in thy boundless mercy and compaffion. Spare me, good Lord, I beseech thee, and, though most highly provoked, be in my bleffed Saviour moft graciously reconciled to me. For his fake pardon all my fins, and fave me for thy mercies fake. If thou wilt, thou canft raise me up, and grant me a longer continuance bere. But, forafmuch as in all appearance the time of my difiolution draweth near, bestow upon me those holy and heavenly qualifications, which may fit me for my approaching change. Gather every root of bitterness out of my mind. Rescue me from the power, and defend me against all the wiles, of the devil. Mortify all the remainder of the old man in me; and renew me perfectly in the inward man. Quicken, improve, and increase every spark of grace that is in me; and make me to be fuch, before thou calleft me hence, as I defire to be thenceforward to all eternity, thro' Jefus Chrift our blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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III.

AM coming to thee, fweet Jefu: open thine arms to receive me graciously. Thou haft purchased me to thyself; fuffer me not to fall fhort of all that happiness thou diedft to procure for me. Withdraw

not thy mercy from me at my laft hour, when I have the greatest need of it, and must be everlastingly ruined without it. Let not the enemy have any advantage againft me in my extremity, nor the wicked approach to hurt me. Give thy holy angels charge over me, that they may conduct me fafely through the valley of death, and bring me to thine everlasting kingdom; that there I may fing inceffant hallelujahs, with the bleffed choir of faints and angels for evermore. Amen.

IV.

BLeffed God, merciful and gracious, What great

things haft thou prepared for them that love thee; fuch as eye has not feen, nor ear heard, and

it has not entered into the heart of man to conceive! Oh that I may be admitted to tafte of such incomparable bleffednefs! It will be a happy exchange for me to leave this world, and all its mean, tranfitory enjoyments, for the ineftimable glories that are promifed at thy right-hand in firm hope and expectation whereof, I commend my foul into thy hands, O Lord, thou God of truth. Amen. Even fo, come, Lord Jefus.

When he apprehends himself about to expire.

HASTE thee, O Lord, to deliver me.

In thee, O Lord Jefus Chrift, my most merciful Saviour, and only Redeemer, in thee alone is all my truft: let me never be confounded. O blessed Jefu, I fue to thee for mercy: mercy, O Lord, and forgiveness of my fins, is what I most humbly beg of thee, O Chrift, fave me. O God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft; O boly, blessed, and glorious Trinity, Three Perfons, and One God, bave mercy upon me. Receive my foul into thy bands. And for thy mercies fake place it in thy heavenly kingdom, among thy boly angels, and bleffed faints. O Lord, bear me, and be merciful to me. Into thy bands I commend my fpirit; for thou haft redeemed me, O Lord, thon God of truth: Amen, O Lord, Amen.

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For thofe about the Sick Perfon.

As thou, O God, art infinitely gracious to thy

poor creatures, continually multiplying thy loveing-kindneffes towards us from day to day, and from year to year, and haft required of us to be loving and kind to each other, and defire our neighbour's welfare as our own; in an humble imitation of this thy goodness, and obedience to thy command, I here beg leave to fupplicate thy favour in behalf of all those who attend about my bed, or have in any respect the trouble of affifting, me, now that I know not how to take care of myself. Recompenfe them, O Lord, all

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Be with them

the good that they have done for me. whenfoever they fhall come to be in the fame helpless condition they now fee me in; and furnish them at that time with fuch tender-hearted and careful friends, fuch affectionate relations, and fuch affiftance of all kinds, that they may not want any of those neceffary helps, which I have received from them. And, in the mean time, grant that, by feeing me in this helpless weak estate, they may be so effectually admonished of their own mortality, that they may learn forthwith to apply themselves to the working out their falvation with care and diligence, and fo may be always prepared for fickness or death, whenfoever thou fhalt fend either of them. This I beg for them all, through. Jefus Chrift our Lord, and only Saviour. Amen..

For his Family and Relations.

I.

