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all our wickedness, and for that corruption of our nature, from whence, as their fountain, all these poisonous streams have flowed. O humble us effectually; and place before us all the detestable 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 souls weary and heavy ladened with guilt, through the death and sufferings of thy dear Son, and for the sake of his precious sacrifice, avert the punishment from us. Increase in us the faith whereby we only can be justified, and have peace with thee, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Accompany thy pardoning mercy with thy purifying, grace. Help us O Father, thou God of all power and might, to put of the old man, which is corruption, according to the deceitful lusts, and put on the new man, which is created after thine own image, in righteousness and true holines. Give us a new heart, and put within us a new spirit. O grant us a mind weaned from the pleasures, the profits and honours, and all the transitory enjoyments of the flesh; but hungering and thirsting after righteousness. Prevent us by thy grace, that we may never more commit sin with the deceitful hope of gaining advantage by it. Impress us continually with the conviction, that the gaining of the whole world can be of no recompence for the loss of the soul.
O let the solemn account we must ere long give, when the throne shall be set, the books be 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 Christ shall come in the clouds with power and great
