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Heart hath fent up, as the Homage due to thy Perfections and Goodness, be acceptable to Thee. And reject not the Interceffions I have made for the temporal and eternal happiness of all my Fellow-Creatures.

And now, O Lord, Take me, I once more entreat Thee, into thy powerfull and wife Protection: and guide me, by the Dif pofitions of thy Providence, and good Spirit, to the perfect knowledge and performance of thy Holy Will here; and to the enjoyment of that eternal and unalterable happinefs hereafter, which thou haft referved for thy faithfull Servants, and promised by thy Well-beloved Son, Jefus Chrift. In his Name, and as his Difciple, I trust for Acceptance of my felf, and all my fincere, though imperfect, fervices: And in his Words I continue to entreat thy Mercy towards Myself, and all whom I am obliged to pray for.

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

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them that trespass against us. And lead us not into Temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

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LORD, perfect in Wisdom,
Goodness, and Power; glorious
in all that can be truly called
Perfection; We thy Creatures,

and thy Servants, proftrate our felves before Thee, in the deepest Sense of our own unworthiness, and of thy lovely and incomprehenfible Perfections: Acknowledging the Glories of thy Nature, as it is in itself; and thy great Goodness to Us, and to the whole World of thy Creatures.

We are truly fenfible of the great happinefs of knowing Thee; and of imitating Thee; and of enjoying the communications of thy favour hereafter: upon which accounts, it highly becomes Us to praise Thee R 3

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for that Act of Goodnefs in our Creation, by which Thou haft endowed us with Faculties fitted for the attainment of this unspeakable happiness; and for the enjoyment of the highest Good hereafter,

We praise Thee for thy great Goodness in our preservation here, ever fince We were brought into Being: not only as it refpects this World, in which We now live; but as by it We are enabled to make the better provision for our everlasting interest in the World to come; and have greater opportunities of improving our Souls in Virtue, and of fecuring our happiness for ever. More particularly We now bless Thee for the care of thy Providence over us, by which We have been preferved in fafety through the paft [Day, or Night,] and mercifully defended from all dangers, and diftreffes.

It becomes us likewise to acknowledge thy bounty and goodnefs, manifefted to us through every part of our lives, to this time; to thank Thee for that measure of Health, and Strength, and Quiet, which We have hitherto enjoyed; for the Comforts and Supports of all thofe neceffaries and conveniences, without which We fhould be much

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more unhappy in this State, than We now are; and for all other circumstances and advantages of Life, which help to make our Paffage through this World more happy, or more tolerable, than otherwife ic could be.

But above all, We blefs and magnify thy great and glorious Name for thy tender regards to our everlasting Happiness in a better State hereafter: for fending thy Son into the World to declare to us the certainty of a future State of Rewards and Punishments; and for all that He did, and taught, and fuffer'd, in order to reconcile Mankind to Thee; and to guide Us all to eternal life and glory for the great happinefs of a good and virtuous Education; and for those peculiar difpofitions of thy Providence which have often guarded Us from many particular and hazardous Trials and Temptations. For these, and for all other thy mercies, which concern our great and eternal Intereft, We fincerely thank Thee, O Lord, and will ever praise thy Holy Name...

It is with fhame and grief that we reflect upon the Returns we have made to so much mercy. We confefs, O Lord, that We have not lived as becomes reafonable Creatures

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