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of Sin and the Dominion of Satan; for the accomplishing this miraculous Work of our Salvation, thou didst defcend from Heaven, and didft 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 Apostles, 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 aflifting us in all the Methods of procuring: ' eternal Happiness.-------Bleffing and Honour, Thanksgiving and Praife, 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.

After the Bleffing, viz. The Peace of God.

GRant, O Lord, that we, and all thy Servants who by Faith and Sacramental Participati ons, have this Day communicated with the Lord Fefus, may obtain Remission 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 Fesus Christ. Amen.

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A Thanksgiving after the Sacrament to be said at Home.

THOU, O my God, haft comforted my Soul, thou haft ftrengthened and refreshed me with thy Bleflings, and rejoyced 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 dost not grant this Favour? It is not for my Merits, but because thou wilt be glorified in doing good to the most 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 courfe of my Life I may give thee Praife and Glory; that the due Senfe of thy Mercies may make me unfeignedly thankful; and that my Thank. fulness may appear in a Care to walk before thee in Holinefs, Sobriety and Righteousness all the Days of my Life.

A Prayer in private, after the Receiving of the Holy Communion.

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How plentiful is thy Goodness, which thou haft laid up for them that fear thee, which thou haft prepared for them that put their Truft in thy Mercy; even before the Sons of Men. I praife and magnifie thy great and gloriousName,OLord, for all thofe manifold Mercies and Comforts which thou haft bestowed upon me, ever fince

I was born. O Lord God, thou hast been my Trust from my Youth, by thee have I been bolden up from the Womb; my Praife fhall continually be of thee; but above all, Bleffed, and for ever Bleffed be thy Holy Name, for the Manifeftation of thy Son Fefus Chrift, the Fountain and Foundation of all our Happiness, and for feeding me this Day (who am unworthy of the leaft of thy Mercies) with the precious Merits of his biter Death and Paffion, to my great and endless. Comfort. Enable me, O Lord, thro' thy gra cious 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 Table, 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 Fefus, and abound in every good Word and Work. And fubdue in me all thofe inordinate Lufts and corrupt Affections which war against my Soul; purifie my Mind from all evil Thoughts, bad Intentions, and evil Designs, and fuffer not Pride, Vain-Glory, Self-Love, Malice,Hatred or Revenge, or any other Evil what foever, to reign in my mortal Body; but do thou keep it for ever in the Purpose of my Heart, faithfully to fulfil thefe my Baptifmal Vows and Refolutions, which I have now again. renewed at thy Holy Table, that by perfevering in all Vertue and Holiness of Life, I may, at length be an Inheritor of that infinite Happinefs and Glory, which thou haft promifed by Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer in private for the Grace of Perfeverance.
HEar, moft merciful Saviour, I moft hum-

bly befeech thee, and let thy Grace be ever affiftant to all the Endeavours and Defigns of thy weak and unworthy Servant. I am not able of my felf 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 3 are well pleasing 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 Comparifon 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 reft, in thee alone is Fulnefs of Joy and true Satiffaction, 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, 119.

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Onder my Words, O Lord, confider my Meditation: my Voice fhalt thou hear betimes, O Lord, early in the Morning will I direct my Prayer unto thee, and will look up, Pfal. .. 1, 3. Almighty God, who dwelling in the. higheft Heavens, yet vouchfafeft to regard the loweft Creatures here upon Earth, I humbly adore thy Sacred Majefty, 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 Goodness to me, and as thou haft awakened my Body from Sleep, fo raife my Soul from the Death of Sin unto a Life of Righteoufnefs. Deliver me,OGod,from the Evils of thisDay,and guide my Feet in the Paths of Peace and Holiness, and strengthen my Refolutions to embrace all Opportunities of doing Good, and carefully to avoid all Occafions of Evil; especially, *thofe Sins which by Natue and Inclination I am moft likely to 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 Holy Spirit, to maintain a more vigorous Defence against Satan and his Devices. Shower down thy Graces and Bleffings upon all my Relations, Con my Father and Mother, on my Brethren and Sifters]

Here name fuch Sins you are molt afraid of.

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