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<P><HI>Chri&s;tian Devotion:</HI> OR THE Pious Souls Daily Supplication.</P>
<P>Containing Prayers and Prai&s;es for all Occa|&s;ions, and for every day of the Week;</P>
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<ITEM>For Sick-Per&s;ons, With Thank&s;gi|vings on the &s;ame Occa&s;ions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For Women in Travail, With Thank&s;gi|vings on the &s;ame Occa&s;ions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For Seamen in dangers, With Thank&s;gi|vings on the &s;ame Occa&s;ions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For The Sacrament, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> With Thank&s;gi|vings on the &s;ame Occa&s;ions.</ITEM>
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<P>Illu&s;trated with &s;undry Sculptures, with Prayers fitted for tho&s;e Occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>Together with Bible-Examples of Gods puni&s;hments inflicted on great Sinners, with Graces before and after Meat.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>W. Thackery</HI> in Duck-Lane; <HI>T. Pa&s;&s;inger</HI> at the Three Bibles and <HI>C. Pa&s;&s;inger</HI> at the Seven Stars, on <HI>London-Bridge.</HI> 1679.</P>
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<HEAD>The PREFACE.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IT is almo&s;t incredible that in a Chri&s;tian Kingdom, &s;uch a Chri|&s;tian duty as Family and Clo&s;et-Prayer &s;hould need any preface, or arguments to per&s;wade to its pra|ctice; yet the Prodigious licentiou&s;|ne&s;s and degeneracy of this age, &s;eems almo&s;t to call in que&s;tion the very fir&s;t principles of Religion: the pra|ctices of bold men make many pre|&s;ume almo&s;t to deny a deity; but to &s;uch I &s;hall not addre&s;s my &s;elf, but leave them before Gods Tribunal,
<PB REF="3">who&s;e being if they will not believe, his terrors and &s;harp di&s;plea&s;ure they &s;hall undoubtedly feel.</P>
<P>My de&s;ign here is only to tell the hone&s;t Chri&s;tian his duty in a few words. The backwardne&s;s of men to pray, argues &s;piritual danger, and a great unwillingne&s;s to be religious; and yet this is a duty Commanded, and commended: it is al&s;o an act of the highe&s;t grace and honour, that we poor &s;inful du&s;t and a&s;hes &s;hould be admitted to come into the pre&s;ence of the Eternal God, and lay open our wants and complain of our bur|thens, and beg &s;upport, and &s;uccour, and deliverance, and &s;alvation; we have many gracious promi&s;es that he will hear our prayers, and he hath appointed his only Son to be our In|terce&s;&s;or at the Throne of Grace for us: Oh infinite conde&s;cen&s;ion of the great God to &s;uch worthle&s;s worms as we are! Of the great power and vertue of Prayer the holy Scripture
<PB REF="3">gives &s;undry in&s;tances; by Prayer Ci|ties and Kingdoms have been &s;aved from ruine, Prayer hath rai&s;ed the dead to life again, it hath &s;topped the violence of fire, &s;hut up the mouths of wild-bea&s;ts; it hath made the Sun go back, and the Moon to &s;tand &s;till. What need I &s;ay more of this holy fire? This the Scripture &s;aith of tho&s;e that do not pray, <HI>That the Lord will pour out his wrath on the Hea|then, and on the families that call not upon his name.</HI> Now Chri&s;tian Reader, this Little Book I pre&s;ent thee as a choice manual for thy daily devoti|on; here is much in a little, here thou mai&s;t find petitions for all occa|&s;ions. It was compo&s;ed on purpo&s;e for &s;uch who want tho&s;e natural en|dowments and qualifications which others are furni&s;hed with. I hope thou wilt not carp at it becau&s;e they are forms. It is not my bu&s;ine&s;s here to di&s;pute with tho&s;e who can or do pray without a form, much le&s;s to
<PB REF="4">undervalue the publick forms of the Church, but that it may an&s;wer the end of the Compo&s;ing is the daily Prayer of your unworthy Orator,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>C.P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Contents.</HEAD>
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<ITEM><HI>A</HI> Morning Prayer for a Family. <HI>page 1</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An Evening Prayer for a Family. <HI>p. 7.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer and Prai&s;e for the Lords-day in the Morning. <HI>p. 11</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer and Prai&s;e for the Lords-day in the Evening. <HI>p. 15</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Munday</HI>-morning. <HI>p. 20</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Munday</HI>-night. <HI>p. 25</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Tue&s;day</HI>-morning. <HI>p. 30</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Tue&s;day</HI>-night. <HI>p. 33</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI>-morning. <HI>p. 38</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI>-Evening. <HI>p. 42</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Morning