Early in the Morning.

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, (πρωΐ ἔννυχον λίαν ἀναστὰς) he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.-St. Mark i. 35. Early in the morning do I cry unto thee.-Ps. cxix. 147.

1.-God turneth the shadow of death into the morning and reneweth the face of the earth.

2.-I laid me down and slept, and rose up again : for the Lord sustained me.

3. His compassions fail not: they are new every morning.

4.-Blot out as the night, O Lord, all my transgressions and scatter my sins as the morning cloud. 5.-0 let me hear thy loving-kindness betimes in the morning, for in thee is my trust: shew thou me the way that I should walk in, for I lift up my soul unto thee.

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6. O Lord, preserve my going out and my coming in: from this time forth for evermore.

7. Let thy Presence go with me throughout this day and do thou give me rest.

8. And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon me: prosper thou the work of my hands upon me, O prosper thou my handywork.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end.-Amen.

Prayer.

Lord, I wait upon thee: renew thou my strength, I beseech thee, that I may mount up with wings like the eagle, even with the wings of prayer and holy meditation ;-that I may lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset me, and may run with patience the race that is set before me, looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of my faith. Fix thou the eyes of my mind upon him as my righteousness, my strength, and my example; and so support me in all the dangers and carry me through all the temptations of this day; for his sake and merits.-Amen. Our Father, &c.

Now unto Him that is able to keep me from falling, and to present me faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God, our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever.-Amen.

The Night Season.

I have thought upon thy Name, O Lord, in the night-season.— Psalm cxix. 55. My mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips, when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.-Psalm lxiii. 5. 6.

At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God.-Acts xvi. 25.

Confession.

Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and before Thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. And Thou, O Christ my Saviour, Saviour of sinners of whom I am the chief, cast me not away for mine iniquities, cast me not away, good Lord; cast me not away, who am the price of thy Blood, who am called by thy Name and signed with thy Mark, but look upon me with those thine eyes with which of old thou lookedst upon Magdalen at the banquet, upon Peter in the High Priest's Palace, upon the malefactor on the Cross, that with the malefactor I may humbly

call upon thee, Lord, remember me in thy Kingdom; -that with Peter I may weep bitterly and say, O that mine eyes were a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night; that with Magdalen, I may hear thee say, Thy sins are forgiven thee, and that with her I may love thee much, because many and manifold are the sins forgiven me. O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, have mercy upon me a miserable sinner. Leave me not, O Lord, to the devices of my own heart, but strive still with my perverseness, for Jesus Christ's sake, my Lord and Saviour.-Amen.

Collect.

(Second Sunday in Lent.)

ALMIGHTY God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord.- Amen,

Hymn.

I.

WHEN the soft dews of kindly sleep
My wearied eyelids gently steep,

Be my last thought, how sweet to rest
For ever on my Saviour's breast.

II.

Abide with me from morn till eve,

For without thee I cannot live;
Abide with me when night is nigh,

For without Thee I dare not die.

III.

If some poor wandering child of Thine
Have spurn'd to-day the voice divine,
Now, Lord, the gracious work begin;

Let him no more lie down in sin.

IV.

Watch by the sick; enrich the poor
With blessings from Thy boundless store;

Be every mourner's sleep to-night

Like infant's slumbers, pure and light.

V.

Come near and bless us when we wake,

Ere through the world our way we take :

Till, in the ocean of Thy love,

We lose ourselves in heaven above.