The diamond of deuotion cut and squared into sixe seuerall points: namelie, 1 The footpath to felicitie. 1 2 A guide to godlines. 81 3 The schoole of skill. 181 4 A swarme of bees. 209 5 A plant of pleasure. 245 6 A groue of graces. 283 Full of manie fruitfull lessons, auaileable to the leading of a godlie and reformed life: by Abraham Fleming.

The third Blossome, conteining

1 An appeale to Gods promises in Christ, for the remission of our sinnes. 2 The bloud of the Lambe washeth vs wooll white. 3 A praier in the behalfe of the dispersed Church, a∣gainst Papists and Heretikes: and for godlie vnitie. 4 Gods blessing maketh our land fruitefull ▪ and that we are the Lords sheepe, our vnwor∣thinesse notwithstanding. 5 A re∣quest for the continuance of his loue and mercie. 6 To what end it is to be desired.

1 ALl this, both guilt of sinne, and desert of punishment notwith∣standing, (O father of mercies, and God of all comfort) we trusting vnto the promises which thou hast made vs in Iesus Christ, are bold through him,

humblie to call for the performance of them. And first we humblie de∣sire thee, to forgiue vs all our sins. Thou hast said, that if we confesse our sinnes, thou art faithfull to forgiue vs them. We acknowledge the debt, cancell therefore the obli∣gation: let not the multitude of them preuaile against vs, but where our sinne hath abounded, let thy grace more abound: and as we haue multiplied our sinnes, so we praie thée to multiplie thy mer∣cies.

2 And although we haue by con∣tinuance in them, so soked our¦selues, that thereby we are not on∣lie lightlie stained, but also haue gotten as it were the scarlet and purple die of them: yet let them all (we praie thée) being washed in the bloud of thy swéete Lambe, be made as white as the snowe in Salmon, and as the wooll of the shéepe which come from washing. And to conclude, as our sinnes haue magnified themselues in an

infinite length, breadth, deapth, and height: so let thy mercies (which passe all vnderstanding) of all sides and assaies outreach them.

3 Therefore also we most hum∣blie desire thée, O Lord, that the sinne being pardoned, thy wrath which is alreadie declared, may be appeased towards all the Chur∣ches of our profession, and especi∣allie towards vs, that the mani∣folde breaches of the Churches, and Commonwealthes maie be made vp, that those being receiued into the bosome of the Church, which belong to thine election, the rest of the Papists and Heretikes may be vtterlie rooted out, and that our enimies in religion béeing slaine, we may to the vttermost thinke all one thing, in the honest and peaceable gouernement of the Commonwealth.

4 Upon which vniting of vs in all truth and honestie, the curses of the plague and barrennesse being remoued, a waie may be made to

thy blessings, which (as the hills do the vallies) may make our land holesomelie fruitefull. And that not onlie the wrath, which is al∣readie kindled, may be quenched, but that which hath bene latelie threatened, may be caused to retire. For the graunt whereof vnto vs, we beséech thée to remember, that how vnworthie soeuer, yet are we thy people, and the shéepe of thy pasture, whome thou hast redée∣med with thy most pretious bloud, watched ouer with a carefull eie, defended with a mightie hand: de∣spise not therefore, O Lord, the workes of thy hands.

5 And séeing thou hast loued vs, when we hated thée, visited vs, when we desired thée not, then ac∣knowledged vs, when we knewe thée not: now that there be a num∣ber of vs, which loue thée, desire thine abode, and acknowledge thée: hold on thy loue still, depart not from vs, denie vs not, O thou God of truth, which art the God that

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