Let our hearts be purified by faith", and let it be our victory overcoming the world °. And let us be kept from fainting, by believing that we fhall fee the goodnefs of the Lord in the land of the living P.

2. We must pray for the fear of God.

Lord, work in us that fear of thee, which is the beginning of wisdom 9. which is the inftruction of wisdom, and which is a fountain of life, to depart from the fnares of death.

Unite our hearts to fear thy name', that we may keep thy commandment, which is the whole of man v.

O put thy fear into our hearts, that we may never depart from thee w. Let us all be devoted to thy fear * : And let us be in the fear of the Lord every day, and all the day long y.

(3.) We must pray that the love of God and Christ may be rooted in us, and in order thereunto, that the love of the world may be rooted out of us.

Give us grace, we beseech thee, to love thee the Lord our God, with all our heart, and foul, and mind, and might, which is the first and great commandment; to fet our love upon thee, and to delight ourselves always in thee; and therein we fhall have the defire of our heart b.

Circumcife our hearts to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our foul, that we may live. O that the love of God may be shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost d.

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O that Jefus Chrift may be very precious to us as he is to all that believe, that he may be in our account the chiefeft of ten thoufands, and altogether lovely; and that he may be our beloved and our friend fi : That

v Eccl. xii. 13

y Prov. xxii. 17.

w Jer. xxxii. 49.

z Matth. xxii. 37.

p Pfalm xxvii. 13.

Palm lxxxvi. II x film cxix 38. a Pfalm xci. 14 e 1 Pet. ii. 7

b xxxvii. 4. c Deut. xxx. 6. d Rom. v. 5. fCant. v. 10, 16.

though we have not feen him yet we may love him; and though we now fee him not, yet believing we may rejoice with joy unfpeakable, and full of glory.

Let the love of Chrift to us conftrain us to live, not to ourselves, but to him that died for us and rose again 1. And, Lord, grant that we may not love the world, nor the things that are in the word, because if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him; that we may fet our affections on things above, and not on things that are on the earth.

(4.) We must pray that our confciences may be always tender, and that we may live a life of repentance.

Lord, take away the ftony heart out of our flesh, and give us a heart of flesh *.

Make us afraid of all appearances of evil, and careful not to give Satan advantage against us, as being not ignorant of his devices m.

Lord, give us the happiness which they have that fear always", that when we think we ftand, we may take heed left we fall.

(5.) We must pray to God to work in us charity and brotherly love.

Lord, put upon us that charity which is the bond of perfectness P, that we may keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, and may live in love of peace, that the God of love and peace may be with us ".

Lord, give us to love our neighbour as ourselves, with that love which is the fulfilling of the laws, to love one another with a pure heart fervently, that hereby all. men may know that we are Chrift's difciples .

And as we are taught of God to love one another, give us to abound therein more and more w, and as we have an opportunity, to do good to all men *, x, and as

much as in us lies to live peaceably with all men, always following after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another z.

Lord, make us able to love our enemies, to bless them that curfe us, and to pray for them that defpitefully use us, and to do good to them that hate us, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another in love, as Christ forgave us s

(6.) We must pray for the grace of felf-denial.

Lord, give us grace to deny ourselves, to take up our crots daily, and to follow Chrift, to keep under the body, and bring it into fubjection &

Lord, keep us from being lovers of our ownselves, from being wife in our own conceit, and leaning to our own understanding f.

Lord, give us to feek not our own only, but every one his brother's welfare g.

And grant that none of us may live to ourselves, or die to ourselves, but whether we live or die we may be the Lord's, and may live and die to him 1.

(7.) We must pray for bumil,ty and meekness.

Lord, give us all to learn of Chrift to be meek and lowly in heart, that we may find reft to our foulsi; and that herein the fame mind be in us thus that was alfo in Chrift Jefus *.

Lord, hide pride from us, and clothe us with humility, and put upon us the ornament of a meek and quiet fpirit, which in thy fight is of great price m.

Lord, give us grace to walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called, with all lowlinefs and meeknefs, with long-fuffering, forbearing one another in love n

Let anger never reft in our bofoms, nor the fun

ever go down upon our wrath P; but enable us to show all meekness towards all men, because we ourselves also were fometimes foolish and disobedient a.

Let us be clothed as becomes the elect of God, holy and beloved, with bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, and long-suffering, that being merciful, as our Father which is in heaven is merciful, we may be perfect as he is perfect t.

(8.) We must pray for the graces of contentment and patience, and a holy indifferency to all the things of fenfe and

time.

Lord, teach us whatsoever ftate we are in, therewith to be content; let us know how to be abased, and how to abound; every where, and in all things, let us be inftructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to fuffer need. And let godlinefs with contentment be great gain to us w, and a little with the fear of the Lord and quietnefs, is better than a great treasure and trouble therewith *.

Lord, grant that our converfation may be without covetoufnefs, and we may always be content with fuch things as we have y; ftill faying, The will of the Lord

be done 2.

Enable us in our patience to poffefs our own fouls a ; and let patience always have its perfect work, that we may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing".

Lord, give us grace to weep as though we wept not, and to rejoice as though we rejoiced not, and to poffefs as though we poffeffed not, and to use the world as not abufing it, becaufe the time is fhort, and the fathion of this world paffeth away c.

(9.) We must pray for the grace of hope; a hope in God and Chrift, and a hope of eternal life.

Eph. iv. 26. g Tit. iii. 2. 3. r Col. iii. 12. s Luke vi. 36.

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Mat. v. Phil. iv. 11, 12. x Prov. xv. 16, 17, I. y Heb. iii. 5.

a Luke xxi. 14.

Rom. v. 4, 5.

w 1 Tim. vi. 6. z A&ts xxi. 14.

b James i. 4. c 1 Cor. vii. 29, 30, 31.

Let patience work experience in us, and experience hope, fuch a hope as maketh not afhamed d. Through patience and comfort of the fcriptures, let us have hope and be faved by hope f.

Let the God of Jacob be our help, and our hope always be in the Lord our God g.

Let us be begotten again to a lively hope by the refurrection of Jefus Chrift, and let that hope be to us as an anchor of the foul, fure and ftedfaft, entering into that within the veil, whither the forerunner is for us entered i.

Let us have Chrift in us the hope of glery, and never be moved away from that hope of the gospel *; but enable us to give diligence unto the full affurance of hope unto the end 1.

(10.) We must pray for grace to preferve us from fin, and all appearances of it, and approaches towards it.

Now we pray to God that we may do no evil, but may be blameless and harmless as the children of Godm, without rebuke, in the midft of a crooked and perverte generation ".

Turn away our eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou us in thy way: Remove from us the way of lying, and grant us thy law graciously ..

Incline not our hearts to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with them that work iniquity, and let us not eat of their dainties P.

O cleanfe us from our fecret faults, keep back thy' fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins; let not them have dominion over us, but let us be upright, and innocent from the great tranfgreffions and grant that hereby we may prove ourfelves upright before thee, by keeping ourselves from our own iniquity.

g Pfal. cxlvi. 5.

k Col. i. 23, 27. n Phil. ii. 15.

• Pfalm xxxvii. 39. pcxli. 4. 9 xix. 12, 13. r xviii. 23. G