O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their hearts unto thee.

O that my ways were made so direct, that I might keep thy statutes!

In all thy ways have respect unto him, and he shall order thy goings.

Now I know, O LORD, that it is not in man's power to order his own ways, or to rule his own steps and goings.

Err not, my dear brethren.

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And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed for to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, sayeth the LORD: I will plant my law in the inward parts of them, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

and hope maketh not ashamed: for the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the holy ghost, which is given unto us.

For we know well that all things work for the best unto them that love God, which also are called of purpose.

But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

But the fruit of the spirit is: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance.

Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him?

We love him, because he loved us first.

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{To the chanter, a Psalm of David} I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling.

I look for the LORD; my soul doth wait for him, and in his word is my trust.

O how good is it, with stillness, to wait and tarry for the health of the LORD?

and ye yourselves, like unto men that wait for their master when he will return from a wedding: that as soon as he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him.

But and if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience abide for it.

But our conversation is in heaven, from whence we look for a saviour, even the Lord Jesus Christ,

without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our father:

From henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord that is a righteous judge shall give me at that day: not to me only: but unto all them that love his coming.

looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the mighty God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ:

even so Christ was once offered to take away the sins of many, and unto them that look for him, shall he appear again, without sin, unto their salvation.

looking for, and hasting unto, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens shall perish with fire, and the elements shall be consumed with heat.

Because thou hast kept the words of my patience, therefore I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which will come upon all the world, to tempt them that dwell upon the earth.

He that leadeth into captivity, shall go into captivity: he that killeth with a sword, must be killed with a sword. Here is the patience, and the faith of the saints.

The patient waiting for christ

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, which for the joy that was set before him, abode the cross, and despised the shame, and is set down on the righthand of the throne of God.

Forasmuch as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he which suffereth in the flesh ceaseth from sin,

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O that my ways were made so direct, that I might keep thy statutes!

With your patience, possess your souls.