very hearts before thee as our Heavenly Fa-ther through Jesus Christ. As thou hast taught us to meet together, and in our poor and imperfect manner to offer up our supplications and praises day by day; O Lord, grant that we may become more spiritual, more acquainted with thy blessed gospel, may we love thy ways and ordinances with increasing delight, hate sin with a more perfect hatred, and become more and more fit for thy eternal kingdom. O make us love to pray unto thee, and to praise thy name! Angels love to sing thy praise; thy servants on earth love to worship thee; O may we be numbered among them in glory everlasting! Amen.

Meditation for Tuesday Morning.

"Seek first the kingdom of God.”—Matt. vi. 33,

O what a blessed change would it make in our hearts and lives, did we but firmly believe this truth, that the best way to be comfortably provided for in this world, is to be most intent upon another world. If we give diligence to make sure to ourselves the kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, as to all the things of this life, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord, will provide as much as he sees good for us, and more we should not wish for. Have we trusted him with the portion of our

inheritance at the end, and shall we not trust him for the portion of our cup in the way to it? O that we were more thoughtful about things that are not seen, that are eternal, and then the less thoughtful we shall be, and the less thoughtful we shall need to be, about the things that are seen, that are temporal! "The kingdom of God and his righteousness." Wemust mind heaven as our end, and holiness as our way; God's righteousness, the righteousness which he requires to be wrought in us, and wrought by us, "seek first." Let the care for your souls and another world take place of all other cares: we must seek the things of Christ more than our own things; and if even they come in competition, we must remember which we are to give the preference to; seek these things first, first in thy days; let the morning of youth be dedicated to God. Wisdom must be sought early; it is good beginning betimes to be religious. Seek this first every day; let waking thoughts be of God; aim at the kingdom of heaven, press towards it, give diligence to make it sure; resolve not to take up short of it! Seek for this glory, honour, immortality! We make nothing of our religion if we do not make heaven of it.

HYMN.

My God, my portion and my love,
My everlasting all,

I've none but thee in heaven above,
Or on this earthly ball.

• What empty things are all the skies,
And this inferior clod!

There's nothing here deserves my joys,
There's nothing like my God.

In vain the bright, the burning sun,
Scatters his feeble light;

'Tis thy sweet beams create my noon;
If thou withdraw, 'tis night.
And whilst upon my restless bed
Amongst the shades I roll,
If my Redeemer show his head,
'Tis morning with my soul.

To thee we owe our wealth and friends,
And health and safe abode,
Thanks to thy name for meaner things,
But they are not my God.

How vain a toy is glittering wealth
If once compared to thee?
Or what's my safety, or my health,
Or all my friends to me?
Were I possessor of the earth,
And call'd the stars my own,
Without thy graces and thyself,
I were a wretch undone.

Let others stretch their arms like seas,
And grasp in all the shore,
Grant me the visits of thy face,
And I desire no more.

PRAYER

For Tuesday Morning.

With sorrowful, humble, and penitent hearts, we cast ourselves down before thee, O most holy and merciful Father, confessing that we have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and are no more worthy to be called thy children: we remember, in the bitterness of our souls, how many obligation: thou hast laid upon us to love and serve thee; how often have we acknowledged the wisdom and goodness of thy commands; and how frequently have we promised and vowed to conform ourselves to them! And yet again and again has the slightest temptation drawn us aside from thy way. But again would we return unto thee saying-take away from us all iniquity, receive us graciously, and love us freely; withdraw not the sweet influence of thy Holy Spirit from thy unworthy servants, who entirely confide in thy mercy; hide not thy face from us; put not away thy servants in anger. Hast thou not promised to give power to the faint, and to increase the strength of them that have no might?

We desire not only pardon of our sins, but a divine power to enable us to subdue them; and that our repentance may be such as need not be repented of. We desire no peace, O Lord, but in keeping thy law. O settle us, we beseech thee, in this holy disposition, that we may be kept in thy favour and love, by a happy agreement with thy will and pleasure in all things. Sanctify our understandings, that we may rightly conceive thy holy truths, and fully apprehend them: sanctify our memory, that we may keep in mind all that we know of thee, and of thy blessed will revealed to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. Sanctify our will, that it may cheerfully embrace, and entirely consent to thine in all things; and sanctify all our affections, that we may love thee with all our heart, and soul, and strength, and delight in thee more than in all the pleasures of this life. Sanctify our passions, that we may be angry at nothing so much as having displeased thee. Sanctify us throughout in body, as well as in spirit, that we may possess it in holiness and honour; and may all

our senses administer occasion to our minds to remember thee, to praise thee, and to bless thee. Fortify our wills with the power of thy divine love, that we may overcome all sensual affections, and possess us with such a lively

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