VIII.  So may ye act, and so may ye honour us, whether present or absent, whether taking your part in our sermons, or preferring to do something else:  and may ye be the children of God, pure and unblamable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: Phil. ii. 15.  and may ye never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chain of your sins.  May the Word in you never be smothered with cares of this life and so ye become unfruitful:  but may ye walk in the King’s Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, Num. xxi. 22; Isa. xl. 3. but led by the Spirit through the strait gate.  Then all our affairs shall prosper, both now and at the inquest There, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to Whom be the glory for ever.  Amen.