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our Eyes O that Men were wife, that they understood this, that they would confider their latter End---But what ever others do, let it be thy Care and Bufinefs, O my Soul, to fecure an happy Eternity: Put on the whole Armour of God, that thou mayft fight valiantly under Chrift's Banner; own that great Lawgiver, who is able to fave and to destroy, for thy Sovereign Lord and King, and let no other Lord have Rule over thee: Be not cheated out of a certain Inheritance, an everlasting Kingdom in Heaven, with the vain deceitful Prof pect of any Kind of Happiness on Earth: Be not feduced with Names, and Sounds, and Shadows: Let nothing fhort of fubftantial everlafting Happiness engrofs thy Views, and Hopes, and Cares. Look not at the Things which are feen, and are temporal, but at the Things which are not feen, and are eternal, knowing that thou mayft, if thou wilt, be more than Conqueror thro' him that loved us .

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O bleffed Meffiah, grant that I may ever feek firft the Kingdom of God, and his Righte sufnefs, and willingly fubmit to his Pleasure as to whatever elfe fhall be added thereunto.--Lord, let nothing be added that may draw my Heart from thee, or be the Occafion of Difloyalty and Rebellion against my Saviour and my King: Make me ever to hate Sin with perfect Hatred, and do thou enable me to caft down every Imagination that exalteth itself

(c) Luke xix, 42. (d) Deut. xxxii, 39. (e) Eph. vi, 11. (f) James iv, 12. (g) 2 Cor. iv, 18. (h) Rom. viii, 37. (i) Matth. vi, 33, Luke xii, 31. (k) Pfal. cxxxix, 22.

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against the Knowledge of God, and bring into Captivity every Thought to the Obedience of Chrift1; going forth conquering and to conquer to pull down the ftrong Holds and deftroy the Dominion of Satan, and fet up the Kingdom of Jefus in my Heart. Do thou ever rule and reign there, and thou only; let me be wholly and only thine. Thou art of Right, my Lord and my King, O let it ever be my Choice, and Defire, and Delight; let me ever esteem it my highest Honour and Happiness to have it fo, and to behave myself as thy dutiful Subject and devoted Servant: So that neither Tribulation, nor Diftrefs, nor Perfecution, nor Famine, nor Peril, nor Sword, nor Death, nor Life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor Things prefent, nor Things to come, nor Height, nor Depth, nor any other Creature, may be able to feparate me from the Love of God which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord", Amen.

This is now a proper Seafon to be mindful of the Wants and Neceffities of our Brethren & and we cannot better exercife our Charity than by recommending the whole State of Mankind to the Mercy and Goodness of God; and by interceding with him, by the Virtue of this Chriftian Sacrifice, for a Supply of whatever they fhall ftand in Need of.

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(1) 2 Cor. x, 5. (m) Rev. vi, 2. (n) Rom.viii, 35, &c. Such Interceffions always made a Part of the publick Liturgies of the ancient Church, as is well known to those who are converfant in Antiquity; and no Part of the Prayers ⚫ exceeded more in Length than that which related to this Subject.' Nelfon's great Duty of frequenting the Chriftian Sacrifice, p. 140.

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God, who art loving unto every Man, and whofe Mercy is over all thy Works, accept my Prayers and Interceffions as a Teftimony of my Charity towards the whole Race of Mankind: Enlarge the Borders of thy Sanctuary, that the Heathen may fear thy Name : Give thy Son the Heathen for his Inberitance, and the utmost Parts of the Earth for his Poffeffion. O that the Heathen might know thee, and the People who have not called upon thy Name! That thy Way might be known upon Earth, and thy faving Health among all Nations! O that the Blood of Chrift, which was fhed for all Men, might be effectual to the. Salvation of all Men living in the World!

