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Converfion of St. Paul, and for St. John Baptift. See Good Works.

Prayer.

For the Acceptance of our Prayers. Collect for the 10th Sunday after Trinity. Providence.

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Prayers for Protection by God's ProviCollects for the 2d, 3d, 4th, and

dence.

20th Sundays after Trinity.

Purity.

A Prayer for Purity of Heart. Collect for the Purification.

Regeneration.

A Prayer for it. Collect for Christmas

Day.

Religion.

A Prayer that we may be truly Religious. Collect for the 7th Sunday after Trinity.

Saints.

Prayers for the Imitation of them. Collects for St. Stephen, St. Philip, and St. James, St. John Baptift, and All Saints.

Scripture.

A Prayer before reading the Scriptures. Collect for the 2d Sunday in Advent.

Sin.

Prayers for Converfion from Sin. Collects for the ft Sunday in Advent, the 1st

Sunday

Sunday after Eafter, St. Andrew, St. James,

aud St. Matthew.

For Pardon of Sin.

Collects for the

12th, 21ft, and 24th Sundays after Trinity. Sincerity.

A Prayer for it. Collect for the 3d Sunday after Eafter.

Holy Spirit.

Prayers for the Direction of the Holy Spirit. Collects for the 19th Sunday after Trinity, and 5th after Eafter..

Temptations.

Prayers for Deliverance from, and Sup port under, Temptations. Collects for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, and the 2d in Lent.

Thoughts.

A Prayer against Evil Thoughts. Col lect for the 5th Sunday after Eafter. Unbelievers.

A Prayer for Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Heretics. The 3d Collect for Good-Friday. Good Works..

Prayers for Fruitfulness in Good Works. Collects for the 5th Sunday after Eafter, and the 1ft, 9th, 11th, 13th 17th, and 25th Sundays after Trinity.

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PART II.

An Office of HUMILIATION.

THE Defign of this Office is, to furnish the good Chriftian, who has fet afide the Whole or any part of a Day to humble bimfelf before God for his Sins, with fuch Prayers as may be proper upon fuch Occafons. In the Ufe of the Confeffions, as in deed of almost all private Prayers, every one muft fupply or omit, as his Circumstances require; the Defign hereof being to provide only for the most ordinary Wants of a Chrif tian on fuch Occafions. And as to his Ufe of more or fewer of thefe Prayers, he is left to his own Difcretion, as Time and Opportunity may ferve: But because the devout Chriftian will find himself difpofed, especially after Retirement, and ferious Recollection, to render Thanks to Almighty God, for the many Mercies he has received at his Hands, and to intercede for others as well as himfelf; there is added a General Thanksgiv ing and Interceffion, either of which may alfo be used at other Times, particularly in our Evening Retirement upon the Lord's Day.

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Of Self-Examination.

After you

have performed your ordinary De votions for the Day, you may use this Prayer before Examination.

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O Thou great Searcher of Hearts, who feeft and knoweft all my Sins; help me fo to fearch every Secret of my Heart, that I leave no Sin, if poffible, unrepented of. Give me Grace fo impartially to judge and condemn myself, fo humbly to repent and beg Pardon, that I may not be condemned, when I fhall appear at thy Tribunal, in the great and terrible Day of the Lord Jefus.

But alas! after the moft ftrict Examination we can make, who can number his Iniquities? Who can tell how oft he offendeth? Cleanfe me, therefore, O Lord, I beseech thee, not only from my prefumptuous and known Sins, but from all fecret and unknown Tranfgreffions, for his Sake, who died for Sinners, Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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Motives to Examination; together with fome Rules to be obferved therein.

HAVING devoutly prayed for God's Affiftance, doubt not but he will vouchfafe it you. And the better to difpofe your Heart to the Duty of Self-Examination ; Confider ferioufly with yourfelf, "That "it is appointed for all Men once to die and after Death to be called to Judgment. "That God hath appointed a Day in which "be will judge the World in Righteousness

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by Jefus Chrift. At whofe Coming, all "Men fhall rife again with their Bodies, "and fhall give an Account of their own "Works: And they that have done Good,

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Shall go into Life everlafting; and they "that have done Evil, into everlasting Fire: "For the Books fhall be opened, and the "Dead fhall be judged out of the Things "written in thofe Books according to their Works. And then confider how much, how nearly it concerns you to judge yourfelf before that Time, that you be "not judged, that is, condemned of the

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"Since then you must give an Account "of yourself, of all your thoughts, Words,

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