Hope, and all my Confidence may be in them; yet fo as never to make me neglect any Opportunity of performing that which thy Grace hath enabled me to do.

Fill my Heart, O blessed Jefus ! with a lively Senfe of thy divine Love; and deliver me from all the Inclinations of impure and deceitful Self-Love. Raife, my Defires, enlighten mine Eyes, and touch my Soul, in order to give me the true Knowledge and Senfe of thy Love, of thy Mercies, of thy Wisdom, and of thy Power: As also of my own Nothingnefs; of my Darkness and Unfaithfulness; of my Folly and Wickednefs; of my Mifery and of my Weakness.

O deareft Redeemer! Grant I may never lose the Memory of thy Paffion and Death, but may always have Recourfe to thy Merits and Sufferings, as to an affured Refuge, and as a bleffed Means of Reconciliation to my offended God; and that I may look on thy Wounds, as an effectual Remedy to cure all the Defilements and Corruptions of my finful Nature.

O Prince of Love! fill me fo with thy Divine Love, that for the Sake thereof all Toil and Travel, all Dangers and Difficulmay be fweet and easy to me; and that in Comparison of thy facred Love, I may upon all the Creatures, all their Com

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forts, all their Joys, and all their Recrea tions, as mean and contemptible; that if at any Time thy infinite Wifdom' fhall think fit to withdraw them from me, I may feel as great Chearfulness in fubmitting to the Want of them, as I have fometimes found Reluctancy to be deprived of them. Amen.

A Prayer in ftormy and tempestuous Weather, as great Thunder, Lightning, &c.

Great and glorious God, who makest the Thunder, and caufeft the Vapours to afcend from the Ends of the Earth; thou fendeft forth thy Commandment upon the Earth, and thy Word runneth very swiftly; thou makest Lightnings for the Rain, and bringeft the Wind out of thy TreaJuries. Thou givest Snow like Wool, thou fcattereft the Hoar-froft like Afhes, and cafteth forth thy Ice like Morfels. Fire and Hail, Snow and Vapours, and the stormy Wind fulfil thy Word. How wonderful art thou in thy Works, and terrible in thy Doings, towards the Children of Men!

O deliver us from our just Fears and uneafy Apprehenfions, and in Mercy cause the threatening Deftruction to pass over us. Grant that the prefent Storm may not be a Meffenger of thy Judgment, and an ExeU 2

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cutioner of thy Wrath only, but a Means to cool and refresh, and cleanse the Air, and make the Earth fruitful. O fhut not thy merciful Ear to our Prayers, but fave and deliver us for thy Mercy's Sake, who now apply to thee in this. Time of our Diftrefs.

We know, O Lord, that thy Judgments are juft, and that our Sins have deferved much greater Punifhment than those we now fear; for we have broken thy Covenant, disobeyed thy Commandments, and provoked thee to be angry with us; but we are heartily forry for our Offences, we repent and turn to thee; do thou, O God, increase our Repentance! O let that full, perfect, and fufficient Sacrifice, which thy beloved Son offered up upon the Cross, atone and make Satisfaction for our Sins.

Suffer us not, O Lord, to forget thee; but awaken us out of all carnal Security, and from the Sleep and Death of Sin. Let not the Impreffions of thy Power, which the Neife and Shaking of the impending Storm hath made upon us, foon wear off. And fince the dreadful Commotions it occafious are now fo terrible, help us to confi der how much more aftonishing it will be to fee the Heavens on Fire, and the Element melt with fervent Heat, and the Earth,

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and the Works that are therein, be burnt up.. Do thou foeffectually touch our Hearts, and incline our Wills by the powerful Operations of thy Spirit, that no Excuses may prevail with us to defer our Preparations against that time, nor delay to provide a Place of Retreat and Security.

Let fuch Thoughts fink deep into our Minds, that we may valiantly fight under the Captain of our Salvation, Chrift Jefus, and bravely refift, and conquer all the Temptations and Allurements of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil.

Let them deter us from every evil Work, and make us effectually to confider, what Manner of Perfons we ought to be in all holy Converfation, and Godliness. Grant this, O God, for the Sake of Jefus Chrift, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

A Prayer for Rain.

GOD, who didst promife to give thy People Rain in due Seafon, if they fhould walk in thy Statutes, and keep thy Commandments, and do them, that the Land might yield her Increase, and the Trees of the Field their Fruits; and by thy Son Jefus Chrift haft promised as an Encourage

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couragement to all them who in the first Place feek thy Kingdom, and the Righteoufnefs requifite to bring us to the Enjoyment thereof, all Things neceffary to their bodily Suftenance; I befeech thee, in this Time of our Diftrefs, to fend us fuch moderate Rain and Showers, that we may receive the Fruits of the Earth in due Seafon. I confefs, O Lord, our Unworthiness of this Mercy, and that thou mightest juftly make the Heavens over us as Brafs, and the Rain of our Land Duft: But I humbly pray thee to pardon our Sins, and in the Midft of Judgment to remember Mercy; and to caufe the Rain to come down in due Seafon, that the Grafs may grow for the Cattle, and Herbs and Fruit for the Service of Men; and that the Poor may eat and be satisfied, and praise the Lord for his Bounty and Loving-Kindness. And whatever Bleffings thou shalt bestow upon us, give us Grace to use them to thy Honour and our own Comfort. Keep us from murmuring and repining at thy Dealings with us; and let all thy Difpenfations be received with Refignation and Thankfulness, and bring us in the End to thy heavenly Kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen.·

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