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At BED-TIME.

INTO thy hands, O Lord, I commend myself, my spirit, my soul, and my body; for thou hast created and redeemed them, O Lord, thou God of truth.

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Together with me, take also under thy fatherly care and protection all that are near or dear to me, all that thou givest me leave to call mine: For all these are the gifts of thy bountiful hand to thy poor unworthy servant.

Preserve my lying down and my rising up, from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Make me to remember thee on

my bed, and to think upon thee

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when I am waking: Then let me commune with my own heart, and search out my spirit; for thou art about my path, and about my bed, and when I awake I am present with thee.

I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest, for it is thou, Lord, that makest me dwell in

only, safety.

Short

Short EJACULATIONS, fit for

several Parts, and particular Hours of the Night, and of the Day.

THOU,

who inspirest thy Saints with songs in the night, and givest wholesome sleep to thy beloved ; whose name I will think of in the night season, and will keep thy law; let thy protection and mercy be upon me, and let the Prayers and Thanksgivings come up to thee, which my soul poureth out when it fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch.

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O thou, who for us men, and for our salvation, didst vouchsafe to be born, while Shepherds were watching their flocks by night; grant me to be born again, by the daily renewing of the Holy Ghost, till Christ be formed in me unto a perfect man, and save me.

About

About Sun-Rising.

O THOU, who, very early in the morning, about the rising of the sun, wast pleased to leave thy empty tomb, and return again from the dead; raise me, I pray thee, to walk in newness of life, by such daily exercises of repentance and virtue, as may keep me dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God, through thee, and save me.

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