say continually, Let God be magnified. Let the Hea

ven and Earth praise thee,

the Seas, and every thing (t) Matt. v. 3. Blessed are the

that moveth therein. I am (1) poor and d needy, make hafte unto me; O God, thou art my Helper and De

Poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. (u) Luke xV111. 7,8. Shall not God avenge his own Elect, which cry Day and Night unto him, tho' liverer: O Lord, make no that he will avenge them speedily." he bear long with them? I tell you, (u) tarrying.

Grant these humble Supplications which I offer up to thy Divine Majesty, through the Merits of Christ Jefus our Redeemer; who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God World without end. Amen.

A Prayer in the Time of Old Age, or Sickness.

Nthee, O Lord,
do I put my (a)
TRUST, let me
never be put to

(a) Ifai. xxvI. 3, 4. Thou wilt keep him in perfect Peace, whose Mind is STAYED on thee, because he TRUSTETH in thee. Trust ye Confufion: Deli- in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting Strength.

ver me in thy Righteousness, cause me to escape; incline thine Ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong (b) Habitation, whereunto I may continually refort. Thou hast given Commandment to save (c) Acts v. 31. Him hath God anointed to be a Prince and SAVI

(c) me, for thou art my Rock and my Fortress.

(b) Alts XVII. 28. In him we LIVE, and MOVE, and have our BEING.

or, to give Repentance, and For

giveness of Sins.

• Pfalm LXXI. 1, to. 9.

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Deliver

Deliver me, O my God, out of the Hands of the Wicked, out of the Hand of the unrighteous and (d) CRUEL ONE. For thou art (e) my Hope, O Lord God; thou art my Trust from my Youth: By thee have I been holden up from the Womb; thou art he that took me out of my Mother's Bowels: I am as a Wonder unto many, (f) but thou art my strong Refuge. Let my Mouth be filled with thy Praise, and with thine Honour all the Day. Cast me not off in the time of (g) OLD AGE, forsake me not when my Strength faileth. Lord, make me to know mine End, and the Measure of my Days, what it is, that I may know how (b) frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my Days as an Hand breadth, and mine Age is as nothing before thee: Verily, every Man, at his beft Eitate, is altogether Vanity. Surely every Man walketh in a vain * Shew, (i) he HEAPETH

(d) 1 Pet. v. 8. Be sober, be vi gilant, for your ADVERSARY the Devil, as a roaring Lion, goeth evil, about seeking whom he may deVour: whom resist stedfast in the

Faith.

(e) Heb. x.

Caft not

away

35,38. therefore your Confidence, which hath great recompense of Reward. For the Just shall live by Faith. (f) Heb. VI. 18, 19, 20. That by two immutable Things, in which it was impossible for God to lye, we might have a strong Confolation who have fled for REFUGE, to lay hold upon the HOPE set before us: Which HOPE we have as an Anchor of the Soul, both fure and stedfaft, and which entereth into that within the Vail; whither the Forerunner is for us entered, even Jefus, made an High Prieft for ever. (g) Ifai. XLVI. 4. And even to

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your OLD AGE I am he, and even to HOAR HAIRS will I carry you : have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you Heb. XIII. 5. For he hath said, will never LEAVE thee, nor FORSAKE thee. Matt. XXVIII. 20. Lo, am with you alway, even unto the end of the World.

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(b) 2 Cor. v. 4. For we that are in this Tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be uncloathed, but cloathed upon, that Mortality might be swallowed up of Life. Phil. 111. 21. shall change our vile Body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glo

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rious Body, according to the working whereby he is able even to fubdue all things unto himself. 1 Cor. xv. 54. When this corruptible shall have put on Incorruption, and this mortal hall have put on Immortality, then thall be brought to pass the Saying that is written, DEATH is swallowed up in VICTORY.

(i) Luke x11.20. Thou Fool, this Night thy Sour shall be required of thee, and then whose shall all THOSE THINGS be. Matt. XVI. 26. What shall it profit a Man to gain the WHOLE WORLD, and lose his own SOUL? Or, what shall a Man give in EXCHANGE for his Soul ? 1 Tim. VI. 10. For the Love of MONEY is the Root of all Evil, which while fome coveted after, have erred from the Faith, and pierced themselves through with many Sorrows.

b Pfalm XXXIX. 4, to 13.

* In a vain Shew, in the Margin, in an Image; the fame, probably, with the Image or Shadow of Death, as Pfalın XX111. 4. Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow, or Image of Death. See Rom. v11.24.

