advice and inftructions upon it, whilft this unhappy man continues. amongst us, together with all our prayers, may through God's Grace, put a stop to these fins of impurity and fornication and avert the Guilt and Judgments that will follow, if not thus prevented.

In order to this, Young Women fhould be made fenfible of the great Goodness of God, in implanting modefly in the Sex, for a guard and fecurity of their Innocency and Hap pinefs; fo that when a Woman once lofes her Modefty fhe lays herself open to every fin which the devil or wicked men can tempt her to. Young Women therefore fhould be plainly told that if they will give ear to lewd difcourfes, to filthy company, this will end in undue liberties, and thofe, too likely, will end in the lofs of their reputation and chastity, if not of their Souls.

Above all they ought to be warned against being tempted to violate their chastity by promifes of Mar riage, tho' backed by Oaths and Curfes: these promifes are feldom kept, and if kept they are, often attended with Jealoufy, Shame, and an uncomfortable life.

A woman must be deftitute of common Senfe as well as of Grace and Modefty, who will be prevailed on to believe that any man values her for any thing but his luft, who attempts to make a whore of her.

Young Men allo should be admo, nifhed, at the peril of their Souls, not to tempt the Chaftity of poor thoughtlefs creatures, to the lofs of their credit, of their happiness in this world, and to the hazard of their Souls in the world to come. The pleasure is short, the guilt of

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It is great, and must be wiped away by a long and bitter repentance of attended with eternal damnation. Let them therefore be advised to confider how great this fin is, fince God has mercifully provided a remedy for fuch as cannot live fingle; "Marriage being honourable in all, and the bed undefiled"; and therefore" Whoremongers and Adulterers God has declared he will judge."

You will now alfo have an affecting occafion of exhorting fuch parents as have any concern for themfelves or their Children, to take great care of their Children's manners, of the company they keep;-to bring them up in the fear of God and in a fenfe of his all-feeing Eye;-to keep them ftri&ly from profaning the Lord's day, and neglecting the public fervice of the Church, which is generally the beginning of most Evils; to warn their daughters T 2

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early of the danger of being deluded and ruined by lewd men, forgetting what the Spirit of God affures us, that a Child left to her felf will bring her parents to Shame, and Sorrow too.

Prayers by Bifhop Wilfon on the above Occafion.

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LMIGHTY God, who by thy Grace and Providence haft brought this perfon, now under Sentence of Death, to glorify thee for bringing his great and crying Sins to light, in an open and free confeffion of them, and in acknowledg ing the Juftice of that Sentence paffed upon him for them; we most humbly befeech thee to continue thy grace and mercy to him, that his confcience being awakened by the near approach of Death, he may call his ways to remembrance

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and confefs and bewail and abhor, all the Sins of his life paft. And, O merciful God, give him true repentance for them, even that repentance to which thou haft promised mercy and pardon, that his Death may be a bleffing to him, and that he may find mercy at the great day through the merits and mediation of our Lord Jefus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer against despair.

Father of Mercies and God of all comfort, who by thy bleffed Son haft declared that all fins fhall be forgiven unto the fons of men upon their true repentance, let this moft comfortable word fupport -the Spirit of this thy fervant under the Sentence of Death, against the temptations of the Devil, and the fears that may poffefs his Soul. Though his Sins are great they T 3

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