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 MANUAL OF PRAYERS 
 
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 WINCHESTER COLLEGE, 
 
 BY THE 
 
 RIGHT REV. THOMAS KEN, D.D., 
 
 LATE LORD BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 
 
 A NEW EDITION. 
 
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 HOMAS KEN, the admirable Author of 
 this little book, was born at Berkhamp- 
 stead, in Hertfordshire, in July, 1637. 
 In his fifteenth year he was sent to Winchester 
 College, where he was admitted, as appears by the 
 register of the college, on the 30th of Janua’ y, 1651. 
 His name is still to be seen, cut in the stone, on 
 a buttress in the south-east corner of the college 
 cloisters, — tho. ken, 1656. Among his school- 
 fellows was Francis Turner, afterwards Bishop of 
 Ely, to whom he was most warmly attached. The 
 friendship of these two excellent men lasted all 
 their lives, who were in many remarkable re- 
 spects united together. They were both raised to 
 the episcopal dignity, and nearly at the same time. 
 They both attended the death-bed of King Charles 
 
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 II., and the scaffold of his unfortunate son the 
 Duke of Monmouth. They were both of the 
 number of the seven Bishops whose famous re- 
 sistance of the dispensing power claimed by James 
 II. was one of the main and immediate causes of 
 the Revolution ; and they both submitted to “ the 
 loss of all which they could not keep with a good 
 conscience,” being deprived of the honours and 
 emoluments of their bishoprics because they re- 
 fused to take the new oaths of allegiance. In the 
 later correspondence of Bishop Ken there are seve- 
 ral affectionate references to the memory of his 
 old school-fellow and deare friend the Bishop of 
 Ely, now with God.” It is a pleasing reflection, 
 that the friendship of these admirable men, thus 
 begun when boys, when doubtless they took 
 sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of 
 God as friends,” lasted on through all the vicissi- 
 tudes of earthly fortune, till by the grace of God 
 it strengthened them for their great duty of con- 
 fessors of God’s truth, and champions of His 
 Church, to which they were called together. 
 
 Of Ken’s life and behaviour during his boyish 
 years we have no account. But if we may sup- 
 pose him to have endeavoured to serve God him- 
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 to serve Him, (a supposition which the grace and 
 goodness of his after-life make highly reasonable,) 
 we may believe him to have given a lovely speci- 
 men of an early piety. An early piety ! “ than 
 which” (he says, addressing a Winchester scholar, 
 p. 4,) “nothing will make you a greater comfort to 
 all your friends, or a greater blessing to the very 
 College where you are bred ; nothing will make 
 you more universally esteemed and beloved by all 
 men, or more successful in your studies.” We 
 have good reason to think, from his subsequent 
 character, that such an early piety was exhibited 
 in himself, and that the comfort and blessing here 
 spoken of did indeed, by God’s mercy, abound to 
 all those who were happy enough to be so con- 
 nected with him. 
 
 From Winchester College Ken was removed to 
 Hart Hall in Oxford, and from thence, after a few 
 months, he became Scholar, and then Fellow, of 
 New College. After nine years spent at Oxford, 
 during which he took the degree of Master of 
 Arts, and entered into Holy Orders, he returned 
 to the place of his early education, being chosen 
 I a Fellow of Winchester College on the 8th of 
 Dec. 1666. 
 
 Once more restored to his beloved Winchester, 
 
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 he seems to have spent some years in great peace 
 and profit. He was soon taken notice of by Dr. 
 George Morley, then Bishop of Winchester, who 
 presented him to the living of Woodhay, near 
 Newbury, and made him his Domestic Chaplain. 
 The Bishop had then newly rebuilt the palace of 
 Wolvesey, which is very near the College of Win- 
 chester, and which, in the times of the vacancy of 
 the see, had fallen very much into decay. In this 
 hospitable home dwelt the excellent Isaac Walton, 
 the now widowed husband of Ken’s sister, who, 
 having entertained Morley in his quiet cottage 
 near Staiford during the dismal period of the 
 usurpation, was now willing to share his friend’s 
 prosperity on the return of happier days. This 
 relationship, and the office held by Ken in the 
 Bishop’s family, gave him constant and familiar 
 access to this cheerful circle ; and we may easily 
 conceive how peaceably and profitably his days 
 would be spent, while he enjoyed the opportunity 
 of varying the tranquillity and studious habits of 
 his college life, with the cheerful and improving 
 society of the Bishop’s family. It was at this time 
 that he composed his Manual of Prayers for the 
 use of Winchester Scholars. 
 
 He was an exact economist of his time ; and it 
 
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 is related of him by his biographer and great- 
 nephew Hawkins, that he strictly accustomed him- 
 self to one sleep only in the night, so that he often 
 rose at one or two o’clock in the morning. It 
 was also his regular practice to sing his morning 
 hymn to the lute before he put on his clothes. It 
 is very interesting to find that it was from his own 
 experience of the happy effects of this habit that 
 he recommended it to the scholars of Winchester 
 College, (vide p. 6,) and composed the three well- 
 known hymns, printed at the end of this little 
 volume, for their use. 
 
 In the year 1669 he was made Prebendary of 
 Winchester, and after some years Chaplain in 
 ordinary to King Charles IL, and Chaplain to 
 Mary, Princess of Orange. In both these situa- 
 tions he was called upon to shew his firm and 
 honest zeal for truth and virtue, and to exhibit in 
 his own person the qualities of which he speaks in 
 his admirable sermon on the character of Daniel : 
 faithfulness in the discharge of his duty both to 
 king and people, remoteness from all flattery, cou- 
 rage on just and fit occasions, in warning his great 
 masters of their dangers, and minding them of 
 their duty.” He incurred the serious displeasure 
 of the Prince of Orange by promoting the marriage 
 
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 of a young lady of the court with CounfZulestein, 
 the Prince’s uncle, and was only induced to remain 
 in his office by the earnest entreaty of the Prince 
 and Princess themselves. And on one occasion, 
 when King Charles II. came to Winchester, and 
 his harbinger had marked Dr. Ken’s house for the 
 use of the notorious Mrs. Eleanor Gwyn, he abso- 
 lutely refused her admission, alleging that a woman 
 of ill repute ought not to be endured in the house 
 of a clergyman, especially of the King’s Chaplain. 
 His refusal was so peremptory, that it was found 
 necessary to erect a small building at the south 
 end of the Deanery, then occupied by the King, 
 for her temporary accommodation, which building 
 was long known by the name of Nell Gwyn, and 
 has only been removed within the present century. 
 This honest boldness was so far from offending the 
 King, that on the vacancy of the See of Bath and 
 Wells, which fell very shortly after, it is said that 
 the King put aside all applications which were 
 made to him in behalf of several other persons, 
 and expressed his determination to give it to Ken 
 in these words : Odd’s Fish ! who shall have 
 
 Bath and Wells but the little fellow who would 
 not give poor Nelly a lodging ?” 
 
 Dr. Ken was accordingly consecrated Bishop of 
 
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 Bath and Wells, by Archbishop Sancroft, on St. 
 PauFs Day, 1684. No sooner, however, was he 
 thus raised, by the Providence of God turning the 
 caprice of a wicked King to His own holy pur- 
 poses, than he was called upon to discharge the ! 
 most solemn office of ministerial faithfulness to : 
 the Sovereign by whose favour he was so recently | 
 promoted. He, together with the Archbishop of j 
 Canterbury, and the Bishops of London, Durham, | 
 and Ely, attended the death-bed of Charles, who | 
 was struck with fatal sickness in the beginning of ! 
 February, and died within a week of his seizure. 
 It is recorded by Hawkins, that Bishop Ken re- 
 mained in attendance by the King’s bedside for 
 three days and nights without intermission ; and 
 that he prevailed upon the King to have the 
 Duchess of Portsmouth removed from the royal 
 chamber, and to ask the forgiveness of his injured | 
 Queen. Bishop Burnet too, who was both the po- j 
 litical and personal enemy of Bishop Ken, writes, j 
 that he applied himself to the awakening of the j 
 King’s conscience, and spoke with a great elevation | 
 both of thought and expression, like a man in- 
 spired, as those who were present told me.” He 
 endeavoured in vam to prevail on the King to 
 take the Holy Sacrament. At length he was de- 
 
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 sired to retire, and the King, who had for some 
 
 1 time been secretly devoted to the Popish faith, 
 
 5 received extreme unction from the hands of Hud- 
 i dleston, a Romish priest. 
 
 On the accession of James IT,, Bishop Ken went 
 down to Wells to undertake his episcopal duties. 
 
 Of his behaviour in his diocese we have the best 
 testimony in the affectionate respect with which his 
 memory has ever since been held in the Church. 
 
 ; He lost no opportunity of instructing the people. 
 He preached often, and published several small 
 pieces, such as his Exposition of the Church 
 Catechism, with directions for Prayer, and a Pas- 
 toral Letter to his Clergy concerning their beha- 
 viour in Lent. In these publications, as in all his 
 other remains, he shews his primitive and simple 
 faith. At a time when licentiousness was estrang- 
 ing a large portion of the laity from Christian faith 
 ■ and practice, and a dangerous spirit of latitudina- 
 I rianism was growing up among many of the Clergy, 
 
 I Bishop Ken was one of the most strenuous and in- 
 j duential supporters of Church doctrines and usages, 
 j His life, from his youth, had been one of constant 
 j self-denial and mortification. His fastings and 
 j watchings, his primitive prayers and communions, 
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 attracted the respectful affection of those who, 
 though they did not practise them themselves, 
 still could recognise their fitness and value in 
 another, they prepared him for the great exercises 
 of self-denial in his life, to which he was called. 
 Thus his Christian self-government and discipline 
 were the secret of his strength, as his free and 
 almost unlimited almsgiving was the prepara- 
 tion of his cheerful contentment in his own re- 
 verses. 
 
 Shortly after he took up his residence at Wells, 
 the unhappy battle of Sedgemoor took place, in 
 which the rebellion of the misguided Duke of Mon- 
 mouth was entirely crushed. The field of battle 
 was within a day’s journey of Wells, where the 
 Bishop, whose interposition had already checked 
 the murderous revenge of the conquerors, received 
 the unhappy fugitives by hundreds, and extended 
 to them his free and Christian charity. When the 
 Duke was soon after taken prisoner, and sentenced 
 to death, Ken was appointed, together with Bishop 
 Turner of Ely, and Doctors Hooper and Tenison, 
 to attend him on the scaffold. But their holy 
 counsel was once more in great measure ineffectual. 
 They endeavoured in vain to prevail on the Duke 
 to acknowledge the guilt of his rebellion. He died 
 
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 with a general expression of forgiveness and repent- 
 ance, but without making more particular refer- 
 ence to his recent attempt. For their endeavours 
 to persuade the Duke to a more express confession 
 of his guilt in this respect, the two Bishops have 
 been most severely and unjustly blamed. 
 
 When the famous Declaration of Liberty of Con- 
 science was ordered by King James II. to be read 
 in all the churches, Bishop Ken, with Archbishop 
 Bancroft, Bishops Lake of Chichester, Turner of 
 Ely, Lloyd of St. Asaph, Trelawney of Bristol, 
 and White of Peterborough, joined in addressing 
 a humble petition to his Majesty, representing the 
 illegality of the dispensing power therein claimed, 
 and their unwillingness to sanction it by such a 
 publication. For this offence they were tried at 
 Westminster for a seditious libel. But the attempts 
 of James to restore Popery had now so thoroughly 
 alarmed the whole country, that the utmost feeling 
 of indignation against the court, and sympathy 
 for the Bishops, was excited by this outrageous 
 prosecution. As the Bishops were conveyed to 
 the Tower in boats from Westminster, “ the whole 
 shore,” says Hume, “ was covered with crowds of 
 prostrate spectators, who at once implored the bless- 
 ing of these holy pastors, and addressed their peti- 
 
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 tions towards Heaven for protection during this 
 extreme danger, to which their country and their 
 religion stood exposed. Even the soldiers, seized 
 with the contagion of the same spirit, flung them- 
 selves on their knees before the distressed prelates, 
 and craved the benediction of those criminals 
 whom they were appointed to guard. Some per- 
 sons ran into the water, that they might participate 
 more nearly of those blessings which the prelates 
 were distributing on all around them.” The ver- 
 dict of acquittal was received with loud shouts of 
 joy. It happened that the King had just been 
 reviewing the troops at Hounslow, and had retired 
 into Lord Feversham’s tent, when he was surprised 
 to hear a great uproar in the camp, attended with 
 the most extravagant symptoms of tumultuary joy. 
 He suddenly inquired the cause, and was told by 
 Feversham, “ It was nothing but the rejoicing 
 of the soldiers for the acquittal of the Bishops.” 
 Do you call that nothing replied he ; but so 
 much the worse for them.” 
 
 When James had fled and the Prince of Orange 
 had landed. Bishop Ken, with all the other pre- 
 ates except two, was very earnest in his place 
 in parliament that a Regent should be appointed 
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 unchanged ; or that if the throne should be de- 
 clared vacant, the Princess Mary, as the next 
 heir, should be called to fill it. When, however, 
 these proposals were thrown out, he retired to his 
 diocese, there to await the settlement of affairs in 
 which he could no longer conscientiously take 
 part. 
 
 On the passing of the bill for settling the crown 
 on the Prince and Princess of Orange conjointly, 
 the sole administration being reserved to the 
 Prince, Bishop Ken, with many other clergy and 
 laymen, felt that he had no warrant in conscience 
 for transferring his allegiance to a new monarch 
 who could assign no title to the throne but a mere 
 election. He therefore declined to take the new 
 oaths which were imposed, and preferred to lose 
 all and retire to poverty rather than violate his 
 conscience. Five of the seven Bishops who had 
 resisted the dispensing power of James were found 
 among the Kon-jiirors, thus exhibiting the noble 
 spectacle of men who could at once maintain their 
 duty in defiance of the utmost anger and persecu- 
 tion of their Sovereign, and yet lose all their 
 worldly means and prospects rather than disown 
 their real and true allegiance. Unhappily, there 
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 the deprived Bishops, and thus to acknowledge 
 the power of the State to break off the episcopal 
 succession, and sever the connection between a 
 Bishop and his diocese. Bishop Ken made a 
 public protest against his deprivation, asserting 
 from his pastoral chair in the Cathedral of Wells, 
 his canonical right, and professing that he esteemed 
 himself still the canonical Bishop of the diocese, 
 and that he would be ready on all occasions to 
 perform his pastoral duties. The see was then 
 offered to I)r. Beveridge, by whom it was de- 
 clined, and Dr. Kidder was appointed to it. 
 
 Thus reduced to poverty, for his income on his 
 deprivation was twenty pounds a-year. Bishop Ken 
 found an asylum in the house of his nephew, Isaac 
 Walton, Canon of Salisbury, and Bector of Pol- 
 shot, near Devizes. In this family he passed the 
 greater part of his remaining years, keeping up 
 a kind, fraternal intercourse with his deprived 
 brethren, and doing all in his power to minister to 
 their wants. On one occasion, a charitable design 
 of this kind, set on foot by the pious Mr. Kettle- 
 well, caused him to be summoned before the Privy 
 Council and examined ; but not the slightest sus- 
 picion ever rested on him of being involved in any 
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 of the exiled family, though we know that he was 
 much solicited to join in them. 
 
 In the year 1708 a violent storm visited the 
 whole of the West of England. Bishop Ken very 
 narrowly escaped with his life, but a stack of chim- 
 neys blown down in the palace of Wells crushed to 
 death the intruding Bishop Kidder and his wife in 
 the ruins. This event appeared to offer an oppor- 
 tunity of healing in part the unhappy schism 
 which tore in pieces the Church in England, and 
 had separated many of the most pious and excel- 
 lent of the clergy from the national communion. 
 Bishop Ken, therefore, hearing that Dr. Hooper, 
 Bishop of St. Asaph, who had" formerly been his 
 fellow-chaplain to Bishop Morley, and in whose 
 character and principles he had full confidence, 
 was likely to be appointed to succeed Dr. Kidder, 
 but was unwilling to accept the appointment out 
 of delicacy to him, wrote him an urgent letter, 
 pressing him to allow himself to be translated to 
 Bath and Wells, and promising to make a cession 
 of his canonical right in his favour. This cession, 
 which he accordingly made, was highly displeasing 
 to many of the other deprived clergy, and Bishop 
 Ken was blamed with no little severity for his con- 
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 passed upon the act itself, there can he no doubt 
 that Ken was actuated by the purest feelings of 
 charity and love of peace in performing it. 
 
 This was the last event of public consequence 
 in the life of this great and good man. He died 
 at Longleat on the 1 9 th of March, 1710, at the age 
 of seventy-three, and was buried in the churchyard 
 of Frome, in Somersetshire, leaving behind him the 
 name of one of the most primitive and holy Bi- 
 shops who, by God’s mercy, have been raised up 
 to adorn the Apostolical Church in England. 
 
