crownest every day with thy tender mercies. We bless thee for the rest, protection, and preservation, of the last night. O cause us to hear of thy loving-kindness in the morning, for in thee do we trust: make us to know the way wherein we should go, for we lift up our souls unto thee. Cast us not away from thy presence; take not thy Holy Spirit from us : but direct our hearts into thy love, and our feet into the way of thy testimonies. Whether we eat, or drink, or whatever we do, may we do all to the glory of God, and walk as seeing him who is invisible. Command thy angels to encamp around us, and to bear us in their hands; and may their God and ours be the strength of our hearts, the guide of our ways, and our portion for ever and ever. Amen.

HYMN.

How shall the young secure their hearts
And guard their lives from sin ?
Thy word the choicest rules imparts
To keep the conscience clean.

When once it enters to the mind,
It spreads such light abroad,
The meanest souls instruction find,
And raise their thoughts to God.

'Tis like the sun, a heavenly light, That guides us all the day;

And through the dangers of the night, A lamp to lead our way.

The men that keep thy law with care,
And meditate thy word,

Grow wiser than their teachers are,
And better know the Lord.

Thy precepts make me truly wise;
I hate the sinner's road :

I hate my own vain thoughts that rise,
But love thy law, my God.

The starry heavens thy rule obey, The earth maintains her place; And these thy servants night and day Thy skill and power express.

But still thy law and gospel, Lord,
Have lessons more divine :

Not earth stands firmer than thy word,
Nor stars so nobly shine.

Thy word is everlasting truth;

How pure is every page!

That holy book shall guide our youth,

And well support our age.

PRAYER

For Wednesday Evening.

Heavenly Father, we rejoice that under all our sinfulness, and weakness, and danger, we have a throne of grace to go to, for mercy to pardon and grace to help in every time of need. We would not, O Lord, turn thy grace into wantonness, or make our weakness an excuse for negligence and sloth. We confess thou hast already given us more strength than we have used; and we charge it upon ourselves, and not on thee, that we have not received more abundant supplies. We desire for the future, to be found more diligent in the use of all appointed means; be pleased to shed abroad thy sanctifying influences on our souls, to form us for every duty which thou requirest. Plant every Christian grace and virtue deep in our hearts, and maintain and strengthen them amidst all the assaults both from within and without.

Help us to remember, at all times, that every secret of our souls is open to thee; and to guard against the first rising of sin and the first approaches to it; and that Satan may not find room for his evil suggestions, we pray that thou, Lord, wilt fill our hearts with thy

Spirit, and take up thine abode there! Dwell in us and walk with us, and let our bodies be the temples of the Holy Ghost.

May we be so joined to Christ Jesus our Lord, as to become one spirit with him; that we may so wait upon the Lord as to renew our spiritual strength, to run without weariness, to walk without fainting; going on from one degree of faith and love to another, till we appear perfect before thee in Zion.

While we are here, we are surrounded with dangers and difficulties. Blessed God, to thine almighty power we flee; let thy grace be sufficient for us, and thy strength made perfect in our weakness. We dare not say, we will never forsake or deny thee; but we hope we can say, we would not do it. O root out those corruptions from our hearts, which in an hour of pressing temptation, might make us fall.

Strengthen our faith, O Lord; encourage our hope, and inspire us with an heroic resolution, in opposing every thing that obstructs us in our way to heaven; keep us at all times by thy mighty power. Wherever thou leadest us there let us follow, and whatever station thou appointest for us, there let us labour. In the midst of dangers and discouragements may we look unto Jesus, the captain of our salvation, and be made at last more than con

querors through him that loved us. Now unto him that is able to keep us from falling, and to do for us more than we can ask, conceive, or think, to him be glory for ever. Amen.

Meditation for Thursday Morning.

"Blessed are they that mourn for they shall "be comforted.”—Matt. v. 4.

Would we learn, who are truly blessed, we must look into our Bibles, we must sit at the feet of Jesus; there we shall find, that the first step to blessedness lies in being poor in spirit, and in mourning for sin; and the next step to that felicity is, to be daily and earnestly supplicating the throne of grace, for an interest in the love of God, through Christ; there we shall learn to look upon the pardon of sin, and an interest in the blessing of the life to come; the purity and holiness of our hearts, the supports of divine grace, communion with God in the instruction of his worship in this world, and the perfection of holiness, glory, and joy, which the gospel promises, in the next, as, indeed, the only real happiness!

Do thou, my soul, choose this better part; be not afraid of those convictions that would

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