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Bow down their Ear to her In\struction, and fubmit themselves to her Difcipline; That Thy Worship may be set up amongst us in its Purity and Fulness; That Thou may'ft Delight to Bless Deut. viij. us, and to do us good at our Latter End.

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And now, O Lord and my God, let me Return unto Thee for a Bleffing upon my felf, a moft Miferable and wretched Sinner, who am less than the least of all the Mercies which Thou dost daily Renew unto Me, and for my--and--Whom Thon haft Graciously given unto Thy Servant. And all my Family, Friends, Relations, Benefactors, and Well-wishers. Feed us, O Lord, with Food convenient for us: And of all that Thon gi- Gen.xxviij. veft us, Grant, that we may furely give the Tenth unto Thee; that

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the Lord may be our God; And may Bless the Fruit of our Body,

xxviij. 4. and the Fruit of our Ground, the

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Fruit of our Cattel, and the Increafe of our Kine, and the Flocks of our Sheep, that the Lord may Command a Bleffing upon us, in our Store-Houfes, and in all that we fet our hand unto: When we come in, and when we go out: That we may be Bleffed in our Basket, and Bleffed in our Store: Blessed in the City, and Blessed in the Field: That the Lord may open unto us His Good Treafure, the Heaven to give the Rain unto our Land in his feafon, and to Blefs all the work of our hand; And that we may Lend unMany, but not Borrow; That the Lord may make us the Head, and not the Tail; and to be Above only, and not to be Beneath, when we shall hearken unto the Command

Commandments of the Lord our
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And therefor, we do now Honour and Hallow and Worship Thy Holy Name, in Rendring our Bounden Tribute and Service, Thy Tenth of all our Increase; which we offer with Thankful and Joyful Hearts: Adoring Thy Goodnefs, and Praifing Thy Mercy in Giving us All that we have.

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Bleffed be thon, Lord God of 1Chr.xxi Ifrael our Father for ever and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the Greatness, and the Power, and the Glory, and the Victory, and the Majesty; for all that is in the Heaven, and in the Earth is Thine: Thine is the Kingdom, O Lord, and Thon art Exalted as Head above All. Non therfor, Our God, we Thank Thee, and Praife Thy Glorious Name. But who am I, and what

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are we, that we shou'd be able to Offer fo willingly after this fort? For All things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee: For we are Strangers be-. fore Thee, and Sojourners, as were all our Fathers: our Days on the Earth are as a Shadow, and ther is none Abiding.

O Lord our God, All that we have cometh of Thine Hand, and All is Thine own. I know also, My God, that Thou trieft the Heart, and haft Pleasure in Uprightness. As for me, in the Uprightness of mine Heart I have willingly Offered the Tenth unto Thee. And Pray God that I may yet fee, with Joy, All Thy People offer the fame willingly unto Thee. And, O Lord God, keep this for ever in the Imagination of the Thoughts of the

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Heart of Thy People.

Lord, pral. x. 19.

Prepare their Heart, and let
Thine Ear hearken thereto.

Redeem Ifrael, O God, out of 25. 21.

All his Troubles.

Our Father, &c.

A Bleffing to be Pronounced by the

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be Thou of the most High God, Poffeffor of Gen. xiv, Heaven and Earth. And Bleffed be the Most High God, who hath given Thee a Heart to Fear before Him, and to fulfil His Law. And the God of Ifrael grant Thee thy Petition};

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