Thoughts and resolving to shew Kindness both in Word and Deed to all about us nay to all Men as we have ability and opportunity but the Poor especially who ought not to be forgotten at such times which is the Great Thing required of us and becoming us in this part of the Service So that when we come to the Holy Communion where we are called to remember Christ particularly in his Death to seal the New Covenant with God and a League of Friendship with our Brethren we may do well to express our selves joyfully and affectionately thankful for all his Kindness especially that in Dying for us and resign up our selves both Souls and Bodies to his Service and repent of all our Sins making him faithful and unfeigned Promises of amending all our Faults particularly those wherein we are most liable to do amiss and shew our selves in Peace and perfect Charity with all Persons By these things we shall duly answer the Ends of this Feast and in them lies the great Worthiness of our Carriage at it And this our Church has sufficiently intimated to us in her Publick Catechism when in return to that Question What is required of them that come to the Lords Supper It gives this Answer To repent them truly of all their Sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new Life to have a lively Faith in Gods Mercy thro' Christ which as we have seen is thorowly exercised from the beginning to the end of this Holy Sacrament to have a thankful Remembrance of his Death and be in Charity with all Men. When we come therefore to the Holy Sacrament whilst the Minister himself is Communicating or whilst others are Receiving we may lay out our selves on these things and spend the time in the Exercise of these Duties acting them in Devout Prayers and Holy Meditations in our own Hearts Or if we are not able of our selves but need the Help of others to suggest Thoughts and to go along with us in this Service let us joyn heartily in the Churches Prayers which it has appointed for this purpose For in them we have an Exercise of all these Virtues and they have excellently provided for our Needs in this Case so that we may duly express these Tempers if we are careful to joyn fervently with the Minister in all the Parts of the Communion-Service And because it may be of use to some to see how all these Duties are exercised in it that so being aware of it they may particularly design them when they come to it I will shew it of them all particularly 1. It leads us on to an affectionate Thankfulness and joyful Praise the first great Qualification in a strain which truly to me is most transporting For thus it helps us to give Thanks before Receiving It is very meet right and our bounden Duty that we should at all Times and in all Places give Thanks unto thee O Lord Holy Father Almighty Everlasting God Therefore with Angels and Archangels and all the Company of Heaven we laud and magnifie thy Glorious Name evermore praising thee and saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth are full of thy Glory Glory be to thee O Lord most High And thus again after it Glory be to God on High and in Earth Peace and Good Will towards Men. We praise thee we bless thee we worship thee we glorifie thee we give Thanks to thee for thy great Glory O Lord God Heavenly King God the Father Almighty O Lord the onely Begotten Son Jesu Christ O Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father that takest away the Sins of the World have Mercy upon us Thou that takest away the Sins of the World have mercy upon us Thou that takest away the Sins of the World receive our Prayers Thou that sittest at the Right Hand of God the Father have mercy upon us For thou only art Holy thou only art the Lord thou only O Christ with the Holy Ghost art most high in the Glory of God the Father All which are words expressing joyful Praise and affectionate Thankfullness so meltingly that better I think have not yet been thought of 2. It leads us also to resign up our selves both Souls and Bodies to his Service in the Prayer immediately after receiving in these words And here we offer and present unto thee O Lord our selves our Souls and Bodies to be a reasonable holy and lively Sacrifice unto thee humbly beseeching thee that all we who are partakers of this Holy Communion may be fullfill'd with thy Grace and Heavenly Benediction 3. It leads us in professing an humble and hearty Repentance of all our sins and making God our Faithful Promises of new Obedience in the invitation to Communicate and the Confession of Sin before receiving in these words Ye that do truly and earnestly Repent you of your Sins and intend to lead a new Life following the Commandments of God and walking from henceforth in his Holy Ways draw near with Faith and take this Holy Sacrament to your Comfort and make your humble Confession to Almighty God meekly kneeling upon your Knees Almighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ c. We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness which we from time to time most grievously have committed by Thought Word and Deed against thy Divine Majesty c. We do earnestly Repent and are heartily sorry for these