DEVOTIONS

FOR

Several Occafions

ORDINARY,

AND

EXTRAORDINARY.

PHIL. iv. Verse vi.

Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by Prayer and Supp ication,with Thanksgiving, let your Requests be made known unto God.

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Additional Devotions.

A Prayer for Christmas Day.

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Bleffed Lord, who as upon this Day tookeft our Nature upon thee, and waft born of a pure Virgin,keep me from defiling my felf with finful Pollutions, or abufing it or embralling it to Satan; let thy Spirit quicken me, thy Flefh nourifh me, thy Wisdom guide me, thy Grace fanctifie me: Let thy Holy Ghost of whom thou waft conceived, beget thee in me, by the Immortal Seed of thy Word, let my Faith conceive thee, my Profeffion bring thee forth, my Love embrace thee, and Devotion entertain, and continually keep thee with me, until thy fecond Coming. Amen.

A Prayer for New Year's Day.

Lord, who this Day was circumcifed and bleedeft for my Sin

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have Pity and Compaffion on me, who with weeping Eyes and a bleeding Heart come unto thee, befeeching thee that thofe Drops of Blood which fell from thee this Day may fatisfie for the Sin of my unworthy Birth, and as thou haft began a new Year, begin in me a new Reformation; make me, I beseech thee, a clean Heart, and renew a right Spirit within me; let me now caft off the old Man, and put on the new; and from this Day to the end of my Life, walk in Newness of Life, that I may become a fit Guest to be admitted into the new Heaven where dwelleth Righteoufnefs, to be entertained at thy Table, and drink new Wine with thee in thy Heavenly Kingdom for evermore. Amen.

A Prayer for Twelfth-day.

God, thou Light of all the World who guideft the Heathen Sages by a Star to feek after thee, give me Grace to hearken to thee more fure Word of Prophefie in thy holy Scripture,. till the Day dawn, and the Day ftar arife in my Heart, the Star guided them, till 1 they approached thy Prefence, fo, O Lord,

Lord, let the Light of Faith guide me in all the Paths of this Life, even till I come to behold thee, not in a poor Stable littered with Straw and Dung, but in Cæleftial Palace founded upon Pearls, and built with Saphires, nor receiving a Present of Gold which fades away, but wearing a never-fading Crown of Glory; not ha ving a quantity of Frankincenfe and Myrrh in thy Hand, but a Golden Cenfer full of fweet Odours, which are the Praises of thy Saints and Angels; amongst which I beseech thee offer up the Prayers of me a Sinner, that I may become a Saint in thy Heavenly Kingdom. Amen.

A Prayer for Ah-wednesday.

Eternal God, who did faft forty Days in the Wilderness, accept of my Humiliation thefe forty Days; ard grant that I may not only fall from accustomed Meats, but that all my Senfes may be reftrained from their ufual Affections of this World, let no Object de light me till I behold my Sins removed like a Mift, and the Light of thy Countenance fhine upon me: Let no Sound or Voice delight my Ear till I hear thee

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