The Christians guide: a treatise shewing the grounds, necessity, and end of devotion With rules and directions for the leading an holy life. As also meditations and prayers suitable to all occasions.

Prayer.

HAve pity on my sad Estate, my Father, and my God: Draw me, and I will run after thee. Why should I remain in the shadow of Death? Thou Sun of righteousness, that carriest healing in thy Wings, raise me up and quicken me: Let the East from on high visit me with the Bowels of his Mercy. Let my heart burn within me, whilst I read thy Scriptures, and hear thy Word: Let my Prayers be ardent, and my Piety constantly sustained by the force and flames of thy Grace and loving kindness. And thou, my Soul, do not attend this loving kindness with Arms across: go meet it, call and say, Come Lord Jesus, come quickly, O God of my Salva∣tion, awaken my heart. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ

shall give thee Life. Chase away sloath, let it no longer lye in the bed of security: banish all coldness: rid thy self of that bur∣thensome weight that oppresses thee: Take the Wings of an Eagle, and to Heaven sly into the bosom of thy Saviour, and thou shalt find Sweets which thou hast never yet tasted never seen, never heard of, and which never enter'd into thy Imagination to conceive.