Prayer for <HI>Thur&s;day. p. 45</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An Evening Prayer for <HI>Thur&s;day. p. 49</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Fryday</HI>-morning. <HI>p. 53</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An Evening Prayer for <HI>Fryday. p. 56</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Morning Prayer for <HI>Saturday. p. 58</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An Evening Prayer for <HI>Saturday. p. 61</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for Seamen in a dangerous Storm. <HI>p. 64</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Thanksgiving for Seamen: after a Storm at Sea. <HI>p. 67</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pious Meditations on the Birth, Life, Death, Re&s;urrection and A&s;cen&s;ion of our ble&s;&s;ed Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t. <HI>p. 69</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer before the Receiving of the Holy Communion. <HI>p. 79</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Thanksgiving after the Receiving of the Holy Communion. <HI>p. 81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for one that takes any difficult Journey or Imployment for his good &s;uc|ce&s;s therein. <HI>p. 84</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer in time of War. <HI>p. 87</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for converting grace by a con|vinced &s;inner. <HI>p. 90</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A form of Prayer for a &s;ick &s;inner who is unprepared to dye. <HI>p. 94</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for a woman in time of her Travail. <HI>p. 98</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>A Thanksgiving to be u&s;ed after &s;afe de|liverance. <HI>p. 101</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Parents Prayer for their Children. <HI>p. 103</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Childs Prayer for his Parents. <HI>p. 106</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for the Church of Chri&s;t mili|tant here on Earth. <HI>p. 108</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for the King and Royal Family. <HI>p. 109</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI>-day. <HI>p. 111</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI>-day. <HI>p. 112</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for <HI>Whit</HI>-&s;unday. <HI>p. 113</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for a Widow. <HI>p. 115</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for a Servant. <HI>p. 116</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for a &s;ick per&s;on. <HI>p. 117</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A brief relation of the Gun-powder-trea|&s;on-plot. <HI>p. 119</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Thanksgiving for the fifth day of <HI>No|vember,</HI> for the happy and miraculous deliverance of this Land, the King and the two other E&s;tates of the Realm, from that horrid bloody Plot by Gun|powder. <HI>p. 122</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for the thirtieth of <HI>January,</HI> being the day of the Martyrdom of King <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t, <HI>1648. p. 124</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer in time of the Pe&s;tilence, with
<PB REF="6">an account of the dreadful Plague in <HI>1665. p. 126</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer to be u&s;ed the &s;econd of <HI>Sep|tember,</HI> for that lamentable fire of <HI>London,</HI> in the year <HI>1666. p. 128</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Thanksgiving for the twenty ninth of <HI>May,</HI> being the day of his Maje&s;ties birth and happy return from exile. <HI>p. 131</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bible-Examples upon the breakers of the Ten Commandments, how they were puni&s;hed with death for breach of the &s;ame. <HI>p. 134, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bible-Examples of Gods &s;evere Ju&s;tice in puni&s;hing of one Sin, <HI>p. 149, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for one troubled in Con&s;cience for his Sins, <HI>p. 162</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for Comfort in time of Trouble, <HI>p. 166</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer for Patience in time of Tribu|lation, <HI>p. 169</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Graces before and after Meat. <HI>p. 172, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>A Morning Prayer for a Family.</HEAD>
<P>_O Mo&s;t Great, mo&s;t Gra|cious and mo&s;t Glori|ous Lord God, who&s;e all-&s;eeing eye is pre&s;ent in all places, and at all times, but e&s;pecial|ly there graciou&s;ly and &s;piritually where thy name is called upon, though but two or three be gathered together; we &s;inful worms are met together this morning in the fear of thy Great Name, to offer up this our morning &s;acrifice, encouraged by thine own command and promi&s;e, and the mediation of Je&s;us Chri&s;t. Holy Lord be plea&s;ed to cau&s;e the fear and dread of thy great Name to fall upon
