humble, holy, and obedient walking before thee all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all glory and honour, world without end. Amen.

The Collect to be used instead of that for the

day. O

MOST merciful Father, who hast blessed turns of the fruits of the earth; We give thee humble and hearty thanks for this thy bounty; beseeching thee to continue thy loving-kindness to us, that our land may still yield her increase, to thyglory and our comfort; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle. St. James i. 16. Do O not err, my beloved brethren. Every

good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turnirg. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man

shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

The Gospel. St. Matt. v. 43. YE have heard that it hath been said, Thou

shalt love_thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Forif ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

FORMS OF

PRAYER TO BE USED IN FAMILIES.

MORNING PRAYER. The Master or Mistress having called together as many of the Family as can conveniently be present, let one of them, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling. UR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be

thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, As it is in heaven. this day our daily bread. And forgive us our

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Give us

trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom,and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. LMIGHTY and everlasting Acknowledgment

of God's mercy and preservation, espe

* When disturbances of any kind

that notwithstand.

move and have our being; We, cially through the

night past. thy needy creatures, render thee our humble praises, for thy preservation of us from the beginning of our lives to this day, and especially for having delivered us from the dangers of the past night. To thy watchful providence we owe it, [*that no disturbance hath come nigh us or our dwelling; but that we befall å family, in

stead of this, say, are brought in safety to the beginning of this day.) For these

ing our dangers, we

are brought in safethy mercies, we bless and mag- ty to the beginning

of this day. nify thy glorious Name; humbly beseeching thee to accept this our morning sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; for his sake who lay down in the grave, and rose again for us, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. ND

Dedication of soul O gracious Father, that another day is added to our lution to be growing lives; We here dedicate both daily in goodness. our souls and our bodies to thee and thy service, in a sober, righteous, and godly life: in which resolution, do thou, O merciful God, confirm and strengthen us; that, as we grow in age, we may grow

in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. O God, who knowest

Prayer for grace the weakness and corruption of our nature, and the form that resoiramanifold temptations which we daily meet with; We humbly beseech thee to have compassion on our infirmities, and to give

and body to God's service, with a reso

us the constant assistance of thy Holy Spirit; that we may be effectually restrained from sin, and excited to our duty. Imprint upon our hearts such a dread of thy judgments, and such a grateful sense of thy, goodness to us, as may make us both afraid and ashamed to offend thee. And, above all, keep in our minds a lively remembrance of that great day, in which we must give a strict account of our thoughts, words, and actions; and according to the works done in the body, be eternally rewarded or punished, by him whom thou hast appointed the Judge of quick and dead, thy Son Jesus Christour Lord. Amen.

God's on the business

of

inthis,

company us to the place of thy

making us seri. ous and atten.

our minds from

N particular, we implore thy For grace to IN

guide and keep grace and protection for the

us the following ensuing day. Keep us temper- day; and for

blessing ate in our meats and drinks, and

of the same. diligent in our several callings. Grant us patience under any af

• On Sunday flictions thou shalt see fit to lay stead

morning, on us, and minds always con

say, and let thy

Holy Spirit ac. tented with our present condition. Give us grace to be just puhilc worship, and upright in all our dealings; quiet and peaceable; full of com- tive, and raising passion; and ready to do good the thoughts of to all men, according to abilities and opportunities. Direct us in all our ways, (*and vertly join in prosper the works of our hands the prayers and

prises of thy in the business of our several stations.] Defend us from all

du-v with hon. dangers and adversities; and be graciously pleased to take us, and all things belonging to us, under thy fatherly care and protection. These things, and whatever else thou shalt see necessary and convenient to us, we humbly beg, through the merits and mediation of thy Son Jesus Cisrist, our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

our

this world to the consideration of the next; that we may fer

Church,
lis.en to

and our

TA
THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the

love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.

EVENING PRAYER. 9 The Family being together, a little before bed-time, let the Master or Mistress, or any other whom they shall think proper,

aan as follows, all kneeling. UR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be

thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us nut into temptation; But deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.

Amen.

sins,

with a prayer for con

don.

MO
OST merciful God, who art of

Confession of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and hast promised for- trition and pargiveness to all those who confess and forsake their sirs; We come before thee in an humble sense of our own unworthiness, acknowledging our manifold transgressions of thy righteous laws.* But, O gracious Father, who desirest not the death of a sinner, look upon us, we beseech confess the sins

and failings of thee, in merc

and forgive us that day. all our transgressions. Make us deeply sensible of the great evil of them; and work in us an hearty contrition; that we may obtain forgiveness at thy hands, who art ever ready to receive humble and penitent sinners; for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ, our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

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