Alleine - Houston-Packer Collection BX5201 .A42 1664 pt.2

' ' I ·· 2. I wifh that your next Seeds ma·n,may be more ' skilful and fucce(.,ful; tha't the good L0rd will pro– vide y-ou a man, t hat tinay teach you in·wifdom,gain . you in Love, le<Jd you on to lite, by an ho)y Ex– ample·; and if the Lord grant you th is mercy, [- . with that fuch anone may be ~earlyp,riz'd,& ch(:ar– fulty accept e4 by you. God.kc:ep this Flock from a Raveni ng Wolf, and a dec~itful Shepheard. . ' . 3· I wiih tha t there may be no Roo.t of Bitternefs fpringing up am?ngii ·you: that there be no DivifioP.Sor Content ions, but that you may live in peace and love, th.at ~h(! God of Peace· and love n1ay be wit h you. · · ~ .. ' 4.· I wifi.l that t his pla~e:; wher.e fo n1uch good · SeeJ hath betn fown, may become a fr~itful P'idd, that the Fruit~ ofFaich aud Repentanc'e:;the Fruits · of Righteou[nefs and holinefs, n1ay be in you, and , abound ;, that you may be neithe·r barren, nor un– fruit ful; that Rtligion, in the power · and practice of it, may fo vifibl1 flourilh, in the feveral perfon~, in the feveral Fdn1ilies of this Cong r~gation, that _ they that go by, ntay fee and fay, T~is is tlle Fieltl r~hich the Lord bll&h bleffed. · ) . . ·· 5· I wiCh, that whatever Clouds n•ayat any time · , gatherov~ryou, may not fall d6Wll in a withering .Storm,or a (weeping Floud,but 111ay pafs aw.ay in a Mitt, -or diffol've into a fruitful Dew ; that no· Ptrft~ tutions;or '{tmptations may ever carry youdown the Strean1 with evil men, nor blight aoy hopeful be– ginnings, that are budding forth in any of. you!' Souls: If 'tribul~nio~ lltould be ·any ·of your Lots, l wi!h that it may not be toyau,as the I{!_til flf Egypt,. Q!lt as·che D('JPof Hermo7t. , · , f. o. ~ Y(ifA y.o... a joyful.Hti.rve!t).th.at f.QUm~y r~a.p . M . . . . ~ !,~ - (

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