RULES of CAUTION, or HELPS to OBEDIENCE: Called by some, The HEDGE of the LAW.

To break the Serpent's head, by guarding against his temptations. Conftantly to remember our latter

end.

To live soberly, and watch al

ways.

To cut off occasions from the enemy, who seeks occasions.

Never to allow ourselves in idle

ness;

Nor to converse with vain and disorderly persons; but to frequent, and love the company of the good.

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To make a covenant with our eyes, and to bring our body into subjection.

To give ourselves much unto prayer, and to retire from the world, by the exercise of pénitence, abstinence, and mortification,

With these thorns, Lord, let me be hedged about, that I wander not after vanity.

Hold thou me in with bit and bridle, when I would break away from thee.

O thou, who hast invited me, compel me to come in to my own happiness.

An ACT of FAITH.

BELIEVE in thee, O Lord, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, one only true God:

That all things were created by thy almighty power and love;

That all have been renewed and restored, by the goodness and mercy, exhibited in the person of thy Word, the Lord JESUS CHRIST: Who for us men, and for our salvation, was made flesh, conceived and born, did suffer, and was crucified, descended into Hell, and rose from the dead, ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God; from whence he shall come again, and judge the quick and the dead.

I also

I also believe, that by the illumination, and powerful operation of the Holy Ghoft, a peculiar people has been called, from all quarters of the world, to be knit into one society, united, and distinguished by belief of the truth, and holiness of life:

That, as Members of this Body, we partake of the Communion of Saints, and forgiveness of sins, in this world: And, by virtue of the same membership, do assuredly expect the resurrection of the flesh, and life everlasting, in the world to

come.

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THIS

THIS

HIS pure and holy faith, once delivered to the Saints, Lord, I believe: Help thou mine unbelief. Strengthen in me that which is weak, and add to me that which is wanting.

This faith let me have grace always to exert and improve; by loving thee, O Father, in return for thy tender affection; by fearing thee, O Almighty, from an awful sense of thy power; by committing my soul in well-doing to thee, O most faithful Creator.

Let me seek and attain salvation in thee, O Jesus, my Saviour; from thee, O Christ, the Anointed, let me have the unction of thy chosen; from thee, the only begotten, the adoption,