He that hath lov'd us bears us through,
And makes us more than conqu'rors too.
Faith hath an overcoming power,
It triumphs in the dying hour;
Christ is our life, our joy, our hope;
Nor can we sink with such a prop.

Not all that men on earth can do,
Nor powers on high, nor powers below,
Shall cause his mercy to remove,

Or wean our hearts from Christ our love.

PRAYER

For Wednesday Morning.

Blessed Lord, thine we are, and thee we ought to serve. The obligations of thy law, and the endearments of thy love, render it our indispensable duty to be faithful in the work of the Lord. But, alas! we are unprofitable servants, and worse than unprofitable; for we have drank in iniquity like water, our provocations against thee are increased, and our trespasses are grown up unto the heavens.We have lived to ourselves, instead of living unto him who died for us, and rose again; we have not, as we ought to have done, glorified thee in our bodies, and in our spirits,

which are thine: and since it is not in man to recover and save himself, O enable us to look unto thee, in whom alone our help lies. In his name we come to thy throne of grace, hoping to obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need; for his sake we humbly entreat thy favour and the light of thy countenance, begging thee to be reconciled to us. and to be at peace with us, as a Father of mercies and a God of consolation. Lord, enable us to walk as becomes those upon whom thy name is called. May we be followers of Christ, as dear children, and adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. May thy almighty Spirit so write the law of holiness upon our minds, that it may be our meat and drink to do thy will; that we may hate all iniquity, and every false way; and resemble the blessed Jesus as our pattern, while we trust in his merits as our propitiation. Lord, make our service acceptable to thee while we live, and our souls ready for thee when we die. As long as we are in the world keep us from the evil of it, and from the snares and dangers to which we are continually exposed in our passage through it. O make our pilgrimage safe and sure through all the troubles, changes, and temptations of this mortal life, to the unchangeable glories

and felicities of the life everlasting. Be merciful to us this day. Keep us in all our ways, bless all our lawful undertakings, and grant that we may do nothing but what is agreeable to thy will concerning us. Set thy fear before our eyes all the day long, and put thy love into our hearts, that we may not depart from thee. Bless and preserve us in our going out and our coming in. May the angel of thy presence save us from all sin and danger. Hear and answer us, O Lord, for the sake of him who hath loved and redeemed us, even the Lord our righteousness, to whom be ascribed the kingdom, and power, and glory. Amen .The blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, be with us, and all that belong to us, this day and evermore. Amen.

HYMN.

With joy we meditate the grace
Of our high-priest above,
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bowels melt with love.

Touch'd with a sympathy within,
He knows our feeble frame,

He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he has felt the same.

He, in our days of feeble flesh,
Pour'd out his cries and tears,
And in his measure feels afresh
What every member bears.

He'll never quench the smoking flax,
But raise it to a flame;

The bruised reed he never breaks,
Nor scorns the meanest name.

Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power,
We shall obtain delivering grace
In the distressing hour.

PRAYER

For Wednesday Evening.

O thou Father of Mercies, and God of all comfort; how precious are thy thoughts towards us; how great is the sum of them !This day, and every day of our lives, we have tasted largely of thy mercy, and lived still upon thy fatherly care and bounty. Thou renewest thy favours continually, and art still pouring upon us innumerable benefits; and O our God, we esteem it one of the greatest of thy favours that we have liberty to come into thy presence, to call thee Father, and to inake known our requests to thee by prayer and supplication, with thanks

giving. We accept, O Lord, with all thankfulness, this thy great grace and loving-kindness to us; and here again we prostrate ourselves before thee this evening, to acknow/ledge thy goodness in making us capable of knowing and loving thee. To thee, therefore, be given by us, and all thy creatures, all honour and praise, love and obedience, as long as we have any being. To thee would we devoutly resign both soul and body, to be absolutely governed and ruled according to thy holy will and pleasure. We are heartily sorry that we have not done it from the very beginning of our lives till this time. We are ashamed to think of our ingratitude in following our own desires so long. We have done those things that we ought not to have done, and we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and there is no health in us. But our hope is in that infinite mercy that has spared us so long: open our eyes, we beseech thee, to see our transgressions, and touch our hearts with sorrow for sin all our hope is in that love that has redeemed us with so rich a price and not only for a pardon, which we earnestly implore according to thy promises in Christ Jesus, but for the powerful assistance of thy Holy Spirit to enable us to live as becomes thy children and the disciples of thy Son.