trinity Sunday.

ETERNAL, self-existent God, we acknowledge with all joy and thankfulness, thy great goodness manifested to the children of men, in the wonderful work of our redemption. We adore thy infinite love and condescension, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, whose mysterious union in one divine essence the Church celebrates this day. We thank thee that thou didst take pity upon us, when we had lost and ruined ourselves, and in the person of the onlybegotten Son, didst provide atonement that we might live through him. We worship thee for all the light and consolations of the blessed Spirit. O Lord, fill our hearts with a sense of the homage due to thy glorious Majesty, and of the gratitude due to thy mercy; and may our highest adoration and praise, be joined with that of the blessed company above, who are never weary of ascribing glory, blessing, thanksgiving, and praise to thee, not only in their own behalf, but even for thy wonderful goodness to the children of men. Praise the Lord, therefore, O our souls; and all that is within us praise his holy name.

For the Commemoration of any of the Saints. WE bless and praise thy holy name, for all the apostles, saints, and martyrs, who having encoun

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