I remember thee upon my Bed, and meditate on thee in Pf. 63. 6, the Night-watches. Because thou hast been my help, therefore under the fhadows of thy Wings will I rejoice. My 8. Soul followeth hard after thee; for thy Right-hand hath upholden me.

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God reftoreth my Soul: He leadeth me in the path of Pf. 13. 3, Righteousness for his Name's fake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death, I will fear no evil: For thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

In the Time of Trouble he shall bide me in his Pavilion: Pf. 27. 5. In the fecret of his Tabernacle fhall be hide me, he shall

Set me up upon a Rock.

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The Lord hath looked down from the height of his San- Pf. 102. Etuary, from the Heaven did the Lord behold the Earth: To hear the groaning of his Prisoners; to loose those that 20. are appointed to Death.

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I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my PC. 77. 13 voice, and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my Trouble I fought the Lord; my Sore ran in the Night and ceafed not; my Soul refused to be comforted. * I remember'd God, and was troubled: I complained, and my Spirit was overwhelmed. Thou holdeft mine Eyes waking: I am fo troubled that I cannot speak. Will the Lord caft me off for ever? And will he be favourable no more? Is his promife clean gone for ever? Doth his promife fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath be in Anger fout up his tender Mercies? And I faid, This is my Infirmity: But I will remember the Years of the Right-hand of the Moft-High.

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No Temptation hath taken me, but fuch as is common 1 Cor.10. to Man: But God is faithful, who will not suffer me to 13. be tempted above what I am able; but will with the Temptation alfo make a way to escape, that I may be able to bear it.

Whatfoever things were written aforetime, were written Rom. for our Learning; that we through Patience and Comfort 4, 15. of the Scriptures might have Hope. Now the God of Patience and Confolation, grant me to be fo minded.

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It is the Lord, let him do what Seemeth good in his 1 Sam. 3. Eyes

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Surely the Word that the Lord hath spoken is very good; but thy Servant is weak: O remember mine Infirmities; and lift thy Servant up that leaneth upon thy Right-hand.

There is given unto me a thorn in the flesh, the mesen7, ger of Satan, to buffet me. For this thing I befought the 8, Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he faid unto me, My grace is fufficient for thee: For my strength is made perfect in weakness. Moft gladly therefore will I 10. glory in my Infirmities, that the power of Chrift may rest upon me. For when I am weak then am I strong.

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Lam. 3. O Lord, thou haft pleaded the causes of my Soul: Thou 58. 18. haft redeemed my life. And I faid, My ftrength and my 19, hope is in the Lord; remembering mine affliction and my mi20, fery, the wormwood and the gall. My foul bath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

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This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not confumed, be23, cause his Compaffions fail not. They are new every Morning; great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is faith my foul, therefore will I hope in him.

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my portion, The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the foul 26, that feeketh him. It is good that a Man fhould both hope, and quietly wait for the falvation of the Lord. For the 32, Lord will not cast off for ever. But though he caufe grief, yet will be bave compaffion according to the multitude of his Mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the Children of Men.

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Wherefore doth a living Man complain? A Man for the Job 14. punishment of his Sins? O that thou would't hide me in the Grave [of Jefus,] that thou would't keep me fecret, until thy wrath be past; that thou would't appoint me a fet Time, and remember me!

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Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and fall we not receive evil?

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The fick Man may recite, or hear recited, the following Pfalms, in the Intervals of his Agony.

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Lord, rebuke me not in thine Anger, neither chasten Pfal. 6. me in thy hot Difpleasure.

Have Mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak: O Lord, heal me, for Bones are vexed.

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My Soul is alfo fore vexed: But thou, O Lord, how long? Return, O Lord, deliver my Soul: 0 fave me, for thy mercies fake.

For in Death no Man remembreth thee: In the Grave who fhall give thee Thanks?

I am weary with my Groaning, all the Night make I my Bed to fwim: I water my Couch with my Tears.

Mine Eye is confumed because of Grief; it waxeth old because of all my [Sorrows.]

Depart from me, all ye workers of Iniquity; for the Lord bath heard the Voice of my weeping.

