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by thy Spirit, speak Peace to my Con fcience, and fay to my Soul, I am thy Salvation: Let no other Pleasures take hold of me, till with the fower Herbs of Sorrow and Anguish, I have eaten the Christian Passover, the Flesh of thee, that Immaculate Lamb flain from the beginning of the World: Hear me, O bleffed Redeemer, and as thou wrotest in Duft when thou tookeft the Woman in Adul tery; fo, I beseech thee, write my Sins in Duft, and bury them all in the Afhes of Oblivion. Amen.

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A Prayer for Good-Friday.

Moft Merciful and Gracious Lord God, who by thy Obedience unto Death, even the Death of the Cross didft become the Sacrifice of the whole Univerfe, the magnificent Example of Patience, the Lord of Life, the good Shepherd, laying down thy Life for the Sheep, and the only Mediator between God and Man; let thy bleeding Wounds heal, thy precious Blood cleanfe, thy fhameful Death make me to live, and thy holy Spirit make me to work Righteoufnels all my Days; that I may by

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thy Aid and Example obey my Heavenly Father with all my Powers and Faculties, Reasons and Affections, with my Soul and Body, Time and Estate, in Prosperity and in Adversity; that I may bear my Cross patiently, do thy Work chearfully, and be ready to benefit Mankind with great Charity and Industry,that being a Follower of thy Life and a Partaker of thy Death, I may receive a Part in the Refurrection of the Juft in thy Inheritance for evermore.

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A Prayer on Eafter-Day. :

Moft Glorious Redeemer, thou did pass from a painful Life to an ignominous Death, and from the Bitterness of it to the Darkness of the Grave, and by thy Divine Power didst raife thy felf from hence to Life; I give thee Thanks for thy infinite Love to me, and all Mankind; I acknowledge thee to be my Lord, and confefs thee to be my God; I adore thy Majefty and rejoyce in thy Mercies; I humbly pray thee to enable me with thy Spirit to believe all thy Doctrines, and to obey all thy Commandments, that after a holy and religi

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ous Life spent in doing Honour to rhy holy Name, I may be a Partaker of thy holy Refurrection, paffing from Death to Life, from Darkness of the Grave to the Light of Heaven, from an imperfect Duty to the Perfections of Holiness in the Fruition of the Joys of God in thy Heavenly Kingdom. Amen.

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A Prayer upon Afcenfion day.

Bleffed Jefus, thou didit afcend to thy holy Father, and didft othe Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers; thou haft efpoused thy Church unto thy felf with the Everlasting Circles of thy Providence, with thy Love, and with thy Care, with thy Word, and with thy Spirt, thy Promifes, and thy Holy Interceffion : thou haft a Feeling of my Infirmities, and art my Merciful High. Priest, making Interceffion for me for ever; O be thou pleased to reprefent all my Wants, and fupply them, and excufe all my Infirmities, pity all my Calamities, pardon my Sins, and fend down thy holy Spirit of Grace into my Heart, that though I wander here upon Earth, yet my Converfation may be in Heaven, where let my Inheritance be for ever. Amen.

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A Prayer on Whit Sunday.

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God, the Father of all Spirits, who didft fend thy holy Spirit upon thy Church, in the Day of Pentecoft, and haft promifed that he fhall abide with thy Church for ever, let thy Holy Spirit lead me into all Truth, defend me from all Sins, enrich me with his Gifts, refresh me with his Comforts, rule in my Heart for ever, conduct me with his Truth, and lead me in the Way everlasting, that li ving by thy Spirit and walking in him I may by him be fealed up to the Day of my Redemption; O let thy Spirit witness to my Spirit, that I am thy Child, and make me to be fo for ever, through Jefus Chrift my Redeemer, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the Unity of the fame Spirit, one God, World without end. Amen.

A Prayer for Trinity Sunday.

Holy bleffed and glorious Trini ty, the Angels are amazed in the Beauties of that glorious Prefence, how that can I, poor finful Wretch praise thee

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either according to my Duty, or thy Glories; I confefs and glory in thy Omnipotency, thy Omnifcience, thy Truth, and thy Mercy: O let me alfo receive thy Bleffings and gracious Influencies, that I may adorn thee with all my Power for ever, and ferve thee with my best and earliest Industry; that being here wholly inebriated with Love, and employed in thy Service, and the Duty of a holy Obedience, I may to all Eternity rejoyce in the beholding of thofe Glories which are above all Capacities, even those Glories which stream forth from the Throne of the Eternal God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to whom be Glory and Dominion, Honour and Adoration, World without end. Amen.

A Prayer to be used upon any Apostle's

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ALMIGHTY God, who haft built thy Holy Church upon the Foundation of the Apoftles and Prophets, Jefus Chrift being the chief Corner stone, I blefs and magnifie thy holy Name for thy great Graces thou gavest to thy Apoftles, Prophets, and Martyrs in the Days

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