Holy incense for the censers of the saints. Or, A method of prayer with matter, and formes in selected sentences of sacred scripture. Also A praxis upon the holy oyle shewing the vse of scripture-phrases. And choyse places taken out of the singing Psalmes, digested into a method of prayer and praises.

Promises made to Prayer.

EXceeding great and pre∣cious* 1.1 Promises are made by God, to his Elect; and yet how often doth the poore soule lag and droope, for not Knowing, or not Ʋsing them as need requires: living (like some Misers) besides their hopes, besides their meanes. They deserve to want, who lack supply for want of fetching. 'Tis not the having of wealth, meate, or cloathing, but the Vsing, ap∣plying, digesting, and putting on, that does us good. Spirits and life may bee in the heart, and blood may bee in the liver, yet unlesse these flow kindly to every part, the body is not healthfull, beau∣tifull, or vigorous. The Promises therefore should be often chew∣ed, sucked and meditared on: God must be humbly, and holily remembred of them: not as if he were not faithfull and just, but

because we are distrustfull: he can∣not lye, and though we be weak in Faith, our unbeliefe cannot make his promise of none effect: He will not falsifie his covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of his lips: hath he said, and shall he not doe it? hath he spo∣ken, and will hee not bring it to passe?—Now as wee would re∣ceive of his fulnesse, so the pro∣mises must enlarge our hearts—

Promises made to Prayer in Generall.

Before they call I vvill answer,* 1.2 and whilst they are yet spea∣king, I will heare.

Aske, and it shall be given;* 1.3 seeke, and ye shall find; knocke, and it shall be opened unto you.

And yee shall bee unto mee a* 1.4 kingdome of Priests.

—In every place, incense shall be* 1.5 offered in my name, and a pure offering.

Wee know not what to pray for* 1.6 as we ought, but the spirit it self, maketh intercession for us, with groning which cannot be uttered

Lord, thou hast heard the de∣sire* 1.7 of the humble, thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine eare to heare.

Whatsoever things ye desire when ye pray, beleeve that ye re∣ceive* 1.8 them, & ye shal have them.

Secondly the, Parts of Prayer.* 1.9 1. Confession of Sinne.

Hee that covereth his sinnes shall not prosper, but who so Confesseth and forsaketh them, shall have mercie.

If we Confesse our sinnes, he is faithfull and just to forgive* 1.10 us our sinnes, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse.

Secondly to Petition, for 1 Pardon of Sinne.

Though your sinnes be as scar∣let,* 1.11 they shall bee as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wooll.

I, even I, am he that blotteth* 1.12 out thy transgressions, for mine owne sake, and will not remem∣ber thy sinnes.

I will forgive their iniquity,* 1.13 and remember their sin no more.

I have seene his wayes, and* 1.14 will heale him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him, and to his mourners.

If the wicked will turne from* 1.15 all his sinnes that he hath com∣mitted, and keep all my statutes, and doe that which is lawfull and right, hee shall surely live, he shall not dye.

All his transgressions which he* 1.16 hath committed they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousnesse that he hath done, he shall live.

Have I any pleasure at all that* 1.17 the wicked should dye, saith the Lord God? & not that he should returne from his wayes and live?

Come unto mee all ye that la∣bour,* 1.18 and are heavie laden, and I will give you rest.

2 Power against Sins.

Who is a God like unto thee,* 1.19 that pardoneth iniquity, and pas∣seth

by the transgressions of his heritage, &c.

He will turne againe, he will* 1.20 have compassion on us: he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sinnes into the depths of the Sea.

The God of peace shall bruise* 1.21 Satan under your feet shortly.

Sin shall not have dominion* 1.22 over you.

Though he fall he shall not be* 1.23 utterly cast downe, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

3 Grace, conferred, continued, and encreased.

—I will sprinkle clean water up∣on you, and you shall be cleane.

A new heart also will I give* 1.24 you, and a new spirit will I put into you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, & I will give you a heart of flesh:

And I will put my spirit with∣in you, and cause you to walke* 1.25 in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgements, and doe them.

And the Lord thy God will* 1.26 circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seede, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, that thou mayst live.

I will poure upon him that is* 1.27 thirstie, and flouds upon the dry ground: I will poure my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine off-spring.

A bruised reede shall he not* 1.28 breake, and the smoking flax shall he not quench, he shal bring forth judgement unto truth.

Blessed are they which do hun∣ger* 1.29 and thirst after righteous∣nesse, for they shall be filled.

He which hath begun a good* 1.30 work in you, will perform it un∣till the day of Iesus Christ.

Fourthly the Meanes of Grace.

With joy shall ye draw wa∣ters out of the wels of salvation.* 1.31

Ho, every one that thirsteth* 1.32 come ye to the waters.

In all places where I record* 1.33

my name, I will come unto thee, and I will blesse thee.

5 Personall concernements, in our particular calling.

Commit thy works unto the* 1.34 Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

In all thy wayes acknowledge* 1.35 him, and he shal direct thy paths.—thy eares shall heare a word be∣hind* 1.36 thee saying, this is the way, walke ye in it, when ye turne to the right hand, and when yee turne to the left.

The Lord shall preserve thy* 1.37 going out, & thy cōming in, from this time forth for evermore.

Blessed shalt thou bee when* 1.38 thou commest in & blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

The Lord thy God will make* 1.39 thee plenteous in every worke of thy hand.

The Lord, he is he, that goeth* 1.40 before thee, he, wil be with thee, he wil not faile thee, neither for∣sake thee, feare not, neither bee dismayed.

Hee shall give his Angels* 1.41 charge over thee, to keepe thee in all thy wayes—

Thou may est in the reading of the Scriptures, find out, and adde hereunto promises made to thy more particular occasions.—

Thirdly Thansgiving.

—The tongue of the dumb shall* 1.42 sing, for in the wildernes shal wa∣ters break out—the ransomed of the Lord shall return & come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy & gladnes, and sorrow and sighing shall flye away.

Ye shall eate in plenty and be* 1.43 satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you.

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A METHOD of PRAYER.

PRayer is a lifting up of the* 1.45 Soule to God.

Wherein there is to bee consi∣dered the Preface to it, and the Parts of it.

The Preface to it, consists* 1.46

1 In a description, or com∣pellation of God, by his glorious inajesty, terrible names, holy nature, incommunicable attri∣butes, strict justice, consuming wrath, gracious promises—&c.

2 In a craving of audience, assistance, and accceptance: wee may conclude also herewith, as Dan. 9. 17. 18.

The Parts of Prayer, are usu∣ally* 1.47 three.

• 1 Confession.
• 2 Petition.
• 3 Thanksgiving.

Though in exactnes of speech, Confession and Thankesgiuing be

not Prayers formally: but com∣monly prefixed or annexed ther∣unto, as Dan. 9. Ezr. 9.

1 Confession is an humble,* 1.48 hearty, and feeling acknowledg∣ment, of the evill of Sinne; and of punishment done to, or due for, Sinne.

1 Confession of the euill of* 1.49 Sinne, both in the Habits, Acts, Kindes thereof. Which that it may bee done effectually, and to purpose, we must

1 Labour for the particular* 1.50 knowledge and discovery of Sin, in our owne soules, which must be by looking our selves in the glasse of the Law, whereby we shall discover our Sinnes in each Commandement. viz.

1 Comandement.

Atheisine, Epicurisme, Ido∣latry—&c—

Atheism, in want of the Know∣ledge, Love, Feare of God—Zeale, Faith—

Epicurisme, in mis-placing our affections.

Idolatry, in neglect of Gods mercies, in neglect of Gods works of Iustice, in neglect of Gods Saints, and communion with them—&c

2 Command.

Not worshipping God by praying, reading—

Will-worship, Idol-worship.

3 Command.

Serving God hypocritically, when his Word is preached, read—and prayer.

When his Sacraments are ad∣ministred, not examining our selves, not reconciling our selves to our brethren, not discerning the Lords body.

Luke warmenesse, Uncheere∣fulnesse, Unteachablenesse, In∣corrigiblenesse, Security.

4 Command.

Not remembring the Lords day, longing to have it past.

Idlenesse, omitting duties pub∣like or private.

5 Command.

In the Family, Wife, Husband, Children, Parents, Master, Ser∣vants—

In the Common-wealth, Sub∣jects, Magistrates—&c.

In the Church, Ministers, Peo∣ple—&c

6 Command.

Not pittying or relieving the afflicted.

Envying, Anger, Hatred, Worldly sorrow. Cursing.

Murthering of Soule, or Body.

7 Command.

Uncleannesse, Wantonnesse. Whoredome.

Drunkennesse, Gluttony—

8 Command.

Discontentednesse, Sloth, Un∣thriftinesse. Oppression. Sacri∣ledge.

9 Command.

Disgracing, and speaking evill of others, Censuring. Lying, Slandering, Vaine-boasting. Flat∣tering, False-witnesse—

10 Command.

Not desiring the good of o∣thers, and our selves.

Delighting in the contempla∣tion of evill.

2 Get our hearts deeply af∣fected* 1.51 with a true sense, and thorow feeling, of the haynous∣nesse of our Sinnes, a serious de∣testation, and vtter hatred of them, with vnfeined sorrow, and condemning our selves, for them.

3 Then descend wee to a* 1.52 particular enumeration of them, in the bitter root, spreading bran∣ches, cursed fruits, and dange∣rous effects thereof—

First the Sinne of our first pa∣rents,* 1.53 Adam and Evah: looke unto the rocke whence we were hewen, and to the hole of the pit whence wee were digged, for wee all sinned in their loynes, and so come short of the glory of God. Rom. 3. 23.* 1.54

2 Originall depravation, and

pollution of nature, in the cor∣ruption* 1.55 of the Vnderstanding. 2 Conscience. 3 Memory. 4 Will. 5 Sensitive appetite, and affecti∣ons.

1 The corruption of the Vn∣derstanding* 1.56 in 5.

1 Vanity therof, our thoughts are vaine, taken up with frothy, and fruitlesse speculations.

2 Blindnesse, being ignorant, and impotent, not able to con∣ceive spirituall things.

3 Vnteachatlenesse, resisting and opposing the truth.

4 Incredulity, unapt to be∣lieve the truth of God.

5 Enmity, 1 not subject to the Law of God. 2 Not resolving to be so holy, pure, exact as Gods Word requires. 3 but casting off Gods yoke and his coards, with reluctancie and distast.

2 Conscience, which is im∣pure* 1.57 and polluted, without light, and life.

1 A bad remembrancer, and

false register, setting downe sin by the halves; like the unjust Steward, but fifty, where hun∣dreds are due.

2 A slack instigatour to good, or restrayner from evill, being not cleare to discerne things a∣misse, like a dusty looking-glasse

Not sensible of sinne, or tender, but brawney, past feeling.

Not active, or stirring up to good, but sleeping, drowsie, not rowsing us to purpose, giving us no rest, but letting us sleepe se∣curely againe.

3 A false accuser, or excuser, excusing for Sinnes: accusing for not Sins: 1 It should when the Law is preached, accuse, thou art the man: but then it extenuates that it is no sinne, or but a little sinne: approving, and allowing wayes and courses which seeme good to a Man, but tend to death.

2 When the Gospell is prea∣ched, it should extenuate, but

then it aggravates, crying out a∣maine with Cain, My sinne is greater than—full of hellish and amazing terrours.

3 Memory full of weaknesse,* 1.58 our remembrance being like un∣to ashes, 1. forgetting what we ought to remember, as our Cre∣atour in the dayes of our youth; 2 remembring what wee should forget, as injuries and indigni∣ties.

4 Our Will is full of* 1.59

1 Contrariety to the Will, and Word of God in every thing; refusing to doe what hee com∣mands, but wilfull in doing what he forbids.

2 Pride, not dependant on, or subject unto Gods will; 'twill not stoope to bee, or to doe any thing for God, 'twill bee some∣thing in it selfe, and must be car∣ved to, in a good condition, as it selfe likes.

3 Inconstancie, unstable as water in good, peremptorie and

resolute in evill: our tongues are our owne, who is Lord over us? though in some good mood like Saul to David it may weep, yet like the morning dewe it vanisheth presently.

4 Disobedience, when God commands apt to doe the con∣trary.

5 Sensitive appetite, taking* 1.60 pleasure in sensible things too much, our appetites and senses outray in things lawfull, which come in by the senses.

• 1 Eyes, to women, wine—
• 2 Eares, itching after vanity.
• 3 Taste, meat and drinke, to Gluttony.
• 4 Touch, hands, &c.

6 Affections, deeply distem∣pered,* 1.61 being violent, turbulent, sullen, way ward, untoward▪ rea∣dy to be fired with any tempta∣tion, rebellious against God: ei∣ther 1. not active & lusting after good, or 2. placed where they should not bee, or 3 exceeding

in measure: they overjoy, over∣grieve, over love, we humour and please them, they can but aske and have—

This corruption is in the con∣cupiscible and irascible faculties of the soule.

In the concupiscible faculties, 1 Love and Hatred, 2 Desire and Abomination, 3 Ioy & sorrow, which hath under it, Pitty, En∣vie, Heavinesse, Repentance, and Zeale.

In the irascible faculties, 1 Hope and Despaire, 2 Boldnes, Anger, 3 Feare, which hath under it, Blushing, Shamefastnesse, Asto∣nishment, Agony—

• 1 Love and hatred not of all good, not against all sin.
• 2 Delight, not in God, religi∣on, the Saints.
• 3 Feare, Man, the creature, poverty—
• 4 Sorrow, cast downe for dis∣grace.* 1.62

7 Body and members, Eyes

Eares, Tongue, Hands, Feet.* 1.63

Thirdly, Actuall transgressi∣ons, against

the

• Law
• Gospell

of both, in our

1 Thoughts, being idle, vaine, frothie, not entertaining God in them.

2 Words rotten, unseasoned, they heale not, edifie not, our tongues set on fire of hell, cor∣rupt with lying, slander, dissem∣bling, backbiting.

3 Deeds of

• Omission,
• Commission,

Not husbanding the talents of* 1.64 grace, and nature, which wee were betrusted with; which we have ill imployed: our precious time we raffle out—

Barren, unfruitfull, 1 for acts* 1.65 and dueties.

1 Neglecting wholly, 2 inter∣mitting, 3 slighting them.

Restreyning prayer, refuse the Sacrament, omit Fasting and Prayer.

2 Graces, want of

• love to Christ & godly men.
• humility.
• faith.
• zeale.

3 Mis-spending our time in vanity, raffling out our precious houres, and squandring away our talents.

4 Occasions of doing, and re∣ceiving good, not clothed, not visited, not instructed others, or trying if at any time God would give them repentance.

2 Commission, in the rebelli∣on,* 1.66 and sinfulnesse of our lives, sinning in our generall and par∣ticular calling, confessing here the sinnes of our Sexe, comple∣xion, constitution, &c. those we last of all committed, under ••hich our consciences doe yet freshly bleede: by which God hath been most dishonoured—Both for,

• 1 Quantitie, in the
  • greatnesse.
  • frequencie.
• ...

• 2 Quality, in the haynousnesse.
• 3 Relapses, iterations.
• 4 Circumstances, aggravating sinne. viz.

The Person against whom: The glorious God, our most gracious and tender Father.

Against our Christian Brethren, Superiours, Inferiours, Equalls, becomming guilty of other mens sinnes, occasioned by our Com∣mand, Company, Counsell, Ill example, Connivence, Silence—&c.

Against our owne soules.

Against every Creature.

The Time, when, In generall, in particular.

In generall before and since our Conversion—&c. In Infancie, Child-hood, Youth, Mans-age, Old-age.

In particular, in the Day, Night—&c.

The Place, where, at home, and abroad.

At home, the Table, Closet, Bed.

Abroad, viz. in the Church, in Company, in the Fields—&c.

1 Against God himselfe.* 1.67 2 and that against knowledg. 3 without any, or with very small Temptation. 4 against vowes and covenants. 5 against meanes afforded, to resist sinne, and doe better.

1 Hating of God, being ene∣mies to him.

2 Denying by our workes, his power, omnipresence, ju∣stice, omniscience, setting up base lusts to be our God.

3 Despising of God, if so we can hide our sinne from man, we never care though God see it.

2 And thus not onely of igno∣rance* 1.68 when we-knew not, nor of infirmity being transported with passion, the Law in our members, but even of wilfulnes, and presumption, acted with a high hand, against Knowledge and the cries of a convinced con∣science, which makes sinne rebel∣lion;

to know God, yet not to glorifie him as God, not in the dayes of our ignorance onely, but since the light of the glorious Gospell, hath shone into our hearts.

3 Without any, or with small* 1.69 temptation, resolving to sinne, selling themselves with Ahab, even in cold bloud, to doe wic∣kedly. Heb. 10. 26. as in sinnes in which there is neither plea∣sure, or profit, &c. As to sweare, prophane the Sabbath, refuse preaching, praying, scorning Gods wayes.

4 Against frequent purposes,* 1.70 faire promises, of more holy o∣bedience, reiterated vowes and covenants.

generall in

• Baptisme,
• Lords Supper.

particular on such and such an occasion.

5 Against meanes. 1 Bles∣sings, coards of love. 2 Cor∣rections, thou hast striken us,

but wee have not sorrowed, Ier. 5. 3.

3 Word, early and late, all the day long.

2 Actuall sinnes against the Gospell.

• 1 Not thirsting after* 1.71 Christ Iesus, nor prizing, nor loving and cleaving un∣to him with our dearest af∣fection: 2 denying him in our lives.
• 2 Not repenting us of our sinnes, though God in mercie vouchsafe space and means, but hiding, excusing, not mourning for, nor for∣saking sinne.
• 3 Not believing the pro∣mises of salvation, nor re∣lying upon Iesus Christ for justification, sanctification, and salvation, &c. not stir∣ring up our selves to take hold of him, but forsaking our owne mercies
• 4 S••••ning against the ho∣l•• Ghost, by tempting, grie∣ving, or quenching the ho∣ly

• spirit of God, receiving the grace of God in vaine, turning it into wantonnes, growing cold in religion, losing our first love.

Thus bringing our iniquities to remembrance, 1 wee must ac∣knowledge and bewayle them, not onely generally, but indivi∣dually also, one by one, fetching and ferreting them out (as so many Achans) by the poll, espe∣cially those which are naturali∣zed, and habituated in us, our be∣loved and darling sinnes, our dearest Dalilahs.

And that, from a

• 1 Trobled, broken, bleeding melting spirit, beleeving heart, clasping the promises Ezr. 10. 2. yet now there is hope in Israel, &c.
• 2 Honest heart, wishing the confusion, as wel as making the confessiō of sin, meaning to leave every wicked way▪ and with purpose of heart cleaving to the Lord—

2 Confession of the evill of* 1.72 punishment, acknowledging our selves, in regard of these our so many and grievous sinnes, not onely to bee lesse than the least of all Gods mercies, but most justly worthy of his most dreadfull plagues, lyable and obnoxious to all evills of punishment in

Iudgements

• Corporall.
• Spirituall.
• Temporall.
• Eternall.

vid. Ezr. 9. Dan▪ 9.

Thus of the first part of Prayer, viz. CONFESSION.

The Second followes,* 1.73 which is PETITION.

PEtition is either

for

• Our selves.
• Others.

1 Our selves, and is called Supplication, consisting of two branches, viz.

• Apprecation.
• Deprecation.

1 Apprecation, or collation of good, which also consists, in desiring;

1 Supply of all wants

• Spirituall.
• Corporall.

2 Continuance and encrease of all blessings both

• Eternall.
• Spirituall.
• Corporall.

1 Apprecation, for bestow∣ing of all good blessings, viz. 1 Supplying all our wants of things, 1 Spirituall,

viz.

• Grace.
• Encrease of Grace.
• Meanes of Grace.

1 For the grace of free Par∣don* 1.74 for our sinnes, that God for his mercies, promise, Christs sake* 1.75 (even the abundant merits of our Lord Iesus his bloudy passion, who hath satisfyed for them to the utmost farthing, by pouring out his soule for an oblation for

the sinnes of the whole world) would be pleased freely to for∣give, and blot them out of his booke, never laying them to our charge beforemen, to shame us in this world; or to our everlasting confusion before men and An∣gels in the world to come.

Of which that we may more* 1.76 fully bee assured, wee pray for a lively and apprehensive Faith, by which we may be inabled to lay hold on, and apply the gene∣rall and free Promises of Salva∣tion, to our selves in particular, that God would seale up the as∣surance hereof to our conscien∣ces, by the gracious testimony of his holy spirit, giving unto us the spirit of adoption, whereby we may with comfort and con∣fidence cry ABEA father, that so being justifyed and freed from the guilt and punishment of all our sinnes wee may have peace of conscience, being reconciled to him in his Sonne.

2 Repentance unto life, where∣by* 1.77 our stony hearts may be soft∣ned & broken w^th godly sorrow, & our eyes run down w^th rivers of teares, for our falls and fay∣lings heretofore, and we quick∣ned to new obedience to serve the living God, in holinesse and righteousnesse all our remaining dayes.

3 All other sanctifying gra∣ces▪* 1.78 accompanying & furthering our everlasting happinesse, 1. as saving knowledge, that we may understand what the holy and acceptable will of the Lord is. 2 Fervent love to God, our bre∣thren, yea our very enemies, for his sake that loved us when wee were enemies. 3 Ardent zeale. 4 Lively hope▪ 5 Son-like feare of God. 6 True humility and contrition of spi∣rit. 7 Sincerity and boldnesse in the profession of the truth. Per∣severance, patience and strength under the crosse, Contentation in

all estates, either of weale or* 1.79 woe, want, or abundance.

2 Encrease and growth of all these graces, that the bruised reed may not be broken, nor the smoking Flaxe quenched, but that our graces, like the light, may shine more and more to the perfect day; and our works be more at last, than at the first.* 1.80

3 The meanes of grace con∣tinued and sanctifyed unto us: as 1 Gods Word preached at Church. 2 Read in private, that the holy Ghost blessing it from heaven, may bring it close home unto, and savingly worke it upon our hearts, that thus the heavenly spirit breathing on his own ordinances, they may quic∣ken us, and become effectuall to our salvation:

• 2 Sacraments.
• 3 Sabbaths.* 1.81
• 4 Prayer.
• 5 Fasting, &c.

2 Supply of wants temporall,

our owne personall concerne∣ments, and all outward blessings appertayning to this present life, Health, Liberty, Friends, Ray∣ment, Food, giving and preser∣ving to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time wee may enjoy them: preser∣vation in our persons and estates, Direction in all our courses, thoughts, words, actions: the blessing of God upon all our la∣bours, a right and sanctifyed use of all Gods blessings, and cha∣stisements.

2 Deprecation of Evills, per∣sonall,* 1.82 nationall, both of sinne and punishment, either before or af∣ter it comes: Before it comes, aversion & prevention; After it comes, ablation or removall.

1 Wee pray against the evill of sinne, that we may be, 1 De∣livered, freed and acquitted of the guilt and danger of all our sinnes. 2 Endued with watch∣fulnesse,

power, and dominion over them all: in our judge∣ments to dislike them, in affecti∣ons to hate them, in heart to be∣waile them, and in life to forsake them—* 1.83

1 From the guilt and danger, that our sinne may not shame us before men, and torture our con∣sciences here in this life, nor con∣demne us body and soule in the world to com; y^t our doing evil, omitting good, particular failings,* 1.84 frailties, distractions, indisposed∣nes to serve God, our ignorance, Atheism, infidelitie, hypocrisie, in∣constancie, pride, vaine-glory, envy, uncharitablenesse, putting off our repentance, forgetful∣nesse, distrustfulnesse, unthanke∣fulnesse, dulnesse, unchearfulnesse, felfe-love, strife, wrath, flattery, idlenesse, gluttony, uncleannesse, covetousnesse, all inordinate de∣sires, and all the evill of our good workes—&c.—may never bee imputed or layd to our charge.

As likewise the Nationall un∣thankfulnesse,* 1.85 heresies, schismes, swearing, oppression, security—(which crye open▪mouth'd a∣gainst us) may not enter into the eares of the Lord of hosts.

Secondly, That we may from on, high be indued with power o∣ver those corruptions, and lusts,* 1.86 to which pleasure allures, profit provokes, sinfull custome most of all swayes us; the plague of our own heart, that the lusts of our flesh may be crucifyed, and the whole body of sinne abolish∣ed, and we leade our captivity captive.

2 Victory over all the deceits* 1.87 of the whole world (which lieth in wickednesse) and all the temp∣tations thereof, that neither the persons, nor things therein, may become our suare.

3 Over the Devill, that arch∣enemy* 1.88 of our salvation, and his fiercest and eraftiest assaults: that

he may never finally prevaile o∣ver us: that the God of peace, would tread downe Satan un∣der our feete, and so make us more than conquerors, through our Lord Iesus, who hath lo∣ved us.

Secondly, Deprecation of the* 1.89 evill of Punishment: 1. All those dreadfull curses due to our sinnes, that they may not be in∣flicted on us.

2 Deliverance from all plagues, which we now feele, or hereaf∣ter may feare. viz.

1 Iudgements nationall, which* 1.90 the whole Land mournes under: Plague of the pestilence, famine, warre, sedition, conspiracie—

2 Afflictions personall, that* 1.91 lie on our selves, either in soule, body, or in estate; troubles and terrours of conscience: griefe of minde, scandalls and offences, imprisonment, banishment, sick∣nesse, poverty, disgrace, losse of

friends or any other afflictions of what kinde soever: preser∣vation from and in all dangers, Death it selfe, the king of ter∣rours, the day of judgement, from Hell, and chaines of dark∣nesse, from Gods wrath, and e∣verlasting damnation—&c.

Secondly, We petition for o∣thers,* 1.92 which is Intercession: and thus here, wee pray for the Ca∣tholike Church of Iesus Christ, militant every where on earth, which is either,

1 Uncalled (yet belonging to the election of grace) that they may be converted as 1. Iews (our elder sister, which was in the covenant before us) 2 Pagans and Infidels, that they may heare the glad tidings of salvation, and that the Sunne of righteousnesse may arise on them, with healing in his wings, that they may en∣joy Gods Word, Sacraments, Sabbaths, that God would bring

home them that goe astray, in∣struct the ignorant, and forgive them that rebelliously trans∣gresse; Heretickes, yea the E∣nemies, and Persecutours of the Church, that they all may bee converted, or (if implacable) con∣founded: beseeching God to forgive our Enemies, Persecu∣tors, and Slanderers, and to turne their hearts—

2 Already called, that the Lord* 1.93 would purge it from Schisme, and Heresie, and appease all un∣happy differences in the Church, making all Christians keepe the unity of the spirit, in the bond of peace: and that he would warme and enliven the setling and coo∣led affections of these secure and earthly-minded times. To watch over it for good, whether in the transmarine parts, and forraigne* 1.94 countries abroad, or our owne nation at home, & herein especi∣ally our gracious soveraigne King Charles, and his Highnes Domi∣nions,

with all his sacred Stocke* 1.95 and Lineage, the Queene, young Prince, Princesse, Duke: the Lady Elizabeth the Kings onely sister, and her Progenie. The Lords spirituall and temporall, those of his Majesties most ho∣nourable Privie Councell: the Nobility, Majestra••ie, Ministrie, the two Universities, the Gen∣try, and Commonalty, our Pa∣rents, Kindred, Friends, Bene∣factours, all such as we stand ob∣liged unto by nature, desert, du∣ty, or any speciall relation.

