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 to mind your minister in your supplications, that he may be blessed with divine assistance and success. Psal. lxiii. I,. Mat. xv. 10. Luke viii. 15. 18.

Exh. 11. Frequently take the sacrament of the Lord's supper, but ere you venture on that holy ordinance, prepare carefully by examining yourselves anent the state of your soul, try if you be in a holy, humble, lively, and tender frame; penitently mourn over your sins; resolve on amendment and newness of life; renew your personal covenant, and use the sacrament a a seal of it; serve a bill of divorce against all your idols and strange lovers, that have courted and carried your affections off Christ; hunger and third for close communion with him: in the act of communicating, watch narrowly over your treacherous hearts, that they gad not and go astray from the Lord. And after you have communicated, try what good ye have gotten, let it appear in your after walk, that ye have been with Jesus, feasting with him, and upon him. I Cor xi. 20.

Exh 12 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, not only by public