servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life: For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Let not sin reign in your mortal bodies, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under Grace.

Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness, according to the cies, do away mine offences. wickedness, and be sorry for

multitude of thy merFor I will confess my my sin. O Lord, I

am not worthy to be accounted among the meanest of thy servants; not worthy to be sustained by the least fragments of thy inercy, but to be shut out of thy presence for ever with unbelievers. But for thy name's sake, O Lord, be merciful unto my sin, for it is great.

O God, how can I expect pity or pardon, who am so angry and peevish with, and without, cause, envious at good, rejoicing at the evil of my neighbors, negligent of my duty, idle and useless, ambitious and hard-hearted; indevout, often, in my prayers, without attendance to them or perseverance in them; but passionate and curious in pleasing my appetite of meat, and drink, and pleasures: I have reaped the cursed fruits of such improvidence, entertaining indecent and impure thoughts: and the spirit of uncleanness hath entered in, and unhallowed the temple which thou didst conseerate for the habitation of thy Spirit of love and

holiness.

holiness. But for thy name's sake, O Lord, be merciful unto my sin, for it is great.

Thou hast given me a whole life to serve thee in, and to advance my hopes of heaven: and this precious time I have thrown away upon my sins and vanities, being improvident of my time and of my talent, resisting and quenching thy holy Spirit. I have been a great lover of myself, and yet used many ways to destroy myself. I have pursued my temporal ends with greediness and indirect means. I am revengeful and unthankful, forgetting benefits, but not so soon forgetting injuries. I have not loved my neighbor's good, nor advanced it in all things where I could. I have been unlike thee in all things. I am unmerciful and unjust; a sottish admirer of things below, and careless of heaven and the ways that lead thither. But for thy name's sake, O Lord, be merciful unto my sin, for it is great.

My senses have been windows to let sin in, and death by sin. Mine ears have been open to slander and detraction; my tongue intemperate, talkative, and lying, rash and malicious, false and flattering, irreligious and irreverent, detracting and censorious; my hands have been injurious and unclean, my passions violent and rebellious, my desires impatient and unreasonable, all my members and all my faculties have been servants of sin; and my very best actions have more matter of pity than of confidence, being imperfect in my best, and intolerable in most. But for thy name's sake, O Lord, be merciful unto my sin, for it is great.

Unto

Unto this and a far greater number of sins, I have added, also, the faults of others, by neglecting to hinder them to sin in all that I could and ought; but I, also, have encouraged them in sin, have taken off their fears, and hardened their consciences, and tempted them directly, and prevailed in it to my own ruin and theirs, unless thy glorious and unspeakable mercy hath prevented so intolerable a calamity.

Lord, I have abused thy mercy, despised thy judgments, turned thy Grace into wantonness. I have been unthankful for thy infinite loving kindness, I have sinned and repented, and then sinned again, and resolved against it, and presently broken it; and then I tied myself up with vows, and then was tempted, and then I yielded by little and little, till I was, willingly, lost again, and my vows fell off like cords of vanity.

Miserable man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of sin?

My secret sins, O Lord, are innumerable; sins I noted not, sins that I, willingly, neglected, sins that I have forgot, and sins which a diligent and watchful spirit might have prevented, but I would not. Lord, I am confounded with the multitude of them, and the horror of their remembrance, though I consider them, nakedly, in their direct ap pearance, without the deformity of their aggravating circumstances; but they are, every way, a sight too ugly, an instance of amazement, infinite in degrees, and insufferable in their load.

And yet thou hast spared me all this while, and

hast

hast not thrown me into hell, where I have deserved to have been long since, and even now to have been shut up to an eternity of torments with insupportable amazement, awaiting the revelation of the day of God.

Miserable creature that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of sin?

Thou shalt answer for me, O Lord my God, Thou that prayest for me, shalt be my Judge.

The Prayer.

THOU hast prepared for me a more healthful sorrow: O deny not thy servant when he begs sorrow of thee. Give me a deep contrition for my sins, a hearty detestation and loathing of them, hating them worse than death with torments. give me Grace, intsantly, and for ever, to forsake them; to walk with care and prudence, with fear and watchfulness all my days; to do all my duty with diligence and charity; with zeal and a never fainting spirit; to redeem the time, to trust in thy mercy, to make use of all the instruments of Grace, to work out my Salvation with fear and trembling; that thou mayst have the glory to pardon all my sins, and I may reap the fruit of all thy mercies and all thy graces, of thy patience and long-suffering, even to live a holy life here, and to reign with Thee for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

SUNDAY

SUNDAY MORNING.

THE Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not

want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me besides the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies, thou anointest my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.

But thy loving kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

One thing have I desired of the Lord, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to visit his Temple.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion, in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me, and set me upon a rock.

Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing and speak praises unto the Lord.

The Lord is my light and my Salvation, whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?

Examine,