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fave your fouls. Be ye doers The Gospel. St. Matth. v. 43..

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of the word; and not hearE have heard that it ers only, deceiving your own felves. For if any be a hearer hath been faid, Thou of the word and not a doer, shalt love thy neighbour and he is like unto a man behold- hate thine enemy. But I fay ing his natural face in a glass: unto you, love your enemies, for he beholdeth himself, and bless them that curse you, do goeth his way, and straight- good to them that hate you, way forgetteth what manner and pray for them which deof man he was. But whoso spitefully use you and perselooketh into the perfect law of cute you: that ye may be the liberty, and continueth there- children of your Father which in, he being not a forgetful is in heaven; for he maketh hearer, but a doer of the his fun to rife on the evil and work, this man shall be bleff- on the good, and fendeth rain ed in his deed. If any man on the just and on the unjust. among you seem to be reli- For if ye love them which gious, and bridleth not his love you, what reward have tongue, but deceiveth his ye? do not even the Publiown heart, this man's religion cans the fame? Or if ye falute is vain. Pure religion and your brethren only, what do undefiled before God and the ye more than others? do not Father is this: to visit the even the Publicans so? Be fatherless and widowsin their ye therefore perfect, even as affliction, and to keep him- your Father which is in heaself unspotted from the world. ven is perfect.

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The Master or Mistress having called together as many of the Family as can conveniently be present; let one of them, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling:

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Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trefpass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever.

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LMIGHTY and everlasting God, in whom we live and move and have our cially through the being; we, thy needy creatures, render thee our humble praises, for thy preservation of us from the beginning of our lives to this day, * and especially for having delivered us from the dangers of the past night. To thy watchful * When distur- providence we owe it, (* that no disturbance bances of any hind hath come nigh us or our dwelling; but, that steod of this, say, we are brought in safety to the beginning of that, notwithstand this day.) For these thy mercies, we bless are brought in safe- and magnify thy glorious Name; humbly of thithe beginning beseeching thee to accept this our morning • facrifice of praise and thanksgiving; for his fake who lay down in the grave, and rofe again for us, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Chrift.

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Prayer for grace UT, O God, who knowest the weak farmthat nogludion. and corruption of our nature, anc. od manifold temptations which we daily r with iwe humbly beseech thee to have compafsion on infirmities, and to give us the conftant afsistance of thy Hu up Spirit; that we may be effectually restrained from fin, an excited to our duty. Imprint upon our hearts such a drea of thy judgments, and such a grateful sense of thy goodne to us, as may make us both afraid and ashamed to offer thee. And, above all, keep in our minds a lively remè brance of that great Day, in which we must give a ftr account of our thoughts, words, and actions; and, accordin to the works done in the body, be eternally rewarded punished, by him whom thou hast appointed the Judge quick and dead, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

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* On Sunday condition. Give us grace to be just and Morning, instead of right in all our dealings; quiet and peacea' thy Holy Spirit ac- full of compassion; and ready to do goo place of thy pablie company us to the all men, according to our abilities and.op, worship, making us tunities. Direct us in all our ways (* Serious and rating profper the works of our hands in the bufin our minds from the of our feveral stations.) Defend us from al world to the consis dangers and adversities; and be gracioufl deration of the next, pleased to take us and all things belonging t vently join in the us under thy Fatherly care and protection prayers and praises These things and whatever else thou shalt fe listen to our duty neceffary and convenient to us, we hur - with honest hearts, beg, through the merits and mediation of th in order to practise Son Jesus Chrift our Lord and Saviour. Amer

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On Sundays and on other days, when it may be convenient, it will be proper to begin with a Chapter, or part of a Chapter, from the New Testament.

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To be used instead of the Psalms for the day, at the Discretion of the

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SELECTION I.

Pfalm xix. Celi enarrant.

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HE heavens declare the of God; and the firmament showethhis handy

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One day telleth another; and one night certifieth another. There is neither speech nor language; but their voices are heard among them.

Their found is gone out into all lands; and their words into the ends of the world.

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More to be defired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and the honey-comb.

Moreover, by them is thy servant taught; and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Who can tell how oft he offendeth? O cleanse thou me from my fecret faults. Keep thy fervant also from presumptuous sins, left they

In them hath he fet a taber- get the dominion over me. nacle for the fun; which co- Let the words of my mouth, meth forth as abridegroomout and the meditation of my of his chamber, and rejoiceth heart, be alway acceptable in as a giant to run his course. thy fight,

It goeth forth from the ut- O Lord, my strength, and termoft part of the heaven, and my Redeemer. runneth about unto the end of Pfalm xxiv. Domini eft terra. it again; and there is nothing HE earth is hid from the heat thereof. the Lord's, and all that therein is;

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The law of the Lord is an the compass of the world, and undefiled law, converting the they that dwell therein. foul; the teftimony of the For he hath founded it upLord is fure, and giveth wif- on the seas, and prepared it dom unto the fimple. upon the floodstr

The ftatutes of the Lord Who shall ascend into the are right, and rejoice the hill of the Lord? or who shall heart the commandment of rise up in his holy place? the Lord is pure, and giveth Even he that hath clean light unto the eyes.er bes en The fear of the Lord is that hath not lift up his mind hands, and a pure hearts and clean, and endureth forever; unto vanity, nor worn to dethe judgments of the Lord are ceive his neighbour. true, and righteous altogether.

He shall receive the blessing from

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