 In page 7, and in one or two other passages of 
 this little book, the phrase occurs of “ going Cir- 
 cum.” This expression is now quite obsolete and 
 forgotten. It appears, however, that in the school- 
 days of the oldest living Wykehamists, the small 
 passage leading to the chapel and cloisters of the 
 college was open; to the boys, with a bench round 
 it placed close to the walls. It was the practice of 
 the boys, on coming out of school at six o’clock, to 
 go into this passage, and, stooping or kneeling down 
 by the bench, to say their short private prayers ; 
 and this practice was still called “ going Circum.” 
 Possibly, in former times, the boys may have 
 
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 walked in procession round the cloisters after 
 school-time, singing one of the old Church hymns 
 still extant among them, and when this usage came 
 to he considered popish, they may have been con- 
 fined to the dark entrance-passage, and their sepa- 
 rate voluntary prayers. From the dates of the 
 names cut on the walls of the cloisters, it seems as 
 if they were first opened for the ordinary secular 
 use of the boys about the time of the puritanical 
 Warden Harris, when Bishop Ken first came to 
 school, and shut up altogether from them soon 
 after the beginning of the next century. 
 
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 AN EXHORTATION TO YOUNG PHILOTHEUS. 
 
 TF you have any regard, good Philo theus, to 
 your own eternal happiness, it ought to be 
 your chiefest care to serve and glorify God. 
 It is for this end God both made and redeemed 
 you; and two excellent rules He hath given 
 you ii^ Holy Scripture, by the conscientious 
 observation of which you will be able, through 
 His grace, to dedicate your tender years to 
 His glory. 
 
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 The one teaches you what you are to do, 
 ^^Eemember now thy Creator in the days of 
 ^Hhy youth 
 
 The other teaches you what you are to avoid, 
 ^^Tlee youthful lusts;” that is, all those sins 
 which are usually incident to young persons^. 
 
 You cannot imagine the unspeakable ad- 
 vantages a pious youth gains by the practice 
 of these two rules; and how many ghostly 
 dangers that soul escapes, which is seasoned 
 betimes with the fear of God, before he is 
 sullied with ill company, before he hath con- 
 tracted vicious habits, which will cost him 
 infinite pains to unlearn, before his affections 
 are too far engaged in the world to be easily 
 recalled, and before the devil hath got too 
 strong a hold in him to be suddenly dispos- 
 sessed. 
 
 0 Philotheus, do but ask any one old peni- 
 tent, what fruit, what satisfaction he hath 
 purchased to himself, by all those pleasures of 
 sin which flattered him in his youth, and of 
 which he is now ashamed. Will he not sadly 
 
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 tell you, lie has found them all to be hut vanity 
 and vexation of spirit? How will he befool 
 himself, for the many good opportunities he 
 hath lost, and wish a thousand times that he 
 were to live over his misspent days again ! 
 And how bitterly will he, with David, bewail 
 the sins of his youth ^ ! 
 
 Learn then, good Philotheus, by the dear- 
 bought experience of others, to accustom your- 
 self to bear Christ’s yoke from your youth, and 
 His yoke will sit easy on your neck ; for your 
 duty will grow natural to you by beginning 
 betimes. 
 
 Do but consider how welcome a young con- 
 vert is to Grod ; it was to young Samuel that 
 God revealed Himself, and that at such a time 
 too, when the word of God was precious and 
 very rare, to shew how much God honoured 
 a young prophet^, and you know that St. 
 John, the youngest of all the disciples, is the 
 only person of all the twelve who was per- 
 mitted to lean on our Saviour’s bosom, at the 
 last supper, as dearest to Him in affection, 
 
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 and who is emphatically called the disciple 
 whom Jesus loved® : and this is suitable to 
 that gracious promise which God hath made 
 to encourage all young persons to serve Him : 
 I love them that love Me, and they that seek 
 Me early shall find Me^/’ 
 
 O Philotheus, let this heavenly promise 
 excite in you a great zeal to seek God, and 
 seek Him early : for if you do seek, you are 
 sure to find Him ; you are sure, when you 
 have found Him, He will love you ; and you 
 shall reap all the happy effects of God’s in- 
 finite love, and of an early piety. 
 
 An early piety! than which, nothing will 
 make you a greater comfort to all your friends, 
 or a greater blessing to the very college 
 where you are bred; nothing will make you 
 more universally esteemed, and beloved by 
 all men, or more successful in your studies : 
 and besides that peace of conscience, and the 
 pleasure of well-doing you will at present 
 feel; think, if you can, how unconceivable 
 a joy it will be to you when, in your 
 
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 elder years, you can reflect on yonr well- 
 spent time, and the innocence of your youth ; 
 how great a consolation it will he to you 
 on your death-hed, how easy it will render 
 your accompts at the great day of judg- 
 ment, and how much a whole life spent in 
 God’s service, will increase your glory in 
 heaven. 
 
 God of His great mercy, Philotheus, make 
 these and the like considerations effectual to 
 create holy resolutions in you, and give you 
 grace to make good use of these following 
 directions, which are designed to teach you to 
 fear the Lord from your youth, and are suited 
 to your particular age and condition, in hopes 
 they may the more affect you. God grant 
 they mays. Amen. 
 
 DIRECTIONS IN GENERAL. 
 
 As soon as ever you awake in the morn- 
 ing, good Philotheus, strive as much as you 
 can, to keep all worldly thoughts out of 
 
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 3^our mind, till you have presented the first 
 fruits of the day to God, which will he an 
 excellent preparative to make you spend the 
 rest of it the better ; and therefore he sure 
 to sing the morning and evening hymn in 
 your chamber devoutly, remembering that 
 the Psalmist, upon happy experience, assures 
 you that it is a good thing to tell of the 
 loving-kindness of the Lord early in the 
 morning, and of His truth in the night- 
 season^. 
 
 "When you are ready, look on your soul 
 as still undressed, till you have said your 
 prayers. 
 
 Eememher that God under the law or- 
 dained a lamb to he offered up to Him every 
 morning and evening. A lamb ! which is 
 a fit emblem of youth and innocence : think 
 then that you are to resemble this lamb, and 
 he sure every day to offer up yourself a morn- 
 ing and evening sacrifice to Godk 
 
 If you are a commoner, you may say your 
 prayers in your own chamber ; but if you 
 
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 are a child, or a chorister, then, to avoid 
 the interruptions of the common chambers, 
 go into the chapel, between first and second 
 peal, in the morning, to say your morning 
 prayers, and to say your evening prayers 
 when you go Circum. 
 
 Now, that every one may have this duty 
 proportioned to his capacity, the best way 
 is to distinguish two degrees of young Chris- 
 tians in this college, namely, those that are 
 of an age capable of receiving the Holy Sacra- 
 ment, and those that are not ; and in one 
 of these two degrees you are to rank your- 
 self. 
 
 DIRECTIONS FOR THE YOUNGEST. 
 
 If you are very young, good Philotheus, 
 that God’s commands may not seem grievous 
 to you at your first setting out, I shall advise 
 you to no more than your infant devotion 
 will hear ; and that is, to take great care 
 to learn your catechism without book, and 
 to learn to understand it ; for it is impossible 
 
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 you can ever perforin your duty, unless you 
 first know what it is ; it is impossible you can 
 ever go to heaven, unless you learn the way 
 thither : and that you may beg God’s daily 
 blessing, and His grace to assist you, learn 
 these two short prayers by heart, and say 
 them every day. 
 
 MORNING PRAYER. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 Lord God, for all the 
 blessings I daily receive from Thee, and for 
 Thy particular preservation, and refreshment 
 of me, this night past. 
 
 0 Lord, have mercy upon me, and for- 
 give whatsoever Thou hast seen amiss in me 
 this night ; and for the time to come give me 
 grace to fly all youthful lusts, and to re- 
 member Thee, my Creator, in the days of my 
 youth. 
 
 Shower down Thy graces and blessings on 
 me, and on my relations, [on my father and 
 mother, on my brethren and sisters,] on all 
 my friends, on all my governors in this place. 
 
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 and on all my fellow- scholars, and give Thy 
 angels charge over us, to protect us all from 
 sin and danger. 
 
 Lord, bless me in my learning this day, 
 that I may every day grow more fit for Thy 
 service : O pardon my failings, and do more 
 for me than I can ask, or think, for the 
 merits of Jesus my Saviour, in Whose holy 
 words I sum up all my wants. Our Lather, 
 Which art in heaven, &c. 
 
 EVENING PRAYER. 
 
 Glory he to Thee, 0 Lord God, for all the 
 blessings I daily receive from Thee, and for 
 Thy particular preservation of me this day, 
 
 0 Lord, have mercy upon me, and for- 
 give whatsoever Thou hast seen amiss in me 
 this day past ; and for the time to come 
 give me grace to fiy all youthful lusts, and 
 to remember Thee my Creator in the days of 
 my youth. 
 
 Lord, receive me and all my relations, and 
 
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 all that belong to this college, into Thy gra- 
 cious protection this night, and send me such 
 seasonable rest, that I may rise the next morn- 
 ing more fit for Thy service. 
 
 Lord, hear my prayers, and pardon my 
 failings, for the merits of my blessed Sa- 
 viour, in Whose holy words I sum up all 
 my wants. Our Father, Which art in hea- 
 ven, &c. 
 
 This, good Philotheus, is the lowest degree 
 of duty, and it should be your daily endea- 
 vour to improve in your devotion, as well 
 as in your learning ; and the more effectually 
 to move you to so happy an improvement, 
 I advise you on Sundays and holydays atten- 
 tively to read over the following meditation, 
 and to propose to yourself the Holy Child 
 Jesus for your example. . 
 
 A MEDITATION ON THE HOLY CHILD JESUS. 
 
 Glort be to Thee, O Lord Jesus, glory be 
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 old didst go up to Jerusalem with Thy parents, 
 after the custom of the feast, to eat the Pass- 
 over, and to worship Thy heavenly Father^. 
 
 0 blessed Saviour, give me grace, like Thee, 
 to make religion my first and chiefest care, 
 and devoutly to observe all solemn times and 
 all holy rites which relate to Thy worship. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 Lord Jesus, glory be 
 to Thee, Who when Thy parents returned 
 home, didst stay behind in Jerusalem, and 
 after three days wast found of them in the 
 temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, 
 both hearing them and asking them questions. 
 
 0 blessed Saviour, Who in Thy very child- 
 hood didst triumph over all the vain delights 
 of youth, and wouldst choose no place but 
 the temple to reside in, mortify in me all 
 inordinate love of sensual pleasure, which may 
 pervert me from my duty ; raise in me an 
 awful reverence of Thy house, an early de- 
 votion in my prayers, and a delight in Thy 
 praises. 
 
 O blessed Jesu, Who didst choose, before 
 
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 all Others, the company of the doctors, and 
 didst both hear them and ask them questions ; 
 give me grace to abhor all lewd company, 
 and all filthy communication; give me grace 
 to love wise, and sober, and profitable, and 
 religious conversation, and to be diligent and 
 inquisitive after learning, and whatsoever is 
 good. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 Lord Jesus, glory be 
 to Thee, Who when Thy father and mother 
 had sought Thee sorrowing, didst reply to 
 them, How is it that ye sought Me ? Wist 
 ye not that I must be about My Lather’s 
 business 
 
 0 blessed Jesu, Who from Thine infancy 
 didst make it Thy whole employment to do 
 Thy Father’s will, kindle in me a forward 
 zeal for Thy glory, that I may consecrate 
 my youth to Thy service, and make it the 
 great business of my life to know and fear, 
 to love and obey, my heavenly Father. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 Lord Jesus, glory be 
 to Thee, Who didst at last return home with 
 Thy parents, and wert subject to them. 
 
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 0 blessed Jesu, give me grace to honour my 
 parents and governors, and readily to obey all 
 their lawful commands ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Lord Jesus, glory be 
 to Thee, Who in those tender years wert blessed 
 with such heavenly wisdom, that all that heard 
 Thee were astonished at Thy understanding 
 and answers. Who didst daily increase in this 
 heavenly wisdom, and in favour with God 
 and man ! 
 
 0 Lord Jesu, bless me with all abilities of 
 mind and body, that may make me daily in- 
 crease in my learning ; but above all, bless me 
 with wisdom from above, and give me Thy 
 Holy Spirit to assist and enlighten me, that as 
 I grow in age, I may daily grow in grace, and 
 in the knowledge of Thee, and in favour with 
 God and man, and every day more and more 
 conformable to Thy un sinning and divine ex- 
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 DIRECTIONS POR THOSE THAT ARE MORE GROWN 
 IN YEARS. 
 
 When you have attained to more knowledge 
 and proficiency in grace, and are of an age 
 capable of receiving the Holy Sacrament, God 
 then expects more from you ; and it is high 
 time for you, good Philotheus, to lengthen 
 your prayers, and to begin to add some ejacu- 
 lations over and above, such as these are 
 which follow. 
 
 EJACULATIONS AT WAKING OR RISING. 
 
 Awake, 0 my soul, and sing praises to God. 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 God, for watching over 
 me this night. 
 
 Lord, raise me up at the last day to life 
 everlasting. 
 
 MORNING PRAYER. 
 
 Early in the morning will I cry unto Thee ; 
 Lord, hear my prayer. 
 
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 Glory be to Thee, Lord God Almighty ; 
 glory be to Thee, for renewing Thy mercies 
 to me every morning ; glory be to Thee, 
 for refreshing me this night with sleep, and 
 for preserving me from the perils of dark- 
 ness. 
 
 O do away, as the night, so my trans- 
 gressions; scatter my sins as the morning 
 cloud ! 
 
 Lord, forgive whatever Thou hast seen amiss 
 in me this night, [my — Here, if you are con- 
 scious to yourself of any sin committed in the 
 nighty confess it\. O Father of mercies, wash 
 me throughly from my wickedness, and cleanse 
 me from my sin. 
 
 And let Thy Holy Spirit so prevent, and 
 accompany, and follow me this day, that I 
 may believe in Thee, and love Thee, and keep 
 Thy commandments, and continue in Thy fear 
 all the day long. 
 
 Lord, make me chaste and temperate, hum- 
 ble and advisable, diligent in my studies, obe- 
 dient to my superiors, and charitable to all 
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 Lord, deliver me from sloth and idleness, 
 from youthful lusts and ill company, from 
 all dangers bodily and ghostly, and give me 
 grace to remember Thee, my Creator, in the 
 days of my youth. 
 
 Bless, and defend, and save the king, and 
 all the royal family, and all orders of men 
 amongst us, ecclesiastical or civil ; Lord, give 
 them all grace, in their several stations, to he 
 instrumental to Thy glory, and the public 
 good. 
 
 Together with them, I commend to Thy 
 Divine Providence [My father and mother^ my 
 brethren and sisters]^ all my friends and rela- 
 tions, all my superiors in this place, and all 
 my fellow-scholars : O Lord, vouchsafe us all 
 those graces and blessings which Thou know- 
 est to be most suitable for us. 
 
 Dnto Thee, 0 my God, do I dedicate this 
 day, and my whole life ; 0 do Thou so bless 
 and prosper me in my studies, that I may 
 every day grow more fit for Thy service. 
 
 Hear me, O Lord, and pardon my failings, 
 for the merits of Thy Son Jesus, in "Whose 
 
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 holy words I sum up all my wants. Our 
 Father, which art in heaven, &c. 
 
 DIRECTIONS FOR READING HOLY SCRIPTURE. 
 
 When" you have said your morning prayer, 
 good Philotheus, you may then go cheerfully 
 to your study, and rely upon the Divine good- 
 ness for a blessing. 
 
 But first, if you have time, I advise you 
 to read, before second peal, some short Psalm, 
 or piece of a chapter out of the Gospel or 
 historical books, because they are the most 
 easy to he understood; remembering the ex- 
 ample of young Timothy, who was bred up to 
 know the Scripture from a child k 
 
 But if you want time on ordinary days 
 to read the Scripture, he sure to read some- 
 what of it on Sundays and holidays, and con- 
 sider, that you have it daily read to you in 
 the hall before dinner and supper, and at 
 night when you are just going to bed, that 
 you may close the day with holy thoughts ; 
 
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 and if yon hearken diligently to it when it is 
 
 read, you do in effect read it yourself. 
 
 JS’ow to make your reading the more profit- 
 able to you, begin with one or more of these 
 ejaculations. 
 
 EJACULATIONS BEFORE READING HOLY 
 SCRIPTURE. 
 
 Wherewithal, Lord, shall a young man 
 cleanse his way ? even by ruling himself after 
 Thy word. 
 
 Lord, open my eyes, that I may see the 
 wonderful things of Thy law^. 
 
 O heavenly Father! I humbly beg Thy 
 Holy Spirit so to help me at this time to 
 read, and understand, and to remember, and 
 practise Thy word, that it may make me wise 
 to salvation. 
 
 When you are thus prepared, good Philo- 
 theus, then begin to read, and consider that 
 it is God’s most holy word you read; and 
 
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 that all the 'while you are reading, God is 
 speaking to you, and therefore read 'with at- 
 tention and humility, and endeavour as much 
 as you can to suit your affections to the sub- 
 ject you read. 
 
 For instance, if you read any of God’s com- 
 mands, they should excite in you a zeal to 
 keep them. 
 
 If you read any of God’s threatenings 
 against sinners, or His judgments on them, 
 they should excite in you a fear to provoke 
 Him. 
 
 Vhen you read any of His gracious pro- 
 mises, they should encourage and quicken 
 your obedience. 
 
 "When you read any of God’s mercies, they 
 should excite you to thanksgi'dng. 
 
