ticularly we implore thy compassion upon our infirmities; beseeching thee, in mercy, not to impute to us the wanderings and coldness of our devotions, nor to deal with us according to our deserts, but according to our weakness and necessities, and thine own rich mercies in Christ Jesus.

Preserve, and strengthen in us whatever good thoughts and holy desires have been this day raised in our hearts; and help us all the week following to live in the love and fear of thee our God, and in peace and charity one with another. Teach us to set thee always before us, and wherever we are, and whatever we are doing, to consider that thou art about our path, and about our bed, and spiest out all our ways. O possess us with such a lively sense of thee, and of our obligations to thee, and let the thoughts and certain expectation of death and judgment be so constantly present to our souls, that we may, every day, heartily serve thee, in all the actions of christian piety; and be unwearied in well doing, to the end of our lives.

And forasmuch as in all our ways we acknowledge thee, do not thou, O God, ever leave us, or forsake us but conduct us safely by thy counsel and grace, through all the business and enjoyments, through all the troubles and temptations of this life to that happy place, where our Lord Jesus lives and reigus with thee, in the unity of the blessed Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Our Father, &c.

COLLECTS

TO BE INTRODUCED IN THE FAMILY PRAYERS, UPON THE FESTIVALS OF THE CHURCH; OR UPON SUCH OCCURRENCES IN A FAMILY AS MAY REQUIRE DEVOUT COMMEMORATION.

For the Incarnation

IMPRESS, O Lord, upon our minds such a sense of what our Saviour has done for us, that we may celebrate all the mysteries of redemption, especially that which thy Church this day commemorates, with humility, with exalted thoughts of thine ineffable goodness, and with most thankful acknowledgments of thy great love to the sons of men.

Teach us always to look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who, to reconcile us to a state of poverty, chose to be born, and live in a mean condition, enduring hunger, and thirst, and cold, and not having where to lay his head: that by his example we may be encouraged to sit loose. to the world, may wean our affections from temporal objects; and feeling the vanity and emptiness of this world, may more and more delight in thy love, and in the practice of true religiou.

For Advent and the Epiphany.

We adore thy mercy, O blessed Jesus, that the glad tidings of thine appearance in the world to die for sinners, which was communicated by the ministration of angels, and by a bright and unusual star, has reached this land of our nativity. Oh ! may we always show our value of this inestimable benefit, by walking as children of the light, and by compassionating and relieving, to the utmost of our power, the miseries of those that still sit in darkness; by employing faithfully and zealously every means of grace; and by aiding the dissemination of the Gospel.

For Christmas Day.

HOLY and ever blessed Jesus, who being the eternal Son of God, and most high in the glory of the Father, didst vouchsafe to take our nature upon thee, and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin; assist us, with all admiration, reverence, and thankfulness, ever to receive and ponder in our heart, this great mystery of godliness, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Quicken us, O Lord, duly to express that thankfulness and delight which should animate every ransomed bosom.

We adore, with all humility, thine infinite condescension in being made man, in order to relieve our misery, and to guide us in the way to everlasting life. May we cheerfully submit to the meanest offices, or most painful privations, for our fellow men, and be resigned under all the most afflicting circumstances of life, which the wise providence of God shall think fit to lay upon us. O work in our hearts such a lively sense of the many and great blessings which thou dost procure by thy covenant, that, adoring and believing in thee, as our only Lord and Saviour, imitating thy holy example, obeying thy holy commands, we may be saved through thy merits, and at last reign with thee, who art God blessed for ever.

Circumcision.

WE bless and praise thee, O our Saviour, who immaculate in holiness, and almighty in power, didst instruct us by thy example of submission to ordinances. We thank thee, that in suffering thyself to be circumcised, and in being obedient to the law, thou didst show us the danger of neglecting to fulfil all righteousness, and of hoping for thy favor, without doing thy will. Grant us the true circumcision of the spirit, that our heart and all our members being mortified from all worldly and

carnal lusts, we may in all things obey thy blessed will; and after thy example, be ready to sacrifice every thing rather than neglect our duty.

For New-Year.

[To be added to Monday Morning, First Week.]

WE bless and praise thy holy name, who art the Lord of life and death, and who appointest to every man his portion of days; and we acknowledge thy goodness in having brought us safely to the beginning of another year.

Make us truly sensible of thy merciful providences towards us, of thy care, of thy bounties, of thy forbearance and love, during the last period of our lives, most merciful God; and give us grace to consider, that as another year of our uncertain life is passed away, we are so much nearer to judgment. Let us, in good earnest, set about the work of preparation for death, that when the Lord cometh, he may find us so doing.

Spare us, O gracious God, yet another year, and make us diligent and careful to redeem our time, and to spend it in thy service; that at the end of it, and at the great day of account, we may not be found to have wasted or misused the precious talent.

O Lord, we solemnly dedicate ourselves to