form my Will to thine. And grant that with an humble Submiffion and holy Confidence, I may equally reverence and adore the most different Events which thou fhalt accomplish in me.

VI. O God, grant that I' may with a conftant Evennefs of Spirit embrace all thy Difpofals, forafmuch as I know not what to afk, and cannot defire abfolutely one Event rather than another without Prefumption, and without making myself the Judge of all that Train of future Things which thy Wifdom has fo juftly concealed from my View. I know, O Lord, my whole Knowledge may be reduced to this one Point; That it is Good to obey thee, and Evil to offend thee. After this, I know not what is best or worst amongst all Things. Iknow not what is most profitable for me, Health, or Sickness, Riches, or Poverty, any Condition, any Circumftances of this World; fuch a Judgment surpasseth the Force and Sagacity of Man, and lies hid amongst the Secrets of thy good Providence; which I will reverence and adore, and humbly fubmit to, but will never attempt to trace, or penetrate into, or difpute and murmur againft. Finally, O my God, I commit my Life, and the deareft Concerns that attend

it, to thy Difpofal, in the Name of Jesus Chrift my Saviour, befeeching thee, for his Sake, by fuch Ways and Means as thou feest fit, to bring me to Life Eternal. Amen.

A Prayer for a holy and happy Death.

Eternal and holy Jefus; who by thy Death haft overcome Death, and by thy Paffion haft taken out its Sting and made it an Entrance into everlasting Life: Help me fo to order my Converfation in the World, fo to govern my Spirit, and to lead my Life, that I may die in Comfort and Safety. Let not my Death be in any Senfe unprovided, nor untimely.

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Grant that in the Time of my Sickness, may not be left without the Affistance of a fpiritual Guide, nor be deftitute of the Comfort of receiving the bleffed Sacrament.

Let me finish my Courfe with Patience, and Refignation of my own Will and Defires; with a firm Faith, and a well-grounded Hope; with a true and fincere Repentance, and great Degrees of Love towards thee my God, and Charity to all the World: And whenever it fhall please thee to call me out of this vain and wicked World, grant that I may die the Death of the Righteous;

Righteous; having first discharged all my Obligations of Juftice, leaving none miferable and unprovided at my Departure.

And when the appointed Time of my Change comes, grant, O Lord, that I may receive it not as a Curfe, but a Deliverance; as a Reft from all my Labours, without Trouble and without Sin. O remember not against me my manifold Follies; but let them all be done away by thy Mercy, and my bleffed Saviour's Merits. Support me, O good God, in my laft Agonies, and as my Strength decays, let my Pains wear off; and when my Strength fails, let not my Faith fail; even in Death enable me to truft in thee.

Deliver me from all violent Disorders of a troubled Fancy, and defend me against all Delusions of my Ghoftly Enemy: O let him not be able to difturb or terrify me or any way prevail against me. And when my Death approaches, give thy holy Angels Charge to stand about me, to guard and receive my poor Soul at my Departure, and to conduct and carry it to the bleffed Regions of Reft and Peace, there to wait for thy Coming, and then to partake of the Glories of thy Kingdom, O Eternal and Holy Jefus. Amen.

A devout

A devout Prayer that may be used at any

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My God! infinite in Goodness and boundless in Mercy to all who love and obey thee; grant me Grace, I beseech thee, to love thee with all my Heart, with all my Soul, and with all my Strength, and for thy Sake to love all Men as myfelf: Give me a charitable Opinion of them all, whether Friends or Enemies: fuffer me not rafhly to judge or contemn any person of what State or Condition foever, and if it be my own Lot to be despised and rejected by others, teach me therewith to be content.

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Grant that I may never study to please Men in any Thing, whereby I may be in Danger of difpleafing thee; and that it may always be my chief and only Defire, to promote thy Honour, and to fulfil in all Things thy moft holy Will.

Give me Grace, Ó heavenly Father, to be entirely fubmiffive and contented under all the Afflictions, Difappointments, and Sufferings, which it is thy Pleafure I fhould endure, and which thy Wisdom shall judge proper and useful to advance me towards thee. And grant that by every Tribulation

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and Adverfity which may befal me, whether directly from thy Hand, or from Men, as thy Inftruments, I may be weaned from the World; and more closely united to thee.

O heavenly Father, I beseech thee, by the Merits and Death of thy Son, to give me Grace, to have thee always before my Eyes; and with an holy Fear feriously to confider the Hour of my Death, which is fo uncertain; the Shortnefs of my Life, of which, alas! I have fo unprofitably, for Trifles, already loft fo great a Part; the Day of Judgment, which is so awful to the Good, and fo terrible to the Wicked; and upon the infinite and eternal Punishments which fhall then be inflicted upon impeni.

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And finally grant, O infinite Bounty, that I may never feek or find Peace or Pleasure in any Thing without thyfelf; and that thy Will may be the Rule of my Conduct and of all my Actions in this World, and thou thyfelf my eternal Blifs and Happiness in that which is to come.

II. O moft gracious Saviour! keep me from prefuming on my own Sufficiency; from relying on my own Actions, and on my own Conduct. Grant that I may not truft in any Thing, but in thee alone, and m thy all-fufficient Merits, that all my

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