Thirdly, Afflicted in soule,* 1.96 body, or in estate, being oppres∣sed, and persecuted under Popish tyranny, or Mahumetan cruel∣ty: those that bee destitute of all comforts of this life, that want foode, rayment, harbour, liberty, peace, health, that grone under poverty, famine, naked∣nesse, &c.—that all the Israel of God may bee delivered from all their troubles.

3. THANKSGIVING.

* 1.97

THe third and last Part of our Prayers is Thankesgi∣ving, that God would give us thankefull hearts for all his Bles∣sings.

First, Positive.

Secondly, Privative in Tem∣porall, spirituall, and eternall good things towards his whole

Church

• 1 Triumphant, for provi∣ding for it Heaven, a place of rest and happinesse: for the glorious Martyrs, god∣ly Bishops, Preachers, and Confessors, that out of their ashes he hath wondrously raysed up beleevers.
• 2 Militant, for giving

••••••m

• 1 Christ to be their Savi∣our, captaine and leader.
• 2 Holy spirit to bee their comforter.
• ...

• 3 God himself to be their father.
• 4 His Gospell, Sacra∣ments,—&c.

Secondly, For his blessings to our selves, for that eternall, un∣changeable,* 1.98 infinite, everlasting, undeserved love of his to us, in our Election in, and Redemption by Iesus Christ, our vocation, our Adoption, Iustification, San∣ctification inchoate, with assured hope of future Glorification.

That we were borne of Chri∣stian and beleeving Parents, in a land of righteousnesse, in a time of knowledge, planted in religi∣ous families & towns, undergod∣ly and painfull Ministers, and gra∣cious Governours, that we en∣joy Gods word and Sacraments in the power and purity of them, for the many great and precious promises made to us therein,

Which are either performed already towards us; or shall be

hereafter in due time accom∣plished:

For all the Graces of the ho∣ly* 1.99 spirit, for the gracious and free pardon of our many sinnes, Faith, Repentance, some care of sin∣cere obedience, and tender hearts desiring to feare God: for pow∣er against, and prevailing over any sinne, that we are not given over to Heresies, and Errours in opinion, nor to those base and fleshly Lusts that some others are, in our lives, nor to a hard heart, reprobate minde, benum∣med conscience, and finall Apo∣stasie: for victory in any temp∣tation, over subtle Satan, the al∣luring world, and our own selfe∣deceiving selves.

Secondly, Temporall Blessings.* 1.100

viz. of

• Creation.
• Providence.

1 Creation after Gods own image, not being made a Beast, Toad, Foole, &c.

2 Gods providence

• Nationall
• Personall

in those

wonder∣full

• Deliverances of the nation—
• Preservation, peace,

plenty towards us, and fatherly care over us, in our birth and in∣fancie, ever since we hung upon the ••rests: in our childe-hood, youth, mans estate, unto old age and gray haires,; for our health continued so long, or restored of late, for understanding▪ judge∣ment, and discretion, peace, li∣berty, prosperity, food, raiment, same and good esteeme among Gods people: for wealth, friends Godly parents, carefull ••utours, masters, and governours: good education, quietnesse of minde, contentment, &c.—Daily pre∣servation, manifold deliveran∣ces from imminent and appa∣rent, yea unseene and unfeared dangers, For his fatherly cha∣stisements, and corrections: for sanctifying to our everlasting

good, our afflictions, sicknesses, crosses, temptations; for or∣dinary and extraordinary favors, for desired successe in our labors, and vocations: for blessing the workes of our hands, upon us in the day, and for preserving and refreshing us with sweet sleepe in the night: and finally all bles∣sings of what kinde soever, may here (as occasion is offered) yea must be remembred with thank∣ful acknowledgement unto God, not onely verbally with our lips and tongue, but vitally and real∣ly in a holy conversation shining in our life; lest it be verifyed of us, which our Saviour saith con∣cerning the Lepers, Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory unto God, &c. Luk. 17. 17. 18.

FINIS Methodi.

Causes of Distraction in PRAYER. Ex P. M.

1. THe naturall lightnesse of our spirits, that have much adoe to stay themselves, and keepe long in one state.

2 Because divine things are farre off from our senses, now they are the senses which tye our attention, as the sight of the Preacher, workes a deeper im∣pression in the hearers.

3 Because of our lusts, as hatred, covetousnesse, ambi∣tion,—which being bent to their naturall center will bee setling.

4 Because of the Devill, who stirs up our lusts, and foy∣steth in vaine thoughts, when we pray; because Prayer is the maine ram, that batters downe the wals of his kingdome.

Helpes against it.

1 A Voice in prayer, for the* 1.101 thought alone, is easily distra∣cted.

2 Darkenesse, and the remo∣ving of all objects that may distract.

3 Be short in thy prayers, and pray the oftner, Eccles. 5.

4 Mortifie our lusts, for they clip the wings of our prayers: pride, covetousnesse,* 1.102 wantonnesse, chol••er.

5 Meditate before you pray, of Gods greatnesse, of his judge∣ments, of our sinnes, &c.—The godly man will bee sorry for, judge and condemne himselfe for, his distraction, formalitie, deadnesse of spirit, &c.

The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth, Psal. 145 18—to this man will* 1.103 I looke, even to him that is poore, and of a contrite spirit,

and trembleth at my word.

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God, for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few.—Take heed thou give not the sacrifice of fooles: if thou offer the lame and the* 1.104 sicke unto thy governour, will he be pleased with thee, or ac∣cept thy person? Cursed be the* 1.105 deceiver which hath in his flocke a male, and voweth and sacrificeth to the Lord, a cor∣rupt thing. Offer incense unto* 1.106 his name and a pure offering: whatsoever thine heart pray∣eth let it bee heartily, with all thy might, labour for the spirit of prayer; which the Lord pro∣miseth to his faithfull ones, the Spirit of grace, and of supplica∣tions—for know that:* 1.107

1 A very hypocrite may pray and that (as one would thinke) very zealously, both with o∣thers,

and also apart by him∣selfe. For is the true Christian* 1.108 sometimes hot in prayer? hee will sweat: is the humbled soule sorrowfull? he wil weepe and blubber: doth the sincere heart sigh softly? hee will cry out amaine, with a great and ex∣ceeding bitter cry, as Esau, Blesse* 1.109 me, even mee also O my father. It stands us therefore in hand, to looke that our hearts bee right, in the sight of God.

2 For, what is the hope of the* 1.110 hypocrite? will hee delight him∣selfe in the Almighty, will hee al∣wayes call upon God? no, for in more grievous crosses, he some∣times hath not one word to blesse himselfe withall—yet hee sometimes may then seeke God early,—they powred out their* 1.111 prayer when thy chastning was upon them.

3 In thy Praying, seeke Gods* 1.112 face; herein the hypocrite is too blame, hee prayes out of selfe∣respects,

for base ends—and out of pride, and vaine glory, hee prayes more often, more zea∣lously with others, than alone by himselfe, to his father in secret—not with all manner of pray∣er, &c. the touchstone of prayer is giving of thankes, in which he is seldome, about which he does but bungle.

4 Make not prayer thy end in praying, but use it in good sadnesse, as a meanes to bee ena∣bled against corruptions, and to get grace: the hypocrites are lazie lip-prayers, hee feeles not sinne like a mountaine of leade lying on his conscience, hee sees not a want of grace, &c. he puts not to the shoulder, he useth not the meanes for the atteining of what hee prayes: his hands la∣bour* 1.113 not, his feet bestirre them not so fast as his tongue—hee prayes against sinne, yet lives wickedly: hee prayes for health, &c. and yet lives rio∣tously,

intemperately, would I* 1.114 had such and such a grace, but hee is not sicke of love, nor ear∣nest for those graces: hee desi∣reth, he never breaketh his sleep for the matter, hee hungers not, thirsts not for righteousnesse; Hunger will breake stone wals∣and the sincere Christian, will have no nay, like Rachel, give mee children, give me this and this grace, or I die: hee useth the meanes, O that my wayes were so directed! Like as the Hart brayeth for the water* 1.115 brookes, my soule-breaketh for the longing that it hath—

5 Pray without ceasing, per∣severe* 1.116 in prayer, and faint not; never thinke thy selfe to have too much heavenly society, and talke with God, acquaint thy selfe still more with the Al∣mighty—The hypocrite is in∣constant, fickle off and on—Wicked men and hypocrites have taken up a course of prayer,

and breeding and custome have wrought a kind of conscience in some: but they but lust with Balaam, let mee die the death of—2. They alwayes have one pad, one forme,—3. From the lips or braines, not from the spi∣rit. 4. At randome, as men shoot, not minding how their arrow lights or speeds. 5. They begin and end in themselves, with their owne strength, for their owne particular ends, not for the Church.

Meanes of PREPARATION to Prayer.

1 CLense our soules from the guilt of foule sinnes,* 1.117 those lately committed. Wash* 1.118 you, make you cleane—The Iewes and Turkes wash their bodies; wash thou thy soule in the brinish teares of sincere sor∣row.

2 Sequester our thoughts

from worldly cares goe up in∣to the mount: retire thy selfe some little while before thou prayest: outward things stifle our prayers, and make them hang the wing.

3 Consider we have to doe with God, come with feare and trembling into his presence, not rushing on a consuming fire.

Three Questions to bee* 1.119 asked of our selves, the serious answer whereunto, will stirre up and furnish every babe in Christ, to cry Abba father, with faith, feeling, and fer∣vencie.

Q. 1. VVHat sins have* 1.120 I committed all my life long that lie heavie on my conscience, and would affright my soule, if I were now to die?

This Question sincerely an∣swered, wil drive thee to a scru∣tinie, and searching them out: (as the Iewes did Leaven be∣fore the Passeover, and very sea∣sonable for Christians before e∣very Communion, &c.) to a particular confession, and be∣wayling of them. Thou maist set them downe in a paper.

Qu. 2. What would I desire* 1.121 God to doe for me, if I were sure to obtaine my wish of him?

Thy heart will answer, O that God would please, to forgive my sinnes, such, and such—O that hee would give unto

me

• stedfast faith in the Lord Iesus:
• the grace of Perseve∣rance—Health, &c.

Set downe the particulars.

3. Qu. What speciall favours* 1.122

and blessings hath God be∣stowed* 1.123 on mee, from my in∣fancie till now, for which I owe him all possible thankes∣giving?

Thy heart will make answer, such and such a time hee delive∣red mee from danger, from death, &c. made such a man to be my friend—gave mee a hus∣band, a wife, preferment, &c.

Thus if thou signifie to God

thy

• hatred of those sinnes. want and hearty desire of those graces—
• thankesgiving for those blessings.

Exercise will make this easie, and Christs spirit (that great master of requests) will be rea∣dy to draw thy petitions for thee, prompting thee with sit words, and holy affections: thou shalt make thy prayers unto him, and hee shall heare thee, and if thou seeke him, hee will

be found. Iob 22. 27.

Doe this daily, it will bee no hinderance, to thy worldly em∣ployments. No man ever lost by serving God, Meat and Mattens hinder no mans thrift. Godlinesse hath the Promise; for as hee rideth not furthest, * 1.124 that goes early out on a bad horse &c. or hee that is early up at his busines with blunt, and dull-edged tooles, but wea••ies himselfe and mars his worke—so he prospers not best that goes about his calling, before he hath seasoned his heart with holy meditations, reading, and prayer to God.

Exod. 40. 5.

Thou shalt set the Altar of Gold for the Incense before the Arke of the Testimonie,—

Exod. 30. 7.

—Aaron shall burne thereon sweet Incense every morning—vers. 8 and at Even hee shall burne incense upon it, a perpe∣tuall incense before the Lord.

Levit. 16. 12.

—He shall take a censer full of burning coales of fire, from off the Altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet in∣cense, beaten small, and bring it within the veile.

vers. 13.

And hee shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the Mercie-seat, that is upon the Testimonie—

Holy Incense for the* 1.125 the Censers of the Saints: Or, Selected Sentences of ho∣ly Scripture, furn••shing with materialls, and serving as Formes of Prayer, ac∣cording to the heads of the former Method.

PREPARATION.

LEt us lift up our heart, with* 1.126 our hands unto God in the heavens.

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes,* 1.127 O thou that dwellest in the hea∣vens.

DESCRIPTIONS of GOD.

O God, the God of the Spi∣rits* 1.128 of all flesh—

Thou art a God ready to par∣don,* 1.129 gracious and mercifull, slow to anger, and of great kinde∣nesse.

O thou that hearest prayers—* 1.130—Thou Lord that createdst the heavens, and stretchedst them out, that spreadest foorth the earth, and that which commeth out of it; that givest breath un∣to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walke therein.

—The God in whose hand our* 1.131 breath is, and whose are all our wayes.

The high and lofty One, that* 1.132 inhabitest eternity, whose name is holy; who dwellest in the high and holy place, &c.

The living God and the ever∣lasting* 1.133 King.

—Who hast made the earth by* 1.134 thy power, and hast established the world by thy wisedome, and stretched out the heavens by thy discretion.

That formest the mountaines* 1.135 and createst the wind, & declarest unto man what is his thought, that makest the morning darke∣nesse; and treadest upon the high places of the earth.

The blessed and onely Poten∣tate,* 1.136 the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords: Who onely hast* 1.137 immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approch unto, whom no man hath seene or can see.

—The Lord of Hoasts, which* 1.138 dwelleth betweene the Che••u∣••ims.

—Behold the heaven, and the* 1.139 heaven of heavens cannot con∣taine thee.

—Thine is the Kingdome, O* 1.140 Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Both riches and honour come* 1.141 of thee, and thou reignest over all, and in thine hand is power and might, and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give

strength unto all.

Behold, even to the Moone,* 1.142 and it shineth not, yea, the Stars are not pure in his sight.

—O Lord my God, thou art* 1.143 very great; thou art cloathed with honour and Majesty.

Who coverest thy selfe with* 1.144 light, as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtaine.

—The nations are as a drop of a* 1.145 bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the ballance: hee taketh up the Isles as a very lit∣tle thing.

All nations before him are as* 1.146 nothing, and they are counted to him lesse than nothing, and va∣nity.

It is he that sitteth upon the* 1.147 circle of the Earth, and the in∣habitants thereof are as grashop∣pers, that stretcheth out the hea∣vens as a curtaine, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

O Lord of Hoasts, that tri∣eth* 1.148

the righteous, and seest the reines and the heart.

—The Lord which giveth the* 1.149 Sunne for a light by day, and the ordinances of the Moone and of the Stars, for a light by night, which divideth the Sea, when the waves thereof roare, the Lord of Hoasts is his name.

—Lord God behold thou hast* 1.150 made the heaven and the earth, by thy great power, and stretch∣ed out arme, and there is nothing too hard for thee.

Thou shewest loving kind∣nesse* 1.151 unto thousands, and recom∣pencest the iniquity of the Fa∣thers into the bosome of their children after them, the great, the mighty God, the Lord of hoasts is his name.

Great in Councell, and migh∣ty* 1.152 in worke, for thine eyes are open upon all the wayes of the Sonnes of men, to give every one according to his wayes, and according to the fruit of his do∣ings.

—The King whose name is the* 1.153 Lord of Hoasts.

—Him that maketh the seaven* 1.154 Stars and Orion, and turneth the shaddow of death into the mor∣ning, and maketh the day darke with night: that calleth for the waters of the Sea, and powreth them out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name.

—He that buildeth his stories in* 1.155 the heaven, and hath founded his troupe in the earth.

Who is a God like unto thee* 1.156 that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage, he retaineth not his anger for ever, because hee delighteth in mer∣cie.

He rebuketh the Sea, and ma∣keth* 1.157 it dry and drieth up all the Rivers.

I hou art of purer eyes then* 1.158 to behold evill, and canst not looke on iniquity.

Descriptions of God from his

• Mercie and long∣suffering.
  • Exod 34. 6.
  • 2 Pet. 3. 9.
  • 2 Chron. 30. 9.
  • Nehem. 9. 31.
  • Psal. 103. 8. 11. 13. 17.
  • Mic. 7. 18. 19.
  • Rom. 2. 4.
• Gracious Promises
  • Gen. 3 15.
  • Psal. 103 3. 9.
  • Psal. 30. 5.
  • Psal 126. 5.
  • Isay. 1 18.
  • Isay 54 8.
  • Ezec. 18 21. 23.
  • Ezech. 33. 11.
  • Math. 12. 20.
  • Math. 11. 28.
  • Rom. 8. 1.
• Omnipo∣tent goodnes.
  • Eph. 3. 20.
  • Gen. 17. 1.
  • 2 Cor. 9. 8.
  • Rom. 10. 12.

Craving of AVDIENCE, ASSISTANCE, and ACCEPTANCE.

Looke downe from thy holy* 1.159 habitation, from heaven.

—have thou respect unto the* 1.160 prayer of thy servant, and to my supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken to the cry, and to the praier which thy servant prayeth before thee this day.

Thou hast commanded that we should call upon thee in the* 1.161 day of trouble, and hast promi∣sed also that thou wilt deliver us.

Lord bow downe thine eare and heare, open Lord thine eyes* 1.162 and see, and heare the words—

Let my prayer bee set forth before thee as incense: and the* 1.163 lifting up of my hands as the e∣vening sacrifice.

Thou hast promised that if wee shall aske any thing in thy* 1.164 Sonnes name, thou wilt doe it—

Now therefore, O our God,* 1.165 heare the prayer of thy servants, and their supplication, and cause thy face to shine upon us for the Lords sake,—for wee doe not* 1.166 present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesse, but for thy great mercies.

Wee know not what wee* 1.167 should pray for as we ought, therefore let thy Spirit it selfe helpe our infirmities, and make intercession for us with groa∣nings which cannot be uttered.

It shall come to passe when* 1.168 he cryeth unto me, that I will heare, for I am gracious.

—Hearken thou to the supplica∣tion* 1.169 of thy servant, and of thy people Israel when they shall pray towards this place, & heare thou in heavē thy dwelling place and when thou hearest, forgive.* 1.170—Heare thou in heaven and for∣give the sinne of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way

wherein they should walke, and give raine upon thy land which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

Heare thou in h••eaven thy* 1.171 dwelling place, and doe accor∣ding to all that the stranger cal∣leth to thee, for that all people of the earth may know thy name to feare thee, as doe thy people Israel.

Heare thou in heaven thy* 1.172 dwelling place, and forgive and doe, and give to every man ac∣cording to his wayes.

Let thine eare now be atten∣tive,* 1.173 and thine eyes open, that thou may est heare the prayer of thy servants.

Hearken unto the voyce of* 1.174 my cry, my King and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

—Heare the voyce of my sup∣plication* 1.175 when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy Oracle.

Give eare O Lord unto my* 1.176

prayer: and attend to the voyce of my supplication.

Let the words of my mouth,* 1.177 and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my re∣deemer.

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes:* 1.178 O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Heare my prayer, O Lord* 1.179 give eare to my supplications, in thy faithfullnesse answer me, and in thy righteousnesse.

Heare me speedily, O Lord,* 1.180 my spirit faileth, hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that goe downe into the pit.

Looke downe from heaven,* 1.181 and behold from the habitation of thy holinesse, and of thy glo∣ry.

O Lord how long shall I cry,* 1.182 and thou wilt not heare, I even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save.

CONFESSION of Sinne.

O my God, I am ashamed* 1.183 and blush, to lift up my face to thee my God, for our iniquities are increased over our heads, and our trespasse is growne up unto the heavens.

Thou createdst our first Pa∣rents* 1.184 in thine owne image, and breathedst into their nostrils the* 1.185 breath of life: but the Serpent beguiled them, and they did eate of the forbidden Fruit,* 1.186 whereby all mankind (being then in their loines) also sinned:* 1.187 and now come short of the glo∣ry of God—

—thou madest man upright, but* 1.188 they sought out many inven∣tions.

We are risen up in our fathers* 1.189 steed an increase of sinfull men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward us.

Behold I was shapen in ini∣quity,* 1.190

and in Sinne did my mo∣ther conceive me.

We know Lord that in us,* 1.191 (that is, in our flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for (though to will be present with us, yet) how to performe that which is good we finde not.

Thou Lord seest that the wic∣kednesse* 1.192 of man is great upon earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart is onely evill continually—

If I justifie my selfe mine* 1.193 owne mouth shall condemne me,—the heaven shall reveale* 1.194 our iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against us.

What is man that he should* 1.195 bee cleane? and hee which is borne of a woman, that hee should be righteous?

—abominable and filthy is* 1.196 man, which drinketh iniquity like water.

—for mine iniquityes are* 1.197 growne over mine head, and as

a heavy burden they are too heavie for me.

Who can say I have made my* 1.198 heart cleane? I am pure from my sinnes?

Wee are all as an uncleane* 1.199 thing, and all our righteousnes∣ses are as filthy ragges: and our iniquities like the wind have ta∣ken us away—and there is none* 1.200 of us that calleth upon thy Name, that stirreth up himselfe to take hold on thee—

We have made thee to serve* 1.201 with our sinnes, we have weari∣ed thee with ou•• iniquities—

The shew of our countenance* 1.202 doth witnesse against us, and we declare our sinne as Sodome and hide it not: woe unto our soule for we have rewarded evill to our selves—

If thou Lord shouldest marke* 1.203 iniquities: O Lord who shall stand? But ••h••re is forgivenesse with thee: that thou mayest be feared.

If we should be weighed by* 1.204 thee in the balances, we should be found wanting.

And that which makes our* 1.205 sin become exceeding sinfull, in the land of uprightnes have we dealt unjustly, & would not be∣hold* 1.206 the majestie of the Lord.

—We are ashamed of the Go∣spell* 1.207 of Christ, though it be the power of God unto salvation to every one that beleeveth.

Thou hast spread out thy* 1.208 hands all the day, unto a rebelli∣ous people which have walked in a way that was not good af∣ter their owne thoughts.

Ah Lord God! we love not* 1.209 the Lord Iesus in sincerity.

—We hide as it were our faces from him, and will not have him to raigne over us.

Alas! wee count not all* 1.210 things losse and doung for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ Iesus our Lord.

—That we might bee found in* 1.211

him not having our owne righ∣teousnesse.

—We take no paines to know* 1.212 him, and the power of his re∣surrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, or to bee made conformable to his death.

Thou hast given us space to* 1.213 repent of all our abominations that wee have committed, but we repented not.

Wee confesse not our trans∣gressions* 1.214 unto thee Lord, that thou mightest forgive the ini∣quity of our sinne.

Thou hast stricken us but we* 1.215 have not grieved, thou hast con∣sumed us but wee have refused to receive correction, wee have made our faces harder than a rocke, and have refused to re∣turne.

We have received the grace of God in vaine, and have neg∣lected the great Salvation which thou tendrest unto us in Iesus Christ.

Wee have grieved the holy* 1.216 Spirit of God, whereby wee are sealed to the day of redemp∣tion—and have turned the* 1.217 grace of God into lascivious∣nesse.

We have left our first love—* 1.218 our soule thirsteth not for God, for the living God.

—We have even sinned wilful∣ly,* 1.219 since we received the know∣ledge of the truth: so that (we may justly feare,) there remay∣neth now no more sacrifice for our sinnes, but a certaine feare∣full looking for of judgement, and fiery indignation—For if* 1.220 he that despised Moses law died without mercy—Of how much* 1.221 sorer punishment shall wee be thought worthy, who have* 1.222 troden under foote the Sonne of God, and have counted the blood of the covenant where∣with we were sanctified, an un∣holy thing, and have done de∣spite to the Spirit of Grace.

—Many scarlet and crimsin sins,* 1.223 have wee committed whereby great occasion hath beene given by us to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme.* 1.224

Yea we overpasse the deeds of the wicked.

Wherefore I abhorre my* 1.225 selfe and repent in dust and ashes.

For innumerable evils have* 1.226 compassed me about, mine ini∣quities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to looke up: they are moe then the haires of my head: there∣fore my heart faileth me.

For thou art the God of my* 1.227 strength, why dost thou cast me off? why goe I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy.

Thou hast set our iniquitles* 1.228 before thee, our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance.

When yee come to appeare* 1.229 before me, who hath required

this at your hand, to tread my courts?

For Ierusalem is ruined, and* 1.230 Iudah is f••llen, because their tongues, and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Woe unto them that draw* 1.231 injquity with cords of vanity, and sinne as it were with a Cart rope.

But your injquities have se∣parated* 1.232 between you and your God, and your sinnes have hid his face from you that hee will nor heare.

As a Fountaine casteth out* 1.233 her waters, so shee casteth out her wickednesse, violence and spoyle is heard in her, before mee continually is griefe and wounds.

Yet I had planted thee a no∣ble* 1.234 vine wholly a right seed: How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

For though thou wash thee* 1.235 with niter, and take thee much sope, yet thine injquities is marked before mee saith the Lord God.

The sinne of Iudah is written* 1.236 with a pen of jron, and with the point of a diamond, it is gra∣ven upon the table of their heart, and upon the hornes of your altars.

Behold I am pressed under* 1.237 you as a cart is pressed, that is full of sheaves.

For I know your manifold* 1.238 transgressions and your mighty sinnes.

For wee know that the Law* 1.239 is spirituall but I am carnall sold under sinne.

But I see another law in my* 1.240 members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sinne which is in my members: O wretched man that I am who* 1.241 shall deliver me from the body of this death.

2. EVILL of punishment.

And for all these thou our* 1.242 God hast punished us lesse than our injquities deserve.

It is of the Lords mercies* 1.243 that wee are not consumed, be∣cause his compassions faile not.—If thou shouldst lay judge∣ment* 1.244 to the line, and righteous∣nesse to the plummet—thou* 1.245 mightest make thy anger and jealousie to smoke against us, and all the curses that are writ∣ten in thy booke, thou mightest lay upon us, and blot out our name from under heaven,

Thou mightest give us our* 1.246 portion with the wicked that are turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

See the heads Plague, Pu∣nish, &c. in the Seripture Phrases.

2. PETITION for FORGIVENES.

But with thee Lord is mercy,* 1.247 and with thee is plenteous re∣demption—O therefore par∣don* 1.248 our injquities and our sinne, and take us for thine inheri∣tance.

Put away our transgressions* 1.249 as a cloud, and our sinnes as a mist.

O Lord though our injqui∣ties* 1.250 testifie against us, doe thou it for thy names sake: for our back-slidings are many, we have sinned against thee.

O that I might have my re∣quest,* 1.251 and that God would grant mee the thing that I long for!—even that it would please* 1.252 him to cover mine injquity, and cause my sinne to be blotted out from before him.

Remember not the sinnes of* 1.253 my youth, nor my transgressi∣ons: according to thy mercie

remember thou mee, for thy goodnesse sake, O Lord.

For thy names sake O Lord* 1.254 pardon mine injquity for it is great.

O remember not against us* 1.255 former iniquities, let thy mer∣cies speedily prevent us.—Take* 1.256 away our injquitie, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calues of our lips.

Turne againe and have com∣passion* 1.257 upon us; subdue our in∣jquities, and cast all our sinnes into the depthes of the Sea.

Behold the Lambe of God* 1.258 that taketh away the sinnes of the world.

To this end was hee borne,* 1.259 and for this cause came hee into the world, that hee might save sinners, of whom wee are the chiefe.

Hee was wounded for our* 1.260 transgressions, hee was bruised for our injquities: the chastise∣ment of our peace was upon

him, and with his stripes are we healed.

For his sake, and in his blood,* 1.261 wash me throughly from mine injquities, and cleanse me from* 1.262 my sinne.

