through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer relating to Exercise 5. viz. To bridle our Tongues O God by whom I am fearfully and wonderfully made who hast beset me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me such knowledge is too wonderful for me it is high I cannot attain unto it How have I abused that Tongue thou hast given me to shew forth thy praise How long have I employed it about things which do not profit I am ashamed of it O teach me to blush O let me see how I have perverted thy gifts and misimproved my Talents O let me value thy Mercies better and give me thy Grace to remember that I am not mine own Assure me that I am bought with a Price to shew forth the glory of him that died for me And can I shew forth thy glory if my tongue be not cautious of offending thee Can it look like glorifying thee if that Member which of all the Organs of this mortal Frame is most fitted for thy glory fails in its duty The volubility quickness nimbleness readiness thou hast planted here were all intended to trumpet forth thy glorious Attributes O my God! I will not hide thy Righteousness within my Heart I will declare thy Faithfulness and thy Salvation I will not conceal thy loving Kindness and thy Truth from the great Congregation Let me speak of thee with reverence and godly fear Give me discretion to know how and when and what to speak Lord give me Motives and Arguments to speak as I ought to do Let my Speech be always with Grace seasoned with Salt that I may know how to answer every man Let no corrupt Communication proceed out of my Mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister Grace unto the hearers Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and keep the door of my Lips Let me keep my Mouth as it were with a Bridle and teach me to punish my self for my great neglect with gracious and savoury discourses Let me delight to speak of thee and make me afraid of every idle word Lord rule my Tongue and let even that member be dedicated to thy service In all my Speeches and Answers let me study Veracity Sobriety and Modesty Open thou my Lips O Lord and let my Tongue be filled with thy praise all the day long and in the night season let me not be silent Fill me with a profound sense of the great day of Account when my Words will be examined as well as my Actions Season my Tongue with conscientiousness and let me not be rash with my Lips Let my Heart smite me when I am going to speak things which are not after thy Law Let thy Statutes be my Songs in the house of my pilgrimage and let the Law of thy mouth be better unto me than thousands of Gold and Silver Amen A Prayer relating to Exercise 6. viz. To watch against little Sins O Thou who art of purer Eyes than to behold Iniquity with the least approbation How have I been deceived how have I been imposed upon by the World and my treacherous Heart How securely have I wallowed in lesser sins and made a mock of them I see Lord what circumspection is necessary in a Christian-life I repent of making so light of things which have been offensive and contrary to thy Holiness Fool that I was to imagine that any thing can be trivial and light which thou hast forbid Can any Order or Precept proceed from thee but what is the product of eternal deliberation Can any thing be needless which thou set'st thy Hand Seal to What low thoughts must I have of thy Wisdom What mean conceptions of thy Omniscience if I harbour such Imaginations Dull blockish creature that I am when every Law thou makest and every Work thou doest and every Providence that comes to pass is done according to the eternal counsel of thy Will built upon the strongest Pillars of Reason and is an effect of the brightest clearest and most unbyassed Understanding how can any thing be little and inconsiderable that thou do'st command But alas These are but the pretences of my Lusts they are loth to be deprived of their pleasures and therefore suggest such feeble Arguments A little sin what nonsence is there in that word Why shouldest thou prohibit it why shouldest thou warn entreat and beseech me not to do it but that thou who knowest all things knowest it to be prejudicial to my Soul It 's a sign I esteem I prize thee not Did I truly look upon thee as the loveliest Being and my onely and greatest Benefactor I should be afraid of a disorderly thought O let me never judge of sin any more by the sickly fancies of carnal men but by the holiness of thy Nature And as thou my God who hast called me art holy so let me be holy in all manner of Conversation O let me not dally with sin any more nor make sport with it because the world calls it little but let it be sufficient to me that thou my God dislikest it and make me entirely conformable to thy Will Give me O thou giver of every good thing just apprehensions of my duty Increase my love to thy Name and my hatred of sin will encrease O that I were more ravished with thy beauty how odious would every thing be to me that is injurious to thy Glory O the infinite obligations I have to love thee and yet how cold is my Heart and because it is cold I startle at nothing but the greater sins O let me remember that I am a Christian and have vowed my self to thy service and let me serve thee in keeping even of the least of thy Commandments Discover to me the equity and reasonableness of every Precept that I may plead no excuses no impediments but break through all obstacles