Lord, lift thou up the Light of thy Countenance upon me.

Comfort the Soul of thy Servant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my Soul.

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Thanksgiving.

Will always give Thanks unto the Lord, his Praise fhall ever be in my Mouth. Thou art my God, and I will thank thee; thou art my God, and I will praise thee.

I will fing unto the Lord as long as I live; I will praife my God whilft I have my Being. Praised be God, which hath not caft out my Prayer, nor turned his Mercy from me. Bleffed be the Lord God, even the God of Ifrael, which only doth wondrous Things. And bleffed be the Name of his Majefty for ever, and all the Earth fhall be filled with his Majefty. Amen, Amen.

For Deliverance from Trouble.

E merciful unto me, O Lord, be merciful unto me, for my Soul trufteth in thee, and under the Shadow of thy Wings fhall be my Refuge until thefe Calamities be overpaft. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine Enemies; for I flee unto thee to hide me.

O keep my Soul, and deliver me; let me not be confounded: for I have put my Truft in thee.

Mine Eyes are ever looking unto the Lord, for he fhall pluck my Feet out of the Net. Ff 4

Turn

Turn thee unto me, and have Mercy upon me; for I am defolate and in mifery.

The Sorrows of my Heart are enlarged: 0 bring thou me out of my Troubles.

For the Church.

Be favourable and gracious unto Sion, build thou the Walls of Jerufalem. O God, wherefore art thou absent from us fo long? Why is thy Wrath fo hot against the Sheep of thy Pafture?

O think upon thy Congregation, whom thou haft purchafed and redeemed of old. Look upon the Tribe of thine Inheritance, Mount Sion, where thou haft dwelt.

It is time for thee, Lord, to lay to thy Hand, for they have deftroyed thy Law.

Arife, O God,and maintain thine own Cause, deliver Ifrael, O God, out of all his Troubles.

Brief Heads of Self-Examination, especially before the Sacrament; collected out of the foregoing Treatife, concerning the Breaches of our Duty.

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To GOD.

FAITH.

OT believing there is a God.
Not believing his Word.

Not believing it practically, so as to live according

to our belief.

НОРЕ,

НОРЕ.

DEfpairing of God's Mercy, so as to neglect

Duty.

Prefuming groundlefly on it, whilst we go on in wilful Sin

LOVE.

NOT loving God for his own Excellencies.
Not loving him for his Goodness to us.

Not labouring to please him.

Not defiring to draw near to him in his Ordinances. Not longing to enjoy him in Heaven.

FEAR.

NOT fearing God fo as to keep from offending

him.

Fearing Man above him, by committing Sin, to fbun fome outward Suffering.

TRUST..

NOT trufting on God in Dangers and Diftreffes.

Ufing unlawful Means to bring us out of them.
Not depending on God for Supply of our Wants.
Immoderate Care for Outward Things.

Neglecting to labour, and expecting God should
Support us in our Idleness.

Not looking up to God for a Bleffing on our honeft Endeavours.

Hu

HUMILITY.

NOT having a high Efteem of God.

Not fubmitting obediently to act his Will.

Not patiently fuffering it, but murmuring at his

Corrections.

Not amending by them

Not being thankful to him.

Not acknowledging his Wifdom in chufing for us, but having eager and impatient Defires of

our own.

HONOUR.

NOT Honouring God by a reverent Ufage of the Things that relate to him.

Behaving ourselves irreverently in his Houfe.
Robbing God, by taking Things that are confe-
crated to him.

Profaning Holy Times, the Lord's Day, and the
Feafts and Fafts of the Church.

Neglecting to read the Holy Scriptures; not mark-
ing when we do read.

Being careless to get Knowledge of our Duty, chufing rather to continue ignorant, that put ourfelves to the Pains or Charge of Learning. Placing Religion in hearing of Sermons, without Practice.

Breaking our Vow made at Baptifm.

By reforting to Witches and Conjurers, i. e. to the Devil.

By loving the Pomps and Vanities of the World, and following its finful Customs.,

By

By fulfilling the Luft of the Flesh.
Profaning the Lord's Supper.

By coming to it ignorantly, without Examination,
Contrition, and Purposes of New Life.

By behaving ourselves irreverently at it, without Devotion and Spiritual Affection.

By neglecting to keep the Promifes made at it. Profaning God's Name, by blafphemous Thoughts or Difcourfe.

Giving others Occafion to blafpheme him by our vile and wicked Lives.

Taking unlawful Oaths.

Perjury.

Swearing in ordinary Communication.

WORSHIP.

NOT Worshipping God.

Omitting Prayers Publick or Private, and be-
ing glad of a Pretence to do fo.

Asking unlawful Things, or to unlawful Ends.
Not purifying our Hearts from Sin before we pray,
Not praying with Faith and Humility.

Coldness and Deadness in Prayer.

Wandring Thoughts in it.

Irreverent Gestures of Body in Prayer.

REPENTANCE.

Eglecting the Duty of Repentance.

Not calling ourselves to daily Account for

our Sins.

Not affigning any fet or folemn Times for Humiliation and Confeffion, or too feldom.

Not