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Barbara Zunan

The PRAYER.

Eternal, Almighty and most glorious God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, the Fountain of all Grace and Goodnejs, we praife and adore thy excellent Majefty for all the Expreffions of thy Love unto the World; Thou art Kind to all thy Creatures, in giving them Life and Food, and all Things convenient for them; But in a special Manner thou fetteft thy Love upon Man, whom thou madeft a little lower than the Angels, and haft crowned him with Glory and Honour. Thou createdft us Holy and Upright in the Beginning, with Minds capable to Know, Love and Serve, and Enjoy thee for ever and ever; And after we had tranfgreffed thy Holy Commandments, and in a great Measure defaced thy Image in our Souls, and fo expofed our felves to Death and eternal Condemnation, yet rather than fo noble a Creature as Man should. perifh for ever, it pleafed thy Majefty to fend him into the World, who is the Brightness of thy Glory, and the exprefs Image of thy Perfon, even thy dear Son Jefus Chrift, that whosoever believeth in him fhould not perish, but have everlasting Life. We have beard with our Ears, O God, and our Fathers have told us, what great Things thou hast done for us, how in the Fulness of Time thou haft fent forth thy Son made of a Woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons.

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O the Depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God, how unfearchable are thy fudgments, and thy Ways paft finding out. What is Man, O Lord, that thou art mindful of him? or the Son of Man, that thou (bouldeft vifit him after this Manner?

O wonderful Condefcenfion, ftupendious Love, and Mercy of all Mercies, that the eternal Son of God should stoop so low to become the Son of Man, and take upon him the Form of a Servant,

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To many Indignities, and at laft Death it felf for vile ched Sinners: Great indeed is the Mystery of Godliness. manifested in the Flesh, justified in the Spirit by many Firacles, Wonders and Signs from Heaven, feen of Angels, preached · Into the Gentiles, believed on in the World, and now received up into Glory.

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We believe, O Lord Jesus, that thou art the Chrift, the Son of the Living God, we Praise and Worship thee, O Lord Jefas, the only beloved, and the only begotten of the Father, the Delight of Angels, and the Glory of Heaven What could move thee, Ŏ fweet Saviour, to vail that eternal Beauty, the Beauty and Glory of the Godhood, and to appear in the likeness of infat Fleft, verily this could be no other but Love; Love to u Men, and Love to our Salvation, that we might live and be happy for ever. Therefore thou converfed thirty and three Years with Sinners upon Earth; revealing to them the Will of thy Holy Father, and leading them by thy Holy Example in the Way to everlasting. Happiness. All thy Actions were for our Inftruction to encourage our Faith, to reform our Manners, and to teach us perfect Vertue and perfect Obedience, which appeared throughout thy whole Life and Converfation upon Earth, which was a most excellent Pattern of the greatest Freedom, Affability and Courtefie, of the greatest Candor and Ingenuity, of the most marvellous Gentleness and Meekness, of the deepest Humility, of the greatest Contempt of the World, of the greatest Contentation and Self-denial, of the greatest Obedience, Charity and Patience, and all other Graces, that we may walk in thy Footsteps, and live as thou lived, and give our felves wholly to thee, who loved us, and gave thy felf to us and for us. What shall we fay to thofe Things, If thou, O Lord, be for us, who can be against us? Thou who spared not thy own Son, but delivered him up for us all, wilt thou not with bim freely give us all Things that are good and convenient for us. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our Eyes, there fore again and again, "Bleffed be the Lord God of Ifrael, and

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let all Flesh praife thy Holy Name; for thou hast redeemed thy People, thou hast raised up an Horn of Sai for us in the Houfe of thy Servant David, as thou hast spor by the Mouth of all thy holy Prophets fince the World began that we should be faved from all our Enemies, and from the Hana of all them that hate us, to perform the Mercy promised to our Father Abraham, (who is the Father of them that believe, and walk in his Faith) faying, In thy Seed fhall all the Nations of the Earth be bleffed; and that we being delivered out of the Hands of our Enemies, might ferve thee without Fear of them, in Holiness and Righteousness before thy Majefty all the Days of our Life, through Jefus Christ our Lord and only Saviour. Amen and Amen.

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Good Friday.

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When Jefus had cried with a loud Voice, he faid, Father, into thy Hands I commend my Spirit: And having faid thus, he gave up the Ghoft, Luke 23. 46.

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HIS is the Day that the Son of God was lifted up upon the Cross, that the Sons of Men might be lifted up into Glory; this is the Day that the true Pafchal Lamb was offered, and Chrift our Paffover was facrificed for our Sins. This is the Day that Chrift humbled himself for our fakes, and became Obedient unto Death, even Death of the Crofs. However our bleffed Saviour fuffered all the while he was upon Earth, being often feen po weep, but never to laugh, fo that Christmas Day and Good Friday were in a manner but the Morning and the Evening of his

Paffion: Hence he was called a Man of Sorrows, yet Ifa. 53. this Day he poured out his Soul unto Death, and was

made perfect through Sufferings. This Day he was clothed all over with a Vefture dipt in Blood, and trode the Wine Prefs of the Fiercenefs and Wrath of Almighty God. Therefore let us with broken Hearts and weeping Eyes look up unto Jefus, who this Day had Trial of cruel Mockings and Scourgings, was buffered and fpitted on, and after he had endured fuch Contradiction of Sinners, and for Sinners, was led forth to Mount Calvary, and there in the midst of his Enemies, in the Prefence

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of his Friends, and before the Sun, was nailed all Naked unto the Crofs, that the Shame of our Nakedness might not appear. Here let us confider, Firft, What he faid, and next, What he fuffered, If fo be that we fuffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him. And when Jesus had cried with a loud Voice, he faid, He whofe Words were alwife Seafonable, Rare and Serious, who never fpoke but to the Glorification of God, and the Edifying of his Hearers, now he opens his Mouth from this uneafie Chair of the Crofs, preaches and prays. The Words of a dying Friend are

Heart the Words very obfervable, and shall we not lay to

of Saviour, who as a Man, and as a true Man, fenfible of Sufferings, and fubject to all the harmlefs Paffions of humane Nature from the Greatnefs of his Pains, and the Greatnefs of his Love to us, Cried out with a loud Voice, and spoke seven times upon the Crofs; by which feven Words the feven Gifts of the Spirit are fealed to all Believers, and the feven Golden Candlesticks are fanctified, and the Book with the feven Seals is opened, and the feven laft Plagues are diverted, let us hearken to what our Saviour faid upon the Cross, For he will peak Peace to his People, and to his Saints.

And when he had cried with a loud Voice, his Merits cried, and this bloody Sacrifice cried; now every Word, and every Wound cried aloud to Heaven, not for Vengeance, but for Mercy, faying, Father forgive them, for they know not what they do, this was the first Word which he faid upon the Cross, a most effectual fervent Prayer, which he offered up with Blood and Tears in Behalf of thofe which were crucifying him, if God peradventure would give them Repentance unto Life. Then Said Jefus, He who would hardly open his Mouth in his own Caufe, but when he was importuned, or adjured by his falfe Judges, fee how he fpeaks and pleads for his very Enemies. Now he made Interceffion for the Tranfgreffors, and was heard for his Piety, in that the Centurion, and many others of thefe very Perfons,and their Pofterity,were converted, for whom he prayed. Then faid Jefu, Father, forgive them, for they know

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