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tile that knows thee not) seeing thou knoweft I have need of all thefe Things, and that if I feek thy Righteoufnefs, all these Things fhall be added unto me, out of thy great Bounty and Fulnefs. Nor will I be difmayed at any Calamity thou in thy wife Providence fhalt order for me, feeing all Things fhall work together for Good to them that love and fear thee.

V. Take from me all Sorrow, that the Love of worldly Things may at any Time raise in me, from my unfuccefsful Hopes and Designs in this World, or from any Evils or Calamities of this Life. Let me not hereafter with for Profperity, for Health, or Life; but with the Profpect of fpending them in thee, with thee, and for thy Glory. I pray not that thou wouldeft give me either Profperity or Adverfity, Health or Sicknefs, Life or Death; but that thou wouldeft difpofe my Profperity and my Adverfity, my Health, my Sickness, my Life, and my Death, for thy Glory, and for my own eternal Welfare. alone knoweft what is most expedient for me; thou art my Sovereign Master and Lord, guide and govern me at thy Pleasure; give me, or take from me, as seemest best to thy Providence, and in all Things con

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form my Will to thine. And grant that with an humble Submiffion and holy Confidence, I may equally reverence and adore the most different Events which thou fhalt accomplish in me.

VI. O God, grant that I may with a conftant Evennefs of Spirit embrace all thy Disposals, forafmuch as I know not what to afk, and cannot defire abfolutely one Event rather than another without Prefumption, and without making myself the Judge of all that Train of future Things which thy Wisdom has fo juftly concealed from my View. I know, O Lord, my whole Knowledge may be reduced to this one Point; That it is Good to obey thee, and Evil to offend thee. After this, I know not what is best or worst among all Things. I know not what is most profitable for me, Health, or Sickness, Riches, or Poverty, any Condition, any Circumftances of this World; fuch a Judgment furpaffeth the Force and Sagacity of Man, and lies hid amongst the Secrets of thy good Providence; which I will reverence and adore, and humbly fubmit to, but will never attempt to trace, or penetrate into, or difpute and murmur againft. Finally, O my God, I commit my Life, and the dearest Concerns that attend it,

it, to thy Difpofal, in the Name of Jefus
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my Saviour, befeeching thee, for his
Sake, by fuch Ways and Means as thou feeft
fit, to bring me to Life Eternal. Amen.

A Prayer for a holy and happy Death.

O ETERNAL and holy Jefus ; who by thy Death haft overcome Death, and by thy Paffion haft taken out its Sting and made it an Entrance into everlasting Life: Help me fo to order my Converfation in { the World, fo to govern my Spirit, and lead my Life, that I may die in Comfort and Safety. Let not my Death be in any Senfe unprovided, nor untimely.

Grant that in the Time of my Sickness, I may not be left without the Affiftance of a fpiritual Guide, nor be deftitute of the Comfort of receiving the bleffed Sacrament.

Let me finish my Courfe with Patience, and Refignation of my own Will and Defires; with a firm Faith, and well-grounded Hope; with a true and fincere Repentance, and great Degrees of Love towards thee my God, and Charity to all the World: And whenever it shall please thee to call me out of this vain and wicked World, grant that I may die the Death of the Righteous;

Righteous; having first discharged all my Obligations of Juftice, leaving none miferable and unprovided at my Departure.

And when the appointed Time of my Change comes, grant, O Lord, that I may receive it not as a Curfe, but a Deliverance; as a Reft from all my Labours, without Trouble and without Sin. O remember not against me my manifold Follies; but let them all be done away by thy Mercy, and my bleffed Saviour's Merits.

Support me, O good God, in my last Agonies, and as my Strength decays, let my Pains wear off; and when my Strength fails, let not my Faith fail; even in Death enable me to truft in thee.

Deliver me from all violent Disorders of a troubled Fancy, and defend me against all Delufions of my Ghoftly Enemy; O let him not be able to disturb or terrify me, or any Way prevail against me. And when my Death approaches, give thy holy Angels Charge to stand about me, to guard and receive my poor Soul at my Departure, and to conduct and carry it to the bleffed Regions of Reft and Peace, there to wait for thy Coming, and then to partake of the Glories of thy Kingdom, O Êternal and Holy Jefus. Amen.

A devout

A devout Prayer that may be used at any Time.

I. O MY God! infinite in Goodness and boundless in Mercy to all who love and obey thee; grant me Grace, I beseech thee, to love thee with all my Heart, with all my Soul, and with all my Strength, and for thy Sake to love all Men as myself: Give me a charitable Opinion of them all, whether Friends or Enemies; fuffer me not rafhly to judge or contemn any Perfon of what State or Condition foever, and if it be my own Lot to be defpifed and rejected by others, teach me therewith to be content.

Grant that I may never ftudy to please Men in any Thing, whereby I may be in Danger of Difpleafing thee; and that it may always be my chief and only Defire, to promote thy Honour, and to fulfil in all Things thy moft holy Will.

Give me Grace, O heavenly Father, to be entirely fubmiffive and contented under all the Afflictions, Difappointments, and Sufferings, which it is thy Pleasure I should endure, and which thy Wisdom shall judge proper and ufeful to advance me towards thee. And grant that by every Tribulation

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