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that flee to thee for fuccour; the life of them that believe, and the refurrection of the dead: I humble myfelf before thee with fincere acknowledgments of thy juftice, in all the difpenfations of thy divine providence. Look with an eye of compaffion upon me, thy poor afflicted fervant, and fanctify, I befeech thee, this thy fatherly correction to me, that I may never murmur or repine under any of thy wife difpenfations; but at all times receive thy judgments as a means to wean me from the world, to bring me nearer to thyfelf, and to purge away all that drofs and defilement which my foul has contracted in this ftate of finful inortality.

I confefs, O gracious Lord, that thy judgments are juft, and that thou of thy goodness haft caufed me to be troubled'; for notwithstanding all the gentle methods which thou haft ufed towards me, I have not loved thee as I ought to do; but in the days of health and profperity have forgotten thee, my God, and gone in the paths of vanity and folly; but, O merciful Father, that defpifeft not the fighing of a contrite heart, nor the defire of fuch as be forrowful, mercifully affift my prayers that I offer unto thee in all my troubles and adverfities: and efpecially let not my fins provoke thee to turn

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away thy face from me thy fervant, now feeking unto thee in this time of my trouble; fhut not up the bowels of thy tender compaffion from me; but for the merits and interceffion of thy beloved Son, pardon all my fins, and vouchfafe, I befeech thee, for his fake, to be reconciled

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Support me under all my pains, weakneffes, and infirmities; ftrengthen my faith, enlarge my hopes, increase my charity, and perfect my repentance. Make thou my bed in my ficknefs, and lay not more upon me than thou wilt enable me to bear; give a bleffing to the means that fhall be used for my recovery; and fay unto my foul I am thy falvation; and if it be thy good pleasure reftore me to my former health, that I may lead the refidue of my life in thy fear, and to thy glory: but if thou haft determined that this ficknefs thall be unto death; grant, O merciful Father, that the more the outward man decayeth, fo much the more I may find the inward man ftrengthened and renewed with thy grace and Holy Spirit. O give me grace fo to take this thy vifitation, that after this painful life is ended, I may dwell with thee in life everlasting. through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift, my dear and, only Saviour. Amen.

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A prayer to be used on taking physic.

God, the creator and preferver of all mankind, who knowest our neceflities before we afk, and our ignorance in afking, without whom all our endeavours are but vain, I, in a deep fenfe of all thy mercies, acknowledge it to be an eminent token of thy goodness, that I am not cut off in the midlt of my fins, by a fudden and unprovided death; and am particularly thankful that thou haft placed me in fuch ftation and circumftances, as to be enabled to obtain the ufe of fuch means as thou haft ordained for the benefit of mankind. Oh! give thy bleffing to these means now ufed for my recovery, and (if it be thy bleffed will) make them fo effectual for that end, that I may live and be an inftrument of thy glory, and better prepared for the coming of my dear Lord, when every man fhall be judged according to what he has done in the flesh, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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A prayer when labouring under any grievous pains. Lord, our refuge and ftrength, who art a prefent help in time of trouble; look down from heaven; behold, vifit, and relieve me thy fervant; and fend me that ease and comfort in this time of my diftrefs as fhall feem to thee most expe

dient for me. O let me never murmur or repine under any affliction thou feest fit to lay upon me; for thy tender mercy is over all thy works; and my fins deferve much greater pains than I now feel. Grant therefore, O gracious Lord, that I may meekly and quietly fubmit to thy will, and never be rafhly or unbecomingly tranfported into any indecent expreffions, or caufed to entertain a hardthought of thy providence, under the extremity of my pains; but whatever evils or forrows I may feel, let me ftill love thee, and believe thee to be a kind and merciful Father; ftrengthen and support me with the confolations of thy Holy Spirit, and fanctify this affliction to me, that it may produce in me the fruits of a true and fincere repentance, who feek for relief, mercy, and forgivenefs, only through the merits and in the name of Jefus Chrift our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

A prayer to be used for a fick child.

Father of mercies and God of all comfort, to whom alone belong the iffues of life and death, we flee unto thee for fuccour in behalf of this child here lying: under thy hand in a weak and fickly ftate. Vifit bim, O Lord, with thy falvation; deliyer him, in thy good time, from his bodily 0

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pain; comfort him in his greatest extremity, and fave his foul, for thy mercies' fake.

We know, O Lord, that if thou wilt, thou canst raife him up, and prolong his days here on earth: wherefore we humbly befeech thee, if it be thy pleasure, to raife him up again, that he may, together! with his years and ftature, grow in wisdom and in thy fear, and thereby to comfort his parents, and to glorify thee, by doing good in his generation.

But whether be live or die, let him be. thine; and either preferve him to be thy true and faithful fervant here on earth, or elfe receive him into those heavenly manfions, where the fouls of them that fleep in the Lord Jefus enjoy perpetual reft and felicity. Grant this, O Lord, for thy mercies' fake in the fame thy Son, our Lord Jefus Chrift, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, one God, world without end.. Amen.

A prayer for all states and conditions of men.

God, the creator and preferver of all mankind, I humbly.befeech thee toreceive thefe my prayers which I offer unto thy Divine Majefty, for all forts and conditions of men, that thou wouldst be pleafed to make thy ways known unto them, thy faving health unto all nations. More

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