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Date: Tue Sep 22 18:28:40 2026 -0300

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Date: Thu Oct 30 17:22:32 2025 -0300

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As the Lord, he is careful and powerful in the hearts of his own children, when the time of tentation is, that they be not overcome by it, and enables them by his Spirit to put off an ill hour, so the enemy of God's honour and of man's salvation, upon the other part, he is also busy to withdraw the heart by tentations, and to put by a good hour, and when we come to serve and worship God, then to draw our hearts away; and as ready as he is to draw them away, also ready are our hearts to go with him. And therefore let us now pray to the

Date: Thu Oct 30 14:50:55 2025 -0300

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As the Lord, he is careful and powerful in the hearts of his own children, when the time of tentation is, that they be not overcome by it, and enables them by his Spirit to put off ◊scottish{ane#an|one}an ill hour, so the enemy of God's honour and of man's salvation, upon the other part, he is ◊scottish{als#as|also}also busy to withdraw the heart by tentations, and to put by a good hour, and when we come to serve and worship God, then to draw our hearts away; and ◊scottish{als#as|also}as ready as he is to draw them away, ◊scottish{als#as|also}also ready are our hearts to go with him. And therefore let us now pray to the Lord, that he would go between us and that enemy of his honour and our salvation, and that he would teach us from above, from himself, and give us a further sight of the truth, and a love to it, for his honour and our comfort,

Date: Thu Oct 30 11:03:09 2025 -0300

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As the Lord, he is careful and powerful in the hearts of his awinown children, when the time of tentation is, that they be not overcome by it, and enables them by his Spirit to put aff aneoff ◊scottish{ane#an|one} ill hour, so the enemy of God's honour and of man's salvation, upon the other part, he is als◊scottish{als#as|also} busy to withdraw the heart by tentations, and to put by a good hour, and when we come to serve and worship God, then to draw our hearts away; and als◊scottish{als#as|also} ready as he is to draw them away, als◊scottish{als#as|also} ready are our hearts to go with him. And therefore let us now pray to the Lord, that he would go between us and that enemy of his honour and our salvation, and that he would teach us from above, from himself, and give us a further sight of the truth, and a love to it, for his honour and our comfort,

Date: Wed Oct 29 16:59:25 2025 -0300

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Date: Tue Oct 14 16:55:42 2025 -0300

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Date: Fri Jul 4 11:25:19 2025 +0200

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PRAYER. 203

so the Lord may delight to dwell among us, in his awin ordinances; whilk we crave in the name, and for the merits, etc.

PREFACE.

As the Lord, he is careful and powerful in the hearts of his awin children, when the time of tentation is, that they be not overcome by it, and enables them by his Spirit to put aff ane ill hour, so the enemy of God's honour and of @@ -24,20 +10,4 @@ als ready are our hearts to go with him. And therefore let us now pray to the Lord, that he would go between us and that enemy of his honour and our salvation, and that he would teach us from above, from himself, and give us a further sight of the truth, and a love to it, for his honour and our comfort, through Jesus Christ.PR AYY-E R

We have a great weight of sin whilk hings fast upon us, and bears down our souls, and such a weight that we of ourselves are not able to get it shaken aff? we can take on the burden of sin, but we cannot put it aff again. We have a conscience, (if so be that our consciences were wakened, and although that they sleep so long as we are here, yet they sall be wakened at that great day,) of the guiltiness of many sins since the beginning of our life; and when thou art pleased to set the sins of thy awin people in order before them, O but they make a terrible spectacle! for at the end of ilk sin, they see a chain that ties them hard and fast to that unquenchable flame. And, Lord, when thou pleasest thou canst set our sins in order in thy sight, and be avenged

Date: Thu Apr 24 13:50:31 2025 -0300

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PRAYER. 203

so the Lord may delight to dwell among us, in his awin ordinances; whilk we crave in the name, and for the merits, etc.

PREFACE.

As the Lord, he is careful and powerful in the hearts of his awin children, when the time of tentation is, that they be not overcome by it, and enables them by his Spirit to put aff ane ill hour, so the enemy of God's honour and of man's salvation, upon the other part, he is als busy to withdraw the heart by tentations, and to put by a good hour, and when we come to serve and worship God, then to draw our hearts away; and als ready as he is to draw them away, als ready are our hearts to go with him. And therefore let us now pray to the Lord, that he would go between us and that enemy of his honour and our salvation, and that he would teach us from above, from himself, and give us a further sight of the truth, and a love to it, for his honour and our comfort, through Jesus Christ.

PR AYY-E R

We have a great weight of sin whilk hings fast upon us, and bears down our souls, and such a weight that we of ourselves are not able to get it shaken aff? we can take on the burden of sin, but we cannot put it aff again. We have a conscience, (if so be that our consciences were wakened, and although that they sleep so long as we are here, yet they sall be wakened at that great day,) of the guiltiness of many sins since the beginning of our life; and when thou art pleased to set the sins of thy awin people in order before them, O but they make a terrible spectacle! for at the end of ilk sin, they see a chain that ties them hard and fast to that unquenchable flame. And, Lord, when thou pleasest thou canst set our sins in order in thy sight, and be avenged