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up RICHES, and knoweth
not who shall gather them :
(k) 2. Cor. IV. 16, 17, 18. Though
our outward Man perish, yet the
And now, Lord, what wait inward Man is renewed Day by
I for? My Hope is in thee: Day. Our light AFFLICTION,
which is but for a Moment, work-
Deliver me from all my eth for us a far more exceeding and
Tranfgreffions, and make me eternal Weight of Glory; while we
not the Reproach of the look not at the Things which are
Foolish: I was dumb, 1 feen, which are temporal; but ac
opened not my Mouth, be-
cause thou didst it. Remove
away thy Stroke from me;
I am confumed by the Blow
of thine Hand. When thou
with Rebukes doft (k) COR-
RECT Man for INIQUITY,
thou makest his Beauty to

the Things which are not seen, which are eternal. 1 Cor. xv. 55, 56, 57. O Death, where is thy tory? The Sting of Death is Sting? O Grave, where is thy VicSin, and the Strength of Sin is the Law: But Thanks be to God, which giveth us the Victory, through our Lord Jesus Chrift.

(1) Heb. x1. 13,14. These all died in the Faith, not having received the Promises, but having seen them them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were STRANGERS they

and PILGRIMS on Earth: for

plainly that they feek

confume away like a Moth; itere per faded of
furely every Man is Vanity.
Hear my Prayer, O Lord,
and give Ear unto my Cry,
hold not thy Peace at my
Tears; for I am (1) a Stran-
ger with thee, and a Sojour-
ner, as all my Fathers were.
O fpare me, that I may re-
cover Strength, before I go
hence, and be no more.

O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste for my Help; I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more. My Mouth shall shew forth thy Righteousness, and thy Salvation all the Day; for I know not the Numbers thereof. I will go in the (m) STRENGTH of the Lord God; I will make mention of thy RIGHTEOUSNESS, (n) even of thine only: O God,

a Country; ver. 16. that is, an heavenly. r Chron. xxix. 15. For we are Strangers before thee, and Sojourners, as were all our Fathers. Our Days on the Earth are as a Shadow, and there is none abiding.

(m) Eph. 111. 16, 17. That he would grant you, according to the Riches of his Glory, to be STRENGTHENED with Might, by his Spirit in the inner Man, that Chrift may dwell in your Hearts by Faith, that ye may be rooted and grounded in Love.

(n) Phil. 111. 8,9. And I count all Things but Loss, for the Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ Fefus my Lord; for whom I have fuffered the Loss of all Things, and do count them but Dung, that I win Chrift, and be found in him, not having mine own Righteoufness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of Chriff, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith.

O Father of Mercies, and God of all Consolation, I do not present these my Supplications for my Righteousness, but for thy great Mercy's sake, through the infinite Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God World without end. Amen.

APrayer in the Time of Trouble and Affliction, with earnest Supplications to be restored to the Divine Favour.

Cryed unto God

that we have a
(c) Heb. IV. 14, 15, 16. Seeing
that is paffed into the Heavens, Fe-
great High Priest,
fus the Son of God; let us hold faft
our Profeffion: for we have not an
ed with the Feeling of our INFIR-
High Prieft which cannot be touch
MITIES, but was in all Points
tempted like as we are, yet with-

with my Voice, even unto God (a) Heb. 11. 18. For in that he with my Voice, himself hath suffered, being temptand he gave Ear unto me. In ed, he is able to fuccour them that tempted. Heb. XII. 6. For the Day of (a) my Trouble whom the Lord loveth he CHASI fought the Lord; my Sore TENETH, and SCOURGETH every ran in the Night, and ceaf- Son whom he receiveth. 1 Peter 1. 6. Wherein we greatly rejoice, ed not; my Soul refused to though now for a Seafon, if need be comforted: I remembred be, ye are in Heaviness, through God, and was troubled; I manifold Temptations. (b) Heb. x111.5. For he hath complained, and my Spirit faid, I will never leave thee, nor was overwhelmed. Thou forsake thee. holdest mine Eyes waking, 1 am so troubled that I cannot speak: I called to remembrance my former * Songs in the Night; I commune with mine own Heart, and my Spirit made diligent fearch. Wilt thou, O Lord, (b) caft me off for ever? and wilt thou be favourable no more? Is thy Mercy (c) clean gone for ever? Doth thy Promise fail for evermore? Hast thou, O God, forgotten to be gracious? Haft thou in Anger shut up thy tender Mercies? But I faid, this is mine Infirmity; I will (d) remember the of AFFLICTIONS.

out Sin. Let us therefore come BOLDLYunto the Throne of GRACE, that we may obtain MERCY, and find GRACE to help in time of need.

(d) Heb. XII. 1. Seeing we also are encompassed with so great a Cloud of WITNESSES, let us lay afide every WEIGHT, and the SIN which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with PATIENCE the Race that is set before us. Chap. x. 32. Call to remembrance the former minated, ye endured a great Fight Days, in which, after ye were illu