in all that we suffer, and thou art to be glorified; and shame and confusion of face belong unto us as it is this day but never let us suffer the confusion of a sad eternity. Accept our sorrow and repentance, our suffering and our shame; that in the blood of the Lamb, and the tears of repentance, our sins being washed, our souls may be presented pure and spotless before the Throne of Grace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen,

If the Prisoners be condemned to Death, then add this Prayer.

O MOST merciful Saviour, who didst glorify thy mercy by giving pardon, and promising paradise, to the repenting thief; thy mercies have no limit, and thy loving kindness cannot be measured; O hear the cries and deepest groanings of miserable perishing sinners, who cannot look up with any hope, but only because thy glorious mercy is greater than can be understood, and by thy own measures thou doest good to the miserable and calamitous. Thou didst add fifteen years to the days of Hezekiah upon his Prayer; but he was righteous. Thou didst lift up the head of Manasses from the dungeon, and gavest pardon to him when he cried mightily; but he was a timely penitent. O give mercy to thy enemies, that fain would be reconciled to Thee; to the impenitent, that fain would be admitted to repentance; to miserable and undone wretches, who desire that the infiniteness of thy mercy should be glorified upon those whom nothing can relieve

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but what is infinite as thyself. O give pardon to thy servants, give patience, a conformity to thy will, and a dereliction of their own; let thy blessed Angels stand in circuit round about and rescue this [man, woman, &c.] from all the violence and fraud of the spirits of darkness, from the weakness of human nature, from the curse and power of evil habits, and from eternal damnation, through the mercies of God, and the Grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

For Prisoners under Oppression, by false Accusation, by unjust War, for a good Conscience, or unreasonable Dealings of Men, by vexatious Law-suits, and violent injurious Bargains.

O ALMIGHTY God, most merciful, most gracious Father, who hast glorified thy eternal Son, and exalted him to be a covenant for the people, a light of the Gentiles, to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house: Thou standest at the right hand of the poor to save his soul from unrighteous judges: thou art a defence for the oppressed, and a refuge in due time, in the time of trouble; O look upon thy servants who suffer wrong from the violent and unjust usages of our oppressors. If it be thy will, speedily rescue us from our calamity; we submit to thy will and pleasure, and adore thy Providence and thy Wisdom in every dispensation; but we beg of thee, together with the suffering, give us patience, and a

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way for us to escape; and sanctify both thy justice in our suffering, and thy mercy in our delivery. Do thou judge our cause, O Lord; defend our persons, give good unto our persecutors, and not evil, give them a love of justice and repentance, pardou and holiness; send peace, O Lord, in all our days and in all our dwellings; let there be no leading into captivity, no complaining in the houses of bondage; and let not our portion be with persecutors, but with the poor and the persecuted, with the harmless and the innocent, with them that do good, and suffer evil for Jesus Christ's sake, our Lord and only Saviour. Amen.

O God, of mercy, extend thy loving kindness to all thy servants who are under the same or any other great affliction: deliver them, O God, from all evil, from their own weakness, and their enemies' power; bless them with thy Providence, sanctify them by thy Grace, pardon them by thy mercy, defend them with thy power, conduct them by thy Spirit, enrich them with thy wisdom, and bring them to all holy and useful comforts in this world, and to never-ceasing glories in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

THE Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communication of the holy Spirit of God, be with us, and with all our relatives, and with all the servants of God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Prayers

Prayers after the Commission of heinous Sins.

O MOST glorious God, I tremble to come into thy presence, so polluted and dishonored as I am by my foul stain of sin, which I have contracted, but I must come, or I perish. O my God I cannot help it now; miserable man that I am, to reduce myself to so sad a state of things, that I neither am worthy to come unto thee, nor dare I stay from thee miserable man that I am, who lost that portion of innocence which, if I price, I cannot now recover. have offended thee, my Lord, vocate, and my Redeemer.

should pay my life in Heavenly Father, I my Judge, my AdShame and sorrow are

upon me, for so offending thee, my gracious Saviour. But glory be to thee, O Lord, who art such to me who have offended thee. It aggravates my sin, that I have sinned against thee who art so excellent in thyself, who art so good to me: but if thou wert not so good to me, though my sin would be less, yet my misery would be greater. The greatness of my crime brings me to my remedy; and now I humbly pray thee to be merciful to my in, for it is very great.

O, my God, pity me, and relieve my sad condition, which is so extremely evil, that I have no comfort but from that which is, indeed, my misery: my baseness is increased by my hopes; for it is thy Grace and thy goodness which I have so provoked. Thou, O God, didst give me thy Grace, and assist

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me by thy holy Spirit, and call by thy word, and instruct me by thy wisdom, and didst work in me to will and to do according to thy good pleasure. I knew my sin, and I saw my danger, and I was not ignorant, and I was not surprised: but wilfully, knowingly, basely, and sensually I gave thee away for the pleasure of a minute, for the purchase of vanity; nay I exchanged thee for shame and sorrow, and having, justly, forfeited thy love, am placed I know not where, nor in what degree of thy anger, nor in what neighborhood of damnation.

O God, my God, what have I done? whither am I fallen? I was well and blessed, encircled with thy Graces, conducted by thy Spirit, sealed up to the day of Redemption, in a hopeful way towards thee; and now I have listened to the whispers of a tempting Spirit, and for that which hath in it no good, no reason, no satisfaction, for that which is not, I have forfeited those excellences, for the recovery of which my life is too cheap a price. I am ashamed, O God, I am ashamed. I put my mouth in the dust, and my face in darkness; and hate myself for my sin, which thou hast declared thou hatest. But give thy servant leave to hope, that I shall feel the gracious communications of thy love: I know thou art angry with me, I have deserved it. But if thou hadst not loved me, and pitied me, thou mightst have stricken me in the act of my shame. I know the design of thy mercy and loving kindness is to bring me to repentance and pardon, to life and Grace. I obey thee, O God, I humbly obey thy gracious purposes. Receive, O Lord, a returning