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and govern me at thy pleasure; give me; take from me; only conform my will to thine; and grant that, with an humble submission and holy confidence, I may dispose myself to receive the orders of thy eternal providence, and may equally reverence and adore the most different events which Thou shalt please to accomplish.

Grant this, through Him who worketh in me all the purposes of his grace, in the providence that overruleth my ways, even Jesus Christ.

III.

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 making myself the judge of all that train of future things,

which thy wisdom has so justly put into thine own power, among thy secret things. Lord, I know that I must seek unto Thee through my crucified Saviour, in whose merits I pray Thee to receive me unto all duty. After this, I know not what is best or worst in all things. I know not which is more profitable for me, health or sickness, riches or poverty; any condition, any circumstances of the world: but I am persuaded that there is one only good thing for me, that neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. Amen.

THE END.

GILBERT & RIVINGTON, Printers, St. John's Square.

Lately Published,

UNIFORM WITH THIS BOOK, AND BY THE SAME

AUTHOR,

I.

A PLAIN GUIDE to the HOLY COMMUNION. 2nd Edition.

II.

CONSOLATIONS and PRAYERS for the TIME of SICKNESS.

Also,

SERMONS. Vol. I. 3rd Edition.
SERMONS. Vol. II.

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