our mis-doings c. And to prepare us for this profession of Repentance in this place of the Service I think it very adviseable to take what time there is whilst the Bread and Wine are in preparing before the beginning of the Office to recollect our particular Sins which we are most liable to incur and at every one of them to make God promises and six Resolutions of amending them in our own minds after which we may the better say in General we Repent of them and will no more Commit them and thereupon beg Pardon for them and receive Absolution as it is in this part of the Service 4. And lastly it leads us to act Peace and Charity to all men when in the Exhortation before receiving it tells us we must be in perfect Charity with all Men and in the invitation calls such as are in Love and Charity with all their Neighbours at which words our hearts may strike in with it and earnestly profess they at present are and are fully resolv'd at all times after so to be Thus doth the Church it self in our Publick Service go before us and lead us on in these great Duties of joyful Praise and Thankfulness of Resignation of our selves of Repentance and Faithful purposes and promises of Obedience and of Charity to all Persons which are to render us welcome Guests and worthy Communicants Nay it doth not only call us to and bear us Company in these chief Duties wherein above all consists a Receivers worthiness but also in most others mentioned above so that scarce any
them and are ready to repeat them on the next occasion they will come unworthily whilst they are in that state and not be made the better but the worse for it But if they have broke loose from them and have been acted by Gods Fear and led new Lives for some time and are still putting out more indeavours and praying for more Grace to do this yet more perfectly they are the Persons whom God calls to this Feast and may justly expect to receive an hearty welcome at it Nay if their Return to God has been so late as that they have not yet had time sufficient for well-doing but only for holy purposing that they will do well as often as they shall have occasion yet if out of a serious Conviction of the detestableness of every sinful Course they are resolv'd to leave it and after a due Consideration of every part of their Duty they are fully and without all reserve resolved to practise it I doubt not but that this will and purpose before the time and opportunities for Practice come will render them welcome Guests and worthy to Communicate For whatâ—ver Rigors afterwards came in not from the Nature of the Sacrament it self or the Necessity of the thing but only through the Discretionary Power of the Church and the Rules of Discipline thus I think 't is plain it did in the Apostles times For the three thousand Souls whom St. Peter Converted at one Sermon did not stay till they had opportunities of performing but were admitted that very day upon their inward change and resolution to the Apostles Fellowship and therein to the Holy Sacrament which was a part of it They that gladly received his Word says St. Luke were Baptized and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand Souls And all these continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship and in breaking of Bread and in Prayers Act. 2.41 42. And when the Apostles went about to Convert the World they admitted men presently to Baptism and the Christian Worship upon their Profession of Faith in Christ and bâ—ing Penitent without staying to see them practise what they had promised as appears in the Converts now mentioned and the story of the Eunuch and when they were admitted to the Christian Worship they were admitted to the Communion too because in the Apostles Days as I have shewn that was an ordinary part of it and always went along with it If any Persons then have already left their sins and do not willingly allow themselves in any of them if thâ—y have been striving long against them and are daily gaining ground and making a more perfect conquest of them Nay if they who since their return to God have not had time to perform all this are yet fully and deliberately purposed and without all Reserve resolv'd in themselves so to do they are the Persons whom God invites to this Feast they are worthy to come to it and will be sure to meet with a kind and hearty entertainment God and they are fully agreed in their own Thoughts and the Terms of Reconciliation betwixt them are consented to on both sides for he proclaims Mercy upon Repentance and they thankfully accept it he offers to return into Favour with every Sinner that will amend his Faults and they are glad of the joyful News and fully resolve to do it And since they are both agreed upon the thing what should hinder them from coming to the Sacrament which he has appointed for this very end that therein they may give their express consent to this Agreement and mutually make this Declaration Thus is every man who has left his sins and begun to lead a New Life or who is fully purposed in his own mind and absolutely intends so to do a welcome Guest at this Feast and worthy to Communicate so that no apprehensions of