will praise him secretly and publicly, and pay unto the uses of Charity [or Religion, then name the sum you design for holy uses]. O my God, my goods are nothing unto thee. I will also be thy servant all the days of my life, and remember this mercy and my present purposes, and live more to God's glory, and with a stricter duty. And do thou please to accept this Vow as an instance of my importunity, and the greatness of my needs: and be thou, graciously, moved to pity and deliver me, Amen.

A Prayer before a Journey.

O ALMIGHTY God, who fillest all things with thy presence, and art a God afar off as well as near at hand; thou didst send thy Angel to bless Jacob in his journey, and didst lead the children of Israel through the Red Sea, making it a wall on the right hand and on the left; be pleased to let thy Angel go out before me and guide me in my journey, preserving me from dangers of robbers, from violence of enemies, and sudden and sad accidents, from falls and errors. And prosper my journey to thy glory, and to all my innocent purposes: and preserve me from all sin, that I may return in peace and holiness, with thy favor and thy blessing, and may serve thee in thankfulness and obedience all the days of my pilgrimage; and at last bring me to thy country, to the celestial Jerusalem, there to dwell in thy house, and to sing praises to thee for ever. Amen.

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For a Relation or Friend on a Journey, Voyage, &c.

O ALMIGHTY God, most gracious and most merciful, who art a God afar off as well as nigh at hand, and hast sent thy ministring Angels to minister good to them that shall be heirs of Salvation; be thou pleased to send thy holy Angel before this thy servant, to defend him from the heat of the day, and the cold of the night, from the arrow that flies at noon, and the evil Spirits that walk in darkness, from errors and falls, from precipices and fracture of bones, from [pirates and] robbers, from evil intentions, and evil accidents, from violent weather and violent fears, from all impressions of evil men, and evil spirits; let his journey be safe and useful to thy servant, comfortable to his relatives, holiness to the Lord, and glory to thy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Prayer against Fear of Death, God's Anger, Despair, &c.

O ETERNAL God, most gracious Father, in much mercy and compassion, behold me thy servant, loaden with my sins, encompassed with infirmity, assaulted by enemies without, and apt to be betrayed by my own weaknesses within. If I am cheerful, I am apt to be careless of my duty;

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if I am sad, I am too ready to distrust Thee, and to sink under the burden of those calamities, which, by my sins, I have deserved. O God, I confess with sorrow and shame, and I resolve often to give myself entirely to thy service, but I am so perpetually beaten with the violent tempests and storms of passion, that all my hopes, and all my fears, grow inactive and useless, and are overcome by them, and sink under my own evil customs and infirmities. And, under this state of infelicity, I groan and labor, and to Thee I, humbly, make my complaint; for Thou art my hope and my strength, my rock and my might, my Saviour and defender, my support and my deliverer. O hear the urgent and lamentable cries of thy humble and afflicted servant, and give me ease from my greatest sorrows. Give me a cheerful heart, and a serene spirit; a love of thy mercies, and a horror of thy judgments; an infinite desire to please Thee, and a great fear to offend Thee; and though I humbly desire of thy glorious goodness, to secure and promote my eternal interest by what instruments thou pleasest, yet because thou art my Father, and my merciful God, I beg of thy infinite goodness to take care of my infirmities, and to pity my weaknesses; and make my religion to be pleasant to me; that nothing may tempt me from thee, and prevail in the days of my weaknesses and disadvantage.

O blessed God, be pleased to give me a perfect repentance for all my sins; and admit me to a full pardon, and not only so, but, if it be thy gracious

will, consign this my pardon by: some testimony from Heaven, by a holy and a humble hope,, hy a strong faith, and a cheerful spirit,' by joy in God, and a command over my passions, by meekness and charity, by forgiving every one that troubles me, and every one that offends me. O God, my God, give to thy servant an excellent Religion, and a devout spirit, and grant that I may take great pleasure in thy service, in obedience to my spiritual superiors, in doing the works of that duty to which Thou hast called me in my present state of life; and never suffer me to fall into a despairing or an amazed conscience, into the evils of a tedious or impatient, a wounded or an afflicted spirit: but grant that rejoicing in thee evermore, and delighting in doing my duty, in mortifying my passions, in loving and serving my relatives, and friends, I may be preserved in thy fear and thy favor, and nothing may be able to separate me from the love of God, in Christ Jesus. Amen.

O blessed Saviour, take from thy servant all inordinate fear of death, and give me a great desire after Heaven, and heavenly things :'and when thou shalt call me from this world, conduct me by the graces and comforts of thy holy Spirit, evenly and holily, certainly and cheerfully, to the regions of hope and joy, that in thy arms I may expect and long for the day of recompences, and of thy glorious appearing. O God, hear the prayer and most passionate desires of thy servant: and since thou hast commanded us in the time of need to come

with boldness to the throne of Grace, grant that I may be accepted by thy mercies and loving kindness, through the merits and intercession of my Lord, in whom I desire to live, and for whom I will not refuse to die, our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus, to whom with thee, O blessed Father and most Holy Spirit, I humbly give all honor, and thanks, and glory, and love, and service; and desire to do so for ever. Amen.

Prayer for seasonable Weather, &c.

O LORD God, whose Providence is universal, and sufferest nothing to happen in vain, have mercy upon thy servants, who have deserved thy wrath, and to suffer thy indignation in every expression by which thou art pleased to signify it. Thou, O God, coverest the heaven with clouds, and preparest rain for the earth; thou makest the grass to grow upon the mountains, and herb for the use of men: Thou givest fodder unto the cattle, and feedest the young ravens that call upon thee; hear us, O God, who are thy servants, and the sheep of thy pasture; we have indeed wandered and gone astray, but do thou be merciful unto us, and bring us home to thee. Take away thine anger from us. Bless the labors of the husbandman, and the fruits of the field, refresh the weary earth with seasonable showers [or, sea

According to the present need of rain or fair weather respectively.

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