—Purge me with Hysope and I* 1.263 shall be cleane, wash mee and I shall bee whiter than snow. Hide thy face from my sinnes, and blot out all mine injquities.

—I have▪ sinned greatly in that* 1.264 I have done, and now I beseech thee O Lord, take away the inj∣quitie of thy servant, for I have done very foolishly.

Looke thou upon me and bee* 1.265 mercifull unto me as thou usest to doe unto those that love thy name.

—Though your sinnes bee as* 1.266 scarlet they shall be as white as snow: though they be red like c••imson they shall be as wooll.

Behold thou art the Lord the* 1.267 God of all flesh, there is no∣thing too hard for the.

For FAITH.

O we are of little faith, there∣fore,* 1.268 O Lord, encrease our faith, though it be yet but as a graine* 1.269 of mustard seed,—

—that being justified by faith, wee may have peace with thee.

Worke in us not a dead faith,* 1.270 but that which may bee rich in good workes, following after peace with all men, and holi∣nesse, without which none shall see God.

Create in mee a cleane heart;* 1.271 O God: and renew a right spi∣rit within me.

—Not having mine owne righ∣teousnesse* 1.272 which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteous∣nesse which is of God by faith.

For REPENTANCE.

Oh that my head were wa∣ters, and mine eyes a fountaine

of teares that I might weepe day and night, for—

O that all the night I could* 1.273 make my bed to swim! that I could water my couch with my teares! that I might repent in sacke-cloth and ashes.—and grant us repentance unto life—* 1.274

Thou hast in love to our soules vouchsafed unto us space and time to repent in; O that* 1.275 thou wouldst also give us grace to repent! O that there were* 1.276 such an heart in us that wee might repent, and recover our selues out of the snare of the Devill, who have beene hither▪ to taken captive by him at his* 1.277 will!

Doe thou melt our stonie* 1.278 hearts into godly sorow, which worketh repentance unto salva∣tion not to bee repented of.

SANCTIFYING GRACE.

Sprinkle cleane water upon* 1.279

us that we may bee cleane from all our filthinesse, and from all our—

—a new heart also doe thou* 1.280 give us, and a new spirit doe thou put within us; and take a∣way the stony heart out of the middest of us, and give thou unto us an heart of flesh—

—and put thy Spirit within* 1.281 us, and cause thou us to walke in thy statutes, and keepe thy judgements, and doe them.

KNOWLEDGE.

That the God of our Lord* 1.282 Iesus Christ, the father of glo∣ry, would give unto us the spirit of wisedome and ••evelation in the knowledge of him—

The eyes of our understan∣ding* 1.283 being inlightned: that we may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints.

—that the earth may bee fil∣led* 1.284

with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea.—that all may know thee* 1.285 from the least to the greatest of us.

That Christ may dwell in* 1.286 our hearts by faith, that we be∣ing rooted and grounded in love,—may be able to compre∣hend* 1.287 with all Saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and heighth: And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge,—that wee might* 1.288 be filled with all the fulnesse of God.

That I may know him, and* 1.289 the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffe∣rings, being made conformable unto his death—

And because it is not good* 1.290 that the soule bee without knowledge, incline our eares to wisedome and apply our hearts to understanding—that we may* 1.291 cry after knowledge, and lift up

our voice for understanding, that wee may understand the* 1.292 feare of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God—

—That wee may be enabled* 1.293 to cry unto thee, Our God wee know thee. Vid. Ier. 31. 33. 34.

LOVE of GOD, &c.

That wee may love the Lord* 1.294 our God with all our heart, and with all our soule, and with all our mind,—that because our* 1.295 sinnes which are many are for∣given us, therefore we may love thee much.

That wee may love one ano∣ther* 1.296 as Christ hath loved us——that our love may abound yet* 1.297 more and more towards all men, especially them that are of the houshold of faith—* 1.298

That wee may love our ene∣mies,* 1.299 blesse them that curse us, doe good unto them that hate us, and pray for them that dis∣pitefully use, and persecute us.

ZEALE.

Make us to bee zealous of* 1.300 good workes, that we may not rest contented with a luke∣warme profession, being nei∣ther cold nor hot, but that our soule may breake for the long∣ing* 1.301 that it hath to thy judge∣ments at all times,—that the* 1.302 zeale of thine house may eate us up—that so our zeale may* 1.303 provoke very many—

SINCERITIE.

Behold thou desirest truth in* 1.304 the inward parts, O therefore make us Israelites indeed in* 1.305 whom there is no guile.

That in simplicitie and godly* 1.306 purenesse wee may have our conversation in the world; be∣cause* 1.307 thine eyes are upon all our wayes: and thou understandest our thoughts a farre off, and art acquainted with all our wayes: for there is not a word in our* 1.308

tongue, but loe, O Lord, thou* 1.309 knowest it altogether.

And thou wilt bring to light* 1.310 the hidden things of darknesse: and wilt make manifest the counsels of the heart.

Though they dig into hell,* 1.311 thence shall my hand take them, though they climbe up to hea∣ven, thence will I bring them downe.

And though they hide them∣selves* 1.312 in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence, and though they be hid from my sight in the bottome of the Sea, thence will I command the Serpent, and hee shall bite them.

If thou sayest behold, wee* 1.313 knew it not, doth not he that pondereth the heart, consider it, and that keepeth thy soule, doth not he know it, and shall not he render to every man according to his workes?

God shall bring every worke* 1.314

into judgement with every se∣cret thing whether it be good, or whether it be evill.

—the Lord seeth not as man se∣eth:* 1.315 for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

I beseech thee O Lord, re∣member* 1.316 now how I have wal∣ked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight.

—the Lord searcheth all hearts,* 1.317 and understandeth all the imagi∣nations of the thoughts.

Can any hide himselfe in se∣cret* 1.318 places that I shall not see him, sayeth the Lord, doe not I fill heaven and earth sayeth the Lord.

Shall not God know this,* 1.319 for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

The darknesse hideth not* 1.320 from thee, but the night shi∣neth as the day the darknesse

and the light are both alike to thee.

The Spirit of man is the can∣dle* 1.321 of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

—thou even thou knowest the* 1.322 hearts of all the children of men.

Neither is there any creature* 1.323 that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and ope∣ned to the eyes of him, with whom they have to doe.

BOLDNES the Profession of the GOSPEL.

That we may not be ashamed* 1.324 of the Gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto sal∣vation to every one that belee∣veth.

—Grant unto thy servants that* 1.325 with all boldnesse we may speak of; and professe thy word.

—Considering that if we shall* 1.326 bee ashamed of Our Lord Iesus Christ, and of his words in this

adulterous, and sinfull generati∣on, the Sonne of man also will be ashamed of us, when he com∣meth in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels.

PERSEVERANCE.

O that there were such an* 1.327 heart in us that we might feare thee, and keepe thy commande∣ments alway, that it might be well with us, and with our chil∣dren after us for ever!

Give us our heart and our* 1.328 way, that we may feare thee for ever; and make thou an ever∣lasting covenant with vs, that thou wilt not turne away from* 1.329 us, to doe us good, and put thy feare in our hearts that we may not depart from thee.

—Let us hold fast the profes∣sion* 1.330 of our faith without wave∣ring.

CONTENTATION.

—that we may learne in what∣soever* 1.331

state we are there with to be content, knowing both how to be abased, and to abound: e∣very* 1.332 where, and in all things be∣ing instructed, both to bee full, and to bee hungry, both to a∣bound, and to suffer need.

Because godlinesse with con∣tentment* 1.333 is great gaine: for we brought nothing into this world* 1.334 and it is certaine wee can carry nothing ou••.

—Having therefore food and* 1.335 rayment, let us bee therewith content.

That our conversation may* 1.336 bee without covetousnesse: be∣ing content with such things as wee have. For thou hast sayd, thou wilt never leave us, nor for∣sake us.

—Casting all our care upon thee,* 1.337 for thou carest for us.

What? shall we receive good* 1.338 the hands of the Lord, and not evill?

—Take no thought for your* 1.339

life, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke, nor yet for your body what you shall put on.

—the foules of the ayre, they* 1.340 sow not, neither doe they reape, nor gather into barnes, yet your heavenly father feedeth them.

Which of you by taking* 1.341 thought, can adde one cubite un∣to his stature.

Consider the Lillies of the* 1.342 field, how they grow: they toyle not, neither doe they spin.

—If God so cloathe the grasse* 1.343 of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more cloathe you, O ye of little faith, take no thought, saying, what* 1.344 shall we eate, or what shall we drinke, or where withall shall we be cloathed?

—Your heavenly father know∣eth* 1.345 that you have neede of all these things.

—give me neither poverty nor* 1.346

riches; feed me with food con∣venient for me,

Lest I be full and deny thee,* 1.347 and say, who is the Lord? or lest I be poore and steale, and take the name of my God in vaine.

PATIENCE under the CROSSE.

Helpe us to deny our selves,* 1.348 and to take up our Crosse daily and follow our Saviour.

Thou hast fore-told us, that* 1.349 in the world we shall have tri∣bulation.—And that through* 1.350 much tribulation we must enter into the Kingdome of God.

Let us therefore reckon with* 1.351 our selves that the sufferings of this present time, are not wor∣thy to be compared with the glory which shall bee revealed in us.

—That it may be given unto us,* 1.352 in the behalfe of Christ, not on∣ly to beleeve on him, but also to suffer for his sake.

Let us run with patience the* 1.353 way that is set before us.

Looking unto Iesus the au∣thor* 1.354 and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the crosse.

Consider him that endured* 1.355 such contradiction of sinners a∣gainst himselfe, lest you be wea∣ried and faint in your mindes.

Thinke it not strange concer∣ning* 1.356 the fiery triall which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you.

Rejoyce in as much as yee are* 1.357 partakers of Christs sufferings, that when his glory shall be re∣vealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

If ye be reproched for the* 1.358 name of Christ, happy are ye, for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth upon you.

GODS VVORD.

Let thy word be a lampe un∣to* 1.359 my feet: and a light unto our path.

O make it unto us a word of* 1.360 power, converting the soule, quicke and powerfull, and shar∣per than any two edged sword,* 1.361 piercing even to the dividing asunder of soule and spirit, and of the joynts and marrow.

Give us the hearing eare, and* 1.362 the seeing eye▪make thy word* 1.363 like fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rockes in pieces.

—and as the raine commeth* 1.364 downe, and the snow from hea∣ven, and returneth not thither but watereth the earth, and ma∣keth it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the ea••er: so let* 1.365 thy word bee, that goeth forth out of thy mouth, let it not re∣turne unto thee void, but ac∣complish that which thou plea∣sest, and prosper in the thing whither thou sendest it.

Lord give the Preacher the* 1.366 tongue of the learned, that hee

may know how to speake a word in season to him that is weary, and create the fruit of his lips peace—and let the worke of the Lord prosper in* 1.367 his hand.

They shall be abundantly sa∣tisfied* 1.368 with the fatnesse of thy house, and thou shalt make them drinke of thy pleasures.

For with thee is the fountain* 1.369 of life; in thy light shall we see light.

We will goe into his taber∣nacles;* 1.370 we will worship at his foot stoole.

Open thou mine eyes, that I* 1.371 may behold wondrous things out of thy Law.

In the way of thy judge∣ments,* 1.372 O Lord, have I waited for thee, the desire of our soule is to thy name, and to the re∣membrance of thee.

Come let us goe up to the* 1.373 mountaine of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Iacob,

and hee will teach us of his wayes, and we will walke in his paths.

—thine eares shall heare a word* 1.374 behind thee, saying, this is the way, walke in it.

Blessed is the man whom* 1.375 thou chusest, and causest to ap∣proch unto thee, that hee may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house, euen of thy holy Temple.

And in this mountaine shall* 1.376 the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. Vid. vers. 7. 8.

Even them will I bring to* 1.377 my holy mountaine and make them joyfull in my house of prayer; their burnt offrings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine Altar: for mine house shall bee called a house

of prayer unto all people.

SACRAMENTS in Speciall. 〈…〉〈…〉

—let a man examine himselfe* 1.378 and so let him eate of that bread, and drinke of that cup—

—my father giveth you the* 1.379 true bread from heaven, for the* 1.380 bread of God is he which com∣meth* 1.381 downe from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.* 1.382

As the Hart panteth after the* 1.383 water-brookes, so panteth my soule after thee O God.

O God thou art my God,* 1.384 early will I seeke thee, my soule thirsteth for thee, my flesh lon∣geth for thee in a dry and thir∣stie land, where no water is.

—what shall I render unto the* 1.385 Lord for all his benefits towards me? I will take the cup of sal∣vation, and call upon the name of the Lord—

Personall Concernments, and speciall employments in our particular calling:

Lord be thou with mee, and* 1.386 keepe mee in this way that I goe, and give me bread to eate, and rayment to put on, so that I may come againe to my fathers house in peace.

O Lord God I pray thee send* 1.387 mee good speed this day, and shew kindnesse unto

God Almighty give you* 1.388 mercie before the man, that he may

And thou who preservest the* 1.389 way of thy Saints hold up my* 1.390 goings in thy paths that my foote steps slip not

Give thine Angels charge* 1.391 over us, to keepe us in all our* 1.392 wayes: that they may beare us up in their handes lest at any time we dash our foot.

O be thou with us, and keepe* 1.393

us in all places whither we goe, and bring us againe, and leave us not untill thou hast done that which thou hast spoken to us of.

O that thou wouldst blesse* 1.394 mee indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might bee with me, and that thou wouldest keepe me from evill that it may not grieve me.

Prosper now I pray thee thy* 1.395 servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of the man.—and let the beauty of the Lord* 1.396 our God bee upon us, and esta∣blish thou the worke of our hands upon us: yea the worke of our hands establish thou it.

We know not what to doe,* 1.397 but our eyes are upon thee—thou also must worke all our* 1.398 workes in us.

It is in vaine for us to rise up* 1.399 early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrowes.

O Lord I know that the way* 1.400

of man is not in himselfe: it is not in man that walketh to di∣rect his steps

—neither is hee that plan∣teth* 1.401 any thing, neither hee that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.

Deliverance from Evill. 1. Of SINNE.

Let not sinne raigne in our* 1.402 mortall bodies, that wee should obey it in the lusts thereof.

—neither suffer us to yeeld* 1.403 our members as instruments of unrighteousnesse unto sinne: but unto God as those that are aliue from the deast, and our mem∣bers as instruments of righte∣ousnesse unto God,—

—looking diligently, lest any* 1.404 man faile of the grace of God, lest any root of bitternesse springing up trouble us, and thereby we be deluded.

—that being now made free* 1.405

from sinne, and become the ser∣vants of God, wee may have our fruit unto holinesse, and the end everlasting life.

But I see another law in my* 1.406 members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing mee into captivity to the law of Sinne which is in my mem∣bers.

O wretched man that I am,* 1.407 who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

—Cleanse thou mee from se∣cret* 1.408 faults. Keepe backe thy ser∣vant also from presumptuous sinnes, let them not have domi∣nion over me: then shall I bee upright, and I shall be innocent* 1.409 from the great transgression.

Subdue the pride of our na∣ture,* 1.410 cast downe every imagina∣tion, and every high thing that exalteth it selfe against thee, and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Let not my heart be haughty* 1.411 nor my eyes lofty, neither suffer me to exercise my selfe in great matters or in things too high for me, but behave and quiet my selfe as a child that is weaned by his mother—

—Order my steps in thy word,* 1.412 and let none in••quity have do¦nion over me—

—make me also to be upright* 1.413 before thee, and to keepe my selfe from mine in••quity.

Let us lay aside every weight,* 1.414 and the sinne that doth so easily beset us, that we may run with patience the race that is set be∣fore us—

—that we may not love the* 1.415 world, nor the things in the world, because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but of the world.

—that denying ungodlines and* 1.416 worldly lusts, wee may live so∣berly,

righteously, and godly in this present world—

That we may walke circum∣spectly* 1.417 not as fooles but as wise—giving none occasion to* 1.418 the adversary to speake re∣proachfully.

—Mortifying our members* 1.419 which are on the earth fornica∣tion, uncleannesse, the inordi∣nate affection, evill concupis∣cence, and covetousnesse which is idolatry

—Putting off all these, anger,* 1.420 wrath, malice, blasphemie, filthy communication—

—That wee may resist unto* 1.421 blood, striving against sinne, ta∣king* 1.422 heed lest there bee in any of us an evill heart of unbeliefe in departing from the living God

—taking heed to our selves,* 1.423 lest at any time our hearts bee over-charged with suffering and drunkennesse, and cares of this life—

That wee may bee sober and* 1.424 vigilant, because our adversary the devill, as a roaring Lyon, walketh about, seeking whom hee may devoure, whom that wee may resist, stedfast in the* 1.425 faith, let us take unto us the whole armour of God, that we may bee able to stand against all his wiles, being strong in the* 1.426 Lord, and in the power of his might.

2. PVNISHMENT.

Let no evill befall us, neither* 1.427 let any plague come nigh our dwelling,

Send from heaven and save* 1.428 mee from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. My soule is among Lyons, and I lye even among them that are set on fire; even the sonnes of men, whose teeth are speares, and ar∣rowes,* 1.429 and their tongue a sharpe sword.

Plead my cause O Lord, with* 1.430

them that strive with me, fight thou against them that fight a∣gainst me—

Have mercy upon me O Lord,* 1.431 for I am weake, O Lord heale me for my bones are vexed—My soule also is sore vexed, &c.* 1.432

Returne O Lord, deliver my soule: O save me for thy mer∣cies sake

For in death there is no re∣membrance* 1.433 of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thankes

I am weary with my groa∣ning,* 1.434 all the night make I my bed to swimme: I water my couch with my teares

Mine eye is consumed be∣cause* 1.435 of griefe, it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Turne thee unto mee, and* 1.436 have mercie upon me, for I am desolate and afflicted. The* 1.437 troubles of my heart are enlar∣ged; O bring thou me out of my* 1.438 distresses. Looke upon mine af∣fliction

and my paine, and for∣give all my sinnes.

O my Father if it be possible* 1.439 let this affliction passe from me; neverthelesse not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Lord make mee to know* 1.440 mine end, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: that I may know how fraile I am. Be∣hold* 1.441 thou hast made my dayes as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verely every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

So teach us to number our* 1.442 dayes, that wee may apply our hearts unto wisedome.

The HOLY CATHOLIKE* 1.443 CHVRCH of IESVS CHRIST.

Preserve that little flocke to* 1.444 whom thou hast promised, and reserved the Kingdome.

Be unto it a wall of fire, round* 1.445 about.

Let thy delight be to Mount* 1.446 Sion, grave her on the palmes of thy hands, let her walls bee continually before thee: Let her builders make haste, and* 1.447 cause her destroyers, and such as would lay her wast to depart from her—

Feed them that oppresse her* 1.448 with their owne flesh, and make them drunken with their owne blood, as with sweet wine—

Looke downe from heaven,* 1.449 and behold from the habitation of thy holinesse, and of thy glory: where is thy zeale and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels; and of thy mercies towards me? are they restray∣ned?

Doubelesse thou art our fa∣ther,* 1.450 though Abraham be ig∣norant of us, and Israel acknow∣ledgeth us not; thou O Lord art our father, our Redeemer, thy name is from everlasting.

Awake, awake, put on strength,* 1.451 O arme of the Lord, awake as in the ancient dayes, in the gene∣rations of old: Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the Dragon? thou art King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Shew thy marveilous loving* 1.452 kindnesse, O thou that savest by thy right hand, those which put their trust in thee, from those that rise up against them, &c—

Awake, why sleepest thou O* 1.453 Lord? arise cast us not off for ever. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affli∣ction, and oppression?

Let them all be confounded,* 1.454 and turned backe that hate Zion, &c. Let their flesh consume a∣way while they stand upon their feete, and their eyes con∣sume away in their holes, and their tongues consume away in their mouth, Ezek. 11. 16. Isay 40. 11.

Blesse every member of the Catholike Church in what place, in what case soever; wo∣men with child, blesse them with safe deliverie, make them joyfull mothers of children—young children blesse them, with religious education; Sea∣farring men, blesse them with prosperous navigation; Hus∣bandmen, blesse thou them with plentifull harvests and en∣crease; Captives, blesse thou with enlargement; Prisoners with repentance and amend∣ment. M. Valent.

VNCALLED.

Raise up the Tabernacle of* 1.455 David that is falne, and close up the breaches thereof, and bee gracious to the remnant of Io∣seph—

—that the Day-spring from* 1.456 on high, may visite, and give light, to them that sit in darke∣nesse and in the shadow of

death, to guide their feete into* 1.457 the way of peace—

Those other sheepe which* 1.458 thou hast, which are not yet of thy folde, them also doe thou bring in, and make them to heare thy voyce—

A a shepherd seeketh out his* 1.459 flocke in the day that hee is a∣mong his sheepe that are scatte∣red: so will I seeke out my sheepe, and will deliver them out of all places where they have beene scattered in the cloudy and darke day.

And I will bring them out* 1.460 from the people, and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountaines of Israell by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the countrey—vid. Ezek. 37. 21. 22.

I will surely assemble, O Ia∣cob,* 1.461 all of thee, I will surely ga∣ther the remnant of Israell, I

will put them together as the sheepe of Bozrah, as the flocke in the middest of their fold: they shall make great noise, by reason of the multitude of men.

CALLED.

Keepe them as the apple of* 1.462 an eye—though Satan like a roaring Lyon goe about seeking whom hee may devoure: yet* 1.463 give them not over unto the will of their enemie, but upon* 1.464 all the glory let there bee thy defence.

Lord blesse this land, com∣passe* 1.465 it with thy favour, as with a shield.—Lord doe thou keep* 1.466 it, and water it every moment▪ lest any hurt it, keepe thou it night and day.

The KINGS most excellent Majestie.

Let the soule of my Lord be* 1.467 bound in the bundle of life with

thee, and the soules of his ene∣mies, them cast out as from the middle of a sling—

Make his seed to endure for* 1.468 ever, and his throne as the daies of heaven—

Prolong the Kings life, and* 1.469 his yeares, as many genera∣tions; and that hee may abide* 1.470 with thee for ever, O prepare mercy, and truth, which may preserve him!

Our renowned and gracious* 1.471 Soveraigne, the breath of our nostrils, the annoynted of the* 1.472 Lord, let his house, and throne be established for ever, and set him as blessings unto his people.

Keepe him as the apple of* 1.473 thine eye, hide him under thē shadow of thy wings

From the wicked that op∣presse* 1.474 him, from his deadly ene∣mies that compasse him about.

His seed doe thou establish* 1.475 for ever and build up his throne to a•••• generations

Let his seed endure for ever;* 1.476 and his throane as the Sunne before thee—give him a long life, a prosperous raigne, that none of all the Kings may bee like him.

—His enemies cloath with* 1.477 shame, but on himselfe let his Crowne flourish—Let his glo∣ry bee great in thy salvation—crowne him with outward bles∣sings, with inward graces

—with long life satisfie thou* 1.478 him, and shew him thy salva∣tion—give him riches and glo∣ry, that none of the Kings may be like him.

As thou hast annoynted him* 1.479 to bee ruler of thy people, so give him a wise and understan∣ding* 1.480 heart, to goe out and come in, before this great people, that* 1.481 he may governe over them in∣thy* 1.482 feare, serving thee with a* 1.483 willing mind.

Bee thou unto him a father,* 1.484 and make him unto the•••• thy

sonne—Blesse also thy servants house, and let it be established before thee—make a covenant with him as thou didst with David—let the Angell of the Lord pitch round about him—let* 1.485 not the sonnes of wicked∣nesse approach neere to hurt him.

Blesse his Counsell with wisedome, his Iudges with in∣tegrity, his Magistrates with courage, his people with obedi∣ence, his Armies with victorie, his raigne with peace—M. Val.

The LORDS of the Privie Councell.

Enforme thon his Councel∣lers* 1.486 after thy will, and teach his Senators wisedome▪ that judge∣ment* 1.487 may runne downe as wa∣ters; and righteousnesse as a mighty streame——that they* 1.488 may aske at thy mouth that counsell which they shall mi∣ster unto their Soveraigne

—that they may bee to us in* 1.489 stead of eyes—filled with the* 1.490 spirit of God in wisedome.

—As they be famous in the con∣gregation* 1.491 and men of renowne, so they may be as Gods know∣ing good and evill.

—that all the counsell which* 1.492 they counsell, may bee as if a man should enquire at the Ora∣cle of God.

MAGISTRACIE.

And that judgement may not* 1.493 be turned into gall, nor the fruit of righteousnesse into hem∣locke, give courage to our ru∣lers, that they may execute justice truely in the gates—* 1.494 that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty.—

MINISTERIE.

And thou who art the Lord* 1.495 of the harvest send our labou∣rers into thy harvest, that those

which are ordained to eternall* 1.496 life may be saved—

—and let the worke of the* 1.497 Lord, prosper in their hand—The Chariots of Israel and the horse-men thereof—

Let thy Thummim, and thy* 1.498 Urime be with thy holy one——who observe thy word, and* 1.499 keepe thy Covenant—that they may teach Iaeob thy judge∣ments, and Israel thy Law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine Altar.

Blesse Lord their substance,* 1.500 and accept the worke of their hands, smite through the loines of them that rise against them, and of them that hate them that they rise not againe.

—Make them like Iohn, bur∣ning* 1.501 and shining lights—that they may bee holinesse to the Lord—

Whom thou hast set as watch-men over thy people,

make them instant in season, and out of season—that they may give warning from thee——that they may cry aloud and* 1.502 not spare, lifting up their voyce like a trumpet, and shew thy people their transgressions.

COMMONALTIE.

Blesse all Israel from Dan to* 1.503 Beershebah, make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowles of heaven: breake the bow and the sword, and the battell out of* 1.504 the earth, and make them to lye downe safely—

For the AFFLICTED.

And thou Lord who givest* 1.505 power to the faint, and to them that have no might encreasest* 1.506 strength, comfort them that lie upon beds of languishing, make all their beds in their sicknesse—for unto thee Lord, belong the* 1.507 issues from death—

Behold the teares of such as* 1.508 are oppressed and have no com∣forter.

Lord remember them that* 1.509 are in bonds, that are tryed in* 1.510 the furnace of affliction.

Bind up the breach of thy* 1.511 people, heale the stroke of their wound.

Let the sighing of the priso∣ners* 1.512 come before thee; accor∣ding to the greatnesse of thy power, preserve thou those that are appoynted to dye.

—Bee thou a strength to the* 1.513 poore, a strength to the needy in their distresse, a refuge from the storme, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the ter∣rible Ones is a storme against the wall.

—His place of defence shall bee* 1.514 the munition of rockes, bread shall be given him, his waters shall be sure—

THANKS GIVING for Blessings Spirituall and Eternall.

And now our God we thanke* 1.515 thee, and praise thy glorious name, for blessing us with all* 1.516 spirituall blessings in heavenly places in Christ, for delivering us* 1.517 from the power of darknesse, and translating us into the King∣dome of thy deare Sonne.

Blessed be God even the Fa∣ther* 1.518 of our Lord Iesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort, who when we were sometimes aliens, and* 1.519 enemies in our mind by wicked workes, and were by nature, the* 1.520 children of wrath, as well as o∣thers,* 1.521 out of his rich mercy, for* 1.522 the great love where with hee loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, and sinnes, and* 1.523 the uncircumcision of our flesh hath quickned us. together with Christ, having forgiven us all

trespasses, Blotting out the hand∣writing* 1.524 of Ordinances that was against us, which was contrary unto us, and tooke it out of the way, nayling it to his Crosse.

