The Countess of Morton's daily exercise: or, A book of prayers, and rules how to spend the time in the service and pleasure of Almighty God.

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The Countess of Morton's daily exercise: or, A book of prayers, and rules how to spend the time in the service and pleasure of Almighty God.
Author
Morton, Anne Douglas, Countess of, d. 1700.
Publication
London :: printed for R. Royston, bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty,
1679.
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Church of England -- Prayer-books and devotions -- English -- Early works to 1800.
Prayers -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800.
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Meditations in the time of Sickness, upon the great Mercies of God.
I.

WHen we are judg∣ed, we are chaste∣ned of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

II.

REfuse not the corre∣ction of the Almigh∣ty: it is the Lord, let him do what seems good in his own eyes.

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III.

AS it pleaseth the Lord, so cometh e∣very thing to pass: Bles∣sed be the Name of the Lord.

IV.

GOD is the Lord of Life and Death, of sickness and of health, by whose appointment we were born, and by whose commandment again we must die; our time is in his hand, and to him be∣long the issues of Death.

V.

GOD is meek and gentle, ready to accept our sorrow and re∣pentance for sin.

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VI.

HE is exceeding slow to anger, and not easily provoked; he seeth our sins, and makes as if he saw them not; he ma∣ny times over-looketh them, and by his long-suffering passeth them by as loth to see them.

VII.

WHen he cannot but see, yet he for∣bears, and is patient; For∣bears long, suffers long, many times, many years.

VIII.

WHen he can suffer, & stay no longer,

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but punish he must, he doth it against his will; and when he is angry, he containeth himself in it, and suffereth not his whole displeasure to a∣rise.

IX.

HE is angry, but not according to our deserts, nothing so much: He is angry but not long, it endures but a little while, and in his wrath he thinketh upon mercy; he thinks every stripe two, and is quickly wea∣ry; he repents him of the evil, and is soon appeased.

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X.

HE will have none to perish, but have all to be saved; he willeth not the death of a sinner, but that he should repent and live.

XI.

NOt of any sinner, not of Manasses, not of Rahab, not of Mary Mag∣dalen; not of Saint Paul, who was once a chief sin∣ner.

XII.

FOr Christ came into the world to save sin∣ners, and of them that come unto him he casteth none out.

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