A method of daily devotion fitted to the meanest capacities / by W. Assheton.

Morning Prayer for a Private Person.

I Bless and Praise thy Holy Name, most gracious God, for all thy mercies bestowed upon me, from the time of my Birth to this present mo∣ment. I thank thee for the Preservation of the last Night; and for the sweet Sleep and refreshment which I have enjoyed. O pardon and for∣give me my manifold Sins [particularly—here mention the greatest of thy Sins.] I am truly sorry that I have offend∣ed thee; and fully do resolve to do so no more. Assist me this day in the Works of my Cal∣ling; and prosper all my law∣ful

Undertakings. Give me Grace to be true and just in all my Dealings; and to do un∣to all men, as I would they should do unto me. Help me to be contented with my pre∣sent Condition. To be dili∣gent in all my Duties. Watch∣ful against all Temptations. So humble and modest, chast and temperate, and so mode∣rate in my most lawful En∣joyments, that they never be∣come a Snare to me. Lord, I live here in a troublesome sinful World: But do thou take me into thy Protection, and then I am safe; Guide me by thy Counsel here, and at last bring me to thy Glo∣ry. And this I humbly beg for the sake of Jesus Christ, my dear Lord and only Savi∣our,

who hath taught me thus to pray,

Our Father, &c.

After Break-fast (at which the greatest part of the Houshold are supposed to be present) let the Master of the Family, or some other by his appointment, di∣stinctly and devoutly read this, or the like, following Prayer.