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from the bondage of evil, and ordereft all Thy difpenfations for its accomplishTho' though permitteft me to be exposed to the trial of various troubles, yet thou mercifully fuperintendest the conflict, and directeft the event for my fupreme and everlasting good: "for "whom Thou loveft, Thou chafteneft; "and fcourgeft every fon whom Thou "receiveft." And in this awful probation, Thou art not lefs to be loved and praised, than when Thou filleft my foul with heavenly confolations. Thou alone, therefore, O LORD, my GOD! art my hope and fanctuary; with Thee I leave all my tribulation and anguish, and refign the beginning, continuance, and end of every trouble, to Thy Bleffed Will!

Wherever I look for fupport and confolation out of Thee, I find nothing but weakness and diftrefs: and if Thou doft not revive, ftrengthen, illuminate, de

liver,

liver, and perferve me, the friendship of mankind can give no confolation, the ftrength of the mighty bring no support, the counfel of the wife and the labours of the learned impart no inftruction, the treasures of the earth purchase no deliverance, and the most remote and fecret places afford no protection. All perfons and things, that seem to promife peace and happiness, are in themselves vanity and nothing, and fubvert the hope that is built upon them: but Thou art The Supreme, Effential, and Final Good; The Perfection of Life, Light, and Love! and the most powerful fupport of thy fervants, is found in an unreserved and abfolute dependence upon Thee!

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"Unto Thee," therefore," do I lift

up mine eyes, O Thou that dwelleft "in the Heavens !" In Thee, my GOD, The Father of Mercies, I place all my confidence! O illuminate and fanctify my foul, with the influence of THY HOLY

HOLY SPIRIT; that being delivered from all that darkness and impurity of its alienated life which thy eyes cannot look upon, it may become The Living Temple of Thy Holy Prefence, the feat of Thy Eternal Glory! In the immensity of Thy Goodness, O LORD! and "in "the multitude of Thy Tender Mer"cies, turn unto me;" and hear the prayer of thy poor fervant, who has wandered far from Thee into the region of the fhadow of death. O protect and keep my foul amidst the innumerable evils which this corruptible life is always bringing forth; and by the perpetual guidance of Thy Grace, lead me in the narrow path of Holiness to the realms of Everlasting Light, Love, and Peace!

Amen.