to express my love O let me esteem all thy Precepts concerning all things to be right and let me hate every false way Nothing can be lovely that thou forbiddest Nothing can be sound that thou accusest of rottenness Nothing can be safe that thou warnest me against I have found the ways of sin false indeed false as Hell When I have thought to step into the bed of pleasure I have rush'd into a Gulph of misery When I have hoped to fill my self with content and satisfaction I have run into Briars and Thorns and filled my Heart with heaviness and I find I have been flattered into ruine O let me dread the very appearance of evil and be thou my everlasting sweetness my everlasting delight my everlasting comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer relating to Exercise 7. viz. To keep a strict guard over our Eyes O Thou whose Eyes are like flames of fire and whose Feet like Brass glowing in a Furnace who art brighter than the Sun clearer than the Stars whose eyes run to and fro through the world to shew thy self
Amen A Prayer for Tuesday-Morning relating to the Meditation prescribed for Tuesday Exercise 3. OLord how wonderful are all thy Works in wisdom hast thou made them ill the Earth is full of thy riches What a Monument am I of thy Mercy How kind hast thou been to this miserable Creature How am I bound to magnifie thy goodness How excellent how great how vast how large how diffusive is it not confin'd to a day not restrain'd to a place not limited to an hour From my Cradle unto this moment I have seen and tasted how sweet and how gracious thou art Thou hast carried me on thy Wings as the Eagle doth her young thorough the various stages of my life what Miracles of Providences have mine Eyes beheld How hath thy Providence been at work for me while I have been asleep while I have been thinking and contriving something else even how to derogate from thy honour and glory Truly Lord thy Mercy and Patience ought to be my Song in the house of my Pilgrimage This I have reason to boast of to speak of to meditate of day and night by that I subsist by that I am supported fed maintain'd and preserv'd from the clutches of the Devil O let thy Mercy melt my Heart O let Mercy prevail with me to give up my Heart to thee Let mercy and goodness force me to love thee Give me that ingenuity that generous temper that noble Spirit that thy goodness may do more with me than Threatnings and Hell and everlasting Torments Let thy Love and Charity and constant Murificence oblige me to run in the way of thy Commandments Let these be greater motives with me to do thy Will than all the terrours of the burning Lake O let thy Love be of that force in my Soul that I may not be able to resist its motions but by the strength of that may hope believe endure deny my self love and obey thee to the end of my days through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for Tudsday-Evening GReat Governour and Disposer of the world who hast promised to them that love thee so to order all things that they shall all conspire to their good I am sensible of the good thou hast intended and dost intend me by the various Dispensations mine eyes have seen The various Spiritual and Temporal Blessings that have been conferred upon me what have they been but motives to be enamou'rd with the best of Beings Thou knowest if I depart from thee or love any thing better than thee I run away from mine own happiness and go to undo my self therefore so many various Tokens and Expressions of thy Love are sent to me to unite my Heart to thee to preserve me in thy Fear and to uphold my goings in thy Paths O wise O gracious O bountiful Master kinder to me than I am or have been to my self Let me find the good thou designest for me in thy numberless Blessings even the good of my Soul let that grow stronger under thy Favours warmer in thy Sunshine more fervent under these Beams more flaming with love under these enforcives The very afflictions thou sendest upon me are intended for my good I have found it I have seen it I have known it by experience I have learned Repentance Humility Submission fear of sinning by Afflictions which I should never have learned by Prosperity when I have thought I had great wrong done me by the contempt reproach trouble misery others have thrown upon me thou hast let me see that this was to make me reflect on the affronts and indignities I have put upon thee my best and greatest friend O let me never mistrust thy Providence Whatever befals me let me believe I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living and let me not be disappointed of my hope through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for Wednesday-Morning relating to the Meditation prescribed Exercise 3 for Wednesday O Thou in whose hand is the power of Life and Death who art immortal invisible Blessed for evermore Before the Mountains were brought forth or ever the Earth and the World were made thou art God from Everlasting to Everlasting thou art he I am a frail dying creature and though I carry an immortal Soul about me yet the Vessel in which that glorious guest abides will soon grow leaky and decay and that must turn to dust and how soon I know not I admire thy wisdom in concealing the Day and Hour of my Death from me I am sensible it 's done to hasten my Repentance to keep me from adding sin unto sin to restrain me from the Vanities of this world to make me think of