<PB N="2" REF="8">us, and be pre&s;ent with us and Pre&s;i|dent over us. We poor worthle&s;s creatures do humbly ca&s;t down our &s;elves before thee to acknowledge thy mercies, to confe&s;s our &s;ins, to beg thy grace, and to render thee our prai&s;e and &s;ervice: be plea&s;ed by the a&s;&s;i&s;tances of thy Spirit to teach us thy Children how to pray, and for what to pray; let thy Spirit make in|terce&s;&s;ion in all our &s;ouls; by it let us be enabled to cry <HI>Abba</HI> Father. We thank and prai&s;e thy glorious and holy Name, that we who were born in &s;in, were not for&s;aken by thee to live and dye in our &s;in, and that we were not left with the Devils to helple&s;s de&s;peration, but by an all-&s;ufficient Saviour that we are re|deemed by his blood and have a free pardon to life, in his Covenant of Grace, to all that accept of him for their Lord and Saviour. For ever ble&s;&s;ed be God for his holy Go&s;pel, his holy Spirit, and his holy Exam|ple. We thank thee for our peace,
<PB N="3" REF="8">liberty, and all our comforts of this life: we thank thee for all our pub|lick and private helps towards this and a better life in all the means of our Salvation.</P>
<P>But e&s;pecially that thou ha&s;t ble&s;|&s;ed the&s;e means for our good, and ha&s;t not given us over to a blind mind, a hard heart, and to the &s;la|very of our perver&s;e wills. How great was that mercie, that not only &s;pared our lives and kept us out of Hell when we were &s;inning again&s;t thee; but at la&s;t convinced us of &s;in and mi&s;ery, and awakened our &s;leepy &s;ouls unto repentance, and made us know the vanity of this world, and the certainty and glory of the life to come, that we might know thee and &s;eek thee our end and happi|ne&s;s! How great was thy mercy in di&s;covering to us the great my&s;teries of thy Go&s;pel, and to draw us to thy Son as the way to Thee! But O the ill requital that we have made for all that love! Our original &s;in hath
<PB N="4" REF="9">been too fruitful in our wicked lives. How long did we forget God and our &s;ouls, our death, and our ever|la&s;ting concerns? What &s;trangers were we to the life of Faith? And before the hatred of &s;in, and love of holine&s;s was minded by us? and &s;ince we gave up our &s;elves to thy holy Covenant, we have often yielded to temptations, loved thee coldly, &s;er|ved thee &s;lothfully, and lived unfruit|fully, and made little improvement of thy mercies and of our afflictions, for which thou mighte&s;t ju&s;tly have withdrawn thy Spirit from us, and &s;uffered us to return to our fir&s;t un|done condition.</P>
<P>But for Je&s;us &s;ake charge not upon us the &s;ins of our corrupt nature, or of our lives; of Childhood or ri|per Age; our &s;ins of omi&s;&s;ion or commi&s;&s;ion, of knowledge or of ig|norance, of ra&s;hne&s;s or of negligence.</P>
<P>In the name of our Redeemer ac|cept us and pardon us; O give us his Spirit the greate&s;t of all gifts!</P>
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<P>Let a new nature, a holy life, a living to thee and a dying to &s;in, with a holy light be our portion: O let not our ignorance and unbelief pre|vail: let none of this worlds plea|&s;ures, riches or honours ever &s;teal our hearts from thee!</P>
<P>Let not our fle&s;hly lu&s;ts overcome thy Spirit! Govern our affections, thoughts, words and actions, our &s;en|&s;es, our appetites and our pa&s;&s;ions by thy Grace. Deliver us from &s;elfi&s;h|ne&s;s, and teach us to love our Neigh|bours as our &s;elves, and to wrong no man in our thoughts, or words, or deeds; but to do all the good that we can to the &s;ouls and bodies of others. Save us from the helli&s;h &s;in of Pride, and all the fruits of it; make us loath our &s;elves for all our, &s;ins.</P>
<P>Make us faithful in all the duties of our relations, in Kingdom, Church and Family, as we are Superiors, In|feriors or Equals; mercifully di&s;po&s;e of our per&s;ons, our friends and our
<PB N="6" REF="10">affairs. Provide for and protect our bodies, and make us contented with our daily bread, and patient if for our &s;ins we want it.</P>
<P>Be merciful to the afflicted, deliver the &s;ick, the poor, the oppre&s;&s;ed, and the broken-hearted, as is mo&s;t for their own and others good, and for thy Glory. Continue thy Go&s;pel, ble&s;s the King and all in Authority, with wi&s;dom, holine&s;s and ju&s;tice; teach them to govern, and us to obey; let the Kingdoms of the world be the Kingdoms of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Great art thou, O Lord, and great|ly to be feared, wi&s;e art thou, and ab|&s;olutely to be obeyed; good art thou, and unmea&s;urably to be beloved: For of thee, and through thee, and to thee are all things: to thee be the Glory for ever. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<PB N="7" REF="10">
<HEAD>An Evening Prayer for a Private Family.</HEAD>
