dón, who am fo angry and peevish with and without Caufe, envious or good, rejoycing at the Evil of my Neighbours, negligent of my Charge, idle and ufelefs, timorous and bafe, jealous and impudent, ambitious and hard-hearted, soft, unmortified and effeminate in my Life, indevout in my Prayers, without Fancy or Affection, without Attendance to them, or Perfeverance in them; but paffionate and curious in pleafing my Appetite of Meat and Drink and Plea fures, making Matter both for Sin and Sicknefs: And I have reaped the curfed Fruits of fuch Improvidence, entertaining undecent and impure Thoughts: And I have brought them forth in undecent and impure Actions, and the Spirit of Uncleannefs hath entred in, and unhallowed the Temple which thou didst confecrate for the Habitation of thy Spirit of Love and Holiness. But for thy Name's fake, O Lord, be merciful unto my Sin, for it is great.

Thou haft given me a whole Life to serve thee in and to advance my Hopes of Heaven And this precious Time I have thrown away upon my Sins and Vanities, being improvident of my Time and of my Talent, and of my Grace, and of my own Advan tages, refifting thy Spirit and quenching him. I have been a great Lover of myfelf, and yet ufed many Ways to destroy myself. I have purfued my temporal Ends with Greedinefs and indirect Means. I am revengeful and unthankful, forgetting Benefits, but not fo foon forgetting Injuries, curious and murmuring; a great Breaker of Promifes. I have not loved my Neighbour's Good, nor advanced it in all Things" where I could. I have been unlike thee in all Things. I am unmerciful and unjuft; a fottifh Admirer of Things below, and careless of Heaven and the Ways that lead thither. But for thy Name's fake, O Lord, be merciful unto my Sin, for it is great.

All my Senfes have been Windows to let Sin in, and Death by Sin. Mine Eyes have been adulterous and covetous; mine Ears open to Slander and Detraction; my Tongue and Palate loofe and wanton, intemperate and of foul Language,talkative and lying, rafh and ma

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licious, falfe and flattering, irreligious and irreverent, detracting and cenforious; my Hands have been injurious and unclean, my Paflious violent and rebellious, my Defires impatient and unreasonable, all my Members and all my Faculties have been Servants of Şin; and my very best Actions have more Matter of Pity than of Confidence, being imperfect in my best, and intolerable in moft. But for thy Name's fake, O Lord, be merciful unto my Sin, for it is great.

Unto this and a far bigger heap of Sin I have added alfo the faults of others to my own fcore, by neglecting to hinder them to fin in all that I could and ought: But I alfo have encouraged them in Sin, have taken off their Fears, and hardned their Confcience, and tempted them directly, and prevailed in it to my own Ruin and theirs, unlefs thy glorious and unfpeakable Mercy hath prevented fo intolerable a Calamity,

Lord, I have abufed thy Mercy, defpifed thy Judg ments; turn'd thy Grace into Wantonnefs, Ihave been unthankful for thy infinite loving-kindness, I have finned and repented, and then finned again, and refolved against it, and prefently broke it, and then I tied my felf up with Vows, and then was tempted, and then I yielded by little and little, till I was willingly loft again, and my Vows fell off like Cords of Vanity.

Milerable Man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this Body of Sin?

And yet, O Lord, I have another heap of Sins to be unloaded. My fecret Sins, O Lord, are innumerable; Sins I noted not, Sins that I willingly neglected, Sins that I acted upon wilful Ignorance and voluntary Mif perfwafion, Sins that I have forgot, and Sins which a diligent and watchful Spirit might have prevented, but I would not. Lord, I am confounded, with the multitude of them, and the Horror of their remem brance, tho' I confider them nakedly in their direct Appearance, without the Deformity of their unhandfome and aggravating Circumftances; but fo dreffed they are a Sight too ugly, an Inftance of Amazement, infinite in Degrees and infufferable in their Load.

And yet thou haft fpar'd me all this while, and hait

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not thrown me into Hell, where I have deferved to have been long fince, and even now to have been shut up to an Eternity of Torments with infupportable Amazement, fearing the Revelation of thy Day.

Miferable Man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of fin?

Thou shalt answer for me, O Lord my God. Thou that prayeft for me, shalt be my Judge.

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The Prayer.

