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Rh all our wickedness, and for that corruption of nature, from whence, as their fountain, all  poisonous streams have flowed. O humble us, and place before us all the qualities which meet together in every act of sin; that injustice and contempt towards thee; that rebellion and ingratitude which prevail in it. And oh! most merciful Father, speak peace to our weary and heavy laden with guilt, through  death and sufferings of thy dear Son, and for  sake of his precious sacrifice avert the  from us. Increase in us that faith whereby we can be justified, and have peace with  through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Accompany thy pardoning mercy with thy grace. Help us, O Father, thou God of power and might, to put off the old man, which  corrupt, according to the deceitful lusts, and to  on the new man which is created after thine  image, in righteousness and true holiness. us a new heart, and put within us a new. O grant us a mind weaned from the pomps pleasures, the profits and honours, and all the transitory enjoyments of the flesh; but  and  after righteousness. Prevent us thy grace, that we may never more commit  with the deceitful hope of gaining advantage by it. Impress us continually with the conviction, the gaining of the whole world can be no recompence for the loss of the soul.

O let that solemn account we must ere long, when the throne shall be set, the books opened, and the dead, small and great, stand before God, influence the whole course of our lives. O let us so believe and so obey, that when shall come in the clouds with power and great