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GRacious Lord, and heavenly Father, I cannot cease but I must cry unto thee for mercy, be∣cause my sins cry against me for Ju∣stice, how shall I address my self unto thee, but with the Publican, I must stand and admire thy good∣ness toward me, considering thy tender mercy, and long patience toward me, in that thou hast kept me this day past from being con∣sumed, and brought to naught? for Lord, what is man, or the son of
man, that thou regardest him? for the more days past over my head, the more sins and iniquities I heap up against thee; if I should cast up the Accounts of my good deeds this day, O Lord how few and how small would they be? but if I should reckon up my miscarriages this day, surely they would amount to many and great. O blessed Fa∣ther, let thy sons blood wash me, and cleanse me from all my impuri∣ties, and from all the stains of sin that are upon me; give me grace to lay fast hold upon his merites, that it may be my Reconcilation and Attonement unto thee; that I may assure my self, that my sins are forgiven by his death and pas∣sion. And now, O Lord, I beseech thee, to imbrace me in the Armes of thy mercy; vouchsafe to re∣ceive me into the bosom of thy love, shadow me with thy wings, that I may safely take my rest in thee this night; in the Name of thy
Son Jesus Christ, in whom I refer my self wholly to thy protection, beseeching thee, that when this life shall end, my last sleep being come, I may take my everlasting rest with thee in thy heavenly Kingdome, for the glory of thy holy Name, and to my eternal com∣fort; through the merits of thy dearly beloved Son, my Lord, and only Saviour; in whose perfect form of Prayer, I conclude my im∣perfect Petitions, saying,
Our Father, &c.