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For PRISONERS

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.

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I Read attentively, and meditate upon, the following paffages of Scripture.

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T is appointed unto all men once to die but after this the Judgment. Heb. ix. 27.

The night cometh when no man can work. John ix. 4.

All that are in the Graves fhall hear his Voice and come forth; they that have done good unto the refurrection of Life, and they that have done evil unto the refurrection of damnation. John v. 28.

Whoever shall call on the name of the Lord fhall be faved. Actsii. 21. Come unto me all ye that labour

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and are heavy laden, and I will give you reft. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye fhall find reft unto your Souls. For my yoke is eafy and my burthen is light. Mat. xi. 28, 29, 30.

If any man fin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous, and he is the propitiation for our Sins. 1 John ii. 1, 2.

¶ Prayer.

God! imprefs thefe truths for seriously upon my heart, that this hour may be unto me the beginning of a new life. Grant that this Solitude and Confinement may recall my Soul from Vanity, bring me to a true Sense of my prefent Situation, and through the merits of my Saviour, promote the work of my Salvation. Give me at this time fuch attention of mind, and fervency of devotion, that I may perform

perform an acceptable Sacrifice in thy fight through the fame Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Whofo confeffeth and forfaketh his fin fhall have mercy. P. xxviii. 13.

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EHOLD, O God, a creature liable every moment to death, proftrate before thee, begging, for Jefus' fake, that Faith and Repentance, to which thou haft promised mercy and pardon. Difcover to me, O thou fearcher of Hearts, the charge that is againft me, that I may know, and confefs, and bewail, and abhor, and for fake, and repent of, all the evils I have been guilty of. Have mercy upon me, have mercy upon me, mok merciful father, who defireft not the death of a Sinner; for thy Son Jefus Chrift's fake forgive me all that is past. ́ ́And, O blessed Advocate,

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vocate, who art able to fave them for ever, who come unto God by Thee, feeing thou ever liveft to make Interceffion for us, I put my cause into thy hands; let thy power defend me; thy blood and merits plead for me; fupply all the defects of my repentance; procure for me a full difcharge of all my fins be fore I die; and by thy mighty Grace, confirm and ftrengthen me in all goodness, during the remainder of my life, that my death may be a bleffing to me, and that I may find mercy at the great day. Amen.

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ITH a more particular acknowledgement of my Guilt, O God, do I now approach the throne of thy mercy. Too long have I followed the wicked Inclinations of my heart, and, ignorant of my real Intereft, have purfued the paths that lead to deftruction. But bleffed be thy preventing Grace, which hath stopped me fhort in the

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