 "Wlien you read any great mystery recorded 
 in holy 'writ, you are to prostrate your reason 
 to di'vine revelation. 
 
 And to this purpose, in the midst of your 
 reading, say, 
 
 Lord, give me grace to obey this com- 
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 Lord, deliver me from this sin ; or, this judg- 
 ment : or. 
 
 Lord, I rely on this good promise : or. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Lord, for this mercy : or. 
 Lord, I believe and adore this mystery. 
 
 Say any of these, according as best agrees 
 with the subject you read; and when you 
 have read as much as conveniently you can, 
 conclude with one of these ejaculations. 
 
 EJACULATIONS AFTER READING. 
 
 Blessed be Thou, O Lord; O teach me 
 Thy statutes. 
 
 Lord, make Thy word a lantern unto my 
 feet, and a light unto my paths. 
 
 Lord, make Thy word my delight and my 
 counsellor^.” 
 
 DIRECTIONS FOR THE DAY-TIME. 
 
 O Philotheus, you cannot enough thank 
 God for the order of the place you live in, 
 
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 where there is so much care taken to make 
 you a good Christian, as well as a good scho- 
 lar; where you go so frequently to prayers, 
 every day in the chapel, and in the school; 
 and sing hymns and psalms to God so fre- 
 quently in your chamber, and in the chapel, 
 and in the hall, so that you are in a manner 
 brought up in a perpetuity of prayer. 
 
 Be sure, Philotheus, that you are account- 
 able to God for all these opportunities He 
 gives you of serving Him; and think how 
 many blessings, for yourself and for the col- 
 lege, you might obtain, if you prayed to and 
 praised God rather out of a devout affection, 
 than merely to comply with the custom of the 
 place. 
 
 Prayer, good Philotheus, is the very life of 
 a Christian, and therefore we are so frequently 
 commanded to pray without ceasing : not that 
 we can be always on our knees, but that we 
 would accustom ourselves to frequent thoughts 
 of God, that wheresoever we are. He sees us ; 
 and when we think on God, we should have 
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 and by this means we may pray, not only 
 seyen times a-day, with David, but all the day 
 long®. 
 
 In your reading Holy Scripture, especially 
 in the Psalms, you may easily gather those 
 short sentences which most affect you, for 
 they are most proper for this use ; and when 
 you have learned them without book, say one 
 of them now and then, as they occur to your 
 mind, or occasion requires, or as your devo- 
 tion prompts you. 
 
 But be not troubled, if being otherwise law- 
 fully employed, or if being indisposed, you pass 
 a whole day without saying any, for to omit 
 them is no sin ; nor be you scrupulous in what 
 posture you say them; for they, being short 
 breathings of the soul to God, require not 
 that solemnity as set prayers do. 
 
 Now, to give you some instances of eja- 
 culatory prayer, take these following : — 
 
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 At going out. 
 
 Lord, bless my going out, and my coming 
 in, from this time forth for evermore p/’ 
 
 After a sin committed. 
 
 Lord, be merciful to me, miserable sinner, 
 and for the merits of my Saviour, lay not this 
 sin to my charge.^’ 
 
 After any Blessing or Deliverance. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Lord, for this bless- 
 ing f or, for this deliverance ! 
 
 Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that 
 is within me praise His holy name 
 
 At giving Alms. 
 
 O Lord, Who didst not despise the widow’s 
 mite, accept of this little I now give, to relieve 
 one of Thy poor members^.” 
 
 After having done any good. 
 
 I^ot unto me, O Lord, not unto me, but 
 unto Thy ^N'ame be the praise®.” 
 
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 In Temptation. 
 
 Lord, succour me with Thy grace, that I 
 may oyercome this temptation,” 
 
 DIRECTIONS FOR THE EVENING, 
 
 Consider, good Philotheus, how many that 
 have gone to bed well over night have been 
 found dead the next morning ; and therefore it 
 highly concerns you to take care to make your 
 peace with God before you go to sleep. 
 
 I advise you, therefore, towards night, or 
 when you go circum, to call yourself to an 
 account how you have spent the day. 
 
 Examine your thoughts, and discourses, and 
 actions, and recreations, and devotions, and see 
 what has been amiss in any of them. 
 
 Consider what idleness or unchastity, what 
 lying and stubbornness you have been guilty 
 of ; or whether you have had a quarrel with 
 any of your fellows ; and if you have, be sure 
 to be friends with him before you say your 
 
 prayers. 
 
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 Again, consider what particular blessing 
 or deliverance God has vouchsafed you the 
 day past, that you may give thanks for it, and 
 then say as follows. 
 
 EVENING PKAYEE. 
 
 Let my prayer, 0 Lord, be set forth in 
 Thy sight as incense, and the lifting up of my 
 hands be as an evening sacrifice*.’’ 
 
 Holy, holy, holy. Lord God, I miserable 
 sinner humbly acknowledge that I have of- 
 fended Thee this day, in thought, word, and 
 deed, [particularly by — here mention any sin 
 you have heen guilty o/l] But I fiy into the 
 arms of Thy Fatherly compassion ; Lord, for 
 Thy mercies’ sake forgive me, cleanse me from 
 my wickedness and strengthen my weakness, 
 that I may overcome all the temptations which 
 daily surround me, and continue constant in 
 my obedience. 
 
 Accept of my humblest praise and thanks- 
 
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 giving, 0 Lord, for all the goodness Thou hast 
 this day shewed me ; for all the helps of pre- 
 venting or restraining grace Thou hast vouch- 
 safed me ; for whatever I have done this day 
 which is in any measure acceptable to Thee ; 
 for whatever progress I have made in my 
 study ; for Thy preservation of me from all the 
 miseries and dangers which frail mortality is 
 every moment exposed to, (particularly — here 
 name any particular blessing or deliverance God 
 has sent you,) 
 
 Praise the Lord, O my soul, Who saveth 
 thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee 
 with mercy and loving-kindness. 
 
 O heavenly Lather, to Thy almighty protec- 
 tion I recommend myself and all my relations, 
 and all that belong to this college ) O Thou 
 that never slumberest nor sleepest, watch over 
 us, to preserve us from sin and danger. 
 
 Lord, let it be Thy good pleasure to refresh 
 me this night with such seasonable rest, that 
 I may rise the next morning more fit for Thy 
 service. O pardon my failings, and hear my 
 prayers, for the sake of my blessed Saviour, in 
 
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 Whose holy words I sum up all my wants. 
 Our Father, &c. 
 
 EJACULATIONS AT GOING TO BED. 
 
 Lord, as I now go to my bed, I must one 
 day go to my grave. 0 make me wise to 
 consider my latter end. 
 
 I will lay me down in peace, and take my 
 rest, for it is Thou, Lord, only makest me 
 dwell in safety 
 
 DIRECTIONS FOR MIDNIGHT. 
 
 If you chance to wake in the night, or 
 cannot sleep, beware, Philotbeus, of idle and 
 unclean thoughts, which will then be apt to 
 crowd into your mind ; and therefore, to arm 
 yourself against them, I advise you to learn 
 the 130th and the 139th Psalms by heart, or 
 treasure up some ejaculations in your mind, 
 which will be excellent matter for your thoughts 
 to feed on. For instance : 
 
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 EJACULATIONS POR THE NIGHT. 
 
 Thou, Lord, hast granted Thy loving-kind- 
 ness in the day-time, and in the night-season 
 will I sing of Thee, and make my prayer to 
 the God of my life 
 
 0 Lord, the holy angels are now before Thy 
 throne in heaven, they never rest day or night 
 from Thy praises, and with them do I now 
 sing Hallelujah, salvation, and honour, and 
 glory, and power, he unto our God, for ever 
 and ever. Amen, Amen^. 
 
 Lord, I know Thou wilt one day call me to 
 give an account of my stewardship, hut when 
 Thou wilt come I know not, whether at even, 
 or at midnight, or at cock- crowing, or in the 
 morning x. 
 
 0 do Thou give me grace to watch and to 
 pray always, that at Thy coming Thou mayest 
 say to me, Well done, good and faithful ser- 
 vant, enter into the joy of thy Master.” Amen, 
 blessed Lord, Amen. 
 
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 But have a care, Philotheus, you fix not 
 your mind too much, neither strive to repeat 
 too many devout expressions, for fear of hin- 
 dering your sleep, and of indisposing yourself 
 for the duties of the day following. 
 
 DIRECTIONS FOR THE LORD’s DAY. 
 
 A GOOD Christian, Philotheus, that takes 
 care to spend every day well, will take more 
 than ordinary care to sanctify the Lord’s Day, 
 it being the proper employment of that day to 
 attend God’s worship, and to provide for our 
 souls; and therefore it is fit you should add 
 some petitions to your morning and evening 
 prayer, relating to the solemn duties of the 
 day ; such as these are which follow. 
 
 BEFORE CHURCH-TIME. 
 
 0 :my God, I humbly beseech Thee to pre- 
 pare my soul to worship Thee this day accept- 
 ably, with reverence and godly fear; fill me 
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 my heart from all vain, or worldly, or sinful 
 thoughts; fix my affections on things above 
 all the day long, and, 0 Lord, give me grace 
 to receive Thy word, which I shall hear this 
 day, into an honest and good heart, and to 
 bring forth fruit with patience y. Hear me, 
 O God, for the sake of Jesus my Saviour. 
 Amen, Amen. 
 
 When you come into the church or chapel, 
 not only on the Lord’s Hay, but on any other 
 day, use this short preparatory prayer at your 
 first kneeling down. 
 
 IN THE CHURCH. 
 
 O Lord, I humbly beg Thy Holy Spirit to 
 help my infirmities at this time, and to dispose 
 my heart to devotion, that my prayers and 
 praises may be acceptable in Thy sight, through 
 Jesus Christ my Saviour. Amen. 
 
 AFTER CHURCH-TIME. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Lord God Almighty, 
 glory be to Thee, Who hast permitted me to 
 
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 appear before Thee this day, and to tread Thy 
 courts. 
 
 Lord, pardon all my failings in Thy ser- 
 vice this day past, the wanderings, and cold- 
 ness, and indevotion of my prayers. Lor the 
 sake of my blessed Saviour, have mercy upon 
 me. 
 
 Lord, make me a doer of Thy word, and 
 not a hearer only, lest I deceive my own 
 soul^. 
 
 When you are called to repetition at night, 
 remember, Philotheus, to make some amends 
 for your negligent hearing at the church, and 
 treasure up in your memory some little por- 
 tion of those instructions you have heard, to 
 direct your practice. 
 
 DIRECTIONS FOR RECEIVING THE HOLY 
 EUCHARIST. 
 
 The receiving of the blessed Sacrament, 
 good Philotheus, is the most divine and so- 
 lemn act of all our religion, and it ought 
 
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 to be the zealous endeavour of every true 
 Christian, by God’s assistance, to prepare his 
 soul with the most serious and most devout 
 dispositions he possibly can to approach the 
 holy altar : you are therefore to consider what 
 you are to do before receiving, what in the 
 time of receiving, and what after receiving. 
 
 Before Receiving* 
 
 The duties you are to perform before re- 
 ceiving are all comprehended in that one 
 rule which St. Paul gives us^, ^^Let a man 
 examine himself, and so let him eat of that 
 bread and drink of that cup,” which are in 
 a manner conjmented on by the Church, in 
 the exhortation before the Sacrament, which 
 I advise you to read over in your Common- 
 prayer-book. 
 
 To put this rule in practice, it is your 
 best way, Philotheus, at some convenient time 
 to withdraw yourself into your chamber, or 
 into the chapel, and there to begin to com- 
 
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 mune with your own heart, and to call yonr 
 sins to remembrance ; but first pray heartily 
 to God for His grace to assist yon. 
 
 PRAYER BEFORE EXAMINATION. 
 
 Hear the voice of my humble petition, O 
 Lord, now I cry unto Thee, and lift up 
 my hands toward Thy mercy- seat. 
 
 Behold, Lord, now I am about to search 
 into my own heart ; but alas, alas ! my heart 
 is deceitful, and desperately wicked, how can 
 I know it^ ? Thou therefore that searchest 
 the heart, and tries t the reins, discover to 
 me all the evil and deceits of my OAvn heart, 
 that I may confess, and bewail, and forsake 
 them, and obtain mercy. Lord, hear me. 
 Lord, help me, for the merits of Jesus my 
 Saviour. Amen, Amen. 
 
 RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN EXAMINATION. 
 
 Ha VINO prayed for God’s assistance, doubt 
 not, Philotheus, but He will vouchsafe it you ; 
 
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 and to guide you in your examination the 
 better, observe these following' directions : — 
 
 "When you examine yourself, either by the 
 following catalogue, or by that in the Whole 
 Duty of Man, or by any other, pause a while 
 on every particular ; and if you find yourself 
 not guilty, then say. Glory be to Thee, O 
 Lord, for preserving me from this sin; and 
 so go on. 
 
 When your conscience answers guilty, then 
 it will be your best way, having said. Lord, 
 have mercy upon me, and forgive me this sin, 
 to write down that sin in a paper, that you 
 may have it ready to confess to God, when 
 your examination is done. 
 
 You are to consider, Philo theus, that there 
 are several degrees of young penitents, and 
 some are more, some less sinful. Por in- 
 stance. 
 
 Some there are, who either through want 
 of conscientious parents, or through often 
 stifling good motions, or through inconstancy, 
 or heedlessness, or unadvisedness, or vicious 
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 the like, have been ‘from their infancy very 
 negligent of learning, or at least of practising 
 their duty. 
 
 Again, some there are amongst these, whose 
 sins are more heinous than ordinary, in regard 
 they are accompanied with several aggra- 
 vations : for any sin is much aggravated, if it 
 he committed knowingly, or deliberately, or 
 frequently : and more than that, if it be com- 
 mitted obstinately, or presumptuously, or on 
 slight, or no temptations, or against checks of 
 conscience, or against reproofs, or admonitions, 
 or chastisements, or vows to the contrary ; 
 but most of all, if it he committed so long, 
 and so often, till it becomes habitual, till the 
 sinner does take delight in it, or boast of 
 it, or makes a mock at it, or tempts others 
 also to comm't it. All these and the like 
 circumstances do very much heighten the 
 guilt of any sins. 
 
 You may easily from hence guess what 
 progress you have made in wickedness, and 
 if you find yourself in the number of any of 
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 to repent immediately, and to confess your sins 
 with, all their aggravations ; for he sure of 
 this, that every other step you run farther 
 from Heaven, every other hour you continue 
 longer in a sinful course, makes your sins the 
 more hard to he mastered, and your repent- 
 ance the more difficult. 
 
 On the other side, some there are, though 
 I fear hut few, who having heen brought up 
 in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, 
 have heen, hy the goodness of God, secured 
 from violent temptations and enormous sins, 
 who have, like Josiah, while the}^ were yet 
 young, sought the Lord, and have in a great 
 measure kept their baptismal vow, and pre- 
 served a sense of their duty^. 
 
 Such as these have fewer sins to confess, 
 and those sins less aggravated, and therefore 
 have greater obligations to magnify God’s 
 mercy than others : hut if you are in this 
 number, have a care of growing careless in 
 your examination, or of presuming on your 
 own innocence : for if we say, or think we 
 
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 have no sin, we miserably deceive our- 
 selves^. 
 
 O Philotbeus, the best of men, God knoTVs, 
 have very much evil in them to detest and 
 bewail, and have infinite need of a Saviour, 
 and therefore let him that standeth take heed 
 lest he fall®. 
 
 AYhatever you do, then, be sure to keep 
 your heart with all diligence, and pray for 
 constant supplies of God’s grace, for perhaps 
 the devil defers his tempting you till you 
 are grown up, and become your own master, 
 and have not that tenderness of offending, 
 or that awe of parents or superiors, which 
 you now have. 
 
 Be not over-scrupulous, Philotheus, either 
 to make yourself guilty of more sins than 
 really you are, or to reckon up all your infir- 
 mities, or daily failings, or sins of omission, 
 which would render your examination endless 
 and impossible ; but examine yourself chiefly 
 about your wilful sins, or sins of commission ; 
 and know, there be many sins, even of com- 
 
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 mission, that you may doubt whetber you 
 bave committed or no; many tbat you bave 
 quite forgot; but be not disheartened at it, 
 for holy David hath taught you that a general 
 confession for such sins is enough, when he 
 prays to God to cleanse him from his secret 
 faults f. 
 
 That you may gain a true sense of your 
 sins by your examination, labour to imprint 
 in your mind awful apprehensions of the day 
 of judgment, and of God the great Judge, in 
 whose presence you now are ; and to raise 
 such apprehensions, dwell a while in such 
 meditations as these. 
 
 MOTIVES TO EXAMINATION. 
 
 O MY soul, thou art now in the presence 
 of the great Judge of Heaven and earth, before 
 whose dreadful tribunal thou must certainly 
 appear at the day of judgment, to give a strict 
 account of all thy actions, and every idle word, 
 of every evil thought, and thy own conscience 
 will then be thy accuser. 
 
