Friday Morning.

MATT. XV. 18.-This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. MATT. XXVI. 41.-Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few. MATT. vii. 11.—If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to that them that ask him? ECCLES. v. 2.-Watch and pray, ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 2 CHRON. vii. 14.-If my people shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land. JOHN XV. 7. -If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. MATT. vii. 7.— Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. PROV. xv. 29.-The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. 1 JOHN V. 14.-And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. 1 JOHN iii. 22.-And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. JOHN xvi. 23.Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he shall give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: 1 TIM. ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. iv. 4.-Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer. MATT. xviii. 19.-Again

I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth, as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. MATT. Xviii. 20.For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Rom. viii. 26.-Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. PSALM XV. 17.-Evening and morning, and at noon, will I cry aloud, and he shall hear my voice. PSALM 1XV. 2.-0 thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

O GOD, Maker of the world, and of all that is therein, worthy art thou to receive glory, and honor, and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. In thy hand is our life; and thine are all our ways; we are thine by creation and redemption: not our own, but bought with a price, and joined to thee in an everlasting covenant. We praise thee for thy goodness, in having brought us safely to the beginning of another day; for thy preservation of us during our past lives; for all the mercies which thou hast bestowed upon us, notwithstanding our repeated transgressions; but especially for Jesus Christ our Saviour, and in Him for all our means of grace and hopes of glory.

That we may value thy goodness as we ought, teach us, O Lord, to know both our dependence and our unworthiness. We have sinned with our fathers, and done wickedly. But, O merciful Fa ther, absolve us from our offences; pardon the

sinfulness of our corrupt nature, and the transgressions which by our frailty we have committed; and deliver us from the bands of frailty and sin, that iniquity may not be our ruin. Dwell in us by thy Holy Spirit. Amidst all our worldly cares and occupation, may we never forget thee, but remember that we are walking in thy sight. Enable us to subdue all unholy desires; and, denying all ungodliness and worldly lusts, to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. Preserve us from carelessness in the concerns of our souls or bodies: that we may not be slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. Dispose us to regard one another with brotherly affection; and enable us to do our duty in that state of life to which thou hast called us, not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing thee.

[Here may be introduced any occasional Prayer.]

Be pleased, O Lord, to comfort and succor the oppressed and the afflicted; and dispose us all to compassionate each other. "Spread the knowledge of thy word; and prosper thy Church in diffusing and upholding true religion. Preserve us all in the unity of the faith, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life; and finally bring us to thy kingdom in heaven, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Our Father, &c.

Friday Noon.

[Or, with a Collect, for the Morning or Evening.]

1 JOHN iii. 23.-This is his commandment, that ye should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.

14. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

18. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

PROV. XIX. 17. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to the Lord and that which he hath given will he repay him. EXODUS xxii. 25.—If thou lend to any of thy people that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

PROV. iii. 28 -Say not to thy neighbor, Go, and come again; when thou hast it by thee.

1 TIM. vi. 17, 18, 19.—Charge them who are rich in this world, that they be ready to give, and glad to distribute; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

2 COR. ix. 6, 7.-He that soweth little shall reap little, and he that soweth plenteously shall reap plenteously. Let every man do according as he is disposed in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver.

MATT. vi. 34.-When thou doest thine alms, let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth, that thine alms may be in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

ISAIAH lviii. 6, 7.-Is not this the fast that I have chosen, saith the Lord, to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thine house when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord will answer.

MATT. X. 42.-Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones, a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

21.-Sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.

MATT. vii. 21.—Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

O LORD GOD, Sovereign of heaven and earth, against whom all our sins have been committed, by whom alone they can be pardoned, our souls sanctified, and our wants supplied; we have none to repair to for remedy against the evils of our sins, but unto thee, the great God, whom we have grievously offended. But remember thy mercies and thy covenant of old; and looking upon us in thy beloved Son, spare us, and be not angry with us forever. Show us our guilty and lost condition without him. Make us to feel the burthen and the bitterness of our sins; and help us to find them out to our repentance and reformation, that they may never find us out to our ruin and destruction. Holy Father, carry on with power thy victory over our corruptions, and the work of faith, and grace, and sanctification in our souls. Quicken us, O Lord our God, and stir us up to thy work. Establish in us the dominion of thy Son, and go on to work mightily upon our hearts by thy grace, till our souls are fitted for the eternal enjoyment of thy glory.