Bestow thy grace abundantly on my brethren and kinsmen, according to the flesh, my parents, brothers and sisters, and all my relatives, my servants, my Christian friends, neighbours, and connections. If any hate or revile me, Lord, teach me to bless them. If any despitefully use me or persecute me, I now pray to thee in their behalf. Father, forgive them, and do them good.

Look on the destitute and afflicted; let their afflictions lead them to thee, that they may find God their refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble; and though the chastening be grievous, may they experience that it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness.

Finally, O Lord God, quicken all those that are dead in trespasses and sins; grant that those beginning to know the truth may follow on to know the Lord, those that are weak in faith may wax strong, those that have backslidden may be healed, those that are strong may be confirmed more and more, and go from strength to strength till they appear in Sion. Thanks be to thee for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear. Shortly accomplish the number of thine elect, and hasten thy kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.*

PRIVATE EVENING PRAYER.

GRACIOUS and merciful God, slow to anger, great

Some have found it advantageous to give particular days for particular parts of intercession, as follows:--Sunday, Ministers and Christian Congregations.-MONDAY, Family.-TUESDAY, Relations, Friends, and Enemies.-WEDNESDAY, The King and Nation.-THURSDAY, Benevolent and Religious Societies. -FRIDAY, The Church throughout the World.-SATURDAY, Jews, Gentiles, and unconverted persons.

in power, and rich in mercy to all them that call upon thee, help me now so, in the name of Christ, to ask, that I may have; and so to seek, that I may find.

Enter not into judgment with me, O Lord, for in thy sight I cannot be justified. However unblameable I may appear before men, before Him who knows the heart, I confess and would mourn over innumerable sins in the past day, and in every day of my life.

I acknowledge with shame and sorrow my hypocrisy and pride, my vanity and selfishness, my unbelief and impatience, my self-indulgence and self-righteousness, my obstinacy and self-will, my disregard of thy law and thy glory, my living to myself and not to thee. And, O how hard is my heart, that feels so little the guilt and the evil of so many and such great sins?

Lord of all power and might, soften and break this hard heart. Give me a contrite spirit. There is mercy with thee. There is forgiveness with thee. O may thy great mercy be displayed towards me, in pardoning all my sins, and in renewing my soul. Give me penitence, faith, and self denial. Bestow on me the graces of sincerity, humility, and love.

May the love of Christ be more known and felt by me, and let it constrain me to live not to myself, but to him that died for me. Grant me thy Holy Spirit, teaching me those things of which I am ignorant, taking of the things of Christ to shew them unto me, and daily sanctifying my heart.

I ask for heavenly wisdom, holy simplicity, ardent zeal, and purity of heart. Incline me to study to be quiet, and to do my own business, and to work with my own hands. Prepare me, day by day, more and more, for the coming of our Lord Jesus Chirst. Make me meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light.

I commend myself to thy care during the night.-May I lay down at peace with thee through Christ, and in peace with all the world.

O Lord, though I be unworthy through my manifold transgressions to approach thee at all, yet thou hast commauded that intercessions be made for all men; hear me, therefore, unworthy though I be, in behalf of all that need my prayers. May the Lord comfort his people, and have mercy upon his afflicted. Let all nations whom thou hast made come and worship before thee and glorify thy name. Let every obstacle which may hinder the progress of thy truth be removed in mercy. Bless all the members of the Church of Christ, and all his ministers, and especially those with whom I am more intimately connected.

Give to my parents, my brothers, my sisters, and my relatives, all those temporal and spiritual blessings of which they stand in need. Bless my superiors, my companions, and all about me, Continue the blessing of peace to my country. Pardon any who may have injured me; and if I have injured any, may I be ready to confess my fault, and to make restitution for any wrong done, and may they be disposed to forgive me.

I would not, O thou gracious giver of every good, close my evening prayer, without offering up, through Christ Jesus, my sincerest thanksgiving for all the mercies of the past day. For any help vouchsafed in my duties; for any stand which I may have been enabled to make against sin, Satan, and the world; for any measure of light, knowledge, or grace, given unto me, all praise, all glory be to thee. If I am still kept in thy way, and yet spared from that ruin which I have deserved, while I live, let me praise and bless thee.

How great is the sum of thy mercies! When I look back on thy past blessings, when I read thy promises relating to that which is to come, and when I look around me on every side, and especially when I regard that cross on which thy Son died for sinners, I would say from the heart, My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever. Amen and Amen.

Hear me, for the only sake of Jesus Christ.

Our Father, &c.

ANOTHER PRIVATE EVENING PRAYER.

ALMIGHTY God, Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, according to thy gracious promise, give me thy Holy Spirit, to help my infirmities, and enable me, in the name, and through the mediation of thy Son Jesus Christ, our Lord, to call upon thee.

Great is thy goodness to us sinners, in that we, who have grievously offended thee, have such a mediator, who ever liveth to make intercession for us. Without a Saviour I can have no hope: for I have sinned against thee, and done evil in thy sight day by day.

I confess and mourn before thee the manifold sins of the past day.* I daily offend thee by pride, impenitence, hardness of heart, unbelief, and forgetfulness of thee, aud in many other ways; leaving undone the things which I ought to have done, and doing those which I ought not.

Lord, let thy Holy Spirit convince me of my sinfulness. I pray that I may see more of the extent of my iniquities, and feel more of their guilt. Thus may I be led to hate

* Here state those sins of which your conscience accuses you

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sin, and to feel the need and value of that Saviour who came to seek and to save that which was lost. that I may be a partaker of His great salvation. Whatever else I lose, may I win Christ, and be found in him.

Lord, I am unclean; if thou wilt thou canst make me clean. I believe that thou art able, I believe that thou art willing. Lord, help my unbelief; Lord, make me clean.

Give me, I beseech thee, such a sense of thy mercy in free forgiveness, through the blood of Christ, that I may be constrained to present my body a living sacrifice unto thee. Enable me daily to crucify the lusts of the flesh. Give me such a measure of thy grace, that all the powers of my mind, all the affections of my heart, all the members of my body, and all the talents entrusted to me, may be unreservedly engaged for thee. Lord, incline me to spend myself and be spent for thee: strengthen my desire to do so, and enable me ever hereafter to bring this desire to good effect.

Let the number of thy willing and devoted servants be every where increased. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth. Pour out thy Spirit upon all flesh, that all the ends of the earth may remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations may worship before thee. Let thy great name, now so little known, and so much profaned, be magnified and sanctified in every country and by every tongue.

Bless the land in which I dwell: its kings, its princes, its nobles, its senators, the ministers of Jesus Christ, and all its subjects. May we be a people fearing God and working righteousness. Look with thine especial favour on my relatives and friends, my family connec