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VII. AND it is not easy to reckon up the good Offices, that such a Society may do to many others as well as to the Members whereof it is itself composed. The Prayers of such well disposed Societies may fetch down marvellous Favours from Heaven on their Pastors, whose Lives may be prolonged, and Gifts augmented, and Graces brightened, and Labours prospered, in answer to the Supplications of such Associated Families; and the Interests of Religion may be mightily preserved and promoted in the whole Flock, by their Fervent Supplications, and the Spirit of Grace mightily poured out upon the Rising Generation. Yea, All the Land may fare the better for them.

VII. AND it is not easy to reckon up the good Offices, that such a Society may do to many others as well as to the Members whereof it is itself composed. The Prayers of such well disposed Societies may fetch down marvellous Favours from Heaven on their Pastors, whose Lives may be prolonged, and Gifts augmented, and Graces brightned, and Labours prospered, in answer to the Supplications of such Associated Families; and the Interests of Religion may be mightily preserved and promoted in the whole Flock, by their Fervent Supplications, and the Spirit of Grace mightily poured out upon the Rising Generation. Yea, All the Land may fare the better for them.

VIII. ESPECIALLY, when a Society, shall set apart, whole Days for Prayer with Fasting before the Lord, as it may be proper for them to do now and then upon some Occasions: The Success of such Days has been sometimes very marvellous: And the Savour of them left on the Minds of the Saints, who carried them on, has been such as notably to prepare them, to show forth the Death of the Lord at his Table; Yea, to meet with their own Death; when GOD pleases to Order it.