<P>MOST Glorious God, the Creator of all things; the Owner and the Ruler of the World, but e&s;pecially of thy Church and cho|&s;en ones: thy Children redeemed by Je&s;us Chri&s;t thy Son, and regenerated by thy Holy Spirit, have leave to call thee their reconciled Father.</P>
<P>O with what wondrows love ha&s;t thou loved us, That of Rebells we &s;hould be made the Sons of God!</P>
<P>Thou ha&s;t advanced us that we might be wholly devoted to thee, de|lightfully to obey thee, and entirely to love thee.</P>
<P>O cau&s;e both us, and all thine, and all the world, to hallow thy holy name, and to live to thee.</P>
<P>And cau&s;e us to ca&s;t off the tyran|ny of Sathan and the fle&s;h, and to &s;ub|mit to the Scepter of thy Son; O perfect the Kingdom of Grace in our
<PB N="8" REF="11">&s;ouls, and ha&s;ten the Kingdom of Glory.</P>
<P>Cau&s;e men to under&s;tand, believe and obey the Go&s;pel of Salvation.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e our being is the &s;ub|ject of our well-being, maintain us in the life which thou ha&s;t here given us, until the work of life be fini&s;ht; give us health of mind and body, protecti|on and &s;upply of all our wants, as &s;hall be&s;t fit us for our duty; and make us contented with our daily bread, and patient if we want it.</P>
<P>Save us from the love of Riches, Honours and Plea&s;ures of this world, and the Pride, Idlene&s;s and Sen&s;uality which they cheri&s;h.</P>
<P>And cau&s;e us to &s;erve thy Provi|dence by our diligent labours, and to &s;erve thee faithfully with all that thou give&s;t us.</P>
<P>And through the merits of thy Son forgive us all our &s;ins original and actual, from our birth to this hour; our &s;ins of heart, of word and deed; our &s;ecret and our open &s;ins, our &s;ins
<PB N="9" REF="11">of negligence and ignorance, but e&s;pecially our &s;ins again&s;t knowledge and Con&s;cience; let not our &s;in find us out to ruine us, but let us find out our &s;in truly to repent of it and for&s;ake it. O puni&s;h us not with the lo&s;s of thy Grace! Take not thy Holy Spirit from us, and deny us not his a&s;&s;i&s;tance and holy operations. Seal to us by thy Spirit the pardon of our &s;ins, give us the joy of thy favour and &s;alvation. And let thy love and mercy to us, fill us with thankfulne&s;s towards thee, and love and mercy to our Brethren and our Enemies.</P>
<P>Suffer us not to ca&s;t our &s;elves wil|fully into Temptations, but careful|ly to avoid them, and re&s;olutely to re&s;i&s;t and conquer what we cannot avoid; O mortifie tho&s;e inward &s;ins and lu&s;ts, and mo&s;t dangerous tem|ptations.</P>
<P>Suffer us not be tempted by Satan or the word, or tryed by thy Judge|ments, above the &s;trength which thy Grace &s;hall give us.</P>
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<P>Save us from a fearle&s;s confidence in our own &s;trength: and let us not dal|ly with the &s;nare, nor ta&s;te the bait, nor play with the fire of thy wrath; but cau&s;e us to fear and to depart from evil; le&s;t before we be aware we be intangled and overcome and wounded with our guilt and thy wrath.</P>
<P>And as we crave all this from thee, we humbly tender our prai&s;es with our future &s;ervice to thee. Thou art the King of all the world, and thy Kingdom is everla&s;ting.</P>
<P>Ble&s;&s;ed are all thy faithful Subjects, the whole creation proclaiming thy perfection: In Heaven the ble&s;&s;ed &s;ee thy glory, and the glory of our Re|deemer; of thee, and through thee, and to thee are all things: To thee be glory for ever. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A Prayer and Prai&s;e for the Lords-day.</HEAD>
<P>GLorious <HI>Jehovah,</HI> who art infi|nitely above the prai&s;e of men and Angels; much more of us &s;inful worms: All that we can do, can add nothing unto thy ble&s;&s;edne&s;s, but thy love and mercy hath advanced us to this honour, and made our own fe|licity our duty: It is good for us to draw near to thee! And le&s;t the va|nities and bu&s;ine&s;s of this world &s;hould hinder us, thou ha&s;t appoint|ed us this thy &s;pecial day, that our compo&s;ed minds might be taken up, with thy love and prai&s;e, and might attend upon thee without di&s;traction, and might have a fore-ta&s;t of our Everla&s;ting Re&s;t.</P>
<P>O be thou this day to thy &s;ervants &s;ouls, the &s;pirit of Love, of Life, of Light and of Power!</P>
<P>That the Heavenly life may quic|ken us to this holy and heavenly work; O let the &s;acrifice of our Per|&s;ons
<PB N="12" REF="13">and of our Prai&s;es, which we humbly offer according to thy com|mand, be &s;uch as are fit for thine ac|ceptance, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Thou and thou alone art God; Immortal, Invi&s;ible, Eternal and Infi|nite in Being and Perfections! from everla&s;ting to everla&s;ting thou art God.</P>
<P>Thou art the Almighty and no|thing is too hard for thee, thou broughte&s;t all things out of nothing!</P>
<P>Thou gave&s;t Being to the glorious Angels, the Heavens were made by thee, thou made&s;t the Sun and Stars.</P>
<P>Thou made&s;t the Earth, the Land and Sea, and all the Creatures that dwell therein: All fowl and fi&s;hes, bea&s;ts and plants. The air and clouds, the thunder and lightning, the rain and &s;now, the winds and earth-quakes, the marvellous motions of the &s;ea, are all thy great un&s;earchable works.</P>