Blessed bee thy glorious* 1.525 Name, which is exalted above all blessing, and praise; for great* 1.526 is thy mercie towards us, and thou hast delivered our soule from the lowest hell—and hast* 1.527 made us meet to bee partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light.

3. For TEMPORALL blessings, of Creation and Providence.

I thanke thee Father, Lord* 1.528 of heaven and earth, that—

Blesse the Lord, O my soule,* 1.529 and all that is within mee blesse his holy name, &c.

For thou art he that tookest* 1.530 me out of the wombe; thou* 1.531 didst make me hope, when I was upon my mothers breasts—

I was cast upon thee from the wombe; thou art my God from my mothers belly.

—We have beene borne by* 1.532 thee from the belly, and are car∣ried from the wombe—And e∣ven* 1.533 to our old age be thou hee, and even to hoarie haires doe thou carry us—

—Thou hast covered me in* 1.534 my mothers wombe,

—I will praise thee, for I am* 1.535 fearefully and wonderfully made marveilous are thy workes, and that my soule knoweth right well.

How precious are thy* 1.536 thoughts unto me O God? how great is the summe of them? If* 1.537 I should count them they are moe in number than the sand—

Thy hands have made me, and* 1.538 fashioned me—

I am not worthy of the least* 1.539 of all thy mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shew∣ed nuto thy servant.

Thus will I blesse thee while* 1.540 I live, I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soule shall be sa∣tisfied* 1.541 as with marrow and fat∣nesse, and my mouth shall praise thee with joyfull lips, when I* 1.542 remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. &c—

I know Lord that thy judge∣ments* 1.543 are right, and that thou in faithfulnesse hast afflicted me.

Before I was afflicted I went* 1.544 astry, but now I have kept thy word—

O Lord my God I cryed un∣to* 1.545 thee, and thou hast healed me; O Lord thou hast brought* 1.546 up my soule from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not goe downe to the pit, &c.

Thou hast delivered mee in* 1.547 sixe troubles, yea in seven, there hath no evill touched me, &c.

There hath no evill befallen

me, neither hath any plague come neere my dwelling—

—Thou hast delivered my* 1.548 soule from death, my eyes from teares, and my feete from fal∣ling—

—What shall I render unto the* 1.549 Lord, for all his benefits to∣wards me? I will take the cup* 1.550 of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.

Thou hast extended peace* 1.551 unto us like a river, and prospe∣rity like a flowing streame; we drinke waters out of our owne Wells.

Thou hast strengthened the* 1.552 barres of our gates, and blessed our children within us &c.—

Thou hast given us bread to* 1.553 eate and rayment to put on, yea our bread like Ashurs is fat, and* 1.554 wee have pleasures which even* 1.555 Kings doe want.

Thou hast not dealt so with* 1.556 any nation—O that men would praise the Lord for his good∣nesse;

and for his wonderfull* 1.557 workes to the children of men!

CONCLVSION with a craving of Audience.

Two things have I required* 1.558 of thee, deny me them not, be∣fore I depart.

Thy Sonne our Saviour hath* 1.559 promised, that What things soe∣ver wee desire when we pray, if we beleeve we shall receive them.

Lord we beleeve, helpe thou* 1.560 our unbeliefe.

Now unto him that is able* 1.561 to doe exceeding abundantly, a∣bove all that wee aske or thinke according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glo∣ry* 1.562 in the Church of Christ throughout all ages, world without end, Amen.

Now the God of Peace, that* 1.563 brought againe from the dead, our Lord Iesus, that great Shep∣heard of the Sheepe, through the the bloud of the everlasting

covenant; Make us perfect in e∣very* 1.564 good worke, to doe his will, working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Iesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. A∣men.

REVEL. 5 13.

Blessing, honour, glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lambe for ever and ever.

Reve. 7. 12.

Amen, Blessing, and glory, and wisedome, and thanksgi∣ving, and honour, and power, and might be unto our God, for ever and ever. Amen.

MEDITATIONS for the Morning.

My soule waiteth on thee, O* 1.565 Lord, more than the morning watch, watcheth for the mor∣ning. O God be mercifull unto me, and blesse me, and cause thy* 1.566 upon

face to shine upon me: O fill me* 1.567 with thy mercie this morning so shall I rejoyce and bee glad all my dayes.

O God thou art my God ear∣will* 1.568 I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for thee, my flesh lon∣geth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no wattr is.

O Sunne of righteousnesse shine upon me—

My voyce shalt thou heare in* 1.569 the morning O Lord, in the mor∣ning will I direct my prayer un∣to thee, and will looke up.

Unto thee have I cryed O* 1.570 Lord, and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

Awake, thou that sleepest,* 1.571 and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

The night is past, the day is at* 1.572 hand—

—worke while it is called day,* 1.573 the night commeth when no man can worke.

MEDITATIONS for the Evening.

Thou knowest my downe sit∣ting,* 1.574 and mine up rising thou un∣derstandest my thought a farre off.

Thou compassest my path, and* 1.575 my lying downe, and art ac∣quainted with all my wayes.

Let my prayer be set forth* 1.576 before thee as incense, and the lifting up of my hands, as the evening Sacrifice.

Let teares run downe like a* 1.577 river, day and night, give thy selfe no rest: let not the Apple of thine eye cease: Arise, cry out in the night, in the begin∣ning of the watches powre out* 1.578 thy heart like water before the face of the Lord, lift up thy hands towards him.

Lighten mine eyes, that I sleepe not in death—

He that keepeth Israel neither slumbreth nor sleepeth—

—the day is thine, the night* 1.579 also is thine—

—the darknesse hideth not* 1.580 from thee, but the night shineth as the day, the darknesse and the light to thee are both alike.

I will lay me downe in peace* 1.581 take my rest, &c.

—when thou liest downe thou* 1.582 shalt not bee afraid, yea thou shalt lie &c.

MEDITATIONS for thee as thou goest in∣to Bed.

—Think with thy selfe, that—

1 Thou art one day neerer end, than thou wert in the mor∣ning.

2 Consider what thou hast seene, heard, or read that day, worth the remembring: and make use thereof.

3 Seriously examine thy selfe what Sinne thou hast com∣mitted, what duty thou hast o∣mitted, how thou hast failed,

and lament them, on thy knees, begging pardon in thy Saviours Name.

4 Consider that many goe well to bed, and never rise a∣gaine till the day of Iudgement, therefore say, Father into thy hands I commend my spirit.

5 Let thy stripping thee na∣ked, put thee in mind of thy death, thy bed, of thy grave, thy coverings of the moulds, and wormes of the earth: thy sheets of thy winding sheete, thy sleepe of thy death, thy waking of thy resurrection.

In the night when thou awa∣kest, say,

With my soule have I desi∣red* 1.583 thee in the night, yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early.

Thus will I blesse thee while* 1.584 I live, I will lift up my hands in thy name; my soule shall be sa∣tisfied* 1.585 as with marrow, and fat∣nesse,

and my mouth shall praise* 1.586 thee with joyfull lips—when I remember thee upon my bed,* 1.587 and meditate on thee in the night watches.

MEDITATIONS for the Lords day in the Mor∣ning.

It is a good thing, to give* 1.588 thankes, unto thee, O Lord, and to sing praises to thy name, O thou most high: to shew forth* 1.589 thy loving kindnesse in the mor∣ning, and thy faithfulnesse every night.

This is the day which the Lord hath made, wee will re∣joyce, and be glad in it.

Blessed is the man that doth* 1.590 thi••, and the Sonne of man that layeth hold on it, that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hands from do∣ing any evill:

—they that be planted in the* 1.591 house of the Lord, shall flourish

in the courts of our God: they* 1.592 shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they shall bee fat and flourishing.

As thou goest to the Church meditate thus—

One thing have I desired of* 1.593 the Lord, that I will seeke after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his tem∣ple.

My soule longeth, yea even* 1.594 fainteth for the courts of the Lord, my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the living God.

At the Church thinke with thy selfe that—

The place where thou stan∣dest* 1.595 is Holy ground—none o∣ther* 1.596 but the house of God—

How amiable are thy Taber∣nacles* 1.597 O Lord of Hoasts!

Blessed are they that dwell in* 1.598

thy house, they will bee still praysing thee.

For a day in thy court, is bet∣ter* 1.599 than a thousand:

I had rather be a doore-kee∣per* 1.600 in the house of my God, then dwell in the tents of wic∣kednesse.

They that joyne themselves* 1.601 to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to bee his servants: every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant—Even them will I bring to my holy mountaine,* 1.602 and make them joyfull in my house of prayer.

—the like course thou mayest take in other places of Scripture which thou mayest make use of for all kinde of meditations, at home, abroad, in field, towne, journeyes, &c—

Matter for Graces before meat.

O Lord our God, the onely

giver of all good gifts, thou feedest the young ravens when they cry—they have their meat of God—

—the eyes of all waite upon thee—thou openest thy hand, and fillest with thy blessing e∣very living thing—thou lovedst us before we were, thou hast kept us from our birth—supply all our wants, sanctifie all thy dealings towards us, and let thy blessing be on the food which we are now to receive—Speake a word of blessing to it from heaven, that it may nourish and strengthen us—comfort and do us good—let us taste and see how gracious the Lord is—let us feele the sweetnesse of that love, with which thou hast lo∣ved us in Christ—man liveth not by bread alone—'tis by thy word of blessing, not our meates alone, that wee are nourished and preserved—

—which satisfiest our mouth

with good things—thou shalt eate and blesse the name of the Lord thy God—Let not these creatures turne to the hurt of our souls, which thou hast given us for good of our bodies,—I am not worthy of the least morsell of thy good creatures, unwor∣thy of the crums which fall un∣der thy table.—Let not our ta∣ble* 1.603 become a snare unto us—breake not the staffe of our bread—curse not unto us any blessing—

Good Lord forgive us all our* 1.604 sinnes, and blesse at this time these good creatures to our nou∣rishment, through Iesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.

O Lord it is not by bread a∣lone* 1.605 that man lives, it is thy blessing upon the creatures that they sustaine us. O draw up our hearts and eyes to heaven, to ac∣knowledge thy providence in them; to praise thy goodnesse for them, that we may receive

them as pledges of thy favour, and gracious assurances of thine everlasting love, through Iesus, &c—

Matter for Graces after meate.

Blessed bee thy name for health, life, strength, and for all the blessings of this, and the blessed hopes of a better life—make it our meate, and drinke, to doe the will of thee our hea∣uenly father—make us to hun∣ger after that bread which en∣dureth to everlasting life—

—Provide dayly bread for all thy poore servants, till thou bring us to that place where we shall never hunger, nor thirst a∣ny more—thy loving kindnesse is better than life—

—that I may labour not so much for this meat that perish∣eth, but for that meate which endureth to everlasting life—the body and bloud of our Savi∣our

which is meate indeed, and drinke indeed.—Keepe us in thy feare while we live on earth and afterward receive us to glo∣ry in thy kingdome—

We thanke thee O Lord, for the comfortable use of these good blessings, we beseech thee also feed our soules to everla∣sting life, with the meate that perisheth not, through Iesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

Blessed bee thy name O Lord God, for thus opening thy hand, and filling us at this time with thy good creatures, vouchsafe still to be our God, with-hold no good thing from our soule, or body. Save all thy Church, protect our King, Queene, Prince, Royall Progeny and Realme; Grant free passage to to thy Gospel, comfort to thy Servants, and peace of consci∣ence to us all, through Iesus Christ our Lord,

Amen.

An EPITOME of a Christians Conversation and Religious course of life, gathered out of some Godly Practicall Di∣vines &c.

Every day bestow halfe an* 1.606 houre in reading the Scriptures, and Prayer: Gods word, will not onely shew thee what to do, what to pray, but will worke a secret power to accomplish the same—

Appoint and set a part some time once every day, seriously and solemnely to cast up the eye of thy Faith, on that never-fa∣ding crowne of life, which af∣ter an inch of time shall for ever rest upon thy head. The com∣forts hereof will make a man live almost without a soule, and sweeten all the troubles of this life—

Set one houre in the weeke* 1.607 a part (Saturday in the afternone

is more fit, by reason of the approching day, to consider of, search, and try thy wayes: this will snub and keepe downe, the weeds of corruptions, from o∣verspreading thy soule. Thou bestowed an houre on thy body every day, in dressing it, and loo∣kest thy selfe in a glasse to attire thy outward sheath, and wilt thou not once a weeke doe as much for thy soule? thy body must one day rot and turne to dust, perhaps to morrow: thy soule must live ever either in weale or woe: Life and death, are now in thy choyse—chuse then that good part—

—Give God the honour of thy* 1.608 thoughts, as well as of thy words and actions: often thinke how all the glistering shewes of this whole world must and doe va∣nish and moulder into vanity, and nothing—very smoke.

As soone as thou hast broken of sleepe, set God before thee

and thinke—What shall I doe? what course shall I take, that I may bring glory to God, that I may not sinne, this day,—O that my wayes were so directed——Never speake the evill which* 1.609 thou too certainely knowest by others, but with fearefulnesse, (as it were) and some kinde of enforcement, being sure thou hast a calling to it, and then doe it

• seasonably,
• charitably,
• discreetly,

and not in

• humour,
• spleene,
• imperiousnesse

Tis the humor of Hypocritts to be supercilious and censorious: but for

• Gods glory.
• thy owne discharge.

—use no moe wordes against m••ns sinnes, than thou wilt make prayers for their soules in secret.

Be bold, yet wise in speaking for Christ, and with height of

resolution, goe through all the disgraces that the sinfull times, lay in the wayes of God. In Actions

• civil—Doe as thou
• wouldst be done to.
• religious, Strive to

live by faith: because faith is the soule of all our actions, our pray∣ers will bee cold unlesse this warme them.

—Take heed of falling from thy first love.

—Serve not God for by-re∣spects, but onely for himselfe.

—So long as thou art unfeined∣ly displeased with, and sorry for, all thy sinnes, and dost mortifie the deedes of thy body by the spirit, thy cafe is the state of sal∣vation.

Let thy whole conversation favour of the Lord.

Bee alwayes bemoaning thy spirituall pride, knowne hypo∣crisie, covetousnesse, perf••••cto∣rinesse and formality in Gods service.

Give not way to a heartlesse neglect of the use of Gods holy ordinances, reading, prayer, fa∣sting, private humiliation; for this is the fore-runner to some fearefull sinne, or fiery temptati∣on, to some heavie judgement, or dangerous apostasie.

Seeke not thy selfe in any of thy actions.

Looke to thy repentance, that it bee sincere, universall, con∣stant, from the heart root, for all sinne.

Incorporate thy selfe into the* 1.610 Communion of Saints, be inti∣mate onely with them: such an holy and humble majesty is in their carriage, such a deale of heaven is in their countenances, such spirituall ravishments is in their hearts, such grace and pow∣erful piercings in their speeches, such zeale and hearty melting is in their prayers, that they can∣not but worke upon thy heart, if thou converse with them.

Looke well to thy carriage, that thou leave not an ill savour behinde thee in any company. Wait for occasions to doe good, Act. 26. 28. In bad company give them apparent signes of thy dislike: Unlesse you give some kinde of reall, or verball re∣proofe, they will be hardned.

Often withdraw your selfe* 1.611 apart, imparting unto God your griefes, wants, desires. Walke with God on the top of Mount Tabor once a day—Prayer in* 1.612 secret will bee unto thee an un∣speakeable comfort, a testimony that thou art not left to thy selfe, if words will not come, sigh, God heares the sighing of his servants: if thou canst not sigh, breath, God hath an care for that, thou hast heard my voyce, hide not thine eare at my breathing, at my cry.—yea* 1.613 speake with thy countenance, be humbled for thy unfitnesse, dulnesse—&c. Then wee pray

most happily, when wee arise* 1.614 from prayer most humbled. After prayer thou shalt carry thy selfe in thy vocation with much more zeale, and standing thus upright with God, thou wilt not feare the world, thou shalt have rest and peace within, what ever stirres bee without.

—Have a speciall eve to a sin∣cere, constant and fruitfull per∣formance of holy duties, take heed of customarinesse and For∣mality, which cuts out the heart and drawes the very life-blood from them.

—Strive by all meanes for at∣tainment of what thou prayest for, by all occasions, helpes and heavenly offers.

Be diligent in thy personall* 1.615 employments, and take heed of idlenesse.

2 Have an eye to Gods glo∣ry in all thy undertakings.

3 Goe about earthly busi∣nes, with an heavenly mind.

4 Let not any unrighteous gaine entice thee to sinne, or be∣lime thee.

5 Set not thy delight on any earthly thing, for nothing brings true content to the soule but God.

Delight thy selfe in him, this will both purifie thy heart and assure it before God.

In thy carnall delight there are or may be losse of crosses in curses for them.

They are broken cisternes—

In the end of every day, aske thy selfe

• What have I done?* 1.616
• What have I done amisse?
• What have I left undone?

Thus summe up thy accounts, and make all streight twixt▪* 1.617 God and thee.

Keepe a Catalogue of all thy g〈…〉〈…〉 knowne sinnes, nor

balking any, but dealing true∣ly with thy selfe, and then fal∣ling downe on thy knees dis∣burden thy conscience of them by humble confession to God, carrying this thy owne indite∣ment and spreading it before the Lord and pleading guilty, drag thy sinfull lusts to the crosse of thy Saviour, and there crucifie them. 2 Pray for a soft and ten∣der heart, as for life; Lord thou hast promised to take out the heart of stone—to give an heart of flesh—3 Get the particular promises, which thou desirest to have fulfilled to thy soule without booke, yea into thy heart as well as thy head. Mr. Byfield.

M^r. GEORGE FLETCHER, in Christs victory and triumph—pag. 50.

VVHo is it sees not, that he nothing is, But he that nothing sees? what vveker brest, Since Adams armour faild, dares warrant his? That made by God of all his creatures best, Straite made himselfe the worst of all the rest: If any strength we have, it is to ill, But all the good is Gods, both povv'r and vvill: The dead man, cannot rise, though he himselfe may kill.

Mr. QVARLES Historie of SAMPSON.

Medit. 21. LOrd if our Father Adam could not stay In his upright perfection one poore day, How can it be expected we have povver To hold out siege one scruple of an houre? Our armes are bound vvith too unequall bands; We cannot strive, vve cannot loose our hands: Great Nazarite, avvake; and looke upon us; Make haste to helpe; the Philistims are on us.

Medit. 22. ibid. Lord shouldst thou punish every part in me That does offend, what member would be free? Each member acts his part; they never lin Vntill they joyne, and make a body of sinne: Make sinne my burthen; let it never please me; And thou hast promis'd when I come, to ease me.

Medit. 19. idem. ibid. Thou great Chirurgion of a bleeding soule, Whose soveraigne balme is able to make whole The deepest wound, thy sacred salve is sure; We cannot bleed so fast as thou canst cure: Heale thou our wounds, that having salv'd the sore, Our hearts may feare, and learne to sinne no more; And let our hands be strangers to those knives That wound not fingers only, but our lives.

Some particular formes of PRAYER.

1. For the Sacrament of the LORDS Supper.

WOnderfull art thou, O Lord, in all thy works to∣wards the sons of men, but more especially, wonderfull in that great worke of our redemption, by the death of thy Son; Hadst thou left us to have perished, in that estate of damnation, into which wee, desperately had im∣plunged our selves, by the wil∣full disobedience of our first parents, it had beene but just with thee so to have done: for wee were the clay, thou wast our Potter, and we all are the work of thine owne hands; and hadst thou taken no delight in us, to doe us good, thou migh∣test easily have made us disho∣nourable vessels of thy wrath, as well as thou didst the Angels

which kept not their first e∣state, but left their owne habi∣tation, whom thou hast reser∣ved in everlasting chaines, under darkenesse, under the judge∣ment of the great day. But thou, in love to our soules, woul∣dest not that wee should perish, and therefore out of thine own incomprehensible wisedome, foundest out a meanes of ra∣soming and redeeming man from hell, by causing thine own sonne (God equall for ever with thy blessed selfe) to bee made sinne for us, that so wee might bee made the righteous∣nesse of God in him: who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree; and the more to confirme us in the assured hope of everlasting salvation, which he once purchased for us, by his bloody passion, did insti∣tute for his Church the blessed Sacrament of his body and blood, in which I see him againe

crucified, and freshly bleeding before mine eyes in the out∣ward elements of bread and wine, which he hath appointed to bee often celebrated in re∣membrance of him.

Blessed bee thy holy name therefore; my daily sinnes have made mee unworthy of daily bread, much more of this bread of life; yet seeing thou callest and invitest mee at this time to the Supper of the Lambe to eate of that Manna that came down from heaven, to partake of those divine mysteries. O let not mee suffer my selfe to bee needlesly detained from so blessed a feast, by any pretended occasions whatsoever (as those did that made excuses and set light by their invitation to the marriage of the Kings sonne, Math. 22. 5.) left thou sweare in thy wrath that I shall never taste of thy Supper, nor enter into that rest, which my Saviour is

gone to prepare for thy belo∣ved ones,

For if those in the law that did neglect to eate the Passeo∣ver, and to worship at Hierusa∣lem at the times appoynted, were to bee cut off from the number of thy people: of how much sorer punishment shall I bee worthy, if I refuse to par∣take in thy blessed Sacrament, and neglect so great salvation which thou tenderest unto mee hereby? O therefore make me to come as a guest invited, com∣ming prepared unto thy table, having on my wedding gar∣ment, because thou thy selfe, the great master of this feast, art present in the assembly, eying and observing thy guests. Let mee therefore first wash my hands in innocencie, my heart from wickednesse, and so com∣passe thine Altar O Lord: that seeing Christ my Passeover is sacrificed for mee, I may purge

out the old leaven, and become a new lumpe, keeping this feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, feeding on him with the sowre herbes of godly sorrow, and unfained re∣pentance for all my former sins: O make the very remembrance of them to be grievous, and the burthen of them intollerable unto mee. O wash mee Lord, wash mee, not onely the feete, but even the hands also, and the head; for I am uncleane, I am uncleane, a very Leper, a sinke of sinne, whom thou mighest shut out of the congregation of thy people for ever; but yet O Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make mee cleane; Thy blood (O sweet Iesus) is able to cleanse more throughly than the wa∣ters of Iordan did Naomans leprosie, and to wash away all my pollutions, and make my E∣thiopian skin, my leopards spots to be white as snow in Salmon.

Now the good Lord pardon me, and every one, that prepa∣reth himselfe to seeke thee in the truth of his heart, though wee bee not cleansed and prepa∣red according to that exact pu∣rification of thy Sanctuary. O Lord make me to search and try my wayes, to looke backe upon all the ungodly actions and aber∣rations of my fore-past life, to view my sinne-deformed soule in the cleare glasse of thy unde∣filed ••aw, that so I may judge and abhorre my selfe in dust and ashes, and bee still more vile in mine owne esteeme: make me to examine my selfe, and so eate of that bread and drinke of that cup knowing that if I eate and drinke thereof unworthily, I eate and drinke damnation to my selfe, because I discerne not the Lords body. Teach mee to try my selfe whether I be in the faith or no, for without faith it is impossible to please thee in

any service. Tis my faith in the death of my Saviour that is the hand and mouth by which I must apply him, and make him mine in this Sacrament. Assure me by these broad seales an∣nexed to the covenant of grace, and letters patents of thy holy word, that thou wilt make good what thou hast promised, that as thou hast called, Ho, every one that thirsteth come to the wa∣ters;—so thou wilt refresh this my gasping and thirsting soule; as thou callest all that be weary and heavie laden to come unto thee; so thou wilt in no wise send mee empty away that cast my selfe into the bleeding armes of my dying Saviour.

Perswade my unbeleeving and doubting heart, that as thy Minister taketh, and blesseth, and breaketh, and poureth out, and giveth, and saith, Take and eate, the bread, take and drinke the wine of the Sacrament; so

thou from everlasting hast sepa∣rated, consecrated, and ordained Iesus Christ to be a Sacrifice for my sinnes, hast poured out his blood to be a satisfaction to thy offended justice for my sinfull soule, and that hereby I shall continue in communion with him, my head, and his mysticall body my fellow members. Thy flesh, O sweet Saviour, is meate indeed, and thy blood is drinke indeed. O let me I beseeth thee find it so in my fainting soule that I may bee ravished with thy love, that I may taste and see how gracious the Lord is, and find thy free promises, and pledges of thy grace to bee better than wine, sweeter also than the honey and the honey combe. Let thy holy spirit set to his privie seale on my heart inwardly, by the secret and sweet refreshment of his bles∣sed testimonie, that I am my well beloveds, and my well be∣loved

is mine—establishing my heart in thy love, and knitting my soule unto thee for ever. O draw me, and I shall run after thee, shew me the light of thy countenance and I shall bee sa∣ved.

And Lord make mee to love my brethren, as thou hast loved me, yea to love my very ene∣mies for thy names sake, recon∣ciling my selfe to those whom I have offended, following peace with all men, and forgi∣ving* 1.618 them their hundred pence,* 1.619 as thou hast freely forgiven me my ten thousand talents—Vouchsafe me this, aud all other graces which may fit mee for thy service in thy kingdome of grace, and prepare mee for the enjoyment of everlasting glo∣ry, through my Lord and Savi∣our Iesus Christ.

Amen.

After the receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.

O Lord, what shall I render unto thee, for all the bene∣fits which thou hast bestowed upon mee, and daily ladest mee withall, a most unworthy sin∣ner? how shall I bee sufficient¦ly thankefull unto thee for them, when they bee more than I can reckon up unto thee, more then my heart is able to conceive or comprehend? Should I offer up unto thee, thousands of rams, or ten thousand rivers of oyle, they all would come farre short of thy most free, eternall, unde∣served, infinite love. Lebanon it selfe is not sufficient for wood, nor the beasts upon a thousand hils for a burnt offering. What shall I then doe unto thee, O thou Preserver of men, or what recompence shall I make thee?

I will even take the cup of sal∣vation, and give thankes to thy name, O Lord. I will offer up my soule and body for a holy, living and acceptable sacrifice unto thee; this will please thee better than▪ bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes.—

Thou O Lord in the begin∣ning, didst make mee to bee, when I was not before; and when I had lost my selfe, and forfeited my being, and life, and happinesse, didst in Christ, restore mee to a more blessed estate, than at my Primitive in∣tegrity. Thou thy selfe art be∣come my Father, thy sonne my Saviour, thy holy Spirit my Sanctifier, thy word my Instru∣ctor, thy Sacraments the food to refresh, satisfie, and feed my poore hungry soule to everla∣sting life.

This day thou hast called me to thy holy Mountaine, and made me joyfull in thy house of

prayer, this day hast thou invited me to sit downe at thy table, and made unto mee a feast of fat things full of marrow, a feast of wines on the lees well refi∣ned; thou hast abundantly satis∣fied me with the f••••nesse of thy house, and hast made mee to drinke of the river of thy plea∣sures. Blessed bee thy glorious name for ever and ever, which is above all thankesgiving and prayse of mine! O that I could bee indeed thankefull unto thee as thou art gracious unto me! If I should open my mouth ne∣ver so wide thou wouldest fill it, thy favours to my poore soule are more than all tongues of men and Angels can worthi∣ly magnifie. And now O Lord accept, I beseech thee, the free will-offering of thy servant, that desires to feare thy name, and to make a covenant with thee never to bee broken, that my soule shall cleave close unto

thee, and avouch thee this day to bee my God and Saviour for ever more. Here I doe resigne myselfe, soule and body, all that is in me, and all that belongs un∣to me, to bee wholly thine, and that I will never wickedly de∣part from thee, my God, as I have done. O that my wayes were so directed, that I might keepe thy commandements al∣way!

