If I am spared to see the light of the returning day, may I rise from my bed to give all diligence to walk before thee to all well-pleasing. And whether I wake or sleep, live or die, may I be the Lord's, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.

Our Father, &c.

Evening. (2.)

I THANK thee, O Lord, for the blessings which I have this day enjoyed. Grant me this night such refreshing rest, that I may be better able to discharge the duties and bear the burdens of another day, if thou shalt be pleased to add another day to my life. If my eyes should be kept waking, may my meditations on thee be useful to me. Pity my weakness, O merciful God, and hear my imperfect petitions, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is touched with our infirmities; to whom, as to our merciful High Priest, be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Our Father, &c.

PRAYERS

FOR VARIOUS OCCASIONS.

PRAYER I.

New Year's Day.

[Bp. Wilson. BLESSED be God, who has brought me safe to the beginning of another year.

My God, make me truly sensible of this mercy, and give me grace to consider often how short and how uncertain my time is ; that there is one year more of a short life passed over my head; and that I am so much nearer eternity: that I may in good earnest think of another life, and be so prepared for it, as that death may not overtake me unawares.

Lord, pardon all my misspent time, and make me more diligent and careful to redeem it for the time to come; that when I come to the end of my life, I may look back with comfort on the days that are past.

Grant that I may begin this new year with new resolutions of serving thee more faithfully; and if, through infidelity or negligence, I forget these good purposes, the good Lord awaken in me a sense of my danger.

My heart is in thy hands, O God, as well as my time: O make me wise unto salvation; that I may consider in this my day the things that belong unto my peace; and that I may pass this, and all the years I have yet to live, in the comfortable hope of a blessed eternity, for the Lord Jesus' sake. Amen.

Our Father, &c.'

PRAYER II.

Birth-Day.

[Bp. Wilson.

BLESSED be God for my creation and birth; for giving me a being from honest parents fearing God, and in a Christian and Protestant country; for the means of grace, the assistances of the Holy Spirit, and for the hopes of glory; for all the known or unobserved favours, providences,

and deliverances, by which my life has hitherto been preserved: most humbly beseeching thee, my God and Father, to pardon my neglect or abuse of any of thy favours, and that I have so very much forgotten thee, in whom I live, and move, and have my being.

Good Lord, forgive me the great waste of my precious time, the many days and years of health, and the many opportunities of doing good, which I have lost; and give me grace that for the time to come I may be truly wise, that I may consider my latter end, and work out my salvation with fear and trembling, ever remembering "that the night cometh, when no man can work ;" and that the day of my death may be better to me than the day of my birth.

O gracious God, grant that before thou takest from me that breath which thou gavest me, I may truly repent of the errors of fmy past life; that my sins may be forgiven, and my pardon sealed in heaven; when the good Lord shall vouchsafe me a better and an everlasting life, through Christ. Amen.

PRAYER III.

Before receiving the Sacrament. (1.)

[Bp. Blomfield.

ALMIGHTY God, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of our sins, did suffer death upon the cross; prepare me, I beseech thee, by thy grace, for the worthy celebration of that holy ordinance, which he was pleased to appoint for a continual remembrance of his death, for a pledge of his love, and for a sign and means of grace, to my great and endless comfort. Make me to discern the Lord's body; to remember and adore the exceeding love of Christ my Saviour, in thus dying for me. Give me repentance unto life, not to be repented of. Endue me with a lively faith, a perfect love, and a universal charity. Enable me spiritually to receive the body and blood of Christ my Saviour; that so all carnal affections may die in me, and that all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in me; and that, being continually refreshed and strengthened by thy grace, I may perse