ut lafting charity's more ample fway, Nor bound by time, nor fubject to decay; En happy triumph fhall for ever live,

And endless good diffufe, and endless praife receive. ben conftant faith, and boly hope shall die, One loft in certainty, and one in joy :

bile thou, more happy power, fair charity, riumphant fifter, greatest of the three; by office and thy nature ftill the fame, Lafting thy lamp, and unconfum'd thy flame; balt ftill furvive

halt ftand before the host of heav'n confeft, For ever bleffing and for ever bleft.

Another.

HOW bleft the man whose bowels move
And melt with pity to the poor;

hofe foul with fympathifing love
Feels what his fellow faints endure.
His heart contrives for their relief
More good than his own hands can do
He in the time of gen'ral grief
Shall find the Lord has bowels too.
His foul fhall live fecure on earth,
With fecret bleffings on his head,
ben drought, and peftilence, and dearth,
Around him multiply their dead.

rif be languish on his couch,
God will pronounce his fins forgiv'n;
Pill fave him with a healing touch,
Or take his willing foul to heav'n.
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The Prayer, on Friday Evening.

For love and charity to all men.

Lmighty and everlasting God, the creator and governor of all things, who knoweft our neceffities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking; grant that all reasonable creatures who fear and obey thee, and are capable of understanding the greatnefs and glory of thy attributes, may unfeignedly admire and adore thee, and express their veneration and praises of thee, in ways most suitable to the condition of their nature, and the discoveries of thy divine will, revealed to us by thy fon Jefus Chrift.

O Lord, who haft taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth; fend thy holy ghoft, and pour into my heart that moft excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which, who foever liveth is counted dead before thee; more especially, as I have prefumed to commemorate the unfpeakable love of my bleffed faviour in dying for me, let not my heart be deftitute of love toward my brethren; extend thy mer

cy and forgiveness to all mine enemies, perfecutors and flanderers, and turn their hearts;

which I as fincerely beg for them, as I hope for mercy and forgiveness at thy hands.

Poffefs me with kindnefs and good-will for all mankind, that my faith may work by love, and difpofe my heart, according to my ability, to adminifter toward the wants and neceflities of thofe, who are any ways afflicted or diftreffed in mind, body, or eftate, and do unto all men as I would they should do unto me; and bydoing good for evil, all men may know that I am thy difciple.

Oh! vouchfafe, I befeech thee, that all mankind may come to the knowledge and belief of thy true religion, that fo the kingdom of Christ may be extended over all the earth; and the eternal laws of godliness, righteousness, charity, and fobriety, may be established throughout the whole world, to thy glory and the falvation of all mankind. For which end, grant that all who profefs this thy true religion may live in perfect obedience to the laws thereof; and that men, as the infirmities of their nature will permit, may obey thee with proportionable fincerity and conftancy, as do the fpirits of the bleffed faints

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lives, as many of the things of this prefent world, as are fufficient for our necessary subfiftence, and for the useful and innocent conveniencies of life, forgiving us our fins, and withholding the punishments we have thereby deserved; in like manner as we freely and heartily for thy fake forgive all those injuries and offences, which we have received from others.

Let all the causes and occafions of temptations ceafe from us, or elfe deliver us from the power of them; that we may not be moved either with the inticements of riches, honours or pleasures; or with the fear of want, difgrace or pain, to do any thing knowingly contrary to thy will; and deliver us from all the evils and calamities which either the malice of the devil, or the wickedness or the misfortunes of the world might bring upon us, and fet us at variance with thee, our God, or thy fervant, our fellowcreature and I moft earnestly offer up thefe my petitions, becaufe, O God, I know that thou canst and wilt do more for us than we can defire or deserve, who art infinite in power, glory, majefty, and bountiful mercy, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen.

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The Meditation for SaturdayMorning. Upon fafting before receiving the holy facrament.

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Let every man be fully perfuaded in his own mind.-He that eateth, eateth to the Lord; for he giveth God thanks: and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. Rom. xiv. 5, 6.

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My foul! thou knoweft that the flesh is weak, and easily surprised; too often carried about with every wind of doctrine: thou haft had many conflicts with me, but fince thou haft brought me into fubjection to the fpirit, I am always ready to follow the dictates thereof. But, my foul! thou demandeft one thing of me which is not fpiritual, it is altogether corporal.

2. Thou requireft me to come fafting to the holy table of the fupper of our Lord. If it be neceffary to falvation, I will; but if you confider the inftitution, nothing of that kind is neceffary; for it was inftituted after supper : nor has the church made any rule about it. Where therefore neither the laws of God nor those of our fuperiors have obliged us, we must ufe our prudence, and do what we find best. 3. There are these things, O my foul! I fhall propofe in this cafe; if you find that my fafting

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