unworthiness ought to put him by it And as for those who neither have left all their sins nor are determined in their own hearts and wholly bent upon it they are plainly Impenitent and thereupon most unworthy to Communicate But then 3 ly That Impenitence which unfits them for it is no excuse at all for the neglect of it Impenitence will excuse a man in no act but is it self a very great aggravation of it It is no extenuating Plea but a Damning Fault so that no man must ever hope to escape the easier after he has omitted any Duty by giving it as the Reason for it When God calls us to the Sacrament to promise him that we will amend our Faults and lead new Lives thenceforward if we return Answer that we come not because we are Impenitent that is as much as to say we come not as he bids because we will not which is certainly the worst plea that ever was made for any offence and can never render his Case better but much worse that uses it As for those then who keep away because they are Impenitent they are left without all Plea and have no excuse at all to make for their not coming to the Holy Sacrament The only thing that can stand them in stead either as to it or as to any thing else is their Repentance and Amendment which they will not delay if they consider in how great need they stand of it For as I said 4 ly Impenitent men who are unworthy of it if they understand the danger and misery of their state can by no means continue in it but must forthwith Repent and Amend and then this hindrance is gone and they may worthily approach to it If they understand the danger and misery of their state I say they cannot continue in it For so long as they remain Impenitent in many or in any one known sin they are not only unfit to receive the Sacrament as I have shewn but also to say their Prayers to give Thanks to make Vows or to have any thing to do with God in any other part of Religious Worship and Service They are shut out from all benefits of Religion they have no Salvation by Christ nor any hopes of Heaven if they happen to dye suddenly whilst they are in this state or are call'd away before the work of Reformation is finished as 't is greatly to be feared they may if they put it off for the present and as in all likelihood they will if they delay it till their Death-Bed at which time 't is a very rare thing for any man to go through with it they will go to Hell there to be tormented with the insupportable Anguish of a wounded Conscience and unsatisfied Appetites and a Raging Fire and all the Terrors and Disconsolation of Darkness and the utmost malice of Devils and Damn'd Spirits and the highest Shame and Confusion of Face all which they must undergo without any Eye to Pity or Friend to Comfort them or any one to refresh them or any Abatement or Intermission for evermore
Tale-bearing Not satisfying for Injuries Contentiousness Division and Faction Heresie Schism Tumult Sins against our Brethren in Particular Relations Sins against Sovereign Princes as Dishonour Irreverence Speaking Evil of Dignities Refusing Tribute and Taxes Traitorousness Neglecting to pray for Kings Disobedience to them Resistance and Rebellion Sins against Bishops and Ministers as Dishonour of them especially for their Works sake Irreverence Not providing for them Sacrilege or taking away either by Force or Fraud those Just Dues which are given to God for their Support Not Praying for them Disobedience Sins of Married Persons as Vnconcernedness in each others Condition Not bearing each others Infirmities Provoking each other Estrangedness Publishing each others Faults Not praying for each other Jealousie Of the Husband against the Wife as Not maintaining her with convenient Supplies Not protecting her from outward Annoyances Imperiousness or a harsh and magisterial exercise of Commands Vncompliance with her Reasonable Desires and Vncondescention to her Pitiable Weaknesses Of the Wife against the Husband as Dishonour in inward Esteem and Opinions Irreverence in outward Carriage Vnobservance in not forecasting to do what may please him Disobedience to his just Commands Casting off his Yoke or Unsubjection Sins of Parents and Children as Want of Natural Affection Not praying for each other Imprecation Of the Parents against the Children as Not providing for them Irreligious and Evil Education Provoking them to Anger by Imperious Harshness and needless Severity in Governing Of the Children against the Parents as Dishonour in their Minds Irreverence in their Behaviour Being ashamed of them Mocking them Speaking Evil of them Stealing from them Disobedience to their Lawful Commands Contumacy or Casting off Subjection to them Sins of Brothers and Sisters as Want of Natural Affection Not providing for our Brethren Not praying for them Praying against them Sins of Masters against their Servants as Not maintaining them Not Catechising or Instructing them Vnequal Government or Injustice shewn in requiring Unlawful Wantonness in requiring Superfluous and Rigour in requiring Unmerciful things of them Immoderate Threatning Imperiousness or Contemptuous haughty treating of them Defrauding or keeping back the Wages of the Hireling