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infinite love to covenant with me, and hast made it sure in every thing.—Now, Lord, I desire to enter into covenant with thee this day, in opposition to all the corruptions of a body of sin and death that I am mastered with:- desire, in thy fight, to protest a gainst all things in me, or in my family, that is not like thee—and, this day, to invite thee back to my house on any terms, -and do not break us with thy long absence.—Come, Lord Jesus, and take up thy dwelling amongst us—we are, a heartless company without thee.—Come to the heads, and tell us what is duty, and our duty; and put work in our hands. Aft thou passing by us, as one that hath no more work for us to do? O Lord, I cannot think upon this; let not our iniquities put a stop in thy way: come over the mountains of opposition, and put us to duty, and keep us at duty, and dwell with us. I invite thee to come to my poor babes; let them be of the little children that thou suffers to come unto thee. Salvation to him that appears to be near his close: let him have mercy in, and thro' a compleat Mediator Christ; let thy sympathy and free love be extended towards him, -he being one of thy sufferers, wanting the administration of thy Sacrament of Baptism, because of the unfaithfulness of ministers. Lord, thou knowest, that it was not in contempt of thy holy ordinance that it was wanting; but we