The Lord hath beard my Supplication: The Lord will receive my Prayer.

Bleffed be the Lord, who hath heard my Prayer, and hath not turned his Mercy from me.

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IN the Lord put I my Trust: How fay ye to my Soul, Flee Pfal. 11. as a Bird to your Mountain?

The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's Throne is in Heaven: His Eyes behold, his Eye-lids try the Children of Men.

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Preferve me, O God; for in thee do I put my Trust. Pf. 16. 1. O my Soul, thou haft faid unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord; my Goodness extendeth not to thee.

The Lord is the Portion of mine Inheritance and of my Cup: Thou maintaineft my Lot.

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I have fet the Lord always before me: Because he is at 8. my Right-hand, I shall not be moved.

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Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; my flesh alfo fall rest in hope.

Thou wilt fhew me the path of Life: In thy Prefence is the fulness of Joy, at thy Right-hand there are Pleasures for evermore.

Pf.17.15. As for me, I will behold thy Face in Righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

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Pf. 31.9, HAVE Mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in Trouble: mine Eye is confumed with Grief; yea, my Soul and my Belly.

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For my Life is spent with Grief, and my Years with Sighing My Strength faileth because of mine Iniquity, and my Bones are confumed.

I am like a broken Vellel.

But I trufted in thee, O Lord: I said, thou art my

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My Times are in thy Hand: Make thy Face to fhine upon thy Servant: Save me, for thy Mercies fake.

Pf. 27. 8, When thou faid'st, Seek ye my Face; my Heart said unto thee, thy Face, Lord, will I feek

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Hide not thy Face far from me; put not thy Servant away in thine Anger: Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forfake me, O God of my Salvation.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to fee the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living.

O how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that truft in thee before the Sons of Men!

Thou shalt hide them in the fecret of thy Prefence, from the pride of Man: Thou shalt keep them fecretly in a pavilion from the ftrife of Tongues, [from the Calumnies and aggravation of Sins by Devils.]

I faid in my hafte, I am cut off from before thine Eyes: Nevertheless thou heardeft the voice of my fupplications when I cried unto thee.

O love the Lord, all ye his Saints; for the Lord preferveth the faithful, and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer.

Be of good courage, and he fall strengthen your Heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

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The Prayer to be faid in the beginning of a Sickness.

Almighty God, merciful and gracious, who in thy Juftice didft fend Sorrow and Tears, Sickness and Death into the World, as a Punishment for Man's Sins, and haft comprehended all under Sin, and this fad Covenant of Sufferings, not to deftroy us, but that thou mighteft have Mercy upon all, making thy Juftice to minifter to Mercy, fhort Afflictions to an eternal weight of Glory; as thou haft turned my Sins into Sicknefs, fo turn my Sicknefs to the Advantages of Holiness and Religion, of Mercy and Pardon, of Faith and Hope, of Grace and Glory. Thou haft now called me to the fellowship of Sufferings, Lord, by the inftrument of Religion let my prefent Condition be fo fan&tified, that my Sufferings may be united to the Sufferings of my Lord, that fo thou may'st pity me and affift me. Relieve my Sorrow, and fupport my Spirit: Direct my Thoughts, and fanctify the Accidents of my Sickness, and that the Punishment of my Sin may be the School of Virtue: In which, fince thou haft now enter'd me, Lord, make me a holy Proficient; that I may behave my felf as a Son under Difcipline, humbly and obediently, evenly and penitently, that I may come by this means nearer unto thee; that if I fhall go forth of this Sickness by the gate of Life and Health, I may return to the World with great strengths of Spirit to run a new Race of a stricter Holiness, and a more fevere Religion: Or if I pass from hence with the out-let of Death, I may enter into the Bofom of my Lord, and may feel the prefent Joys of a certain hope of that Sea of Pleasures in which all thy Saints and Servants fhall be comprehended to eternal Ages. Grant this, for Jefus Chrift's fake, our dearest Lord and Saviour. Amen.

An Act of Refignation, to be faid by a fick Perfon in all the evil Accidents of his Sickness.

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