fulness, and Dread, to overwhelm me, fo that my Soul would be exceeding Sorrowful, even unto Death, did I not believe thou wouldst yet turn again, and vifit me.

Father, if it be poffible, let this Cup pass from me; but if my Soul cannot be made perfect, unless I drink it, thy Holy, thy Blessed Will be done.

Lo here I am! Deal with me as it feemeth good in thy Sight----Only let thy Grace be fufficient for me; and in the midst of my Ago nies fend down, I beseech thee, an Angel from Heaven to ftrengthen me.

Lord, thou knoweft that Satan has defired to have me, that he may fift me as Wheat; O grant that my Faith fail not.

Suffer, O fuffer him not to get an Advantage over me, for thou art not ignorant of his DevicesO let him not fo prevail against me, as to make me entertain hard Thoughts of thee my moft loving Master, and compaffionate Redeemer-For I know thou of very Faithfulness haft caufed me thus to be troubled And doft afflict me for no other Reason, but to make me Partaker of thy Holiness.

Give me, O give me, the Shield of Faith, and enable me to repel all the fiery blafphemous Thoughts, that the wicked one fhall at any Time dart into my Mind-Let me drive

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them off as carefully as Abraham did the Birds that came to devour his Sacrifice And oh! Let him never tempt me to think, thou wilt impute them to me for Sin.

Lord, thou only knoweft the present Drinefs and Barrennefs of my Soul, and how liable I am to be tempted to fret against thee, O Lord, and to feek Pleafure in the Creature, when I can find no fenfible Satisfaction in thee, my great Redeemer, who art God, bleffed for ever.

But, I beseech thee, keep my Soul quiet and compofed, and for thy Mercy's Sake enable me only to take Pleasure in thee, and to fit down folitary in the Bitterness of my Soul, and patiently wait till I can draw Comfort from thee, the Fountain of living Waters, rather than hew out to myself broken Cifterns, that will hold no Water.

Never, never let me fall out with any of thy Ordinances, or think, I do not please thee in my holy Duties, because I have no inward fenfible Pleasure in them myself.

Enable me to walk by Faith and not by Sight, and to feek thee in the Use of all appointed Means, though it be forrowing; being affured that after three Days I fhall find thee in the Temple; or that thou wilt make thyfelf known unto me, by breaking of Bread, or in fome other Way.

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Lord, I believe, help thou my Unbelief, that I am now talking with thee as certainly, as Mary was, when thou didst converfe with her at the Sepulchre; though the know it not-In thy due Time reveal thyfelf again to me, as thou didst to her; and let me hear the Voice of my Beloved.

Thou haft promifed, thou wilt not fuffer us to be tempted above what we are able to bear, but wilt with the Temptation make a Way for us to escape, that we may be able to bear itFulfil, O Lord, this thy Promife-And after I have fuffered a while, strengthen, ftablish, fettle, and vifit me, as thou didst thy Servant Abraham, when he returned from the Slaughter of the five Kings.

Lord, lift thou up the Light of thy Countenance upon me; reftore to me the Joy of thy Salvation; and when my Heart is duly prepared, and humbled by these inward Trials, grant me a feeling Poffeffion of thee, my God, for the Sake of thy dear Son, Jefus Christ, our Lord. Amen, Amen.

A Prayer for one defiring to be awakened to an Experience of the New Birth.

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Leffed Jefus, thou haft told us in thy Gofpel, that unless a Man be born again of the Spirit, and his Righteoufness exceed the outward Righteoufnefs of the Scribes and Pharifees, he cannot in any wife enter into the Kingdom of God. Grant me therefore, I befeech thee, this true Circumcifion of the Heart; and fend down thy bleffed Spirit to work in me that inward Holinefs which alone can make me meet to partake of the heavenly Inheritance with the Saints in Light.

Create in me, I beseech thee, a new Heart, and renew a right Spirit within me. For of whom fhall I feek for Succour, but of thee,

Lord, with whom alone this is poffible.

Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me whole. O fay unto my Soul as thou didst once. unto the poor Leper, I will, be thou renewed.

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Have Compaffion on me, O Lord, as thou once hadft on blind Bartimeus, who fet by the Way-fide begging.

Lord thou knoweft all Things, thou knoweft what I would have thee to do. Grant, Lord, that I may receive my Sight. For I am conceived and born in Sin, my whole Head is fick, my whole Heart is faint, from the Crown of my Head to the Sole of my Feet, I am full of Wounds and Bruifes, and putrifying Sores. And yet I fee it not.

O awaken me, though it be with Thunder, to a fenfible feeling of the Corruptions of my fallen Nature; and for thy Mercies fake fuffer me no longer to fit in Darkness and the Shadow of Death.

O prick me, prick me to the Heart! Dart down a Ray of that all-quickening Light which ftruck thy Sevant Saul to the Ground; and make me cry out with the trembling Jaylor, What fhall I do to be Saved?

Lord, behold I pray and blufh, and am confounded that I never prayed on this wife before.

But I have looked upon myself as rich, and not confidering that I was poor, and blind and naked I have trufted to my own Righteoufnefs.I flattered myfelf I was whole, and therefore blindly thought I had no need of