Of Servants against their Masters as Dishonour Irreverence Publishing or aggravating their Master's Faults Not clearing when they can his injured Reputation Vnfaithfulness in what he intrusts with them shewn either by their Wastefulness i. e. Spending it for their Pleasure or Purloyning i. e. Diverting it to their own Profit and secret Enrichment Disobedience Non-observance Answering again Slothfulness Eye-service Resistance Not praying for him Praying against him To all which add two other Sins which are peculiarly so among Christians viz. The Neglect of Baptism and Absenting from the Lord's Supper When we are desirous to discover all our Sins that we may truly repent of them we may examine our own Hearts in all these Particulars trying our selves either by the former Catalogue when we have less or by this latter when we have more Time according to our own Discretion We may ask our selves at every one Whether we ever wittingly yielded to it and if we have Whether since that we have amended it And noting all those whereof we stand guilty before God affect our own Hearts with a sorrowful sense of what we have done from such Considerations as are before laid down and then renew our Vows and make God our humble Confession and Engagements that we will never have more to do with them For which end they who are not otherwise supplied may make use of the Devotion p. 448 which may serve as a Penitential Prayer and Confession A PRAYER Before the SACRAMENT O Father of Mercies who hast once given thy Son to die for me and art now ready in the Holy Sacrament to offer him to me again I humbly adore but am utterly at a loss when I would duely prize so invaluable a Mercy What am I poor wretched Creature that I should sit down to eat with my Blessed Lord when the Glorious Angels at a distance adore and pay him Homage Why should I be call'd to feed upon his Sacred Body and Blood when my Sins had a hand in all he suffered so that I deserve to be ranked among his Murderers who were guilty of that horrid Fact which nothing but the Blood they shed could ever expiate But since it is thy Glorious Excellency O Blessed Jesu to love those that hate thee and to save their Lives who barbarously took away thine and accordingly to call to this Heavenly Feast so unworthy a Wretch as I am I am ready to come at thy Command but would fain come Worthily and leave all my Sins behind me seeing it is no Feast for them Oh! I loath them and would never yield to commit them were they to do again and humbly intreat my Heavenly Father that for thy sake he would freely forgive me what is past and rid me of them for the time to come Slay them Good Lord for they have slain thee and will slay mee too in time if they are suffer'd to reign in me Meet me in this Heavenly Banquet with a full Pardon of all mine Offences and a perfect Cure of all mine Infirmities that I may be cleansed by thy Blood and quickned by thy Spirit and assured of that Eternal Life which for thy sake God has promised to all his Elect ones All this thou art ready to do for me if I come worthily and therefore my humble Request is That thou wouldst assist me acceptably to perform the Duties of this Feast that so I may enjoy all the Blessings of it and feel it a Communion of thy very Body and Blood I would gladly remember thy Dying Love with the most Devout Affections with a Heart that is full of Thanks and intirely devoted to thy Service and quite weary of my Sins and most desirous of thy Grace and throughly prepared to seal a lasting Covenant of Repentance and Reconciliation with thee and all my Neighbours All this I desire to do and to do it fervently But alas I cannot do it as I ought unless thou wilt graciously come and help me My Apprehnsions of this amazing Love are very low O do thou exalt them My Heart is still insensible of what thou hast done for me and my Affections dull and heavy O do thou quicken and inflame them Make me love thee as much as thou deservest and desire thy Grace as highly as I need it and be set against every Sin as irreconcileably as there is cause for it and love all my Brethren as I am beloved that I may be fit to receive the abundant Communications of thy Grace in the approaching Sacrament I earnestly ask and humbly hope for all this O Good God only because I infinitely need it and thy Grace is Infinite which will not suffer thee to see the Necessities of thy poor Servant unsupplied and unworthy as I am I am still the Purchase of thy Sons Blood O
