rising with him to newness of life," and to all the pure and true happiness with which this regenerated state of the human heart never fails to be attended.

PART THIRD.

DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES

PREPARATORY TO

SACRAMENTAL COMMUNION.

1 COR. xi. 28. "Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup."

I.

THANKSGIVING FOR CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES, ESPECIALLY THE MORE SOLEMN ORDINANCES,

FOR SEASONS OF DEVOUT RETIREMENT,-AND FOR ACCESS TO THE THRONE OF GRACE.

PSALM civ. 34. My meditation of him shall be sweet; I will be glad in the Lord.

Psalm lxv. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee.

REFLECTION.

THE season has again returned, when, by the favour of Divine Providence, I am permitted to renew my baptismal engagement, and to commemorate the dying love of that Saviour who gave his life for the sins of men.

It is a season when I am permitted and exhorted to retire from the bustle of life, that I may