flexible to evil. Make me humble and obedient, peaceable and pious: let me never envy any Man's good, nor deferve to be defpifed my felf: and if I be, teach me to bear it with meeknefs and charity. V. Give me a tender confcience; a converfation dif creet and affable, modeft and patient, liberal and obliging; a body chafte and healthful, competency of living according to my condition, contentedness in all eftates, a refigned will and mortified affections: that I may be as thou wouldst have me, and my portion may be in the lot of the Righteous, in the brightnefs of thy countenance, and the glories of eternity. Amen. ly is the Immortal. Holy is the Almighty. *Ho Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabbaoth, have mercy upon me. A Form of Prayer for the Evening to be faid by fuch who have not time or opportunity to say the publick Prayers appointed for this Office. I. Eternal God, great Father of Men and Angels, Evening who haft eftablished the Heavens and the Earth Prayer. in a wonderful order, making day and night to fucceed each other; I make my humble addrefs to thy Divine Majefty, begging of thee mercy and protection this night and ever. O Lord, pardon all my fins, my light and rath words, the vanity and impiety of my thoughts, my unjuft and uncharitable actions, and whatfoever I have tranfgreffed against thee this day, or at any time before. Behold, O God, my Soul is troubled in the remembrance of my fins, in the frailty and finfulness of my flesh expofed to every temptation, and of it felf not able to refift any. Lord God of mercy I earnestly beg of thee to give me a great portion of thy grace, fuch as may be fufficient and effectual for the mortification of all my fins and vanities and diforders: that as I have formerly ferved. my luft and unworthy defires, defires, so now I may give my self up wholly to th fervice and the ftudies of a holy life. II. BLeffed Lord, teach me frequently and fadly to re member my fins; and be thou pleased to remem ber them no more: let me never forget thy mercies and do thou ftill remember to do me good. Teach me to walk always as in thy prefence: Ennoble my fou with great degrees of love to thee, and confine my fpirit with great fear, religion and veneration of thy holy name and laws; that it may become the great employment of my whole life to ferve thee, to advance thy glory, to root out all the accurfed habits of fin, that in holiness of life, in humility, in charity, in chastity, and in all the ornaments of grace, I may by patience wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus. Amen. III. TEach me O Lord, to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom, ever to remember my last end, that I may not dare to fin against thee. Let thy holy Angels be ever prefent with me to keep me in all my ways from the malice and violence of the fpirits of darkness, from evil company, and the occa fions and opportunities of evil, from perithing in pcpular judgments, from all the ways of finful fhame, from the hands of all mine enemies, from a finful life, and from defpair in the day of my death. Then O brightest Jefu, fhine gloriously upon me, let thy mercies and the light of thy countenance fuftain me in all my agonies, weakneffes and temptations. Give me opportunity of a prudent and fpiritual Guide, and of receiving the holy Sacrament; and let thy loving Spirit fo guide me in the ways of peace and fafety, that with the testimony of a good confcience and the fenfe of thy mercies and refreshment, I may depart this life in the unity of the Church, in the love of God, and a certain hope of Salvation through Jefus Chrift our Lord and moft bleffed Saviour. Amen. Our Father, &c. Another Another Form of Evening Prayer which may also Our Father, &c 1. Will lift mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh Pfal. 121. 1; my help. My help cometh of the Lord which made Heaven and Earth. He will not fuffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not flumber. Behold, he that keepeth Ifrael shall neither lumber nor fleep. The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy fhade upon thy_right band. The fun fhall not fmite thee ly day, neither the moon by night. The Lord fhall preserve thee from all evil; he shall preferve thy Soul. The Lord fball preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth for evermore.. Glory be to the Father, &c. I. V Ifit, I befeech thee, O Lord, this habitation with thy mercy, and me with thy grace and falvation. Let thy holy Angels pitch their tents round about and dwell here, that no illufion of the night may abufe me, the fpirits of darkness may not come near to hurt me, no evil or fad accident opprefs me; and let the Eternal Spirit of the Father dwell in my foul and body, filling every corner of my heart with light and grace. Let no deed of darknefs overtake me; and let thy bleffing, moft bleffed God, be upon me for ever, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. IN II. Nto thy hands, moft bleffed Fefu, I commend my foul and body, for thou haft redeemed both with thy moft precious blood. So blefs and fanctifie my fleep un to &c. to me, that it may be temperate, holy and fafe, a refreshment to my wearied body, to enable it fo to ferve my foul, that both may ferve thee with a never-failing duty. O let me never fleep in fin or death eternal, but give me a watchful and a prudent fpirit, that I may omit no opportunity of ferving thee; that whether I fleep or wake, live or die, I may be thy fervant and thy child: that when the work of my life is done, I may reft in the bofom of my Lord, till by the voice of the Archangel, the trump of God, I fhall be awakened and called to fit down and feaft in the eternal fupper of the Lamb. Grant this, O Lamb of God, for the honour of thy mercies, and the glory of thy name, O moft merciful Saviour and Redeemer Jefus. Amen. BL III. Leffed be the God and Father of our Lord Jefus,. who hath fent his Angels, and kept me this day from the deftruction that walketh at noon, and the arrow that flieth by day; and hath given me his Spirit to restrain me from those evils to which my own weakneffes, and my evil habits, and my unquiet enemies would easily betray me. Bleffed and for ever hallowed by thy Name for that never-ceafing fhower of bleffing by which I live, and am content and bleffed, and provided for in all neceffities, and fet forward in my duty and way to Heaven. Bleffing, honour, glory and power be unto him that fitteth on the Throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever. Amen. * Holy is our God. Holy is the Almighty. *Holy is the Immortal. Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Sabbaoth, have mercy upon me. Ejaculations and fhort Meditations to be used in Stand in awe and fin not commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. I will lay me down in peace and fleep, for thou, Lord, only makeft me to dwell in fafety. O Fa O Father of Spirits and the God of all flesh, have mercy and pity upon all fick and dying Christians, and receive the Souls which thou haft redeemed re-, turning unto thec. Bleffed are they that dwell in the heavenly fera- Rev. 21. 23. falem, where there is no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon to fhine in it for the glory of God does lighten it, and the lamb is the light thereof. And there fhall be Rev. 22. 5. no night there, and they need no candle, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign for ever and ever. Meditate on Jacob's wrestling with the Angel all night: be thou alfo importunate with God for a bleffing, and give not over till he hath bleffed thee. Meditate on the Angel's paffing over the Children of Ifrael, and deftroying the Egyptians for difobedience and oppreffion. Pray for the grace of obedience and charity and for the divine protection. Meditate on the Angel who deftroyed in a night the whole Army of the Affyrians for fornication. Call to mind the fins of thy youth, the fins of thy bed; and fay with David, My reins chaften me in the night feafon, and my foul refufeth comfort. Pray for pardon and the grace of chastity. Meditate on the agonies of Chrift in the garden, his fadness and affliction all that night; and thank and adore him for his love that made him fuffer fo much for thee; and hate thy fins which made it neceffary for the Son of God to fuffer fo much. Meditate on the four last things, 1. The certainty of Death. 2. The terrors of the Day of Judgment. 3. The joys of Heaven. 4. The pains of Hell, and the eternity of both. Think upon all thy friends which are gone before thee, and pray that God would grant to thee to meet them in a joyful refurrection. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, 2 Fet, 3 10. in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noife, and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat, the Earth alfo and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. Seeing then that all these things fhall be diffolved, what manner of perfons ought me to be in all holy converfa |