In a more fpecial Manner I pray thee to blefs that Church which thou haft gathered from among the Heathens', thy holy Catholick Church; fanctify and cleanfe it by thy Word, that it may become a glorious Church, not habing Spot or Wrinkle, or any fuch Thing, but that it may be holy and without Blemish". Give Grace to all Chriftians feriously to lay to Heart the great Sin of Divifion and Schifm: Take away all Hatred and Prejudice, and whatfoever may hinder us from godly Union and Concord, that as there is but one Body and Spirit, and one Hope of our Calling; one Lord, one Faith, one Baptifm; one God and Father of all *; fo we

[o] Pfal. cxlv, 8. [r] Ibid. lxxix, 6. [u] Eph. v, 26, 37.

[p] Ibid. cii, 15. [f] Ibid. lxvii, 2. [x] Eph. iv, 4.

[q] Ibid. ii, 8. [t] Ibid. cvi, 45,

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may, in thy good Time, be all as the firft Chriftians were, of one Heart, and of one Soul", and may with one Mind and one Mouth glorify thee the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift Y, the Prince of Peace 2.

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Have Mercy upon the found Part of thy Church, which thou haft planted among us, and graciously preferved hitherto against the Rage and Malice of all her Enemies. Perfect whatever is wanting in her, and make her a Praife in the Earth: Let not the Gates of Hell prevail against her, but continue her a Bulwark to thy true Faith, and a Protector of the Reformed Churches. O thou who art the moft high, and ruleft in the Kingdom of Men tb, blefs him whom in thy Providence thou haft placed over us to be the nurfing Father of our = Zion, our Sovereign. Lord King GEORGE; = prevent him with the Bleffings of Goodness, and make him exceeding glad with thy Countenance". Give the King thy Judgments, O God, and thy Righteoufnefs unto the King's Sons, and to all the Royal Family; and grant that there may never fail him a Man worthy to fit on the Throne of thefe Kingdoms. Teach our Senators Wijdom, and grant that our Rulers may not be a Terror to good Works, but to the Evil; that they may be the Minifters of God for Good, and not bear the Sword in vain; and that the People may be subject not only for Wrath, but alfo for Confcience Sake. O thou great

[y] Acts iv, 32. [yy] Rom. xv, 6.

[a] Zeph. iii, 20. [c] If. xlix, 23. [el 1 Kings ii, 4.

[b] Matth. xvi, [cc] Pfal, xxi, 6. If Pfal. cv, 22. I 5

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[z] Ifaiah ix, 66 [bb] Dan. v, 326 Ibid. lxxii, 1, &c. Rom. xiii, 3, &c.

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Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls", let thy Priefts be cloathed with Righteousness, and let thy Saints fing with Joyfulness: Do thou incline and enable thofe who minister in thy Church to attend upon their Miniftry, and to take heed that they fulfil it; to take heed to themfelves, and to their Doctrines, and to the Flock over which thou haft made them Overfeers.

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[Shower down, O Lord, the Bleffings of thy Grace upon us here before thee, and all thy faithful People wherever elfe affembled to celebrate this facred Ordinance. Give us at all Times due Preparation of Soul for a worthy Approach to thy holy Table: And do thou pardon every one that prepareth his Heart to feek the Lord, the Lord God of his Fathers, tho' he be not cleanfed according to the Purification of the Sanctuary. May thy Love be fhed abroad on those whose Hearts are inclined unto the Lord God of Ifrael nn; who long after thee, and the Pleafures of thine Houfe, even of thy boly Temple; who thro' Infirmity or Sickness, or any unavoidable Occafions, are prevented from exalting thee in the Congregation of thy People Accept, O merciful God, their joining fpiritually with us; and do thou, by thy Grace, fupply their Lack of the outward Means, and convince all that name the Name of Chrift of the great Advantage of this

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(h) 1 Pet. ii, 25. (1) Acts xx, 28. (m) 2 Chron. xxx, 19. [nn] Josh. xxiv, 23. [9] Pfal. Ixv, 4.

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