Understanding is very deceivable, O establish it in thy Truth; keep it from the Snares of feducing Spirits, that I may not be led away with the Error of the Wicked, and fall from my own Stedfaftnefs: My Will alfo, O Lord, is irrefolute and wavering, and doth not cleave stedfaftly unto God: My Goodness is but as the Morning Cloud, and as the early Dew it pafleth away. Oftrengthen and

confirm me, and whatever good Work thou hast wrought in me, be pleafed to accomplish and perform it until the Day of Chrift. Lord, thou feest my Weakness, and thou knoweft the Number and Strength of thofe Temptations I have to struggle with. O leave me not to myself, but cover thou my Head in the Day of Battle, and in all spiritual Combats make me more than Conqueror, through him that loved me. O let no Terrors or Flatteries, either of the World, or my own Flesh, ever draw me from my Obedience to thee; but grant that I may continue ftedfaft, unmovable, always abounding in the Work of the Lord; and by patient continuing in Well-doing, feek, and at last obtain Glory, and Honour, and Immortality, and eternal Life, through Jefus Chrift our Lord.

SUNDAY

A Brief

PARAPHRASE

OF THE

LORD'S PRAYER,

To be used as a Prayer.

[Our Father which art in Heaven]

LORD, who dwelleft in the highest Heavens, thou art the Author of our Being;

thou haft alfo begotten us again unto a lively Hope, and carrieft towards us the Tenderness and Bowels of a compaffionate Father; O make us to render to thee the Love and Obedience of Children; and that we may resemble thee our Father in Heaven, (that Place of true Delight and Purity) give us a holy Difdain of all the deceitful Pleafures and foul Pollutions of this World, and fo raife up our Minds, that we may always have our Conversation in Heaven, from whence we look for our Saviour the Lord Jefus Chrift.

[1. Hallowed be thy Name.]

Trike fuch an Awe in our Hearts, that we may

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humbly reverence thee in thy Name, which is great, wonderful, and holy; and carry fuch a facred Refpect to all Things that relate to thee and thy Worship, as may exprefs our Reverence to thy great Majefty. Let all the People praise thee, O God: let all the People praise thee.

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[2. Thy Kingdom come.]

Stablifh thy Throne, and rule for ever in our Souls, and by the Power of thy Grace fubdue all thofe rebellious Corruptions that exalt themselves, against thee: They are thofe Enemies of thine, which would not thou fhouldeft reign over them. O let them be brought forth and flain before thee; and make us fuch faithful Subjects of this thy Kingdom of Grace, that we may be capable of the Kingdom of Glory; and then, Lord Jefus, come quickly.

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[3. Thy Will be done in Earth, &c.]

Nable us by thy Grace chearfully to fuffer thy Will in all our Afflictions, and readily perform it in all thy Commands: Give us of that heavenly Zeal to thy Service, wherewith the bleffed Angels of thy Prefence are infpired, that we may obey thee with the like Fervour and Alacrity; and that following them in their Obedience, we may be joined with them to fing eternal Praises in thy Kingdom, to God, and to the Lamb, for ever.

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[4. Give us this Day, &c.]

IVE us that continual Supply of thy Grace, which may fuftain and nourish our Souls unto.. eternal Life. And be thou pleafed alfo to provide for our Bodies all thofe Things which thou feeft fit for their Support, through this our earthly Pilgrimage; and make us chearfully to reft on thee for them, firft feeking thy Kingdom, and the Righteousness thereof, and then not doubting but all thefe Things shall be added unto us.

[5. Forgive us our Trefpaffes.]

EAL our Souls, O Lord, for we have finned

towards us in the Forgiveness of all our Offences; and grant, O Lord, that we may never forfeit this Pardon of thine, by denying ours to our Brethren; but give us those Bowels of Compaffion to others, which we ftand in fo much greater Need of from thee, that we may forgive as fully and finally upon Chrift's Command, as we defire to be forgiven, for his Merits and Interceffion.

[6. Lead us not into Temptation.]

Lord, we have no Strength against those Multitudes of Temptations that daily affault us,. only our Eyes are upon thee; O be thou pleased either to restrain them, or affift us, and in thy Faithfulness fuffer us not to be tempted above that we are able: but in all our Temptations make us

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a Way to escape, that we be not overcome by them, but may, when thou fhalt call us to it, refift even unto Blood, striving against Sin, that being faithful unto Death, thou mayeft give us the Crown of Life.

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[7. For thine is the Kingdom, &c.]

Ear us, and graciously answer our Petitions: For thou art the Great King over all the Earth, whofe Power is infinite, and art able to do for us above all that we can ask or think, and to whom belongeth the Glory of all that Good thou workeft in us, or for us: Therefore Bleffing, Honour, Glory and Power, be unto him that fitteth upon the Throne, to our God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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