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 panied with sin. So that the main business of this petition is to beg of God that he would deliver us from all sin, past, present, or to come; from all the consequences of sin, and the punishments which our sins have deserved; from the slavery of our passions and sinful habits, and from the tyranny and possession of the Evil one, who has the dominion over all wilful sinners. Good God, for thy mercy sake, and through the precious blood of thy Son, our Redeemer, deliver us from all these dreadful evils!

Consider 2dly, by descending into particulars, all the scenes of numberless evils, to which we are liable, on account of sin, in this miser able world; and from which we here pray to be delivered by the mercy of God; such as public calamities, wars, plagues, famines, earthquakes, tempests, inundations, &amp;c., besides a multitude of private evils, to which each particular person is so frequently exposed. Then all spiritual evils, which are much more deplorable, whether public or private; heresies, schisms, persecutions of the church, errors, abuses, oppressions of the poor, sacrileges, scandals, national vices, and the general reign of Satan and sin, in the thoughts, words, and