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Jefus Christ our Lord; in whofe holy
Words, I commend both my own and the
Wants and Neceffities of all Mankind.
Our Father, &c.

A Prayer for Thurfday Noon, or any intermediate Time of the Day.

O LORD, the great Creator and Governor of all Things, I fall down before thee in an humble Adoration of thy incomphenfible Majefty, acknowledging that I depend entirely upon thee; praifing and magnifying thy moft glorious Power, Wisdom, and Goodness, which are every where confpicuous and rendering unto thee my moft hearty Thanks, for all the Favours and Benefits which thou haft fo freely and undefervedly conferred upon me. Thou art

bountiful to the whole World: All thy Works praise thee, O Lord, and we, the Children of Men, ought more particularly to bless thee and speak good of thy Name; for we have received fingular Marks and Tokens of thy Favour; being made after thy own Image, and endued with reafonable and immortal Spirits, that we may reflect on thee the Author of our Being, and become like unto thee in Wisdom, Holi

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nefs, Goodness and Truth; but above all, I defire to remember that great Demonftration of thy Love, in giving thy dear Son to live among us, to die for us, and thereby to give us (upon the conditions of Faith and fincere Obedience) an affured Hope of immortal Life.

O Lord, I love thee, and renew the Oblation which I have often made of my Soul and Body to thee; I wait upon thee ftill for what thou feest Good for both; I hope in thy everlasting Mercy, humbly befeeching thee to pardon all my Forgetfulness of thee, and Ingratitude to thee; and I most earneftly implore the Grace of thy Holy Spirit to preferve in my Mind a powerful Sense of thee, an ardent Love to thee, and a holy Care to please and obey thee in all Things.

Give me the fame Mind and Spirit which was in Chrift Jefus our Lord; the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, and the Fear of thee; the Spirit of Meeknefs, Humility, Purity, and Charity; and grant that I may do thy Will with the like Chearfulnefs, Zeal, Conftancy, Patience, and Perfeverance, that he did.

Bleffed be thy Name, O Lord, for all the Helps and Affiftances of thy good Spi

rit, which the ad already bleffed me withal: vouchfate ftill to continue to me thy gracious Favour and Protection; and as thon haft preserved me hitherto this Day, fo bless me the remaining Part of it; Keep me in Peace and Innocence, in Love to thee, and Charity to my Neighbour; and fince in all my Ways I acknowledge thee, do thou direct my Paths, and teach me to manage all my Affairs with Prudence and Difcretion. Thou art my Hope and my Confidence, my Satisfaction and my Peace, my Glory and my Joy; O be thou pleased to conduct me by thy good Spirit, through all the Business and Enjoyments, through all the Temptations and Troubles of this Life; and never leave nor forfake me, bring me at laft to that bleffed Place, where our Lord Jefus Christ liveth and reigneth with thee, in the Unity of the fame Spirit, World without End. Amen.

A Prayer for Thursday Evening.

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O ETERNAL and infinitely Glorious God, the great Creator, gracious Preferver, and wife Governor of the World; I thy un'worthy Servant fall down before thee at

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this Time, to prefent my Prayers and Supplications before thy Throne of Grace.

I admire and adore the incomprehenfible Perfections of thy Nature, and gratefully acknowledge thy marvellous and undeferved Goodnefs towards me and all thy Creatures. I have nothing, O Lord, but what I received from thee; thou freely gavest me my Being, and madeft me in a Capacity to know, and ferve, and enjoy thee for ever? and out of the fame infinite Bounty and Goodnefs thou haft continued to me the Being which thou at first gaveft me, and haft delivered me from a Multitude of Evils, which might have juftly befallen me, and beftowed Mercies and Favours both upon my Soul and Body, more than I can number. O that I could fay I had made Returns unto thee in any Meafure fuitable to the Benefits which I have received from thee: But alas! I muft with Shame acknowledge, that I have been guilty of great Ingratitude towards thee, the Fountain of all Good; I have been an unprofit⚫able and unworthy Servant, and have neither loved thee, ferved thee, nor obeyed thee, as I ought, to have done.

O Lord, it is owing to thine infinite Mercy and Goodness, that I have now an

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Opportunity of humbling myself before Thee; Olet thy Goodness and Forbearance, O Lord, lead me to a true and unfeigned Repentance of all my Sins; and for the Sake of thy beloved Son, (in whom alone thou art well pleafed) fpare me, O good Lord, fpare me, and be not angry with me for ever; wash away all my Sins in that Fountain, which thou haft opened for Sin and Uncleannefs, that nothing may interpofe between thy Mercy and my poor Soul. Lay not to my Charge, O merciful God, the Sins which I have this Day committed; and not only pardon them, but give me Grace from henceforward entirely to leave and forfake them, and to amend my Life according to thy holy Word.

Make me always mindful that thou art every where prefent, and privy to my most fecret Thoughts; that I may never dare to do any Thing but what is pleafing in thy Sight. Poffefs me, O Lord, with a lively Senfe of the Frailty of my Life, the Certainty of a Judgment to come, the unfpeakable Glories of Heaven, and the most dreadful Torments of Hell, that I may in good earnest fet about the great Work of my Salvation, and never be fo foolish, as to prefer the Pleafures of Sin, which are but G

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