rate, do wonderfully exceed all the temporal blessings commemorated by the Jews; Oh! that our love and thankfulness, our devotion and zeal, may likewise proportionably exceed theirs that so by a due observance of Thy Sabbath here on earth, we may be fitted to keep an eternal Sabbath with Thee hereafter in Thy Heavenly Kingdom.

In a more particular manner I implore the assistance of Thy Holy Spirit to dispose and prepare me for the devout observance of the Lord's day now approaching. Possess my mind with awful apprehensions of Thine adorable excellencies; and with a grateful sense of Thine innumerable favours conferred upon me, and Thy whole Church. Make me to know and feel, how amiable Thy tabernacles are, O Thou Lord of Hosts! that my soul may desire and longing to enter into Thy courts, and my heart and my flesh may rejoice in the Living God.

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And vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, to assist me with Thy Grace, to serve Thee acceptably, with reverence and godly fear; to worship Thee in spirit and in truth; to pray unto Thee with a sincere and fervent devotion; and to praise Thee, and give Thee thanks from the ground of my heart.

And, O blessed Lord! Who hast caused all

holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; grant that I may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them; that by patience, and comfort of Thy holy word, I may embrace, and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which Thou hast given ns in our Saviour Jesus Christ: To whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

SECTION II.

Private DEVOTIONS for the MORNING, AFTERNOON, and EVENING of the LORD'S DAY.

FOR THE MORNING.

EVERY one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of My covenant; Even them (saith the Lord) will I bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon Mine altar; for Mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people ".

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil".

If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

a Isai. lvi. 6, 7. b Ibid. lvi. 2. ́Isai. lviii. 13, 14.

Prayer consisting of preparatory acts of adoration, and devout supplications for the pardon of our sins and the assistance of God's Holy Spirit.

BLESSING, honour, adoration and praise be unto Thee, O Almighty and most Glorious Lord God! the High and Holy One, Who inhabitest eternity, and art exalted infinitely above all blessing and praise!

Thou, even Thou art Lord alone! Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their host, the earth and all things that are therein, the sea and all that therein is! Thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth Thee!

Thousand thousands minister unto Thee! Ten thousand times ten thousand stand before Thee!

Angels, arch-angels, and all celestial powers to Thee continually do cry Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty! Which was, and is, and is to come! Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are, and were created!

Lord! What am I, sinful dust and ashes! that I should dare to lift up mine eyes unto Thee; before Whose glorious Majesty, even those pure and blessed spirits veil their faces!

Pardon, I humbly beseech Thee, mine innumerable transgressions of Thy holy laws, which might justly cause Thee to shut Thy merciful ears against all my prayers, and to cast me out of Thy presence for ever.

Pardon, O God, all the sins I have been guilty of in the course of my life, against Thee, my neighbour, or myself, in thought, word, or deed; my sins of ignorance and inadvertency, and my wilful presumptuous sins; those which I have done myself; and those which I have been any way accessory to in others.

O Lord, pardon also the iniquities of my holy things; my coldness, wanderings, and indevotions in prayer; mine irreverent behaviour in Thy house, and weariness of Thy service; my backwardness to come to Thy holy table; my coming thither at any time without due preparation; and my repeated violations of the solemn vows and promises I have made at Thine altar.

O my God, pardon all mine abuses of Thy mercies, and the unworthy returns I have made to all Thy benefits.

Pardon, I beseech Thee, my shameful unfruitfulness hitherto under all the means of grace and make me more careful to improve all future opportunities; that as I grow in years, I may grow in grace; and the nearer I