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Upon Christmas-Day, and Seven Days after, you may add thefe to your other Devotions.

I Defire, O Lord, to blefs and praife thine infinite Goodl

nefs, which took Compaffion upon Mankind in his greatest Mifery, and haft provided fo admirable a Remedy, by fending thine only begotten Son to recover our corrupt and degenerate Nature; and, by the Purity of his Doctrine, and the Example of his Life, and the Sacrifice of his Death, to purchase eternal Happiness for us. Grant, O Lord, that, through the Affiftance of thy Grace and Heavenly Benediction, I may daily comply with thofe great Things which thou hast done and defigned for my Salvation. Poffefs my Soul with Purity and Piety, and all other Christian Graces and Virtues, that, living foberly, righteously and godly, in this prefent World, I may hereafter dwell with thee, O Father of all Mercies, and God of all Comforts, in those Manfions of Blifs and Glory, which thou hast prepared for them that love thee. Amen. See Pfalms. 19. 89. 44.

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Eafter-Day, and Seven Days after.

Leffed Jefus, who haft triumphed over the Powers of Darknefs, and conquered Hell and the Grave, and who, by thy glorious Refurrection, haft made known the Power of thy Divinity, and proved thyself the true M:ssias, keep me stedfast in this Faith, and grant that all the Actions of my Life may teftify the Reality and Sincerity of my Belief by a fuitable Converfation, that I may rife from the Death of Sin unto the Life of Righteoufnefs, th t as I am buried with thee by Baptifm, 1 may henceforward mortify all my corrupt Lufts and Affections, and daily proceed in all Virtue and Godliness of Living, that, departing this Life in thy Faith and Fear, I may have my perfect Confummation and Blifs, both in Body and Soul, in thy eternal and everlasting Kingdom, through the fame thy Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift. Ainen. See Pfalms 2. 57. 111.

Whitfunday, and Seven Days after.

Lord my God, who by thy Son our Saviour Fefus Chrift haft promised the Affiftance of thy Holy Spirit to all that afk it of thee, I befe: ch thee always to direct my

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Ways and Actions, the Thoughts and Intentions of my Heart, by the Light of thy Holy Spirit. Let him be unto me a Spirit of Sanctification to purify my corrupt Nature; a Spirit of Counsel in all my Difficulties; of Direction in all my Doubts, Fears and Scruples; of Courage in all my Dangers; of Conftancy and Confolation to me under all my Perfecutions and Sufferings, efpecially in Time of Sickness, and at the Hour of Death; that being governed and guided by his divine Influence and Direction, I may pafs thro' all the Changes and Chances of this mortal Life, till he bring me to everlasting Life, there to reign with thee, O bleffed Jefu, World without End. Amen. See Pfal. 34. 25.43. 41.

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Trinity-Sunday.

LORY be to thee, O God the Father, for creating me after thine own Image, capable of loving thee, and enjoying thee eternally; for recovering me from a State of Sin and Mifery, when I had loft and undone myself.Glory be to thee, O God the Son, for undertaking the wonderful Work of Man's Redemption, for refcuing me from the Slavery of Sin, and the Dominion of Satan; for the accomplishing this miraculous Work of our Salvation, thou didst defcend from Heaven, and didít put on the Form of a Servant, live a miferable Life and die a painful and accurfed Death.. -Glory be to thee, O God the Holy Ghoft, for thofe miraculous Gifts and Graces thou didst bestow upon the Apoftles, and for thofe ordinary Gifts, whereby fincere Chriftians in all Ages are enabled to work out their Salvation; for thy preventing and restraining Grace; for the fubduing our Understandings and Affections to the Obedience of Faith and Godliness; for infpiring us with good Thoughts, and kindling good Defires in our Souls; for affifting us in all the Methods of procuring eternal Happiness. Bleffing and Honour, Thanksgiving and Praise more than I can exprefs and conceive, be unto thee, O Father, Son and Holy Ghoft, for ever and ever. Amen. See Pfal. 2. 47. 72. 110.

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After the Bleffing, vix. The Peace of God, &c. RANT, O Lord, that we and all thy faithful Servants, who have this Day been made Partakers of the Holy Sacrament, may obtain Remiffion of our Sins, and be confirmed in Piety towards God, and in Charity towards our Neighbour: and, may be delivered from the Power and Temptations of Satan; and being filled with thy Spirit, may become worthy Members of Chrift's Holy Church, and at last inherit eternal Life, through the fame our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

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A Thanksgiving after the Sacrament, to be faid at home.

