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A. And teach me to remember my creator in the days of my youth. Eccles. 12. 1:
Lord may it be my mercy to know from my childhood the holy Scriptures: which are able to make me wise unto Salvation. 2. Tim. 3. 15.
Lord incline my heart to learn the instructions of my teachers and attend to understanding. Proy. 4. 1.
Give me grace to take heed to my way according to the rule of shy word: that so I may escape youthfull follies and lusts, unto which I am naturaly prone. Psal. 119. 9.
Q. What should you Pray for ere your read and bear Gods word?
A. Lord open mine eyes that I may see the wonderful things of thy law. Psal. 119. 18.
Lord put thy laws in my inward parts, write it in my heart. Ier. 31. 33.
Lord may I as a new born babe desire the sincere milk of the word; that I may grow thereby. 1. Pet. 2. 22.
Q. What should you pray after the reading and bearing of Gods word?
A. Lord put thy spirit within me, and cause me to walk in thy Statutes, and keep thy Judgements and do them Ezek. 36. 27.
Lord may I a doer and not a hearer only that I deceive not my own Soul Jam. 1. 22.
