cere mourner for my paft fins; and as far as is poffible, redeem my mifpent time, by employing the remainder of my days in thy fervice, and to thy glory.

Give me, O Lord, a new heart, new affections, and new defires; that I may love thee with more fincerity, and ferve thee with greater faithfulness than I have ever yet done.

Teach me, O Lord, fo to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto true wifdom.

Let me never be feparated from thee; but grant that I may be of the number of thy faithful and obedient fervants, who are united to thee by grace and good works in this life, and will hereafter live with thee in endless blifs and happiness. And,

Grant that in the days of health and profperity I may confider my latter end, and remember and provide for that great account, which I must one day give before the judgment-feat of Chrift; that when the hour of my departure fhall come, I may meet death without fear and amazement; and with a well-grounded hope of thy mercy and goodnefs, may chearfully refign up my foul into thy hands; and may be willing and even defirous to leave this world, when thou my God, in thy great wisdom, fhall fee it fitting.

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Be mindful, O Lord, of all that are in any affliction or diftrefs. Relieve and comfort those that fuffer for the teftimony of a good confcience, or that labour under the torments of a wounded fpirit. Let the forrowful fighing of the afflicted come before thee; and deliver them, in thy good time, out of all their troubles.

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To these my prayers and interceffions, I defire to add my unfeigned praises for all thy bleffings fpiritual and temporal. I bless thee more particularly for the mercies of the day. paft; for preferving me in health and safety; and delivering me from the evils which I have moft juftly deferved.

Give me grace to make a right use and improvement of all thy mercies; and vouchfafe, O Lord, to continue to me thy gracious favour and protection. Be thou pleafed of thy great goodness to take me, [my dear husband or wife and children] and all that belong to me, this night, under the care of thy good providence. Defend us from all perils and dangers; and after the comfortable refrefhments of reft and fleep, raife us up in health and fafety, with hearts full of love to thee, and zeal to thy ferG 5 vice.

vice, through Jefus Chrift our Lord, in the fulleft fenfe of whose words I pray to be heard, faying, Our Father, &cu, tuli

A prayer during the time of ficknefs.

Almighty and immortal God, the aid of

all that need, the helper of all that flee to thee for fuccour; the life of them that believe, and the refurrection of the dead; I humble myself before thee with fincere acknowledgments of thy juftice, in all the difpenfations of thy divine providence. Look with an eye of compaffion upon me thy poor afflicted fervant, and fanctify, I befeech thee, this thy fatherly correction to me, that I may never murmur or repine under any of thy wife difpenfations; but at all times receive thy judgments as a means to wean me from the world; to bring me nearer to thyfelf; and to purge away all that drofs and defilement which my foul has contracted in this state of finful mortality..

I confefs, O gracious Lord, that thy judgments are juft, and that thou of thy goodness haft caufed me to be troubled; for notwithftanding all the gentle methods which thou haft used towards me, I have not loved thee as I ought to do but in the days of health and profpe

profperity have forgotten thee my God, and gone in the paths of vanity and folly; but, O merciful father, that defpifeft not the fighing of a contrite heart, nor the defire of fuch as be forrowful, mercifully affift my prayers that I offer unto thee in all my troubles and adverfities: and especially let not my fins provoke thee to turn away thy face from me thy fervant, now feeking unto thee in this time of my trouble; fhut not up the bowels of thy tender compaffion from me; but for the merits and interceffion of thy beloved fon, pardon all my fins, and vouchfafe, I beseech thee, for his fake, to be reconciled unto me.

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Support me under all my pains, weaknes fes, and infirmities; ftrengthen my faith, enlarge my hopes, increase my charity, and fect my repentance. Make thou my bed in my fickness, and lay not more upon me than thou wilt enable me to bear; give a bleffing to the means that shall be ufed for my recovery; and fay unto my foul, I am thy falvation; and if it be thy good pleasure, reftore me to my former health, that I may lead the refidue of my life in thy fear, and to thy glory: but if thou haft determined that this fickness fhall be unto death; grant, O merciful father, that the more the outward man decayeth, fo much the more

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may find the inward man ftrengthened and renewed with thy grace and holy fpirit. O give me grace fo to take this thy vifitation, that after this painful life is ended, I may dwell with thee in life everlafting, through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift, my dear and only Saviour. Amen.

A prayer to be used on taking phyfick.

God the creator and preferver of all mankind, who knoweft our neceffities before we afk, and our ignorance in asking, without whom all our endeavours are but vain, I, in a deep fenfe of all thy mercies, acknowledge it to be an eminent token of thy goodness, that I am not cut off in the midft of my fins, by a fudden and unprovided death, and am particularly thankful that thou haft placed me in fuch ftation and circumstances as to be enabled to obtain the ufe of fuch means as thou haft ordained for the benefit of mankind. Oh! give thy bleffing to thefe means now used for my recovery, and (if it be thy bleffed will) make them fo effectual for that end, that I may live and be an inftrument of thy glory, and better prepared for the coming of my dear Lord, when every man fhall be judged according to what he has done in the flesh, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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