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days of my life, to thy honour and glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord, in whose holy form of words I address thee as Our Father, &c.

The Blessing,

THE peace of God, which passeth all

understanding, keep my heart and mind in the knowledge and love of God, and of his son Jesus Christ our Lord; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, he with me now, and at the hour of my death, Amen..

When you lie down in your Bed.

I WILL lay me down in peace, and take my rest, for it is thou, Lord, only, that makest me dwell in safety; and into thy hands I commend my soul and my body, for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, thou everlasting God of Truth.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, now, and at the hour of death. Amen.

The following Meditations and Prayers are extracted from BISHOP ANDREWS.

FOR THE EVENING.

HAVING passed over the day, I render hearty thanks to thee, my God, for thy good providence. The evening now draws on, make thou it comfortable.

But, as each day has its evening, so likewise hath human life. Life's evening is old age; make thou this all comfortable.

O cast me not away in the time of age; neither forsake me when my strength faileth me. Even to hoary hairs do thou carry me. Thou hast made and hast sustained me hitherto, continue still to support and deliver

me.

Abide with me, my Jesus, for the time is far spent; yea, the shadows of the evening are stretched out, and the day is declining upon me.

Let thy strength, now especially, be made perfect in my weakness: for, as

the day, so life is near its end; a life wherein we scarcely live.

The night posts on apace: so doth that death, of which night is the image; a night, after which, in this world, we must expect no morning.

In constant remembrance, and due sense whereof, I earnestly entreat thee, blessed Lord, to order such an end of this life for me, as may be truly Christian; acceptable to thee, perfectly void of sin and shame, and, so far as thou seest fit, free from extreme pain too. So gathering me to the remainder of thy elect, in peace and innocence, at thy own time, and after thy own way; only let it be free from guilt and from reproach.

LET me always be mindful, that the days of darkness are many: and let this thought excite me to finish my work with diligence, before that night overtake me, wherein no man can work.

Judgment moves also towards me; grant me, good Lord, a favourable issue at that most awful and important tribunal.

I WILL lift up my hands by night in the sanctuary, and will praise the Lord.

The Lord hath commanded his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night-season also my song shall be of him, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

As long as I live will I magnify thee in this manner, and lift up my hands in thy name.

O let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sa crifice.

BLESSED art thou, O Lord our God and the God of our Fathers, who hast ordained the successions of light and darkness; who makest thy saints to rejoice upon their beds; who hast delivered me from the perils of this day; and now cut off my life like a weaver's web, nor wasted me with pining sickness from morning until night.

FOR NIGHT.

WEARIED with the labours and cares of the past day, I come to thee, my God, for quiet and repose, and new supplies of strength to droopin

nature..

Lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death: Defend me from the terrors of the night, and from the pestilence that walketh in darkness.

O thou keeper of Israel, that neither slumberest nor sleepest, preserve me this night from all manner of evil; yea, do even thou preserve my soul.

Visit me also with the favour which thou bearest unto thy chosen; and teach me thy will in the visions of the night.

Or if I be not (as I confess I am not) worthy of so distinguishing a favor, yet, O most kind and merciful Lord, let this season of rest be an entire cessation to me, as well from sin as from labour and sorrow; and suffer not any thought to surprise my unguarded mind, which is

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