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O Eternall and most gracious God, who though thou haue reser∣ued thy tresure of perfit ioy, and perfit glory, to be giuen by thine own hands then, whē by see∣ing thee, as thou art in thy selfe, and knowing thee, as we are known, wee shall possesse in an instant, and possesse for
euer, all that can any way cōduce to our hap∣pinesses, yet here also in this world, giuest vs such earnests of that full pay∣ment, as by the value of the earnest, we may giue some estimat of the tre∣sure, humbly, and thāk∣fully I acknowledge, that thy blessed spirit in∣structs mee, to make a differēce of thy blessings in this world, by that difference of the Instru∣ments, by which it hath pleased thee to deriue them vnto me. As we see
thee heere in a glasse, so we receiue frō thee here by reflexion, & by instru∣ments. Euen casual things come from thee; and that which we call Fortune here, hath another name aboue. Nature reaches out her hand, and giues vs corne, and wine, and oyle, and milk, but thou fillest her hand before, and thou openest her hand, that she may rain down her showres vp∣on vs. Industry reaches out her hand to vs, and giues vs fruits of our la∣bor,
for our selues, & our posteritie; but thy hand guides that hand, when it sowes, and when it wa∣ters, and the increase is from thee. Friends reach out their hands, & pre∣fer vs, but thy hand sup∣ports that hād, that sup∣ports vs. Of all these thy instruments haue I recei∣ued thy blessing, O God, but bless thy name most for the greatest; that as a member of the publike, and as a partaker of pri∣uate fauours too, by thy right hand, thy power∣full
hand set, ouer vs, I haue had my portion, not only in the hearing, but in the preaching of thy Gospel. Humbly beseech∣ing thee, that as thou continuest thy wonted goodnes vpon the whol world, by the wonted meanes, & instruments, the same Sun, and Moon, the same Nature, and In∣dustry, so to continue the same blessings vpon this State, and this Church by the same hand, so long, as that thy Son when he comes in the clouds, may
find him, or his Son, or his sonnes sonnes ready to giue an account, & able to stand in that iudgmēt, for their faithfull Stew∣ardship, and dispensation of thy talēts so abūdant∣ly cōmitted to them; & be to him, O God, in all distēpers of his body, in all anxieties of spirit, in all holy sadnesses of soule, such a Phisician in thy proportion, who art the greatest in heauen, as hee hath bin in soule, & body to me, in his proportiō, who is the greatst vpon earth.