CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

COLLECT

A SHORT, PRIVATE MORNING SERVICE

HEZEKIAH'S SICKNESS .

THE WELCOME VISITANT.

AN ACT OF COVENANT.

ASPIRATION

PRAYER, AND THE WORTHY FRUITS THEREOF, IN THE

FATHERS OF OLD TIME.

PAIN GONE, PAIN NONE

THE BATTLE-FIELD

SURMOUNTED PAIN, CERTAIN GAIN

SPIRITUAL AND MECHANICAL AIDS TO REST

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When the wicked Man turneth Ezek. away from his Wickedness that he 27. hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall fave his Soul alive.

LORD, I have oft-times committed Wickedness against Thy

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Ps. li. 3.

Divine Majefty, thereby most juftly provoking Thy Wrath and Indignation against me. Every unrighteous Thought and Feeling is Wickedness. Have Mercy upon me, O LORD, have Mercy upon me: blot out all my Sins in the Blood of Thy dear SoN; enable me by Thy HOLY SPIRIT to do henceforth what is lawful and right, and fave my Soul alive.

I acknowledge my Tranfgreffions,
Sin is ever before me.

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my

It ought to be ever before me, but alas! I often act, talk, and think as one that had never felt

its Burthen. It is only when I stand at Paufe, that I find its dull heavy Weight about my Neck.

Hide Thy Face from my Sins, Ps. li. and blot out all mine Iniquities.

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All, O LORD! It is much to Afk, it is much to Grant; but nothing lefs will fuffice. Blot out all mine Iniquities; from the First to the Lateft, from the Leaft to the Greatest,

The Sacrifices of GOD are a Ps. li. broken Spirit; a broken and a

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contrite