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tenderness and affection of a parent; and beware left you weaken your authority by an injudicious and paffionate manner of enforcing it. Take heed that your inftructions receive life and efficacy from your example; for in vain will any endeavour to inftil thofe principles into their child, which appear to have no influence. upon their own behaviour.

If you discharge the important trust committed to you by Providence, with fidelity and diligence, you will be fupported and encouraged in your labour of love by fome of the nobleft motives and confiderations which can affect the human heart; you will experience that refined gratification which flows from the rational indulgence of parental affection, when it is employed in training up your offspring to knowledge, virtue, and happiness. And while you are fecure of the folid and lasting pleasure which is derived from the confciousness of having acted well, you may reasonably hope to enjoy the fruit of

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your tenderness and care, from his gradual improvement in every amiable quality and virtuous difpofition. And, finally, when God the Father of all shall judge the fecrets of mens hearts by Jefus Christ, and render unto every one according to his works, then fhall your virtuous fervices be acknowledged and rewarded by him, in whose presence is fulnefs of joy, and at whofe right hand are pleasures for ever

more.

To the due discharge of this duty, may God incline your hearts, and in the performance of it direct and blefs you, for the improvement and happiness of the child, the credit of religion, and to his glory, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and to prefent us faultlefs before the prefence of his glory, with exceeding joy, to the only wife God our Saviour, be glory and majefty, dominion and power, for ever. Amen.

SERVICE

On Occafion of a Funeral.

¶ The Service to be introduced by the following Sentences; the People standing.

WHAT man is he that liveth, and shall

not fee death? Who fhall deliver his foul from the grave?

As for man, his days are as grafs; as the flower of the field fo he flourisheth, for the wind paffeth over it and it is gone; and the place thereof fhall know it no more.

It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.

We must all appear before the judgmentfeat of Chrift, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to

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that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

The Introductory Prayer; the People kneeling.

ALMIGHTY and ever blessed Lord our God, we adore thee as the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only living and true God, yet great as thou art, infinitely exalted above all adoration of the highest orders of thy creatures, thou art pleafed to extend thy goodness to the lowest of them; and with respect to us, thine offspring of the human race, thou haft graciously condefcended to reveal thyself, as a God hearing prayer. We adore thee as the maker and fupreme difpofer of all things; believing that nothing can come to pass, throughout the whole extent of thy works, but under thy appointment or permiffion. May the ftedfaft perfuafion of thine infinite wifdom and goodness difpofe us to place an intire confidence in thee, at all times,

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and under all circumftances; to fubmit ourfelves to thine holy will, and to acquiefce in all the difpenfations of thy pro

vidence.

Affift us, O God, to improve this opportunity of waiting on thee; may we derive comfort and inftruction from thy holy word; may its facred promifes ftrengthen the weak, confole the afflicted, and direct our views beyond this transitory ftate, to that reft which remaineth for the people of God.

Hear us, and accept us as the difciples of thy Son Jefus Chrift, through whom we afcribe unto thee, his Father and our Father, his God and our God, everlasting praises.

People.

Graciously hear us, O God, our heavenly

Father.

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