Lord, cure my Folly by this my Misery, and teach me, by the Lofs of my bodily Eafe, to purchase the Bleffing of true Repentance, and the comfortable Hopes of thy merciful Acceptance thereof, through the Merits of our dear Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift. Amen.

Our Father, &c.

"To make his Confeffions and other "A&ts of Repentance with great Sureness "and Satisfaction to himfelf, the fick •Perfon muft firft difcover his Sins, by "examining himself, and trying his Ways by God's Commandments, and enquir

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ing into the State of his Soul, to fee "whether he is already fafe within the "Terms of Pardon, or what he wants to "make him fo. This is a Work for all "Men at all Times, who would live with "Safety or die with Peace; but especially "for Sick and dying Perfons, who not

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"are wont to make it their earneft Defire "and Care; and in their performance of "this important Duty of Self-Examination, they will find Affiftance in the Office for Humiliation."

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A Prayer

A Prayer for Trust in God in Sickness.

O Almighty God, our only Help in. Time of Trouble, look with Pity and Compaffion upon me, now under thy afflicting Hand. Be thou my Stay and Confidence under all my Sorrows and Afflictions, and fuffer me not to fink under the Weight of them through my Dejections, or Faintnefs of Spirit.

Give me fuch an entire Truft and Confidence in thy Mercy, through the Merits of my dear Redeemer, that I may caft all my Care upon thee, and with Chearfulness commit myself into thy Hands, affuredly believing that all Things fhall work together for Good to them that love thee; And, O Lord, grant that I may be found fuch an one, as through thy great Mercy, may be entitled to the Benefit of thy gra-. cious Promises. Make me willing and ready to yield to thy Wisdom, and to prefer thy Will before my own; to be con tented to bear what thou pleaseft, and to be eafed of my Burden in thy Time, which is always best. But, O Lord, however thou art pleased to deal with my Body, yet spare my Soul, I beseech thee, and

deliver it from the bitter Pains of eternal Death. O take me not out of this World, till thou art reconciled unto me, and haft fitted me in fome Measure for thy heavenly Kingdom. Grant, O Lord, that whether I live, I may live unto thee: or whether I die, I may die unto thee; fo that living and dying I may be thine, through Jefus Chrift my ever bleffed Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

Prayers for fick or dying Perfons for trusting God with their Wives and Children.

I. O Lord, if thou feeft fit to call me to thyfelf by this Sicknefs, let my dear Wife and Children, and all who, under thee, depend on me, betake themselves to thee. I húmbly beg leave to commend them to thy Mercy; for I know thou art the Helper of the Friendlefs, the Father of the Fatherlefs, and the Hufband of the Widow; and therefore my Heart is at Ease, when I confider that I leave them in thy Hands, where they are infinitely fafer, and will be infinitely happier, than ever they could be in mine, or in any other but in thine. And I beg that they may ever have thy good Providence for their Support and Stay in

this World, and thy Peace and Love in that which is to come. Amen.

II. When I am gone, O my dear God, let not thofe I leave behind me be deftitute of thy Care; but as thou art their Father, be thou gracioufly pleased to provide for all their Wants, and protect them from all Wrongs. Supply them, by thy kind Providence, with whatever they fhall want of outward Helps.

Enable them, O Lord, evermore to place their Love and Delight in thee, to fix their Truft and Confidence in thy Mercy, and to fubmit to all thy Difpenfations concerning them; for then I know that though they fhould have none to counfel them, where they are unskilled; nor to right them, where they may be wronged; yet thy Spirit will be their Guide, and thy Bleffing will make up all. Oh! that thy Will and Honour may always be their Care, that fo their Needs and Welfare may be always thine: Keepthem from doing any Thing that may forfeit thy fatherly Care and good Providence, and train them up, good Lord, ftedfaftly in thy Fear; that being preferved from all the Evils and Temptations of this World, they may at laft be brought in fafety to the un

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fpeakable Joys of that which is far better, even the Fruition of thy bleffed Self, for the Sake of thy dear Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer under the Continuance of Sickness.

O Merciful and Righteous God, the Sovereign Lord of Life and Death, our only Help in Time of Trouble; I, thy poor Creature, upon whom thou haft laid thine afflicting Hand, fly unto thee for Succour. I defire, O Lord, humbly to accept of this thy Vifitation, and moft earnestly befeeeh thee to enable me to bear it with fuch Patience and Submiffion, as becomes a Creature and a Sinner: And, O merciful Father, who defigneft not the Ruin, but the Amendment of those whom thou scourgeft, I beseech thee to fanctify all my Afflic tions to me; and grant that this Sickness

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my Body may be a Means of Health to my Soul, and infpiring me with Refolutions never more to depart from thee.

To that End, O Lord, make me diligent in fearching my Heart, and, O do thou enable me to difcover every Thing hateful in thy Sight; and on my true and fincere Repentance, I beseech thee, remove thine