a better and to secure that happy Life which shall be after Death And O that my death might be ever before me How great are the things that depend upon it Two great Eternities whereof one of them will certainly fall to my share O let my death be my daily Meditation that I may prevent my everlasting death What a miserable creature should I be if my Soul should leave this Body to go into a more dismal Prison from whence there is no returning O make me wise O let me understand what preparation is necessary for that hour teach me to undervalue the World and to mind the things which are above that when I come to die I may die with joy and cheerfully resigne my Soul into the hands of my Creator Let Lust and Pride and Envy and Anger die in me before I die that they may not endanger my Soul after death Let me converse with Death more that I may die to sin more and live more to him that died for me Let the thoughts of death mortifie in me whatever is offensive to thy Holiness In all my actions let me remember my latter end that my death may be my gain and my departure out of the world an entrance into a better through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for Wednesday Evening O My God to whom belong the issues of Life and Death naked came I from my mothers Womb naked shall I return thither What is my life but a Vapour which appears for a while and then vanishes away O Lord thou hast made this life transitory dangerous short full of misery subject to vanity and as it were a span long and all to make me desire to be dissolv'd and to be with Christ yet how dreadful is death to me How do I tremble at the thoughts of it What should make me so deeply enamour'd with this Life At the best it is a Warfare within are Tumults without are Fightings I am in a continual state of War here with Covetousness with Passion with Pride with Ambition with carnal Lusts with Allurements of the world with suggestions of the Devil when one sin is beaten away another rises when I think I have mortified one Corruption another starts up The Discontents and Vexations the Troubles and the
to them that hate me Let thy Patience under Reproaches oblige me to be silent under Calumnies Let thy love to my Soul wound my Heart that I may long for thee breathe after thee as my greatest comfort think of nothing so much as of thee value nothing so much as thee delight in nothing so much as in thee for thou hast done for me beyond expectation beyond imagination more than Father and Mother ever did more than my dearest Friends ever did more than mortal man can do O chain my heart to thine and let nothing separate me from thy love but be thou mine and let me be thine and dwell with thee for ever Amen A Prayer for Friday-Evening OJesu who hast led Captivity Captive spoiled Principalities and Powers made a shew of them openly and triumph'd over them How powerful was thy Death How victorious thy Cross How potent were thy Agonies How effectual thy Sufferings Thy Cross is my Conquest Thy Gibbet is my Triumph At that Devils tremble and they that are not afraid of splendid Palaces are afraid of the Tree on which thy sacred Body was stretched out How shall Sin reign any longer in my body after such Compassion Shall not I blush after such Mercy to offend that Friend who died for me Shall I reward evil for good or dare to act against thee any more who hast conquered my greatest Enemies for me They would have swallow'd me up quick when they were so wrathfully displeased at me but thou camest to my rescue and wouldest not let me perish by their fury I can plead no more that Sin and the Devil and the World are not conquerable for thou hast made them so They have lost their force and power and a poor Christian can make even Devils tremble O let the world be for ever crucified to me and me unto the world Let me not be afraid of Affliction when my Lord and Master hath endured so much for me I hope to share in the glories of thy Crown O let me not be ashamed to bear thy Cross. O blessed Jesu who art a Guide to the Blind a Way to the erring Soul a Staff to the Lame a Comforter to the Poor a Harbour to the tossed with Tempests a Counsellour to the Perplexed Wisdom to the Foolish the glory of Martyrs the joy of Angels the Foundation of the Church the Physician of the Sick Meat to the Hungry Drink to the Thirsty Clothes to the Naked be thou all this to me and let thy Cross supply all my wants and in this let me glory and rejoyce day and night that being in some measure crucified with thee here I may be glorified with thee hereafter Amen A Prayer for Saturday-Morning suited to the Meditation prescribed Exercise 3. for Saturday OGod who art Purity and Holiness it self How despicable how odious how contemptible have I made my self in thy sight by departing from thy holy Commandments delivered unto me How like an Adversary how like an Enemy of the Cross have I lived How may I stand amazed at thy patience that I am yet on this side Hell What ingratitude have I been guilty of to thee the best of Masters and the kindest Father who hast been tender of me to a Miracle How can I reflect upon my unthankfulness without blushing O that I might not be able to remember any of my sins without horrour How have I undervalued thy wisdom by thinking my self wiser than my God and by approving that which thy wisdom hath condemned as folly and bruitishness What fruit had I then in those things whereof I am now