ways, and turn to the Lord, and bring forth fruits meet for repentance; and for his sake who was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities, Lord forgive, and heal my soul that has sinned against thee; and, in good time, repair the breaches made upon my body too, if it seem good in thy sight, and make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

If thou wilt, Lord, thou canst make me whole. O may it be thy gracious pleasure to work so wonderfully for me, and glorify thy power and mercy in my help and recovery; or, however thou shalt dispose of this vile body, grant me, O my God, an humble resignation to thy will, and satisfaction with thy dealings, and make this sad dispensation, which is so grievous for the time, gracious in the issue. O make it the messenger of thy love to my soul, and the means of converting and sanctifying it, and preparing it for the Lord, and fitting it to receive all the saving mercies of God, in Jesus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer for a Blind Man.

LORD our God, thou art light, and in thee is no darkness at all; thou hast created the light and the sun, and givest both the power of seeing and objects to be seen. It is a pleasant thing to behold the light; but of that sweet benefit thou hast thought fit to deprive thy servant. O, blessed be thy name, even taking away as well as giving, for thou art wise, and just, and good, in all every

thing that happens to us is of thy appointment, Lord of all, who hast made us, and mayest do what thou wilt with thy own: yet there is no unrighteousness with God; but whatever thou dost is meet and right to be done, though many of thy providential ways are here in the dark to all, as now all thy visible works are darkness to thy servant: yea, Lord, thou art gracious in all that thou bringest upon us; and canst bring the greatest good even out of the worst evil that befals us; and thou art infinitely better to all thy servants than their eyes, and the things that ever eyes beheld.

Thy servant here desires, with meekness and patience, to submit to thy heavy stroke; and confesses that thou art just in quenching that light of his eyes, which he did not use as he ought to thy glory.

But wilt thou, O gracious Lord, in judgment remember mercy; and bless to him this thy afflicting hand upon him, that it may promote his repentance and peace with God! and may cut off all the occasions of worse stumbling and falling, than any whereto his present darkness may expose him; that so many temptations, which enter in at the eyes, being taken away, he freed from those interruptions and distractions, may better attend on the Lord, and be more intent upon the concerns of the soul; and more curious and exact in looking inward to those things which are between God and his heart; and in pressing after a better light than that which thou hast taken from himn.

Lord, as thou hast shown thy sovereignty R

and justice in taking away his sight, so let thy, work of power and mercy be made manifest, both in ministering comforts to him, and enabling him contentedly and cheerfully to bear up under the loss; and also making it up to him so much a better way, that he may be a gainer by it in his spiritual affairs, and what pertains to his everlasting bliss. O good God! bring him out of sinful darkness into thy marvellous light, that he may be light in the Lord, though he want the light of this world.

O thou Father of lights, enlighten the eyes of his understanding, that he may see what is the hope of thy calling, and what the riches of the glory of thy inheritance in the saints, and what the mighty power of thy spirit, which works in them that do believe. Now that he cannot behold the temporal things, O that he may be more earnest in looking after the unseen things which are eternal, in looking to Jesus, and minding the things of his peace, and studying the mysteries of salvation, and the wonders of thy love, and the glories of thy kingdom. O that Giver of all grace; give him the eye of faith, and spiritual discerning, to see hit that is invisible, whom no mortal eye hath seen, or can see. Gracious Lord, discover thyself still more to him, and reveal thy Son in him, and teach and guide him, and entertain. han with thoughts and considerations pertinent to his conditions and let thy good Spirit, as a counsellor and comforter, still abide in him, and bring to his mind, an work up his heart, all things that shall make for his edification and

encourrgement in thy holy ways, have compassion upon him, O Lord, and be gracious and kind to him, and do all that thou knowest needful and good for him, and lead him, and help him on continually, till in thy light he shall see light, and have his eyes opened at the last, to see the splendour of thy kingdóm, and all the joy of thy salvation; yea to see thy glorious face, to see thee as thou art, and to know as he is known in that heavenly presence of thine, where is fulness of joy; there to be ever with the Lord, and to enjoy thy sight and love, and blessed Self, world without end. Amen.

A Prayer under grievous Pains.

LORD, thou art a merciful God, and dost not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men but when the necessity of our case calls for sharp applications; thou chastisest us for our profit, that we may be partakers of thy bliss. O that it may be in such mercy to the soul of thy servant, that thy hand is so hard upon him at present: now that thou hast cast him into the furnace, O that it may be a mean to purge out his dross, and to fit him for thy acceptable use and service. O that he may learn such things in the school of affliction as may stand him in stead, and do him good for ever.

But thou, O God of consolation, who knowest our frame, and how little it is that we can endure, though it be so much that we de serve, be pleased to remember him in mercy; and make his sufferings. less, or thy grace in him, and his patience and spiritual strength gre ater

than all his sufferings. O take the load off him or lighten it to him, or enable him to bear what thou art pleased to lay upon him. Lord, all his desires are before thee, and his groaning is not hid from thee. O regard his affliction when thou hearest his cry; and enter not into judgment with him according to the desert of his sins; but according to thy mercy remember thou him, for thy goodness sake in Jesus Christ. O gracious Father, sanctify to him what thou hast laid upon him, that the present sore evil may have a comfortable issue, and work for his spiritual and eternal good; and the Lord support, and bear him up under it, and bring him safe and happily out of it, to the glory of thy name; and however thou shalt deal with him, O good Lord, suppress all his repinings at thy dealings, that he inay not so sin as to charge God foolishly, who never dost the thing but what is most righteous and fit to be done; yet, nothing but what thy servant shall once have cause to bless thee for doing: but teach and help him to glorify God in the time of his visitation, by his humble submission to thy will, his patient abiding of thy hand, and his faithful reformation under it, that thou mayest return with the visitations of thy love, and restore ease and comfort to him, and shew him the joy of thy salvation, for thy own mercy's sake in Jesus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer under dangerous Sickness.

LORD God Almighty, and ever blessed, in whom we all'ever live, and move, and!