344 .PRAYERS FOR CHILDREN. raiment, the daily supports of nature, together with the rich pro mises of grace and eternal salvation. To thee therefore, OLord, I pay all honour and praise. Blessing or doxology. And may the name of God my Fa- ther, my Saviour and my Sanctifier, be glorified to everlast- mg ages. _omen. An Evening Prayer for Young Persons. Invocation. Great and glorious Majesty, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hast encouraged us on his account, to call thee our God and our Father, look down from heaven the habitation of thy holiness, and take notice of a poor unworthy creature, who is come to bow down andworship this evening at thy footstool. Adoration. Thou art God, and there is none else ; the heavens and the earth were created by thy word : All things are ever within thy view, nor can the shadows of the night hide me from thine eye : Thou knowest all the works of my hands, and the secret thoughts of my heart. Confession. How shall a guilty rebel lift up his face to- ward thy throne ? If I had only the sitsof this day to account for, I must stand condemned in thy sight : for my heart has too often forgot God ; nor has my zeal and diligence in duty been answerable to the obligations thou hast laid upon me., The best of my services are too imperfect to deserve thy love, nor can all my obedience merit the pardon of one of my past tratsgressions. Petitions for one's self. I. But I lie at the door of thy mercy, O my God : I come to beg the forgiveness of all my innumerable offences, for the sake of that blessed atonement which the, Lord Jesus has made by the sacrifice of himself' Let my Crimes be washed away in his precious blood, and let a worthless sinner be accepted in thy beloved Son. 2. Spare me, O most gracious God, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. Cut me not off in the flower of my youth, though my sins have deserved it. Let me not go down to the grave in an unpardoned and unholy state, lest I be for ever miserable : Lengthen out my days to do more service for God and man, and to secure my best interest and my eternal hope. Spare my life, till thy grace has made me fitter for the hour of death. 3. Look into my heart, O Lord ; but alas, what a world of corruption and vanity wilt thou find there ! O take out thence every evil thought, and subdue every sinful inclination. Mortify all the vicious principles which thou seest in me. Let thy blessed Spirit renew -my soul, sanctifyall the powers of my nature, and make me holy as God is holy. ttitrcugtlten my pious resolutions under all the frailties of youth,
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