thee, O great Phyfician of Souls, to heal my

Sickness.

But being now convinced by thy free Mercy that my own Righteousness is as filthy Rags; and that he is only a true Chriftian who is one inwardly; behold with ftrong Cryings and Tears, and Groanings that cannot be uttered, I beseech thee vifit me with thy free Spirit, and fay unto these dry Bones, live.

I confefs, O Lord, that thy Grace is thy own," and that thy Spirit bloweth where he lifteth. --And waft thou to deal with me after my Deferts, and reward me according to my Wickednesses, I had long fince been given over to a reprobate Mind, and had my Confcience feared as with a red-hot Iron.

But, O Lord, fince by fparing me fo long thou haft fhewn that thou wouldst not the Death of a Sinner.And fince thou haft promised that thou wilt give thy Holy Spirit to those that afk it, I hope thy Goodness and Long-fuffering is intended to lead me to Repentance, and that thou wilt not turn away thy Face from me. 1

Thou feeft, O Lord, thou seeft, that with utmoft Earneftness, and Humility of Soul, I afk thy Holy Spirit of thee; and am refolved in Confidence of thy Promife, who canft not lye, to feek and knock till I find a Door of Mercy opened unto me.

-Lighten mine
O let me

O Lord fave me, or I perifh; vifit, O vifit me with thy Salvation.Eyes that I fleep not in Death. no longer continue a Stranger to myself,---But quicken me, quicken me with thy free Spirit, that I may know myself even as I am known.

Behold here I am. Let me do or fuffer what feemeth Good in thy Sight, only renew me by thy Spirit in my Mind, and make me a Partaker of thy divine Nature.--So fhall I praise thee all the Days of my Life, and give thee Thanks for ever in the Glories of thy Kingdom, O moft adorable Redeemer; to whom with the Father, and the Holy Ghoft, be ascribed all Honour and Praise both now and for evermore. Amen.

A Prayer for one newly awakened to a Senfe of the Divine Life.

Almighty and everlasting Father, who in the Beginning fpake and it was done, faying, Let there be Light and there was Light. O moft adorable Redeemer, who when Adam had eaten the forbidden Fruit waft revealed as the Seed of the Woman, and didft in the Fullnefs of Time, die an accursed Death to fave us from the Guilt and Power of our Sins, and thereby break the Serpent's Head-O blessed and eternal Spirit, who didft once move upon the Face of the great Deep, who didst overfhadow the Bleffed Virgin, who didft defcend on the Son of God at his Baptism, and didft come down after his Afcenfion in fiery Tongues upon the Heads of each of his Apostles

O holy, bleffed, and glorious Trinity, three Perfons and one God, by whofe joint Confolation we were firft made, and into whofe Name we have been again baptized.Accept my humble and hearty Sacrifice of Praife and Thanksgiving for calling me out of Darkness into thy marvellous Light;for quickening

me when dead in Trefpaffes and Sins, and moving on the Face of my polluted and difordered Soul.

Thou haft promifed, O Lord, that thou wilt not quench the fmoaking Flax, or break the bruised Reed. And thou haft told us, that thy Holy Spirit fhould be in us as a Well of Water fpringing up unto eternal Life-Finish therefore, I befeech thee, the good Work begun in my Soul, and now thou haft called me, never let me lye down again.

Thou feeft, O Lord, the good Seed fown in my Heart is but as yet as a very fmall Grain of Muftard Seed.O continue to Water, with the Dew of thy heavenly Bleffing, what thy own Right-hand hath planted, and it fhall become a great Tree,

Thou haft touched the Eye of my Mind by thy divine Power, and I fee Men as Trees walking. Let thy Holy Spirit by his blessed Influences more and more remove the remaining Scales till I at length fee all Things clearly.

With Shame and Confufion of Face, O Lord, I confefs, I am unworthy of this and all other thy Mercies. For I have long fince done Defpite to the Spirit of Grace, crucified the Son of God afrefh, and put him to open Shame. But do thou, who art rich in Mercy to all that call upon thee, in Faithfulness, forgive me what is paft, and grant I may from henceforward work

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out my Salvation with Fear and Trembling, fince thou haft fo graciously wrought in me both to will and to do after thy good Pleasure.

I know, O Lord, that now thou haft begun to deliver 'me out of my natural, and worse than Egyptian Bondage, I muft expect to pass through a barren and dry Wilderness, that there are Lions in the Way, that the Sons of Anak are to be grappled with before I attain the true Sabbath of the Soul.

But thou Angel of the everlafting Covenant, who fenteft thy miniftring Spirits to rescue righteous Lot, who leadeft thy Sheep by the Hands of Mofes and Aaron,- -Send me always a faithful and experienced Paftor, who may lead me by the Hand, and keep me from lingring in my fpiritual Sodom, by his prudent Directions. under thee, and preferve me from the Snares and Fury of my spiritual Adverfaries, which otherwife may overtake and deftroy my Soul.

O make me teachable like a little ChildConvert my Soul and bring it low-Grant. I may be willing to learn what Things I ought to do, and alfo may have Power faithfully to fulfil the fame.

Strengthen me, I befeech thee, by thy Holy Spirit, to cut off a Right-hand, to pluck out a Right-eye, to lay afide every Weight, especially the Sin that doth moft eafily befet me-To forfake Father and Mother, Brethren and Si

fters,