"concil'd to thee my God, and in Peace and Charity with all the World.

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At Lying down.

"Lord pardon my unworthiness of the "the least of all thy Mercies, particularly " of these comfortable conveniences. which "thy fatherly tenderness doth provide for

my repofe; fanctifie them to me, Gracious Lord, and comfort all that want them; "all that are now in Pain, Sickness, Trou"ble, Sorrow, and all that labour in the

Agony of Death. Grant that I may lye "down with thee, and rife up with thee, "and when I awake up, whether in Life or "in Eternity, O let me be present with "thee. Fill my Heart with thy Fear and "Love, and vouchsafe to be the first and "laft in all my Thoughts, that whether t Sleeping or Waking, Living or Dying I may be thine. O thou Shepheard of Ifrael who never flumbereft nor fleepest, vouchfafe to watch over me and keep me 66 this Night and preferve me from Sin and "Danger and all Illufions of the Enemy, for thy Infinite Mercies. Amen.

Waking in the Night.

"I adore thy condefcending Majefty, O "my God, who vouchfafeft thy felf to be the Pilate of the Ship, the Charioteer of the Chariot, which carries me lying at ease

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"and Peace, through the Seas and Wilder. "nefs of this Night: Thou art near to me, "and I defire to speak to thee, to bless << thee, and adore thee, who art so near to (6 me. Amen.

Waking in the Morning.

"O my God who haft vouchfafed to carry me through the Seas of this Night, "and to fet me down in Peace and Safety ແ on the shore of this Day, where I wou'd be, among my acquaintance of the things "of this World, let me not enter into converfation with them, till I have first pay'd my humble Homage to thee, my most a"dorable and gracious God. I lift my Heart to thee.

First getting out of Bed, kneeling.

"To thee, my most adorable Preserver, "I humbly offer up my preferved felf:

my Body, my Soul, my Members, my "Senfes, my Faculties, my Thoughts, my "Words, my Defires, my Inclinations, my "Affections, my Actions, to be Govern"ed, Guided and Sanctified by thee, and to "be made conformable to thy holy Will "this day and always. Amen.

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Washing.

"Wash me throughly from my Wicked"nefs, and cleanfe me from my Sin. "Wah me with thy precious Blood, O most "gracious Lord Jefu, who haft loved us and wash'd us from our Sins. Except thou wash me, I have no part in thee. Thou haft made me fenfible that I ftand in need of thy amazing Condefcention, to be watht from the ftains which I daily Contract, that thou may'ft engage me to practice daily the "fame Condefcention to my Christian Bre"thren. Amen.

Kneeling in the day time.

"O my God, to thee I humbly offer up my c felf, accept of me graciously to be thine in thy Dear Son. Thou haft made me "what I am, and given me what I have;

I live by thee, O'that I may live to thee. "By thee I am this moving Body, and this "thinking Soul, O that both may pay "Homage to thee; thou upholdeft and fu"ftaineft me every Moment, I am a living "Monument of thy Mercy, O that I may "be a living Monument of thy Praise: "Glory be to thee, O Lord, moft High. "Amen.

Thus did Mr. Bonnell difcharge the great Duty of Prayer, in every part of it, both Pablick and Private: And as he Pray'd without ceafing; fo he was a conftant and devout Gueft

Gueft at the Lord's-Table: And therefore I now come to fhew, what his Practice was, with Refpect to the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

He was very early touch'd, with a lively Senfe of his Obligations, to commemorate our Saviours Paffion, in that Holy Mystery; and I find from his own Meditations, that as he improv'd in Knowledge and Years, his Defires after that Divine Feaft, grew stronger ftill. For there he found all the endearing Comforts of Religion; God's Goodness difplay'd, and His Juftice fatisfi'd: The Contemplation of which, gives the truest Peace and Joy to Humble and Penitent Minds.

A great part of his Private Writings conift of Meditations, preparative to the Sacrament, or Thanksgivings after it: So that for feveral Years of his Life, hardly a Week paffed over, but he put down fome Communion Thoughts, in Writing; fome Meditation or Prayer, upon the Love of God to Mankind; or fome part of our Saviour's Life, or Sufferings; efpecially, during the late Troubles, when he needed the Supports of Religion moft, and feems to have enjoy'd them, in a greater degree than at other times.

After his Settling in Dublin, His conftant Practice for many Years, was, to Communicate twice every Month: Befide all the folemn Times, when the Holy Sacrament is adminiftred. But fuch longing Defires had he, after that facred Memorial of our SaviM 2

our's Love; that he cou'd not allow himfelf to want it, whenever it might be had; fo that at last, he Receiv'd every Lord'sDay.

Tho' his Life was a conftant Preparation for the Holy Communion, yet he had very ftrict and particular Retirements in order to put his Mind into that Divine Frame, which he judg'd so necessary, for that near and folemn Approach to God: And these happy Retirements, were employ'd in strict Examinations of his Life; and a severe enquiry after his smallest Failings; and the warmest Meditations upon the Love of God, and bitter Paffion of our Bieffed Saviour. And in his latter Years, he Lamented nothing more, than that his Time was fo taken up with Bufinefs, that his Retirements were interrupted; and confequently, his Thoughts not fo much his own, as they us'd to be And particularly, it troubled him, that he was often forc'd to be late at his Office upon Saturdays; left his going to the Sacrament next Day, might have an ill . Effect upon his Servants; and tempt them to prefume too far, and approach the Lord's Table, without fufficient Preparation : For tho' (as he wou'd fometimes fay) 1 fteal Minutes at my Office; they are not enough to fatisfie my Self, much less to give good Example to

Others.

As it was his great Study, to Prepare himfelf aright, for the Holy Sacrament, that fo he might come to it, with a truly Penitent

Heart,