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BLessed, Great and Glorious Lord God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus thy beloved, and the desire of our souls, the fountain of all our comforts, the Author and Fi∣nister of our Faith, who hath with one offering perfected all those that are sanctified; in all our addresses in to thy presence let thy Spirit so as∣sist
us that we may offer up unto thee of thine own; make us sensible more and more of our own vileness and unworthiness either to receive mer∣cies from thee or to return praises for those manifold favours and mer∣cies received: let us be more and more sensible of the great want we stand in of a Saviour and a Sancti∣fier, in regard of our horrid defi∣led natures, which cause us to loath and abhor our selves; how much more loathsome must we needs ap∣pear to thy pure eyes to behold such horrid creatures as we are! let the excellency of thy grace preserve us from sin, and inable us to cast out, and to cast off all the works of sin and darkness. Convince us of the neces∣sity of humility and renewed repen∣tance▪ preserve us from idle securi∣ty, and the neglect of the great work of mortification: Let us consi∣der how God hates sin, and how he is set against it, and how he hath shown his dislike of it by his for bidding it,
and causing his Son to dye for sin; and how he hath chastised the godly themselves for sin, and that he will cast the impenitent into Hell for sin, and that he will suffer no sin nor sin∣ner that so continues, in Heaven: convince us of the folly and madness of sinners that wilfully run on in sin to the damning of their souls, and of the happiness of those small number that shall be saved, and what their duty is; make us of that number who must neither think, speak or do as the most do; that the excellency of redeemed ones may shine in our lives, in our fervent love, and holy and hearty obedience: secure us from the deceits of this last age, both from false Prophets deceits and Satans transforming himself into an Angel of Light, and his Ministers into seeming Ministers of Righteousness to deceive; help is to heep up the interest of God, and Heaven, and Christ, and Holiness in our hearts, and by our faith to over dome the
world; inable us to go on in the se∣rious use of all the means of our sal∣vation, and to forsake the most gain∣ful or sweetest sin, and to perform all the hardest and costliest duties; above all gifts give us thy poor crea∣tures sanctified hearts to preserve us from all sinful temptations, And de∣liver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory for ever, Amen.