( 3 20) r./ Righteou1nei the word of trw h , for holding fall: the Lord jefus and his faith , that is mole ecious than lita- yen and Earth , than any cceatcd thing: this will make your name as a fweet favour to all Generations ; than thole that apoffitize, perfecute, and orpoie Jefus Chi if', (heir memories (hall be left as a cur(t to th.: people of God. .70 it (,), 6) 'fkii 6-i0 t X11 -,) APrayer before the Sacrament of the body and blood of Chrita by feverall good Men. 10/1 Holy God, we are as Jitebble before thee the confirming. fire; flow fhall we fiand before thy Holinefs ?. for we are a finful people, laden with iniquity, that have gone backward,- and provoked the holy one of lfrael ; when we were 10, thy fon did feekand lave Us ; when we were dead infin, thou madt!it us. live in that time of love thou coveredjt our nakednefs, and enteredii in to a Covenant with us, and we became thine own. delivered by power,:and redeemed by thy bloud ; but we are grievous revol- ters,we have forgotten the Covenant of the Lord our God ; we were engaged to love thee with all our hearts, and to bate iniquity, and ferve thee diligently, and thankfully to Jet forth thypraife ; but we have departed from thee andcorrupted our felves throughfelf- love, and by loving the world, and the things that are in the world, and have fulfilledthe defires ofthe fie,th, which weihotild have cruCifyed ; we have negleUed our duty to thee, and t our neighbour, and the necerary care of our own Salvation ; we have been unprofitablefervants, and have hid thy Talent, and have dif- honoured thee in all things, whom we fhould have pleafed and glo- rified have been negligent in hearing and reading thy holy 'god, and in meditating and conferring upon it, in publique and private prayer, and thanksgiving, and in our preparation to this holy Sacrament in the exonining of our laves, and repenting of our fins, and furring up our hearts to a- believing and thankful! receiving of thy graces and to love, andjoyfulnefs, in our commu- nion with thee andwith one another; we have not duly difcerned the
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