<P>The &s;malle&s;t worm or flower doth far &s;urpa&s;s our knowledge: but Man thou ha&s;t made the noble&s;t piece of
<PB N="13" REF="13">this lower world: Thou breathed&s;t into him the breath of life, thou ma|de&s;t him little lower than the Angels, thou made&s;t him in thine own Image, thou became&s;t a Father to him, be|ing his owner, his ruler and his chief|e&s;t good; Thou denie&s;t thy mercy to none but the ob&s;tinate and final rejecters of it.</P>
<P>Thou give&s;t eternal life to them who were the &s;ons of Death; and this life is in thy Son: for he is able to the uttermo&s;t to &s;ave all that come unto thee by him.</P>
<P>O with what love ha&s;t thou loved poor rebellious &s;inners, that they &s;hould be converted and be made the &s;ons of God, yea heirs of Heaven! Thou ha&s;t built thy Church upon the Rock, the ble&s;&s;ed Mediator; That the power of Hell may not prevail again&s;t it. He is the Lord both of dead and living.</P>
<P>How glorious art thou, O Lord, in holine&s;s! we ble&s;s thy name, O our great Creator! we ble&s;s thy name,
<PB N="14" REF="14">our gracious Redeemer! we ble&s;s thy name mo&s;t holy &s;pirit!</P>
<P>Return, O Lord, deliver our &s;ouls! Kill us not till our &s;ins be killed! End not this life till thou ha&s;t prepared us for a better! Cut not off my Time till I am prepared for eternity.</P>
<P>Have mercy upon undone &s;ouls, now glorifie thy grace in Je&s;us Chri&s;t who is an all&s;ufficient Saviour, to whom we fly, and on whom we ca&s;t our mi&s;erable &s;ouls.</P>
<P>Let us by thee be reconciled to the Father, and pre&s;ent us &s;potle&s;s and ac|ceptable to God; whether we live or die we de&s;ire to be thine, accept and a&s;&s;ure us of the ble&s;&s;ings of thy Cove|nant! and then though we de&s;erve to dwell with Devils, we &s;hall &s;ee thy Glory, and be filled with thy love, and with Saints and Angels &s;hall joyfully prai&s;e our Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier for ever. <HI>Amen, Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="15" REF="14">
<HEAD>A Prayer and Prai&s;e for the Lords-Day-Evening.</HEAD>
<P>GLorious <HI>Jehovah,</HI> while Angels and the &s;pirits of the Ju&s;t made perfect are prai&s;ing thee in the pre|&s;ence of thy glory, we have the &s;ame mo&s;t holy God to prai&s;e; and though we &s;ee thee not, our Head and Savi|our doth, and our faith al&s;o di&s;cern|eth thee in the gla&s;s of thy holy word and works. Though we are &s;inners, and unworthy, and cannot touch the&s;e holy things, without the marks of our pollution; yet we have a great High-Prie&s;t with thee, who was &s;eparate from &s;inners, holy, harmle&s;s and undefiled, who appear|eth for us, in the merits of his &s;pot|le&s;s life and &s;acrifice, by who&s;e hands only we dare pre&s;ume to pre&s;ent a facifice to the mo&s;t holy God.</P>
<P>This day pa&s;t thou ha&s;t ordained to be a day of holy re&s;t, as a Type and means of that Heavenly Re&s;t with
<PB N="16" REF="15">thy triumphant Church, to which we a&s;pire, and for which we hope.</P>
<P>Thou did&s;t accept their low prai&s;e on earth, before they celebrated thy prai&s;e in Glory:</P>
<P>Accept ours al&s;o by the &s;ame Me|diator.</P>
<P>Glory be to thee, O God, in the highe&s;t, on earth peace, good-will to|wards men: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty, who wa&s;t, and art, and art to come; eternal without be|ginning or end; infinitely powerful, wi&s;e and good. Of thee, and through thee, and to thee are all things, to thee be glory for evermore. We prai&s;e and glorifie thee our Lord and owner; for we and all things are thine own. We prai&s;e and glorifie thee our King and Ruler; for we are thy &s;ubjects, and our perfect obedience is thy due. Ju&s;t are all thy laws and judgements; true and &s;ure is all thy word. We prai&s;e and glorifie thee our great benefactor; in thee we live and move; and all that we
<PB N="17" REF="15">are, or have, or can do, is wholly from thee, the cau&s;e of all: and all is for thee; for thou art our end. Delightfully to love thee, is our greate&s;t duty, and our only felicity: for thou art love it &s;elf, and infinite|ly amiable.</P>
<P>When we for&s;ook thee, thou did&s;t not utterly for&s;ake us: when we had lo&s;t our &s;elves, and by &s;in became thine enemies, condemn'd by thy Law; thy mercy pitied us, and gave us the promi&s;e of a R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">deemer, who in the fulne&s;s of time did a&s;&s;ume our na|ture, fulfilled thy law, and &s;uffered for our &s;ins, and conquering death, did ri&s;e again, a&s;cended to Heaven, and is our glorified Head and Inter|ce&s;&s;or. Him ha&s;t thou exalted to be a Prince and Saviour, to give us repen|tance and Remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins. In him thou ha&s;t given pardon and ju&s;tifica|tion, reconciliation and adoption by a Covenant of grace, to every peni|tent Believer. Of enemies, and the Heirs of Death, thou ha&s;t made us
