_To contend with death is the work of a weak and mortall man; to overcome it, is the grace of thee alone, who art the Almighty and immortall God._ _O my Saviour, who knowest what it is to die with me as a Man; make me know what it is to passe through death to life with thee my God._ _Though I die, yet I know that thou my Redeemer livest for ever: though thou slayest Me, yet thou hast encouraged me to trust in thee for eternal life._ _O withdraw not thy favour from me, which is better then life._ _O be not far from me, for I know not now neer a violent and cruel death is to me._ _As thy Omniscience, O God, discovers, so thy Omnipotence can defeat the designes of those who have, or shall conspire my destruction._ _O shew me the goodnesse of thy will, through the wickednesse of theirs._ _Thou givest me leave as a man to pray, that this cup may pass from me; but thou hast taught Me as a Christian by the example of Christ to add not my will, but thine be done._ _Yea Lord, let our wils be one, by wholly resolving mine into thine: let not the desire of life in me be so great, as that of doing or suffering thy wil in either life or death._ _As I believe thou hast forgiven all the errours of my life, so I hope thou wilt save me from the terrors of my death._ _Make me content to leave the worlds nothing, that I may come really to enjoy all in thee, who hast made Christ unto me in life, gain; and in death advantage._ _Though my destroyers forget their dutie to thee and me, yet do not thou, O Lord, forget to be mercifull to them._ _For, what profit is there in my bloud, or in their gaining my Kingdoms, if they lose their own Souls?_ _Such as have not onely resisted my just Power, but wholly usurped and turned it against my self, though they may deserve, yet let them not receive to themselves damnation._ _Thou madest thy Son a Saviour to many that crucified him, while at once he suffered violently by them, and yet willingly for them._ _O let the voice of his bloud be heard for my Murtherers, louder then the cry of mine against them._ _Prepare them for thy mercy by due convictions of their sin, and let them not at once deceive and damne their own souls by fallacious pretensions of Justice in destroying me, while the conscience of their unjust usurpation of power against me, chiefly tempts them to use all extremities against me._ _O Lord, thou knowest I have found their mercies to me as very false, so very cruell, who pretending to preserve me, have meditated nothing but my ruine._ _O deal not with them as bloud thirsty and deceitfull men; but overcome their cruelty with thy compassion and my charitie._ _And when thou makest inquisition for my blood, O sprinkle their polluted, yet penitent Souls with the bloud of thy Son, that thy destroying Angel may passe over them._