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our Neceffities and invited
by
thy
Goodnefs,
calb
down
our
(elves
in
the humble
confeffion
of
our
fins,
and
thankful
acknowledgment
of thy
manifold
Mercies,
and
earnefly
beg
thy
further
Grace.
We
were born with
corrupted
finful
Natures,
which
from
our
Childhood
we increafed by
actual fin.
And
though
thy
great
Mercy
had given
us
a
fuflicient
Savi-
our,
and
a
Covenant
of Grace,
and
betirre engaged
us
to thee
in
that
Covenant by
our
Baptifmál
Vow,
and
gave us
the great mercy
of
the
Gofpel,
and
Chriflian
Education ;
yet
did we finfully
forget
our
Creatour,
untharikfülly
negleft
our
Redeemer,
and
rebellioufly
reftfl
the..
Holy
Ghoft.
How blindly,
how
wilfully,
and
how long
did
we
follow our flefhly
minds and
tufts,
and
loved
pleafure more than
God,
and lived
bruitifhly
by
fenfe and
appetite,
and
minded little but the
Vani-
ties
of
this
World
l
Yet all
this while didft
thou pre
-
ferve
our
lives, and fupply
our wants,
and
fave
us
from
many
a
danger
and
calamity,
when
thy
J
uftice
might
have
cut
us
off
in
our
fins and
lent
uspto
Hell
as
we
de-
ferved'
But
we
abufed
thy Patience,
and all
thy Mer-
cies;
and wafted
our
precious time in
fin, and refufed
ordelayed to
repent,
and harkened
not
to the
voice of.
thy Spirit and
Word,
thy
Minifters are
or
Confci-
ences; but
hardened our
hearts
againft them all.
We
knew
that we
muff
die,
but
we
prepared
not
for
it,
nor
ferioufly
thought
of
the
life
that followeth
!
we did
not
by
a
changed
heart
and life,
prepare
for the
great
change which death will make,
nor
confider
that ex-
cept
we
are born
again
of
the
Spirit,
we cannot
enter
into the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
I
we
were
never fure one
day,
or night,nr
hour,
to
fee
another,
and we knew
our
ume could not
he
long,
and
we
were oft
told,
that
as
we