Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: his being delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification. Make us more and more in love with that lowliness of mi ml, that tender and compassionate charity, that meekness, patience, and forgiveness, which shone in his sufferings; and subdue our will into such a quiet and ready submission to thy holy will in every thing, that our hope in thee may increase; and not only so, but that we may also joy in thee our offended Father, thro' our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we receive the atonement. Now unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Evening Meditation., Our Father which art in heaven.?Matt. vi. g. The blessed Redeemer, who knew his Father's thoughts of love towards man, presents him to us at the very brink of our prayers, under the expression of a Father; that that tender name might secure our love before we felt the awe of his majesty and glory And is he thy Father? why shouldst thou not, upon all occasions, resort to him ? Whither should a child go with boldness, if not to his father? aud to suchaFather as heispleased to render himself to us, with more tenderness and gentleness than lies within the bowels of a natural parent ? Can a woman, whose affections are most ardent, forget her child, ?- her sucking child ? yea, she may forget, yet will I not forget thee, saith the Lord. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim ? I taught Ephraim to go, leading him by the hand: Ephraim, like a weak child, was ready to stumble and fall upon every occasion, and, like a froward child, apt to snatch away his hand from him that led him; yet the affection of a father is not lost by the weakness or frowardness of a child. As an ..