A PRAYER FOR WEDNESDAY EVENING.

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O GREAT and good, eternal and all-seeing God! my Creator, preserver and benefactor, through whom I live, by whose presence am, at all times and in all places, surrounded; thou hast crowned another day with thy goodness. My days, as they revolve, bear testimony to thy presence and benevolence; to thy kind care, keeping me from many dangers; to thy bounty, supplying my wants; to thy patience and forbearance, giving me further time for repentance; to thy merciful designs for my everlasting happiness, providing the means and hope of eternal life through Jesus Christ.

It becometh me to take shame to myself, not only for every instance, wherein I have openly violated thy law, or neglected my duty, but for all the secret faults I have committed; for all the evil imaginations which I

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have wilfully entertained. Under a humiliating sense of my unworthiness and guilt, I rejoice in thee, the Father of mercies, and in the assurance which thou hast given us in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, of thy free pardon and acceptance, upon confessing and forsaking our sins. Pardon, good Lord, whatever has been amiss in my temper and conduct through this day. With a humble hope in thy mercy, I would compose myself to sleep. I devoutly and cheerfully rely on thy continued protection, through the hours of insensibility and darkness.

May I awake in the morning, refreshed by the calm slumbers of the night, and still find myself blessed with thy favour, and guarded by thy powerful protection. Dispose mej when the morning opens, to devote myself again to thy service and praise. May thy precepts rule and govern me. May thy promises comfort me, and excite tice of all piety and virtue.

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the minister of thy truth and mercy, and our Lord and master, be always in my contemplation. May I follow him in zeal for thy honour, in love to mankind, and in doing good. May it be my glory and happiness to be approved of thee, the omniscient witness of my conduct, as his true disciple; and when he who brought life and immortality to light by the gospel, shall appear again at the end of the world, may I also appear with him in glory.

May the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ spread every where knowledge and truth, and prevail in its purity and simplicity. Bless my country, and shew thyself the watchful guardian of its rights and liberties. Comfort, O God of consolation, the afflicted. Encompass with thy favour my friends and relations. May my life, while I am passing through this world, be always directed towards heaven. And, finally, grant to me a joyful entrance into thy glorious and everlasting kingdom, through Jesus Christ, the

truth and life; for whom, and for all the blessings of his ministry and gospel, be given unto thee, O Father of mercies, everlasting praises. Amen.

A PRAYER FOR THURSDAY MORNING.

O GOD, my heavenly Father, thou art present with us at all times and in all places. I look up unto thee with humble and grateful devotion, at the return of the day, as to that gracious Being who hast been present with me through the hours of darkness, and whose presence will encompass my paths through all the scenes of the day on which I have now entered. It is a solemn, but a joyful thought, that thou O God, art ever with The darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. I close mine eyes at night in the consolatory belief,

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that thou seest me when its curtains are drawn around me, and that thou wilt watch over my slumbers. I open mine eyes in the morning under the conviction that thou art still with me, acquainted with mine uprising, and graciously condescending to hear the morning prayer of gratitude and trust Under a serious persuasion that it is impossible for me to subsist without thy supporting hand, or to be happy without the daily communications of good from thee, I rejoice that thou art present with me to lend thy supporting hand, and to bestow from thy fulness the blessings I want.

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Thou fillest immensity. Thine eyes every place Thou lookest to the ends of the earth; and seest under the whole heavens. All the thoughts and purposes of the human heart are open to thy view; and I, thy humble dependent, can be in no circumstances through the day, which is now before me, in which thou, O God, wilt not surround my path. May I carry the conviction of this

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