Hearts, that they may fee their Error, and be reconciled to thee, O God, and then live with their Brethren in Unity and Godly Love, and that at last we may meet together in heavenly Glory; and those that will not ceafe from hating, Lord, prevent them from hurting me; or though they do hurt me grant me fuch a Measure of thy Grace, that I may not only forgive them, but for their Hatred, may return Goodwill; for their Curfing, Bleffing; for their Injuries, may do them Good; and for their Perfecutions, may pray for them, in Obedience to thy Command and Example, who didst exprefs the highest Love to us, in dying for us, even when we were thy Enemies. Let me confider all injurious Treatment as thy Rod, and the Punishment of my Sins; that inftead of endeavouring to revenge myself of my Enemies, I may be meek and patient under all Wrongs. O Lord God, mortify, I befeech thee, in all of us, the carnal Mind, which is Enmity against thee, and all thofe Lufts that war in our Members, from whence Wars and Fightings come. Turn all our Enmity against the common Enemy of our Souls; and join all our Hearts to thee, in thy true Fear and Love, that we may not meditate

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Revenge, but study to be quiet, and never foment and purfue our Quarrels ; but following thy Example, we may with one Mind, and with one Mouth, glorify thee. Amen.

A Prayer to be used by one who is going a Journey, which may be added to the ufual Devotions.

O GOD, who art alike prefent in all Places, and preferveft Man and Beaft, bleffed be thy Name for the Knowledge thou haft given me of thy wife and merci ful Providence, who makeft thy Angels Miniftering Spirits, for them that shall be Heirs of Salvation.

I commit my Soul and Body to thy Protection, who art the Defender of all them that put their Truft in thee. To thee, O Lord, do I commit myself, and all that belongs to me; I entirely depend on thy Goodnefs to be with me, and profper me in the Way that I am going. Give thy holy Angels Charge of me, and defend me from all Thieves and Robbers, and from all Cafualties, and evil Accidents, if it be thy bleffed Will; and I befeech thee more especially, to accompany me with the Pre

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fence of thy Holy Spirit, to preserve my Soul in Safety, from all evil Thoughts, Defires, or Paffions, that may any Way betray me, in Word or Deed, to offend thy Divine Majefty. Deliver me from the Danger of any evil Company, into which I may fall, that I may not frame myself to the Manners of profane Perfons, but by a pious and discreet Behaviour rather reprove them; and give me Grace thankfully to embrace the Company of those who are good, if I be bleffed with it; that I may rejoice in their Society, and improve it to my Increase of Wisdom, and pious Affection towards thee. Bless and defend this Habitation which I am now leaving, and all remaining in it; that whatever Distance we may be from one another, we may all live and walk in the fame Spirit of Faith, and Love, and Holiness. Grant me a happy Meeting again with my Friends and Relations, if it be thy good Will and Pleafure: but how foever thou fhalt think fit to difpofe of us in this World, bring us, in the End of our Pilgrimage, into that bleffed Reft which thou haft prepared for thy faithful Servants, through Jefus Christ. Amen.

A Thanksgiving after a return from a
Journey.

BLESSED be thy Name, O God, who haft protected and preferved me from many Perils and Dangers in the Journey I have lately taken. Thou hast been a Covering to me Night and Day, in every Place where I have been, from I know not how many Dangers; and haft at last brought me Home in Peace and Safety to my Relations and Friends, whom thou haft protected, and their Dwellings, from all evil Accidents.

To thy good Providence I wholly owe it; and I defire to be duly thankful for these and all other thy great Mercies and Deliverances who haft dealt fo bountifully with me.

Endue me, O God of all Grace, with a more ferious Spirit, often reflecting and meditating upon thee, and upon thy Benefits both to my Soul and Body; for this Life, and that which is to come; that I may not be taught the Value and Number of thy Bleffings, by being deprived of them; but in their conftant Ufe and Enjoyment, may praise thy infinite Goodness and Mercy,

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with fenfible Love to thee, and Delight in doing thy Will.

Blefs all others, I befeech thee, that defire the fame Mercy, of which thou haft made me a Partaker. Receive them into thy Protection; conduct them in safety to the End of their Journey; make them ever mindful of thy Loving kindness, and carefully to remember that every new Benefit is a new Obligation to better Obedience; for thy Mercies Sake in Chrift Jefus. Amen.

A Prayer for a Perfon upon a Relapfe into Sin.

O LORD, the great and dreadful God, to me belongeth Confufion of Face, because I have finned against thee, and have been guilty of fo late Iniquity in thy Sight. I have acknowledged the Juftice and Goodnefs of thy Laws, and have chosen thy Service, as the most perfect Freedom; I know that without Holinefs none fhall fee thee, O Lord; and that Tribulation and Anguish, Indignation and Wrath, is the Portion of all that do Evil: And yet, O Lord, foolish and miferable Sinner that I am, I have Q:6 yielded