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O Gracious Lord who hast in thy bounty to mankind afforded us the use of thy good creatures, for our corporal refreshment, grant I may alwayes use this liberty with thankfulness, and moderation, O let me ne∣ver be so enslaved to that brutish pleasure of the taste, that my Table become a snare to me, but give me, I beseech thee, a perfect abhor∣rence of all degrees of excess, and let me eat
and drink onely for those ends, and according to those measures, which thou hast assigned me, for health and not for luxury. And Lord, grant that my pursuits may be, not after the meat that perisheth, but after that which en∣dureth to everlasting life, that hungring and thirsting after righteousness, I may be filled with thy grace here, and thy glory hereafter, through Jesus Christ.