This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
NOw these meditati∣ons must be conclu∣ded and intermixed, with confessions and sup∣plications. The poore sinner must gather up his thoughts into petiti∣ons and requests, and refusing to be hindered by any feares, doubts, or objections, must take to himselfe boldnesse to fall downe before the
throne of grace, and fol∣lowing the counsell of the Holy Ghost, must take to himselfe words, and say, receive me gra∣tiously, and take away all iniquity. Addresse thy selfe unto the God of heaven in the name of Christ his Sonne, and say, Lord behold here the worst of sinners, ap∣pearing before thee, ca∣sting himselfe as low as hell, desirons to bee as full of shame and sorrow as is possible, and there∣fore troubled, because he cannot be more grieved & more abased. I am Lord
indeed a vile and grie∣vous sinner, and these and these evills have I done, but ô for the merits sake of Jesus Christ alone, thy deere and onely begotten Sonne, accept me, for∣give, and according to the multitude of thy mercies, wash mee throughly from all my sinnes. Remember O Lord the thing that thou hast promised and sealed up to al that seeke thee, even blot out all mine of∣fences out of thy re∣membrance, and for my sinnes and iniquities, O
Lord remember them no more. Be not wea∣rie of making these re∣quests, though thou seeme to thy selfe to re∣ceive none answer to them, but fly constantly, and runne boldly to the throne of grace, to at∣taine mercy to helpe in time of need. If thy soule be vexed with new feares, confirme thou it with new prayers, and resolve, if thou must be damned to be damned praying, and if thou must needs perish, to pe∣rish with a prayer in thy mouth, then thou canst
not bee damned, then thou canst not perish. Call upon God in the day of thy trouble, make thy prayers to him in the flouds of great waters, and sure they shall not come neere thee, for he will fullfill his promise, and will grant thee all that thou beggest in the name of his Sonne. Thus have you two helpes to comfort, pray∣er and meditation.