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A Prayer against evil and perplexing Thoughts.

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not far from me, O Lord my God; make hafte to help me, for corrupt Imaginations are perpetually rifing in my Breast, and innumerable Fears and Sorrows close me in on every Side. Be pleafed, O gracious Lord, in this Perplexity, to refresh my Soul with fome fpeedy Comfort. Scatter and difperse all these dark and finful Thoughts which haunt my Soul, by fhedding abroad the Light of thy Grace in my Heart; for in the Extremity of this my Grief, this is my only Hope and Comfort, that I can take Sanctuary in thy Goodness, repofe my Confidence, and caft all iny Care and Burden on thee, who never faileft them that call upon thee: Give me Patience under thefe Adverfities, and a happy Iffue out of all thefe Afflictions, both of Body and Mind. Turn thee unto me, and have Mercy upon me, for I am defolate and in Mifery: The Sorrows of my Heart are enlarged; Obring thou me out of all my Troubles: Look upon my Adverfity and Mifery, and forgive me all my Sins. O keep my Soul, and deliver me: Let me not be confounded, for I have put my Trust in thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

See Pfalm vi. cii. xxxiv. xlii. xliii.

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Upon Christmas-Day, and feven Days after, you may add thefe to your other Devotions.

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Defire, O Lord, to blefs and praise thine infinite Goodnefs, who didft take Compaffion upon Mankind in their greatest Mifery, and haft provided fo admirable a Remedy, by fending thy only begotten Son to recover our corrupt and degenerate Nature, and by the Purity of his Doctrine, the Example of his Life, and the Sacrifice of his Death, to purchase eternal Happinefs for us. Grant, O Lord, that through the Affiftance of thy Grace and heavenly Benediction, I may daily comply with thofe great Things which thou haft done and defigned for my Salvation. Poffefs my Soul with Purity and Piety, and all other Chriftian Graces and Virtues; that living foberly, righteously, and godly in this prefent World, I may hereafter dwell with thee, O Father of Mercies, and God of all Comforts, in thofe Manfions of Blifs and Glory which thou haft prepared for them that love thee. Amen.

See Pfal. xix. lxxxix. xliv..

Eafter-Day, and feven Days after.

BLeffed Jefus, who haft triumphed over the

Powers of Darknefs, and conquered Hell: and the Grave, and who, by thy glorious Refurrection, haft made known the Power of thy Divinity,

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Divinity, and proved thyself the true Meffias, keep me ftedfaft in this Faith; and grant that all the Actions of my Life may teftif the Reality and Sincerity of my Belief, by 2 fuitable Converfation; that I may rife from the Death of Sin unto the Life of Righteou nefs that as I am buried with thee by Bartifm, I may henceforth mortify all my co rupt Lufts and Affections, and daily proceed in all Virtue and Godliness of Living, that departing this Life in thy Faith and Fear, I may have my perfect Confummation and Blifs, both in Body and Soul, in thy eternal everlafting Kingdom, who liveft and reignet with the Father and the Holy Ghoft, one God, World without End. Amen. See Pfalm ii. lvii. cxi.

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Whitfunday, and fix Days after.

Lord my God, who, by thy Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift, haft promised the Affiftance of thy Holy Spirit to all that ask it of thee, I beseech thee always to direct my Ways and Actions, the Thoughts and Inten tions of my Heart, by the Light of thy Holy Spirit. Let him be unto me a Spirit of Sanctification, to purify my corrupt Nature; a Spirit of Counsel in all my Difficulties; of Direction in all my Doubts, Fears and Scruples; of Courage in all my Dangers; of Constancy and Confolation to me under all my Perfecutions and Sufferings, especially in Time of Sickness,

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and at the Hour of Death; that being governed and guided by his divine Influence and Direction, I may pafs through all the Changes and Chances of this mortal Life, till he brings me to everlafting Life, there to reign with the ever-bleffed and glorious Trinity, World without End. Amen.

See Pfalm xxxiv. xlii. xliii. li.

Trinity-Sunday.

Glory be to thee, O God the Father, for creating me after thine own Image, capable of loving thee, and enjoying thee eternally; for recovering me from a State of Sin and Mifery, when I had loft and undone myfelf. Glory be to thee, O God the Son, for undertaking the wonderful Work of Man's Redemption, for refcuing me from the Slavery of Sin, and the Dominion of Satan; for the accomplishing which miraculous Work of our Salvation, thou didst defcend from Heaven, and didft put on the Form of a Servant, live a miferable Life, and die a painful and accurfed Death.-Glory be to thee, O God the Holy Ghoft, for thofe miraculous Gifts and Graces thou didst bestow upon the Apostles, and for those ordinary Gifts, whereby fincere Chriftians in all Ages are enabled to work out their Salvation; for thy preventing and restraining Grace; for the fubduing our Understanding and Affections to the Obedience of Faith and Godliness; for infpiring us with good Thoughts,

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and kindling good Defires in our Souls; for affifting us in all the Methods of procuring eternal Happiness.-Bleffing and Honour, Thanksgiving and Praife, more than I can exprefs or conceive, be unto thee, O Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, for ever and ever. Amen.

See Pfalm ii. xlvii. Ixxii. cx.

After the Bleffing, namely, The Peace of God.

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Rant, O Lord, that we, and all thy faith

ful Servants, who have this Day been Partakers of the holy Sacrament, may obtain Remiffion of our Sins, and be confirmed in Piety towards God, and in Charity towards our Neighbour; and may be delivered from the Power and Temptations of Satan, and being filled with thy Spirit, may become worthy "Members of Chrift's Holy Church, and at last inherit eternal Life, through the fame our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

A Thanksgiving after the Sacrament, to be said: at home.

THOU, O my God, haft comforted my Soul, thou haft ftrengthened and refreshed me with thy Bleffings, and rejoiced my Heart with the Tokens of thy Love. How transporting are thy Comforts, and how ravishing the Effects of thy Goodness towards them that fear thee! Thou hast treated a vile Sinner

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