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imagination, and defire of my heart, may be turned from every thing that is not thee, THY HOLY JESUS, and heavenly operation within me !

"O HOLY JESUS! Meek Lamb of "GOD, that takest away the fins of the "world! Bread that came down from

heaven, for the food and fuftenance of "fallen creatures! Life and light of all "holy fouls! help me to that true and "living faith in thee, which is the " continual victory over the world, the "flesh, and the devil! O do thou open "thyself within me, with thy heavenly "flesh and blood, the ftrength and fub"ftance, the life and fweetnefs, of the "divine nature; thine all-cleansing,

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all-purifying, and atoning blood! that "it may cleanse me from all fin; may "clear the guilt, and kill the power of "fin within me! And with thy meek"nefs, humility, patience, refignation,

purity, and love; that I may be born

again of thee; may be in thee a new "creature, quickened and revived, led "and governed by thy fpirit!"

O GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, Spiritual Light. FATHER OF GLORY! for the fake of Eph.i.17. THY CHRIST and THY GLORY, and in fubordination to it, give me the spirit of wisdom; not only a fpiritual beam, but the fun, the fpirit himself in my foul; that my wisdom may be a perfonal knowledge of thee, opening the heavenly image by a divine light in my spirit, where it lies veiled by the light of nature, under the image of the earthly man! May this light of knowledge fall upon my eyes, enlightening them to fee what was always before them, but hid from them, the riches of thy glory in me, and my fulness in thee!

"O FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS Spiritual Strength. "CHRIST, of whom the whole family Eph iii. "in heaven and earth is named, grant 14--21.

"me, according to the riches of thy

glory, to be ftrengthened with might

by thy SPIRIT in the inner man; that "CHRIST may dwell in my heart by "faith; that being rooted and grounded "in love, I may be able to comprehend, "with all faints, what is the breadth "and length, and depth and height, "and to know THE LOVE OF CHRIST, "which paffeth knowledge, that I may "be filled with all the fulness of thee,

my GOD! Now unto him, who is "able to do exceeding abundantly above "all that we can ask or think, according "to the power that worketh in us, "unto him be glory in the church by "CHRIST JESUS, throughout all ages world without end, Amen!”

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O give me the spirit of might, as well as of light; that JESUS CHRIST may be rooted in my heart by faith, and that faith may be rooted in thy heart by thy love! Strengthen me to take in thy

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heights and depths; and to bear what I cannot take in, fo as to know by compliance, reverence, and obedience, what I cannot know by comprehenfion!

O mercifully bestow upon me thy precious and inestimable gift of faith, that "walk continually by its divine light, and be made more than con

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queror over every enemy that wars

against my foul!" And to this faith,

may I give all diligence to add virtue ; 2 Pet.i.5. "and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly "kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity!"

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May my faith be an infeparable union Faith. of spirits between thee, my JESUS in heaven, and my foul on earth! May I never be found alone, nor in company with thy enemies, but thee and me always

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always together; me in thee, as mine eternal root; thou in me, as an unperishing, unfading branch of thyself!

May the divine nature, the power of Chrift putting forth itself by virtue of this union, take intire poffeffion of my foul! May I not be in thee as a tree in winter, when the life is all withdrawn, and funk down into the root: but may it be ever spring-time; that the fap of the GODHEAD may be afcending from thee into me, as one of thy branches; that my bed may be ever green; that faith, which is the union, the marriage-bed of thee and my spirit, may be continually fruitful!

Mayft thou, who actest in me, appear and manifeft thyfelf to me, in all thy love and loveliness! Mayft thou add to virtue, knowledge; that I may have, not only the virtue of the divine feed to mould and form my fpirit, but the

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