then do not despise me for thine own Mercies and thy Sons sake in whose Holy Name and Words I further pray as he hath taught me Our Father which art in Heaven c. A Prayer and Thanksgiving After the SACRAMENT I Thank thee most intirely O! my God for calling me this day to thy own Table to shew me how thine only Son freely dyed in my stead and to assure me that now for his sake thou art fully Reconciled and wilt live in me by thy Grace now at present and raise me up to be Eternally happy with thy Self at last of all which thou hast given me the surest Pledges in his precious Body and Blood What can I render to thee Holy Father or to thee my dearest Saviour for so incomprehensible a Benefit I admire thy marvellous Love and magnify it above all things Thy Praise shall ever be in my Mouth and I will tell out thy wondrous works with Gladness And may all Hearts adore and every Tongue confess that thou Holy Jesus art the Saviour of the World and the Son of the Father whom Heaven and Earth must Honour and call Blessed for evermore Pardon O! Good God the unaffectedness of my dull Heart in the receipt of so inestimable a Treasure and fill me with Desires some way suitable to my needs and the richness of thy Mercies that whenever this Cup of Blessings shall again over-flow my Heart may run over with Joy and Thankfulness also Let me never forget the Love I have received and the Peace I have Seal'd and the Promises of New Life I have made this Day but as thy Grace has help'd me to them so keep me in a lively sense of them and inable me always to fulfill the same to my Lives end Now thou hast given me the Blood of Expiation to shew we are Friends O! never let me be guilty of any thing to break the Peace which is now so solemnly ratified betwixt us Now I have vow'd Obedience to thy Laws to be Humble Chast Temperate Just Charitable Patient Devout and entirely resign'd to thy Will and Pleasure O! let me not start back again from these Holy Promises for ever Now I have received my Blessed Lord never suffer me to do any thing unworthy of him now I am Partaker of his Body and Blood let his Holy Spirit go along with them and then I shall be what I ought when I am in his keeping My sins which I have renounced will return again except he chase them away and my false Heart which now seems fixt for God will revolt unless he establish it O! Sweetest Saviour let thy Body be my Food thy Strength my Guard thy Spirit my Life and the sense of thy Favour my greatest Joy and Comfort Go on Graciously to accomplish what thou hast now begun in me and let me ever be secure and happy in thy Custody Be it even so for thine own sake Blessed Jesu And then where there is time for it or afterwards where theâ—â— is not may they go on and say Give thy Grace O Holy Jesu to all the World and let all who were Redeemed by thy Blood acknowledge thee to be the Lord and become thy Worshippers and Faithful Servants Make all Christians Conscientious Practisers of that Holiness which they profess and above all inspire them with uniting Principles and charitable Hearts that by their loving one another as thou hast loved us all the World may know they are thy Disciples Let all Governours Rule with Wisdom and Justice and Subjects obey with Love and Chearfulness Let the Priests of the Lord be Exemplary in their Lives and Discreet and Diligent in their Labourâ— having a most compassionate Love for Souls and let the People be Humble and Towardly most desirous to hearken and fully bent to follow wise Instructions Be a help at hand to all that need and are afflicted Send supplies to all that are in want and assist them contentedly to depend upon thee Raise Friends to the Widow and Fatherless the Prisoners and Captives and all that groan under Oppressors who are thrown upon thy Mercy Give Repentance Patience and Resignation to all that are sick and Ease when thou seest it convenient for them Be a Comforter to all troubled Consciences helping them to an acceptable Holiness and enlightning their minds about all causeless Scruples that they may not fear where no Fear is Succour all that are tempted with such a measure of thy Grace as may inable them to stand in all their Tryals Think particularly on all my Friends who are especially indeared to me by their Kindnesses or Acquaintance on all my Relations in the Flesh on all that Pray particularly for me or desire my Prayers Teach us all to desire what thou approvest and then grant us whatsoever as desired Prevent us in all our Actions and Guard us against all Dangers and Relieve us in all Straights and grant that we may always make thee our Stay and Confidence and take all things well which thou orderest for us Shorten all our Sorrows and prevent all our Sins and fit us all for that Eternal Kingdom which thou hast prepared for us for Jesus's sake in whose Holy Name and Words I further pray unto thee Our Father c. Being sensible how plain minds who are ready to do it so far as they are inabled are oft-times at a Loss for their Daily Devotions and not knowing but this Treatise may fall into some such Hands I have added two Prayers which such Persons may say Morning and Evening in their Families A Morning Prayer FOR A FAMILY O God who art the Giver of all good Gifts and the Father of Mercies We thine unworthy Servants intirely desire to praise thy Name for all the Expressions of thy Bounty towards us Blessed be thy Love that gave thy Son to die for our Sins to put us in a way of being happy if we would obey thee and after all our wilful Refusals of thy Grace still hast patience with us and hast added this one Day more to all we have mis-spent already to see if we will finish the Work thou hast set us to do and fit our selves for Eternal Glory Pardon Good Lord all our former Sins and all our Abuses of thy Forbearance for which now we are sorry at our Hearts and give us Grace to lead more holy Lives and be more careful in improving all future Opportunities Make thy self present to our Minds and let thy Love and Fear rule in our Souls in all those Places and Companies where our Occasions shall lead us this Day Keep us Chaste in all our Thoughts Temperate in all our Enjoyments Humble in all our Opinions of our selves Charitable in all our Speeches of others Meek and Peaceable under all Provocations Sincere and Faithful in all our Professions and so Just and Vpright in all our Dealings that no Necessity may force nor Opportunity in any kind allure us to defraud or go beyond our Neighbours
