Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve

me from the violent man.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy Name, the upright shall dwell in thy preşence.

O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee: according to the greatness of thy power, preserve thou those that are appointed to die.

The humble shall consider this, and be glad : seek ye after God, and your soul shall live.

For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high?

Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth?

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill.

Blessed be the name of the Lord, from this time forth for evermore.

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Such as sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron:

He bringeth them out of darkness, and the shadow of death, and breaketh their bands in sunder.

that men would praise the Lord for his

goodness,

goodness, and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men!

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the beginning, &c.

IN thee, O Lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion: but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness; incline thine ear unto me and save me.

Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may always resort thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence and iny castle.

As for the children of men, they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful: upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.

O trust not in wrong and robbery, give not yourselves unto vanity: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Up Lord, why sleepest thou? awake and be not absent from us for ever.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our misery and trouble?

For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the ground.

O cast thy burthen upon the Lord, and he shall nourish thee, and shall not suffer the righteous to fall for ever:

For this God is our God for ever: he shall be our guide unto death.

There

There the wicked cease from troubling and there

the weary be at rest.

:

There the prisoners rest together they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

The small and great are there and the servant is free from his master.

Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, and whose hope is in the Lord his God.

Who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong, who feedeth the hungry.

The Lord looseth men out of prison, the Lord giveth sight to the blind, he helpeth them that fall: the Lord careth for the righteous.

Praise the Lord, O my soul; while I live will I praise the Lord; yea, as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the beginning, &c.

Let these be read at several times; and let him that reads, and is interested, meditate awhile. After which, let him humbly kneel down and pray.

The Prayer for all Prisoners.

O ALMIGHTY God, the merciful Father of all that put their trust in thee, look down from the beauteous

beauteous throne of glory, with much mercy and compassion upon us thy servants, who are children of misery, full of sin, and full of calamity, whose only hope is in the mercies and loving-kindness of the Lord. O do thou pardon all our trespasses and debts, by which we are in arrears to thee; put them upon the accounts of the Cross; for our blessed and most gracious Lord hath paid our price to redeem us from the eternal prisons; and be thou pleased to enrich us with thy holy Spirit; that we may be strong in faith, abounding in hope, established in patience, and rich in charity; expecting with meekness and submission, when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord, our blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus. Amen,

For Prisoners for Debt.

ENABLE us, O God, thou treasure of all goodness, and all plenty, and all justice, to do our duty to those to whom we are obliged; let not their kind❤ ness to us be injurious to themselves, nor our poverty become their calamity, but do thou enable us by the miracles of thy mercy to do what we are bound to do; or incline our creditors to accept what we can, and make us willing to do according to the utmost of our power; and do thou make up in the blessings of plenty and mercy, what is dimi

nished to them by our poverty and infelicity. Restore us, O God, to the light of thy countenance, to the sense of thy mercies and refreshments; sanctify our present condition; make us humble and obedient, quiet and peaceable, temperate and patient let not our calamities exasperate our spirit; nor the present affliction make us to seek for comfort in the creature, much less in vice and the stupors of drunkenness, in profane noises and evil company. O let our hopes be in thee, and our joy in thee only, and in thy service, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For Prisoners of Crime.

O ETERNAL and most Holy Saviour Jesus, who wert brighter than an Angel, purer than the morning star, and yet wert pleased for our Redemption, to take upon thee our guilt, that, suffering our punishment, thou mightst rescue us from an intolerable state of evil: Thou didst for our sakes suffer thyself to be imprisoned in the house of the high-priest, and have thy holy hands bound with cords, that thou mightst procure to us the liberty of the sons of God; O look upon us with a gracious eye. Thou didst suffer, and yet wert innocent; we suffer less than we have deserved; and hope in thy goodness that we never shall suffer so much. O hear our cries from the bottom of our prisons, from the depths of our sorrows; let this affliction be thy discipline to work contrition and repentance in our hearts. Thou art just, O God,

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