Good thoughts in worse times consisting of personall meditations, Scripture observations, meditations on the times, meditations on all kind of prayers, occasionall meditations / by Tho. Fuller ...

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Good thoughts in worse times consisting of personall meditations, Scripture observations, meditations on the times, meditations on all kind of prayers, occasionall meditations / by Tho. Fuller ...
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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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London :: Printed by W.W. for John Williams ...,
1647.
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Meditations.
Devotional exercises.
Conscience.
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"Good thoughts in worse times consisting of personall meditations, Scripture observations, meditations on the times, meditations on all kind of prayers, occasionall meditations / by Tho. Fuller ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40668.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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XIII. Mixt-Prayers.

MIxt-Prayers are a methodicall com∣position, (no casuall con∣fusion) of extempore and Premeditate Prayers put together. Wherein the Standers, still are the same, and the essentiall Parts, (confession of sin, begging of Pardon, cra∣ving grace for the future, thanking God for for∣mer Favours &c.) like the Bones of the Prayer remaine alwayes unalte∣red. Whilst the moveable

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petitions (like the flesh & Colour of thy Prayers) are added, abridged, or altered, as Gods Spirit adviseth and enableth us, according to the emer∣gencies of present occasi∣ons.

In the Mid-land-Sea Galleys are found to be most usefull, which part∣ly runne on the Legges of Oares, and partly flye with the Wings of Sailes, whereby they become serviceable both in a wind and in a calme. Such the conveniency of mixt∣prayer, wherein infused and acquired graces meet together, and men part∣ly

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move with the brea th of the holy Spirit, partly row on by their owne In∣dustry. Such medley pray∣ers are most usefull, as ha∣ving the stedinesse of pre∣meditate, and the activi∣ty of extemporary prayer, joyned together.

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