BLESSED be Thy love for giving Thy Son to die for our sins, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
Blessed be Thy love for all the temporal benefits which Thou hast with a liberal hand poured out upon me; for my health and strength, food and raiment, and all other necessities with which Thou hast provided Thy sinful servant.
I also bless Thee that, after all my refusals of Thy grace, Thou still hast patience with me, hast preserved me this night and given me yet another day to renew and perfect my repentance.
PARDON, good Lord, all my former sins, and make me every day more zealous and diligent to improve every opportunity of building up my soul in Thy faith, love, and obedience.
Make Thyself always present to my mind, and let Thy love fill and rule my soul in all those places, companies, and employments, to which Thou callest me this day.
In all my passage through this world, suffer not my heart to be set upon it, but always fix my single eye and my undivided affections on the prize of my high calling.
This one thing let me do: let me so press toward this, as to make all things else minister unto it; and be careful so to use them, as thereby to fit my soul for that pure bliss which Thou hast prepared for those that love Thee.
O THOU who art good and doest good, who extendest Thy loving-kindness to all mankind, the work of Thine hands, Thine image, capable of knowing and loving Thee eternally, suffer me to exclude none, O Lord, from my charity, who are the objects of Thy mercy, but let me treat all my neighbours with that tender care which is due to Thy servants and to Thy children.
LET no temptation expose me to ingratitude or make me forfeit Thy loving-kindness which is better than life itself, but grant that I may assist all my brethren with my prayers where I cannot reach them with actual services. Make me zealous to embrace all occasions that may minister to their happiness. Let Thy love to me be the pattern of my love to them.
EXTEND Thy mercy to all men and let them become Thy faithful servants. Let all Christians live up to the holy religion which they profess. Be intreated for us, good Lord. Be glorified by our reformation and not by our destruction. Be favourable to Thy people. Give us grace to put a period to our provocations. Defend our Church from schism, heresy, and sacrilege, and the King from all treasons and conspiracies. Bless the clergy with apostolical grace, exemplary lives, and sound doctrine. Grant to the Cabinet wisdom from above, to all magistrates integrity and zeal, to the universities quietness and industry, and to the Lords and Commons, pious, peaceable, and loyal hearts.
PRESERVE my parents, friends and relations, and all mankind, in their souls and bodies. Forgive mine enemies and in Thy due time make them kindly affectioned toward me. Have mercy on all who are afflicted in mind, body, or estate. Give them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions. And grant that we, with those who are already dead in Thy faith and fear, may together partake of a joyful resurrection, through Him who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end.
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