duties of faith, piety and religious homage hath promiscuously introduced adoration and prayer, instruction, exhortation, and devotion, presuming that families who are disposed to avail themselves of the assistance of these exercises, will have sufficient discretion to use one, or more, as may be best suited to circumstances and occasions, whether special or common; the master at his option, reading the first verse, the family the second, and so on alternately to the end of the exercise, as may be deemed most subservient to the pur pose of religious edification.-The compiler only adds his earnest prayer, that, by the concurring blessing of Heaven, this sincere attempt to promote a spirit of piety and devo tion, and a conscientious walk with God, in righteousness and true holiness, may be crowned with success. DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES. SELECTED CHIEFLY FROM THE SACRED SCRIPTURES, AND ESPECIALLY FROM THE PSALMS. EXER. I. General adoration and prayer, interspersed with some expressions, shewing the advantages of piety and virtue. 1. Master. 1r is a good thing to call on the name of the Lord; to confess our sins before him with penitence; to recount his mercies with thanksgiving, and to acknowledge, with adoration, that universal providence which sustains and governs the world, and diffuses happiness throughout the whole system of nature. 2. Family. O Eternal Source of good; by thy almighty power thou didst create man and inspire him with the breath of life; grant us we humbly pray, thy gracious guidance and aid amidst all the trials, changes, and vicissitudes, incident to the present state of imperfection and mortality; and afterwards receive us to glory. 3. M. Blessed is the man who chooseth the fear of the Lord, and delighteth to perform his will; who doth justly, loveth mercy, and walketh humbly, and avoiding the ways of the wicked, doth sincerely exercise himself, day and night in the service of his God. 4. F. His leaf shall not wither; but he shall flourish as a tree planted by the water side, which seasonably and plentifully yield. eth its fruit, and whatsoever he undertaketh shall prosper. His days shall be prolonged on the earth, and he shall rejoice in them all. 5. M. O our Heavenly Father, who art from everlasting to everlasting, thy name is great in the earth, and thy mercies, unbounded by time, are endless as eternity. Hear our requests, we beseech thee, and may our prayers for pardoning mercy, and for grace to fulfil thy will, ever meet thy favourable audience. 6. F. Let all those, O Lord, who confide in thee, rejoice, and may our praises ever be acceptable in thy sight; for every day of our lives is crowned with thy loving kindness. and thou art continually showering down upon us innumerable, unmerited blessings, relieving us in distresses, supporting us in troubles, protecting us in dangers, and provid ing for our comfort, through all the changing scenes of life. 7. M. What is man, O Lord, that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visitest him? for though thou hast given us pre-eminence above the fowls of the air and beasts of the field, and made us capable of offering thee a rational and religious service, yet every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. 8. F. We will give thanks unto the Lord and praise him with our whole hearts, we will rejoice in him, for he maintaineth our right. His throne is established in equity, and he will finally judge the world in right eousness. 9. M. O praise the Lord, who dwelleth in Zion, whose power, wisdom, and goodness are underived and infinite, and without whose permission and superintendence not even a sparrow falleth to the ground. 10. F. Trust in the Lord and thou shalt be satisfied; delight in him and he will give thee thy heart's desire; commit thy ways unto him and he will be thy present guardian and friend, and thy final and eternal portion. 11.M. Praise, O our souls, the glorious Jehovah, who is clothed with honour and majesty, and dwelleth in light inaccessible. 12. F. The Lord spreadeth out the heavens as a curtain; the clouds are his chariots and he moveth on the wings of the wind; He maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flaming fire. 13. F. Give unto the Lord the glory due to his name; worship him in the beauty of holiness, and with the inward devotion and homage of the heart, for all things are naked and open to his view, and he requireth truth in the inward part. 14 F. Lord, who shall be admitted to the habitations of the heavenly paradise? He, 3. M. Blessed is the man who chooseth the fear of the Lord, and delighteth to perform his will; who doth justly, loveth mercy, and walketh humbly, and avoiding the ways the wicked, doth sincerely exercise himself, day and night in the service of his God. of 4. F. His leaf shall not wither; but he shall flourish as a tree planted by the water side, which seasonably and plentifully yield eth its fruit, and whatsoever he undertaketh shall prosper. His days shall be prolonged on the earth, and he shall rejoice in them all. 5. M. O our Heavenly Father, who art from everlasting to everlasting, thy name is great in the earth, and thy mercies, unbounded by time, are endless as eternity. Hear our requests, we beseech thee, and may our prayers for pardoning mercy, and for grace to fulfil thy will, ever meet thy favourable audience. 6. F. Let all those, O Lord, who confide in thee, rejoice, and may our praises ever be acceptable in thy sight; for every day of our lives is crowned with thy loving kindness. and thou art continually showering down upon us innumerable, unmerited blessings, relieving us in distresses, supporting us in troubles, protecting us in dangers, and provid ing for our comfort, through all the changing scenes of life. 7. M. What is man, O Lord, that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visitest him? for though thou hast given us pre-eminence above the fowls of the air and beasts of the field, and made us capable |