Never let mee with the dis∣gorged dog, returne any more to my former vomit; nor with the washed sow to wallow in the mire: but as I have now washed my feete, so suffer mee no more againe to defile them: as I have put off the filthy rags of my old conversation, so I may never againe put them on, but become a new creature. That seeing the expiation of my sins cost my Saviour so deare, as the shedding of his precious blood, and that thy wrath lay so heavie

upon him who was our suretie onely, being innocent in him∣selfe; I may hence conceive how heinous a thing sinne is, how abhorred by thee, and so hate it in my selfe with a per∣fect hatred, and resist it even to blood; and not crucifie againe hereby, the Lord of life and glory.

O make mee thankefully to remember that bitter passion of his, and thy love (O Father) un∣to mee, in that thou hast accep∣ted mee to life in him, and hast brought salvation this day home to my house, to my heart. Lord enter in, abide with, and dwell in my soule for ever. Take not thy holy spirit from mee, make mee one with Christ my head, flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone; make mee one with the mysticall body of thine E∣lect, that I may have my part in the prayers of the Church, in the Communion of Saints, here

on earth, in the kingdome of grace, and may enjoy thee, and them, face to face, and sit downe and eat and drinke with thee, in thy kingdome of glory.

Amen.

For the Sacrament of Baptisme.

O Lord our God, the great, the mighty, and the terri∣ble God, who keepest covenant and mercy with all them that feare thy name, and trust upon thee, even to a thousand genera∣tions, thou hast promised to bee our God, and the God of our seed, to enter into covenant with us, that wee should bee thine; O Lord I come to thy throne of grace at this time, to lay claime to my interest in that new covenant, sealed unto thy Church in the blood of Iesus, that thou wouldst performe the same unto mee, and mine al∣so: hast not thou said, thou wilt

circumcise mine heart and the heart of my seed, to love the* 1.620 Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soule?—that thou wilt put thy Law in our inward parts, and write it in our hearts, and that thou wilt bee our God, and wee shall bee thy* 1.621 people, that thou wilt forgive our injquity, and wilt remem∣ber our sinne no more? O Lord hast thou said it, and wilt not thou also doe it? By faith I plead my interest thereunto, not for my selfe alone, but for mine al∣so, with whom I beseech thee to make an everlasting covenant of life and peace, that being bap∣tized into Iesus Christ, they may bee sanctified and cleansed with the washing of water by the word. O Lord wee are all borne the children of wrath, and there is no way for us to escape the damnation of hell, except wee bee borne againe of water and of the Spirit. O

Lord doe thou sprinkle cleane water upon us, wash away the filth of Zion, and purge the blood of Ierusalem from the midst thereof: Baptize us with the Holy Ghost, that ha∣ving our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience, and our bo∣dies washed with pure water, wee may bee new creatures, fit to bee an habitation of God through the spirit.

O blessed be thy goodnesse for ever, which hast given us this seale of thy rich promise; this is that Arke in and through which thou savest thine Elect: thou dalliest not with us herein, it is no idle ceremonie; thou art present in thy own ordinance to fulfill that which thou hast pro∣mised. O wash our soules with the baptisme of Repentance, as thou doest our bodies with the outward element of water. Let the vertue of Christs death kill sinne in us, for how shall wee

that are buried with Christ by baptisme, and thereby dead to sinne, live yet therein? Doe not wee herein vow to forsake the Devill, the Pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh, and shal we break our vow, & trans∣gresse the covenant? O let this be far from us, teach us therefore to deny ungodliness and world∣ly lusts, deliver us from every evill worke that we may serve the living God; Sprinkle cleane water upon us, that we may bee cleane from our naturall filthi∣nesse, and from all our unclean∣nesses. Wash us, O wash us throughly from our iniquities, and cleanse us from our sinnes. Make our hearts to be stedfast in thy love, and never to forget this covenant of our God: thy mercie doe thou keepe for us, and ours for evermore, and let thy covenant stand fast with us, and bee established for ever as

the Moone, and as a faithfull witnesse in heaven. And as thou hast thus brought us into the bond of the covenant, so let us never depart from thee. Bee thou unto us a God, and let us be thy people for evermore, even till thou bringest us unto Mount Sion, and to the Citie of the living God, the heavenly Ie∣rusalem, and to an inumerable company of Angels, to the ge∣nerall assembly and Church of the first borne which are writ∣ten in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect: and to Iesus the Mediatour of the new covenant, and to the bloud of sprinkling, that speaketh better than that of Abel. Make me to be thine my self, be thou my Father and make me to be thy Sonne: for if the first fruit be holy, the lumpe also shall be holy; and if the roote be holy, so also shall the branches bee. This mercie

I beg of thee in his name, me∣rits, and mediation, out of whose pierced side, issued forth water and bloud, for the sancti∣fying, and justifying, of thine Elect. To whom, with thee, and the Holy Spirit, be all glory, ser∣vice, thanksgiving, and domi∣nion, through all the Churches of the Saints, for ever,

Amen.

For Regeneration, Sanctifica∣tion, and grace to serve God.

O Lord, thou God of truth, who hast sworne in thy faithfulnesse, that as thou livest thou hast no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that hee should turne from his way and live: and therefore com∣mandest thy people, saying, Turne ye, turne ye from your e∣vill* 1.622 wayes, for why will ye dye, O house of Israel? and hast enjoy∣ned, that I should wash me, and

make me cleane, & put away the evill of my doings from before thine eyes: promising moreover, that though my sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as Snow, though they bee red like crim∣son, they shall be as wooll: I that am a wicked and miserable caitiffe, a sinner before the Lord exceedingly, even as the men of Sodome, that have done abominable workes, and denied the God that is above, wilfully sinning after I had received the knowledge of the truth, and treading under foote the Sonne of God, counting the bloud of* 1.623 the covenant, wherewith I was sanctified an unholy thing, and having done de••pi••e to the spi∣rit of grace; O Lord, even out of the deepes doe I call unto thee for helpe, yea out of the belly of hell doe I earnestly cry for thy mercie: O cast not out my prayer. Though mine ini∣quities be more than the haires

of my head & my transgressions heavier than the sand, yet is there forgivenesse with thee: and al∣though my sinnes have reached up to heaven, yet thy mercie is above the heavens: mine are, at the most, but the sinnes of a man: but thine, at the least, are the mercies of an infinite God, yea thou hast the relenting bowells of a most tender Fa∣ther.

O spread the robe of thy Sonnes righteousnesse over me, that so thou mayest not behold my nakednesse, cloath me with▪ the garments of his salvation, say unto my soule, Live: cause breath to enter into my dry* 1.624 bones, lay sinewes upon them, and bring flesh upon them, and cover them with skinne, that I may know that thou art the Lord. And albeit I be dead in trespasses and sinnes, yet open my grave and cause me to come out of it: yea though with La∣zarus

I stinke already, yet roll away the stone, and speake thou by thy all-powerfull word, and I shall come forth and live. O purge my conscience from dead workes, redeeme mee from death, ransome me from power of the grave: and though I be lesse than the least of all Saints, lesse than the least of all thy mercies, yet make me a priso∣ner of hope, and by the bloud of thy covenant send forth my soule, out of the pit wherein is no water. Wash my robes and make them white in the bloud of the Lambe: Create in me a cleane heart O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Make thy word to be unto me, like a refiners fire, and like fullers sope, cleansing me from all fil∣thinesse of flesh and spirit, that so I may be meete to be a parta∣ker of the inheritance of the Saints in light, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing,

but holy and without blemish, the sonne of thy love, through Christ.

Thou hast promised that if I* 1.625 returne unto thee, thou wilt re∣ceive me, and that if I seek thee early, I shall finde thee, that thou wilt have mercie upon me, and wilt abundantly pardon all my sinnes, heale my backe∣slidings, and love me freely. O Lord, it is not sinne in the highest degree, when it is out of mea∣sure sinfull, and is come to the full, that can hinder the Sunne of righteousnesse from arising, with healing in his wings, on any humbled soule: no, for where Sinne abounded, Grace doth much more superabound: and where shall, or can the skill of thee, our heavenly Physician, be so much seene, so much ado∣red, and magnified, as in healing a poore soule, weltring and wal∣lowing in its bloud, and despe∣rately wounded unto everlasting

death? O speake thou the word and my soule shall live. Subdue mine iniquities, and cast all my sinnes into the depths of the Sea.

O redeeme me from my for∣mer vaine conversation, that I may renounce the hidden things of dishonesty: turne thou mee and I shall be turned, betroth my soule unto thee in faithful∣nesse, make with me a covenant of peace. And because no man can come to thee, except the fa∣ther which sent thee draw him; O draw me; and I will run af∣ter thee; open my blinde eyes, say Epphata to my deafe eares, touch my lips with a coale from thy Altar, that my iniquity may bee taken away, and my sinne purged, then shall my lame feet leape as an Hart, and my dumbe tongue shall sing forth thy praise.

A new heart doe thou also* 1.626 give me, and a new spirit doe

thou put within me, and take away the stony heart out of the* 1.627 midst of me, and bestow upon me an heart of flesh: and put thy spirit within mee (as thou hast promised) and cause me to walke in thy statutes, and to keepe thy judgements and doe them. And for the time to come, Lord make me more zea∣lous of thy glory, more profita∣ble in wayes of my calling, more carefull to doe and receive all possible good that I can. Alas I have beene a barren tree, thou hast planted mee neere the ri∣vers of water, hast digged a∣bout me, and taken much paines with me, but I am still unfruit∣full, thy glory is not so deare un∣to me as it ought to be; nor is my owne salvation, or the edi∣fication of others, so sincerely indevoured by me, as was meet.

O turne me into another man, circumcise the foreskinne of my heart, let the time past of my

life suffice to have served, and live in sinne. Give mee grace now in this my day, to know the things that belong to my peace, to make use of this time of my visitation, to lay hold on eternall life, to take the king∣dome of heaven by violence: now thou standest at the doore and knockest, O let me open un∣to thee, that thou mayest enter in, and sup with me. Give mee grace to worke out my salvati∣on with feare and trembling, to bee often in calling upon thee in prayer, and lifting mine eyes up to the hills from whence both pardon of sinne, and power over sinne must bee expected. Make mee often search and trye my wayes, and examine my selfe, whether I be in the faith or no. Now I beseech thee to heare me, and helpe me; doe away the iniquity of thy servant, cover my transgressions, and let my sinnes bee blotted out from be∣fore

thee, for the Lord Iesus Christs sake.

Amen. Amen.

Some particular formes of PRAYER.

For the English Colonies and Plantations in New-Eng∣land, Virginia, &c.

O Most high God, Possessor* 1.628 of heaven and earth, the heaven, and the heaven of hea∣vens, is the habitation of thy* 1.629 holinesse and of thy glory; by thee the Mountaines were* 1.630 brought forth, and thou hast formed the earth, and the would, and hast given it to the children of men for a possession; And by thy word of blessing* 1.631 hast commanded man, to en∣crease and multiply, and reple∣nish the face of the earth: We in this nation have found thy gracious Providence over us, in

thy continuall protection and preservation; for thou hast* 1.632 strengthned the bars of our gates, and blessed our children within us, thou hast set peace in our borders, and hast abun∣dantly* 1.633 given us blessings of the* 1.634 brest, and of the wombe: inso∣much that wee are exceedingly* 1.635 multiplyed, so that the place where wee dwell is too narrow for us, for our seed is become as* 1.636 the sand, and the offspring of our bowels, as the gravell there∣of: And now O Lord, thou of* 1.637 thy good providence, hast espi∣ed out for us, an exceeding good land, watred with the dew of* 1.638 heaven from above, blessed with the farnesse of the earth* 1.639 from beneath, and hast made roome for us to bee planted therein, that wee who are* 1.640 growne into so great a nation, and are thronged at home, may swarme out, and bee gathered thither, for the glory of thy

great name, the honour of this Kingdome, and the further en∣largement of our Kings domi∣nions. O let their designe be* 1.641 holinesse to the Lord, honour and wealth to our nation, and enlargement also to the king∣dome of thy Christ, who are transplanted into those remoter parts of the world. Build a* 1.642 place of rest for thy tabernacle among them, that the heathen that have not knowne thee, and the families that have not called* 1.643 on thy name, may by this meanes bee delivered from the power of darkenesse, and tran∣slated* 1.644 into the kingdome of thy deare sonne. Bee thou a wall of* 1.645 fire round about our people, and a little Sanctuary unto them: Let* 1.646 no sonne of wickednesse ap∣proach* 1.647 neere, to hurt them, build them up into a nation; there plant them, and make* 1.648 them to dwell in safety: Let no seditious Sheba be author of

faction or schisme among them

And as thou causest the Sun to arise upon all the earth, so that nothing is hid from the heate thereof, so le•• there bee no speech, nor language, where the voyce of thy Gospell is not heard. Let thy way be knowne upon earth, and thy saving health among all nations: cause the Sunne of righteousnesse to arise with healing in his wings, upon all those that sit in darkenesse, and the shadow of death, to guide their feete into the way of peace: Give thy sonne Iesus the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his posses∣sion. Make all the Kings of the earth to fall downe before him, and all nations to doe him reve∣rence. That his dominion may bee from Sea even to Sea, and from the rivers even to the ends of the earth. That Tarshish, Pul, and Lud that draw the

bow, Tuball, and Iavan, and the Iles afarre off, that have not heard thy ••ame, neither have seene thy glory, may be brought into the houshold of faith, and be joyned to the people of the God of Abraham, and so bee made one folde under that great shepheard and Bishop of their soules.

Those sinners of the Gen∣tiles, O Lord draw them out of the darkenesse of Paganisme, Idolatrie, ignorance, and su∣perstition; and though they now bee wallowing in their blood, yet let it bee the time of love with thee, and say unto them live: spread thy skirt, over them. Let the light of the glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ shine unto them, that they may turne from the service of dumb Idols, yea, of very Devils, to thee the living God. Teach them to know thee the onely true God, and whom thou hast

sent Iesus Christ; open the doore of faith unto them that they may beleeve in the name of thy Sonne; grant them repentance unto life, that they may be saved; light up among them, some bur∣ning and shining lamps, to beare thy name among them, that the grace of God which bringeth salvation, may appeare unto all men: that so they which are without Christ, being aliens from the Common wealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of Promise, that have no hope, and are without God in the world, may heare the voyce of the Sonne of God, and live.

To this end, plant thy grace, and feare, in their hearts, who are of that Colonie and Planta∣tion: make them wise to win those poore soules, by their un∣blameable conversation, being zealous for thee, gentle towards them, apt to teach them, patient▪

in meeknesse instructing them, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the ac∣knowledging of the truth, and that they may recover them∣selves out of the snare of the Devill, who are taken captive by him at his will.

O Lord this is a worthy worke, and who is sufficient for these things! therefore doe thou make bare thine owne al∣mighty arme, bring in the ful∣nesse of the Gentiles, give them where Satans throne is, an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and eares to heare the word of thy grace; that the ends of the earth may see the salvation of God, and they that dwell in the uttermost parts thereof may be converted unto thee: then shall the earth bee filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea, and they shall feare the name of the Lord from the West, and his

glory from the rising of the Sunne.

Amen.

A Prayer to bee prepared against Death, &c.

O Thou eternall, immortall, invisible, and onely wise God, who stretchedst forth the heavens, and laidst the founda∣tions of the earth, and formedst the spirit of man within him; thou art the former of al things, thy spirit did at the first make mee, and the breath of the Al∣mighty hath given mee life: thou hast clothed mee with skin and flesh, and fenced mee with bones and s••••ewes, my substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curi∣ously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth: thine eyes did see mee when I was yet un∣perfect, and in thy booke all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned,

when as yet there was none of them before. And thou Lord tookest me out of the wombe, thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mothers breasts, thou hast fed me, and led me all my life long unto this day: when I have passed through the waters, thou hast beene with me, and through the rivers, they have not overflowed me; thou hast carryed mee on Eagles wings, and in the time of trou∣ble hast preserved me safely un∣der thy feathers, and there hath not one haire of mine head fal∣len to the ground, without thy Providence?

But what man is hee that li∣veth, and shall not see death? our dayes on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abi∣ding; we spend our yeares as a tale that is told: our life is even as a Vapour that appeares for a little time, th••n vanisheth away: wee build our house as a moth,

and as a booth that the Keeper maketh. We have here no con∣tinuing Citie, all flesh is grasse, and all the goodlinesse thereof as the flower of grasse. Man that is borne of a woman, is of few dayes, and full of trouble, he commeth forth like a flower and is cut downe; hee fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

O Lord my times are in thy hand, all my dayes are determi∣ned, the number of my months are with thee, thou hast appoin∣ted my bounds which I cannot passe, I must one day returne to the ground, for dust I am, and to dust I must returne: thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appoynted for all living, where I shall make my bed in darkenesse, and must say to cor∣ruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, thou art my mo∣ther and my sisters. O that I were wise and did understand

this! that I could consider my latter end! that whether I live, I might live unto the Lord, or whether I dye, I might dye un∣to the Lord; that both living and dying I might bee the Lords! then should I use the world, as if I used it not, then would I not bee conformed to the men of this world, who have their portion in this life, whose God is their belly, who make pleasures, and honour, and riches their God, and mind only earthly things. But by that ir∣reversible sentence of thine, In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death, it is ap∣poynted unto all men once to dye our fathers where are they? and the Prophets, doe they live for ever? they all are gone downe into the chambers of death, there they rest together in their beds, till the heavens be no more, they shall not wake nor bee raysed out of their

sleepe: and I my selfe also who am a sonne of Adam, and formed out of the same clay, I must (when my dayes be fulfil∣led) sleepe with my fathers, and goe the way whence I shall not returne.

Truly the light is sweete, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sunne, and yet thy favour, presence, and light of thy countenance is better than life: whilest I am in the flesh, I am absent from thee, and thou hast taught mee, that the day of death is better than the day when I was borne: Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and their workes follow them. And that I may dye in thee, O make me to live to thee, O teach mee so to number my dayes, that I may apply my heart unto wise∣dome; that all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrills, I may

glorifie thee on earth, and finish that worke thou givest me to doe; because there is no worke, nor device, nor knowledge in the grave whither I am going. O make mee to passe the* 1.649 time of my Sojourning heere in thy feare, because the night commeth, in which I cannot worke: So long as this my day lasteth, let me live as a child of the light, let my behaviour be, as becommeth holinesse, adorning the doctrine of God my Savi∣our in all things, that I may praise thee my God whilest I have my being, and my conver∣sation may be in heaven, even whilest I Sojourne heere on earth: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I may live by the faith of the Sonne of God, that the world may be crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For to this end, our Saviour Iesus once tasted death for every man, and humbled

himselfe, and became obedient, even to the death of the crosse, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him, which dyed for them, and rose againe. When therefore my race is finished, and I have served out my time.

O let mee dye the death of the righteous, and let my last end, be like his! Let my soule be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord my God, shew me the path of life, In thy presence is fulnesse of joy, at thy right hand there are plea∣sures for evermore.

Pardon all my Sinnes, heale my backe-slidings love me free∣ly, subdue mine iniquities, and cast all my Sinnes into the depths of the Sea. Give me peace of conscience, and joy in thee, that when dust shall re∣turne againe to the earth as it was, my spirit may returne to God who gave it.

Amen.

A Prayer for a Scholler.

O Lord, thou art the Father of lights, every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and commeth downe from thee; thou hast commanded that if any lacke wisedome, he should aske it of thee; thou it is that givest to the simple sharpnesse of wit, and to the child knowledge and understanding. O give unto me thy servant, a wise and under∣standing heart, and make lear∣ning delightfull unto my soule, that I giving attendance unto reading, may meditate upon the things that shall be taught me, and give my selfe wholly thereunto, that so my profiting may appeare unto all. O make mee also to learne Christ, in whom are hid al the treasures of wisedome and knowledge; that

I may grow up before thee as a plant of righteousnesse.

And because Paul may plant, and Appollos water, but it is thou alone that canst give the increase, command thy blessing from heaven that it may rest upon my studies. It will be in vaine for me to rise early, and to sit up late, unlesse it please thee to prosper mine endea∣vours. O doe thou bestowe on mee knowledge and skill, in all learning and wisedome, as thou didst on Daniel and his three companions. And as Mo∣ses was learned in all the wise∣dome of the Aegyptians, so al∣so incline mine eare to wise∣dome, and apply mine heart un∣to understanding, that I may say unto wisedome, thou art my Sister, and call understanding my Kinswoman: make me to seeke her, as silver, and to search for her as hidden treasures, to be instant in season, and out of sea∣son,

in labours more abundant, in watchings often, applying my heart to know, to search, and seeke out wisedome and the reason of things. O make me in the morning to sow my seed, and in the evening not to with∣hold mine hand, that I may take hold of instruction and not let her goe, but keepe her, for shee is my life. Make me swift to heare, carefull to redeeme the time, wisely husbanding those opportunities I have to learne, that with all my getting I may get understanding, and may not onely learne the wisedome of heathen, and prophane Authors, but that wisedome also which is from above, and heavenly, which may give me an inheri∣tance among all them that are sanctified.

Lord set thy stampe on this my pliable and waxie youth, that it may bee holinesse unto thee, season my heart with thy

feare betimes, let me set thee al∣wayes before mine eyes, that as Samuel, Iosiah, and Solomon, I may learne to know thee the Lord God of my Fathers, and serve thee with a willing mind, make me to give to thee the first fruits of my yeares, and to remember thee my creatour in the dayes of my youth, whilest the evill dayes come not, thus laying up a good foundation for the time to come.

Thou hast promised that if I seeke thee, thou wilt be found of me, but if I forsake thee, thou wilt cast me off for ever; make me therefore diligent to know the Scriptures of a child, which are able to make me wise unto salvation; let thy glory be the end, thy word the rule, thy spirit the guide, thy will the law, thy promises the comforts of my life, that thus acquainting my selfe with thee betimes, and ab∣horring all prophane and Athe∣isticall

conceits of thee, thy wayes, & worship, I may by thy grace suppresse all filthy and un∣holy thoughts, fancies and de∣sires, & so fly the lusts of youth.

Thou hast made me to bee borne into thy Church, and hast even from my infancie received me into thy covenant, O that there were such an heart in me, that I might serve thee al∣wayes! Give me patient, obe∣dient, humble, dutifull, and dis∣creet carriage, to all my Supiri∣ours: to him especially at whose feet, as Saint Paul at Gamaliels, I now sit: make me painfull, and industrious, carefull to please him, reveren∣cing his authority. Make mee affable, loving, courteous, harm∣lesse, and of winning behaviour towards my Equalls and Inferi∣ours, being gentle, and easie to be intreated by them all. Par∣don and heale the frailties, fol∣lies and infirmities of my youth,

give me understanding to con∣ceive, largenesse of heart, and capacity to apprehend; con∣firme my memorie to retaine, my invention to finde out, and attaine to humane literature. Prosper all my labours, and make me wise, to understand mine owne wayes, to save mine owne soule, that I may bee a comfort to my Parents, and ho∣nour to thy Gospell, an exam∣ple of Learning, Pietie, and ver∣tue to all my Equalls: that so I may heereafter become a pro∣fitable instrument of thy glory either in the church or common wealth, as thou shalt see it best in thine heavenly wisedome, and most agreeable to mine owne disposition, that thus glo∣rifying thee in my life, I may be blessed of thee in my death, and glorified for ever with thee in the world to come,

Amen.

A Prayer for a Trades-man, Merchant, &c.

O Lord, the righteous God, that triest the reines and the heart, thou lovest truth in the inward parts, and hast com∣manded all those that call upon thy name to depart from iniqui∣ty, and to put away lying, spea∣king the truth from his heart, every man unto his neighbour, not using false weights, deceit∣full ballances, or unjust mea∣sures: and wouldest that no man should goe beyond, and de∣fraud his brother in any matter, because that the Lord is the a∣venger of all such.

O Lord, the heart of man is deceitfull above all things, and desperately wicked, and in no∣thing more discovers it selfe, than in the gaine of unrighte∣ousnesse. The love of money is the roote of all evill, which

while some have coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrowes. Thus in buying, and selling, and trading with each other, so they may lade themselves with thicke clay, they care not to load their consciences with heavie Sinne. Thus it often is, as with the buy∣er, so with the seller: 'Tis naught, 'tis naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way he boasteth: and how ma∣ny severall tricks of deceit, and sleights, there are practised by the cunning craftinesse of men that lye in waite to deceive, which the false and dissembling heart of man is guilty of, thou onely knowest, who searchest the heart, and tryest the reines, and wilt one day bring to light the hidden things of dishonesty and darknesse: so that as a naile sticketh fast betweene the joy∣ning* 1.650 of stones, so doth Sinne

sticke close betweene buying and selling.

O Lord what shall it profit me to win the whole world and to lose mine owne soule? could I rejoyce because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much? If I should get my house full of silver, and gold, heaping up silver as dust, and fine gold as the mire in the streets, or prepare rayment as the clay, being filled with all precious and pleasant riches; yet thou that hatest false ballances, and the bag of deceitfull weights, canst blow upon all my substance, that it shall melt away, by thy blast it would perish; a fire not blowne should con∣sume it suddenly: thou couldst make my riches to take them wings and fly away as an Eagle towards heaven, to vanish as a dreame, and not bee found, or chased away as a vision of the night. And thou hast in thy

assured mee, that hee that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his dayes, and at his end shall bee a foole: and howsoever bread of deceit may bee sweet to a man, yet afterwards his mouth shall bee filled with gra∣vell.

O let mee never be given o∣ver to that reprobate mind, sup∣posing that gaine i•• godlinesse; Let mee not grind the face of my brother, or pant after the dust of the earth, on the head of the poore, making the Ephah small, and the shekell great, and falsifying the ballances by de∣ceit. Never let me bee so gree∣dy of gaine, that in the seeking thereof I should enlarge my de∣sire as hell, or as death, that can∣not be satisfied. O make me to hate and take heed of guile: Let not my soule bee poysoned with the mammon of unrighte∣ousnesse, that I should by lying

and fraud, obtrude bad wares on the men I trade withall, for hereby I should take the name of my God in vaine, and cause thy Gospell to bee evill spoken of▪ Wicked ballances and the bag of deceitfull weights are an abomination unto thee, and much better will a dry morsell be, or a dinner of greene herbes gotten by honest dealing, then a stalled Oxe by coozening and deceit: Godlinesse with con∣tentment is great gaine, but they that will bee rich fall into temptation, and a snare, and in∣to many foolish and hurtfull lusts, which drowne men in destruction, and perdition.

O Lord, faith and a good conscience are speciall jewels, a precious treasure: Let not mee make shipwracke of them for every trifle; how ever pro∣phane and godlesse men may dis∣esteeme them, they are not to bee valued with the gold of

Ophir, with the precious Onyx or the Saphire. Let mee ever remember that golden rule, to doe unto other men as I would they should doe unto me. And if by my industry, thou doest please to blesse my estate, that my riches doe encrease, O let me not set my heart upon them, making gold my hope, or say∣ing to fine gold, thou art my con∣fidence; or if I shall wax poore, and fall into decay through crosses, and losses by thy hand of providence, and not by mine owne negligence, sloth, or ill husbandry, yet make mee to learne in whatsoever state I am, therewith to bee content, and may know both how to be a∣based, and how to abound, to be full, and to bee hungry, which grace I beseech thee to grant me for Christ Iesus sake.

