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<HEAD>To all <HI>PERSONS</HI> that have any Sen&s;e of the Reality of <HI>VERTUE,</HI> In the pur&s;uit of my De&s;ign to demon&s;trate, that the People called <HI>Q&V;AKERS,</HI> De&s;erve more Favour from the <HI>Church of England,</HI> Than any other &s;ort of <HI>Di&s;&s;enters.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">I &s;hall here Recite &s;ome Pa&s;&s;ages in the Book of <HI>Common-Prayer,</HI> to which they Acknowledge, that it is their Duty, and that In CHRIST they have a Power, to <HI>Conform</HI> them&s;elves in the whole Cour&s;e of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">eir Lives.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>By <HI>EDM&V;ND ELYS.</HI></BYLINE>
<Q><BIBL>Common Prayer in the General Confe&s;&s;ion.</BIBL>
<P>GRant, O Mo&s;t Merciful Father&mdash;That we may hereafter live a Godly, Righteous, and Sober Life, to the Glory of thy Holy Name. <HI>Amen.</HI></P></Q>
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<P>On which words <HI>John And.</HI> has this Reflection:
<Q><P>By the Grace of GOD that bringeth Salvation, which hath appeared unto all Men, are we taught and enabled to deny Ungodline&s;s, and Worldly Lu&s;ts, and to live Soberly, Righteou&s;ly, and Godly in this pre&s;ent World.</P>
<P>Why &s;hould any Mock God to Pray &s;o to live, and yet live quite contrary, and reject the Grace of God?</P></Q></P>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. in the Ab&s;olution.</BIBL>
<P>Wherefore we Be&s;eech him to grant us true Repentance, and his Holy Spirit, that tho&s;e things may plea&s;e him which we do at this pre&s;ent, and that the re&s;t of our Life here|after may be pure, and holy, &s;o that at the la&s;t we may come to his eternal joy through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. <HI>Te Deum Laudamus.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Vouch&s;afe, O Lord, to Keep us this Day without Sin.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. 2 Collect.</BIBL>
<P>O God, who art the Author of Peace, and Lover of Concord&mdash;who&s;e Service is Perfect Freedom.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. 3. Collect.</BIBL>
<P>Lighten our Darkne&s;s we Be&s;eech thee, O LORD.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. in the Litany.</BIBL>
<P>From all Evil, and Mi&s;chief, from the Crafts and A&s;&s;aults of the Devil, from all Blindne&s;s of Heart, from Pride, Vain Glory, and Hypocri&s;ie, from Envy, Hatred, and Ma|lice, and all Uncharitablene&s;s: From Fornication, and all other Deadly Sin, and from all the Deceits of the World, the Fle&s;h, and the Devil, Good Lord De<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">er us.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. in the Litany.</BIBL>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to bring into the Way of Truth all &s;uch as have Erred.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. in the Litany.</BIBL>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee, O LORD, to endue us with thy Holy Spirit to Amend our Lives.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. Fir&s;t Sunday in Advent.</BIBL>
<P>Almighty GOD, give us Grace, That we may ca&s;t
<PB N="3" REF="2"> away the Works of Darkne&s;s, and put upon us the <HI>Armour of Light,</HI> now in the Time of this Mortal Life.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. Collect on St. <HI>Stephen</HI>'s Day.</BIBL>
<P>Grant, O Lord, that in all our Sufferings here upon Earth for the Te&s;timony of thy Truth, we may &s;tedfa&s;tly look up to Heaven, and by Faith behold the Glory that &s;hall be revealed, and being filled with the Holy Gho&s;t, may learn to Love, and Ble&s;s our Per&s;ecutors by the En&s;ample of this fir&s;t Martyr St. <HI>Stephen,</HI> who prayed for his Murderers.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. Collect on <HI>Innocent</HI>'s Day.</BIBL>
<P>Mortifie, and Kill all Vices in us, and &s;o &s;trengthen us by thy Grace, that by the Innocency of our Lives, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> we may Glorifie thy Holy Name.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. Collect on Circumci&s;ion Day.</BIBL>
<P>Grant us the true Circumci&s;ion of the Spirit, that our Hearts, and all our Members being Mortified from all Worldly, and Carnal Lu&s;ts, we may in all things Obey thy ble&s;&s;ed Will.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. Collect on the Fir&s;t Day of Lent, commonly called <HI>A&s;hwedne&s;day.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Create and make in us new and contrite Hearts.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. Collect on the 5th Sunday after Ea&s;ter.</BIBL>
<P>Lord Grant that by thy Holy In&s;piration we may think tho&s;e things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the &s;ame.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. Collect on the Sunday after A&s;cen&s;ion Day.</BIBL>
<P>Send to us thy Holy GHOST to Comfort us.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. Collect on <HI>Whit &s;unday.</HI></BIBL>
<P>GOD, which did&s;t Teach the Hearts of thy faithful People, by &s;ending them the Light of the Holy Gho&s;t, Grant us by the &s;ame Spirit to have a Right Judgment in All things.</P></Q>
<P>Here (&s;ays <HI>J. A.)</HI> the Light is the Teacher, which we Own, and bear Witne&s;s to.</P>
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<BIBL>Com. Pr. Collect on St. <HI>Andrew</HI>'s Day.</BIBL>
<P>Almighty GOD, Grant unto us all, that we being called by thy Holy WORD, may forthwith give up our &s;elves Obediently to fulfil thy Holy Commandments.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Com. Pr. Collect on St. <HI>John Bapti&s;t</HI>'s Day.</BIBL>
<P>Almighty GOD, make us con&s;tantly &s;peak the Truth, boldly rebuke Vice, and patiently &s;uffer for the Truth's &s;ake.</P></Q>
<P>I De&s;ire it may be Known to all Per&s;ons that Know Me, or &s;hall ever Hear of Me, that the People called QUA|KERS Concurr with Me in the&s;e Sentiments of CHRI|STIAN Purity, which <HI>ATHENAGORAS</HI> Te&s;tifies to have been the Sentiments of the <HI>Primitive</HI> CHRISTI|ANS.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Athenag. In Legatione pro Chri&s;tianis.</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp;c.</BIBL> <P>Summ&acirc; Cautione communican|dum e&s;t O&s;culum, ut non aliter qu&agrave;m Pia Salutatio, vel po|ti&ugrave;s Adoratio quaedam habeatur: Quae&s;i vel parum impur&acirc; Cogitatione inquinata fuerit, &agrave; Vit&acirc; Aetern&acirc; nos alienet.</P></Q>
<P>We Ought to have the greate&s;t Care, and Circum&s;pection, how we impart a Ki&s;s to any one, that it may be no other than a Pious Salutation, or an Act of Religion. If it excites our Thoughts to the lea&s;t Impurity, it excludes us from Eter|nal Life.</P>
<CLOSER>COME LORD JES&V;S.</CLOSER>
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