canft, that the Waters may fettle, and thy Thoughts be free to wait upon God. For ⚫ this Diverfion from his Service, is evil, but not to be help'd, till the Business that feeds it be withdrawn.

Lastly, if the Thoughts be only of indifferent Matters, and Trifles; wandring on feveral things, without coherence; to which thou haft neither Affection, nor Engagement: Roufe up, and awaken thy felf; put thy Heart into the prefence of God, and lie naked before his Majefty. For this is the Sleepinefs of the Head, and the < Drow finefs of the Senfes. For as in Sleep, our Thoughts run incoherently, to and fro; fo this is a degree of Sleep,and thy thoughts ramble, proportionably to this degree: But check them, awaken them, and bemoan thy felf, and fay; Pardon, O Lord, the Behaviour of thy Servant, fo unfuitable to thy Tremendous Majefty. Thy holy Angels may justly have Indignation, against fuch a • Wretch as I am; that prefume to treat the adorable Majefty of their Lord, with folittle Reverence and Refpect: While they, who are so much above me; fo high in Eminency and Honour; yet pay thy Infinite Majefty, infinitely more awful Homage. "Ah! poor Soul, what Advantages doft thou lofe of improving thy Soul in Grace! what Strength, what Spiritual Knowledge, what • Comfort, what Humility,what Divine Love, ? mightest thou have acquir'd; by dwelling in the Prefence of God, and fitting at his

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Feet, in this time; which thou haft perfectly loft, in Vanity and Dreaming! Affift me, O my God, to Conquer this Evil also, and then my Soul fhall be Happy in Converfing with Thee.

I fhall conclude the Account of his Devotions, with a Copy of his private Prayers which I find among his Papers, which will give the Reader a clearer View of Mr. Bonnell's Piety than any thing I am able to fay of it, and which I hope many devout Chriftians will offer up to God with great Comfort in their Retirements.

Compos'd a bout the Year"

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1692.

A Prayer.

Lord my God,heavenly Father! Maker of all things; Judge of all Men, "moft worthy Judge Eternal; Thou art a "Righteous Judge, ftrong and patient, and "Thou art provoked every Day; and that "by my wretchedness. I have finned, what fhall I do unto Thee, O Thou preferver of "Men? God be merciful to me a Sinner

Mercy, mercy, O my God, in and thro' σε thy Dear Son: Accept of that full, per

fect and fufficient Sacrifice, Oblation, and "Satisfaction, which he hath offered upon "the Crofs, not only for my Sins, but for "the Sins of the World, on my behalf, and

of thy infinite Mercies make me partaker of it. O my moft gracious Saviour, vouchfafe yet to own me before thy Father for thine, and obtain for me pardon and for"giveness

66 giveness for all my Sins. Accept of me, O! es moft merciful Father in him thy beloved

Son, as thou haft enabled me humbly to "offer up my self to thee thro' him; and "grant me Grace to ferve thee faithfully, fincerely, uprightly, heartily, all my Days.

Fill, O fill my Soul with Zeal for thy "Glory, and with longings for the coming of thy Kingdom, that thou, O most Gracious Lord Jefu, may'ft fee abundantly of

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thy Seed, and of the travail of thy Soul, "and be comforted over all the trouble and "Sorrow which thou haft endur'd for our "fakes in bringing forth Salvation to the "World; that thou may'ft be exalted in

the Hearts of Men, and that the Kingdom "of Sin and Satan may be done away. En"crease the number of thy own Servants, "ftrengthen their Graces, be glorified in "them, and let their Hearts ever rejoice in thee. Fill my Soul with such a deep fenfe

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of thy wonderful Love to us, and of thy "bitter Sufferings for us, as may provoke "me for thy fake, to love thofe Souls "whom thou haft fo tenderly lov'd, and "fo dearly bought; and to endeavour to "fpend and be fpent for them.

Lord, have Mercy upon us in these fin"ful Nations: Spare us good Lord, we "have grievously sinned: Righteous are "thy Judgments which thou haft brought

upon us; pardon our crying Sins, which

have provok'd them; pardon our unreL4 formed

"formedness under them. Pardon, mer"cifully pardon the unfuitable returns we "have made to thy wonderful Mercies. "Be entreated for us, good Lord. Be glo"rified if it be thy gracious Will, by our "Reformation and not by our Destruction. "Turn all our Hearts to Thee from the • higheft to the lowest. Turn thou us, and fo fhall we be turned; fend forth "a Spirit of Reformation into the midst "of us, and make us a holy People. Stir

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up the Hearts of thy Servants whom "thou haft fet over us, that they may be zealous and happy Inftruments in thy hand, of promoting this good Work, and may be bleffed in their Deed. "Grant us, Princes to Rule in Righteous.

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nefs, and Paftors after thy own Heart. "Send forth painful Labourers into thy Church, and bless all that wait at thy holy Altar with foundness of Doctrine and Piety and exemplarinefs of "Life and Converfation, particularly those "for whom I am bound to pray. Grant that "they may glorifie thee on Earth, and be glorified with thee in Heaven.

Comfort, I implore, all thy poor Ser"vants that fuffer for the Teftimony of a (૬ good Confcience; vifit them, O Gracious "Lord in all their Prifons, their Dunge

ons, their Gallies, their Banifhments,their "Diftreffes. Thou knoweft them, thou "feeft them under all: O ftay their Souls འ༦ upon thee, and let their Lives be preci

ous in thy fight, and their Deaths right "Dear. Supply abundantly to all their "Souls the want of thy holy Ordinances "fo richly vouchfafed to us, and in thy "good time deliver them, as thou haft fo "wonderfully and gracioufly deliver'd us. O that our whole Souls may rejoice in thee, and bless thee for these thy wonderful Mercies to us: O make us faithful to thee in all our holy Vows and Engagements.

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Vouchfafe to blefs thy Servants [my Sifter and her Husband] with the fear of thy holy Name, and with Grace to bring up their Children in thy Fear; O "that they, and theirs may be thine. Blefs "all my near Relations, and dear Friends, "make them thy Servants. Blefs and re"ward all my Benefactors; Blefs all whom "I have injur'd by Word or Deed, in Soul, cr Body, Goods, or good Name. Of thy "Infinite Mercy pardon these my Sins and

and remove the evil Effects and Influences "of my Sins, wherefoever they have reach'd. "Reward a hundred fold into the Bofom of

all that offer up, or have offer'd up Prayers unto thy Majesty in my behalf; Bless them good Lord, and all that belong to them. "Be gracious to all of us, whom thou haft admitted at any time together to thy "Holy Table; ftrengthen our Hearts, Q. moft gracious Lord Jefus in thy Ways; 66 ftrengthen us against all and each of our "Temptations and Difficulties in Life, and make us more than Conquerors in thy