Hou haft prepared for me a more healthful Sorrow: O deny not thy Servant when he begs Sorrow of thee. Give me a deep Contrition for my Sins, a hearty Deteftation and Loathing of them, hating them worse than Death with Torments. Give me Grace intirely, prefently, and for ever to forfake them; to walk with Care and Prudence, with Fear and Watchfulness all my Days; to do all my Duty with Diligence and Charity, with Zeal and a neverfainting Spirit; to redeem the Time, to trust upon thy Mercies, to make ufe of all the Inftruments of Grace, to work out my Salvation with Fear and Trembling; that thou mayft have the Glory of pardoning all my Sins, and I may reap the Fruit of all thy Mercies and all thy Graces, of thy Patience and Long-fuffering, even to live a holy Life here, and to reign with thee for ever, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Ad Sect. 6.1 Special Devotions to be used upon the Lord's-day and the great Festivals of Chriftians. In the Morning recite the following Forms of Thanksgiving; upon the fpecial Festivals, adding the Commemoration of the special Bleffings, according to the following Prayers:" adding fuch Prayers as you fhall chufe out of the foregoing Devotions.

2. Befides the ordinary and publick Duties of the Day, if you retire into your closet to read and meditate after e have performed that Duty, fay the Song of S. Ambrofe commonly called the [Te Deum] or [We praise thee, c.] then add the Prayers for particular Graces which are at the end of the former Chapters, fuch and as

many of them as shall fit your prefent needs and affeEtions; ending with the Lord's-Prayer. This Form of Devotion may, for variety, be indifferently used at other times.

A Form of Thanksgiving, with a recital of publick and private Bleffings; to be used upon Eafter-day, Whitunday, Afcenfion-day, and all Sundays of the Year: but the middle part of it may be referved for the wore Solemn Festivals, and the other used upon the Ordinary; as every Man's affections or leisure shall determine.

[I.] Ex Liturgia S. Bafilii magna ex parte.

Eternal Effence, Lord God, Father Almighty, Maker of all Things in Heaven and Earth; it is a good Thing to give Thanks to thee, O Lord, and to pay to thee all Reverence, Worship and Devotion from a clean and prepared Heart; and with an humble Spirit to prefent a living and reasonable Sacrifice to thy Holinefs and Majefty: For thou haft given unto us the Knowledge of thy Truth; and who is able to declare thy Greatnefs, and to recount all thy marvellous Works which thou haft done in all the Generations of the World?

O great Lord and Governour of all Things, Lord and Creator of all Things vifible and invifible, who fitteft upon the Throne of thy Glory, and beholdest the Secrets of the lowest Abyss and Darkness; thou art without Beginning, uncircumfcribed, incomprehenfible, unalterable, and feated for ever unmoveable in thy own effential Happiness and Tranquility: Thou art the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, who is,

Our dearest and moft gracious Saviour, our Hope, the Wisdom of the Father, the Image of thy Goodnefs, the Word Eternal, and the Brightness of thy Perfon, the Power of God from eternal Ages, the true Light that lighteneth every Man that cometh into the World, the Redemption of Man, and the Sanctification of our Spirits.

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By whom the Holy Ghoft defcended upon the Church ; the Holy Spirit of Truth, the Seal of Adoption, the Earneft of the Inheritance of the Saints, the First-Fruits of everlasting Felicity, the Life-giving Power, the Fountain of Sanctification, the Comfort of the Church, the Eafe of the Afflicted, the Support of the Weak, the Wealth of the Poor, the Teacher of the Doubtful, Scrupulous and Ignorant, the Anchor of the Fearful, the Infinite Reward of all faithful Souls, by whom all reasonable and underftanding Creatures ferve thee, and fend up a neverceafing and a never-rejected Sacrifice of Prayer and Praifes and Adoration.

All Angels and Arch-Angels, all Thrones and Dominions, all Principalities and Powers, the Cherubims with many Eyes, and the Seraphims covered with Wings from the Terror and Amazement of thy brightest Glory; these and all the Powers of Heaven do perpetually fing Praifes and never-ceafing Hymns and eternal Anthems to the Glory of the Eternal God, the Almighty Father of Men and Angels.

Holy is our God: Holy is the Almighty: Holy is the Immortal: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabbaoth, Heaven and Earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory. Amen. * With thefe holy and bleffed Spirits I alfo thy Servant, O thou great Lover of Souls, though I be unworthy to offer Praise to fuch a Majefty, yet out of my bounden Duty humbly offer up my Heart and Voice to join in this bleffed Choire, and confefs the Glories of the Lord. * For thou art Holy, and of thy Greatness there is no end; and in thy Juftice and Goodness thou haft measured out to all thy Works.

Thou madeft Man out of the earth, and didft form him after thine own Image: Thou didst place him in a Garden of Pleasure, and gaveft him Laws of Righteousness to be to him a Seed of Immortality. O that Men would therefore praife the Lord for his Goodness, and declare the Wonders that he hath done for the Children of Men.

For when Man finned, and liftned to the Whifpers