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 Think, O my soul, think, if thon canst, what 
 iinimaginahle horrors will seize an impenitent 
 sinner, when the last trump calls him out 
 of the grave, and the devils begin to drag him 
 to God’s judgment-seat ! What would such a 
 wretch give to purchase one such opportunity 
 of repentance, as God now in great mercy 
 gives thee ? If ever thou hopest to escape 
 those horrors, O my soul, make thy peace 
 with God, judge thyself here, lest thou be 
 condemned hereafter. 
 
 THE EXAMINATION ITSELF. 
 
 I ADJURE thee, 0 my soul, in the presence 
 of the great Judge, Who knows all the secrets 
 of thy heart, I adjure thee, as thou wilt an- 
 swer before God’s judgment- seat at the last 
 day, to tell me, — 
 
 Does not thy daily exper’ence teach thee, 
 that thy whole nature is corrupt, prone to all 
 that is evil, averse to all that is good ? 
 
 How hast thou spent thy time, from thy 
 childhood to this very moment ? 
 
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 How hast thou kept the solemn vow of thy 
 baptism ? 
 
 "What good duties hast thou omitted ? 
 
 "What sins hast thou committed ? 
 
 In particular, what sin art thou guilty of, 
 more immediately against God ? 
 
 Art thou guilty of any infidelity or atheism, 
 any distrust in, or presumption on, or despair 
 of God’s mercy ? 
 
 Art thou guilty of any wilful ignorance 
 of God, or of any idolatry, in worshipping 
 any creature ? Hast thou loved any thing 
 more than God, or feared any one above 
 Him? 
 
 Hast thou been guilty of hypocrisy in 
 God’s service, or of forsaking God, and 
 of resorting to the devil, to witches or 
 wizards ? 
 
 Art thou guilty of repining or murmuring 
 at God’s providence, or of being impatient 
 under His afflictions, or of being unthankful 
 for His mercies, or of being disobedient to 
 His commands, or of being incorrigible under 
 His judgments ? 
 
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 "WTien, and in what manner, hast thou been 
 guilty of dishonouring God ? 
 
 Ey blasphemous or irreligious thoughts or 
 discourses ; or by tamely hearing others blas- 
 pheme ? 
 
 Ey taking God’s most holy l^ame in vain, 
 or by customary or false swearing, or by the 
 breach of any lawful oath or solemn vows ? 
 
 Ey any sacrilege or irreverent behaviour in 
 God’s house, or misspending the Lord’s Lay, 
 or any neglect of or inattention to God’s Word, 
 read or preached, or unprofitableness under the 
 means of grace ? 
 
 Have I dishonoured God by coldness, and 
 wanderings, and indevotion, or carelessness in 
 my prayers, or by any weariness in His service, 
 or by any total neglect of it, or by unworthy 
 communicating ? 
 
 Ey impenitence, or putting oif the evil day, 
 or superficial and partial repentances, or fre- 
 quent relapses, or resisting the good motions 
 of God’s Spirit? 
 
 Ey abetting any schism, or heresy, or pro- 
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 0 my soul, what sins art thou guilty of, 
 more immediately against thyself ? 
 
 Art thou guilty of pride, either of thy 
 clothes, or of thy estate, or of thy credit, or 
 of thy parts, or of thy own holiness, or of 
 boasting of thy own good deeds, or of com- 
 mending thyself, or of being greedy of praise, 
 or of performing good duties to gain ap- 
 plause, or of committing sin to avoid reproach 
 of men ? 
 
 Hast thou been immoderately greedy of 
 riches, or of sensual pleasures, or guilty of 
 peevishness, or of too violent or too lasting 
 fits of anger, or of inconstancy, or of incon- 
 sideration, or of discontentedness with any 
 condition ? 
 
 Hast thou been guilty of misspending thy 
 time, or of negligence in resisting tempta- 
 tions, or of not improving those opportunities 
 of learning and piety which God gives thee 
 in this place, or of abusing thy natural parts 
 to sin? 
 
 Hast thou been guilty of any intemperance 
 in eating, or in drinking, or in sleeping, or in 
 
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 recreations, spending too much time on them 
 or being too greedy after them ? 
 
 Hast thou been guilty of idleness, or of 
 downright drunkenness, or of laughing at it 
 in others ? 
 
 Hast thou been guilty 'of any uncleanness 
 in the eye, or of the hand, or of the fancy, 
 of any lasciviousness, or lust, or fornication, 
 or adultery; or hast thou taken delight in 
 lewd compan}", or in vicious or unchaste songs, 
 or stories, or expressions ? 
 
 0 my soul, what sins art thou guilty 
 of, more immediately against thy neigh- 
 bour ? 
 
 How, when, where, against whom hast 
 thou been guilty of any injury, or injustice, 
 or oppression, or breach of trust, or promise, 
 or of any fraud, or theft, or flattery, or dis- 
 simulation, or treachery, or lying, or of giving 
 any just scandal ? 
 
 How, when, where, against whom hast thou 
 been guilty of any ill language, or detraction, 
 or slander, or tale-bearing, or rash censuring, 
 or backbiting, or of contemning, or scofflng at 
 
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 thy neighbour, either for his infirmities, or for 
 his being religious ? 
 
 How, when, where, against whom hast 
 thou been guilty of any contentiousness, or 
 spite, or revenge, or of delighting causelessly 
 to grieve thy neighbour, or of railing, or of 
 actually hurting him, or of murdering him in 
 thy mind, by ill wishes or curses? Hast thou 
 been guilty of bitter imprecations, or bearing 
 false witness, or covetousness of any thing he 
 possesses ? 
 
 Hast thou been guilty of unthankfulness 
 to those that have done thee good, or have 
 reproved thee, or of uncharitableness to the 
 poor, or to any Christian in distress, or of 
 any unnaturalness to any of thy relations, or 
 of any evil speaking, or disrespect, or stub- 
 bornness against any of thy governors either 
 civil or ecclesiastical ; or in particular against 
 thy parents or superiors in this place, or of 
 any wilful disobedience to the lawful com- 
 mands of all or either of them ? 
 
 Hast thou tempted any other to sin, by 
 connivance, or encouragement, or command. 
 
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 or persuasion, and mightily increased thy own 
 guilt, by furthering the damnation of thy 
 brother ? 
 
 In case, Philotheus, you do find this ex- 
 amination too difficult for you, or are afraid 
 you shall not rightly perform it, or meet 
 with any scruples or troubles of conscience 
 in the practice of it, I then advise you, as 
 the Church does, to go to one of your supe- 
 riors in this place, to he your spiritual guide, 
 and be not ashamed to unburden your soul 
 freely to him, that besides his ghostly coun- 
 sel, you may receive the benefit of abso- 
 lution : for though confession of our sins 
 to God is only matter of duty, and abso- 
 lutely necessary, yet confession to our spi- 
 ritual guide also is by many devout souls 
 found to be very advantageous to true re- 
 pentance. 
 
 If, upon your examination, Philotheus, you 
 find you have any way wronged your neigh- 
 bour, resolve upon the first opportunity to 
 make him some suitable satisfaction, and to 
 ask his forgiveness; for you are first to he 
 
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 reconciled to your brother, before you come to 
 the altar to offer your gift 
 
 If you are guilty of tempting any other to 
 sin, ask God’s pardon for him, as well as for 
 yourself ; and, if you have any opportunity to 
 do it, exhort him to repentance. 
 
 Eut if any have wronged you, forgive the 
 injury presently; for you beg forgiveness of 
 God on this very condition, that you yourself 
 forgive your brother. 
 
 This examination of yourself, Philotheus, I 
 suppose will be task enough for you at one 
 time; and therefore, that you may not tire 
 yourself, you may conclude with this short 
 prayer. 
 
 A PRAYER AFTER EXAMINATION. 
 
 0 Lord God, I have now, by Thy assist- 
 ance, considered my own evil ways : 0 Thou 
 Who only knowest the heart, and Who only 
 canst change it, create in me such a broken 
 and contrite heart which Thou hast promised 
 
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 not to despise, and so deep a sense of niy 
 own sin and misery, that my repentance may 
 bear some proportion to my guilt. 0 my 
 God, pardon all my failings, and perfect that 
 good work Thou hast begun in me, for the 
 merits of Jesus my Saviour, in whose holy 
 words I sum up all my wants. Our Ta- 
 ther, &c. 
 
 At the very next opportunity of retiring 
 you can get, resolve, good Philotheus, with 
 the prodigal, to return to your heavenly lea- 
 ther, and humbly to beg forgiveness; and, 
 having brought your catalogue of sins with 
 you, kneel down, and with the lowest pros- 
 tration of soul and body, make your confes- 
 sion to God of your sins, and of their aggra- 
 vations. 
 
 A FORM OF CONFESSION. 
 
 0 Thou great Judge of Heaven and earth, 
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 angels, who never sinned, fall prostrate and 
 tremble ; 
 
 With what debasement and dread ought I 
 to appear before Thy awful presence, who am 
 but dust and ashes, and, which is infinitely 
 worse, a miserable, wretched sinner ! 
 
 Holy, holy, holy. Lord God Almighty, 
 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil 
 with the least approbation; the way of the 
 wicked, and the sacrifice of the wicked, is an 
 abomination to Thee ^ ! 
 
 Woe is me, then, 0 Lord, woe is me, for I 
 have inclined unto wickedness with my heart ; 
 but for the sake of Thy well-beloved Son, cast 
 not out my prayer, nor turn Thy mercy from 
 me b 
 
 Miserable wretch that I am, I have g ne 
 astray from the very womb ; I was shapen in 
 wickedness, and in sin did my mother con- 
 ceive me ! Who can bring a clean thing out 
 of an unclean? What is man, then, 0 God, 
 that he should be clean ; or he that is born of 
 a woman, that he should be righteous ! 
 
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 Thou, Lord, puttest no trust in Thy saints, 
 and the heavens are not clean in Thy sight, 
 and the very angels Thou charges! with 
 folly M 
 
 How much more abominable, then, and 
 filthy am I, who daily drink iniquity like 
 water ! 
 
 Lord, pity and cleanse, and forgive and save 
 me, for Thy mercies’ sake. 
 
 I know, 0 God, that in my flesh dwelleth 
 no good thing ; for when I would do good, 
 evil is present with me, and I see a law in 
 my members warring against the law of my 
 mind, and bringing me into captivity to the 
 law of sin^ 
 
 Lord, have mercy upon me, and deliver me 
 from this body of death, from this tyranny of 
 sin. 
 
 Alas, alas, my whole nature is corrupt, in- 
 finitely prone to all evil, and averse to all that 
 is good ; my understanding is full of ignorance 
 and error; my will is perverse, my memory 
 tenacious of all things that may pollute me, 
 
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 and forgetful of my duty ; my passions are in- 
 ordinate, my senses the inlets of all impurity, 
 and I have abused all my faculties ; I am un- 
 clean, unclean ! 
 
 Lord, pity and cleanse, and forgive and save 
 me, for Thy mercies’ sake. 
 
 0 Lord God, how have I through my whole 
 life violated the solemn vow I made to Thee 
 in my baptism, by eagerly pursuing the vani- 
 ties of this wicked world, by easily yielding 
 to the temptations of the devil, by greedily 
 indulging my own carnal desires and lusts, by 
 a fruitless and dead faith, and by disobedience 
 to Thy holy will and commands. 
 
 Lather, I have sinned against Heaven, and 
 in Thy sight, and am no more worthy to be 
 called Thy Son. 
 
 1 have sinned, 0 Lord God, I have sinned 
 against Thee, by — 
 
 Here confess^ out of your jpaper^ the sins lohich 
 you have committed more immediately against 
 God, with their aggravations that accompany 
 them. For instance : 
 
 Lord, I have committed this sin, or these 
 
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 sins, frequently, against checks of conscience, 
 
 &c. ; and then add: 
 
 Father I have sinned against Heaven, and 
 in Thy sight, and am no more worthy to he 
 called Thy son. 0 pity, and cleanse, and for- 
 give, and save me for Thy mercies’ sake. 
 
 I have sinned, 0 Lord God, I have sinned 
 against Thee, and against my own self, by — 
 
 Here confess the sins you have committed more 
 immediately against yourself with their ag- 
 gravations^ ^c., and say as before: 
 
 Father, I have sinned against Heaven, &c. 
 
 I have sinned, 0 Lord God, I have sinned 
 against Thee, and against my neighbour, by — 
 
 Here confess the sins you have committed more 
 immediately against your neighbour, with 
 their aggravations, ^c., and as before : 
 
 Father, I have sinned against Heaven, &c. 
 
 0 Lord God, my wickedness is great and 
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 nuniber than the hairs of my head, and my 
 heart TV^ould fail me, hut that I well know 
 Thy mercies are more numberless than my 
 sins 
 
 Have mercy upon me, therefore, 0 Lord, 
 according to Thy great goodness, according 
 to the multitude of Thy mercies do away my 
 offences 
 
 Who, alas, can tell how oft he offendeth ! 
 0 cleanse Thou me from my secret faults, 
 from all my sins of ignorance, or infirmity, 
 or omission, or which I have not observed, 
 or which I have forgot ; Lord, lay none of 
 them to my charge ; Lather, forgive me ; 
 Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me. 
 
 O remember not the sins and offences of 
 my youth, but receive me, 0 heavenly Lather, 
 into the arms of thy Latherly compassion, 
 as Thou didst the returning prodigal, and 
 forgive me all my transgressions, for the 
 merits of Jesus, Thy only well-beloved Son, 
 and my Saviour. Amen, Amen. 
 
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 When you have thus confessed your sins, 
 good Philotheus, endeavour to be still more 
 sensible of them, and to bewail them with a 
 true penitential hatred, and shame, and sorrow 
 for them ; then make steady resolutions of 
 forsaking them, and cry earnestly to God for 
 pardon and grace; for you must as well put 
 on the new man, as put off the old®. Of all 
 which acts of repentance, I give you the 
 following instances, and advise you to say 
 them over as devoutly as possibly you can. 
 
 Acts of Shame, 
 
 O Lord God, I am ashamed, and blush to 
 lift up my face to Thee, for my iniquities 
 are increased over my head, and my trespasses 
 are grown up unto the heavens P. 
 
 O my soul, what fruit have I reaped from 
 all the pleasures of sin which flattered me, 
 which are but vanity and vexation of spirit ! 
 
 Lord, I am ashamed of my own folly and 
 madness, and disingenuity, when I call to 
 
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 mind how greedily I have sucked in my own 
 pollution ; how treacherously I have betrayed 
 my own soul to temptations, and combined 
 with the very devils to hasten and increase 
 my own damnation; how obstinately I have 
 fled from Thee, when Thy mercy pursued 
 me with promises of pardon ; how unworthily 
 I have abused Thy goodness and forbearance, 
 and long- suffering, which should have led me 
 to repentance. 
 
 Surely after I was turned I repented ; and 
 since I have considered my ways, I am 
 ashamed ; yea, even confounded, because I 
 bear the reproach of my youths. 
 
 Acts of Ah Ji&rrenee, 
 
 I HATE all evil ways, O Lord, but Thy law 
 will I love 
 
 O Lord God, nothing is moye abominable in 
 Thy sight, or more diabolical ; nothing more 
 defaces Thy Divine Image, or makes me more 
 odious in Thy purest eyes than sin : and 
 therefore I hate and abhor it ! 
 
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 0 Lord God, I confess I have nothing good 
 in me, nothing that can any way move Thee 
 to compassionate so loathsome a sinner, but 
 Thy own free, and undeserved, and infinite 
 mercy, and the merits of my Saviour ! 
 
 O Lord God, I cannot hut admire the riches 
 of Thy goodness, Who hast spared me so long, 
 and hast given me this opportunity of repent- 
 ance. O do Thou yet magnify Thy mercy 
 more in my forgiveness. O cleanse me from all 
 that filth my soul hath contracted, which now 
 renders me odious to my own self, as well 
 as to Thee. 
 
 Acts of Contrition. 
 
 Miserable wretch that I am, that I should 
 begin so early to ofiend my Creator, and sin 
 so much in so short time ! 
 
 Lord, I fear I never yet throughly con- 
 sidered how evil, and how bitter a thing it is 
 to depart from Thee ; O make me every day 
 more and more sensible of the error of my 
 ways, and of my own infinite vileness ! 
 
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 should commit' those sins, which expose me 
 to all the vials of Thy wrath, to all the curses 
 of Thy law, to all Thy judgments temporal or 
 spiritual, in this life, and to all' the horrors, 
 and despair, and torments of the damned in 
 the life to come ! 
 
 Miserable wretch that I am, that ever I 
 should transgress that law of Thine, O God, 
 which is so just and holy, and good and per- 
 fect, and so condescending to my infirmities ; 
 and in keeping of which there are so great, so 
 unconceivable rewards ! 
 
 O that with Mary Magdalen I could weep 
 much and love much, having so much to he 
 forgiven s ! 
 
 O gracious Lord, look on me, as Thou didst 
 on Teter, and let Thy compassionate look so 
 pierce my heart, that I may weep bitterly for 
 my sins ^ ! 
 
 O Lord God, break this hard heart, for 
 Thou only canst do it, and melt it into tears of 
 contrition ! Miserable wretch that I am, that I 
 should sin so much, and yet grieve so little ! 
 
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 'Woe is me, miserable wretch, woe is me, 
 that ever I should offend so indulgent, so 
 liberal, so tender a Father! 
 
