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adoption, and inheritance of the Sons of God.

Let me worship and serve thee, my Lord, on account of thy conception, in faith; on account of thy birth, in humility:

On account of thy sufferings, in patience, and an irreconcileable hatred of sin; on account of thy cross, by crucifying my affections and lusts; on account of thy death, by dying unto the flesh:

On account of thy burial, by burying evil thoughts and suggestions, under the prevailing oppositions of those that are good:

On account of thy descent, by frequent meditations on Death and

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On account of thy resurrection, by walking in newness of life:

On account of thy ascent into Heaven, by setting my affections on things above:

On account of thy sitting at the right hand of the Father, by preferring the happiness of Heaven in all my thoughts and designs:

On account of thy return from thence, by a constant godly fear of that second coming:

And on account of thy judging the world, by judging myself in time, that I may not be condemned by my judge.

Let my belief in thee, O Holy Ghost, be such as may qualify me to partake of all thy necessary and saving inspirations;

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Let my faith in the Church entitle me to a part in its calling and election, to sanctification in its holiness, to membership in its universality, to fellowship with the Saints, by sharing in their prayers and sacraments, in their watchings and fastings, in their holy sighs and tears, and if thy providence shall call me to them, in their afflictions and sufferings; by all these establishing me in a firm assurance of the forgiveness of sins, of the resurrection from death, and of translation to immortal glory.

THOU, who art the Hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.

O thou,

O thou, in whom our fathers trusted, and thou didst deliver them, in whom they placed their hopes, and were not confounded.

O thou, who wast also my hope when I hanged yet upon my mother's breast, and to whose care I have been left ever since I was born; be thou still, and evermore, my hope, and my portion, in the land of the living.

Confirm my mind more and more, by the goodness of thy nature, by the endearments of thy titles, by thy types and thy figures, by thy word and by thy works; and, having thus attained to a peaceful resting and reliance upon thee, Lord, let me not at last be disappointed of my hope.

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An ACT of INTERCESSION.

LORD, on whom the eyes of all do wait, remember every creature of thine for good; and visit the whole world with thy mercy.

O thou preserver and lover of men, think graciously upon mankind, and as thou hast concluded all under sin and unbelief, so let thy pity and pardon extend to all.

O thou, who for this end didst both die, and rise, and revive, that thou mightest be the Lord both of the dead and living; since, whether we live, or whether we die, still we are thine,, O Lord; let thy mercy be ever upon us, both in life and in death.

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