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 For corruption from within may make us ever act as if we forgot it.

And now, O Lord, we again present both ourselves and family, all we have, and all we are, a living sacrifice unto thee for all our remaining days. Be with us when we are passing through the valley of the shadow of death; may we then fear no devil, nor have cause to fear any. Guard us through the gloomy passage, and bring us safe to thine eternal kingdom and glory. We humbly ask all these blessings, though utterly unworthy ourselves of any notice in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who never liveth to make intercession for us. Amen.

O LORD and heavenly Father, who has commanded us conscientiously to discharge each duty we owe one to another, take away we beseech thee, from us all stubborness, pride, and self-conceit; all envy, hatred and ill-will, which would lead us to despise thy gracious restraints, and destroy that harmony which thou wouldst have to reign in every family. From the least to the greatest member of each house, give them grace to walk before thee unto all well-pleasing.

Teach and incline servants to do their work with a singleness of eye, as unto Christ: to be ambitious of serving their masters with all fidelity, and of preventing all just cause of anger or rebuke from them for obstinacy, sloth, or carelessness. Grant them wisdom to consider their station not as any hardship, much less any disgrace to them, but as the post which thy fatherly love hath appointed them to fill. Give them to understand, to their