 Woe is me, that ever I should repay the 
 infinite love and the intolerable sufferings of 
 my Saviour for me, with nothing but those 
 sins which occasioned those very sufferings. 
 
 Woe is me, that ever I should grieve the 
 Holy Spirit, by rejecting of many of His good 
 motions, from Whom only I derive grace and 
 consolation 1 
 
 O Lord God, every slight worldly trouble 
 *is apt to draw back plenty of tears from mine 
 eyes, but when I would weep for my sins, 
 which are the greatest calamities that can 
 possibly befall me, either my eyes are dry, 
 or my tears too few, to bewail so many provo- 
 cations ! 
 
 0 blessed Spirit, instil true penitent sorrow 
 into my soul, make my head waters, and my 
 eyes fountains of tears, or do Thou supply 
 the want of them with sighs and groans un- 
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 Eut alas, I know all the tears I can possibly 
 shed, can never wash away the least of my sins ; 
 it is Thy blood only, Lord, that can do it ! 
 
 O blessed Saviour, how can I ever suffi- 
 ciently lament the guilt of my sins, which was 
 so great, that nothing but Thy own inestimable 
 blood could expiate ! 
 
 O heavenly Father, in the defect of my 
 own tears, I offer Thee the blood of Thy own 
 weU-beloved Son; for His sake have mercy 
 upon me. Amen, Amen. 
 
 Resolution, 
 
 0 Lord God, with shame I confess that 
 other lords besides Thee have hitherto had 
 dominion over me 
 
 1 have been in the snare of the devil, and 
 have been led captive by him, and sin hath 
 reigned in my mortal body, and I have obeyed 
 it in the lusts thereof ; but henceforth I re- 
 solve to serve none but Thee, and from this 
 very moment I utterly forsake all my sins, and 
 turn to Thee y. 
 
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 O my God, I do from my heart renew 
 my baptismal vow, w^hich, alas, I have hitherto 
 so often violated ! I do for ever renounce the 
 devil and all his works, and all his tempta- 
 tions ! I do for ever renounce all the vani- 
 ties of this wicked world, which may prevent 
 me from Thy service, and all the sinful lusts 
 of the flesh ! 
 
 0 my God, I do steadfastly believe all 
 the articles of the Christian faith, and I 
 will keep Thy holy will and commandments, 
 and walk in the same all the days of my 
 life! 
 
 All this I am hound to do and believe, 
 and by Thy help so I will; and I heartily 
 thank Thee, O heavenly Father, "Who hast 
 called me to this state of salvation, through 
 Jesus Christ my Saviour ; and I humbly 
 pray Thee for His sake to give me grace, 
 that I may continue in the same to my life’s 
 end. 
 
 Ohlation, 
 
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 hast set before me life and death, and hast hid 
 me choose life. 
 
 Behold, Lord, I do -with all my heart 
 choose life ; I choose Thee, 0 my God, for 
 Thou art my life. 
 
 Save, Lord, and hear me, O King of 
 Heaven, and accept my sacrifice, even the 
 sacrifice of my whole heart, which I now give 
 Thee. 
 
 O my God, I offer Thee my senses and pas- 
 sions, and all my faculties ; I offer Thee all 
 my desires, all my designs, all my studies, all 
 my endeavours, all the remainder of my life ; 
 all that I have, or am, I offer up all entirely 
 to Thy service. 
 
 Lord, sanctify me wholly, that my whole 
 spirit, soul and body, may become Thy temple. 
 O do Thou dwell in me, and be Thou my 
 God, and I will be Thy servant Amen, 
 Amen. 
 
 Acts of Charity, 
 
 0 Lord God, I do from henceforth resolve 
 to love my neighbour as myself, and to love 
 
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 him not in word only, hut in deed and in 
 truth 
 
 I do from my heart forgive all men their 
 trespasses ; do Thou, Lord, forgive them also. 
 
 Lord, bless them that hate me, and do good 
 to them that have any way despitefully used 
 me ; 0 repay them good for evil. 
 
 0 my God, bless all those that I have 
 ' any way wronged ; have mercy on all those 
 to whose sins I have been any way accessory, 
 and give them all grace to forgive me. Amen, 
 Amen. 
 
 Petition for Pardon. 
 
 O Thoit Father of mercies, and God of 
 all consolation, be merciful to me a miserable 
 sinner ! 
 
 Lord, remember all Thy gracious calls of 
 sinners to repentance, all Thy protestations, 
 that Thou delightest not in the death of him 
 that dies, and that Thou wouldst have all to 
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 Lord, remember all the exceeding great and 
 precious promises which Thou hast made to 
 penitent sinners. 
 
 Lord, remember that Thy mercy is over all 
 Thy works, that in mercy Thou delightest, and 
 that all the holy angels, seeing Thee well 
 pleased in the exercise of that mercy, rejoice 
 at the conversion of a sinner — that the greater 
 my sins are, the more will that mercy be 
 magnified in my forgiveness^. 
 
 Lord, remember that Thou didst so love the 
 world, as to give Thy only-beloved Son a ran- 
 som for it^. 
 
 0 heavenly Lather, Thou that sparedst not 
 Thy only Son, but deliveredst Him for us, wilt 
 Thou not with Him also freely give us all 
 things ; and if all things, wilt Thou not also 
 give us the pardon of our sins ? 
 
 0 my God, I firmly believe Thou wilt ; bn 
 that ransom my Saviour hath paid for me, and 
 on all Thy gracious promises of pardon, which 
 for His sake Thou hast made to me, I wholly 
 rely; here only is the sure and steadfast an- 
 
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 chor of my soul, to which my faith and hope 
 shall for ever adhere. 
 
 All this, Lord, do I plead, to implore Thy 
 forgiveness. 
 
 Behold, Lord, though my failings are 
 many, yet to the utmost of my power I 
 have confessed, and bewailed, and forsaken 
 my transgressions. Behold, Lord, I come 
 at Thy call, and I come weary and heavy 
 laden with the burden of my sins ; be it unto 
 me according to Thy word. 0 Thou that 
 art faithful and just, forgive me my sins, 
 and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. 
 Lord, do Thou in no wise cast me from 
 Thee, but heal my backslidings, and love 
 me freely ; ease me of my burden, that I may 
 find rest in Thee, and say unto my soul. 
 Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven 
 thee 
 
 0 heavenly Father, for Thine own infinite 
 mercies’ sake, for Thy truth and promise’ 
 sake, for all the merits and sufferings of the 
 Son of Thy love, in Whom Thou art always 
 
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 well pleased, pardon all my sins and fail- 
 ings, and receive me into Thy favonr. Amen, 
 0 Lord God, Amen, Amen. 
 
 A PETITION FOR GRACE IN GENERAL. 
 
 0 Lord God, I have sworn, and I will 
 perform it, that I will keep Thy righteous 
 judgments f 
 
 But, alas ! I am able of myself to do no- 
 thing that is good, not so much as to think 
 one good thought : and I no sooner shall 
 rise from my knees, but I fear I shall be 
 tempted to those very sins I have now so 
 solemnly renounced ; and those tem^ptations 
 will certainly overcome me, unless Thou, 
 Lord, dost seasonably interpose Thy grace to 
 withhold me. ** ^ 
 
 But I can do all things through Thee 
 strengthening me : do Thou, then, 0 blessed 
 Saviour, perfect Thy strength in my weak- 
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 0 my God, Thou hast promised to give Thy 
 Holy Spirit to those that ask it^i. Eehold, 
 Lord, I do humbly, I do earnestly ask Thy Holy 
 Spirit now of Thee ; 0 fulfil Thy gracious pro- 
 mise to me, 0 vouchsafe me that Holy Spirit 
 I pray for, to purify my corrupt nature, to 
 strengthen my weakness, to comfort me in 
 troubles, to support me in discouragements, to 
 succour me in temptations, and to assist me in 
 all parts of my duty, that I may ever hereafter 
 live in Thy fenr, and in constant, sincere, and 
 universal obedience to all Thy righteous laws. 
 
 Thou, O Searcher of hearts, knowest the 
 sin (or sins) I am most inclined to \]iere name 
 it or and herein will lie my greatest 
 
 danger of backsliding : but, 0 my God, I beg 
 a double portion of Thy invisible aid against 
 it {or them). Hold Thou up my goings in 
 Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not ; 0 work 
 in me that victorious faith, by which I may 
 overcome the world, the devil, and my own 
 corrupt nature b 
 
 True it is, 0 Lord God, that there are many 
 
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 sins which upon examination, I find, through 
 Thy grace, I have not yet committed, and there- 
 fore not unto me, Lord, hut to Thy Kame be 
 the glory ; but, alas ! there is in my corrupt 
 nature so great a proneness to evil, so great a 
 curiosity to try what sin is, that without Thy 
 restraining grace, every temptation when I shall 
 have more age and liberty, and opportunity to 
 enforce it, will be apt to draw me from my 
 obedience, and to overthrow all my present re- 
 solutions. 
 
 But my help standeth in Thee, O great Crea- 
 tor, Who hast made heaven and earth, and I 
 commit my soul to Thy keeping ; 0 Thou that 
 art faithful as well as Almighty, keep that safe 
 which is committed to Thy trust, watch over 
 me that I may not be beguiled by the deceitful- 
 ness of sin, or betrayed by my own treacherous 
 heart, or surprised by my ghostly enemies ; and 
 give me grace to watch and to pray incessantly 
 myself, lest I enter into temptation. Hear, 
 Lord, from heaven, and succour me for the alone 
 merits of Jesus my Saviour h Amen, Amen. 
 
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 PETITIONS FOR PARTICULAR GRACES. 
 
 0 THAT mj ways, Lord, were made so direct, 
 that I might keep Thy statutes, for then shall 
 I not be confounded, when I have respect unto 
 all Thy commandments 
 
 Youchsafe me Thy Holy Spirit, therefore, 
 
 0 Lord God, to work in me whatever is 
 well-pleasing in Thy sight, that for the time 
 to come I may bring forth ^fruits meet for 
 repentance. 
 
 0 let it be Thy good pleasure to create 
 in me a saving knowledge of Thee, and of 
 my duty, justifying faith, true sanctifying 
 grace, and a purifying hope, an ardent love, 
 and a filial fear of Thee, a constant desire 
 of pleasing Thee, and a great tenderness of 
 offending Thee ! 
 
 Lord, create in me a penitent heart, a 
 resigned will, and mortified affections, an 
 habitual mindfulness of Thy presence, and 
 a steady devotion in my prayers, sincere in- 
 tentions, and zeal for Thy glory, perseverance 
 
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 in all holy purposes, and constancy in all 
 trials and temptations. 
 
 Lord, create in me a reverential awe of Thy 
 ^sTame, a delight in Thy service, a secret regard 
 to this day and house of prayer, and a great 
 attention to Thy Word ; a daily care of my 
 time, and diligence in my studies. 
 
 Lord, make me chaste and temperate, hum- 
 ble and advisable, and patient of reproof; and 
 create in me a cheerful and meek, a con- 
 tented and considerate, a quiet and peaceful 
 spirit. 
 
 Lord, bless me with health, and competency 
 of living, with a good understanding, a re- 
 tentive memory, and a ready apprehension ; 
 a:d with such a measure of temporal good 
 things, as Thou seest tit for me, and give me 
 grace to make a right use of all those bless- 
 ings I have already received. 
 
 Lord, purify my thoughts, bridle my tongue, 
 guide all my actions, guard all my senses, 
 stop my ears, and turn away my eyes from sin 
 and vanity. 
 
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 dealings, to do to all men as I would they 
 should do to me, to be subject to my parents, 
 and to all my superiors, to the king as supreme, 
 and to all civil magistrates, to the pastors of 
 Thy Church, and to all my governors in this 
 place : 0 grant that I may tender due honour 
 and obedience to them all in their several 
 stations. 
 
 Lord, make me willing to forgive injuries, 
 and unwilling to offer any ; make me grateful 
 to my benefactors, friendly to my equals, con- 
 descending to my inferiors, compassionate to 
 the afflicted, charitable to the poor according 
 to my ability, a lover of good men, and kind 
 to my enemies, and give me grace to keep 
 always a conscience void of offence towards 
 Th je, and towards men, and to continue in the 
 communion of the Church without wavering. 
 
 O merciful God, keep Thy servant from all 
 wilful, deliberate, or presumptuous sins, and 
 let no wickedness have dominion over me. 
 
 From stubbornness and pride, idleness and 
 sloth, intemperance and youthful lusts, incon- 
 stancy and lying, good Lord deliver me ! 
 
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 From irreligious principles and false teachers, 
 unruly passions and violent temptations, from 
 contracting vicious habits, or taking pleasure 
 in sin, from profaneness and ill company, envy 
 and malice, detraction and uncharitahleness, 
 good Lord deliver me ! 
 
 From the errors and vices of the age, and 
 all remanent affections to sin, from the sin 
 (or sins) my corrupt nature is most inclined to 
 [here name it or them~\ ; from whatsoever is 
 offensive to Thee, or destructive to my own 
 soul, good Lord deliver me ! 
 
 Hear me, 0 heavenly Father, and conform 
 my whole life to the example of ray blessed 
 Saviour, and that for His sake, in whose holy 
 words I sum up all my wants. Our Father, 
 which art in heaven, &c. 
 
 You have now, good Philotheus, by God’s 
 help, gone over the hardest part of your pre- 
 paration for the Holy Sacrament ; the next 
 thing you are to do, is to examine yourself, 
 whether you do suf8.ciently understand what the 
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 intentions you do approaeli it, and to pray for 
 God’s grace to dispose you for worthily re- 
 ceiving; and all these particulars, together with 
 all that you are to know and believe concerning 
 the blessed Sacrament, are contained in these 
 following meditations, which I advise you to 
 read over devoutly at several times, till you 
 are in some measure affected with them. 
 
 MEDITATIONS ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST. 
 
 On the outward JElemenU. 
 
 I ADORE Thee, 0 blessed Jesus, my Lord, 
 and my God, when I consider what that Sacra- 
 ment is, to which Thou now invitest me, and 
 of what parts it consists ; of an outward and 
 visible sign, and of an inward and spiritual 
 grace ! For Thou, Lord, Who knowest our 
 infirmities, and how little able we are to con- 
 ceive things heavenly and spiritual, in pity to 
 our dark and feeble apprehensions, hast or- 
 dained outward, and obvious, and visible signs 
 to represent to our minds Thy grace which is 
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 and wine, which is onr corporeal food, to pic- 
 ture out to our faith the food of our souls. 
 
 On the Inward Part or Thing signified. 
 
 I know, 0 my God, that I must look through 
 the outward elements and fix my faith on 
 that which they signify, and which is the in- 
 ward and invisible grace, even Thy own blessed 
 Body and Blood, which is verily and indeed 
 taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's 
 Supper. 
 
 But tell me, 0 Thou whom my soul loveth, 
 how canst Thou give us Thy flesh to eat ! 
 
 Lord, Thou hast told me that Thy words, 
 they are spirit and they are life, and are there- 
 fore not carnally to be understood; Lord, I 
 believe, help Thou my unbelief ^ 
 
 I believe Thy Body and Blood to be as really 
 present in the Holy Sacrament as Thy divine 
 power can make it, though the manner of Thy 
 mysterious presence I cannot comprehend. 
 
 Lord, I believe that the bread that we break, 
 
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 and the cup that w^e drink, are not bare signs 
 only, but the real communication of Thy Body 
 and Thy Blood, and pledges to assure me of 
 it ; and I verily believe that if with due pre- 
 paration I come to the aLar, as certainly as I 
 receive the outward signs, so certainly shall 
 I receive the thing signified, even Thy most 
 blessed Body and Blood; to receive which 
 inestimable blessings, O merciful Lord, do 
 Thou fit and prepare me“^. Amen, Amen. 
 
 TVho instituted it ? 
 
 I ADORE Thee, O blessed Jesus, my Lord, 
 my God, when I consider that this Holy Sacra- 
 ment was Thy own institution; for it was Thou, 
 Lord, Who, in the night Thou wast betrayed, 
 didst take bread, and after that the cup, and 
 didst bless them, and give them to Thy dis- 
 ciples. 0 blessed Saviour, let Thy Divinity 
 thus stamped on it strike into my soul an holy 
 awe and reverence in approaching it : O create 
 in me heavenly dispositions to celebrate so 
 heavenly an institution ! Amen, xlmen. 
 
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 For what end ? 
 
 I ADORE Thee, 0 blessed Jesus, my Lord 
 and my God, when I consider for what end 
 Thou didst institute Thy Holy Sacrament, im- 
 plied in Thy own command. Do this in remem- 
 brance of Me. 
 
 Eut what need this command, O gracious Lord! 
 Is it possible for me ever to forget Thee my Sa- 
 viour, Who hast done so great things for me ! 
 
 Alas! alas! my own sad experience tells 
 me it is. Woe is me, every temptation, every 
 vanity, is apt to make me forget Thee, though 
 Thy own dying words bid me remember Thee ! 
 
 But, 0 blessed Lord, for Thy infinite mer- 
 cies’ sake pardon all my stupid forgetfulness 
 and ingratitude hitherto, and do Thou now 
 create in me such a thankful and lively re- 
 membrance of Thy dying for me, that may ex- 
 cite me to give up myself entirely to Thee, as 
 Thou didst give up Thyself on the cross for 
 me. Amen, Amen. 
 