<PB N="18" REF="16">Sons and Heirs of Life. We are the Brands whom thou ha&s;t pluckt out of the fire; we are the condemn|ed &s;inners whom thou ha&s;t pardoned! We prai&s;e thee, we glorifie thee our merciful God, and gracious Re|deemer! Our &s;ouls have new refuge from thy revenging wrath.</P>
<P>Thy promi&s;e is &s;ure: Satan, and the world, and death are overcome: our Lord is ri&s;en; he is ri&s;en, and we &s;hall ri&s;e through him. O death where is thy &s;ting, O grave where is thy victory! Our Saviour is a&s;cend|ed to his Father and our Father, to his God and our God, and we &s;hall a&s;cend! To his hands we may com|mit our departing &s;ouls. Our head is glorified, and it is his will and promi&s;e that we &s;hall be with him where he is to &s;ee his glory! He hath &s;ealed us thereunto by his Holy-Spi|rit. We were dead in &s;ins, and he hath quickned us: we were dark in ignorance and unbelief, and he hath enlightned us: we were unholy and
<PB N="19" REF="16">carnal, &s;old under &s;in; and he hath &s;anctified our wills, and killed our concupi&s;cence.</P>
<P>We prai&s;e and glorifie this &s;pirit of Life, with the Father and the Son from whom he is &s;ent, to be light and life, and love to our dead, and dark, and di&s;affected &s;ouls.</P>
<P>We thank thee for thy word and &s;acred Ordinances; for the comfort of the holy A&s;&s;emblies, and commu|nion of the Saints, and for the mer|cy of the&s;e thy holy days. Deliver all the Churches from &s;in, divi&s;ion and oppre&s;&s;ion. Let thy holy word and wor&s;hip continue in the&s;e Kingdoms, while&s;t this world endureth. Ble&s;s the King and all in Authority, with all that wi&s;dom, ju&s;tice and holine&s;s, which are needful to his own and his &s;ubjects &s;afety, peace and welfare.</P>
<P>Let all the Prayers and Prai&s;es &s;ent up this day in the name of our Medi|ator, by him be pre&s;ented acceptable unto thee; prepare us all for that world of peace, that &s;hall be ever|la&s;tingly
<PB N="20" REF="17">perfect to our joy and to thy Glory, through our Glorified Me|diator, who taught us when we pray to &s;ay, <HI>Our Father,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for Munday morning</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t Great, mo&s;t Wi&s;e and Gracious Lord, we de&s;ire through the mediation of our Lord Je&s;us, to ca&s;t down our &s;elves at the foot-&s;tool of thy grace. Humbly ac|knowledging our great folly and re|bellious provocations that we &s;tand guilty of, having wilfully forgotten thee the God that made us, and the Saviour that redeemed us, and the great bu&s;ine&s;s we came into this world for, and the endle&s;s glory &s;et before us; whereas had we lived to tho&s;e high and holy ends for which we were created and redeemed, we might have come to thee with an ho|ly boldne&s;s and confidence as thy Children. We acknowledge we have lived as if we had been made for no|thing,
<PB N="21" REF="17">but to pa&s;s a few days in fle&s;h|ly plea&s;ure, and to pamper our car|ca&s;&s;es for worms: we have wilfully forgot what it is to be made men and women, who have rea&s;on given us to rule our fle&s;h, and to know our God, and to fore&s;ee our death, and the &s;tate of immortality: But we have made our Rea&s;on a &s;ervant to our Sen&s;es, and have lived too like the Bea&s;ts that peri&s;h. O the pretious time that we have lo&s;t, which all the world cannot call back! O the calls of Grace which we have neglected, and the motions and teachings of God which we have re&s;i&s;ted! the wonderful love which we unthankful|ly have rejected, and the manifold mercies which we have abu&s;ed, and turned into wantonne&s;s and &s;in! How deep is the guilt which we have contracted! And how great are the comforts which we have lo&s;t! We might have lived all our times in the love of thee our gra|cious God; and in the delights of
<PB N="22" REF="18">thy holy word and ways; in the daily &s;weet fore-&s;ight of Heaven, and in the joy of the Holy-Gho&s;t; would we have been ruled by thy righteous and holy Laws.</P>
<P>But we have hearkned to the fle&s;h and this deceitful world; and have preferred a &s;hort and &s;inful life, be|fore thy love and endle&s;s glory.</P>
<P>Ever &s;ince we came into the world &s;in and folly have taken up our time. We are a&s;hamed to look back upon the years which we have &s;pent: and to think of the temptations which we have yielded to! Alas what trifles have enticed us from our God? How little have we had for that holy plea|&s;ure which we have lo&s;t? Like <HI>E&s;au</HI> we have prophanely &s;old our Birth|right for one Mor&s;el. To plea&s;e our fancie, and appetite, and our lu&s;t, we have &s;et by all the joys of Hea|ven! We have unkindly de&s;pi&s;ed the goodne&s;s of our Maker; we have &s;lighted the love and grace of our Redeemen! We have re&s;i&s;ted thy ho|ly
