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& to become perfect in all the ornaments of the spirit. I thank thee, O Lord, for the comforts thou hast given me in this act of prayer. O enable me to return to the business of life with the same humble & resigned frame of mind which this season of devotion has inspired. Let me not run heedlessly into the follies or sins of the World, - but ever remembering that I have been chastened by thee, may I endeavour to keep all my thoughts & affections in that state of purity & of submission which thou requirest. Keep me, O God, from being too much attached to anything in this world. May I receive both its good & its evil as from thy hand, & as parts of that varied discipline, by means of which thou seekest to prepare a people for thyself; & may it be my constant study so to rule my heart, that it may be a temple for the habitation of thy Holy Spirit. And, blessed O Lord, be thy name, that thou who woundest the heart of man hast also promised to bind it up. Thou upholdest all that fall, - thou raisest up them that are bowed down, - thou healest the broken in heart, & pourest the balm of consolation into the afflicted spirit -
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