16. PRAYER.
O Eternall and most gracious God, who hauing consecrated our liuing bodies, to thine owne Spirit, and made vs Temples of the holy Ghost, doest also requir•• a respect to bee giuen to
Devotions vpon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes digested into I. Meditations vpon our humane condition, 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God, 3. Prayers, vpon the seuerall occasions, to Him / by Iohn Donne ...
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- Devotions vpon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes digested into I. Meditations vpon our humane condition, 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God, 3. Prayers, vpon the seuerall occasions, to Him / by Iohn Donne ...
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these Temples, euen when the Priest is gone out of them, To these bodies, when the soule is depar∣ted from them; I blesse, and glorifie thy Name, that as thou takest care in our life, of euery haire of our head, so doest thou also of euery graine of ashes after our death. Neither doest thou only doe good to vs all, in life and death, but also wouldest haue vs doe good to one another, as in a holy life, so in those things which accompa∣nie
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our death: In that Contemplation I make account that I heare this dead brother of ours, who is now carried out to his buriall, to speake to mee, and to preach my funerall Sermon, in the voice of these Bells. In him, O God, thou hast accomplished to mee, euen the request of Di∣ues to Abraham; Thou hast sent one from the dead to speake vnto mee. He speakes to mee aloud from that steeple; hee whispers to mee at these
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Curtaines, and hee speaks thy words; Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth. Let this praier therfore, O my God, be as my last gaspe, my expiring, my dying in thee; That if this bee the houre of my trans∣migration, I may die the death of a sinner, drow∣ned in my sinnes, in the bloud of thy Sonne; And if I liue longer, yet I may now die the death of the righteous, die to sinne; which death is a resur∣rection to a new life. Thou
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killest and thou giuest life: which soeuer comes, it comes from thee; which way soeuer it comes, let mee come to thee.
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Apoc. 14 13.