 A Thanksgiving for Chrisfs buffering, 
 
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 Thee, for causing Thy sufferings to be regis- 
 tered in the Gospel ; there I have read and re- 
 member the works and triumphs of Almighty 
 love, for w^hich I w ill always adore and praise 
 Thee. 
 
 I remember, 0 gracious' Lord, how Thou, 
 Who thoughtest it no robbery to be equal with 
 God, wast made in the fashion of frail man ", 
 of the vilest and most contemptible of men : 
 for Thou tookest on Thee the form of a very 
 servant : I remember how many reproaches 
 and contradictions, and blasphemies and per- 
 secutions, Thou didst endure from a wicked 
 and perverse generation, and all this to save 
 us sinful men. 
 
 0 Lord Jesus, was ever sorrow like unto Thy 
 sorrow ? Worthy art Thou, 0 Lamh that was 
 slain, to receive power, and riches, and wis- 
 dom, and strength, and honour, and glory, 
 and blessing^, 
 
 I remember, 0 gracious Lord, how Thou 
 didst endure a most bitter agony, and didst 
 sweat great drops of blood, falling to the 
 
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 ground: how Thou, Who art God above all, 
 blessed for ever, wast treacherously betrayed, 
 and apprehended, and bound as a malefactor ; 
 how Thou wast set at nought by Herod, and 
 his men of war, and forsaken of all Thy dis- 
 ciples, and denied by Peter; and all this to 
 save us sinful menP. 
 
 O Lord Jesus y was ever, Sfc. ? 
 
 I remember how Thou, O God of truth, 
 wast accused by false witnesses, how Thou 
 whom all the Angels adore, wast blindfolded 
 and buffjted, and mocked, and spit upon, and 
 stripped naked, and scourged ; and all this that 
 we might he healed by Thy stripes, and to 
 save us sinful men. 
 
 0 Lord Jesus y was every ^c. ? 
 
 I remember, Lord, how Thou that art the 
 great Judge of heaven and earth, wast Thyself 
 dragged to the judgment-seat, and condemned; 
 how Thou, O King of heaven, wast crowned 
 with thorns, and oppressed with the weight of 
 
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 Thy own cross ; and all this to save ns sinful 
 men. 
 
 0 Lord Jesus, was ever, ^c. ? 
 
 I remember, O blessed Saviour, how Thou, 
 Who art the Lord of Glory, and the sole 
 Author of life, wast put to a most igno- 
 minious death ; how Thy hands and Thy 
 feet were nailed to a cross; how Thou wast 
 crucified between two thieves, and numbered 
 with the transgressors ; how Thou hadst a 
 potion given Thee to embitter Thy very 
 last gasp, — and all this to save us sinful 
 men ! 
 
 0 Lord Jesus, was ever, ^c, ? 
 
 I remember, 0 gracious Lord, how, when 
 Thou wert hanging on the very cross. Thou 
 wast scoffed at and reviled ; how infinitely 
 then Thou wert afflicted and bruised for our 
 transgressions, when the iniquities of us all 
 were laid on Thy shoulders ; how Thou didst 
 then express an anguish greater than all 
 the tortures of Thy crucifixion, when Thou 
 didst cry out. My God, My God, why hast 
 
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 the last give up the ghost, and die Thyself, 
 that we might live. 
 
 O Lord Jesus, was ever, ^c. ? 
 
 I unfeignedly believe, 0 gracious Lord, that 
 Thou didst suffer all this for sinful men, 
 and in particular for me, when we were all 
 Thy utter enemies, and had nothing in us 
 to move Thee to pity us but our extreme 
 misery, nothing to move Thee to save us 
 but our great unworthiness, and Thy greater 
 mercy. 
 
 O the depth of the riches of Thy love ; 
 blessed Lord, how unutterable is Thy mercy, 
 and Thy love past finding out ! 
 
 0 all ye holy Angels, behold and wonder, 
 wretched man hath sinned against God, and 
 God Himself has suffered the sinner’s punish- 
 ment ! 
 
 ‘‘Was there ever sorrow like that which my 
 Lord and my God endured for me ?” 
 
 “Was there any love like to that love my 
 Lord and my God hath shewed me ?” 
 
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 O ye blessed host of heaven, who rejoice 
 at the conversion of one single sinner, adore 
 and praise my crncihed Saviour, Who died 
 for the sins of the world; adore and praise 
 that unknown sorrow, that wonderful love, 
 which you yourselves must needs admire ! 
 
 0 my gracious Lord, my heart is now full 
 of the sense of Thy love, and what have I 
 to return to Thee, but love again ! ’Tis all 
 I have to offer Thee : accept it, O merciful 
 Lord, imperfect as it is, and do Thou daily 
 heighten my sense of Thy love to me, that I 
 may daily heighten my love to Thee ! 
 
 0 Thou infinite Lover of souls, with all my 
 heart I love, I praise, I adore Thy love to me ; 
 but also, I can never do it enough ! 
 
 0 do Thou at last, gracious Lord, translate 
 me to Thy kingdom of Glory, that there I 
 may love Thee to the uttermost capacity of a 
 creature, and praise Thee to all eternity. Amen, 
 Lord Jesus. Amen, Amen. 
 
 What henejits we receive hy it, 
 
 1 ADORE Thee, O blessed Jesu, my Lord and 
 
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 my God, when I consider the benefits which 
 through Thy mercy we receive by Thy Holy 
 Sacrament ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Lord, Who there 
 makest Thy own Body and Blood to become 
 our spiritual food, to strengthen and refresh 
 our souls ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 Lord, Who by this 
 heavenly food dost mystically unite us to 
 Thyself ; for nothing becomes one with our 
 bodies more than the bodily food we eat which 
 turns into our very substance, aud nothing 
 makes us become one with Thee more, than 
 when Thou vouchsafest to become the very 
 food of our souls ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Lord, Who by this 
 immortal food dost nourish our souls to 
 live the life of grace here, and dost raise 
 us up to life everlasting hereafter ! Lord, do 
 Thou evermore give me this bread ! Amen, 
 Amen^. 
 
 JHotives of receiving, 
 
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 motiy. s can I have to persuade me to communi- 
 cate, than Thy command, and the admirable 
 effects of the Holy Sacrament ! 
 
 Eut, alas ! my corrupt nature is apt to 
 suggest to me low and base inducements 
 to this duty, such as are, fear of my supe- 
 riors’ displeasure, if I abstain, or shame of 
 not appearing as devout as mj^ equals, or the 
 mere custom of the place, or of the season. 
 
 Eut, Lord, I do from my heart renounce 
 all these and the like carnal considerations, 
 and I come to Thy altar to renew mj bap- 
 tismal covenant with Thee, of which Thy 
 Sacrament is a seal. 
 
 I come to testify my sense of Thy love, 
 0 heavenly Father, in so loving the world, as 
 to give uj) Thy only Son to die for me. 
 
 I come to testify my faith in Thee, and 
 my love towards Thee, 0 blessed Saviour, 
 and thankfully to commemorate Thy won- 
 derful love in dying for me. 
 
 I come. Lord, to testify my steadfastness in 
 t le communion of Thy Church, and my cliaTty 
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 I come to Thy Table, 0 Lord, out of the 
 sense I have of the want of that spiritual food 
 to which Thou there invitest me. 
 
 Alas, alas ! I am soon apt to grow weary 
 of well-doing. A few prayers, very little 
 duty, is apt to tire me, every slight temp- 
 tation is apt to overcome me, and I know 
 there is no food can strengthen my soul 
 but Thy Body, no cordial can revive my 
 drooping obedience, but Thy Blood, and it is 
 Thy most blessed Body and Blood I hunger 
 and thirst after, O gracious Lord: grant 
 that I, and all that communicate with me, 
 may feel its saving efficacy. 0 feed, 0 re- 
 fresh, 0 nourish our souls with it to life 
 everlasting, and that for Thy own infinite 
 mercy sake, which moved Thee to offer 
 up Thy Body and Blood for us ! Amen, 
 Amen. 
 
 JBrayer for Preparation, 
 
 Blessed Lord Jesus ! I even tremble when 
 I consider that he that eatetli and drink- 
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 Blood, and eateth and drinketli damnation to 
 his o^yn soul ; and this severe sentence on un- 
 worthy communicants- makes me afraid to come 
 to Thy altar 
 
 But when I consider that Thy sentence 
 is as severe against those who, being invited, 
 refuse to come, — for Thou hast said, they 
 shall not taste of Thy supper ; and unless 
 we eat Thy flesh, and drink Thy blood, we 
 have no life in us, — I am then afraid to keep 
 away®. 
 
 But blessed be Thy mercy, O Lord, for in 
 this strait my soul is in. Thou art my guide ; 
 Thou, by giving me this opportunity of re- 
 ceiving, invitest me to Thy Table ; Thou call- 
 est me to seek Thy face, and my heart replies. 
 Thy face, Lord, will I seek ! 
 
 If Thou, Lord, shouldest be extreme to 
 mark what - is done amiss, alas ! alas ! I am 
 then unfit, not only to communicate, but to 
 say even my daily prayers. 
 
 I know. Lord, that if I should stay till I 
 am worthy to come, I should then never come; 
 
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 and therefore, though I am unworthy of so 
 unspeakable a mercy, yet I come to beg Thy 
 grace to make me worthy, or at least such as 
 Thou wilt accept ! 
 
 0 Blessed Jesus, do Thou so open my eye 
 of faith to discern Thy Body and Blood in the 
 Holy Sacrament, do Thou so dispose my soul 
 at this time to communicate, that I may feel 
 all the happy effects of Thy own Divine insti- 
 tution, that my soul may receive such lasting 
 impressions of Thy goodness, and be so ra- 
 vished with the love of Thee and with the in- 
 comparable delights of Thy service, and wi h 
 such an early foretaste of heaven, that all the 
 pleasures of sin, which in my growing years 
 may tempt me, may appear to me tasteless and 
 unwelcome. 
 
 O heavenly Father, clothe me with the 
 wedding garment, even the graces of my 
 blessed Saviour, for then am I sure to be 
 a welcome guest to Thy Table, when I shall 
 come thither in the Lkeness of Thy only well- 
 beloved Son, in whom Thou art always well 
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 0 heavenly Father, till me with a lively 
 fliith, profound humility, filial obedience, in- 
 fiamed affections, and universal charity ; O 
 raise in my soul all those heavenly transports 
 of zeal and devotion, of love and desire, of joy 
 and delight, of praise and thanksgiving, which 
 become the remembrance of a crucified Savi- 
 our, which become one redeemed by the blood 
 of God, and that for His sake only that re- 
 deemed me, in whose holy words I sum up all 
 the graces and blessir gs I stand in need of. 
 Our Father which art in heaven, &c. 
 
 This prayer, Philotheus, is proper for you 
 to add to your morning prayer, the day on 
 which you are to receive. 
 
 DIRECTIONS IN TIME OE RECEIVING. 
 
 In time of receiving, good Philotheus, la- 
 bour all you can to keep your heart affected 
 with the public prayers, and to fill up all the 
 vacant minutes with holy ejaculations, such as 
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 At going to the Altar, 
 
 In the multitude of Thy mercies, O Lord 
 God, do I now approach Thy altar. 0 pardon 
 my sins, and receive me graciously. Amen, 
 Amen. 
 
 At the Offertory. 
 
 Blessed be Thou, O Lord God; for all 
 things come of Thee, and of Thine own do I 
 now give Thee 
 
 O let this alms be an odour of a sweet 
 smell, a sacrifice acceptable, and well-pleasing 
 to Thee^. 
 
 At Consecrating. 
 
 O blessed Jcsu, in the bread broken, I call 
 to mind Thy body torn with whips, and 
 thorns, and nails ; and in the wine poured 
 out, I call to mind Thy precious blood, shed 
 for my sins ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Lamb of God, that 
 didst offer Thyself a sacrifice, to take away the 
 sins of the v/hole world : Lord, have mercy on 
 me, and take away mine also. 
 
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 Whilst others are communicating, 
 
 O my God, whom have I in heaven but 
 Thee, and there is none on earth I desire, in 
 comparison of Thee^ ! 
 
 As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, 
 so panteth my sonl after Thee, 0 God y ! 
 
 My sonl is athirst for Thee, O God, my 
 God! 
 
 Blessed Saviour, I am Thine, I am wholly 
 Thine, for Thou hast bought me with a 
 price, with the inestimable price of Thy own 
 blood ^ ! 
 
 Lord, suffer not the price of Thy own blood 
 to perish, and I will always glorify Thee in 
 my body, and in my spirit, which are Thine. 
 
 If there be many communicants, and Thou 
 hast much vacant time, Philo theus, and dost 
 want devout matter to employ Thy thoughts 
 till aU have communicated. Thou mayest then 
 repeat the thanksgiving for Christ’s sufferings, 
 (p. 74,) either in whole, or in part, as Thou 
 seest it needful. 
 
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 When the Priest cometh towards you, 
 
 O Lord God, I now desire to renew my 
 covenant with Thee, and to seal it in this 
 Sacrament ! 
 
 Lord, put Thy laws into my mind, and 
 write them in my heart, and for the passion 
 of Thy Sen, which I now commemorate, be 
 merciful to my unrighteousness, my sin and 
 iniquities remember no more, and be Thou 
 my God, and I will be Thy ser"s ant. Amen, 
 Amen 
 
 O my soul, taste now, and see how gracious 
 the Lord is ^ ! 
 
 After receiving the Bread, 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Lord, Who feedest me 
 with the bread of life 
 
 O Lord God, Who didst sanctify us by 
 the otfering of the body of Jesus once for 
 all, sanctify me, even me, O heavenly Fa- 
 ther. 
 
 After receiving the Cup. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 Lord Jesus, Who 
 
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 permittest me to drink of the fountain of life 
 freely ! 
 
 My beloyed is mine, and I am His ! 
 
 Elessed Saviour, Thou hast loved us, and 
 washed us from our sins in Thy own blood, 
 and therefore to Thee be glory and dominion, 
 for ever and ever. Amen, Amen^. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Jesus, my Lord and 
 my God, for thus feeding my soul with Thy 
 most blessed Body and Blood ; O let Thy hea- 
 venly food transfuse new life and new vigour 
 into my soul, and into the souls of all that 
 communicate with me, that our faith may 
 daily increase, that we may all grow more 
 humble and contrite for our sins, that we may 
 all love Thee, and serve Thee, and delight 
 in Thee, and praise Thee more fervently, more 
 incessantly than ever we have done hereto- 
 fore ! Amen, Amen. 
 
 After the congregation is dismissed, Phi- 
 lotheus, if you cannot get privacy in your 
 own chamber, I advise you at the first oppor- 
 
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 tunity to go into the chapel, and there to give ^ 
 God thanks for that great blessing of which 
 He has now made you a partaker. 
 
 A Thanhs giving after Receiving* 
 
 O HOW plentiful is Thy goodness, my Lord 
 and my God, which Thou hast laid up for 
 those that fear Thee, which Thou hast laid up 
 for those that put their trust in Thy mercy® ! 
 
 Was it not love infinite enough, dearest 
 Lord, to give Thyself for me* on the cross ? 
 Was not that sacrifice of Thyself sufiS.cient 
 to expiate the sins of the whole world ? 
 What, Lord, couldest Thou then do more 
 for me ? 
 
 All the mighty host of heaven stood amazed 
 to see the blood of God shed, to see their 
 King of glory, to whom from the first mo- 
 ment of their being they had sung their halle- 
 lujahs, nailed to a cross ; and all this to save 
 sinners ^ , 
 
 Sure, Lord, none of all those blessed spirits, 
 with all the glorious illuminations they had, 
 
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 could ever have imagined how Thou could- 
 est give Thyself more to us than Thou hast 
 done. 
 
 And yet for all this, Thou hast wrought 
 new miracles of love for us, and as if it had 
 not been love enough to have given Thyself for 
 us on the cross. Thou hast found out a way to 
 give Thyself to us in the Holy Sacrament, to 
 unite Thyself to us with the most intimate 
 union that it is possible to conceive, to become 
 the very food, the life, the strength, the sup- 
 port of my soul, to become one with me, to 
 become the very soul of my soul ! 
 
 O Lord God, this is so unconceivable a 
 b-essing, this is so Divine an union, that the 
 very angels, who so much desire to look into 
 the great mystery of our redemption, who learn 
 Thy manifold wisdom from Thy Church, and 
 frequent the places of Thy public worship, do 
 crowd about our altar, and with awful admi- 
 ration contemplate the Holy Sacrament^ ! 
 
 AVhat thanks then, gracious Lord, can I 
 return to Thee for those wonders of love 
 
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 Thou hast shewed to me, wretched sinner ; 
 Avhich the very angels, who never sinned, 
 so much admire ? 
 
 0 dearest Lord, raise Thou my devotion to the 
 highest pitch, it can possibly reach, to praise 
 Thee ; enlarge my soul to its utmost extent to 
 love Thee ! 
 
 How can I evermore offend such riches oi 
 mercy as are in Thee, 0 crucified Saviour ! 
 and yet whilst I carry this body of sin about 
 me, I fear I shall ! but. Lord, I do from my 
 heart renounce and abhor all things that dis- 
 please Thee, I resolve to the utomst of my 
 power to resist all temptations, and to be- 
 come as totally Thine as my frail nature will 
 permit me. 
 
