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A Prayer for Divine Grace

O most blessed God the high and mightly One who
inhabitest Eternity and art what thou always wast and ever
wilt be the most perfect Power Wisdom Goodness and Truth
the Fountain of all the prefections that are in us we ought
to address ourselves to thee in the greatest humility of Spirit
having nothing to present thee withal which we can
call our own and being unable by all our righteousness
to profit thee who standest in need of none of the Creatures
But alas! O Lord we have robbed thee of that which we
have received from thee and are so far from giving
thee any thing of ours that we have not returned to thee
that which is thine.
O the mesirable condition therefore into which we
have brought ourselves! who are not so much as fit to
receive any more from thy Divine Bounty and
which is worse have been too unwilling to partake of
thy favors! O thy infinite love in Christ Jesus which
hath bestowed the richest Grace upon us whether we
would or no! Thou hast honord our nature with thy
Divine Presence dwelling in it Thou hast delivered
him to die for our sins. Thou hast given us a blessed
hope in thee by his Resurrection from the dead.
Thou hast sent him to bless us in turning every one
of us from our iniquities and given him all power
in Heaven and on Earth that he may succour and strengthen
us when we are temped and enable us to overcome.