"Grant, Almighty
God, that since we continue to afford many and various reasons to induce You to
withdraw Your blessing, and to show Yourself displeased with us, — O grant,
that we may patiently bear Your scourges, by which You chastise us, and also
profit under them, and so contend with all our depraved affections and the corruptions
of the flesh, that we may become partakers of Your paternal kindness, which
Your offer to us, and also so taste of Your goodness, which in innumerable ways
is manifested towards us, that it may keep us in the pursuit of true religion;
finally, may our tongues be consecrated to magnify Your judgement and to
celebrate Your justice, that whatever happens to us, we may always serve You
through our whole life as our Father, and declare also Your goodness towards
us, and confess that we are justly punished whenever Your visit us with
severity, until we shall at length reach that blessed rest, which is to be the
end of all our evils, and an entrance, not only into life, but also into that
full glory and happiness, which has been procured for us by the blood of Your
only-begotten Son.—Amen."
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