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 the labour and trouble of the conflict; but ever reject with horror the criminal satisfaction proposed by the enemy.

Conclude to observe these rules with regard to temptations, to join always an humble dis trust in thyself with a firm confidence in God; and ever to have recourse to him, in all thy conflicts, by humble and fervent prayer, and thou shalt always come off with victory.

ONSIDER first, that this petition is near akin to the two foregoing petitions; inasmuch as the main drift of the former of them was to deliver us from the evil of our past sins, and of the latter to keep us from the evil of sin, for the time to come; and this, in general, begs to be delivered from all evil, past, present, or to come. Now, of all these evils, sin is not only the greatest, but is, in some sense, the only thing that deserves to be called evil; because all other things that we call evils, are either the consequence of sin, or cease to be real evils, when not accom-