ashamed What warnings hast thou given me not to venture on those dangerous baits and yet I have set light by them I have been loath to believe those who poison'd by this Viper have cried out that they have been cheated and murthered I would not believe till I found death in the pot and by woful experience saw that all the fair promises of sin are meer Delusions Lord discover to me my secret errours and the sins I have been loth to know convince me of their odiousness and fearful consequence Teach me to remove my foot far from them and let me not come near the door of their house Instead of excusing of them give me grace to confess and fight against them Let not the present satisfactions tempt me to run into that fire and anguish they end in Though the World lies in wickedness yet let the familiarity and common practices of men be no temptation to me Let me ever look up to that Great and Glorious God who interdicts it and count my self happier in thy favour than in all the Solaces and Flatteries of evil men Anoint me with the oyl of gladness and let me rejoyce in nothing so much as in doing thy will through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for Saturday-Evening O Thou at whose presence Devils tremble and Sinners are afraid How blind hath sin made me How hath it darkned my Understanding and clouded all my Faculties How hath it deprived me of spiritual strength and thrust me into the very Jaws of the roaring Lion What power have I given to my spiritual Enemies by offending thee and how have I armed those Foes against mine own Soul How like an Atheist have I lived while I have been careless of thy Omniscience and Omnipresence How basely have I preferred mine own will and the favour of men before thy Precepts and the light of thy Countenance O the many idle foolish silly lascivious ridiculous censorious Words Speeches Discourses and Answers that I have been guilty of How little regard have I had to thy Day thy Name thy Word thy Ordinances to the duty of Prayer and to the Ministry How inattentive in hearing thy Word how cold in Prayers how negligent in the duties of my respective Relations have I been What pettishness peevishness impatience touchiness What envy hatred passion secret grudges have I harboured in my Bosom What impure covetous unclean disorderly thoughts and desires have I suffered to lodge in my Breast What a stranger have I been to that veracity meekness patience humility charity tenderness compassion steddiness in holiness and readiness to every good word and work which thou hast peremptorily commanded How have I rendred railing for railing mistrusted thy Providence allowed my self in discontentedness and been a Coward in thy service O my God! I renounce all these swarms of sin and beg thy Illumination Assistance Power Grace and Influence against them Come Lord Come into this Soul of mine and erect thy Throne in my Breast Whenever I am tempted for the future let me say I am a Christian I am not mine own I am bought with a price and I cannot yield O make me stand in awe of mine own Conscience and give me Rivers of Tears to deplore what is past O my God! I desire to walk in the light even as thou art in the light that I may have fellowship with thy
me from henceforth even for ever and though I sow in Tears yet let me reap in Joy Be thou my Fortress and Deliverer and in the great danger watch over me for good and not for evil and enable me to tell my Friends what the Lord hath done for my Soul through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Thanksgiving after safe deliverance O God! How am I bound to praise thy great and glorious Name who hast not forsaken me when my Soul was in trouble Out of the depth have I cried unto thee and thou hast heard my voice and my supplication For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayst be found O Lord my God I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me Thou hast brought up my Soul from the Grave thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the Pit Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my Sack-cloth and girded me with gladness to the end that my glory may sing praises to thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee and delight my self in the Lord for ever thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for one that intends a Single Life O Most gracious God who givest power to the weak and strength to the feeble thou knowest my purposes and seest my desires and art acquainted with my design of being married to none but thee O blessed Bridegroom of my Soul give me chast desires power to resist Temptations strength to subdue the motions of the Flesh. Dwell in me by thy Spirit Teach me to love thee passionately Let no other object engross my Affections Give me a spiritual Appetite Keep me unspotted in this sinful world Be thou my All my Riches my Pleasure my Delight my Crown my Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for one that is entring into a Married state O God who hast made Marriage an honourable thing and promised to bless those that marry in the Lord In thy name I am entring into another state of life Be merciful unto me O Lord rejoyce the Soul of thy Servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my Soul Direct me in all my actions Counsel me in what I am to do Encline my heart to fear thy Name Enrich her that is to be my Yoak-fellow with the choicest of thy favours Give