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Satisfaction for, if they repent and turn unto thee.

Woe is me, vile and wretched Sinner that I am, may each of them fay, in that I have fo foolishly and wickedly departed from thee; having broken thy Covenant, the Covenant of my Baptism; having renounced the Happiness and Pleasure of ferving thee, to ferve my greatest Enemy, who seeks my Destruction. But I repent, O my God, do thou increase my Repentance,

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O poffefs their Souls with fuch a deep Senfe of their Guilt, that they may mouri for their Sins! O give them an Interest in the Merits and Sufferings of Jefus, and fuch broken and contrite Hearts as thou wilt not defpife.

Grant that the miferable Circumstances, into which they have plunged themselves, by their Sins, may be an effectual Warning to deter others from following, wicked Courses and that the Hardships they endure may, through the Riches of thy Grace, be an Occafion of converting their Souls, and a Means of compleating their Repentance, and fetting forward their Salvation. To this End, we pray thee, O merciful and gracious God, that their Sorrow may be that Godly Sorrow which worketh Repent

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ance unto Salvation not to be repented of; that they may forrow not only for the Shame and Punishment they have brought upon themselves in this World; but for their having offended thee, and refifted and grieved thy Holy Spirit; and for that they have forfaken thee, and gone contrary to thy Holy Laws, which are neceffary to their Happiness.

O God, prepare them for, and support them under the deferved Punishment they are shortly to fuffer. May they have all their Punishment in this Life; and deliver them from Shame and everlasting Con tempt. Be thou graciously pleased to glorify thy Mercy in their Salvation, and not thy Juftice in their everlasting Destruction and Condemnation. O give them Hope in their Death, and a Portion in thy Heavenly Kingdom.

O Lord, hear, O Lord, help, O Lord, have Mercy, for the Sake of thy Son Jefus Chrift, who came into the World to fave Sinners; in the fulleft Senfe of whose Words we pray to be heard for ourselves and for all Mankind.

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Another Prayer that may be used with condemned Prifoners.

ALMIGHTY and ever blessed God, the

Creator of Heaven and Earth, and of all Things vifible and invifible; thou art the Sovereign Ruler and Judge of the World, whofe wife and righteous Laws all Mankind are bound to obey, and at whofe dreadful Tribunal all must be accountable; -Thou art a Being of infinite Purity and Holiness with whom no Iniquity can dwell, nor wilt thou behold Sin with the least Allowance or Approbation in of thy Creatures! So that, O Lord, we have just Caufe to blufh and be ashamed at the Remembrance of our Folly, and to be afraid of thy terrible Indignation for our great and manifold Offences.

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Bleffed be thy Name, that poor Sinners are not, for ever banished from thee, but have Leave to return to the Lord their God by true Repentance and humble Prayer.

We admire and adore the Riches of thy Grace, that thou haft fent thy dear Son into the World to be a Mediator between thyfelf and us, who out of his great Love and Compaffion to Mankind has laid down his Life, and shed his moft precious Blood to

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make Atonement for our Sins, and to obtain Pardon and Forgiveness for all such as by true Faith, and fincere Repentance, return to God, and their Duty.

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From the holy Scriptures we learn, that thou art a God delighting in Mercy, and through the Merits and Mediation of thy dear Son our Saviour art pleased to hear and accept the Prayers which are put up at the Throne of thy Grace; in his moft prevailing Name, we therefore pray for all Mankind, that thy Way may be known upon Earth, and thy faving Health unto all Ñations. We pray thee to have Mercy on the Ignorant, and grant them the Means and Opportunity of knowing their Duty; fhew Mercy to the Wicked, convince them of their Sin and Danger, and grant them Repentance unto Life.

Have Mercy, we beseech thee, O good and gracious God, upon all that are in Affliction and Trouble, and fanctify the Miseries of the Body to the good of the Soul.

O God, who defireft not the Death of a Sinner, but rather that he should be conWerted and live, fhew Pity to all who neither pity nor pray for themselves. Grant that they may ferioufly confider their miserable Conditon, before all Opportunities of being reconciled

reconciled to thee be removed far, far from them.

With the Eyes of thy tender Compaffion look down on all thofe who are deprived of Liberty, and fuffer the Calamities and Hardships of Imprisonment: Pity their Diftrefs, raise them up Friends, and fend them Relief; and grant that their Adversity may lead them into a ferious Confideration of their Ways, and prove a happy Means of their Salvation.

Especially, we entreat thee, O Lord, to regard in the Multitude of thy Mercies, these poor Creatures, whofe Sins have brought them to Shame, and their Tranf greffion of thine and their Country's Laws has procured the Sentence of Death to be paffed upon them. Righteous art thou in all thy Ways, and juft are all thy Judgments; who haft appointed that Shame and Punishment fhall be the Fruit of Wickedness, and ordained Death to be the Wages of Sin:-Yet, O Lord, in the Midft of Judgment remember Mercy, and though their Bodies perish, let their Souls be faved, Let them not endure, we beseech thee, the Flames of Hell, and everlafting Torments of the Damned in the other World, though they may fuffer the Stroke of Juftice in this. To which End be thou pleased, O Foun

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