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Now to this God whose power is an all-sufficient shelter, and whose special providence is sure protection, at whose beck and bidding are all creatures in heaven and earth, who hath infinite wisdom to direct you, and infinite strength to support you, I commend you, and my prayer shall be, The Lord preserve you from all evil, ¹the Lord preserve your soul, the Lord preserve you in your goings out, and in your comings in, from this time forth and for ever.

Now to this God whose power is an alsufficient shelter, and whose special providence is sure protection, at whose beck and bidding are all creatures in heaven and earth, who hath infinite wisdom to direct you, and infinite strength to support you, I commend you, and my prayer shall be, The Lord preserve you from all evil, ¹the Lord preserve your soul, the Lord preserve you in your goings out, and in your comings in, from this time forth and for ever.

1. 1Psal. 121.7, 8.

Thirdly, In a word I commend you to his universal benediction, to his blessings in all your undertakings and concernments, as to his grace to affect you, in the midst of the Worlds hatred, and to his power to protect you in the middest of all hardships, so to his presence to prosper you in all the works of your hands. The fruitfulness of the earth depends wholly upon the influence of Heaven; If the Sun with-hold its heat, and the clouds their moisture, all things decay and wither. The success of all your actions depend on Gods benediction; If he deny his concurrence, nothing prospers. Except the Lord build the house, they labour but in vain that build it, Psa. 127.1. Its lost labour to undertake the ⟨p. 46⟩