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PRIVATE DEVOTIONS.

aid me to perform that Vow I there made to thee; and when by my own wilfulness or negligence, I have failed to do it, yet thou in thy manifold mercies hast not forsaken me, but hast graciously invited me to repentance, afforded me all means both outward and inward for it, and with much patience hast attended, and not cut me off in the acts of those many damning sins I have commisted, as I have most justly deserved. It is, O Lord, thy restraining Grace alone by which I have been kept back from any the greatest sins, and it is thy Inciting and assisting Grace alone, by which I have been enabled to do any the least good; therefore not unto me, not unto me, but unto thy name be the praises. For these and all other thy Spiritual Blessings, my Soul doth magnifie the Lord, and all that is wihtin me praise his holy Name. I likewise praise thee for those many outward Blessing I enjoy, as health, friends, food and raiment, the comforts as well as the necessaries of this life, for those continual protections of thy hand, by which I and mine are kept from dangers, and those gracious deliverances thou hast often afforded out of such as have befallen me and for that mercy of thine whereby thou hast sweetned and allayed those troubles thou hast not seen fit wholly to remove: for the particular preferation of me this night, and all other thy goodness towards me. Lord, grant that I may render thee not only the fruit of my