wipe away their tears; and death, and sorrow, and crying, and pain may be no more, but former things may pass away! Keep up our faith, our hope, our love! and daily vouchsafe us some beams of thy directing consolatory light in this our darkness and be not as a stranger to thy scattered flock, in this desolate wilderness! but let them hear thy voice, and find thy presence, and have such conversation with thee in heaven, in the exercise of faith, and hope, and love, which is agreeable to their low and distant state. Testify to their souls that thou art their Saviour and head, and that they abide in thee, by the Spirit which thou hast given them, abiding, and overcoming in them, and as thy agent preparing them for eternal life. O let not our darkness, nor thy strangeness feed our odious unbelief! O shew thyself more clearly to thy redeemed ones! and come and dwell in our hearts by faith! and by holy love, let us dwell in God, and God in us! that we grope not after him, as those that worship an unknown God. O save us from temptation! and if the messenger of Satan be sent to buffet us, let thy strength be manifest in our weakness, and thy grace appear sufficient for us. And give us the patience which thou tellest us we need, that having done thy will, we may inherit the promise. And bring us to the sight and fruition of our Creator, of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things; to whom be glory for ever.'

Amen.

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD-STREET-HILL.