 O gracious Lord, who hast so infinitely loved 
 us, and given us everlasting consolation, and 
 good hope through grace, comfort my heart, 
 and for ever establish it in every good word 
 and work ! 
 
 Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power 
 be unto Him that sitteth on the throne, and 
 unto the Lamb for ever ! 
 
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 Eejoice in the Lord Jesus, O my soul, for of 
 Him cometh my salvation. 
 
 I will love Thee, O Lord my King, and I 
 will praise Thy Kame for ever and ever ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 Lord God, for giv- 
 ing me this blessed opportunity of coming 
 to Thy altar! O grant I may never more 
 pollute my soul, which Thou hast now made 
 Thy temple to reside in. Who art the God 
 of purity ! 
 
 Praise the Lord, O my soul : while I live 
 will I praise the Lord ; as long as I have any 
 being I will sing praises unto Thee, O blessed 
 Saviour, my King and my God 1 
 
 0 gracious Lord, pardon all my failings, 
 accept all my prayers and praises, and supply 
 all my wants, which I sum up in Thy own 
 blessed words. Our Father, &c. 
 
 Eemember, good Philotheus, that when you 
 have received the Holy Sacrament, your great- 
 est work is then but beginning, wEich is, 
 to observe all the promises 3 ^ou have made 
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 good for you to read over now and then, and 
 to renew your resolutions, and to examine 
 yourself how you have kept them ; that you 
 may preserve in your soul a serious sense 
 of your duty, and a conscientious care to per- 
 form it. 
 
 A FORM OF GENERAL THANKSGIVING. 
 
 Worthy art Thou, O Lord of heaven 
 and earth, to receive glory, and honour, and 
 power, for Thou hast created all things, and 
 for Thy pleasure they are and were created^ !’’ 
 
 Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of 
 heavens, with all their host; the earth, and 
 all things that are therein : Thou preservest 
 them all, and the host of heaven praiseth 
 Theeh 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 Lord God Almighty, 
 for creating man after Thine own image, and 
 making so great variety of creatures to mi- 
 nister to his use ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee, Who givest us life, and 
 breath, and all things; Who givest us fruit- 
 
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 ful seasons, and fillest our hearts with food 
 and gladness j ! 
 
 Glory he to Thee, O Lord God, for all 
 Thy many blessings and deliverances, for 
 all Thy forbearance and long-suffering to 
 this sinful nation ; glory he to Thee, 0 
 Lord, "Wlio hast made me also share in 
 those public mercies, and for that light of 
 the Gospel Thou vouchsafes! us, of which 
 the greatest part of the world is totally 
 ignorant. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O heavenly Lather, for 
 my being and preservation, strength and 
 health, understanding and memory, friends 
 and benefactors, and for all my abilities of 
 mind and body. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O heavenly Lather, 
 for my competent livelihood, for my educa- 
 tion in this college, for all my known or un- 
 known deliverances, and for the guard Thy 
 holy angels keep over me. 
 
 But above all, glory he to Thee for giving 
 Thy only Son to die for my sins, and for all 
 
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 the spiritual blessings He has purchased for 
 me ; for my baptism, and all the opportunities 
 Thou givest me of serving Thee, or of re- 
 ceiving the Holy Eucharist : for whatever sin 
 I have escaped, for whatever good I have 
 done, or thought, for all ray helps of grace, and 
 hopes of heaven, glory be to Thee ! 
 
 Praise the Lord, 0 my soul, and all that is 
 within me praise His holy Name ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 Lord Jesus, for Thy 
 inexpressible love to lost man ! glory be to 
 Thee, O Lord, for condescending to take our 
 frail nature on Thee; glory be to Thee, for 
 all Thy heavenly doctrine to instruct us. Thy 
 great miracles to convince us, and Thy un- 
 blameable example to guide us. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O blessed Jesus, for Thy 
 agony and bloody sweat, for all the torments 
 and anguish of Thy bitter passion. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 blessed Jesus, for Thy 
 glorious resurrection, and ascension into hea- 
 ven, and intercession for us at the right hand 
 of Thy Eather ! 
 
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 much for me, how can I ever sufficiently praise 
 and love Thee ! 
 
 Praise the Lord Jesus, O my soul, and all 
 that is within me praise His holy Name ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 blessed Spirit, glory 
 be to Thee for all the miraculous gifts and 
 graces Thou didst bestow on the apostles, to 
 fit them to convert the world, and for inspiring 
 the sacred penmen of Holy Scripture ! 
 
 Glory be to Thee for instilling holy thoughts 
 into my soul, for all the ghostly strength, and 
 support, and comfort, and illumination we re- 
 ceive from Thee ; for all Thy preventing, and 
 restraining, and sanctifying grace, glory be to 
 Thee ! 
 
 Blessed Spirit ! let me never more by my 
 sins grieve Thee, Who art the Author of life 
 and joy to me ! 
 
 Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is 
 within me praise His holy Name. 
 
 Herey rjiilotlieus^ recite this thanhsgiving 
 on any great festival or saint's day, you may 
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 Particularly, 0 Lord, I am bound to praise 
 Thee, for the great blessing we this day com- 
 memorate, \Here mention it : for instance^ the 
 Nativity of our Messed Saviour, or the like^. 
 Or, for the saint whose memory we this day 
 celebrate, \_Here you may name him,~\ and add, 
 Praise the Lord, therefore, 0 my soul, and 
 all that is within me. 
 
 Blessing, and honour, and thanksgiving, 
 and praise, more than I can utter, more than 
 I can conceive, be unto Thee, 0 most adorable 
 Trinity, Father, Bon, and Holy Ghost, by all 
 angels, all men, all creatures, for ever and ever. 
 Amen, Amen. 
 
 A FORM OF GENERAL INTERCESSION. 
 
 Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, I, 
 miserable sinner, humbly acknowledge that 
 I am altogether unworthy to pray for myself ; 
 but since Thou hast commanded us to make 
 prayers and intercessions lor all men, in obe- 
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 of Thy unlimited goodness, I commend to Thy 
 mercy and divine providence the wants and 
 necessities of all mankind. 
 
 Lord, let it be Thy good pleasure to restore 
 to Thy Church catholic, primitive peace and 
 purity, and to preserve it against the gates of 
 hell. 
 
 Pa’ ticularly, 0 Lord God, I implore Thy 
 mercy for this sinful nation, for the iniquity of 
 the land is exceeding great. 
 
 Alas, alas ! we are unthankful for Thy 
 blessings, incorrigible under Thy judgments, 
 and unprofitable under all the means of grace ; 
 and what can ^\e expect from Thee, but to 
 drink deep of the cup of Thy wrath ? 
 
 And, wretch that I am, my sins have in- 
 creased the heap of the public impieties, and 
 made their cry the louder to heaven for ven- 
 geance ! 
 
 But, O Lord God, in the midst of judgments 
 remember mercy ; turn Thou us. Lord, and 
 so shall we be turned : O be favourable to 
 Thy people, and give us all grace to turn to 
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 put a period to our provocations, and do Thou 
 
 put a period to our punishments. 
 
 0 Lord God, out of the multitude of Thy 
 mercies, give us grace to fear Thee, and to keep 
 Thy commandments always, that it may be 
 well with us, and Thou mayest rejoice over us 
 to do us good. Amen, Amen. 
 
 0 let it be Thy good pleasure to bless us all, 
 from the highest to the lowest in our several 
 stations. 
 
 To defend the Church of England from all 
 the assaults of schism, or heresy, or sacrilege ; 
 and to bless all bishops, priests, and deacons, 
 with apostolical graces, exemplary lives, and 
 sound doctrine. 
 
 0 let it be Thy great pleasure to save and 
 defend our sovereign lady the Queen, from all 
 her enemies ; grant her a long and happy reign 
 over us; and endue her with all those gifts 
 and graces which may make her a terror to evil 
 works, and a great promoter of Thy glory. 
 
 Bless her in all her royal relations, with a 
 great measure of all temporal good things, and 
 with eternal glory in the world to come. 
 
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 Lord, let it be Thy good pleasure to grant — 
 To the privy council, wisdom from above. 
 
 To all magistrates, integrity and zeal for re- 
 ligion. 
 
 To the gentry and commonalty, pious and just, 
 peaceable and loj^al hearts. 
 
 To our armies and navy, protection and victory. 
 To the whole nation, healthful and fruitful, 
 and peaceful times. 
 
 Lord, let it be Thy good pleasure to grant — 
 
 To all Jews, Turks, Infidels, Atheists, and 
 Heretics, conversion. 
 
 To aU malefactors and wicked men, timely re- 
 pentance. 
 
 To all holy persons, increase of grace and per- 
 severance. 
 
 To all that I have tempted any way to sin, 
 or with whom I have been a companion in 
 evil, contrition and pardon. 
 
 Lord, let it be Thy good pleasure to bless 
 all those I have any way wronged, and to 
 forgive those that have wronged me, to com- 
 fort the disconsolate, to give health to the sick, 
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 afflicted, food to the hungry, clothes to the 
 naked, liberty to the captive, and a safe de- 
 livery to women with child. 
 
 Lord, he Thou guide to the traveller, safety 
 to those that are at sea, a refuge to the op- 
 pressed; he Thou a Lather to the fatherless, 
 take care of widows, pity and relieve all poor 
 prisoners for deht, and have mercy on all idiots 
 and mad persons. 
 
 Lord, let it he Thy good pleasure to bless 
 my parents, my brothers and sisters, and all 
 my relations, all my friends, all my governors 
 in this college, all my fellow-scholars, all who 
 have commended themselves to my prayers, 
 [particularly — here you may name the^n, if you 
 see occasion]. Lord, Thou best knowest all our 
 conditions, all our desires, all our wants. 0 
 do Thou therefore suit Thy graces and bless- 
 ings to our several necessities, of body or soul ! 
 
 Hear, 0 merciful Lather, my supplications, 
 and that for the sake of Thy Son Jesus, Who 
 died for us all, in whose holy words I sum up 
 all my own, and the wants of all I pray for : 
 Our Lather, which, &e. 
 
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 If you are a chi d of the college, good 
 Philotheus, I advise you now and then to say 
 that usual collect, wherein you give thanks for 
 the founder, and pray for the college ; both 
 which you have great reason to do, in private 
 as well as in public, when you consider that 
 God has made the founder an instrument of 
 doing you much good, in advantaging your 
 education ; and the blessings you pray for on 
 the college, you have yourself a j)art in. 
 
 A THANKSGIVINO FOR THE FOUNDER. 
 
 I GIVE Thee humble and hearty thanks, 0 ' 
 most merciful Father, for our founder, William 
 of Wykham, and all other our benefactors, by 
 whose benefits we are in this college brought 
 up to godliness and good learning ; and I be- 
 seech Thee to give us grace, so to use these 
 Thy blessings to the glory of Thy iN’ame, that 
 we may become profitable members in the 
 Church and commonwealth, and may be at 
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 resurrection, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 Amen, Amen. 
 
 DIRECTIONS TO USE THE POREGOING PRAYERS. 
 
 Haye a great care, good Philo theus, that 
 you make not any of the rules here given you 
 a pretence to neglect the orders and duties ot 
 the place you live in, or of the school ; for that 
 were idleness rather than devotion. 
 
 When you fix on a day to examine your 
 soul, or to confess your sins in, believe me, 
 Philotheus, nothing will more enforce your 
 prayers and repentance, than if they are ac- 
 companied with fasting and alms ; as you may 
 see in the example of Cornelius, whose prayers, 
 and fasting, and alms, all joined together, 
 were so acceptable to God, as made Him send 
 first an angel from heaven, and after the angel, 
 an apostle, and after the apostle, the Holy 
 Ghost, to confirm and enlighten him^. 
 
 But take notice, Philotheus, that all the 
 fasting I advise you to is only to some fasting- 
 
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 day, on some one Friday or Saturday, when 
 your commons are less than on other days, to 
 content yourself with }"our hare allowance, and 
 withal to lay aside some small matter, accord- 
 ing to your stock, for the poor. 
 
 But beware you do not your duty only to be 
 seen or approved of by others, for this were 
 hypocrisy ; and take heed your performance do 
 not puff you up with a vain conceit of your 
 holiness, and that you are better than your 
 fellows, for this were abominable pride ; and, 
 alas ! when you have done the best you can, 
 you fall infinitely short of your dut}^, and it is 
 God’s mere mercy, not any the least worth in 
 you, makes your service any way acceptable 
 to Him. 
 
 "Wlien you have once throughly examined 
 yourself, good Philotheus, and made a par- 
 ticular confession of the sins of your whole 
 life, and begged pardon, there is not the same 
 absolute necessity of such laborious examination 
 at your next communicating, especially if you 
 examine yourself carefully every night, and 
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 are not conscious to yourself of any great and 
 notorious sins since your last confession ; for 
 if you are not, the examination and confession 
 only of what passed since your last communi- 
 cating, together with a general confession of 
 your former sins, and a solemn renewing of your 
 former acts of repentance, may serve the turn. 
 
 Eut if your conscience accuses you of any 
 culpable neglect in your last examination, or 
 of any great relapses, or of any wilful violations 
 of your last vows and resolutions, in those, 
 and the like cases, it is the surest way to begin 
 all your repentance aga’n. 
 
 Eemember, Philotheus, that though it is 
 God that works in you to will and to do of His 
 good pleasure, yet God also commands you to 
 work out your own salvation yourself, and 
 therefore you are to labour for those blessings 
 and to practise those graces you pray for, 
 so that you are to read your duty in your 
 prayers. 
 
 If you find any particular sin you are guilty 
 of, or any particular grace which you want, or 
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 thanks for, which is not here mentioned, it 
 is easier for you to add it to your prayers as 
 occasion requires ; in like manner, if you meet 
 with any passage, in any prayer, which does 
 not either so directly or so fully express the 
 sense of your soul as you could wish, leave 
 it out. 
 
 If opportunity, leisure, and devotion alto- 
 gether, do at any time, when you go home, or 
 at times of liberty, incline you to make some 
 present addition to your daily prayers, or, like 
 Daniel and holy David^, not only at morning 
 and at evening, but at noonday, to pray to 
 God, thou mayest then use the prayer for 
 particular graces’^, or those acts of resolution 
 and oblation", or on Sunday and holydays the 
 form of general thanksgiving, or on fasting 
 days the form of general intercession, as may 
 best suit with the season, and with your owm 
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 DIRECTIONS CONCERNING INFIRMITIES. 
 
 If, after all the care and pains you can take, 
 and your petitions also for God’s grace, you 
 find in the performance of any duty, in your 
 dail}" prayers, examinations, receiving the Holy 
 Eucharist, or the like, great coldness, and 
 wanderings, and incomposedness, and weariness 
 of spirit, and that your heart is little afiected 
 with it, and that you fall very much short of 
 rules here laid down, and therefore ready to 
 conclude that all you have done is in vain, 
 and displeasing to God, — 
 
 Ee not disheartened at this, Philotheus. It 
 is a good sign to he so much grieved for your 
 failings in your duty ; it is an argument of 
 a filial tenderness, and desire to serve God 
 better, that your spirit is willing, though your 
 flesh is weak ; and if you still continue your 
 endeavours and prayers, patiently relying on 
 God’s infinite goodness, and on His gracious 
 promise of hearing you, He will assuredly hear 
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 Know, good Pliilotheus, that this is the case 
 of thousands, as well as of yourself : the very 
 best of Christians sigh under the perverseness 
 and impotence of their corrupt nature, and 
 even the just man falls seven times a-day, 
 through sins of ignorance, or infirmity, or 
 sudden surreption, or inadvertency, or the 
 like ; though it is true, he riseth again by 
 an habitual repentance : and therefore be- not 
 discouraged, but daily beg pardon for your 
 daily failings. 
 
 To ease you in such indispositions, or when 
 you are also straitened in time, or diverted by 
 any unavoidable avocations, I advise you to 
 shorten your prayers, and for the longer morn- 
 ing and evening prayer, say the shorter ; and 
 as for the other parts of devotion throughout 
 this whole Manual, they are cut into so many 
 breaks and divisions, on purpose that you may 
 lengthen or shorten your prayers, as may best 
 comply with your occasions and infirmities ; 
 only let me warn you seriously, that under 
 colour of indulging your infirmities, you do not 
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 Be not then afflicted, good Philo theus, if 
 you cannot come up exactly to the rules here 
 given you. Believe me, it was never imagined 
 you would ; it was only hoped that you would 
 endeavour it : and know that it is a great error 
 of many devout souls to think all they do sig- 
 nifies nothing, because they fall short of the 
 rules laid down in their books of devotion ; 
 little considering that it is sincerity God re- 
 quires of us, and not perfection, for if there be 
 a willing mind in us, it is accepted according 
 to that which a man hath, and not according to 
 that a man hath not®; so that your infirmities 
 ought to humble, but not discourage you. 
 