Amen.

A Servants Prayer.

MOst holy and great God, thou hast commanded servants to be obedient to them which are their masters accor∣ding to the flesh, with feare and trembling, in singlenesse of heart, as unto Christ: not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. Therefore as thy good hand of providence hath placed mee in this condition, so I beseech thee, give me thy grace, that with good will I may doe ser∣vice, as to the Lord and not unto men, knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall hee receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. O teach me therefore, first to serve, and to feare thee; for thy service is perfect freedome; thus being the Lords free man,

I shall no more be a Servant but a Sonne, and heire of God through Christ. To this end make thy face to shine upon thy servant, be thou with me in all that I doe, and let the beauty of the Lord my God be upon mee and establish thou the worke of my hands upon me, that thy blessing may be upon all that my master hath in the house, and in the field: make thou a hedge about him, and about all that he hath on every side, and blesse thou the worke of his hands, that his substance may be encreased in the Land. And as thou blessedst Laban for Iacobs sake, Potiphar for Iosephs sake, Obed Edom for the Arkes sake, Ahab for Obadiahs sake, so also I beseech thee to blesse me and all the things that are under my hand: cause thy blessing to rest in my masters house, pre∣vent him daily with blessings of goodnesse, that he may learne

by experience, that thou Lord, hast blessed him since my com∣ming. O make mee a faithfull and a wise servant as Eliezer unto Abraham, that if my ma∣ster commit his goods into my hand, and make me ruler over his houshold, to appoint them their worke, to give them their meate in due season, I may with all my power serve him there∣in, not eating the bread of idle∣nesse, nor brawling nor quarrel∣ling with my fellow servants, but make me to be peaceable, gentle, easie to bee intreated. Let me not be sloathfull in bu∣sinesse, or indammage my ma∣ster by my neglect, but desirous to promote his good, and to please him in all things; not an∣swering againe, not purloyning, but shewing all good fidelity, that I may adorne the doctrine of God my Saviour in all things.

And though my master should become a hard man, and

should make my life bitter with sore bondage, making me serve with rigor, yea though he make me a hewer of wood, or drawer of water, or imploy me even to the basest offices, yet let not my proud heart swell and repine hereat. Grant that I may sub∣mit my selfe under his hand, not onely when hee is good, and gentle, but also when he is froward, even when I am bu••∣feted for my faults; remem∣bring my blessed Saviour, that tooke on him the forme of a servant, who though he was our Lord and Master, yet wil∣lingly gave himselfe an exam∣ple and patterne of all patience, and humility.

And although with One si∣mus, I have beene sometimes unfaithfull and unprofitable heretofore, yet make me profi∣table to my master for the time to come: that he may receive me, not now as a servant, but a∣bove

a servant: never suffer me like Iudas in a religious fa∣mily, to be ungodly, to betray my master, or bewray his se∣crets, nor a lying, covetous, and dissembling servant as Gehezi, nor as Ziba, slandering my ma∣ster: but counting him worthy of all honour, that he being a beleever, I may not despise him because he is a brother, but ra∣ther doe him service because he is faithfull and beloved, perta∣ker of the benefit of thy Sons redemption. Let my behavi∣our be as becommeth holinesse, grant that with patience I may beare his threatnings, chidings, revilings, because thou hast taught mee, that a soft tongue breaketh the bones. Make mee wisely to forbeare, and in my patience to possesse my soule, referring all my wrongs, and in∣juries to thee, though he should not doe unto mee that which is just and equall; knowing that

even hee also hath a Master in heaven, neither is there respect of persons with thee.

O Lord I beseech thee, let now thy eare bee attentive to the prayer of mee thy servant, who desires to feare thy name, and prosper I pray thee thy ser∣vant this day, and grant me grace instantly to serve thee, that so thou who hast the hearts of all men in thy hands, as the rivers of water, maist give me favour in the sight of my master, that my worke and labour may bee accepted. O Lord I beseech thee free me from sinne, that I may become a servant of righte∣ousnesse •• alasse I have made thee too long, to serve with my sinnes, I have wearied thee with mine iniquities: pardon I pray thee all my transgressions, and enter not into judgement with thy servant, for in thy sight no flesh living shall bee justified: let mee not hence∣forth

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serve sinne any longer, but grant that I may serve thee in holinesse, and righteousnesse all the dayes of my life. Amen. Lord Iesus

Amen.

A thankesgiving to our Sa∣viour Iesus Christ.

MOst loving Lord, and bles∣sed Saviour, the mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of peace and life, the rocke of my salvation, the fountaine ope∣ned to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem for sinne and for uncleannesse, the Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world, who now art set downe at the right hand of the Majestie on high, and yet hast respect unto thy poore members here on earth. O Lord heare, O Lord forgive, O Lord accept the groanings of my humbled soule,* 1.651 which followeth ••a••d after thee, which thirsteth & longeth

for thee in a dry, and barren land where no water is.

O my sweet Saviour, very lo∣ving hast thou beene to me, thy love to me was wonderfull, pas∣sing the love of women: at the which so infinit, so unconceiva∣ble, unchangable, everlasting and undeserved love of thine to me a miserable sinner, the very An∣gels stand amazed, desiring to prie into the mysterie of thy in∣carnation, and admire to see thee (the brightnesse of thy Fathers glory, and the expresse image of his person) assuming a na∣ture inferiour to theirs: who though thou wert Lord of Lords, King of Kings, the image of the invisible God, the first borne of every creature, heire appointed of all things, by whom also the worlds were made, yet tookest upon thee, the forme of a servant, and wast made in the likenesse of men, being delivered to death

for my sinnes, and made a curse for mee. Was there ever love like this love of thine, that one should dy for his enemies? from the beginning of the world was it ever heard before, that God should become man, to save man from the wrath of God due to mans sinne? But thou art that good Shepherd that givest thy life for thy Sheepe, and thou hast loved me, and washed me from my sinnes in thy owne bloud, and delivered me from the wrath to come.

O Lord Iesus Christ, thou, thou onely art the hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble; whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee: without thee, and out of thee, there is nothing amiable, wor∣thy the setting my heart up∣on. Let the world love it selfe, let men be Idolaters of

their owne concupiscences, of their goods, lives, wisedome, reputation, &c but cause thou me to forsake, and to hate all things for thee, and to count them dung, that I may winne Christ. Let my heart take no greater pleasure than to see thee glori∣fied in the world, and enthro∣nized in my owne soule. Thou art my portion for ever, hee whom my soule loveth, whose love to mee is better than wine, the Lord my righteousnesse. Who shall now lay any thing to the charge of thine Elect? seeing thou dost justifie, who can condemne?

I desire to know nothing but thee crucified, to love nothing more than thy sacred selfe, I desire onely to be found in thee, not having mine owne righte∣ousnesse (which indeed is none) but to bee clad with the gar∣ments of thy salvation. O sweet Iesus spread thy skirt o∣ver

me, for thou art my neere kinsman, true Immanuel, God with us, God for us. Never, I be∣seech thee, suffer me to bee un∣mindfull of, unthankfull for that wonder of all thy wondrous workes, my eternall redemp∣tion, and salvation by thy preci∣ous bloud.

Order my conversation a∣right, to the pleasing of thee in all my desires, thoughts, words, & actions, that I may not hence∣forth live to my selfe, but unto thee, which hast dyed for mee and rose againe. Guide mee Lord with thy counsell whiles I live on earth, and afterward, receive me to thy glory.

A∣men.

A thankesgiving to God for his wonderfull deliverance of our King and state from the Gun-powder Treason, Novem. 5. 1605.

LOrd God Almighty, glo∣rious in holinesse, working wonders alway for thy poore Church, and in the greatnesse of thine excellencie, confounding all those that are implacable ene∣mies to thine elect: we the peo∣ple of this land (who have, at this day, tasted and seene how gracious thou art in saving us by so great a deliverance, as the like was never heard of, since man dwelt upon the fa••e of the earth) doe with all humble and hearty acknowledgement, prayse and blesse•• thy glorious name, for that admirable and strange deliverance which thou graciously vouchsafedst to our King, Prince, Nobles, and the

whole body of this Kingdome, and state assembled together in the high-court of Parliament. How great a cause have wee to praise thee day by day, and to blesse thy name for ever & ever who hast given us such delive∣rance as this? which if ever we forget, let our tongues cleave to the roofe of our mouth: Doubt∣lesse unto God the Lord belong the issues from death; it was thou that saidst hither to shall yee goe and no further, here shall the proud waves of your hellish at∣tempts stop themselves, O yee popish conspiratours, your mis∣chiefe shall returne upon your owne head, and your violent dealing shall come downe upon your owne pate: and all that see it shall say this hath God done, for they shall perceive it was thy worke. Blessed be thy name O Lord, who hast not given us as a prey unto their teeth, that kept the proud waters from going

over our soule, and deliveredst us from so great a death, thou hast broken the jaw-bone of those ravening Lyons, and hast plucked us as a prey out of their teeth: our soule is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler, the snare is broken and we are delivered.

Not unto us O Lord, not to us but to thy name, be the praise for ever given, that thus savedst thy people with an outstretched hand, and watchedst betwixt our enemies and us: they thought to have cut off head and tayle, branch and rush in one day, to have swallowed us up alive as the grave, and whole as those that goe downe into the pit: but themselves are salne into the pit which they digged for us: Righteous art thou O Lord God of recompences, just and true are thy judgements, who maintainedst our right and our cause, and gavest not the soule

of thy turtle into their hands, but gavest them blood to drinke for they were worthy. Blessed be thy name, who redeemedst our life from destruction, and thus crownest us with loving kindnesse: thou satest in heaven and laughedst them to scorne, thou Lord hadst them in derisi∣on, and though they cursed, yet thou didst blesse us, yea thou didst curse them, and didst blow upon them in the fire of thy wrath, and dashedst them in pieces like a Potters vessell.

They digged deepe to hide their counsell from thee, but the darkenesse ••ideth not from thee, thou broughtest to light their workes of darkenesse, thou cau∣sedst their own tongus to ma••e them to fall—thus when thou pleasest to worke for thy Church—a bird of the aire shall carry the voyce, and that which hath wings shall discover the matter: and in the thing where∣in

they deale proudly thou wilt bee above them. They tooke craftie counsell against thy Saints, and were mad against thy people, and sworne together against us and had their mischie∣vous device not beene defeated by thee, our land had beene as Sodome, our people as Gomorrah a desolation, our Cities Golgo∣tha, our fields Aceldama. Cur∣sed bee their anger for it was fierce, and their wrath for it* 1.652 was cruell: but blessed bee thou O Lord, who savedst us by a great deliverance, and gavest us not over to the will of our ene∣mies into the hands of bruitish men, and skilfull to dust oy, more fierce then the Evening Woulues, bloody, and breathing out cruelty. This was none o∣ther but the finger of God, this was thy doing O Lord, and it is marvellous in our eyes; this is the day which thou hast m••de to be unto us, a good day, a day

of blessings and prayses, we will* 1.653 rejoyce and be glad in it, yea and the children which are yet un∣borne shall arise, and for it praise thy name, and tell it also unto their children, that even to per∣petuall generations, we all may remember this day (as the Iewes did their feast of Purim) and keepe it throughout every ge∣neration, every Family, every Province, and every Citie, that it may not faile from among the people of this land, nor the me∣moriall of it perish from our seed.

Still confound all their devi∣lish practises, blast their purpo∣ses, infatuate their policies, as many as have evill will to Zion. Let the ravens of the valies picke out those eyes, and the young Eagles eate them, as ma∣ny as rejoyce not to see thy Go∣spell flourish, nor thy Saints prosper, nor the welfare of this state and Church all their dayes.

So let all thine enemies perish O Lord! but let them that love thee bee as the Sunne when hee goeth forth in his might—Amen.

Deut. 4. 7. What nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

Happy art thou O Israel,* 1.654 who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy helpe, and who is the sword of thy excellencie! and thine enemies shall be found lyars un∣to thee—

A Praxis upon the Holy Oyle,* 1.655 shewing the Vse of the Scrip∣ture Phrases, In Praying, meditating, writing Letters, exhorting, comfor∣ting, reproving, &c. yea in any Christian dutie, on any occa∣sion to be performed.

For Example. Wouldst thou in the time of dearth, and famine, insert a sea∣sonable petition or two, into thy pray∣ers, that God would please to provide for thee, thy family—and the poore—&c. to remove this judgement, and send plenty—Turne then to the Heads, Famine, Poore, Plenty, provide—&c.

Let me (if thou wilt) spell thee out this lesson, and shew thee the way-thus then-

O Lord, the God of the Spirits [Scripture. Numb. 27. 16.] [Head. GOD] of all flesh—who givest to the beast [Scripture. Psal. 247 9] his food, and to the young ravens which

cry—the God which [Scripture. Gen. 48. 15.] hast fed us all our life long unto this day—and hast said thou wilt never [Scripture. Heb. 13. 5.] leave us, nor forsake us, Give us this day [Scripture. Math. 6. 11.] [Head. Compe∣tencie.] our daily bread—feed us with food [Scripture. Fro. 30 8.] convenient for us—The eyes of all wait [Scripture. Psal. 145. 15 -16.] [Head. Provide.] upon thee, and thou givest them their meate in due season, thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing:—Look [Scripture. Deut. 26. 15.] downe now from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and [Head. Famine.] kill not the assembly [Scripture. Exod. 16. 3.] of thy people with hunger—Thou hast [Scripture. Amos 4. 6.] given us cleannesse of teeth in all our Cities, and want of

bread in all our pa∣laces— [Scripture. Hos. 2. 9.] thou hast ta∣ken away thy corne in the time there∣of— [Scripture. Ezek. 5. 16.] and hast sent upon us the evill ar∣rowes of Famine—O Lord the Land [Scripture. Hos. 4. 8.] [Head. Satisfie.] mourneth, and eve∣ry one that dwel∣leth therein doth languish—they that were full have hi∣red [Scripture. 1 Sam. 2. 5.] out themselves for bread,—and yet [Scripture. Eccles. 6. 7.] the appetite is not filled.

Our bread for∣merly [Scripture. Gen. 49. 20.] [Head. Plentie.] hath bene fat, and we have enjoy∣ed royall dainties—the Lord our God [Scripture. Deut. 7. 2.] hath beene with us, and we have lacked nothing—we have [Scripture. - 8. 9.] [Head. Abound.] lived in a Land, wherein wee have

eaten bread with∣out scarsenesse—in [Scripture. Iudg 18. 10] a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth—But now for [Scripture. 2 King. 8. 1.] our sinnes thou hast called for a Famine, [Head. Famine.] and it is also come— [Scripture. Psal. 105. 16.] and thou hast bro∣ken the whole staffe of bread—such as [Scripture. Iob 20. 22.] have hither to beene in the fulnesse of sufficiencie, are like∣ly now to bee in straits—some that [Scripture. 1 Sam. 25. 36.] [Head. Feast.] have held feasts in their houses like the feasts of a King—are hardly bestead & [Scripture. Isai. 8. 21.] [Scripture. Iudg. 19 5.] hungry—& would now comfort their heart with a morsel [Head. Eat.] of bread—Many [Scripture. Deut. 15 8.] that have opened their hand wide un∣to

their brethren—distributing to the [Scripture. Rom. 12. 13.] [Head. Liberall.] necessitie of the Saints—are now [Scripture. Lev. 25. 35.] [Head. Almes.] themselves waxen poore and falne in∣to decay—and are [Scripture. Iam. 2. 15.] [Head. Poore.] de••titute of daily food.

Lord open unto [Scripture. Deut. 28. 12] us thy good trea∣sure—and let not [Scripture. Gen. 41. 30.] [Head. Plentie.] the Famine consume the land—minister [Scripture. 2 Cor. 9. 10.] bread for our food—- [Head. Feed.] and fill the hungry [Scripture. Luk. 1. 53] soule of thy people with good things—- that there may bee [Scripture. Psal 144. 11.] no complaining in our streets.

Thou hast promi∣sed thou wilt abun∣dantly [Scripture. Psa. 132. 15] blesse our provision, and wilt satisfie the poore with bread—Open

now unto us the win∣dowes [Scripture. Mal. 3. 10.] [Head. Plenty.] of heaven, and poure us out a blessing—that our [Scripture. Psal. 144. 13.] garners may be full, affording all manner of store—with [Scripture. Gen. 27. 37.] [Head. Abound.] corne also and wine doe thou susteine [Scripture. Psal. 104. 15.] us—and with bread which strengthens mans heart.—Stirre [Scripture. Ezra. 1. 1.] [Head. Perswade.] up the spirit—bow [Scripture. 2 Sam 19. 14.] [Scripture. 2 Kin. 15. 20] the hearts of—the mighty men of [Head. Rich.] wealth—that have [Scripture. Pro. 28. 19.] plenty of bread— [Head. Abound.] whose portion is [Scripture. Hab 1. 16.] fat, and their meat plenteous—to re∣member the poore— [Head. Almes.] to draw out their [Scripture. Isai 58. 10.] soule to the hungry, and satisfie the af∣flicted soule—not [Scripture. Iob 31. 17.] eating their morsell alone—but sending [Scripture. Nehe. 8. 10]

portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared—and [Scripture. Esth. 9. 22.] gifts to the poore.—O make them put [Scripture. Col. 3. 12.] on the bowells of mercy—being kind [Head. Compassi∣on.] to their brethren, [Scripture. Eph. 4. 32.] and tender hear∣ted—rich in good [Scripture. 1 Tim. 6. 18.] workes—ready to distribute, willing to communicate— [Scripture. Deut. 15. 7.] not hardening their heart, nor shutting their hand from their poore bre∣thren—that wee may all, eate in plen∣ty, [Scripture. Ioel 2. 26.] and bee satisfi∣ed, and praise the name of the Lord our God, that hath dealt wonderously with us—giving us [Scripture. 1 Tim 6. 17.] richly all things to enjoy. Amen.

In the time of Drought thou mayest thus poure out thy soule to God in prayer.

O Lord, thou art the father of [Scripture. Iob. 38. 28.] the raine, thou hast [Head. Raine.] begotten the drops [Scripture. Deut. 28. 12.] of dew—Wee be∣se••ch thee to open now unto us thy good treasure, the heaven to give us raine unto our land in his season—be∣cause [Scripture. Ier. 14. 4.] the ground is [Head. Drought.] chapt—the land pe∣risheth and is burnt [Scripture. - 9. 12.] [Head. Drie.] up like a wilder∣nesse—In our wants [Scripture. Psal. 68. 9.] heretofore thou O God didst send a plentifull Raine, whereby thou didst confirme thine in∣heritance when it

was weary—but now thou stayest [Scripture. Iob. 38. 37.] the bottles of hea∣ven—the sho∣wers [Head. Clouds.] [Scripture. Ier. 3. 3.] are with-hol∣den from us, and there hath beene no latter raine—. Thus [Scripture. Lev. 26. 19.] for our sinnes thou hast made our hea∣ven as iron, and our earth as brasse—and hast commanded the [Scripture. Isai. 5. 6.] clouds that they rain no raine upon us—

How doe the [Scripture. Ioel 1. 18.] beasts mourne, and the heards of cattell [Head. Drought.] are perplexed, be∣cause they have no pasture?—How [Scripture. Ier. 12. 4.] doth the land mourn and the herbes of e∣very field wither?—Command now ther∣fore [Scripture. Psal. 78. 23.] O Lord the clouds from above,

and open the doores of heaven—and wa∣ter [Scripture. Psa. 65. 10.] [Head. Heaven.] the ridges of the earth abundantly, settle the furrowes thereof, make it soft with showres— [Scripture. - 104. 14.] cause the grasse to grow for the cattell, and herbe for the service of man—that thou mayest bring forth food out of the earth.—Drop [Head. Raine.] downe then yee heavens from above, and let the skies [Scripture. Eccles. 11. 8.] empty themselves upon the earth—Lord why bindest [Scripture. Iob 26. 8.] thou up the waters in thy thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them?—O cause the showre [Scripture. Eze. 34. 26.] to come downe in his season, let there

be showres of bles∣sing—that the earth [Scripture. Iam. 5. 18.] may bring forth her fruit—that we may [Scripture. Ier. 5 24.] feare thee the Lord our God, that givest us raine, both the former and the lat∣ter in his season—Amen.

Dost thou goe to visit some sicke friend, with whom thou shalt happily be desired to pray; and wouldst thou bee able to speake a word in season to him—Run over with thine eye some of these heads—Pardon, Sinne, Sicke, Die, Death—Heaven, &c. and some choyse phrases of more speciall note and use, will offer themselves, which thou occasionally maist turne into Petitions—or make matter of comfortable medi∣tation and discourse. Yea sup∣pose

thou thy selfe, wert falne sicke of the sicknesse wherof thou maist die—ha∣ving received the sentence of death in thy selfe,—and that some friend (as Isaiah to King Hezekiah) should advise thee to set thine house, and heart in order, for thou must dye and not live,—thou mightst weepe out (with Hezekiah) this comfortable meditation- un∣der these Heads, Heaven. Desire. Glorified. Death. Grave. Resurrection.

O Heaven, the citie of our solemnities, a quiet habitation, a taber∣nacle [Scripture. Isai. 33. 20.] [Head. Heaven.] that shall not be taken downe, not one of the stakes thereof shall ever bee removed, neither shall any of

the cords thereof bee broken!—O [Scripture. Psal. 63. 1.] how my soule thir∣steth for thee! how [Head. Desire.] my flesh longeth af∣ter thee, in a dry and thirstie land, where no water is!—But now (O bles∣sed day! thrice wel∣come newes!)—the [Head. Die.] messengers of death [Scripture. Pro. 16. 14.] tell mee, that the [Scripture. Gen. 47. 29.] time drawes neere that I must dye—

1. And shall I so [Head. Death.] [Scripture. Math. 25. 23.] soone enter into the joy of my Lord? is the time of my DEPARTING so [Scripture. 2 Tim. 4. 6.] neere at hand? then blesse the Lord O [Scripture. Psal. 103. 1.] my soule, and all that is within mee bless his holy name!—I have long lyen [Head. World.] [Scripture. Dan. 7. 2.] upon this great SEA

—the world loo∣king longly for this happy day, when one sweet gale of wind, my last breath, should wast me o∣ver [Scripture. Hebr. 11. 10.] unto a better countrey, that is an heavenly,—where [Scripture. — 3. 11.] I shall enter into REST, and bee [Scripture. Col. 1. 12.] partaker of the in∣heritance of the Saints in light.

2. Alas! I am but a Stranger on this earth—and woe is [Scripture. Psal. 120. 5.] [Head. Wicked.] me that I Sojourne in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar—my soule [Scripture. — 6.] hath too long dwelt [Scripture. Mal. 3. 15.] with such as—tempt [Scripture. Ephe. 2. 2.] [Head. Profane.] God—children of disobedience—that [Scripture. Pro. 30. 12.] are not washed from their filthynesse—

I have beene long [Head. Vngodly.] absent from the Lord—But now [Scripture. Eccle. 12. 5.] I am going to my long HOME—to [Head. Death.] my Fathers House [Head. Heaven.] [Scripture. Ioh. 14. 2. 3.] where are many mansions—whither my Saviour is gone before to provide me a place—there [Scripture. 1 Sam 20. 3] is now but a step be∣twixt me and life e∣verlasting— [Head. Glorified.] I shall [Scripture. 2 Cor. 5. 8.] now shortly be pre∣sent with the Lord∣being [Scripture. Hebr. 7 26.] seperate from sinners, and made higher than the hea∣vens.

3. I dwell now [Scripture. Iob 4. 19.] in a house of clay, whose foundation is in the dust—an [Head. Body.] [Scripture. 2 Cor. 5. 1.] earthly Tabernacle which may bee cru∣shed before the

moaths—But (blessed bee God) now I am ••••itting to an House, [Head. Heaven.] not made with hands, but eternall in the Heavens, whose builder and [Scripture. Heb. 11. 10.] maker is God—

4. Why should I then feare death, [Head. Death.] though a King of terrours to ungodly [Scripture. Iob 18. 14.] men? ••a••, with holy ••o••, All the dayes of [Scripture. — 14. 14] my appointed time, I will waite till my CHANGE come∣f••r death is but a-Change, yea and a [Head. Glorifie.] Change, also for the better—for there∣by, [Scripture. Phil. 3. 21.] Christ shall Change our vile bo∣dy, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body— [Scripture. 2 Co 5. 4.] mortalitie shall bee

swallowed up of life—then I shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more—nor sinne a∣ny more, O blessed Change! (for my sinning against my God, hath grieved me sore—hath e∣ven [Scripture. Psal. 69. 20.] made me wea∣ry of my life—and broken my heart) but I shall then fol∣low [Scripture. Rev▪ 14 4.] the Lambe whi∣ther soever hee go∣eth.

5 What is Death, [Head. Die.] but a putting off the rags of mortalitie? [Scripture. 2 Cor. 5. 4.] and why should I feare to be u••cloa∣thed, or be loath to put off this corrup∣tible, yea rather why should I not be gla•• when I can

find the grave? For 6—Now I shall [Scripture. Iob 3 22.] [Scripture. Iob 7. 21. -14. 12.] [Head. Die.] Sleepe in the dust—I shall lye downe, and not rise againe, till the heavens bee no more—I shall make [Scripture. - 17. 13.] my bed in darke∣nesse—I shall fall [Scripture. 1 Thess 4. 14.] [Scripture. Acts 13. 36.] asleepe in IESVS, and bee laid to my Fathers—where though wormes be spread under mee, and wormes cover me, and though af∣ter this skin, they [Scripture. Iob 19. 26.] shall destroy this bo∣dy, [Head. Resurrecti¦on.] yet in my flesh I shall see God—

Therefore as the [Scripture. Psal. 42. 1.] Hart panteth after the water-brookes, so panteth my soule after thee O God—My soule thirsteth, [Scripture. 2] for God, for the li∣ving

God, when shall I come and ap∣peare [Head. Life.] before God?—My times Lord [Scripture. Psa. 31. 15.] are in thy hand-thou breathedst into me, [Scripture. Gen. 2. 7.] at first, the breath of life—command [Head. Die.] [Scripture. Tobit 3. 6.] now therefore, my Spirit to bee taken from me, that I may be dissolved and be∣come earth—and my soule returne to God that gave it. Father into thy hands I commend [Scripture. Psal. 31. 5.] my spirit, for thou hast redeemed mee, O Lord thou God of truth—

Amen.

An humble Soule, bemoaning it selfe under its many Sins, may thus pray.

O My God I am ashamed, and [Scripture. Ezr. 9. 6.] [Head. Ashamed] blush to lift up my face to thee my God, for mine in∣quities are increased over mine head, and my trespasse is growne up unto the heavens—yet suf∣fer me, O thou Ho∣ly [Scripture. 2 King. 19. 22.] [Head. God.] One of Israel—suffer me (who am [Scripture. Dan. 4. 17.] [Scripture. Iob. 30. 8.] [Head. Base.] the basest of men—viler than earth— [Scripture. 1 Tim. 1. 15] the chiefe of sin∣ners—) to bring [Scripture. Numb. 5. 15] mine iniquity to re∣membrance— [Head. Repent.] to af∣flict [Scripture. - 29 7.] my soule in thy sight—to abhorre [Scripture. Iob. 42. 6.] [Head. Humble.] my selfe, and repent in ••ust and ••shes,— [Scripture. Isai 57. 9.] d••basing my selfe

even unto hell—be∣cause of my mani∣folde [Scripture. Amos 5. 12.] transgressions [Head. Sinne.] and my mightie sinnes.