<PB N="23" REF="18">&s;pirit, &s;ilenced our own con&s;ciences, and grieved thy &s;pirit. Thou know|e&s;t our &s;ecret &s;ins, which are unknown to men, with all their aggravations they may ju&s;tly find us out! If we look behind us, we &s;ee our &s;ins pur&s;ue our &s;ouls, as an enemie ready to overtake and devour us! If we look before us, we &s;ee thy ju&s;t and dreadful judge|ment, and we know that thou wile not acquit the guilty! If we look within us, we &s;ee dark defi|led hearts; If we look without us, we &s;ee a world &s;till offering fre&s;h temptations to deceive us! If we look above us, we &s;ee thine offended dreadful Maje&s;ty! If we look beneath us, we &s;ee the place of endle&s;s tor|ment, and the company with which we de&s;erve to &s;uffer!</P>
<P>But yet when we look to thine abundant mercy, and to thy Son, and to thy Covenant, we have hope.</P>
<P>Thy goodne&s;s is equal to thy great|ne&s;s: Thou are love it &s;elf; and thy mercy is over all thy works:</P>
<PB N="24" REF="19">
<P>O therefore behold us pro&s;trate &s;in|ners, which are a&s;hamed to look up towards Heaven, O God be merciful to us &s;inners. O forgive not only our original &s;in, but the &s;ins and follies of youth, &s;ins of ignorance and know|ledge, of negligence and wilfulne&s;s; of omi&s;&s;ion and commi&s;&s;ion; again&s;t the law of nature, and again&s;t the Grace and Go&s;pel of thy Son! for thy abundant mercy, and merit of thy Son. Put thy fear into our hearts that we may never depart from thee: let the world be crucified to us, and we to it, by the Cro&s;s of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Let us neither love it nor the things therein, but having food and rayment, cau&s;e us therewith to be con|tent. Keep us from &s;nares and ways of &s;in, let us never return again to folly, nor forget the Covenant of our God.</P>
<P>Prepare us for death and for judge|ment, that when we come to leave this world, we may be found in Chri&s;t, having the righteou&s;ne&s;s which
<PB N="25" REF="20">is of God by faith; pro&s;per thy Go|&s;pel and the Kingdom of thy Son, convert &s;inners, gather us all into uni|ty in Chri&s;t, that we may all with perfect love and joy a&s;cribe to thee the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, for ever and ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for <HI>Munday</HI> night.</HEAD>
<P>A Lmighty, All-&s;eeing, mo&s;t Gra|cious and mo&s;t Glorious Lord! Thou art every where pre&s;ent, though thou art revealed in thy Glo|ry to tho&s;e only that are in Heaven; thy Grace is &s;till at work on Earth, to prepare men for that Glory: Thou made&s;t us not as the Bea&s;ts that peri&s;h, but with rea&s;onable immortal &s;ouls, to know and &s;eek, and &s;erve thee here, and then to live with all the ble&s;&s;ed, in the everla&s;ting &s;ight of thy Heavenly Glory, and the plea|&s;ures of thy perfect love and prai&s;e.</P>
<P>But we are a&s;hamed and amazed to think how fooli&s;hly and wickedly
<PB N="26" REF="21">we have forgotten our God, neglect|ed our &s;ouls, and our ble&s;&s;ed hopes of Immortality; and have only mind|ed the things of this vi&s;ible tran&s;ito|ry world, and the pro&s;perity and plea|&s;ure of this corruptible fle&s;h, which we know mu&s;t &s;hortly turn to rotten|ne&s;s and du&s;t.</P>
<P>Thou gave&s;t us a Law which was both ju&s;t and good, to guide us in the way to life; and when by &s;in we had lo&s;t our &s;elves, Thou gave&s;t us a Sa|viour, even thy eternal word made man, who by his holy life and bitter &s;ufferings reconciled us to thee, who not only purcha&s;ed &s;alvation for us, but revealed it to us. But O how light have we &s;et by this our Merciful Re|deemer! and by all that love which thou ha&s;t graciou&s;ly manife&s;ted by him! and how little have we either &s;tu|died or under&s;tood, much le&s;s obeyed that Covenant of Grace which thou ha&s;t made by thim to lo&s;t mankind!</P>
<P>But, O God, be merciful to us vile mi&s;erable undone &s;inners! Forgive the
<PB N="27" REF="21">&s;ins of our natural pravity, and the fol|lies, ignorance and negligence, omi&s;&s;i|ons and commi&s;&s;ions of our lives: And give us true repentance for them.</P>
<P>O wo to us that ever we were born, if thou forgive not our &s;ins, and make us not holy before this &s;hort uncertain life be at an end! We know that all our life is but the time which thy mercy allotteth us to pre|pare for death.</P>
<P>O let us not therefore put off our repentance and preparation to a &s;ick-bed: But now, Lord, as if it were our la&s;t and dying words, we earn|e&s;tly beg thy pardoning &amp; &s;anctifying grace through the merits and inter|ce&s;&s;ion of our Redeemer! O thou that ha&s;t pitied and &s;aved &s;o many great and mi&s;erable &s;inners, &s;ave us al&s;o, that we with them may glorifie thee for ever; had&s;t thou been unwilling to &s;hew mercy, thou would&s;t not have ran&s;omed us by &s;o precious a price, and &s;till intreat us to be re|conciled to thee. We have no cau&s;e
<PB N="28" REF="22">to di&s;tru&s;t thy truth or goodne&s;s; but we are afraid le&s;t unbelief, and pride, and hypocri&s;ie, and a world|ly fle&s;hly mind &s;hould be our ruine.</P>
