Earth by thy Power, eftablish'd the World by thy Wifdom, and ftretched out the Heavens by thy Difcretion; the Father of Eternity, and Fountain of Mercy; the Giver of all good things, the Forgiver of Sins, and the Comforter of all fuch as fly unto thee. Lord, we are prefent here before thee, be thou prefent with us, and prefident among us; we' appeal from the Seat of thy Juftice, to the Throne of thy Mercy, befeeching thee to give us a Senfe of our own Mifcries, and an Affurance of thy Mercies; let us not be poffeffed with over-much. Fear, but that with a holy Confidence of thy Goodness, we may with Joy appear in thy Prefence,with an humble Acknowledg-1 ment of our Sins.

To this End, we confefs that we have, finned against Heaven and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy Children; we have tranfgreffed thy. holy Laws and Commandments, not only by our Thoughts and Words, but by our Deeds and Actions; our Iniquities are more in number than the Hairs of our Head, and make us feem vile in our own Eyes, but much more in thy fight. Lord unto thee we confess our Sins, O grant us Pardon and Abfolution for

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them; open unto Penitents that everftreaming Fountain of thy Son's Blood that our Sins being bathed therein, we may appear without Blemish in thy fight; by his Death mortifie our finful Corruptions, hide them in his Wounds, and bury them in his Grave, that they may never rife in this Life to fhame us, nor in the World to come to condemn us.

Give us thy Holy Spirit; let him purge our Confciences, heal our Corruptions, Illuminate our Understandings, Confirm our Memories, and confecrate our Souls and Bodies, that they may be fit Temples for thy Holy Ghoft to dwell in. Be merciful to thy Church, and en. large our Borders; fhower down the choiceft of thy Bleffings upon the Head. and Heart of thy Servant, our Soveraign Lord, King GEORGE, Blefs him with Length of Days here, and with a Crown of Glory hereafter. Blefs his Royal Highness the Prince, with all the Reft of the Royal Family. Blefs the Nobility, Gentry, Ministry, Magiftracy and Commonality, or Relations in the Flesh, and Friends in the Spirit; protect all. that ftand up for thy Truth; but as for thy Foes,

Foes, let them be afhamed and confound. ed.

And now feeing thou haft brought the Night upon us, wherein thou haft. ordained Man to reft in, we humbly befeech thee, who art the Keeper of ifrael, who never flumbreft nor fleepest, to watch over us by thy Providence, caufe thy holy Angels to pitch their Tents round about us, that being freed from the Terrors of the Night, and refreshed with moderate Reft and Sleep, we may the better be enabled to praise thy Name, and to walk before thee in all good Works and Holiness of Converfation all the Days. of our Lives. Let our Bed, O Lord, put us in mind of our Grave, and our rifing from thence of our Refurrection, that whether we wake or fleep, we may be always thine.

And knowing that thy Name, O Lord, is a frong Tower of Defence, we here commend our felves this Night to thy moft holy Protection: If it be thy Divine Will to call any of us hence in our Sleep, O Lord, for thy Son's fake, have Mercy upon us, and receive our Souls into thy most blessed Kingdom; but if it be thy heavenly Pleasure to add more Days unto our Lives; add more

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A Collect for the Night.

Nto thy Hands, O Father, we commend our Spirits, for thou haft redeemed us, O thou God of Truth; into thy moft merciful Tuition, and Gracious Prefervation do we commend our felves, our Souls and Bodies, our Relations, our Goods and good Name, all ours, and all that call upon thy Name. Lord, be thou prefent with them and us, and about our Beds unto our Lives end; let not our Fantafies be troubled with vain Imaginations, nor the Dreams and Vifions of our Heads, like Nebuchadnezzar's, make us afraid, but give us quiet and comfortable Reft, that our Souls and Bodies being res frefhed, we may when we awake laud, and praise thee, and joyfully perform the Bu finefs of the next Day in our particular Callings.

Let our whole Life be Serving and Glorifying of thee, that we may live in hy Fear, dye in thy Favour, and reft

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from all our Labours, and be bleft with thy glorious Vision, enjoying the Prefence of our bleffed Saviour, the Comfort of thy Holy Spirit, and the Commu. nion of thy most holy Saints and Angels, that we, together with them, may afcribe unto thee, the Glory of our Redemption: from Sin, Satan, Hell and Death, World without end.. Amen.

Prayers for feveral Perfons.

The Husband's Prayer.

Moft gracious God, have Mercy upon me, and upon all thofe which appertain unto me: In the beginning thou didst institute Marriage, for the Propagation of Mankind, a Remedy to avoid un lawful Luft, and for the mutual Comfort and Confolation of thy Children; give me O Heavenly Father,I humbly beseech thee, the Affiftance of thy Grace, that I may ac cording to thy Commandments, love and cherish her whom thou haft allotted for my Help and Comfort in this Life.

Mortifie in me all flefly Lufts,

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