Father I have sin∣ned [Scripture. Luk. 15. 21.] against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to bee called thy Sonne—I have dealt treacherously [Scripture. Hos. 5. 7.] against thee,—and have gone a who∣ring [Scripture. - 9. 1.] from my God—yea in the land of righteousness I have [Head. Sinne.] done wickedly,—and thee the God [Scripture. Dan. 5. 23.] in whose hands my life is, and whose are all my wayes, have I not glorifi∣ed—But have wal∣ked [Scripture. Lev. 26. 21.] contrary unto 〈…〉〈…〉 and, (to make [Scripture. Rom. 7. 13.] 〈…〉〈…〉me become

exceeding sinnefull) I have added rebel∣lion [Scripture. Iob. 34. 37.] unto my sin—Alas! how often have I yeelded my [Scripture. Rom. 6. 13.] members as instru∣ments of unrighte∣ousnesse unto sinne?—doing evill with [Scripture. Mic. 7. 3.] both hands earnest∣ly,—seeking after [Scripture. Numb. 15. 39.] mine owne heart, and mine owne eyes,—making my [Scripture. Lev. 20. 25.] soule abominable by those things which are forbidden to bee [Scripture. — 5. 17.] done by the com∣mandements of the Lord.

And as if it had [Scripture. 1 K. 16. 31.] beene a light thing for me to commit those sinnes which men commit—I [Scripture. 1 Kin. 16. 25.] have done woorse than all that were

before me—drink∣ing iniquity like wa∣ter— [Scripture. Iob 15. 16] and selling my selfe to doe evi••l in [Scripture. 2 Ki. 17. 17.] the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. A∣las! [Head. Excuse.] how shall I [Scripture. Gen. 44. 16.] cleere my selfe con∣cerning these my o∣verspreading abomi∣nations? [Scripture. Dan. 9. 27.] how shall I lift up my face be∣fore thee my God? for though I should [Head. Purge.] wash my selfe with [Scripture. Iob. 9. 30.] snow-water, and make my hands ne∣ver so cleane—yet [Head. Disclose.] [Scripture. Ier. 2. 22.] mine iniquitie is marked before thee∣yea the heaven shall [Scripture. Iob 20. 27.] reveale mine iniqui∣tie, and the earth shall rise up against me—woe unto my [Scripture. Isay 3 9.] soule, for I have re∣warded

evill unto my selfe.

But if thou Lord be extreme to mark iniquities, if thou enter into judge∣ment with the ser∣vant, Lord who who shall stand?—for so detestable and [Scripture. Ier. 16. 18.] abominable are my doing••,—that for the ••einousnesse ther∣of thou mightest let death seaze upon me [Scripture. Psal. 55. 15.] and make mee goe downe quicke into [Head. Damne.] hell—where the [Scripture. Isai. 66. 24.] worme shall never dye, and the fire shall never be quen∣ched. But thou hast in love to my soule [Scripture. — 38. 17.] delivered it from the pit of corrup∣tion, for thou hast cast all my sinnes

behind thy backe—thou hast ransomed [Scripture. Hos. 13. 14.] me from the power of the grave, thou hast redeemed mee from death—by the mediatour be∣twixt [Scripture. 1 Tim. 2 5.] God and man—even Iesus—who [Scripture. 1 Thess. 1. 10.] hath loved me, and given himselfe for me, and hath wash∣ed mee from my sinnes in his blood and delivered mee from the wrath to come—O that I [Head. Repent.] [Scripture. Ezek. 36. 31] could loath my selfe in mine owne sight, for all mine iniqui∣ties and abominati∣ons! O that they might grieve me at the heart! O that [Scripture. — 21 6.] I could sigh even with the breaking of my loines—wai∣ling [Scripture. Mic. 1. 8.]

as the dragons and mourning as the owles—because I have sinned against the Lord, and have [Scripture. Psal. 18. 21.] departed wickedly from my God— Amen.

A Letter consolato∣rie to his friend, perswading to pa∣tience in his afflictions.

Faithfull and belo∣ved brother

[Scripture. Col. 4. 9.] GOd that com∣forteth [Scripture. 2 Cor. 7. 6.] [Head. God.] those that are cast downe [Scripture. 1 Cor. 16. 18. 2] [Scripture. Thess. 2. 16.] refresh your spi∣rit—and give you everlasting consola∣tion, [Head. Comfort.] and good hope through grace—for he hath torne, and he [Scripture. Hosea. 6. 1.] will heale you, hee

hath smitten, and he onely can bind you up—I indeed faine [Scripture. Iob 16. 5.] would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should as∣swage your griefe—But alas! miserable [Scripture. — 2.] comforters are wee all—if the comfor∣ter that should re∣lieve your soule bee farre from you.

It grieveth mee [Head. Grieve.] [Scripture. Ruth 1. 13.] much for your sake, that the hand of the Lord is gone out a∣gainst you—that the [Scripture. — 20.] Almighty hath delt so very bitterly with you—making [Head. Afflict.] [Scripture. Eze. 20. 37.] you to passe under the rod—and to [Scripture. Iob 13. 26.] possesse the iniqui∣quities of your youth—you were at

••ase, but hee hath broken you asunder, hee hath also taken [Scripture. Iob 16 12.] you by the necke, and shaken you to pieces, and set you up for his marke—It is good for a man [Scripture. Lam 3. 27.] (saith Ieremy) that he beare the yoke in his youth—for whom the Lord lo∣veth, [Scripture. Hebr. 12. 6.] he chasteneth and scourgeth every sonne whom he re∣ceiveth—but if you be without chastise∣ment, [Scripture. — 8.] whereof all are partakers, then are you a bastard and not a sonne—Assure [Scripture. Isai. 1 25.] [Head. Purge.] yourselfe when God shall have purged away your drosse, and taken away al your tin—when he hath tryed you, you [Scripture. Iob 23. 10.]

shall come forth as gold.

Therefore in your [Head. Murmure.] [Scripture. Luk. 21. 19.] patience possess your soule—looke unto [Scripture. Hebr. 12. 2] Iesus the author and finisher of your faith—Hee was op∣pressed, [Scripture. Isay 53. 7.] and hee was [Scripture. — 10.] afflicted, yet he o∣pened not his mouth—Behold and see if [Scripture. Lam. 1. 12] there were ever any sorrow like to his sorrow—O then [Scripture. Mar. 10. 21] take up the crosse and follow him—Be dumbe and open [Scripture. Psal. 39. 9.] not your mouth for it is his doing—Bee you partaker of the [Head. Afflict.] [Scripture. 2 Tim. 1. 8.] affliction of the Go∣spell—Take pleasure in infirmities, in re∣proaches, [Scripture. 2 Cor. 12. 10.] in necessi∣ties, in persecuti∣ons, in distresses for

Christs sake—for this light affliction [Head. Patient.] which is but for a [Scripture. 2 Cor. 4. 17.] moment, worketh for you, a farre more exceeding, and eternall weight of glory—Though you [Scripture. —1▪ 8.] bee now pressed out of measure above strength, insomuch that you dispaire e∣ven of life—yet un∣to [Scripture. Psal. 68. 20.] God the Lord be∣long the issues from death.—

Wherefore lift [Scripture. He. 12. 12.] up the hands which hang downe, and the feeble knees—look [Scripture. Isa. 17. 7.] to thy Maker, and let [Head. Rely.] thine eyes have re∣spect unto the Holy one of Israel—and [Scripture. Hos. 12. 6.] waite on thy God continually—and he will turne for thee

thy mourning into dauncing, hee will [Scripture. Psal. 30. 11] put off thy sack∣cloth and gird thee with gladnesse. A∣men. The Lord doe [Scripture. Ier. 28. 6.] so—Farewell, and [Head. Requite.] according to the [Scripture. Gen. 21. 23.] kindnesse that I have done unto thee (in this day of thy di∣stresse) thou shalt likewise doe unto me—who also am

Your Brother and [Scripture. Rev. 1. 9.] Companion in tri∣bulation, and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christ. L. M.

If thou wert to disswade thy friend from keeping bad compa∣ny, thou mightst find here happi∣ly some prevailing arguments: nay, were I to preach on such a text as I might find sufficient footing to ground this point of Doctrine—that

A godly man must avoid the company of the wicked.

If I doe but turne to some of these heads: Godly, Regene∣rate, Righteous, Christian, live Godly, Sanctifie—Hate, Fly, Abborre—Wicked, Vngodly, Prophane, live Wickedly—Company—&c. I shall, tis likely, in ••t with good mat∣ter, and savourie expressions suiting to my purpose—for example, suppose my text were—Psal. 26. 5.—I have hated the congregation of evill doors—&,—It might bee confirmed by Pro. 1. 10. 15. Psal. 97. 10. or 2 Cor. 6. 14.

or Eph. 5. 7. 11.—&c.—For what should a godly man doe in the wickeds company, seeing—

1 Ʋngodly men are Gods enemies, Psal. 92 9. for loe thine enemies O Lord—God him∣selfe sayes of them, Zech. 11. 8.—my soule loathed them and their soule also abhorred me—Now every Godly man is on the Lords side—Exod. 32. 26.—yea are the friends of God, Ioh. 15. 15. Lam. 2 23. Shouldst thou then helpe the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? (as Iehu the Seer re∣proved Iehoshaphat. •• Chron. 19. 2.)—Surely there will bee wrath upon us from the Lord, for so doing.

2 Wicked men are Sonnes of Belial, 1 Sam. 2. 12.—of their father the Devill, Ioh. 8. 44.—servants of ••inne, Rom. 6. 20.—now the Godly are borne of

God—Sons of God—1 Ioh. 3. 9. heires of God, Gal. 4. 7. the servants of God, 1 Pet. 2. 16.—who have fellowship with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ, 1 Ioh. 1. 3.—and shall such keepe compa∣ny with prophane wretches, un∣circumcised in the heart? Ier. 9. 26.

3 Wicked men are of the Synagogue of Satan, Rev. 3. 9, the Godly are the Temple of the living God—2 Cor. 6. 16.—of the houshold of Faith, Gal. 6. 10.—Besides the God∣ly feare the Lord, and thinke upon his name, Malch. 3. 16. Wicked men forget God, neither is God in all their thoughts,—theirs are the paths of all that forget God. Iob. 8. 13.

4 What communion hath light with darkenesse? now wic∣ked men walke in darkenesse. 1 Ioh. 1. 6. nay, are darknesse,

Ephe. 5. 8. But the Godly are light in the Lord, 1 Thes. 5. 5. yee are all the children of the light—Againe Godly men are Wise men, Math. 7. 24. wic∣ked men Fooles, Psalm. 14. 1. and what credit shall a Wise man have by keeping Fooles company?—

5 What should living men doe among the dead? Luk. 24. 5. why seeke yee the living a∣mong the dead?—None but L••gion a mad man possessed of the Devill, lived among the tombes—But all ungodly men are dead in trespasses and sinnes, Ephe. 2. 1. Dead while they live, 1 Tim. 5. 6.—yea they seeke death, Pro. 21. 6.—Now the Godly are quickened toge∣ther with Christ▪ Eph. 2. 5. and therefore should arise from the dead—Eph. 5. 14.

Ʋse.—Exhort.—There∣fore have no fellowship with the unfruitfull workes of dark∣nesse

all yee that know righte∣ousnesse,* 2.1 the people in whose heart is Gods law—order your conversation aright, and walke worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing, behave your selves ho∣lily, justly, and unblameably—say with David, Psal. 139 ••2. Doe not I hate them that hate thee O Lord?—And as induce∣ments—

Feare, lest ye perish in the* 2.2 sinnes of the ungodly men, and partake of their Plagues—for consider I pray, that among pro∣phane ungodly men, the best of them are as a Bryer, and the most upright of them are like a thorne hedge—Bryers and Thornes bee with thee, and thou dwellest among scorpions—a generation of vipers—that will sting the conscience, scratch and teare your flesh—

2 Wicked men pervert their* 2.3 wayes—are out of the way, but the Godly walke in the way of

the Lord—they walke with God, their faces are to Zion∣ward—what then should they doe in such company as turne their backs on heaven?—they have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs—2 Chr. 29. 6.

3 Consider your owne dig∣nity—you are Saints on earth, and excellent. Psal. 16. 3. Gods jewells—Mal. 3. 17.—wicked men make themselves vile—very swine, dogs that love the myre. 2 Pet. 2. 22.

4 The Godly are trees of righteousnesse, the planting of* 2.4 the Lord—wicked men are roots that beare gall and worm∣wood, Deut. 29. 18.

5 The shame and discredit will light on your selfe—If you follow vaine persons, you will get to your selfe a blot. Prov. 9. 7.—Its a shame for Christs Spouse, whom he hath married

to himselfe, Hos. 9. 1. to keepe strumpets company—they are a wicked and adulterous genera∣tion, Math. 12. 39.—that goe a whoriug from the Lord, Psal. 37. 24.—and will you associate your selfe with such?—

This for a taste—I meant not to handle the Point exactly—but only to point to a way—in which there may be use of these Phrases—for who seeth not that Reasons, Uses, Motives, Meanes, Marks—&c. may from hence as a Sacrum pena—be drawne, which have a speciall weight, Emphasis, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in them?—& surely the Spirit and blessing of God goes along with his Word,—even those expressions which it pleased the Holy Ghost to utter himselfe in at the first, carry with them an heate and warmth, to the soule of a beleever—And

why may not the most able memorie, and best versed in Scripture, be helped hereby, to find readily some apt ex∣pressions, which memorie could not command present∣ly. What disparagement, to any mans Prayers—Meditati∣ons—Exhortations—to have a helpe at hand?—

In the time of Pestilence, thou mayest thus order thy com∣plaint, and meditate—

RIghteous art thou, O Lord, [Head. God.] [Scripture. Ier. 12. 1.] when I plead with thee, yet let mee (who am but dust [Scripture. Gen. 18. 27.] and ashes) talk with thee of thy judge∣ments. Wherefore—hast thou shewed [Head. Man.] [Scripture. Esal. 60. 3] thy people hard things, and made us

to drinke the wine of astonishment? why hast thou smit∣ten, [Scripture. Ier. 14. 19.] [Head. Afflict.] and there is no healing for us?—why doth thine an∣ger [Scripture. Psal. 74 1.] smoake against the sheepe of thy pasture? All joy is [Scripture. Isai. 24. 11.] [Head. Plague.] darkned, the mirth of the land is gone—all the mer∣ry-hearted [Scripture. — 7] doe sigh—weep, and howle [Scripture. Iam. 5. 1.] [Head. Mourne.] for the miseries that are come upon us— [Scripture. Psal. 83. 15.] for thou persecutest us with thy tempest and make•••• us afraid with thy stormes—The arrowes of the [Scripture. Iob 6. 4.] Almi••hty are with∣in us, the poyson whereof drinketh [Head. Afflict.] up our spirits, the terrours of God do set themselves in ar∣ray

against us.

For (Loe!) Death is come up [Head. Pestilence.] [Scripture. Ier. 9. 21.] into our windowes, and is entred into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets—thy an∣ger [Scripture. Deut. 29. 20] and thy jealou∣sie smoake against us—and thou hast [Scripture. 21] separated us unto e∣vill—there is a [Head. Plagues.] [Scripture. 1 Sam. 5. 11] deadly destruction, throughout all the Citie, and Country, the hand of the Lord is very heavie there, upon us—The [Scripture. 1 Chr. 21. 12.] Sword of the Lord, even the Pestilence∣fills all places with [Scripture. Psal. 110. 6.] the dead bodies— [Head. Slay.] the carkeises of men [Scripture. Ier 9. 21] fall as dung upon the

open held—the val∣liant men are swept [Scripture. Ier. 46. 15.] away—and thou [Scripture. Rev. 2. 23.] hast killed our chil∣dren with death—O thou Sword of [Scripture. Ier. 47. 6.] the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thy [Head. Peace.] selfe into thy Scab∣berd, rest and bee still.

Surely for the [Scripture. Ier. 13. 22.] greatnesse of our ini∣quities, [Head. Plague.] our skirts are discovered, and our heeles made bare—Our trans∣gressions [Scripture. Ezek. 33. 10] and our [Head. Sinne.] sinnes bee upon us, and wee pine away in them, how should we then live?—We are a people that [Scripture. Isai. 65. 3.] provoke thee, con∣tinually— [Scripture. Psal. 78. 8.] a genera∣tion that set not our

heart aright, and [Head. Vngodly.] whose spirit is not stedfast with our God—therefore [Scripture. Dan. 9. 14.] hath the Lord wat∣ched upon the evill, and brought it upon [Scripture. Psal. 106. 29.] us—therefore the [Head. Plague.] Plague breakes in upon us—thou [Scripture. Isai. 14. 23.] sweepest us away with the beesome [Scripture. Deut. 28. 21.] of destruction—the noysome Pestilence cleaveth unto us—and we dye of grie∣vous [Scripture. Ier. 16. 4.] [Scripture. Deut. 32. 23.] deaths—thus thou heapest mis∣cheifes upon us, and spendest thine ar∣rowes upon us—for surely destructi∣on [Scripture. Iob. 31. 4.] is to the wicked, and a strange punish∣ment to the workers of iniquitie—

O that we would [Scripture. 1 Kin. 8. 28]

know every mā the plague of his owne [Head. Sinne.] heart—then the [Scripture. 1 Chr. 21. 12.] sword of the Lord even the Pestilence [Head. Pestilence.] —which thou brin∣gest [Scripture. Lev. 26. 25.] upon us to a∣venge the quarrell of thy covenant—should no more goe [Scripture. - 6.] through our land—to cut off from us, [Scripture. Ier. 44. 7.] man and woman, [Head. Slay.] child and suckling—thou wouldst then [Scripture. Mic. 6. 13.] no longer make us [Head. Afflict.] sicke in smiting us—thou wouldst then [Scripture. Isai. 57. 18.] heale us, and leade us also, and restore comforts untous and to our mourners— [Head. Comfort.] O Lord though our [Scripture. Ier. 14. 7.] iniquities testifie a∣gainst us, doe thou it for thy names sake, for our backe-sli∣dings

are many, wee have sin∣ned against thee— Amen—

Wouldst thou pray against Hypo∣crisie, and for Sinceritie— turne to those Heads, Hypo∣crite—Sincere. &c.

SO for any other request—resolve it briefely into a Proposition—as thus, Lord blesse unto mee thy Holy Word—Here, looke but compellations and titles of God—2 Blesse Sanctifie, Prosper, &c. the mi∣nistry of thy Gospell, Scriptures,—&c—So, Lord grant me Par∣don of my Sins: Looke, Grant—Pardon—Sinne—&c—there thou shalt find words and matter.

Good Lord preserve me this day, or night, &c—See, God, Protect, Day—Night—pros∣per my labours——Blesse—Success—Labour—Paines—

And thus even any meane Christian, of ordinary parts, and invention, may be able soone to spinne, and draw out from ma∣ny

of those Heads (which Hee occasionally shall have neede to use) much heavenly matter and words, sweet Metaphors, Alle∣gories—&c. delightfull, and of good use, in Prayer, Conference, Meditation, Thanksgiving,—Writing, &c. and on any Sub∣ject whatsoever.—

I have here ranked into severall heads some choyse phrases and passages of Scripture, to which thou mayest adde many like, and contrive them into prayers or meditations, &c—as thy occasion shall require.

O Lord every man that is* 2.5 borne of a woman is of few dayes and full of trouble—thou hast caught us that wee must take up our crosse daily—many are the troubles of the* 2.6 righteous, wee have the Pro∣phets an ensample of suffering adversity; the same afflictions* 2.7 are accomplished in our bre∣thren which are in the world—

there hath nothing befalne us, but what is common to man—O* 2.8 Lord all my desires are before thee, my groaning is not hid from thee—thou doest not wil∣lingly afflict, nor punish the children of men—yea in all our affliction thou art afflicted—should we then refuse thy chaft∣ning? dost thou not offer thy selfe to us, as to sonnes? what sonne is there whom the father chasteneth not? As our affli∣ctions abound, shall not our con∣solation* 2.9 much more abound? Light is sowne for the righte∣ous—heavinesse* 2.10 may endure in the night, but joy commeth in the morning—in thy favour is* 2.11 life—thou wilt not cast off for ever, though for a small mo∣ment, thou mayest seeme to for∣sake us, yet with great mercie thou wilt gather us, in a little wrath, thou maist hide thy face—thou wilt lay no more upon us than wee are able to

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beare, but wilt give an issue out of every temptation,—thou wilt correct us in measure—and doest waite that thou may est be gracious—we may be troubled* 2.12 on every side, but not distressed, perplexed, yet not in dispaire.

Doe not all things worke together for the best to them that feare God? Make these like fire to purge out our drosse and tinne, thou dost now refine us in the furnesse of affliction, this is the fruit of our trouble, the ta∣king away of our sinne,—should* 2.13 wee not then count it all joy when we fall into divers temp∣tations? knowing that the triall* 2.14 of our faith is much more pre∣cious than that of gold—there∣fore let us in nothing bee care∣full, but in all things make our requests known to God.—Give thou us helpe against trouble, for vaine is the helpe of man—See Afflict. Deliver. Sinne. &c. in the Scripture-phrases.

Aged.

O Lord, the almond tree now begins to flourish, grey-heires are here, and there upon me, they begin to be darke that looke out at the win∣dowes, thou hast filled mee with wrinkles, O leave me not in the time of old age, forsake mee not when my strength fayleth me. Even to my old age doe thou preserve mee, and even to hoarie haires doe thou carry me: let mee bring forth more fruit in my age, that it may bee a crowne of glory to me: I walking before thee in the way of righteousnesse—And seeing all these are moni∣tours from thee, to tell mee of my approaching end, and that the time drawes neere in which I must die: grant that as my out∣ward man decayes, so my in∣ward man may bee renewed daily—

Amen.

Against Anger.

O Lord thou hast taught me in thy holy word, that* 2.15 He that is slow to anger is bet∣ter than the mighty man: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a Citie. Among all those fleshly lusts that warre in my members, and too often (a∣las!) leade mee captive unto Sinne, there is hardly one, that more tyrannizeth over my poore soule, than this of hasti∣nesse of spirit, and pronenesse to be rashly and unadvisedly angry; this is that reigning lust, that eates out the heart of all grace, that maketh me that I cannot doe that good to the soules and bodies of my Christian bre∣thren, as my place and calling binde mee: neither doe I re∣ceive that good from others as I might by their wholesome counsell, and admonitions to∣wards

me; yea, Lord, I cannot lift up pure hands without wrath unto thee, but my pray∣ers, are quelled, quenched, and interrupted hereby.

O Lord helpe me I beseech thee against this masterfull Sin: suffer me not to bee hasty in my* 2.16 spirit to bee angry; because an∣ger resteth in the bosome of fooles, and if I be sometimes provoked to speake unadvised∣ly with my lips, or to doe things that are not comely, yet never let me suffer the Sunne to goe downe upon my wrath, or so farre to give place to the Devill, that my countenance should fall (as Cains) that it* 2.17 should not be towards my bre∣thren* 2.18 as before, that I cannot* 2.19 speake peaceably unto them. Let me take thy Saints to bee an ensample unto me herein. Was not thy servant Moses a* 2.20 very meeke man, above all the men that were on the earth?

Doth not my blessed Saviour command mee to learne of ••i••* 2.21 who was meeke and lowly in heart? he was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not* 2.22 his mouth he was led as a Lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheepe before her sherer, he was dumb; and can all the indignities offe∣red to me, be comparable to all those shamefull spittings, and revilings, that he for my sake, was exposed unto? alasse no. O teach me therefore to bring downe my swelling and proud heart, to suffer patiently for his sake: the servant of God must not strive, but be patient to∣ward all men, why doe I not then, rather take wrong and suffer injury? why doe I not take up my Crosse daily and fol∣low him, that endured such contradiction of sinners, Labou∣ring for—A meek and quiet spi∣rit* 2.23 which is in the sight of God of great price, but hee that is

soone angry dealeth foolishly.* 2.24 O make mee therefore wise in watching over mine owne heart, in keeping downe mine owne unmortified spirit, to restraine my mouth with a bridle, seeing the discre∣tion of a man deferreth his an∣ger,* 2.25 and it is his glory to passe over a transgression—vouch∣safe mee thy grace for Iesus Christ his sake—To whom with thee and—&c—

Against Apostacie and Back∣sliding in religion.

O Lord my God never I be∣seech thee, let there be in me an evill heart of unbeliefe to depart from thee, the living God: let mee never be of the number of them that draw back unto perdition; leaving my first love, casting off my first faith to embrace this present world,

or to enjoy the pleasures of sin, which are but for a season. O Lord though some fall away, and are already turned after Sa∣tan, even denying the Lord that bought them, and so bring up∣on themselves swift destru∣ction: yet doe thou please so to establish my heart with grace that I may continue to the end, in that good way, in which I have begun: let mee not leave the pathes of righteousnesse, to walke againe in the wayes of darkenesse, or with the dog re∣turne to my former vomit, and with the sow that was washed to my wallowing in the mire. O Lord there is in me by nature, a revolting and rebellious heart, I am bent to backsliding from thee; unlesse thou doe draw me, I shall settle and lag; O teach mee to looke to my selfe, to keepe my heart with all dili∣gence,* 2.26 that I lose not those things which I have wrought,

but that I may receive a full re∣ward;* 2.27 make mee to run with patience the race that is set be∣fore me, and to be faithfull unto the death, that thou maist give me a crowne of life. As thou hast given mee a little strength, to keepe thy word, and not to de∣ny thy name: so establish O God the thing that thou hast wrought in me? '•• is he that continueth to the end that shall be saved, not he that beginneth well, that put∣teth his hand to the plough and looketh backe; O let me hold Faith and a good conscience, that my last workes, may bee better, & moe than at first: thou art able to keep mee from falling, and to preserve me faultlesse, before the presence of thy glory, with ex∣ceeding joy. O doe it I beseech thee for thy names sake. Even so Lord Iesus. Amen.

See, Apostate, Backslide, Perse∣vere, &c. in the Scripture phrases.

Against distrustfull Cares.

O Lord hast not thou com∣manded me, to cast all my care upon thee, because thou ca∣rest for me? hast not thou said thou wilt never leave me, nor for sake me? art not thou God all-sufficient? Thy Sonne my Sa∣viour* 2.28 hath also bidden mee to take no thought for my life, what I shall eate, or what I shall drinke, nor yet for my bo∣dy what I should put on. Doest not thou feed the fowles of the ayre, which sow not, neither reape, nor gather into barnes? By taking thought I cannot adde one cubit unto my stature: and thou (my heavenly father) know∣est what things I want, what things are best for me, and hast promised rather to starve the Lyons, than to let thy children want any thing that is good for them. O let me believe thy gra∣cious promise, to live by Faith,

to be content with those things that I have, yea to receive evill at thy hands, as well as good. I am yet in better condition to the world-ward, than many of thy dearest Saints, and (now-glori∣ous)* 2.29 Martyrs, that wandered up and downe, in sheepe-skins, and goat••-skins, being destitute, af∣flicted, and tormented: of whom the world was not worthy: yea I have more worldly riches than the Lord of the whole world my blessed Saviour, who* 2.30 had not wheron to rest his head: who when he was to pay tri∣bute-money, had never a penny, but sent his Disciple Peter to the Sea, to cast in a hooke, and to take up the first Fish, and there found to supply his present necessitie. O let not me expect to be carved to, in a better condition, than my Lord and Master; But to wait on thee my God continually. Teach me first to seeke the Kingdome of heaven, and the righneous∣nesse

thereof, then hast thou pro∣mised that all other things shall be added unto me.