 Por instance, suppose you should not be 
 able, after all your endeavours and prayers, to 
 shed any or but few tears for your sins, be not 
 too much cast down at it ; for to be troubled 
 for want of tears is one sign of godly sorrow : 
 and it is certain, though tears are very desir- 
 able, yet they are not always signs of true 
 repentance, for hypocrites may shed them, and 
 there may be true godly sorrow without them ; 
 
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 and perhaps God will at last give them to you, 
 when His wisdom sees your heart in a fit tem- 
 per for them. 
 
 "Whensoever, then, you are troubled with an 
 afflicting sense of your infirmities, and for your 
 many failings, I advise you to say this prayer 
 following, and to rest satisfied that He that 
 died for you will both hear, and accept, and 
 succour you. 
 
 A Prayer against Failings. 
 
 O Thou compassionate Saviour of sinful men, 
 look down from heaven, and have mercy upon 
 me, wretched sinner : 0 save me, O help me, for 
 without Thee I can do nothing as I ought ! 
 
 Miserable man that I am, my very prayers 
 and repentance are accompanied with so many 
 failings, that I am sometimes afraid that Thou, 
 Lord, wilt not hear such prayers, nor regard 
 such repentance ! 
 
 But, O blessed Saviour, my Lord, and my 
 God, it is Thy promise, not to discourage the 
 least measure of grace. Thou wilt not quench 
 the smoking fiax, or break the bruised reed p. 
 
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 It is Thy practice, Lord, to comply with 
 the weakness of Thy servants. Thou art the 
 good Shepherd, Who earnest the tender lambs 
 in Thy very bosom and gently leadest those 
 that be with young ^ ! 
 
 Nay, Lord, it is Thy very nature so to do, 
 for Thou Thyself hast felt human infirmities, 
 and const not but commiserate those that sigh 
 under them ^ ! 
 
 Why art thou then so heavy, O my soul, and 
 why art thou so disquieted within me ! O put 
 thy trust in thy Saviour, AVho is the help of 
 my countenance and my God® ! 
 
 O grac'ous Lord, do Thou pity me and 
 accept my weak and imperfect performances, 
 and supply, by Thy boundless mercy, all the 
 defects in my duty ; and if it be Thy pleasure 
 I should serve Thee better, O Lord God, in- 
 crease Thy succours of grace, and I shall then 
 increase my obedience ! 
 
 0 Thou lover of souls, for the sake of that 
 infinite compassion of Thine, which moved 
 
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 Thee to die for me, hear me, and help me. 
 Amen, Lord Jesus ; Amen, Amen. 
 
 DIRECTIONS IN TIME OF SICKNESS. 
 
 Far be it from you, good Philotheus, to 
 counterfeit yourself sick .at any time, to avoid 
 the school, or the like, lest God send you 
 sickness indeed to punish your idleness and 
 dissimulation. 
 
 But if it please God to visit you with a real 
 disease, let it be your first care to make your 
 peace with Heaven ; for God, by taking you off 
 from your usual studies, does give you a call 
 to repentance, and the examination of yourself 
 in the beginning of your sickness is as season- 
 able and necessary as before your communicat- 
 ing ; besides, if your sickness proves danger- 
 ous, you will then, I doubt not, desire to com- 
 municate ; so that, to fit you both for the Holy 
 Sacrament and for heaven, examination and re- 
 pentance ought to be first in your thoughts. 
 
 Beware, Philotheus, of deferring this duty 
 because you are young, and think you may 
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 ^ see that persons younger than yourself die, and 
 you are not sure to outlive this distemper ; 
 and if you should put it off till your sickness 
 grows more on you, it may perhaps take away 
 your senses ; or if it does not, be sure it will 
 much more indispose you to prayer and re- 
 collection. 
 
 In the beginning then of your sickness begin 
 your repentance, and say over this following 
 prayer, and not only say, but practise it. 
 
 Frayer in the beginning of Sickness . 
 
 0 heavenly Pather, Who in Thy wisdom 
 knowest what is best for me, glory be to Thee. 
 
 Lord, if it seem good in Thy sight, divert 
 this distemper from me, which I now feel 
 seizing on me, that I may employ my health 
 to Thy glory, and praise Thy Name ! 
 
 But if Thou art pleased it should grow on 
 me, I willingly submit to Thy afflicting hand, 
 for Thou art wont to chastise those whom 
 Thou dost love, and I am sure Thou wilt lay 
 no more on me than Thou wilt enable me 
 to bear^. 
 
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 I know, 0 my God, Thou sendest this sick- 
 ness on me for my good, even to humble and 
 reform me ; O grant it may work that saving 
 effect in me. 
 
 Lord, create in me a true penitent sorrow 
 for all my sins past, a steadfast faith in Thee, 
 and sincere resolutions of amendment for the 
 time to come. 
 
 Deliver me from all frowardness and im- 
 patience, and give me an entire resignation to 
 Thy divine will : 0 suffer not the disease 
 to take away my senses, and do Thou con- 
 tinually supply my thoughts with holy ejacu- 
 lations ; Lord, bless all means that are used 
 for my recovery, and restore me to my health 
 in Thy good time : but if otherwise Thou hast 
 appointed for me. Thy blessed will be done. 
 0 wean my affections from all things below, 
 and fill me with ardent desires after heaven : 
 Lord, fit me for Thyself, and then call me to 
 those joys unspeakable and full of glory, when 
 Thou pleasest, and that for the sake of Thy 
 only Son Jesus, my Saviour, in whose holy 
 words I sum up all my wants : Our Lather, &c. 
 
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 Ejaculations in time of Sickness, 
 
 Pather, if it be possible, remove this cup 
 from me : nevertheless not my will, but Thine 
 be done^. 
 
 Trouble and heaviness have taken hold on 
 me, but my sure trust is in Thee, O Lord ! 
 
 Porsake me not, O my God, when my 
 strength faileth me ; haste Thee to help me, 
 
 0 Lord God of my salvation ! 
 
 Lord, teach me so to number my days that 
 
 1 may apply my heart to wisdom 
 
 Leal Thou with me, O Lord, according to 
 Thy N'ame, for sweet is Thy mercy. 
 
 Lord, what is my hope ! truly my hope is 
 even in Thee. 
 
 O my soul, tarry thou the Lord’s leisure ; 
 be strong and He shall comfort thy heart ; and 
 put thou thy trust in the Lord ^ ! 
 
 Into Thy hands I commend my spirit, for 
 Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, Thou God of 
 truth. 
 
 « Matt. xxvi. 39. 
 X Ps. xc. 12. 
 
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 In my Father’s house are many mansions, 
 and Thou, Lord Jesus, art gone before to pre- 
 pare the place for us, that where Thou art we 
 may be also ^ ! 
 
 Lord, be merciful to me a miserable sinner. 
 
 0 Lord God, we must all at the last 
 day appear before Thy judgment- seat ; O 
 cleanse me from my sins, that I may be 
 found blameless at the coming of the Lord 
 Jesus ! 
 
 As the day goeth away, and the shadows 
 of the evening are stretched out, so passeth 
 away my life, even like a vapour, that ap- 
 peareth for a little time, and vanisheth away 
 
 Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor the 
 heart of man conceived, the good things which 
 God hath laid up for those that love Him. 
 Lord, do Thou therefore inflame my soul with 
 Thy love ^ ! 
 
 1 know, Lord, that Thy judgments are 
 right, and Thou of very faithfulness hast 
 caused me to be troubled 
 
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 1 Cor. ii. 9. c ps. cxix. 75. 
 
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 0 heavenly Tather, my hope is wholly in 
 Thy mercy, and in the merits and sufferings 
 of my Saviour ; O for His sake forgive and 
 save me ! 
 
 To these and the like ejaculations, Philo- 
 theus, which thou mayest gather thyself, thou 
 mayest now and then either read a Psalm 
 yourself, or have one read to you, as par- 
 ticularly the 23rd or 25th, or 27th or 51st, 
 or any other that does best suit with thy con- 
 dition. 
 
 1 need give you no farther directions for the 
 time of sickness, because I presume, Philo- 
 theus, that when you feel your sickness pre- 
 vailing on you, you will then send for a 
 spiritual guide, who will give you more parti- 
 cular advice, and minister to all the necessities 
 of your soul, and therefore I shall only add 
 this form of thanksgiving. 
 
 A THANKSGIVING FOR RECOVERY. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, 0 heavenly Pather, for 
 the sickness Thou hast in mercy sent me ! 
 
 Lord, the stripes Thou didst lay on me, 
 were the stripes of love ,* glory be to Thee ! 
 
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 Eefore I was troubled, I went wrong, but 
 now will I keep Thy word<^. 
 
 It is good for me that I have been in trou- 
 ble, that I might learn Thy statutes. 
 
 Glory be to Thee, O Lord, glory be to 
 Thee, for delivering me from the terrors of 
 death, and restoring me to my health again; 
 glory be to Thee ! 
 
 I called upon the Lord in my trouble, 
 and the Lord heard me at large ® ! 
 
 I shall not die, but live, and declare the 
 works of the Lord ! 
 
 Praise the Lord, therefore, 0 my soul: as 
 long as I have my life, which at first God 
 gave me, and which He has now restored to 
 me, I will sing praise unto my God ! 
 
 O Lord God, Who hast in Thy tender mercy 
 prolonged my days in this world, give me 
 grace to spend that life Thou hast now length- 
 ened in Thy service. O give me grace to per- 
 form all my resolutions of new obedience, and 
 so to live in the filial fear of Thee all the 
 remainder of my time, that I may at last die 
 
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 at peace with myself, at peace with the whole 
 world, and at peace with Thee ; and that for 
 the sake of Thy well-beloved Son, and my 
 Saviour, in whose holy words I sum up all my 
 wants : Our Father, &c. 
 
 To this you may add, if you think fit, the 
 hundred and third Psalm. 
 
 To conclude, good Philotheus, if you have 
 reaped any good from these prayers and in- 
 structions, be sure to give God hearty thanks 
 for it, and let this encourage you to make the 
 more frequent use of them ; and God of His 
 infinite mercy bless them every day more and 
 more to your growth in grace, and to His own 
 glory. Amen. 
 
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 BY 
 
 THE AUTHOR OF THE MANUAL OF 
 PRAYERS. 
 
 For the use of the Scholars of Winchester College®. 
 
 A MOEJS'Il^G HYMJSr. 
 
 Awake, my soul, and with the sun^ 
 Thy daily stage of duty run ; 
 
 Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise, 
 To pay thy morning sacrifice. 
 
 ® Advertisement — at the end of a book lately 
 published, called, ‘ A Conference between the Soul and Body, j 
 there are some Hymns said to be written by Bishop Ken,’ j 
 who absolutely disowns theni, as being very false and uncor- ! 
 rect; but the genuine opes are to be had only of Charles ) 
 Brome, bookseller, whose just property the original copy is.” | 
 
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 Thy precious time misspent, redeem, 
 Each present day thy last esteem ; 
 Improve thy talent with due care, 
 
 Eor the great day thyself prepare. 
 
 In conversation he sincere. 
 
 Keep conscience as the noon-tide clear. 
 Think how all-seeing God thy ways. 
 And all thy secret thoughts surveys. 
 
 By influence of the light divine. 
 
 Let thy own light to others shine, 
 Beflect all heaven’s propitious rays. 
 
 In ardent love, and cheerful praise. 
 
 ’Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart. 
 And with the angels hear thy part. 
 Who all night long unwearied sing 
 High praise to the eternal King. 
 
 I wake, I wake, ye heavenly choir — 
 May your devotion me inspire. 
 
 That I like you my age may spend. 
 Like you may on my God attend. 
 
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 May I like you on God delight, 
 
 Have all day long my God in sight, 
 Perform like you my Maker’s will, — 
 
 0 may I never more do ill. 
 
 Had I your wings, to heaven I’d fly, 
 
 But God shall that defect supply ; 
 
 And my soul wing’d with warm desire, 
 Shall all day long to heaven aspire. 
 
 All praise to Thee, "Who safe hast kept, 
 And hast refresh’d me whilst I slept ; 
 Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, 
 
 1 may of endless light partake. 
 
 I would not wake, nor rise again, 
 
 Even heaven itself I would disdain, 
 
 Wert not Thou there to he enjoy’d. 
 
 And I in hymns to be employ’d. 
 
 Heaven is, dear Lord, where’er Thou art, 
 
 0 never then from me depart : 
 
 Eor to my soul ’tis hell to be, 
 
 But for one moment void of Thee. 
 
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 AN EVENING HYMN. 
 
 Lord, I my vows to Thee renew ; 
 
 Disperse my sins as morning dew : 
 
 Guard my first springs of thought and will, 
 And with Thyself my spirit fill. 
 
 Direct, control, suggest this day, 
 
 All I design, or do, or say ; 
 
 That all my powers with all their might. 
 In Thy sole glory may unite. 
 
 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. 
 Praise Him all creatures here below ; 
 Praise Him above, ye heavenly host, ‘ 
 Praise Pather, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
 
 AH EVEHIHG HYMH. 
 
 All praise to Thee, my God, this night, 
 Eor all the blessings of the light ; 
 
 Keep me, 0 keep me. King of kings, 
 Peneath Thy own Almighty wings. 
 
AN EVENING HYMN. 
 
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 Forgive me, Lord, for Thy dear Son, 
 
 The ill that I this day have done ; 
 
 That with the world, myself, and Thee, 
 I ere I sleep at peace may be. 
 
 Teach me to live, that I may dread 
 The grave as little as my bed ; 
 
 To die, that this vile body may 
 Rise glorious at the awful day. 
 
 0 may my soul on Thee repose. 
 
 And may sweet sleep mine eyelids close ; 
 Sleep that may me more vig’rous make. 
 To serve my God when I awake. 
 
 When in the night I sleepless lie, 
 
 My soul with heavenly thoughts supply ; 
 Let no ill dreams disturb my rest, 
 
 'No power of darkness me molest. 
 
 Lull sleep of sense me to deprive, 
 
 1 am but half my time alive ; 
 
 Thy faithful lovers. Lord, are griev’d, 
 
 To lie so long of Thee bereav’d. 
 
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 But tlio’ sleep o’er my frailty reigns, 
 
 Let it not hold me long in chains ; 
 
 And now and then let loose my heart, 
 
 Till it an hallelujah dart. 
 
 The faster sleep the senses hinds. 
 
 The more unfetter’d are our minds ; 
 
 O may my soul from matter free. 
 
 Thy loveliness unclouded see ! 
 
 O when shall I in endless day, 
 
 Tor ever chase dark sleep away. 
 
 And hymns with the supernal choir. 
 Incessant sing and never tire ! 
 
 O may my Guardian, while I sleep. 
 
 Close to my bed His vigils keep. 
 
 His love angelical instil. 
 
 Stop all the avenues of ill. 
 
 May He celestial joy rehearse. 
 
 And thought to thought with me converse. 
 Or in my stead, all the night long. 
 
 Sing to my God a grateful song. 
 
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 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, 
 Praise Him all creatures here below ; 
 Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. 
 
 Praise Pather, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
 
 A MIHHIGHT HYMH. 
 
 My God, now I from sleep awake, 
 
 The sole possession of me take ; 
 
 Prom midnight terrors me secure. 
 
 And guard my heart from thoughts impure. 
 
 Pless’d angels ! while we silent lie. 
 
 You hallelujahs sing on high ; 
 
 You joyful hymn the ever blessed, 
 
 Before the throne, and never rest. 
 
 I with your choir celestial join. 
 
 In offering up a hymn divine, 
 
 With you in heaven I hope to dwell. 
 
 And bid the night and world farewell. 
 
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 A MIDNIGHT HYMN. 
 
 My soul, when I shake off this dust, 
 
 Lord, in Thy arms I will entrust ; 
 
 O make me Thy peculiar care. 
 
 Some mansion for my soul prepare. 
 
 Give me a place at Thy saints' feet, 
 
 Or some fall’n angel’s vacant seat ; 
 
 I’ll strive to sing as loud as they, 
 
 Who sit above in brighter day. 
 
 O may I always ready stand. 
 
 With my lamp burning in my hand ; 
 
 May I in sight of heaven rejoice. 
 
 Whene’er I hear the bridegroom’s voice. 
 
 All praise to Thee in light array’d. 
 
 Who light Thy dwelling-place hast made : 
 A boundless ocean of bright beams 
 From Thy all-glorious Godhead streams. 
 
 The sun in its meridian height 
 Is very darkness in Thy sight ! 
 
 My soul, O lighten and inflame. 
 
 With thought and love of Thy great I^ame. 
 
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 Elessed Jesii, Thou on heaven intent, 
 Whole nights hast in devotion spent ; 
 
 But I, frail creature, soon am tir’d. 
 
 And all mj zeal is soon expir’d. 
 
 My soul, how canst thou weary grow, 
 
 Of antedating bliss below ; 
 
 In sacred hymns, and heavenly love. 
 Which wiU eternal be above. 
 
 Shine on me. Lord, new life impart. 
 
 Fresh ardours kindle in my heart ; 
 
 One ray of Thy all- quick’ ning light. 
 Dispels the sloth and clouds of night. 
 
 Lord, lest the tempter me surprise, 
 
 AVatch over Thine own sacrifice; 
 
 All loose, all idle thoughts cast out. 
 
 And make my very dreams devout. 
 
 Praise God, from Whom all blessings fl.ow. 
 Praise Him all creatures here below ; 
 Praise Him above ye heavenly host, 
 
 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
 
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