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Sanctifier, my Guide, and Comforter: all love, all glory, be to God most high. Amen.

Let us never afcribe any thing to ourselves, but all to the grace of God, and render to him all the glory of his works.

Preferve me, O God, from the insensibility of those who receive thy favours without being affected with them, and from the ingratitude of those who look upon them as a debt.

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord; and to fing praifes unto thy name, O Moft High! To fhew forth thy loving-kindness in the morning; and thy faithfulness every night.

Many and great have been the favours and bleffings which Thou haft bestowed on thefe nations; for which, O Lord, in conjunction with those who praise Thee for them, and in the ftead of those who forget to

praise Thee, I bless and praise thy holy name.

Blefs the Lord, O my foul, and forget not all his benefits.

OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN

HEAVEN.

In Thee we live, and move, and have our being.

Grant that we may love Thee with all our heart, and mind, and foul, and ftrength.

Bleffed be God, who dealeth with us with the tenderness of a Father. O that we may remember that our Father and our inheritance is in heaven.

I commit myself and all that belongs to me to thy fatherly care and love.

Verily, whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. This is the great fupport and comfort of finners. Hear us, for thy

Son's fake; for as finners we have no right to ask any favour.

What manner of love is it, that we should be called the fons of God!

HALLOWED BE THY NAME.

"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive honour, and power, and glory, for Thou haft created all things." "In this is my Father glorified, that ye bring forth much fruit."

May thy children have a great regard for every thing that belongs to Thee.

May I never dishonour Thee, O Heavenly Father, by word or deed. May I glorify Thee daily by a good life. Fill my heart with a great concern and zeal for thy glory. "Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.”

They that honour me, I will

alfo honour."

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How little have I done to promote thy glory! God be merciful

unto me.

THY KINGDOM COME.

May all the kingdoms of the world obey thy laws, and fubmit to thy providence, and become the kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Chrift.

Bless the pious endeavours of all those who trive to propagate the gofpel of thy kingdom.

Vouchfafe to reign in my heart; and let not Satan ever have dominion

over me.

Fit us, O God, for the coming of thy kingdom. May I fubmit and rejoice to be governed by Thee.

O that thy Holy Spirit may direct and rule my heart; fubdue in me all pride and covetoufness, hatred, malice, envy, luft, and all uncleannefs, and whatever fhall offend Thee.

THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

This is the will of God, even our Sanctification.

Thou haft fent us into the world, not to do our own will, but thine. O fubject my will to thine. May thy name be honoured by the good lives of Christians.

O that I may have refpect unto all thy commands.

May thy will, revealed to us in thy holy word, be the rule of my will, of my defires, my words, life, and actions.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD.

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life.

Lord, give us evermore this bread. Give us the neceffaries of life; but

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