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 fashion of my people I am filled with a great awe, not knowing what their change will be, their eternal fashion, and seeing how great a work each soul has to perform in this short life to be ripe for Thy coming.

O holy Pather, have mercy upon this flock, and rouse their souls to a true love of Thy will, and an earnest practice of Thy will. Save them, lest they perish, save them in this “acceptable day” from their sins. Thou hast sent me to preach Thy Word unto them that they may be saved; grant that I may so preach and so labour that many may be turned to righteousness for Thy dear Son’s sake.

O holy Jesus, by Thy Cross and Passion help me that I may help this flock.

Come among us, Holy Ghost, and help us, and with great might succour us; pity us, bear with us, enlighten us, renew in us “whatsoever has been decayed by the fraud and malice of the devil, or through our own carnal will and frailness.”

And first, O Lord, do I pray for those who are the first in Thy love; for the babes and sucklings, infants and little ones; for those newly-born, that they may live to be born again of water and of the Spirit; for those newly baptized, that “they