The soules solace in times of trouble with severall particular remedies against despaire, collected out of the Psalmes of Daivd, and some short meditations and ejaculations upon the attributes of God, the Lords Prayer, and the tenne commandments / by F. Thorne ...

A few short Meditations and eja∣culations upon the ATTRIBVTES of God, the Lords PRAYER, and the ten COMMANDEMENTS.

Of the goodnesse and greatnesse of God.

[Meditati. 1] LOrd thou art good as well as great, and this Happy commixture is the ground of blisse, What comfort would it be to us, if thou, O great Jehovah, shouldst the heavens bow, And come in majestie? alas, thy might Without thy goodnesse would but us affright; If thou wer't only good and hadst not might, When we were wrong'd, where should we go for right? If thou hadst onely might, and wer't not good, Thy very name would frighten flesh and bloud:

But blessed be thy name, O Lord of hosts, Thy goodnesse is declar'd through all our coasts; Yea, we thy greatnesse, and thy goodnesse find In Church and State, in body, soule, and mind; But we the greater oft the worser grow, In doing ill we oft our greatnesse show: Lord rather make us good then great, what will Greatnesse availe us if our waies be ill? Greatnesse without goodnesse, Lord we know Will but procure our greater overthrow; Therefore great God thy goodnesse we entreat, To make us good, how ere thou make us great; If thou wilt grace us, gratious God, with might, Give us grace with it for to use it right.

Amen.

Of the wisedome of God.

[Meditati. 2] THy wisedome is, O Lord, past finding out, What man thinkes strange with ease thou bringst about, But we are fooles, and neither understand The words, nor workes of thy almighty hand: O blessed God, we humbly thee desire, Into our hearts true wisedome to inspire, Make us to know thee and our selves aright, Then shall our waies be pleasing in thy sight.

Amen.

Of the holinesse of God.

[Meditati. 3] LOrd thou art pure and holy, we implore Thy holinesse to clense us more and more;

Each good and perfect gift must come from thee, Lord make us such as thou wouldst have us be.

Amen.

Of the justice and wrath of God.

[Meditati. 4] WHat man Lord can abide thy wrath and ire, Which being kindled burns as hot as fire? O make us fearfull to offend thy Law, Lest we before thee be as hay or straw Before a furnace, grant that we may praise Thy holy name, and serve thee all our daies.

Amen.

Of the truth of God.

[Meditati. 5] LOrd thou art true in all thy words and waies, Justice and equity thy Scepter swayes; We should be like thee, but alas we finde Our hearts too much to fraud and guile inclin'd: Lord breathe thy Spirit of truth into our hearts, And write thy Laws within our inward parts, Then shall our hearts be upright towards thee, And eke our lives from foule offences free.

Amen.

Of the mercy of God.

[Meditati. 6] LOrd thou art mercifull as well as just, Or else what would become of sinfull dust? We should be like thee, but our hearts are evill, In cruelty we imitate the divell;

Lord make us kinde and pitifull, that so In time of need thou maist us mercy show.

Amen.

Of the love and kindnesse of God.

[Meditati. 7] LOrd thou art kinde, thy love endures for aye, Upon good grounds we can (with reverence) say Thou seemest for to doat on man, for when He went astray, thou broughtst him home agen; When he had from thy holy Precepts swerv'd, And thereby thy displeasure had deserv'd, The penalty of death, then didst thou give Thy Son to suffer death, that he might live: O that our hearts could understand aright The greatnesse of this love! that so we might With body, soule and minde strive to adore Thy holy name, both now and evermore.

Amen.