When thou bestowest Good on others let not us envy but rejoyce in it and when thou addest any to our selves let us own thy Mercy and humbly thank thee for it Afford us convenient Supplies in all our reasonable Necessities and protect us against the approach of all Dangers make us diligent in all our Business and give such Success to our Endeavours as thou seest most expedient for us and teach us contentedly to submit and not to repine at any thing that happens by the Allotment of thy Providence In all our Passage thro' this World and our manifold Concerns in it suffer not our Hearts to be too much set upon it but always fix our Eye upon the Blessed Hope that as we go along we may make all the Things of this World minister to it and be careful above all things to fit our Souls for that pure and perfect Bliss which thou hast prepared for all that love and fear thee in the Glories of thy Kingdom Extend thy Grace we further beseech thee to all Men in all Places especially to the Governours and Subjects to all both High and Low Rich and Poor that pray for it or need it in these Kingdoms Bless all our Relations who are near us in the Flesh and all our Friends and Benefactors who are endeared to us by their Kindnesses Forgive all our Enemies give them Hearts to fear thee and to be kind to us And supply all us and all others with whatsoever else thou seest proper for us for Christ his sake in whose Blessed Name and Words we still recommend our selves unto thee saying Our Father c. An Evening Prayer for a FAMILY O Most Gracious God who daily multipliest upon us thy Mercies notwithstanding we every day renew our Provocations Accept we beseech thee of our most humble and hearty Thanks for thy unspeakable Kindness towards us Blessed be thy Goodness which has this day supplied us with Food and Necessaries and preserved us in Health the chiefest of all outward Enjoyments and prosper'd the Work of our Hands and lent us our Friends to be still a Support and Comfort to us Adored be thy Love and Patience which hast allowed us one Day more to amend our Ways and assisted us by the Suggestions of thy Spirit and thy gracious Providences to make up that Resignation Humility Contentedness Chastity Sobriety Meekness Charity and other Virtues which are yet wanting in our own Souls We desire to shew our selves duely sensible of these endearing Benefits by learning to depend upon thy Providence which has been so watchful over us and to be contented with thy Orderings which are so wisely fitted to our own Advantage and applying all Opportunities to the increase of that Righteousness and Holy Living which thou requirest at our Hands We fain would do it and are here sincerely resolved to endeavour it and thou hast promised to aid all those who labour in so good a Work Be it then O Lord unto thy Servants according to thy Word and enable us by thy Grace and Holy Spirit so to do We are sensible O God how highly we have offended thee altho' we stand thus indebted for all we have or hope to enjoy to thy Bounty How many ways have we dishonour'd our Profession and revolted from the Vows we made in Baptism by Pride and Envy and Anger and Discontent and Evil-speaking and serving divers Lusts which then we utterly renounced and promised never to live in again We are heartily grieved and ashamed for these and all other our Misdoings and are fully resolv'd by thy Grace hereafter to amend them We unfeignedly repent of them and for Christ's sake humbly beg to be forgiven and that thy Grace and Holy Spirit may rid us of them for the time to come Our full purpose is to endeavour it and thy Promise is to help us in it O let thine Arm be our Almighty Aid and then we shall return to them no more Keep us in thy good Providence this Night make our Sleep safe and refreshing to us Fit us for our great Change that it may not surprize us unawares but that having led holy Lives we may be happy in our Deaths and have Comfort and well-grounded Hope in thee Give all Men Grace to repent and become thy Servants Let all Christians live up to the Laws of that Religion which they profess Especially bless these Kingdoms wherein we live Let our Governours Rule with Justice and our People Obey with Chearfulness Make the Rich and Prosperous Temperate in Vsing and Charitable in Distributing of their Substance and the Poor and Afflicted Patient and Contented under their Burdens And cause us all to love as Brethren to be Pitiful and Tender-hearted towards all Men. 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