A Prayer to be prepared for our last End.
O Eternal GOD, my Maker, my Redeemer, I adore and bless thy Holy Name, that thou hast with
Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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- Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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- Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
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- London :: printed for W. Hensman, at the King's-Head in Westminster-Hall,
- 1683.
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- Prayer -- Early works to 1800.
- Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Theology, Practical -- Early works to 1800.
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"Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36933.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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such admirable patience, not only suffered me to live this hour, but withal hast multi∣plied thy daily blessings on me, even then when I by my sinful life have most unkind∣ly and treacherously rebelled against thee.
But who knows, O mer∣ciful Lord, how soon thy abused patience may end, or how speedily thou maist call me to a sad account for all my former days so miserably mispent?
For O how many are they on whom the Morning Sun hath shined, that shall not live to see it set? And how know I but this may be my last day too? the only day which thou, O GOD, hast
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left me to set my soul in or∣der, and to prepare for that day which never shall have end.
O my dear Lord, suffer me not then to neglect this blessed season, but by an hearty repentance speedily, even this day, this instant to return unto thee; that how soon soever thou shalt call me to my Transmigration from this life, my accounts may be found audited, my sins cancelled, and my soul acquitted by the bloud of that Lamb that takes away the sins of the World.
Grant this, O my God, for his sake that vouchsafeth to die for me, thy only Son Jesus Christ the righteous.
Amen.