us both hearts to rely and depend upon thee Let 's look up to thee in all our concerns Make our mutual love sincere and constant and let 's encourage one another to godliness Make us helpful one to another and in our lawful endeavours and enterprizes let 's see thy bountiful hand Make us both pleas'd with what thou shalt think fit to send upon us and contented in all conditions and with united force let 's press toward the mark of eternal glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer before a Journey O Thou who wast a Pillar of Cloud to thy People of old in the day and a Pillar of Fire by night watch over me in this Journey day and night Be thou my Guide my Star my Light my Director and bring me safe to the place I intend for Preserve me from all evil Protect me from all dangers let thine Angel be my Guardian and under the shadow of thy Wings let my refuge be that I may observe thy Statutes and keep thy Laws through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Thanksgiving after a safe return BLessed God whose works are honourable and glorious and who hast made thy wonderful works to be remembred give me leave to admire and to praise thy Providence which hath covered me with its Feathers and been my Shield and Buckler which hath kept me from the terrour by night and from the destruction that wasteth at noon day I cheerfully offer here unto thee the Sacrifice of righteousness and as I see the loving kindness of the Lord so enable me for the future to live in a thankful remembrance of thy goodness and let this and all thy other gracious Providences prevail with me to walk before thee with a perfect and upright heart through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for one that is going to Sea O Thou who stillest the raging of the Sea so that the Waves thereof are still Thy Way is in the Sea and thy Path in the great Waters and thy Footsteps are not known O God! I am like to see thy Works and Wonders in the deep Be with me I beseech thee in my going out and in my coming in Spread thy wings over me and let me find by blessed experience that they who trust in thee shall never be confounded Prosper my Voyage and give success to my endeavours Let not the Deep swallow me up neither let the Flouds drown me Shine upon me day and night and with thy love cherish my fainting Spirits Let no evil examples have dominion over me Let thy fear be upon my Soul at all times and let nothing tempt me to depart from my integrity Let my Soul learn by thy Providences to keep close to thy Word and let that be my Comfort in all my Afflictions through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Thanksgiving when one is returned safely O God thou art the God that doest Wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the People Thou hast with thine arm redeem'd thy People the Sons of Jacob and Joseph I will praise thee for thy goodness and for thy wonderful Works to the Children of men I will exalt thee in the Congregation of the People and praise thee in the Assembly of the Elders I cried unto the Lord in my trouble and thou broughtest me out of my distresses Thou hath delivered me from the great Waters and my Life hath been precious in thy sight Recreate my Soul with the thoughts of thy mercy and while I am sailing through the boisterous Sea of this World let thy Word be a Lanthorn to my Feet and a Light to my Paths through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A short Prayer before Divine Service or Sermon O God I am come into the house where thy Honour dwelleth Overaw me with a sense of thy Presence that I may pray with understanding and like a person concern'd about the blessings I shall pray for Fix my Thoughts and Affections on thy sweet self and teach me to make intercessions with groans which cannot be uttered Let thy Word be sweet to me and give me a tractable Spirit that may cheerfully and willingly submit to the Yoak of the Lord Jesus Assist me in all my Duties and Devotions and let thy good Spirit direct and order them to thy Glory Make my Soul a gainer by these spiritual Exercises and let all the Congregation feel the power of thy influences that with one heart and one voice we may glorifie God in the day of Visitation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer after Divine Service
and Sermon O Thou who livest for ever and ever I have pray'd I have heard thy Word I have joyn'd with thy People in their Supplications and Prayers If thou Lord shouldest mark Iniquities who shall stand Pardon I beseech thee the iniquities of my holy things and what imperfections thou hast seen in my Devotions cover them with the unspotted righteousness of Christ Jesus and cleanse them with his Bloud Cast me not away from thy presence neither take thy holy Spirit from me Accept of my imperfect Services and make me more circumspect in all my ways Let thy Word be written in my heart and let neither the cares nor riches nor pleasures of the world steal it away O give me thy Grace to walk according to this rule through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Morning-Prayer for a Family O God great and glorious the Day is thine and the Night is thine thou hast made Summer and Winter thou hast made the out-goings of the Morning and Evening to rejoyce How great is thy loving kindness therefore the Children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy Wings We praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. Thou art the great preserver of men Thou hast protected us the night past and through thy mercy we have escaped innumerable dangers thou hast been our refuge our hiding place our fortress and our deliverer One Generation shall praise thy Works unto another and declare thy mighty acts We see thy goodness again in the land of the living Thou hast spread thy Wings over us thou hast covered us with thy Feathers Thou knowest our frame and remembrest we are dust Thou knowest how unable we are to keep our selves and therefore hast taken care of us and unto this moment thy favours and loving kindnesses rest upon our Souls and Bodies O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and declare his wonderful works to the Children of men We cannot but remember how like a Father thou hast pitied us all our days We have always found thy help in the time of trouble How precious are thy thoughts which are to us ward they cannot be reckon'd up in order unto thee If we would declare and speak of them they are more than can be numbred What Sacrifices of thanksgiving are we bound to offer unto thee for thy love to our Souls in Christ Jesus for the assistances of thy Holy Spirit for thy Word and Ordinances and for all the encouragements we have to lay hold on eternal life O make us sensible of thy goodness Let us see how sweet and how gracious thou art and let this sight work in us a perfect hatred of sin and a fervent love to the ways of holiness Discover to us the errours of our ways Reveal to us our secret corruptions Let not only greater but even all lesser sins become odious and loathsom to our Souls Establish us with thy grace uphold us with thy free Spirit Leave us not to our selves rule us by thy power direct us by thy wisdom Enable us to do thy will Encourage us to cleanse our selves from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit and whatever things are praise-worthy let 's not onely think of them but practise them Give us earnest desires to imitate the best of mankind Let 's delight greatly in thy Commandments Lord open the eyes of our Understandings that we may look more earnestly upon the spiritual riches thou hast vouchsafed unto us and may be enamour'd with them and despise the vanities of the world and set our affections upon the things which are above and may at last obtain the end of our Faith even the salvation of our Souls Be with us this following day Make us watchful over our senses Work in us a detestation of all filthy discourses and of all the ill we see in the world Teach us how to live in thy fear and whatever sin we are tempted to let 's tremble at it and say how can we commit this wickedness and sin against our God! Let thy holy Angels keep us in all our ways Order our steps according to thy Word Direct and guide our thoughts and words and actions Bless all our lawful endeavours Cross and disappoint us in that which is offensive to thy holiness Prosper that which is expedient for us Give us courage and wisdom discretion and resolution in our behaviour toward God and men and let 's use the world as if we used it not Keep our thoughts fixed upon a better life that whenever thou shalt call us away from hence we may be ready and willing to obey thy Summons through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Here the Prayers for the King Royal Family Church c. may be added An Evening Prayer for a Family MOst holy and ever-glorious God! how excellent is thy Name in all the World Thou art to be seen in all thy works and we have seen thee the day past in thy various Mercies and gracious Providences for which we do here render our most humble and hearty thanks O God! who is like unto thee For though thou dwellest on high yet thou humblest thy self to behold the ways of the Children of men What are we that thou shouldest take notice of us or what is our frame that thou shouldest have such respect unto us We see thy condescention and admire it We see thy loving kindnesses and praise thy Name Thy Mercy reacheth unto the Heavens thy Faithfulness unto the Clouds Thou givest unto us all that our Hearts and Faith and Reason can desire What a glorious gift is the Son of thy bosom what rich Presents are thy Promises how industrious is thy Providence to engage our hearts to love thee yet how backward are we to this duty How loath to raise our Souls above the world How unwilling to take thee for our greatest treasure We say and speak glorious things of thee now and then but we feel them not O touch our hearts and warm them with the fire of the Sanctuary and let 's know no other thing than to love thee with all our hearts and with all our Souls Be thou the pleasing object of our Souls and let 's be displeased with nothing but what displeases thee Teach us to neglect our own will that we may the better comply with thine and let 's walk by this golden Rule to speak little to think little and to do much Thou hast done great things for us denied thy self in thy glory majesty and splendor to do us good let 's therefore scruple nothing that thou commandest and give us strength to do what thou commandest and then command what thou pleasest Enable us to act and speak and live as in thy presence where-ever we are and whatever we are doing and let 's so live in the world as not to be of the world Let no condition thou shalt call us out unto be uneasie or unpleasant to us and whenever thou shalt think