Counfels, defpifing their Government, and coveting their Estate before their Death? Or, have I contributed toward their Neceffities when they were in Want, and I had it in my Power to help them? Or, have I not been difloyal to my Prince, ftubborn and unfaithful to my Mafter, refractory and unthankful to my Minister, peevish and unkind to my Friend and Companion?

VI.

If I have not actually taken away the Life of any Person, yet have I not made my Neighbour's Life grievous by Oppreffion, Rage, and Violence against him? Or, have I not by Fighting or Quarrelling wounded his Perfon? Or, have I not tempted him, by any other Vice or Intemperance, to deftroy his Health, and fo fhorten his Days? Or, have I not by false or contumelious Speeches wounded his good Name and Reputation? Or, have I not, by my own Luxury and Intemperance in Eating and Drinking, been acceffary to my own Death?

VII.

If I have escaped the groffer Acts of Adultery and Fornication, yet have I not conceived Luft in my Heart, and neglected the Means to preferve my own and others Chastity? Or, have I not by Gluttony and Drunkenness, or by any impure Thoughts or Words, defiled my Soul? Or, have I not accustomed myfelf to filthy Talking, Jefting, and immodeft Garbs, and unchafte Behaviour in common Conversation?

VIII.

VIII.

If I have not been guilty of common and public Stealing, yet have I been true and just in all my Dealings? Or, have I not contracted Debts, when I was confcious to myself, that I was not able to pay, or make Reftitution? Or, have I not wafted my own or others Eftates by riotous Living? Or, have I not by Violence and Oppreffion exacted of my Infe riors, or by unlawful Ufury taken Advantage of their Neceffities?

IX.

If I have not before the Magiftrate (worn falfly against any Man, yet have I not accuf tomed myself to Lying and Slandering? Or, have I not accufed my Neighbour unjustly? Or, have I not concealed the Truth of another, when Juftice and Charity obliged me to give Evidence of it? Or, have I not unjuftly fought to uphold my own Credit, or to blaft any other Perfon's?

X.

Have I not fecretly complained against the Providence of God, as if others had too much, and I too little? Or, have I not by unlawful Means endeavoured to deprive others of their Goods and Property? Or, have I laboured truly and faithfully to get my own Living, and been content with that State of Life unto which it hath pleafed God to call me ?

A peni

A penitential Confeffion of Sins; with an humble Supplication for Mercy and Forgiveness.

Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest

nothing that thou haft made, and doft forgive the Sins of all them that are penitent, create and make in me a new and contrite Heart, that I worthily lamenting my Sins, and acknowledging my Wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all Mercy, per

Here call to

mind all your most grievous

Sins.

fect Remiffion and Forgiveness, through Jefus Amen.

Christ our Lord.

See Pfal. li. vi. xxxii. xxxviii.

FAT

An Act of Contrition.

ATHER, I have finned against Heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy Son. Wo is me, O Lord, who was conceived and born in Sin; the Thoughts of my Heart were inclined unto Evil from my Youth. Wo is me, that I have finned against thee my Creator and kind Benefactor. Lord, I have done Evil continually in thy Sight, and my Life hath been little elfe than one continual Courfe of Impiety, Unthankfulnefs, and of unworthy Returns for all thy Goodness and Loving-kindness to me. Wo is me that I fhould thus requite the Lord. O that my Head were Water, and mine Eyes a Fountain of Tears, that I might weep Day and Night for my Sin! O gracious Lord, look

on

on me as thou didst on the Apoftle St. Peter, and let thy compaffionate Look fo pierce my ftony Heart, that I may weep bitterly for my Sins, and may have that godly Sorrow which worketh Repentance unto Salvation not to be repented of, for Jefus's fake. Amen. See Pfal. xxv. xxxii. xxxviii.

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A Refolution to lead a new Life. AND now, O Lord, I do not only with great Shame and Confufion of Face confefs and bewail the Sinfulness and Vanity of my own Life, but I do ftedfaftly refolve and purpofe (through the Affiftance of thy Grace and holy Spirit directing me) to renounce "the Devil and all his Works, the Pomps and "Vanities of this wicked World, and all the "finful Lufts of the Flefh." Be pleafed, O Lord, to ftrengthen and confirm all these good Refolutions in me. And I heartily thank thee, O heavenly Father, for calling me to this State of Salvation through Jefus Chrift my Saviour, who died for my Sins, and rofe again for my Juftification; and I humbly beseech thee for his fake, to give me Grace to continue in the fame unto my Life's End. Amen.

See Pfal. i. xxiii. xxiv. xxv. cxix. cxxvi. A Prayer for Faith in God's Mercy thro' Chrift. ALmighty God, our heavenly Father, who, for the greater Confirmation of our Faith and Confidence in thy Mercy, haft in thy holy Gospel declared, that whosoever believeth in thy

Son

Son Fefus Christ, shall not perish, but have everlafting Life; and that this is Life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jefus Chrift whom thou haft fent: Increase this Knowledge, and confirm this Faith in me evermore. O let me not reft in a dead Faith, but that I may have fuch a lively Faith, as will fhew itself by Love and good Works; such a victorious Faith, which may enable me to overcome the World, and conform me to the Image of thy Son Jefus Chrift, in whom I believe. O grant me fuch a due Sense of thy infinite Mercy, fhewed to Mankind in fo much Mifery, as may never depart out of my Mind.

I ftedfaftly believe, O bleffed Jesus, that thou didst fuffer upon the Cross to save me and all the World from the Guilt and Punishment of our Sins. O give me that Grace, that I may die to Sin, and rife again unto Righteousness! Accept my imperfect Sorrow, Repentance, Faith, and weak Refolutions; and let thy precious Merits, O my crucified Saviour, fupply all my Wants and Imperfections. Thou haft faid, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are weary and heavy laden, and I will refresh you. O bleffed Jefus, I come unto thee in all Humility, and deeply fenfible of my great Unworthinefs; O do thou bear this Burden of Sin for me, and refresh me with comfortable Hopes. of thy Mercy and Forgiveness, and the Truth of thy Salvation, O gracious Lord; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all Honour and Glory for ever. Amen.

See Pfalm xix. lvii. Eph. ii. 6, 1I.

A thank