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IT is a rule most certain in Reason and Divinity,* 1.1 That man ought to yeeld his love and service to God as Creatures do give their love and service unto us, who by the Ordinance of God do yeeld us both love and service in the best fashi∣on, or else man would not accept it: And therefore the trees do not onely give
their fruit willingly, but such fruits as are season∣able, sweet and delectable; otherwise if they were bit∣ter, rotten and unpleasant, we would not care for them. For we ought to give our love and service to God when it is season∣able, sweet and pleasant, or else God will not accept of it.
O gracious God, as thou hast made me in the best fa∣shionp 1.2 more excellent than all other Creatures, thy holy Angells excepted; So grant I may yeeld the sweeter love & more plea∣sant service than they, by how much my Creation
excelleth theirs. Let me not bear leavesq 1.3 but fruits, and those fruits which are most sweet and pleasant in thy sight. Let my prayer be fervent,r 1.4 my zeal bur∣ning,a 1.5 my faith unfain∣ed,b 1.6 my fear filiall,d 1.7 my obedience child-likee 1.8 my almes cherefull, with∣out ostentation, and my whole life a patternf 1.9 for my posterity, through that true pattern of all purity, Jesus Christ our Lord, A∣men.
Abell's Oblation.
Gen. 1. Psal. ••. Col. 3.
Mat: ••1. Mark 11.
1 Cor. 14.
Psal. 69. and 119. 2 Kings 10.
Mat. 9. 1 Tim. 1.
Psal. 86.
Luke 2.
Mat. 5.1••.