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above all, the bread that nourisheth to eternal life.

AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES,
AS WE FORGIVE THEM THAT
TRESPASS AGAINST US.

Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Grant, O Heavenly Father, that I may clofe with this merciful condition of pardon

Thou hast been all mercy to me, O God, grant that I may be fo to

all others.

Bleffed be the Lord, who has put our falvation into our own hands. May thy grace, O Father, give me an heart ever ready to forgive.

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION.

Let him that thinketh he ftandeth (firm) take heed left he fall.

Let not any confidence in ourfelves, provoke Thee, O God, to leave us to ourselves.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation.

Thou, O Father, knoweft my infirmities, and the power of my enemies; be not wanting to me in the hour of temptation.

Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.

Make me mindful of my weakness, that I may be more watchful and importunate for grace.

Fortify my foul against the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, for Jefus Chrift's fake.

BUT DELIVER US FROM EVLL.

Be fober, be vigilant, because your adverfary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

Grant, O Heavenly Father, that this adversary may never find me off my guard, or from under thy protection.

In all my faving trials, give me

grace and power to overcome, to thy glory.

FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.

To Thee, to Thee alone, and to thy Son, and Holy Spirit, be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

EVENING.

Let my prayer be fet forth in thy fight, as the incenfe; and let the lifting up of my hands be as an evening facrifice.

THAT it hath pleased God to add another day to the years of my life; that none of his judgments, to which for my fins I am liable, have fallen upon me; that by his grace he hath kept me from all scandalous fins, and from the dangers of an

evil world; that he has given me occafions of doing good, and grace to make use of them; that he hath supplied me and my family with the neceffaries of this life, and with means of attaining a better:-Accept, O God, of my unfeigned thanks for these, and for all thy mercies from day to day bestowed upon me. Add this to all thy favours, I befeech Thee, that I may never forget to be thankful.

Poffefs my heart with fuch a deep fense of my obligations to, and dependence upon Thee for life, and health, and grace, and falvation, that religion may be my delight, as well as my duty.

But that I may ferve Thee with a quiet mind, forgive me the things whereof my confcience is afraid, and avert the judgments which I have justly deserved. Remember not the offences of my youth; and in mercy blot out thofe of my riper years.

Pardon my fins of the day paft, and of my life paft, and grant that they may never rife up in judgment against me. Amen.

If any man fin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jefus Christ the righteous, and he is a propitiation for our fins.

O most powerful Advocate, I put my cause into thy hands, let thy blood and merits plead for me; and by thy mighty interceffion, procure for me a full difcharge of all my

fins.

Sin no more, left a worse thing come unto thee.

Lord, the frailty of man without Thee cannot but fall. In all temptations, therefore, I beseech Thee to fuccour me, that no fin may ever get the dominion over me.

Whofo dwelleth under the defence of the Moft High, fhall abide under the fhadow of the Almighty.

May the Almighty God take me,

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