ments. And then shall we not be ashamed when we have respect to them all.a Teach us, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and we shall keep it unto the end. Give us understanding, and we shall keep thy law, yea, we shall observe it with our whole heart. Make us to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do we delight. Incline our hearts unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.b Grant us, we pray thee, according to the riches of thy glory, that we may be strengthened with all might by the spirit in the inward man that Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith, and we being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and may know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, and be filled with a divine fullness, and may partake of a divine nature.c And let the love of Christ constrain us to live not to ourselves, but to him that died for us, and rose again.d 8. We must pray for grace to make us wiser and better every day than another. Lord, give us to increase with the increases of God ;e to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ;g to hold on our way, and having clean hands; to grow stronger and stronger.h Let our path be as the shining light, which shines more and more unto the perfect day.i We have not yet attained, nor are we already perfect; Lord, grant that therefore, forgetting the things that are behind, we may reach forth to those things that are before, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.k Be thou as the dew unto us, that we may grow as the lily, and cast forth our roots as Lebanon; that our branches may spread, and our beauty be as the olive tree. And let the sun of righteousness arise upon us with healing under his wings, that we may go forth and grow up as calves of the stall.m a Psalm 119.5, 6, b Psalm 119. 33, 34, 35, c Eph. 3. 16, 17, 18, 19. d 2 Cor. 5. 14, 15. g2 Pet. 3. 18. h Job 17.9. Phil. 3. 12, 13, 14. / Hos. 14, 5, 6. 9. We must pray for effectual support and comfort under all the crosses and afflictions that we meet with in this world. We know that we are born to trouble as the sparks fly upward; but in six troubles be thou pleased to deliver us, and in seven let no evil touch us.a Let the eternal God be our refuge, and underneath be the everlasting arms,b that the spirit thou hast made may not fail before thee, nor the soul that thou hast redeemed.c Let us be strengthened with all might, according to thy glorious power, unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulness.d Let thy statutes be our songs in the house of our pil grimage; and let thy testimonies, which we have taken as a heritage for ever, be always the rejoicing of our hearts.e When we are troubled on every side, yet let us not be distressed, and when we are perplexed, let us not be in despair,g but as sorrowful, and yet always rejoicing; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.h 10. We must pray for grace to preserve us to the end, and to fit us for whatever lies before us 'twixt this and the grave. Lord, deliver us from every evil work, and preserve us to thy heavenly kingdom, being kept from falling,i that we may be presented faultless, at the coming of thy glory with exceeding joy.k Lord, make us to increase and abound in love, one towards another, and towards all men, that our hearts may be established unblameable in holiness, before God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints./ If Satan desire to have us that he may sift us as wheat, yet let Christ's intercession prevail for us, that our faith fail not.m Till we are taken out of the world, let us be kept from the evil, and sanctified through thy truth: thy word is truth.n a Job 5 17, 19. d Col. 1 11. h 2 Cor. 6 10. 71 Thess 12 13. b Deut. 33 27. e Psalm 119 54, 111. c Isaiah 57 16. * Jude 24. Build us up, we pray thee, in our most holy faith, and keep us in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.a Grant that we may continue to call upon thee as long as we live,b and till we die may never remove our integ rity from us and that our righteousness we may hold fast, and never let it go, and our hearts may not reproach us so long as we live.c 11. We must pray for grace to deliver us from death, and to carry us well through our dying moments. Lord, make us to know our end, and the measure of our days, what it is, that we may know and consider how frail we are ;d and that our days are as a handbreadth, and that every man at his best state is altogether vanity, and our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.e Lord, teach us so to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom,g and make us to consider our latter end.h Lord, make us always ready with our loins girded about, and our lights burning, because the Son of man comes at an hour that we think not.i Keep us all the days of our appointed time, waiting till our change comes; and then shalt thou call, and we will answer.k Bring us to our grave as a shock of corn in its season ;/ satisfy us with life, whether it be longer or shorter, and show us thy salvation.m And when we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, be thou with us, that we may fear no evil, let thy rod and thy staff comfort us.n Let goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our life, and let us dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Mercy and truth be with us.p and afterward re Redeem our souls from the power of the grave, and receive us :q guide us by thy counsel, ceive us into glory.r a Jude 1, 20, 21. h Deut. 32, 29. b Psalm 116. 2, c Job 27.5, 6. g Psalm 90. 12. k Job 14. 14, 15% n Psalm 23.4. g Psalm 49. 15. 12. We must pray for grace to fit us for heaven, and that we may at length be put in possession of eternal life. Lord, make us meet to partake of the inheritance of the saints in light ;a let God himself work us to the self-same thing, and give us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.b O that we may now have our conversation in heaven, that we may from thence with comfort look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus,c who shall change our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like unto his glorieus body.d O that we may set our affections on things that are above, and that our life may be hid with Christ in God, that when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, we also may appear with him in glory ;e that when he shall ap-. pear, we may be like him, may see him as he is,g may behold his face in righteousness, and when we awake may be satisfied with his likeness.h When we fail, let us be received into everlasting ha-. bitations, in the city that hath habitations, whose builder and maker is God, that we may be together for ever with the Lord,k to see as we are seen, and know as we are known./ And in the mean time help us to comfort ourselves and one another with these words; and having this hope in us, to purify ourselves, even as Christ is pure.m And now, our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort our hearts, and stablish us in every good word and work.n 5. We must pray for the good things of life, with an humble submission to the will of God. Lord, thou hast told us that godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ; and that if we seek first the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, other things shall be a Col. 1. 12. d Gal. 3.2, 3,4. h Psalm 17. 15. 11 Thess. 4. 17. 18. b 2 Cor. 5. 5. c Phil. 3. 30,21. k Heb. 11. 10. added to us :a and therefore we cast all our care about these things upon thee,b who carest for us; for our heavenly Father knows that we have need of all these things.c 1. We must pray to be preserved from the calamities to which we are exposed. Thou, Lord, art our refuge and our fortress, and under thy wings will we trust, thy truth shall be our shield and buckler: let us therefore not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day. Having made the Lord our refuge, and the Most High our habitation, let no evil befal us nor any plague come nigh our dwelling.d Let the Lord be our keeper even he that keepeth Israel, aud neither slumbers nor sleeps. Let the Lord be our shade on our right hand, that the sun may not smite us by day nor the moon by night; let the Lord preserve us from all evil; the Lord preserve our souls: the Lord preserve our going out and coming in, from this time forth, and even for evermore.e Lord, make a hedge about us, about our houses, and about all that we have round about ;g and take sickness away from the midst of us.h 2. We must pray to be supplied with the comforts and supports we daily stand in need of O that the beauty of the Lord our God may be upon us; prosper thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it :i save now, we beseech thee, O Lord; O Lord, we beseech thee, send now prosperity.k Let our sons be as as plants grown up in their youth, and our daughters as corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace.? Let our garners be full, affording all manner of store; and let there be no breaking in or going out, no complaining in our streets: happy is the people that is in such a case, yea rather, happy is the people whose God is the Lord. a Matt.6.32. d Psalm 91. 2, 4, 9, 10. b 1 Pet. 5. 7, e Psal. 121. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, c Matt. 6. 32: g Job 1. 10. Psal. 118. 25, |