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The Prayer.
O Most mighty God, who art more pleased with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and the oblation of our soules in the vowes of obedience and a holy life, then with the burnt offerings and sacrifices of Bullocks and Goates: let thy grace reforme our lives and manners: keep our mouth from slander and obloquy, from guile and deceit: let us never consent to actions of injustice or un∣cleanesse, that we partake not with Thieves or with Adulterers, either in their sinne or punish∣ment, that when thou shalt appeare in perfect beauty with a consuming fire before thee, and a tempest round about thee, with terrors and glo∣rious Majesty, calling the heavens and the earth together, that thou mayest judge all thy people, thou mayest gather us among thy Saints, and give us the mercies and the portion of thine inheri∣tance, that so we may honour thee by an eter∣nall oblation of praise and thanksgiving in the Heavens, where thou, O God, declarest thy sal∣vation to all thy elect people, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.