knows how we spend the week, and, though it was of His grace alone that we had any heart to love Him, He will yet count the love as ours, and so reward it at the last day. A PRAYER TO SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN. Kettlewell. O blessed Jesus, who in Thy wise providence thinkest it fit sometimes to call Thy faithful servants to bear their cross, and to suffer for Thy sake, who didst suffer a most ignominious death for them, bring me not to suffer till Thou hast fitted and prepared me for it; and lay no more upon me than Thou wilt enable me willingly and thankfully to endure. Let me not rashly expose myself to danger without Thy call, nor suffer for my own fancy or folly, or for any wilful or affected error. Give me grace to live according to the rules of my most holy faith, that I may have courage and comfort in suffering for it. Preserve me steadfast in the belief of Thy heavenly truths, and undaunted in the profession of them. Give me patience to bear my cross, and meekness to bear with my persecutors; charity to forgive their wrongs, and to pray to Thee for their forgiveness. Enable me to trust in Thy goodness for support and deliverance, and to fix my faith upon those heavenly joys, with which the sufferings of this life are not worthy to be compared; that being made partaker of Thy sufferings, I may be glad with exceeding joy when Thy glory shall be revealed. To whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, world without end, Amen. No. 18. SCRIPTURE TRACTS FOR THE FASTS AND FESTIVALS. Good Friday. BY A LAYMAN. "Christ died for us :" "He died for all," "For all have sinned;" "And he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." 2 Cor. v. "Therefore present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."-Rom. v. xii. 1 John ii. LONDON: J. G. F. AND J. RIVINGTON. STRONG, BRISTOL; COMBE, LEICESTER. PRINTED BY H. AND A. HILL, CASTLE GREEN, BRISTOL. MDCCCXL. Price Three-Halfpence, or 1s. 3d. per Dozen. HYMN. Cleft are the rocks, the earth doth quake, Lo, nature's face of beaming light The Mighty One, the Son of God, Oh let us cast each vice away, Which thus the Son of God could slay! So may we join the song of love Anonymous. Good Friday. PSALMS Xxii. xl. liv. lxix. lxxxviii. My God, my God, look upon me; why hast thou forsaken me? All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying, He trusted in God, that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, if he will have him. They pierced my hands and my feet; I may tell all my bones; they stand staring and looking upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. They gave me gall to eat, and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink. Thy rebuke hath broken my heart, I am full of heaviness; I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darkness, and in the deep. LESSONS. Gen. xxii. to v. 20. Isaiah liii. John xviii. 1 Pet. ii. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison, and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence; neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was |