like to that which the holy Angels pay thee in Heaven. When I am commanded to go, may I go; when I am required to come, may I come; whatsoever I am bid to do agreeable to thy Will, may I do it heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto Men,

But if at any Time, O Lord, thou shouldst, to try what is in my Heart, permit me to be tempted to do any Wickedness, O do thou give me Grace, as thou didst Jofeph, patiently to fubmit to a Prison and to Death itself, rather than fin against thee, my God. Knowing that it is Thankworthy, if a Man for Confcience towards God, endure Grief, fuffering wrongfully.

Enable me, O Lord, to fhew good Fidelity in all Things committed to my Charge. Do thou, who bleffedft Abraham's Servant, when he went to take a Wife for his Master's Son, Ifaac; fo bless me in all my Master's Business, that he may fee, as Potiphar did, that the Lord maketh all that I do to profper in my Hands.

Keep, O Lord, alfo the Door of my Lips, that I offend at no Time with my Tongue; let a falfe Tongue be far from me, and let me ne ver lie unto my Mafter, as Gehazi did. O let no fuch Unfaithfulnefs cleave unto me; leaft by being a Partaker with him in his Crime, I partake alfo in his Punishment.

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again May all Sullennefs and Peevishness of Temper be put away from me, with all Paffion: May I learn of thee, O holy Jefu, to be meek and lowly in Heart; O make me patient of Reproof, willing to be taught, and fubject with all Fear and Godly Reverence, not only to the Good and Gentle, but also to the Froward. Or if ever, thro' the Weakness of the Flefh, I should offend in this Point, as Hagar did against Sarah, enable me, I beseech thee, immediately to repent and to return again to my Obedience.

Grant alfo, O Lord, I may behave holily and unblameably to my Fellow Servants: Let no corrupt Communication, nor foolish Talking, or Jefting, which is not convenient, at any Time come out of my Mouth, but rather giving of Thanks; may our Conversation be always feafoned with the Salt of thy Holy Word, and fuch as may tend to the edifying one another.

Endue us all with that Charity, which hideth a Multitude of Sins; and if ever, O Lord, thy Glory fhould call me to bring up an ill Report to my Mafter against any of my Fellow Servants, which, I befeech thee, of thine Mercies, I may never have Occafion to do; grant may be done with Gentleness and Compaffion, not to infinuate myself into my Master's Favour, but to prevent them finning against thee, and thereby ruining their own Souls.

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Keep us, we beseech thee, from striving a mong ourselves, as Abraham's and Lot's Herdfmen did, about any of the Concerns of this Life; but grant that we may be always provoking each other to Love and to good Works.

Preferve us, we beseech thee, from envying one another, either the Favour of our Mafter, or any Bleffing whatsoever.

Let us not seek our own, but each our Brother's Welfare, as Members of the fame Body, as Difciples of the fame Lord; when one of us fuffers, let all of us fuffer; when one of us rejoyces, let all of us rejoyce with him: Make us Pitiful and Tender-hearted to each other, and if at any Time we should have a Quarrel, enable us, O Lord, immediately to forgive one another, even as thou God for Chrift's Sake, haft forgiven us.

Finally, O Lord, endue us with a deep Humility, that we may in Brotherly Love prefer one another, and in Lowlinefs of Mind each of us efteem his Brother better than himself.

O hear all our Prayers for our Mafter, and grant that he and his Houfhold may faithfully ferve thee our Lord.

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vout alfo. That thus adorning thy Holy Gospel in all things, we may at thy fecond Coming to judge the World, be rewarded according as we have improved the different Talents which we have received from thee, O glorious Redeemer, who liveft and reigneft with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, World without End. Amen. Amen.

A PRATER for one under Spiritual Defertion.

Ever bleffed and most compaffionate Redeemer, who waft in all Things tempted like as we were, Sin only exceptedO thou Lover of Souls, who in the Days of thy Flesh didft offer up ftrong Cries and Tears, and was heard in that thou fearedft-O thou

Reftorer of Mankind, who waft in fuch an Agony in the Garden, that thou sweatest great Drops of Blood, falling to the Ground-O thou Almighty High Prieft, who, when thro' the eternal Spirit thou waft about to make thy Soul an Offering for Sin, hadft thy own Divinity withdrawn from thee, and didft cry out in the Bitterness of thy Soul, My God, my God, why hast thou forfaken me- -O thou, who

now fitteft at the Right Hand of the Father, continually to make Interceffion for us-Look down, I beseech thee, upon me, thy unworthy Servant -For thou haft turned away thy Face, and lo! I am troubled-Thou haft taken off my Chariot Wheels, and I drive heavily-Thou haft permitted a Cloud to overfhadow me, and an horrible Darkness, Fear

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