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I will never forget thy commandments; for with them thou haft quickned me.

I am thine; O fave me: for I have fought thy commandments. The ungodly laid wait for me to destroy me: but I will confider thy teftimonies.

I have seen an end of all perfection; but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Then shall follow the fecond leffon out of the New Teftament; and after that fhall be faid Pfalm

xix.

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Pfalm XIX.

HE heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handy work. One day telleth another, and one night certifieth another.

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There is neither fpeech nor language; but their voices are heard among them.

Their found is gone out into all lands; and their words into the end of the world.

In them hath he fet a tabernacle for the fun, which cometh forth as a bridegrooom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his courfe.

It goeth forth from the uttermoft part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

The law of the Lord is an undefiled law, converting the foul; the teftimony of the Lord is fure and giveth wisdom unto the fim

ple,

The ftatutes of the Lord are right, and rejoice the heart: the

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commandment of the Lord is pure and giveth light unto the

eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean and endureth for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

More to be defired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: fweeter also than honey, and the honey-comb.

Moreover by them is thy fervant taught, and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Who can tell how oft he of fendeth? O cleanse thou me from my fecret faults !

Keep thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins, left they get the dominion over me; fo fhall I be undefiled and innocent from the

great offence.

Let

Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be always acceptable in thy fight, O Lord my ftrength and my redeemer! Amen.

Then fhall be faid the Apostles' creed, by the Minifter and People.

I

BELIEVE in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:

And in Jefus Chrift, his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the holy Spirit; born of the Virgin Mary; fuffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, and buried; The third day he rose again from the dead; He afcended into heaven, and fitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty: From thence

he

he fhall come to judge the living

and the dead.

I believe in the holy Spirit; the forgiveness of fins; the refurrection of the dead, and the life everlasting. Amen.

After that shall be faid the Lord's prayer, and prayer following.

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UR Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trespass against us: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the

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