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people, remembering the account that they must 

 make. Let us also pray for the Universities of 

 this land, Cambridge and Oxford : That God 

 would water them with his grace, and still con- 

 tinue them the nurseries of religion and learning 

 to the whole land. Let us pray for the whole 

 Commons of this realm: That remembering at 

 last from whence they are fallen, they may re- 

 pent, and do the first works, living henceforth in 

 faith and fear of God, in humble obedience to 

 tlieir King, and in brotherly charity one to ano- 

 ther. Finally, let us praise God for all those that 

 are already departed out of this life in the faith of 

 Christ, and pray unto God we may have grace to 

 direct our lives after their good examples ; that, 

 this life ended, we may be made partakers with 

 them of the glorious resurrection in the life ever- 

 lasting. For which, and for all other needful 

 blessings, let us say together the Prayer of our 

 Lord, who hath taught us to say. Our Father, &c. 



For this Cause I left thee in Crete, &c. 



The erecting of the power, that is the first; / 

 left thee in Crete. Where we have these parti- 

 culars : The original of this power, in Ego ; the 

 subject of it, in Te, Ego Te; the conveyance in 

 Ego r^eliqui ; and the extent, in Reliqui Cretce, 

 or in Creta. 



I. / left thee; I, the Apostle of Jesus Christ, (ver. 

 1.) left thee mine: There is the source, and the 

 stream ; the original and the derivation of all ; it 



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