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efficacy of thy heavenly grace in the case that is so sad, and worthy of thyself to relieve. Be pleased, O Lord, to break in powerfully upon him, and discover to him what is amiss with him; and make him to know the danger of his sins, and in what condition his soul is. open, Lord, his eyes, and soften his heart, and turn his course, and break the force of his temptations; and so make him a way to escape out of the enemy's hands; that even the dead may hear the voice of the Son of God and live. That the presumptuous may be startled, and the secure awakened, and he that is so far gone, yet recovered: Yea, that the lost sheep may be brought home, and the sinner so repent and be converted, that his sins may be blotted out, and his soul be thoroughly healed, and mercifully accepted, and eternally saved.

O gracious God, thou hast no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but art reconcileable, in in the Son of thy love, to the very worst of thine enemies; and not willing that any should perish. O what profit is there in his blood! how shall the dead and damned praise thee? Lord of all power and mercy, get the glory in his recovery. O speak the word, and thy sinful creature shall live, and for ever bless thy name. Dear Father, forgive him all the evil thoughts and devices of his heart, and all the offensive wicked carriage of his life. Forgive him all his sins of omission and commission; and bring him out of all the ways of wickedness and ruin, into which he hath struck out; O bring him at last, with purpose of heart, to resign and give up himself to the Lord; and make him

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diligent to retrieve himself, and full of care for his soul, and very conscientious and zealous in all the practices of piety and honesty, and charity, and sobriety; whereby he may approve himself to be truly changed, and quite another manner of person than he has been, in all holy conversation and godliness.

O grant him an inheritance among them that are sanctified, through faith in Christ Jesus; and send down that renewing grace into his heart, which may be there as a well of water, springing up to everlasting life. Thus comfort and rejoice the soul of thy servant, O Lord, who does wait upon thee, and cry unto thee, for such thy saving mercy, to be shewn upon me and mine (particularly upon this near ally, whom I bewail and recommend to thy grace); even for thy own mercy's sake, in the great Lover and Saviour of souls, who came to seek the lost, and to call sinners to repentance, even thy dearly beloved Son our blessed Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer for the Unconverted.

LORD God, gracious and merciful, thou art good to all, and thy tender mercies are over all thy works. And thou hast assured us, that thou hast no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that he should turn from his way and live. Yea, thou that didst call Zaccheus an old sinner, and Saul a fierce persecutor, hast the power over all hearts in thy hands, to fashion them as thou wilt; and canst, even out of stones, raise up children unto Abraham, and

make eminent saints out of the very vilest sinners. O Father of mercies, pity poor sinners that have no heart to pity themselves: open their eyes to see the error of their ways, and the danger of their case: soften their hearts into a penitent concernment for their sins; and awaken them into a timely care of their souls. O let thy spirit convince them how bad it is with them; and set their sins in order before them, that they may know their transgressions, and what is the wages of sin, and the dreadful portion of all ungodly men; and know where their help lies, and what they must do to be saved and the Lord make them faithful to their convictions, that they may not hold the truth in unrighteousness, but make haste to do what they are convinced is necessary to be done for their poor sinking souls, before it is too Jate.

O good God, give repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth, unto such as have opposed themselves, that they may be recovered out of the snare of the devil, who have been taken captive by him at his will; that thy power and mercy may be glorified in their convertion and salvation: and not thy truth and justice in their ruin and destruction.

That they are so far from the kingdom of God, that they contradict and blaspheme thy truth, and stumble at thy word, and set it at nought; resisting the means of their salvation, and hating and abusing the followers of Jesus; turning again to rend thy servants: O Lord, our heavenly Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And stop and turn

them, as thou didst the persecuting Saul, when he was mad against the saints, and verily thought with himself that he ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus. Put them in fear, O Lord, that they may know themselves to be but chaff and stubble before thee our God, a consuming fire. And bring down their high looks, subdue their stiff necks, and break their hardened hearts, to make them submit unto thee, that they may not be slain before thee.

And such as think they are rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, and know not that they are wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked; O. Lord discover them to themselves, and shew them the true estate of their souls; that they may be sorrowfully concerned for their sins, and apprehend the peril they are in, and timely seek out for help, and flee from the wrath to come.

Such as are ignorant and out of the way, and to do their souls good have no knowledge, Lord, have compassion on them; and call them out of darkness, into thy marvellous light, that they may not perish for lack of knowledge. O let them be taught of God to know thee and themselves, and the things belonging to their peace, before they be hid from their eyes. O thou that commandest the light to shine out of darkness, be pleased to shine into their hearts; shew them thy ways, and lead them in thy truth, that they may not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Such as are in pernicious errors, and damnable heresies, departed from the faith once delivered to the saints; having their minds corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ, perverting the truth, as it is in Jesus; and not only swerving from the pure doctrine of the gospel themselves, but also lying in wait to seduce and deceive others. O Father of Lights, take away the veil which is upon their hearts, that they may see wherein they have erred, and come to receive the truth in the love of it, and carnestly contend for the faith, which they once destroyed.

The prosperous worldlings and secure sinners, settled upon their lees, that are at ease in their possessions, and admire and dote upon the worldly good, as if it were the chief and only good; applauding themselves in their portion that they have in this life, as if they had no need of God, nor to take care for any other heaven; O dear Father, shew them how base is their choice, so to go a-whoring from the Lord, and how rotten the foundation on which at present they stand. O make them to know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God; and that all this world can never either satisfy the desire, or recompense for the loss of a soul: yea, open their eyes, O Lord, to see how the fashion of this world passeth away; and how soon all that wherein they trust and delight will be utterly gone, as if it had never been; and what multitudes by forsaking of God, to cleave unto Mammon, miscarry, and are lost for ever; drowned in that destruction and perdition from whence their is no re