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Prayer Lecture 75
PRAYER
Grant, Almighty God, that we may not by our perverseness increasingly provoke thy wrath, but that whenever thou threatenest us, we may immediately fear and tremble at thy word, and also obey thee in the true spirit of , and so dread thy threatenings as to anticipate thy judgment by true , and thus strive to glorify thy name, that thou mayest become our strength and glory, and that we may be able not only before the world, but before thee and thy angels, really to glory, that we are that peculiar people whom thou hast favored with thy , that thou mayest to the end carry on in us the work of thy , through Jesus Christ our Lord. — Amen.