O Lord God Almighty, who dwelleft in the highest Heavens, and yet humbleft thyself to behold thy worthless creatures here below, and difpenfeft thy bleffings among them, as feems beft to thine infinite wisdom; I praife: thee for the conftant experience I have had of thy great goodness to me all my life long. And, now that I am going the way of all flesh, and must be speedily gathered to my fathers, I not only defire: to retain, to my last breath, a thankful remembrance of this thy loving-kindness; but, beg liberty alfo at the fame time to intercede with thee, for thofe I leave behind me, for [my wife and children, and other] my near and dear relations. Take them, all into thy protection, and adminifter to them all things pertaining to life and godlinefs. [Be a Father to the fatherlefs, and a Husband to the widow.] All their wants are open to thy knowledge; let them be supplied by thy power and goodness. Keep them as the apple of thine eye. Preferve them under the fhadow of thy wings: and let no evil come nigh

their dwelling. Thy bleffing is incomparably most desirable portion I can leave them; let no be wanting to them. But bestow upon them, Is feech thee, all bleffings fpiritual and tempor Chrift Jefus. Amen.

II.

BLESS them in their bodies, and bless the

their fouls; blefs them in the basket, and id store, in their going out, and in their coming in, all that they put their hands unto. But, above all, them with the choiceft fpiritual bleffings, pure heart, and a found mind; with a conten the world, and a fure truft in thee; with a g fense of thy kindness, and a foul full of love; a knowledge of thy will, and a care to perfor with the affistance of thy Spirit, and life everla through Jefus Chrift thy Son our Lord. Am

When under any strong Temptation.

I.

Heavenly and most merciful Father, I mofth bly befeech thee, for thy Son's fake, Jefus Ch our Lord, have mercy upon me, and fuccour me thefe terrible affaults and temptations of the de Deliver my soul from all his power and craft. So me strength from above, that I may retain my grity, may refift the enemy, and stand stedfat this day of trial. Be thou my strong rock, and c of defence; that, being preferved through thy g and affiftance, I may continue as I have promi and as thou mayest justly expect me to be, thy fa ful foldier and fervant unto my life's end. Th beg, O Lord, through the merits, and for the fa

of thy dear Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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II.

EAR me, O Lord; for thy loving-kindnes comfortable. Turn thee unto me according the multitude of thy mercies, and hide not thy

from

from thy fervant, when I am in trouble. Oh hafte thee, and hear me; draw nigh unto my foul, and fave it; deliver me from my fubtle and outrageous enemy. O Lord my God, lighten mine eyes, that I fleep not in death; left mine enemy fay, I have prevailed against him. If I be caft down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it. But my trust is in thy mercy, and my heart is joyful in thy falvation: Oh never be wanting to me; but hearken to my petition, and hear me at all times; but more especially in this my prefent conflict with the grand deftroyer of fouls; and give me caufe to praife and magnify thy name, O Lord my God, for ever and ever.

III.

Amen.

God, who knoweft me to be fet in the midst of so many and great dangers, that, by reason of the frailty of my nature, I cannot always ftand upright; grant me fuch strength and protection as may support me in all dangers, and carry me through all temptations, thro' Jefus Christ our Lord.

When tempted to Prefumption.

Amen.

Almighty and moft righteous God, who searchest

the hearts, and trieft the reins, and rendereft to every one according to his doings; take pity upon me a guilty finner, and fuffer me not to prefume upon thy mercy, whilft I retain an affection for any kind of fin. I know thy clemency and compaffion are infinite, and thou art always ready to embrace a returning prodigal and I cannot therefore doubt of thy pardon, were I duly qualified for it. But my only danger is, left my fins have made too great a feparation betwixt thee and thy poor creature, for me to hope any longer for thy favour. Wherefore I humbly pray thee, to difcover me truly to myself; and if there be any way of wickedness yet remaining in me, purge it away, that I may be a fit object of thy fatherly commiferation, Permit me not to encourage E e myself