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all, for thine ineftimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jefus Chrift; for the means of Grace, and for the hope of Glory; and we befeech thee give us that due fenfe of all

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thy mercies, that our hearts may feignedly thankful, and that we may fhew forth thy praife, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up ourfelves to thy fervice, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteoufnefs all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, world without end. Aæen.

(5thly.) O God, who knoweft us to be fet in the midft of fo many and great dangers, that by reafon of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright; grant to us fuch ftrength and protection, as may fupport us in all

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dangers, and carry us through all temptations, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

(Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany.)

Or this (5thly) O God the protector of all them that truft in thee, without whom nothing is ftrong, nothing is holy; increafe and multiply upon us thy mercy, that thou being our ruler and guide, we may fo pafs through things temporal, that we finally lofe not the thign eternal: grant this, O Heavenly Father, for Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

(Fourth Sunday after Trinity.)

(6thly.) Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven, give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trespass against us,

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and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from (the) evil (being); for thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

(7thly.) Unto thy gracious mercy and protection, O God, we commit ourselves this night and evermore.-O Lord blefs us and keep us.-Lord make thy face to fhine upon us, and be gracious unto us. Lord lift up thy countenance upon us, and give us peace, both now and everAmen.

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APPENDIX II.

(MEMORANDUM S.)

ON DIET OR TEMPERANCE.

CAPTAIN FOREST, in the Account of his Voyage to New Guinea, page 300, speaking of the Malays of Magindano, fays, "They are moderate in eating and "drinking, and delicate in the choice "of the beft and fineft rice, as Eaft In"dians generally are. I have often "feen placed before Rajah Moodo, befides his difh of boiled rice, two or three ounces of boiled pumpkin, on one tea is faucer and about two ounces of dried or falt fish on another. This, with a

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