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FAMILY PRAYERS.

FIRST MORNING PRAYER.

O MOST glorious and gracious God, whose kind providence has protected us through the night, and brought us in peace to meet together this morning; assist us, we earnestly beseech thee, to present our unfeigned praises and thanksgivings, and to unite in fervent prayer and supplication before thy mercy-seat.

But who are we, O thou high and lofty One, that inhabitest eternity, whose name is Holy, that we should venture into thy awful presence? Even the Seraphim veil their faces in deep humility, when they present their adorations before thy throne and we are not only immensely beneath them in our nature, but, alas! we have been guilty of base ingratitude for thy bounties, and of multiplied acts of rebellion against thee, our Creator and Sovereign. "We have forsaken thee, the "Fountain of living waters," to seek happiness from the "broken cisterns" of earthly enjoyments and possessions. We have proudly rejected thy easy yoke, and become slaves to divers lusts and pleasures. We have refused thee that reasonable

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22. On a supposed new Cross :' 1816.....

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27. On" the world" which Christians renounce: 1817 439
28. On the Institution and Obligation of the Sabbath:
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443 29. On Luther's translation of the Bible: 1818.... 468 30. On the Faith of ancient Believers: 1819...... 471 x. FROM THE JEWISH REPOSITORY, 1814.......... 475 1. Reply to the Paper of a Jew, on the cxth Psalm,

and St. Matthew's Genealogy of Christ.......... 475 2. Defence of the preceding Paper......

481

xi. FROM THE SAILOR'S MAGAZINE: A Letter on the

exertions made for the good of Seamen: 1820.... 491

III. POSTHUMOUS PIECES......

495

i. Notes of a Sermon on Rom. xv. 29; as taken and published by the Rev. D. Wilson, A. M................

497

ii. Notes of a Sermon on 2 Cor. xii. 16: ditto........ 511 iii. The Vanity of Youth: a Funeral Sermon: 1818.... 531 INDEX... 553

FAMILY PRAYERS.

1796.

VOL. X.

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