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tions to evil. Then see what thou hast to apprehend of evil for the future, from the judgments of God ever hanging over the head of impenitent sinners, from the malice and subtilty of thy enemies, ever intent upon thy ruin; and the hold thou givest them by thy passions, and that unhappy self-love which keeps a continual correspondence with them; lastly, from that miserable death, judgment, and hell, which are the portion of all who, by occasion of mortal sin unrepented of, fall into the hands of the living God, and thou wilt be convinced of the necessity of thy continually crying out to thy holy Redeemer, Deliver us from all evil. Amen.

Conclude to embrace humble and fervent prayer, as the sovereign means to be delivered from all evils, past, present, or to come: and as these evils continually threaten thee, so let thy prayer also be in some measure continual.