sed to p thy disps faithful aires of a d disappe and env e; my e hat there st may al and my tr I may alw bast pros rsake me. ought for hall drinke (as a Gen ou knowest that if I ngs shalla t bounty an dat any nce shalt all work w ve and fa hat the lon se in my life. Let me not hereafter wish for prosperity, for health or life; but with the prospect of spending them in thee, with thee, and for thy glory. I pray not that thou wouldst give me either prosperity or adversity, health or sickness, life or death; but that thou wouldst dispose my prosperity and my adversity, my health, my sickness, my life and my death, for thy glory, and for my own eternal welfare. Thou alone knowest what is most expedient for me; thou art my sovereign Master and Lord; guide and govern me at thy pleasure; give me, or take from me, as seemeth best to thy providence, and in all things conform my will to thine. And grant, that with an humble submission and holy confidence, I may equally reverence and adore the most different events which thou shalt accomplish in me. VI. O God, grant that I may, with a constant evenness of spirit, embrace all thy disposals, forasmuch as I know not what to ask, and cannot desire absolutely one event rather than another, without presumption, and without making myself the judge of all that train of future things which thy wisdom has so justly concealed from my view. I know, O Lord, my whole knowledge may be reduced to this one point-that it is good to obey thee, and evil to offend thee Aftry thin TL A Prayer for a holy and happy Death. O ETERNAL and holy Jesus, who by thy death hast overcome death, and by thy passion hast taken out its sting, and made it an entrance into everlasting life; help me so to order my conversation in the world, so to govern my spirit, and to lead my life, that I may die in comfort and safety. Let not my death be in any sense unprovided, nor untimely. Grant that in the time of my sickness I may not be left without the assistance of a spiritual itable for erty, anven world: resignation of my own will and desires, with a firm faith and a well-grounded hope, with a true and sincere repentance, and great degrees of love towards thee, my God, and charity to e secrets all the world; and whenever it shall please and sagt d thee to call me out of this vain and wicked world, grant that I may die the death of the righteous; having first discharged all my obligations of justice, leaving none miserable and unprovided at my departure. And when the appointed time of my change comes, grant, O Lord, that I may receive it not as a curse, but a deliverance, as a rest from all my labours, without trouble and without sin. O remember not against me my manifold follies; but let them all be done away by thy mercy, and my blessed Saviour's merits. Support me, O good God, in my last agonies, and as my strength decays, let my pains wear off: and when my strength fails, let not my faith fail; even in death enable me to trust in thee. Deliver me from all violent disorders of a troubled fancy, and defend me against all delusions of my ghostly enemy: O let him not be able to disturb or terrify me, or any way prevail against me. And when my death approaches, give thy holy angels charge to stand about me, to guard and receive my poor soul at my departure, and to conduct and carry |