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II. A Prayer for the Love of God.

ENLARGE my affections towards thee, O thou chief of ten thousand, and altogether lovely. What hast thou not done to engage mỳ heart? ungrateful as I have been, may I be so no more. May my soul be enflamed with love unfeigned towards thee, beholding thy love, may it kindle mine; and daily as I receive fresh instances of it from thee, may my returns of gratitude be more abundant. [Open my eyes to see more and more the love wherewith thou hast loved me; make me to know more of its height and length, and breadth and depth: make me to see more of my own baseness and vileness, that thy dealings with me may more abundantly impress and constrain my heart.] O that I might love thee with a perfect heart. Lord, may I be increasing in love, till seeing thee as thou art, I shall love thee as I ought.

III. A Prayer for Fear.

LORD, put thy fear into my soul; be thou ever sanctified in me; let me ever tremble before, and dread to offend thee. May the sense of thy omniscience and nearness ever overawe my soul; when sin would tempt, may I remember that thou art present; may my fear be as my love, filial; may thy displeasure be more grievous to me than the punishment; and may I hate to offend thee, because thou art my good and gracious Father, more than because thou art withal the just and righteous Judge.

IV. A Prayer for Charity.

GOD of all mercy, whose nature and name is love, and who has taught, in amazing manifestations of it in thy Son, what are thy regards towards the children of men, teach me to love others, as thou hast loved me. O give me bow

els of mercies, kindness, gentleness, meekness. Alas, for this selfish heart of mine! it is so ready to kindle under provocation, to resent unkindness, and to be unfeeling towards others' weak-ness and wants. [Such a person particularly my vile heart is ready to dislike, &c. * Lord, take this uncharitable spirit from me.] Enable me to forgive, as thou for Christ's sake hath forgivenme. [May my censures all fall upon myself, where they are most due, that I may have none to cast on others.] Incline my heart to excuse the faults of others, to think no evil, and to hope all things favourable for them. According to the ability thou hast given me, may I readily communicate thy gifts according to the neces--sities of my brethren. [Make my heart more tender to them, and sympathizing with their distresses, whether of body or soul.t] May their sins grieve me more deeply, and call forth my prayers and my tears over them. Lord, give them repentance who know thee not, [particularly who are so near and dear to me.] [May I not suffer sin upon them unrebuked; and may my conduct as well as my conversation be reproving and exemplary.] Give me a mouth to comfort the afflicted. May, whatever talents thou hast lent me of knowledge or utterance, be employed, so as may be most subservient to the good of mens' souls, and particularly of those : with whom I am more immediately concerned. May my hand be§ opened to relieve the indigent:

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Nothing serves more effectually to subdue our resentment against any particular person, than praying for them by name.

↑ Mens' souls are the greatest objects of charity.

Unconverted friends and relations should never be forgotten by us."

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Though almsgiving be but a branch of charity, we must see that we abound! in the exercise of it, if we are indeed in the faith; and by the way it must be observed, that as it will require some pains to enquire out the truly neces-sitous, this is as much a part of the duty as the gift itself; many, for want of being at the pains of this, often encourage idleness, instead of relieving reali obects of charity, and t us rob the needy of their portion.

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according to my power: and as a good steward of thy gifts, enable me conscientiously to be concerned not only to give, but to bestow it in such a way as may be most to thy glory, the relief of real indigence, and the support of the helpless. Make me not only liberal, but glad to give, and ready to distribute, that the blessing of a chearful giver may be through thy grace upon me. [And accept, O Lord, these small returns of humble acknowledgment, as offered in my dear Redeemer, in whose name alone is my hope, and in whose blood I desire my best offerings to be washed, and in whose righteousness I desire my best services to be arrayed, that they may come up with acceptance on thine altar, Ŏ O God.]

V. A Prayer for Humility.

GIVE me, O Lord, the genuine humility which thou delightest in. Let an abiding sense of my vile self and sinful services be ever on my heart. When the deceiver would cause me to compare myself with myself or others, may my soul still turn to thy holy law, and be confounded before thee in dust. And when thegifts thou hast bestowed on me would puff me up, let me remember not only that they are received, but what an abuse hath been made of them, and how much cause I have for confusion,. instead of glorying before thee..

VI. A Prayer for Zeal!.

AWAKEN greater zeal for thy glory in my heart; how lukewarm and insensible to thy interests in the world have I been, and am I still? Lord, give me a deeper sense of thy majesty, and a more enlarged knowledge of the value of immortal souls, that I may rise up against the evil. doers, grieving to see thee dishonoured, and deep,

ly concerned to pluck those brands from the burning. [Lord, may I chearfully suffer, count no cross grievous; and where duty calls, boldly rebuke vice, whatever danger be incurred. Arise, O Lord God, and vindicate thine own cause; where is thy zeal and the soundings of thy bowels, are they restrained? See our desolations, and` come with great might and succour us.]

Intercessions general and particular.

AND, Lord, hear my poor supplications for others as well as for myself. Thou seest what desolations are wrought in the earth, how sin covers the face of the world, and gross darkness the people; O send out thy light and thy truth, that the ends of the earth may remember themselves, and be turned unto thee, O Lord. Especially visit our land with thy salvation; we have the form of godliness, and the profession of thy gospel, but, O how far removed from the practice and the power of it! Return, O God of hosts, return, lift up the light of thy countenanceupon us. [Remove not our candlestick away, as by our manifold iniquities we have most justly provoked thee to do, but remember thy mercy which hath been to a thousand generations, and hear the prayers of thy people who cry day and night before thee.] Raise up thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us. Send out, we pray thee, labourers into thine harvest.; the land mourneth, the people perish for lack of knowledge; give them pastors after thy own mind, who may exalt the cross of the Redeemer, and be successful preachers of his righteousness: bless the few who truly labour in the word and ministry; may thy grace make thy word in their mouths effectual for the conviction, conversion,, and consolation of mens?

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souls; particularly bless him who ministers to my soul, and may he see of the fruit of his labour in me, and multitudes be brought by his teaching to the knowledge of the salvation which is in Jesus Christ. Lord, make us more diligent, that our profiting may appear under the blessed means of grace which we enjoy. Bless all those who are especially near to me under any ties of relations; may all my friends be thine; my bene-factors find in thy favour an abundant return, and those of this house and family be the objects of thy peculiar regard.*

And now, Lord, accept my humble praise for all the mercies I have tasted, from the first day even until now; unworthy indeed, utterly unworthy of the least of them I confess myself to be. Blessed be thy name for the being I enjoy, and for all the blessings of time which accom pany it; but above all, blessed be the name of my God for his redeeming love, for Jesus thefountain of grace, and for the great and preciouspromises, given freely in him to me a sinner. Blessed be thy name for the knowledge of him, whom to know is everlasting life; for all the means of growth in grace, and all the hopes of the glory purchased, taken possession of, and to be revealed by and in the Lord Jesus my Saviour; whose righteousness is my title, whose blood is my plea, and. who is to me all and in all. Ia his name and words I would, since he hath.com manded it, sum up all my imperfect prayers, saying, Our Father, &c..

You have here a long prayer, which may be easily shortened and adapted to your state, whatever it be remember only that your eye in all your prayers never lose sight of the Advocate,

* The particular states of husband and wife, parent and child, master aud servant, will afford opportunity for more particular enlargemant..

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