0  Lord,  lay  not  these  sins  to  their  charge.     Acts  vii.  60.
Concerning  the  Sick  Party's  Desire  of  Forgiveness  from  them
whom  he  hath  offended.
You  yourself  living  in  the  world,  it  cannot  be  but  some
you  have  offended ;  Do  you  desire  that  all  such  as  you  have
offended  would  pardon  and  forgive  you  ?

Do  you  remember  or  call  to  mind  any  person  or  persons
in  special,  whom  you  have  so  offended  ?

"^^'ill  you  that  so  much  be  signified  to  them  in  your  name,
that  you  desire  them  to  forgive  you  ?

Inasmuch  as  the  offences  against  the  Seventh  Command-
ment, of  getting  any  children  by  the  act  of  adultery  com-
mitted with  the  wife  of  another  man ;  and  against  the  Eighth
Commandment,  touching  men's  goods;  and  against  the
Ninth,  touching  men's  credits  or  good  names,  are  not  by
God  forgiven,  unless  restitution  be  made  to  the  parties
wronged;  Are  you  ready  and  willing  to  restore  and  make
satisfaction  to  such  as  you  have  wronged,  in  thrusting  in  a
child  begotten  by  you,  likely  to  deprive  the  true  children  of
the  party,  and  begotten  by  him,  of  a  child's  part  and  portion?
And,  to  such  as  you  have  wronged  in  their  goods?  And,  to
satisfy  those  whom  you  have  any  way  touched  in  their  good
name?     And  that  without  all  fraud  or  delav ?


FOB   THE  SICK.  187

Can  you  call  to  mind  any  persons  in  particular,  whom  you
have  so  offended?


Prayers  and  Expressions  of  the  Soul's  Affiance  in  God.
And  now.  Lord,  what  is  my  hope  ?  Truly  my  hope  is  in
Thee.     Psal.  xxxix.  8.
Thou  that  art  the  hope  of  all  the  ends  of  the  earth,  and  of
them  that  remain  in  the  broad  sea.     Psal.  Ixv.  5.