HOU, O my God, haft comforted my Soul, thou haft ftrengthened and refreshed me with thy Bleffings, and rejoiced my Heart with the Tokens of thy Love. How tranfporting are thy Comforts; and how ravishing the Effects of thy Goodness towards them that fear thee? Thou haft treated a vile Sinner at thy own Table, and fed me with the Bread that came down from Heaven. In what am I better than those to whom thou doft not grant this Favour? It is not for my Merits, but because thou wilt be glorified in doing Good to the moft unworthy, thou haft this Day made me a happy Example of this thy free Grace and Bounty. Grant me this Favour alfo, O my God, that through the whole Course of my Life I may give thee Praise and Glory; that the due Senfe of thy mercies may make me unfeignedly thankful; and that my Thankfulness may appear in a Care to walk before thee in Holiness, Sobriety and Righteousness, all the Days of my Life,

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A Prayer in Private, after the receiving of the Holy Communion.

How plentiful is thy Goodness, which thou haft laid up for them that fear thee, which thou haft prepared for them that put their Trust in thy Mercy; even before the Sons of Men. I praife and magnify thy great and glorious Name, O Lord, for all thofe manifold Mercies and Comforts which thou haft bestowed upon me, ever fince I was born. O Lord God, thou baft been my Truft from my Youth, by thee have I been holded up from the IVomb; my Praife shall continually be of thee; but

above all, bleffed, and for ever bleffed be thy holy Name, for the Manifeftation of thy Son Jefus Chrift, the Fountain and Foundation of all our Happinets, and for feeding me this Day (who am unworthy of the leaft of thy Mercies) with the Spiritual Food of his moft precious Body and Blood, to my great and endlefs Comfort. Enable me, O Lord, through thy gracious Affiftance, to perform the Conditions of that Sacramental Covenant which I have this Day fo folemnly renewed and confirmed in thy Prefence, and at thy Tale, that through the Strength and Power of that Heavenly Food, I have there been Partaker of, I may daily grow in Grace, and in the Knowledge of Chrift Jefus, and abound in every good Word and Work. And fubdue in ine all thofe inordinate Lufts and corrupt Affections which war against my Soul; purify my Mind from all evil Thoughts, bad Intentions, and evil Defigns; and fuffer not Pride, Vainglory, Self-love, Malice, Hatred or Revenge, or any other Evil whatfoever, to reign in my mortal Body; but do thou keep it for ever in the Purpofe of my Heart, faithfully to fulfill these my Baptifmal Vows and Refolutions, which I have now again renewed at thy holy Table, that, by per fevering in all Virtue and Holiness of Life, I may at length be an Inheritor of that infinite Happiness and Glory, which thou haft promised by Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer in private, for the Grace of Perfeverance.

HEAR, moft merciful Saviour, I most humbly befeech

thee, and let thy Grace be ever affiftant to all the En deavours and Defigns of thy weak and unworthy Servant. I am not able of myself to do or think any Thing that is good, or well pleafing in thy Sight. O let thy Holy Spirit continually guard me against thofe numerous Temptations which fo ftrongly encounter me, Fix my inconftant Mind, that I may not be led away with the Errors of the Wicked, and fall from my own Stedfaftnefs, but that I may perfevere in good Works unto the End. Moderate my Affections and Defires, and confine them only to fuch Objects as are wellpleafing in thy Sight. Let thy Will be the fole Guide and Measure of mine, that all my Hopes and Wishes may center

in thee alone, and nothing may ever appear defirable to me, in Comparison of a pure Heart and peaceable Confcience. Teach me thy Way, O Lord, and I will walk in thy Truth; O knit my Heart unto thee, that I may fear thy Name. Make me to love thee (as I ought) above all Things, and let the Intereft of thy Honour and Glory be always dearer to me than Gold or Silver, or any other Temporal Advantage; for thou, O Lord, art my Portion, thou art my only Rest, in thee alone is Fulness of joy and true Satisfaction, and without thee is Mifery and Torment. O grant me this bleffed Retreat, this happy Security, and then I fhall find Reft unto my Soul both here and hereafter. Amen. See Pfal. 86. 1.9.

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ONDER my Words, O Lord, confider my Meditations : My Voice halt thou hear betimes, O Lord, early in the Morning will I direct my Prayer unto thee, and will look up, Pfal. v. 1, 3. Almighty God, who dwelling in the higheit Heavens, yet vouchfafeft to regard the loweft Creatures here upon Earth, I humbly adore thy Sacred Majelty, and with all the Powers of my Soul and Body do exalt and praife thy Holy Name for all the Mercies and Comforts of this Life, and for the Hopes and Affurance of a better; for protecting me from the Evils and Dangers of the Night paft, and for bringing me fafely to the Light of a new Day: continue this thy Mercy and Goodnels to me; and as thou haft awakened my Body from Sleep, fo raife my Soul from the Death of Sn unto a Life of Righteoufnefs. Deliver me, O God, from the Evils of this Day, and guide my Feet in the Paths of Peace and Holiness, and ftrengthen my Refolutions to embrace all Opportunities of doing Good, and carefully to avoid all Occafions Here name fuch of Evil? especially thofe Sins which by Sins as you are moft Nature and Inclination I am most likely to afraid of. fall into: And when thro' Frailty, or the Violence of any other Temptation, I fall from my Duty, do thou in Mercy restore me again with a double Portion of thy Grace and

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