and dwell in us as our Teacher and our Guide, our daily upholder, strength, and sanctifier.

Give unto us all the peace and hope, joy and comfort, holiness and strength connected with the blessed fact which we this day commemorate. While the cross of Christ expels from our minds all foolish, trifling thoughts, may the resurrection of Christ deliver us from all gloomy and desponding thoughts, and give us Christian cheerfulness and holy gladness. May we know that Jesus who was delivered for our offences, was raised again for our justification, and that righteousness shall be imputed unto us, if we believe on thee who hast raised him up again. May we be assured that being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. May we know that if when we were enemies we were reconciled to thee by his death, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. May we discern distinctly that Christ is the first-fruits of them that slept, that by him has come our resurrection; and as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. And O grant to every one of us to count all things else as loss, if we may but win Christ and be found in him, know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death, and so attain to the resurrection of the dead.

We pray also that our perception of our being buried with Christ in baptism and risen with him,

through faith of the operation of God, and of our quickening together with him, may be lively and experimental. May the forgiveness of all our trespasses and the blotting out of the handwriting of ordinances against us, and the nailing it to his cross, and his spoiling there of the principalities and powers of darkness, also be distinctly revealed to our souls. And thus grant that being risen with Christ we may ever seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at thy right hand; not setting our affections on things on the earth, but on things above. O that we may be dead to sin and the world, and that our life may be hid with Christ in thee; and so when Christ who is our life shall appear, we may hear his voice with joy, welcome his coming, and appear with him in glory. God Almighty grant it, for Jesus Christ's sake.

CXVI.

EVENING PRAYER.

He has redeemed our mouths a new

We will give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever. He has ransomed us from the power of the grave. us from death, and has put into song of triumph. O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory? Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

O blessed Jesus, who art the resurrection and the

life, in whom whosoever believeth, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in thee shall never die; increase our faith in this most comforting truth. Enable us with the whole heart to believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, who hast died for us and risen again, and art now seated at the right hand of the Father, ever living as our advocate and appearing in heaven for us.

Give us grace to remember that thou, O Jesus, of the seed of David, wast raised from the dead, redeeming our nature from the grave. Herein may we discern the fulfilment of prophecy, the glorifying of God our Father, the sure foundation laid for our hope of resurrection, our security from condemnation, and the certainty of our justification by faith in thee. O Jesus, help us by thy resurrection to realize all thy mediatorial offices, as our Prophet, Priest, and King, the satisfaction of divine justice, the full propitiation made for our sins, and the sure testimony of thy divine nature as the Son of God.

O merciful Father, grant that as we are buried with Christ by baptism unto death, even as Christ was raised up from the dead by thy glory, we also may now walk in newness of life; may we be planted together both in the likeness of his death and also in the likeness of his resurrection. O may we thus be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto thee, our God, through Jesus Christ our Lord, and yield our

selves unto thee as those that are alive from the dead, and our members as instruments of righteousness unto thee. Thus by the resurrection of Jesus may we attain more and more of spiritual life and blessedness, and be ourselves raised up together with him, and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Let not then the blessed doctrine of this day be regarded by us only as a yearly commemoration of a great and all-important event; but let it be a living principle of a holy life, daily remembered by us, and daily leading us to set our affections on things above. Give us firm and unshaken confidence in it as an unquestionable fact, most certainly assured to us, by faithful witnesses, and the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, and the triumphant progress of thy gospel, and its triumph over all its enemies. Give us to believe it with the heart, and joyfully to embrace the blessed truth as the sure pledge and earnest of our own resurrection.

And O, Almighty Father, who hast done such mighty works of love for us, thy sinful and rebellious creatures, fill our souls with holy gratitude, devout admiration, and full purposes of heart to live unto him who died and rose again. Strengthen mightily hereby our faith and hope in thee. May we joyfully say with thy apostle of old, Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It

is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at thy right hand, who also maketh intercession for us.

Give us thus full confidence that nothing shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. May this love ever dwell in us, and fill our whole soul with love to God and man. Strengthen us thus to fulfil our baptismal and communion vows and resolutions, and to be more than conquerors over all trials, difficulties, and temptations in life and in death, through him that loved us, till the last trumpet summon us in glorified resurrection bodies to meet the Lord in the air, and be with him for ever. Hear us for our Redeemer's sake.

CXVII.

WHITSUNDAY.

Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things, and blessed be his glorious name for ever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory.

We thank thee, O ascended Lord and Saviour Jesus, that, having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, thou didst so wondrously as on this day, fill thy disciples with the blessed gift, baptizing them with the Holy Ghost, and enabling them to go forth as thy ambassadors to all nations, speaking with new tongues, and proclaiming far and