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out, forlorn, and wretched, ftung with the fharp upbraidings of condemning confcience; an alien and an out-caft from your nearest friends; a fore grief to the mother that fuckled you at her bofom; an afflicting fhame to your father's old age; burdenfome to yourself, despicable to others and speedily about to end a miferable existence, only to enter on an exiftence far more miferable! wretched, unspeakably wretched in this world; enslaved to the abominable fervice of the devil, whofe only joy, is the mifery of the human race; and who, for the most faithful fervice, hath only flames of hell and never-ending anguish to befcow!

And what if you had perished in this state? what if you had died and been loft for ever? Could any thing in this life have recompenfed the lofs of your foul? Blefs God, bless him ever more and more, that in much mercy he hath opened to you a door of grace; that he hath put it into your heart to come beneath this hofpitable roof, which leads you as it were to the gates of paradife, and points out pardon, and peace, and never-failing joy! And can there be any thing tempting in the former ftate, that fhould move you to forfeit the blifs of the prefent, and to plunge again into the miseries of the paft; plunge again, with a double weight of guilt and mifery; plunge again, never to emerge, never to be refcued more !

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For, confider, if ye return to vice, the know. ledge you have here had of duty, will aggravate your guilt; you will be justly abhorred by all: nothing but the filth of vile prostitution awaits you; disease will again come on; mifery will again overwhelm you; a wretched outcast, without friends, and without hope, you will fink in infamy and distress; no eye to pity, nò hand to relieve; and worse than the worst of all, without excufe, and felf-condemned, your loft and ruined foul must perifh for ever in the flames of hell.

If you reflect one moment on this most certain confequence of a return to an abandoned life, your foul will be filled with joy for your escape; and your utmost endeavours will be exerted in the difcharge of every duty which your present happy state requires a state, how different from that out of which Providence has faved you!

Heaven now lies open before you everlasting comforts are prepared for you: the holy Angels are glad to tune their harps on your accounts; for there is joy in Heaven, and before the Angels of God over one finner that repenteth : and the bleffed Jefus, who died to fave you, is ready to crown your fincere penitence, faith, and love; is ready to blefs your happy perfeverance with immortality and glory. All the good and virtuous part of your fellow creatures,

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to whom you were before an abhorrence, behold you with joy; a joy efpecially pleafing to all the Supporters of this Charity, whose wish and travel of heart is for your falvation.

And have not many of you tender parents? have not many of you affectionate friends? muft not your hearts then feel a commendable delight on the comforts you cannot fail to give, fome to the father who begat her; and to the beloved mother who watched her infant wants; fome to the friends to whom you were dear, even as their own fouls, and who, lamenting your lost estate, can now fay with the prodigal, She was dead, and is alive again: fhe was loft and is found!

These things if you confider, you will be filled with exceeding comfort: we recommend it to you seriously to confider them; and defire you to observe, that as, on the one hand, in the path we point out, prefent Peace, Heaven, and eternal Happiness, offer themselves to you: fo in a deviation from it, on the other hand, are forrow, fhame, and disease, present and eternal mifery.

Choose therefore; choose for yourselves: And the God of unexhaufted goodness and love incline all your fouls to make a happy' choice. This will be an unfpeakable fatisfaction to us, this will be an unfpeakable comfort to yourselves.

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PRAYER S, &c.

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Private Prayer for the Morning.

LORY be to thee, Lord God, moft merciful, for all thy bleffings vouchsafed 'to me, and particularly for thy prefervation of me this night past.

O Lord, I am not worthy to lift up mine eyes unto thee my fins bear witness against me; but there is mercy with thee, therefore fhalt thou be feared pardon and pity me for the fake of thy bleffed Son, my Lord and Saviour.

I acknowledge my tranfgreffions; and truly repent before thee: Oh give me thy grace, bleffed Lord, to perfevere in the right path, "and grant that I may henceforth never depart

from it.

To thee do I humbly dedicate myself, my foul and my body; earneftly befeeching thee, who haft created, redeemed, and preferved me, to fill my foul with gratitude and thankfulness for all thy mercies, and to enable me to walk worthy thy great loving kindness.

Let thine efpecial bleffing be upon all my friends, and particularly on thofe who are en

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gaged in the government or fupport of this houfe: Oh make it a houfe of falvation, not only to mine, but to the fouls of all its inhabitants!

Affift me chearfully to perform the duties of the day following; and fo poffefs me with an awful fense of thy prefence; of thy dear Son's fufferings; and of that future account which I must shortly give; that I may fear to offend thee, that I may continually strive to please thee : and let it be thy pleafure, Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, fo fully to pardon all that is paft, and fo completely to direct me in all which is to come, that I may not fail of eternal happiness, through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift, in whofe holy words I further call upon thee, faying,

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UR Father, who art in heaven; Hallowed

be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen.

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Private Prayer for the Evening.

NTER not into judgment with thy fervant, O Lord; for in thy fight fhall no fiefh living be juftified.