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eft us to be fet in the Midft of fo many and great Dangers, that by reason of the Frailty of our Natures we cannot always ftand upright; grant to us fuch Strength and Protection as may fupport us in all Dangers, and carry us through all Temptations.

Help us, O Lord! to withstand the Affaults of the Enemies of our Salvation, the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and with pure Hearts and Minds to follow thee the only God. Graft in our Souls the Love of thy Name, increase in us true Religion, nourish us with all Goodnefs, and of thy great Mercy keep us in the fame. And thou, O God! whofe never-failing Providence ordereth all Things both in Heaven and Earth; put from us, we befeech thee, all hurtful Things, and give us thofe Things which are profitable for us; and fince it is thou alone canft order the unruly Wills and Affections of finful Men, grant that we may love the Things which thou commandeft, and defire that which thou doft promife, that fo, among the fundry and manifold Changes of the World, our Hearts may furely there be fixed where true Joys are to be found. Difpofe us by all the Means of Grace we enjoy to attain that everlafting Salvation thou haft promifed that we may both perceive and know thofe Things which we ought to do, and may have Grace and Power faithfully to fulfil the fame.

Teach us, O Lord! fo to number our Days, that we may apply our Hearts unto Wifdom; and grant that neither the Splendor of any Thing that is great, nor the Conceit of any Thing that is good in us, may any way withdraw our Eyes from looking upon ourselves as finful Duft and Ashes, but that we may prefs forward toward the Prize of the High-calling that is before us, with Faith and Patience, with Humility and Meeknefs, with Mortification

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Mortification and Self-denial, with Charity and conftant Perfeverance to the End; that so when we shall depart this Life, we may fleep in the Lord, and at the general Refurrection in the last Day, may be found acceptable in thy Sight, and receive that Bleffing which thy beloved Son fhall then confer upon all thofe that truly love and fear thee.

Charge thy holy Providence, O Lord! we humbly befeech thee, with us this Night, and by thy great Mercy defend us from all the Perils and Dangers of it. Keep us both outwardly in our Bodies, and inwardly in our Souls, that we may be defended from all Adverfities, that may happen to the Body, and from all evil Thoughts that may affault and hurt the Soul.

Extend thy Goodness, O Lord! to the whole Race of Mankind; have Mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Heretics; take from them, all Ignorance, Hardness of Heart, and Contempt of thy Word; and fo fetch them Home to thy Flock, that they may be faved among the Remnant of the true raelites. Grant unto all them that are admitted into the Fellowship of Chrifi's Religion, that they may efchew thofe Things that are contrary to their Profeffion, and follow all fuch Things as are agreeable to the fame. Let thy continual Pity cleanfe and defend thy Church, and becaufe it cannot continue in Safety without thy Succour, preferve it evermore by thy. Help and Goodness. Blefs all our Governors both in Church and State, that in their several Stations they may be useful and ferviceable to thy Glory, and the Public Good. We make our humble Supplications to thee for all our Benefactors, Friends and Relations, and alfo for our very Enemies; let thy Fatherly Hand be ever over them, let thy Holy Spirit be ever with them, and fo lead them in the Knowledge

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Knowledge and Obedience of the Word, that in the End, they may obtain everlasting Life. Look with an Eye of Pity and Compaffion upon all those who are any Ways afflicted or diftreffed in Mind, Body, or Eftate; give them Patience under all their Sufferings, and in due Time a happy Iffue out of all their Afflictions.

And as we pray unto thee, O God! for ourselves and others, fo we defire to blefs and praise thy holy Name for all thy Goodness and Loving Kindness to us and to all Men.We give thee hearty Thanks for the Prefervation of us the Day paft, and the reft of our Lives, from innumerable Accidents and Dangers, for the Comforts and Conveniences, as well as the Neceffaries of Life. But above all, we laud, and magnify, and adore thy Goodness in the Redemption of the World by the Death and Paffion. of our Saviour Christ, both God and Man; who did humble himself even to the Death upon the Crofs for us miferable Sinners, who lay in Darkness and in the Shadow of Death, that he might make us the Children of God and exalt us to everlasting Life. Teach us to express our Thankfulness, by fubmitting ourfelves entirely to his holy Will and Pleasure, and by ftudying to ferve him in true Holinefs, and Righteousness all the Days of our Life. Accept, O Lord! of these our Prayers and Praises, in and through the Mediation of Jefus Chrift, our bleffed Saviour and Redeemer, who hath taught us when we pray to say,

Our Father, &c.

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Apoftle, what meant by it, 133.
Why Twelve pitched upon by
our Saviour, 134. Their Vo-
cation, ibid. How enabled to
difcharge their Office, ibid.

What Evidence of their Divine
Miffion,

Apoitles fuperior to the Seventy,

259

464

Archbishop, what meant by that
Term,
Archdeacon, what meant

420

by it,

415

212.

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ibid.

214.

Afcenfion of our Lord,
The Proof of it, 213.
typically reprefented,
How prophetically,
The Benefits of it, 215. Why
not in the Sight of the Jews,
ibid. How it ought to influ-
250
Afh-Wednesday, why fo called,

ence us,

398
Atonement, the Day of it how
obferved among the Jews, 433.
Imitated by the ancient Chrif-
tians on Good-Friday, 254

B.

Baptifm came in the
Room of
Circumcifion, 99. When anci-
ently adminiftered, 219. Why
at Eafter and Whitfuntide,

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Bartholomew the Apostle,
319. What may be learned
from this Feftival,

323

90

Ba h-col, what meant by it, 238
Bethlemite Children, why de-
ftroyed,
Birth of Chrift, 51. What we
are to believe concerning it, 52.
How manifefted to the Wife
Men, 106. The Circumftan-
ces of it, 53. How published
to the World, 54. What may
be learned from both,
55
Bishop, his Office, 418. How
called in the Apoftolical Age,
419. The Word how used in
Scripture, 463. Anciently not
Paftor of a particular Congre-
gation only, 469. St. Jerome's
Authority against them conf-
dered, 471.
See Ordination,
Clergy, Epifcopacy.
Bodily Reverence in God's Wor-

hip, how to be expressed, 502
Britain probably received Chrif
tianity from St. Paul, 118
Brutes, their Souls not immortal,
165

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from it.
Christmas-day,

263

51. Proper

Thoughts for this Festival, 60.
The Obfervation of it how
abufid,
62
Church, why the House of God,
499. Such in the Apostles
Time, &c. 500. How to be

reverenced,
501
Church Officers in Subordina-
tion by the Inftitution of Chrift,
46.4. Not confined to the
Apoftolical Age.
465
Circumcifion of our Lord, 97.
What,and when enjoined, ibid.
When adminiftred, ibid. The
Neglect of it how punished,98.
The Defign of it, ibid. Why to
ccafe at Chrift's coming, ibid.
What it figures to us, 99.
What Rite fucceeded to it, ibid.
What may be learned from this
Festival,
Circumcifion Spiritual, what,

101

ibid.

Clergy, the Minifters of Chrift,
why fo called, 490. Their
perfonal Qualifications, as well
as Character, require Refpect,
520, 521. Though bad not
to be contemned, 522. Ill
Confequences of defpifing them,
523. Their Intereft no Ob-
jection against Religion, 524-
Nor the bad Lives of fome, ibid.
How they may preferve Respect,
525. Their Maintenance,
what, ibid. By the Laws of
the Land, 527. Why are
ought to pray for them, 536.
See Bifhop, Priefts, Deacons.
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