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energy and virtue, thou shalt sustain, unhurt and fearless, the enraged assaults of thy spiritual enemies-Death himself shall see his envenomed shafts fall, harmless, at thy feet, and behold thee, contemning his enraged efforts, enter on the felicities of an immortal kingdom. Glorious triumphs of Christian faith! O my soul! aim at obtaining the highest energies of this divine and exalted virtue.Cultivate a lively sense of thy degeneracy and guilt-Cherish glowing and sublime views of the mercy and power of Christ. Implore the quickening Spirit of grace to unite thee, to thy Saviour, by a consoling, holy and triumphant faith. Behold! seated on the throne of mercy erected on the altar, he now waits to bless thee with his love. Opening, to the guilty sons of men, the living fountain of salvation, he invites them to "come and drink of the waters of life freely." "Without mo-, ney and without price," he dispenses the rich blessings of his grace. Urgently needing his mercy, O my soul, refuse not the pressing solicitations of his love. Weak and humble as thy faith may be, if it has only awakened a conviction of thy need of a Saviour, and a desire to partake of the blessings of his salvationgo-and he, who came not "to break the bruised reed," or to reject the desire of the humblest of his children, will encircle thee with the arms of his mercy-will cherish, by

his grace, thy feeble' and expiring faith, until, vigorous and triumphant, it reposes on him, in the fulness of peace, hope, and salvation.

THE PRAYER.

O MOST Bleffet and Glorious Lord God! who, in infinite compassion and mercy, haft given thine only Son to be the Saviour of mankind, and art in him reconciling the world unto thyfelf, not imputing unto us our trefpaffes and fins; teach me, with deep humility and lively gratitude, to adore and bless thee for the tranfcendent difplay of grace and mercy in the plan of falvation through Jefus Chrift. May this adorable mystery of love engage my profound contemplations, and my lively and exalted affections. May my moft fervent defires be excited, my moft earneft exertions roused, to obtain the inestimable bleffings of this great falvation. Inspire me, O God, with that lively faith, which will unite me to the Redeemer, and be the pledge of my forgiveness and everlasting redemption. Teach me humbly to adore thy fovereign will, in requiring faith in thy Son, as the indispensable condition of thy mercy. Enable me to form profound, juft, and lively views of this exalted virtue. May I not reft contented in a nominal acknowledgement of the Saviour, in a fpeculative and unfruitful belief in his doctrines, or in an indistinct and general view of his character and offices. O teach me, that these external, fuperficial and imperfect views of Chrift, thy bleffed Son, while they prefumptuoufly difhonour his dignity and glory, will not stand the awful scrutiny, of thy juftice; will not convey peace and confolation to my foul; or entitle me to the exalted joys of thy fa

vour. Teach me to lay the foundation of my faith, in a deep and humbling conviction of my unworthiness and guilt. And when thus awakened and alarmed, O do thou enlighten me to difcern the excellence and glory of Chrift Jefus, and to apply his precious blood, to the confolation and peace of my foul. May I difcern the all-fufficiency of his merits, the perfection of his righteousness, the fulness of his grace, his ability and willingness to fave. May I cordially, joyfully, and ftedfaftly repofe on him as the Almighty Mediator, by whofe righteousness alone I can be juftified, by whofe Spirit alone, fanctified and faved. May my faith, by the fweet but powerful constraints of love and duty, purify my heart, raise me above the unhallowed gratifications of the world, and form in my foul, the holy graces and virtues which will prepare me for the exalted fruition of thy prefence. Thy grace, alone, Almighty God, can inspire and perfect my faith-earnestly I implore thy quickening and fanctifying strength. Lead me humbly and thankfully to that spiritual banquet where, every holy grace of the foul is nourished and ftrengthened, by the body and blood of thy Son. There, O God, may I feal, through faith, my title to thy favour; there, may the fmiles of thy reconciled countenance be fhed upon me; and there, may my weak and humble faith be quickened to the holy triumphs of joyful affurance and hope, through the mighty power of that Redeemer, who, as the eternal Son of thy love, liveth and reigneth, with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever, one God, world without end.-AMEN.

[Then add your usual Morning Devotions.]

Thursday Evening.

MEDITATION.

FAITH IN CHRIST, AS THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD, AND), AS A PROPHET, A PRIEST, AND KING..

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THOU dost perceive, O my soul! that, faith in Christ consists in such a lively, supreme, and stedfast reliance on his merits and grace, as produces peace of conscience, joy in the favour of God, redemption from the do-minion of sin, sincere devotion to the Saviour, universal obedience to his commands. faith, necessarily, implies a just and lively view of his glorious character and offices.. Until the glories of Christ, and his exalted and important offices are fully displayed to our minds, we shall not discern the all-sufficiency of his merits, his almighty power to save us,. his supreme claims to our homage and obedience. Faith, when exercised upon the Saviour in the various offices which he sustains. towards us, is a most sublime, ennobling, and consoling principle. It opens, to our astonished: contemplations, those eternal glories of the: Godhead, which concentered their most re

splendent beams, in the person of Jesus Christ. It exhibits this glorious Saviour, dispensing the luminous revelation, of the attributes and will of JEHOVAH, of the duties, hopes and final destiny of man. It displays him, clothed in the illustrious garments of righteousness and mercy, standing before the flaming altar of divine justice, and sending up that costly incense of his blood, which propitiates the holy wrath of an offended God, and invokes, for man, the immortal blessings of peace and salvation. It displays him, " clad with the garments of vengeance,-" with zeal as with a cloak," marching, triumphant, over his subdued adversaries, " treading them down in his anger, and trampling them in his fury,"—and, finally ascending, in resistless majesty and power, to the eternal throne of universal dominion, where, he rules, the almighty conqueror of death and hell,-dispensing to his people the invigorating and invincible succours of his grace, and receiving their ardent homage and obedience, as the glorious King and Captain of their salvation. When the believer sincerely and fully embraces his Saviour in all these glorious offices, as the eternal Son of the Father, as the illustrious Prophet of the Highest, as the atoning Priest and Intercessor of his people, as the resistless King and Captain of their salvation-adoration, gratitude, love and joy unutterable will swell his transported soul-Every thought, every

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