336 PRAYERS FOR CHILDREN. that wherein I have done amiss to-day, I may do better on the morrow.-2. Help nie to remember my- Creator in the days of my youth. Let me think often of God and heavenly things, and never forget the most useful lessons that are taught me daily. - 3. Bestow the best blessings of heaven and earth, on my dear father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and bless all my kindred. Bless our most excellent king with the whole family of princes. Preserve the protestant religion among us, and let ministers and people be all taught of God. -4. Make me love my friends with most hearty affection : Let medo good to all, and never hate them that hurt me, but forgive them as I hope God will forgive me.-5. Watchover meall this night, and stand by nie while 1 sleep, and then no evil can come near me : Cause me to awake in the morning in health and safety : and when- soever my body dies, let my soul live for ever in thy heavenly kingdom. Thanksgiving. O that I could praise thee as I should do, for the mercies which relate to my soul as well as my body; I would praise thee for my life and my health; for my daily bread and myclothing, for friends who provide for me and instruct me and for every good thing that thou givest me, by night and by day, in this world, and for any hopes of happiness in the world to come. Pleading in the name of Christ. Lord, hear the prayers of a poor child, for the sake of Jesus Christ thySon, for he encou- raged children to come to him, when he was on earth, that ha might bless them. Here he died to procure the blessing for them, and he lives in heaven to bestow it. O may I meet him with joy, when hè returns to raise the dead, and to judge all the world. Doxology or. blessing. Now to him that is able to do for us, exceeding abundantly above what we can ask or think, he glary through Jesus Christ to all ages. Amen. Or, this doxology may be here used, viz. Now to him that is able, to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of his.glory, with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and for ever. Amen. Or, f' the next doxology be more pleasing: Worthy is the Sou of God, who is the Lamb that was slain, to receive blessing and praise, and honour, and glory, from every creature in heaven and earth. Amen. The yc .th's prayer for the Lord's-day morning and even- ing, is the same with the child's, so that 1 need not repeat it here. Or, if parents desire a new prayer for their children on ,the Lord's-day when they are grown a little older, they may teach them to use that which is made for several children or youths in company, changing " we" into " 1," and " us" into
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