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A Prayer on any Saint's Day.

O Lord God, precious in thy Sight is the

Death of thy Saints and Martyrs, because they have had the great Happiness to give thee the utmost Teftimony of their unfeigned Love and Affection. Precious to themselves, O Lord, is the Death of thy Saints; because as they have been Partakers of Christ's Sufferings, fo when his Glory fhall appear, they fhall be made glad with exceeding Joy. Let their Death be always precious, O Lord, in thy Sight; because their Example has convinced me of the Poffibility of ferving thee under the greateft Difficulties, and animates my Endeavours with the Profpect of their happy Succefs.

I blefs and praise thy holy Name, for all the Apostles, Saints, and Martyrs, departed this Life in thy Faith and Fear. I congratulate their Victories over the World, who overcame themfelves, and led in Triumph their own Paffions. I com memorate with all Thankfulnefs their he roic Piety, and who served the Lord in Hunger and Thirst, in Prison and Chains, on Racks and in Torture, and who undauntedly encountered Death armed with.

the greatest Terror. Let that mighty Grace, O Lord, which enabled them to conquer all Oppofition, fupport and animate thy Servant, who is furrounded with the fame Temptations, and expofed to the fame unruly Paffions. Let their Examples teach me to be humble and meek, and to fubmit all my Defires to the Will of God; to govern my Senfes by Reason, and my Reafon by the Dictates of Revelation; to hold fast thy true Religion and Worship, and never to live unworthy thereof; to take up the Crofs, and to refift unto Blood, ftriving against Sin. Let their mortified Lives raise me above the Pleasures of Senfe; and let the Pattern of their Piety and Devotion, of their Purity and Charity, of their patient Suffering, and Perfeverance unto the End, be always fo lively imprinted upon my Mind, that I may transcribe their Example in my Life and Conversation, and thereby inherit those Promises they are now made Partakers of, through the Merits of Jefus Chrift my only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

A Prayer

A Prayer at our first Entrance into the Church.

LORD, I am now in thy House; affift, I pray thee, and accept of my Services. Enable me and all who may this Day meet in thy Name, to worship thee in Spirit and in Truth. Let thy Holy Spirit help our Infirmities, and difpofe our Hearts to Serioufnefs, Attention and Devotion; and grant that we may improve this Opportunity, to the Honour of thy holy Name, and the Benefit of our Souls, through Jefus Chrift our Saviour. Amen.

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A Prayer at Church after the Service is ended.

BLESSED be thy Name, O Lord, for this Opportunity of attending thee in thy House and Service.

Grant that I, and all that profess thy Name, may be Doers of thy Word, and not Hearers only: Pardon our Wanderings and Imperfections, and accept both us and our Services, through our only Mediator Jefus Chrift. Amen.

A Prayer

A Prayer for Chastity.

GREAT and glorious Lord God: Thou art a Being of infinite Holiness, and unfpotted Purity, and haft declared thy Hatred and Abhorrence of all Impurity and Uncleannefs. I prefent myself before thee at this Time, befeeching thee to give me a Heart full of Sorrow and Concern, for that the Temper and Difpofition of my Mind are fo oppofite and contrary to thee, and that I am fo far from that Purity and Holinefs which thou requireft, and which is neceffary to make me meet to relish and partake of the Joys and Delights of thy Kingdom.

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["I come unto thee to "beg Relief and Affiftance "from thee, and to befeech "thee, for the fake of thy dear Son, to pardon and forgive all the impure and "wicked Thoughts, Defires, and Purpo❝fes, which I have ever entertained in my

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Mind, and all the immodeft and un"chafte Behaviour and Actions of my "Life. And, O merciful God, I likewife "implore Pardon and Forgiveness for all "who have tempted me, or have been "tempted

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"tempted by me, or have been Partakers "with me in any Kind of Impurity. Ref "cue them from the Power and Dominion "of their Lufts, and grant that they may "be converted unto thee."]

O be thou pleased to purge and cleanse my Soul from all Filthinefs of Flesh and, Spirit, and grant that my Body may be a holy Temple, fit for thy Holy Spirit to dwell in.

To this End, do thou enable me to mortify and fubdue all fleshly Lufts, which war against the Soul, which wound the Confcience, grieve the Holy Spirit, and render the Mind unfit for the Peformance of holy Duties.

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Create in me, O God, a clean Heart; and renew a right Spirit within me. thy Fear into my Heart, and caufe in my Soul a ftedfast Resolution against, and Deteftation of all Uncleannefs. Let me ever remember that thou art every where prefent, and that all Things how fecret foever they may be kept from Men, are naked and open to the Eyes of him with whom we have to do. Let me ever remember that thy holy Word declares, that Whoremongers, and Adulterers, fhall be

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