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quity, that I may abftain from every Kind and Sort of Evil.

Give me, O Lord, a new Heart, new Affections, and new Defires; that I may love thee with more fincerity, and ferve thee with greater Faithfulness than I have ever yet done:

Convince me of the Vanity and Uncertainty of all Things here below, and grant that I may make thee my only Joy and my Delight, my Stay and my Truft, my Guide and my Counsellor; and be fo delighted with the Ways of thy Commandments, that one Day in thy Service may be dearer to me, than a thousand spent in Vantiy and Folly.

Teach me, O Lord, fo to number my Days, that I may apply my Heart unto true Wisdom; and grant that in the Days of Health and Profperity, I may confider my latter End, and remember and provide for that great Account which I must one Day give before the Judgment-feat of Chrift; that when the Hour of my Departure fhall come, I may meet Death without Fear and Amazement; and with a well grounded Hope of thy Mercy and Goodnefs, may chearfully refign up my Soul into thy Hands, and may be willing, and even defirous to leave this World, when thou my

God, in thy great Wisdom, fhall fee it fitting.

O Lord! let me never be separated from thee! but grant that I may be of the Number of thy faithful and obedient Servants, who are united to thee by grace and good Works in this Life, and will hereafter live with thee in endless Blifs and Happiness; through the Merits, and for the Sake of thy beloved Son Jefus Christ, our Lord and only Saviour.

O Lord, to thy merciful Providence I commend the Wants and Neceffities of all Mankind; caufe the Light of thy glorious Gospel to fhine in all the dark Corners of the Earth. In a more especial Manner, I pray for the Good and Welfare of this Church and Nation to which I belong, befeeching thee to pardon all our Sins, to turn away thy Displeasure from us, and to make us a peculiar People zealous of good Works.

Protect and defend our Sovereign Lord the King, and grant that under him we may lead quiet and peaceable Lives, in all Godlinefs and Honefty.

Blefs the Work of Faith, and Labour of Love, of all thofe who zealously endeavour to ftop the Torrent of Vice, and to pro

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Hear the Cry of the Poor and Needy, give Eafe to thofe who are under any Affliction of Mind or Body, and lay not more upon them than thou wilt enable them to bear.

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I pray thee in a more especial Manner, to be gracious to all my Friends and Relations, and more particularly to Lord! thou art thoroughly acquainted with all our Wants, O vouchfafe to give us what thou feeft best and most fitting both for our Souls and Bodies.

Accept, O merciful Father, of my unfeigned Praises for all thy Bleffings fpiritual and temporal.

My Health and Safety, and all the Comforts of my Life, proceed from thy Bounty and Goodness: To thee, therefore I afcribe all poffible Praife and Thanksgiving, humbly befeeching thee to grant me the Continuance of thy Mercy and Goodnefs.

Take me and and all that belong to me, this Night, under the Care and Protection of thy good Providence. Preferve us from all the Perils and Dangers, and all Apprehenfion or Dread of any. Give us fuch refreshing Reft and Sleep, as may fit

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us for the Duties of the Day following; and if thou art pleafed to add another Day to our Lives, grant that we make a right Ufe and Improvement of it, to thy Glory, and the Benefit of our Immortal Souls, through Jefus Christ our Lord, who in Compaffion to our Infirmities, hath taught us thus to pray,

Our Father, &c.

A Prayer for Saturday Morning.

O MOST bleffed and moft Glorious Lord God, who art of infinite Goodness and Mercy! I thy Creature whom thou haft made, and to this Moment has preferved, do now prefent myself before thee, to offer up the Morning Sacrifice of my unfeigned Praises and Thanksgivings; thy Mercies are renewed to me every Morning, and thy Goodnefs follows me all the Day long; thou vifiteft me in the Night Seafon, and every Moment of my Life is a new Inftance of thy Mercy.

It is by thy Goodness, O Lord, that I have this Night Slept fecure, and am now raifed up in Health and Safety. Praised therefore be thy Name, O God, for of thee only cometh my Salvation; thou art

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the God of my Health, my Saviour, and mighty Deliverer; as long as I live I will magnify thee, O Lord, for a joyful and pleafant Thing it is to be thankful. O give me a Heart always tuned to thy Praifes, which is my Happinefs as well as my Duty.

Imprint on my Mind such a deep Senfe of thy Mercies, that I may never provoke thee to withdraw thy Favours from me. Let not the Bleffings thou beftoweft on me, make me in Love with this World: Let neither Covetoufnefs nor Ambition; neither Pride nor Vanity; neither a Contempt of others, nor a fond Conceit of myself, be the Effects of thy Loving-kindnefs towards me: but endue me with fuch an humble and contented Mind, such a meek and refigned Spirit, fuch a quiet and peaceable Temper and Behaviour, as becomes a Creature and a Sinner. O let the Confideration of my Unworthinefs suppress in me all proud, and aspiring Thoughts, and all covetous and ambitious Defires; that being meek and lowly in my own Eyes, I may find Reft unto my Soul, and be filled with that Grace, which thou haft promised to the Humble.

Fit and prepare me, O Lord, for every Condition and Change, but especially for my great and laft Change. Strengthen my

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