Amen.

Vid. Care, Providence &c. For Marriners or Seafaring men, &c.

O Lord the great and dread∣full* 2.31 God, which hast pla∣ced the sand from the bound of the Sea, by a perpetuall decree, that it cannot passe it; and though the waves thereof tosse them∣selves, yet can they not prevaile, though they roare, yet can they not passe over it, for thou shut∣test* 2.32 up the Sea with doores and barres, and sayest to the waves, hither shall yee come, and no fur∣ther. Thou art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of such as abide in the broad Sea, wee O Lord, whose imployment and calling is in the deepe, in this heape of great waters, in the* 2.33 midst of the Seas, that go down to the Sea in ships, and doe busi∣nesse in great waters, we see thy* 2.34

works and wonders in the deep. For thou commandest and rai∣sest the stormie wind, which lif∣teth* 2.35 up the waves thereof. We mount up to the heaven, we go downe againe to the depths, our* 2.36 soule is melted because of trou∣ble, wee reele too and fro, and* 2.37 stagger like a drunken man, and are at our wits end. O teach us to* 2.38 cry unto thee in our trouble, and doe thou bring us out of our di∣stresses: make thou (we beseech thee) the storme a calme, that the* 2.39 waves therof may be still, and so bring us to the desired haven, then shall we praise thee Lord* 2.40 for thy goodnesse, and for thy wonderfull works, towards the* 2.41 children of men.

Thou art our refuge and strength, a very present helpe in* 2.42 trouble, therefore will wee not feare though the earth be remo∣ved:* 2.43 and though the mountaines be carried into the midst of the Sea: though the waters thereof

roare, and bee troubled; though* 2.44 the mountaines shake with the swelling thereof: for unto thee, O Lord belong the issues from death. O make us to cast the an∣chor of our hope still on thee, who hast hitherto mercifully de∣livered us from so great a death, and dost deliver us, in whom we trust that thou wilt yet deliver us. Let not the depths, we pray thee cover us, neither let us sink into the bottome as a stone, though the flouds compasse us about, yet let not the waves and billowes passe over us: thou ma∣kest a way in the Sea, and a path in the mighty waters, thou art the God that hast made the Sea and the dry Land, doe not thou suffer that there be the losse of a∣ny mans life among us, let not a* 2.45 hayre of our heads perish. Ap∣pease the mighty tempest when it ariseth, that our Ship may not be broken, rebuke the wind, and say unto the waves peace, and be

still. O teach every Ship-master, and all the company in Ships,* 2.46 those that handle the Oare, the Marriners, and all the Pilots of the Sea, and as many as trade by* 2.47 Sea, to trust in the saving helpe* 2.48 of thy right hand, when we be toyled in rowing, and the wind is contrary unto us, and not to re∣ly on our owne skill: take from us that desperate boldnesse, feare∣lesnesse of thee and danger, that Atheisme, Swearing, and Pro∣phanenesse, and notorious Un∣godlinesse, which is too often found in many of us: Make us to be at peace with thee, in the blood of thy Sonne, that he may be advantage unto us both in life and death. There is continually but a step betwixt us and death, yea even but an hand-breadth,* 2.49 for thou hast made all mens dayes as an hand-breadth, and our age is as nothing before thee; Be thou our life in death, and to trust thee with our bo∣dies

and soules, knowing that the Sea shall at the last day, give up the dead that are in it, and our spirits shall returne unto God that gave them. If thou please to bring us safely to land, O make us to remember our vowes, which we uttered with our-lips when wee were in trou∣ble, lest otherwise thou shouldst* 2.50 deliver us no more—Grant this grace unto us for Iesus sake, to whom with thee, &c.

Amen.

Husbandman in Seed time.

O Lord, doe thou teach me to* 2.51 cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principall wheat, and the ap∣pointed barley, and rye in their places, and that I may plough and* 2.52 sow in hope make me to breake up the fallow ground of mine owne heart: that the earth bring not forth bryars and thornes, and thist••es unto me, when it is til∣led, neither be cursed for my

Sinne. Make me to sow to my selfe in righteousnesse.

2 Spring-time.

BLessed bee thy name that* 2.53 thus renewest the face of the earth, that crownest the yeare with thy goodnes, and thy steps drop fatnesse—the win∣ter is past, the raine is over, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voyce of the tur∣tle is heard in our Land—the pastures are clothed with flocks, the valleyes also are covered o∣ver with corne, they shout for joy and sing. O make my bar∣ren heart to flourish in grace, to abound in the fruits of righte∣ousnesse.

For Seasonable weather, Plen∣tie—&c.

O Lord give us the raine of* 2.54 our seed, that we have sowed the ground withall, and bread of the encrease of the

earth, that it may be sat and plen∣teous. Let not the Locust, Cat∣terpillar, Cankerworme, Bla∣sting, Mildew, or unseasonable weather, deprive us of the fruits of the earth, but blesse them, and bring them to maturity, that our garners may be full, abounding in all manner of store, let our oxen be strong to labour, let the mower fill his hand, and hee that gathereth up the sheaves, his bosome, that our barnes may* 2.55 bee filled with plentie▪ and our presses burst with new wine. Re∣serve for us the appointed weeks of harvest, and though wee de∣serve not the least morsell of bread we eate, yet thou that art goodnesse it selfe, and canst not but put on bowels of pitty, wilt fulfill thine owne gracious promise, that Seed-time and Harvest, summer and winter, may not cease: true it is Lord, we deserve not onely that the fruits of the earth, but even that

our selves also should be swept away like dung from off the earth; for thou art pressed under us as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves,—thou changest the seasons, because we change our obedience; our hearts are stony, and the heavens weepe for their hardnesse, yet we lay not all this to heart.—

—teach mee to provide my meate in summer as a Sonne of wisedome—and although the* 2.56 fig-tree shall not blossome, nei∣ther fruit be in the vine, though the Labour of the Olive shall faile, and the fields shall yield no meate, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be* 2.57 no herd in the stalls: yet that I may rejoyce in the Lord, and joy in the God of my salvation—

Amen.

FINIS.

Notes

• * 1.1

  2. Pet. 1. 4.
• * 1.2

  Isay 65. 24.
• * 1.3

  Math. 7. 7.
• * 1.4

  Exod. 19. 6.
• * 1.5

  Mal. 1. 11.
• * 1.6

  Rom. 8. 26.
• * 1.7

  Psal. 10. 17
• * 1.8

  Mar. 11. 24.
• * 1.9

  2. Promises made to each several head of Prayer, &c. Pro. 28. 13.
• * 1.10

  I Iohn 1. 9.
• * 1.11

  Isai. 1. 18.
• * 1.12

  Isai. 43. 25.
• * 1.13

  Ier. 31 34.
• * 1.14

  Isay 57. 1••.
• * 1.15

  Ezek. 18. 21.
• * 1.16

  22
• * 1.17

  23.
• * 1.18

  Mat. 11. 28.
• * 1.19

  Mic. 7. 18.
• * 1.20

  19.
• * 1.21

  Rom. 16. 20.
• * 1.22

  Rom. 6. 14.
• * 1.23

  Psal. 37. 24.
• * 1.24

  Ezech. 36. 25. 26.
• * 1.25

  27
• * 1.26

  Deut. 30. 6.
• * 1.27

  Isai. 44 3.
• * 1.28

  Isai. 42 3.
• * 1.29

  Math. 5. 6.
• * 1.30

  Phil. 1 6.
• * 1.31

  Isai. 12. 3.
• * 1.32

  Isai. 55. 1.
• * 1.33

  Exod. 20. 24.
• * 1.34

  Prov. 16. 3.
• * 1.35

  prov. 3. 6.
• * 1.36

  Isai. 30. 21.
• * 1.37

  psal. 121. 8.
• * 1.38

  Deut. 28. 6.
• * 1.39

  30. 9.
• * 1.40

  31 8.
• * 1.41

  Psal. 91. 11.
• * 1.42

  Isay 35. 6. 10.
• * 1.43

  Ioel. 2. 26.
• * 1.44

  Isai. 55. 12.
• * 1.45

  Psal. 25. 1.
• * 1.46

  1. Preface.
• * 1.47

  2. Parts.
• * 1.48

  1. Confession of 1 Sinne.
• * 1.49

  to which is necessary
• * 1.50

  1 A particu∣lar knovv∣ledge of sin.
• * 1.51

  2. Sense of it, and sorrow for it.
• * 1.52

  3. particular enumeration
• * 1.53

  1. Of Adams disobedience
• * 1.54

  2. Originall sinne.
• * 1.55

  to be descri∣ed in the
• * 1.56

  Vnderstan∣ding.
• * 1.57

  1. Conscience.
• * 1.58

  3. Memory.
• * 1.59

  4. Will.
• * 1.60

  5. Sensitive appetite.
• * 1.61

  6. Affections
• * 1.62

  7. Body and members.
• * 1.63

  3 Actuall sin in deeds of
• * 1.64

  1. Omission and
• * 1.65

  D••s••••uncie
• * 1.66

  2. Commission
• * 1.67

  1. Against God
• * 1.68

  2. Presumptu∣ously.
• * 1.69

  3. Without, or with temp∣tations.
• * 1.70

  4. Against vowes—
• * 1.71

  2. Sinnes a∣gainst the Gospell.
• * 1.72

  2. part of Confession viz. of the wages of punishment.
• * 1.73

  The second part of pray∣er, which is Petition.
• * 1.74

  Apprecation for
• * 1.75

  1. Pardon of sinne.
• * 1.76

  2. Faith in Christ.
• * 1.77

  3. Repentance.
• * 1.78

  4. All sancti∣fying grace.
• * 1.79

  2. For growth and encrease of Grace.
• * 1.80

  3. The meanes of grace con∣tinued and sanctifyed to us.
• * 1.81

  2. Petition for supply of temporall wants.
• * 1.82

  2. Deprecati∣on.
• * 1.83

  1. To be freed from the guilt of Sin.
• * 1.84

  Personall.
• * 1.85

  Nationall.
• * 1.86

  2. To have povver 1. Over Sinne.
• * 1.87

  2. The world.
• * 1.88

  3. The Devill
• * 1.89

  2. To hee freed from the evill of pu∣nishment.
• * 1.90

  Nationall.
• * 1.91

  Personall.
• * 1.92

  2. I••tercession for the Ca∣tholike Church.
• * 1.93

  2. Called.
• * 1.94

  3. In forraine arts.
• * 1.95

  2. Our land at home.
• * 1.96

  3. Afflicted.
• * 1.97

  The third part of Prayer which is Thankesgi∣ving for the Church in generall.
• * 1.98

  2. Our selves in particu∣lar. Election, &c.
• * 1.99

  ••. For grace in any mea∣sure.
• * 1.100

  2. Thankesgi∣ving for Temporall Blessings.
• * 1.101

  Helpes a∣gainst Di∣straction in Prayer.
• * 1.102

  1 Tim. 2. 8
• * 1.103

  Isai. 66. 2.
• * 1.104

  Eccles. 5. 2. vers. 1.
• * 1.105

  Mal. 13. 14.
• * 1.106

  Mal. 1. 11.
• * 1.107

  Zech. 12. 10.
• * 1.108

  M. Dyke on the hearts deceiptf.
• * 1.109

  Gen. 27. 34.
• * 1.110

  Iob▪ 27. 8. 10.
• * 1.111

  Hos. 5. 15. Isai. 26. 16.
• * 1.112

  2 Chr▪ 7. 14.
• * 1.113

  M. Dyke ibid.
• * 1.114

  Our sacrifi∣ces must bee offered with fire, warmth of enflamed Zeale. Cold Prayers are to God as dead drinks be to us.
• * 1.115

  Psal. 42. 1. Ps. 119. 20.
• * 1.116

  Luk. 18. 10. 1 Thes. 5. 17▪
• * 1.117

  Isai. 1.
• * 1.118

  Tergat spe∣culum, mun∣det spiritum. Bern.
• * 1.119

  Out of M. Byfield.
• * 1.120

  1. For confes∣sion of sin.
• * 1.121

  2. For petiti∣on of neces∣saries.
• * 1.122

  3. for thankes∣giving,
• * 1.123

  3 For Thankesgi∣ving.
• * 1.124

  Practice of Christia∣nity. pag. 622.
• * 1.125

  To these Common∣places, thou mayest in thy daily reading the Scriptures, referre ma∣ny of the like nature.
• * 1.126

  Lam. 3. 41.
• * 1.127

  Psal. 123. 1.
• * 1.128

  Num. 16. 22.
• * 1.129

  Nehe. 9. 17.
• * 1.130

  Psal. 75. 2. Isai. 42. 5.
• * 1.131

  Dan. 5. 23.
• * 1.132

  Isai. 57. 15.
• * 1.133

  Ier. 10. 10.
• * 1.134

  12.
• * 1.135

  Amos 4. 15.
• * 1.136

  1 Tim. 6. 15.
• * 1.137

  16.
• * 1.138

  Sam. 1. 4. 4
• * 1.139

  1 King. 8. 27
• * 1.140

  1 Chr. 29. 11
• * 1.141

  12.
• * 1.142

  Iob 25. 5.
• * 1.143

  Psal. 104. 1.
• * 1.144

  2.
• * 1.145

  Isai. 40. 15.
• * 1.146

  17.
• * 1.147

  22.
• * 1.148

  Ier. 20. 12.
• * 1.149

  Ier. 31. 35.
• * 1.150

  Ier. 32. 17.
• * 1.151

  18.
• * 1.152

  19.
• * 1.153

  Ier. 46. 18.
• * 1.154

  Amos 5 8.
• * 1.155

  Amos 9 6.
• * 1.156

  Mich. 7. 18.
• * 1.157

  Nah. 1. 4.
• * 1.158

  Hab. 1. 13.
• * 1.159

  Deut. 26. 15
• * 1.160

  1 Reg. 8. 28.
• * 1.161

  Psal. 50. 15.
• * 1.162

  2 Reg. 19. 16.
• * 1.163

  Psal. 141. 2.
• * 1.164

  Iohn 14. 14.
• * 1.165

  Dan. 9. 17.
• * 1.166

  18.
• * 1.167

  Rom. 8. 26.
• * 1.168

  Exo. 22. 27.
• * 1.169

  1 Kin. 8. 30.
• * 1.170

  36
• * 1.171

  43.
• * 1.172

  39.
• * 1.173

  Nehe. 1. 6.
• * 1.174

  Psal. 5. 2.
• * 1.175

  Psal. 28. 2.
• * 1.176

  Psal. 86. 6.
• * 1.177

  Psal. 19. 14.
• * 1.178

  Psal. 123. 1
• * 1.179

  Psal. 143. 1
• * 1.180

  7.
• * 1.181

  Isai. 63. 15.
• * 1.182

  Hab. 1. 2. ••.
• * 1.183

  Ezra 9. 6.
• * 1.184

  Gen 1. 27.
• * 1.185

  2. 7. 3. 13.
• * 1.186

  Heb. 7. 10.
• * 1.187

  Rom. 3. 23.
• * 1.188

  Eccles. ••. 29
• * 1.189

  Num. 32. 14
• * 1.190

  ••il. ••▪ ••••.
• * 1.191

  Rom. 7. 18.
• * 1.192

  Gen. 6. 5.
• * 1.193

  Io•• 9. 20.
• * 1.194

  &. 20. 27.
• * 1.195

  15. 14.
• * 1.196

  〈…〉〈…〉 6.
• * 1.197

  Psal. 38. 4.
• * 1.198

  Pro. 20. 9.
• * 1.199

  Isai. 64. 6.
• * 1.200

  7.
• * 1.201

  Isai. 43. 24.
• * 1.202

  Isai. 3. 9.
• * 1.203

  Psal. 130. 3.
• * 1.204

  Dan. 5. 27.
• * 1.205

  Rom 7. 13.
• * 1.206

  Isa. 26. 10.
• * 1.207

  Rom. 1. 16.
• * 1.208

  Isa. 65. 2.
• * 1.209

  1 Cor. 16. 22 Eph. 6. 24. Isai. 53. 3.
• * 1.210

  Phil. 3. 8.
• * 1.211

  9.
• * 1.212

  10.
• * 1.213

  Rev. 2. 21.
• * 1.214

  Psal. 32. 5.
• * 1.215

  Ier. 5. 3.
• * 1.216

  Ephes. 4. 30▪
• * 1.217

  Iude 4.
• * 1.218

  Revel. 2. 4. Psal. 42. 2.
• * 1.219

  Heb. 10. 26.
• * 1.220

  27.
• * 1.221

  28.
• * 1.222

  29.
• * 1.223

  Isai. 1. 18.
• * 1.224

  2 Sam. 12. 14 Ier. 5. 28.
• * 1.225

  Iob 42. 6.
• * 1.226

  Psal. 40. 12.
• * 1.227

  Psal. 43. 2.
• * 1.228

  Psal. 90. 8.
• * 1.229

  Isai 1. 12.
• * 1.230

  Isai. 3. 8.
• * 1.231

  Isai. 5. 18.
• * 1.232

  Isai. 59. 2.
• * 1.233

  Ier. 6. 7.
• * 1.234

  Ier. 2. 21.
• * 1.235

  Ier. 2. 22.
• * 1.236

  Ier. 17. 1.
• * 1.237

  Amos. 2. 13.
• * 1.238

  Amos 5. 12.
• * 1.239

  Rom. 7. 14.
• * 1.240

  23.
• * 1.241

  24.
• * 1.242

  Ezr. 9. 13.
• * 1.243

  Lam. 3. 22.
• * 1.244

  Isay. 28. 17.
• * 1.245

  Deu. 29. 23.
• * 1.246

  Psal. 9. 17.
• * 1.247

  Psal 130. 7.
• * 1.248

  Exod. 34. 9.
• * 1.249

  Isai. 44. 2.
• * 1.250

  Ier. 14. 7.
• * 1.251

  Iob 6. 8.
• * 1.252

  Nehe 4 5.
• * 1.253

  Psal. 25. 7.
• * 1.254

  Psal. 25. 11.
• * 1.255

  Psal 79. 8.
• * 1.256

  Hos. 14. 2.
• * 1.257

  Mic. 7. 19.
• * 1.258

  Ioh. 1. 29.
• * 1.259

  Ioh. 18 37.
• * 1.260

  Isai. 53. 5.
• * 1.261

  Psal. 57. 2.
• * 1.262

  Psal. 51. 2.
• * 1.263

  7.
• * 1.264

  2 Sam, 24. 10
• * 1.265

  Ps. 119. 132
• * 1.266

  Isai. 1. 18.
• * 1.267

  Ier. 32. 27.
• * 1.268

  Math. 6. 39.
• * 1.269

  Luk. 17. 5. Math. 7. 20. Rom. 5. 1.
• * 1.270

  Iam. 2. 20. Heb. 12. 14.
• * 1.271

  Psa. 51. 10.
• * 1.272

  Phil. 3. 9.
• * 1.273

  Psa. 6. 6.
• * 1.274

  Mat. 11. 21. Act. 11. 18.
• * 1.275

  Rev. 2. 21.
• * 1.276

  Deut 5. 29.
• * 1.277

  2 Tim 2. 26.
• * 1.278

  2 Cor. 7. 10.
• * 1.279

  Ezek 37. 25.
• * 1.280

  Eze. 36. 26.
• * 1.281

  27
• * 1.282

  Ephes. 1. 17.
• * 1.283

  18.
• * 1.284

  Hab. 2. 14
• * 1.285

  Heb. 8. 11.
• * 1.286

  Ephes. 3. 17.
• * 1.287

  18.
• * 1.288

  19.
• * 1.289

  Phil. 3. 10.
• * 1.290

  Prov. 192.
• * 1.291

  Prov. 2. 2.
• * 1.292

  3. 5.
• * 1.293

  Hos. 8. 2.
• * 1.294

  Mat. 22. 37.
• * 1.295

  Luke 7. 47.
• * 1.296

  Iohn 13. 34.
• * 1.297

  Phil. 1. 9.
• * 1.298

  Gal. 6. 10.
• * 1.299

  Mat. 5. 44.
• * 1.300

  Tit. 2. 14.
• * 1.301

  Rev. 3. 16.
• * 1.302

  Psa. 119. 20
• * 1.303

  Iohn 2. 17. 2 Cor. 9. 2.
• * 1.304

  Psal. 51. 6.
• * 1.305

  Iohn 1. 47.
• * 1.306

  2 Cor. 1. 12.
• * 1.307

  Ier. 16▪ 17.
• * 1.308

  Psal. 139. 2
• * 1.309

  3.
• * 1.310

  1 Cor 4. 5.
• * 1.311

  Amos 9. 2.
• * 1.312

  3.
• * 1.313

  Prov. 24. 12.
• * 1.314

  Eeles. 12. 14▪
• * 1.315

  1 Sam. 16. 7.
• * 1.316

  2 Kin. 20. 3.
• * 1.317

  1 Chr. 28. 2.
• * 1.318

  Ier. 23. 24.
• * 1.319

  Psal. 44. 21.
• * 1.320

  Ps. 139. 12.
• * 1.321

  Prov. 20. 27.
• * 1.322

  1 King. 8. 39
• * 1.323

  Heb. 4. 13.
• * 1.324

  Rom. 1. 1••,
• * 1.325

  Act 4. 29.
• * 1.326

  Mark. 8. 38.
• * 1.327

  Deut. 5. 29.
• * 1.328

  Ier. 32. 39.
• * 1.329

  40.
• * 1.330

  Heb. 10. 23.
• * 1.331

  Phil. 4. 11.
• * 1.332

  Phil 4. ••2.
• * 1.333

  1 Tim. 6. 6.
• * 1.334

  7.
• * 1.335

  8.
• * 1.336

  Heb. 13. 5.
• * 1.337

  1 Pet. 5. 7.
• * 1.338

  Iob. 2. 10.
• * 1.339

  Math. 6. 25.
• * 1.340

  Math. 6. 26.
• * 1.341

  2••.
• * 1.342

  27.
• * 1.343

  30.
• * 1.344

  31.
• * 1.345

  32.
• * 1.346

  Prov. 30. ••.
• * 1.347

  Prov. 30. 9.
• * 1.348

  Luk. 9. 23.
• * 1.349

  Ioh. 16. 33▪
• * 1.350

  Act. 14. 2••.
• * 1.351

  Rom. 8. 1••.
• * 1.352

  Phil. 1. 29.
• * 1.353

  Heb 12. 1.
• * 1.354

  2.
• * 1.355

  3.
• * 1.356

  1 Pet. 4. 12.
• * 1.357

  13
• * 1.358

  14.
• * 1.359

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 119. 105
• * 1.360

  Psal. 16. 7.
• * 1.361

  Heb. 4. 12.
• * 1.362

  Pro 20. 12.
• * 1.363

  Ier. 23. 29.
• * 1.364

  Isai. 55. 10.
• * 1.365

  11.
• * 1.366

  Isai. 50. 4.
• * 1.367

  Isai. 53. 10.
• * 1.368

  Psal. 36. 8.
• * 1.369

  9.
• * 1.370

  Psal. 132. 7.
• * 1.371

  Psa. 119. 18
• * 1.372

  Isai. 26. 8.
• * 1.373

  Mic. 4. 2.
• * 1.374

  Isai. 30. 21.
• * 1.375

  Psal. 65. 4.
• * 1.376

  Isai. 25. 6.
• * 1.377

  ••••. 7.
• * 1.378

  1 Cor. 11. 28.
• * 1.379

  loh. 6. 32.
• * 1.380

  35.
• * 1.381

  36.
• * 1.382

  37.
• * 1.383

  Psal. 42. 1.
• * 1.384

  Psal. 63. 2.
• * 1.385

  Psa. 126. 12. 13.
• * 1.386

  Gen. 28. 20.
• * 1.387

  21.
• * 1.388

  43. 14.
• * 1.389

  Prov. 2. 8.
• * 1.390

  Psal. 17. 5.
• * 1.391

  Psal. 91. 11
• * 1.392

  12.
• * 1.393

  Gen. 28 15.
• * 1.394

  1 Chr. 4. 10.
• * 1.395

  Neh. 1. 11.
• * 1.396

  Psal. 90. 17.
• * 1.397

  2 Chr. 20. 12
• * 1.398

  Isai. 26. 12.
• * 1.399

  Psal. 127. 2.
• * 1.400

  Ier. 10. 23.
• * 1.401

  1 Cor. 2. 3.
• * 1.402

  Rom. 6. 12.
• * 1.403

  12.
• * 1.404

  Heb. 12. 15.
• * 1.405

  Rom. 6. 22.
• * 1.406

  Rom 7 23.
• * 1.407

  24
• * 1.408

  Psal. 19. 12.
• * 1.409

  13.
• * 1.410

  2 Cor. 10. 5.
• * 1.411

  Ps. 131. 1. 2.
• * 1.412

  Psa. 119 33
• * 1.413

  Psal. 8. 23.
• * 1.414

  Heb. 12. 1 2.
• * 1.415

  1 Ioh. 2 15. 16.
• * 1.416

  Tit. 2. 12.
• * 1.417

  Eph. 5. 15.
• * 1.418

  1 Tim. 5. 14.
• * 1.419

  Col. 3. 5.
• * 1.420

  Col. 3. 8.
• * 1.421

  Heb. 12. 4.
• * 1.422

  Heb. 3. 12.
• * 1.423

  Luke 21. 34.
• * 1.424

  1 Pet. 5. 8.
• * 1.425

  Eph. 6. 11.
• * 1.426

  10.
• * 1.427

  Psal 91. 10.
• * 1.428

  Psal. 57 ••.
• * 1.429

  4.
• * 1.430

  Psal. 35. 1.
• * 1.431

  Psal. 6. 2.
• * 1.432

  3 4.
• * 1.433

  5.
• * 1.434

  6.
• * 1.435

  7.
• * 1.436

  Psal 25. 16.
• * 1.437

  17.
• * 1.438

  18.
• * 1.439

  Mat. 26. 39
• * 1.440

  Psal. 39. 4.
• * 1.441

  5.
• * 1.442

  Psal. 90. 12.
• * 1.443

  Intercessi∣on, or the Prayer of Charity.
• * 1.444

  Luke 12. 32.
• * 1.445

  Zech. 2. 5.
• * 1.446

  Isai. 49. 16.
• * 1.447

  17.
• * 1.448

  26.
• * 1.449

  Isal. 63. 15.
• * 1.450

  16.
• * 1.451

  Isai. 51. 9.
• * 1.452

  Psal. 17. 7.
• * 1.453

  Psa. 44. 23. 24. 25. 26
• * 1.454

  Ps. 129. 5. 6.
• * 1.455

  Amos 9. 11. & 5. 15.
• * 1.456

  Lukh 1. 78.
• * 1.457

  79.
• * 1.458

  Ioh. 10. 16.
• * 1.459

  Eze. 34. 12.
• * 1.460

  13.
• * 1.461

  Mich. 2. 12.
• * 1.462

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