<P>O &s;ave us from Satan and this tempting world, but e&s;pecially from our &s;elves: teach us to deny all un|godline&s;s and fle&s;hly lu&s;ts, and to live &s;oberly, righteou&s;ly and godly in this pre&s;ent evil world. Let it be our chief daily work to plea&s;e thee, and to lay up a trea&s;ure in Hea|ven, and to make &s;ure of a ble&s;&s;ed life with Chri&s;t, and quietly to tru&s;t thee with &s;oul and body. Make us faithful in our Callings, and in our duties to one another; cau&s;e us and all thine to &s;eek fir&s;t the hallowing of thy Name, the coming of thy King|dom and the doing of thy Will on Earth as it is done in Heaven; give us all things nece&s;&s;ary to life and god|lien&s;s, and let us be therewith content.</P>
<P>Forgive us our daily &s;ins, and let thy love and mercy con&s;train us to love thee above all; and for thy &s;ake
<PB N="29" REF="22">to love our Neighbours as our &s;elves, and in all our dealings, to do ju&s;tly and mercifully, as we would have others do by us. Keep us from hurt|ful temptations, from &s;in and from thy Judgements, and from the ma|lice of our &s;piritual and corporal ene|mies: make all our Religion and obe|diential walking delightful to us; and let our &s;ouls delight in the prai|&s;es of thy Kingdom, Power and Glo|ry, that it may &s;ecure and &s;weeten our labour by day and our re&s;t by night. Keep us in a longing and joy|ful hope of the Heavenly Glory; and let the Grace of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and the Love of God our Fa|ther, and the Communion of the Holy Spirit be with us, now and for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="30" REF="23">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a Family on <HI>Tue&s;day</HI>-Morning.</HEAD>
<P>O Eternal and mo&s;t Gracious Lord God, thou art worthy of all our love, &s;ervice and obedience. We thy poor unregenerate and un&s;anctified creatures by nature, humbly pro&s;trate our &s;elves before thee this morning, to render in and through the Name of our ble&s;&s;ed Redeemer, our thank|ful acknowledgement for all our con|tinued mercies, and for all the good hopes through Grace of the comfortable expectation that we through him have of a future enjoy|ment of Glory: &s;upply our inward man more and more with renewed &s;trength of Grace, and Heavenly-mindedne&s;s; give us the witne&s;s of thy Spirit and the Comforts that are promi&s;ed to all that are thy redeemed ones: let our te&s;timony within be manife&s;ted to us by this; that we that know thy name and
<PB N="31" REF="23">name thy name, have made it our great de&s;ign to depart from all iniqui|ty; let it appear that we are begot|ten again by the &s;eed incorruptible to a lively hope, and a transforming power; let all our old natures pa&s;s away, let all become new, and let the &s;en&s;e of this great change cau&s;e us to rejoyce with joy un&s;peakable and full of glory; enable us daily to give all diligence to make our calling and ele|ction &s;ure, by the greate&s;t of our care, and above all our gettings to get this witne&s;&s;ed by the dai&s;y exerci&s;e of all tho&s;e graces and duties that are conduceable thereunto. Let nothing lye &s;o near our hearts as the &s;ad con&s;ideration of the ways and for|mer cour&s;es of &s;in that we then &s;o much delighted in. Oh the &s;ad fruits of tho&s;e ways of &s;in, at the Remem|brance whereof we de&s;ire from our &s;ouls to take to our &s;elves &s;hame, &s;orrow and confu&s;ion of face.</P>
<P>For ever prai&s;ed be our Lord Je&s;us that we were as brands pluckt out of
<PB N="32" REF="24">the fire, that our Sun did not &s;et, and our day expire before we were warn|ed and awakened out of our wicked, carnal, earthly, &s;en&s;ual and devilli&s;h cour&s;e; we were running to our ever|la&s;ting de&s;truction, had not tender love and bowels of mercy prevented us.</P>
<P>Ble&s;&s;ed be God that we were pre|vented of our good things as we then thought them; a life of &s;port and plea|&s;ure, and all that this world can af|ford will prove as it did to <HI>Dives,</HI> to day enjoyment of all the good that earth can afford, and the next news of him is, he is in Hell tormented and wanting a drop of water.</P>
<P>Make us more and more &s;en&s;ible that un&s;anctified wealth and plea|&s;ures leave nothing but a &s;ting be|hind, and prepare the enjoyers of them only for everla&s;ting wo.</P>
<P>Pre&s;erve us from all tho&s;e bea&s;tly plea&s;ures that would deprive us of everla&s;ting joyes.</P>
<P>Give us a &s;erious con&s;ideration of our later end; when death comes
<PB N="33" REF="24">time is gone, for ever gone, and all the world cannot recall it, and that our great bu&s;ine&s;s in this world was to prepare for Heaven, and everla&s;t|ing happine&s;s: And that it mu&s;t go with all men in Heaven and Hell, as they have prepared here.</P>
<P>Give us a &s;erious con&s;ideration of the uncertainty of our lives. Alas how is it with all that are gone before us at their &s;ouls appearance in ano|ther world? how is it with Con&s;ci|ence? Have we ever thought &s;eri|ou&s;ly of the end of our pro&s;perity?</P>
<P>Pre&s;erve us in thy fear this day and all our dayes, that at the end of our dayes we may enjoy the fruition prepared for all tho&s;e that love our Lord Je&s;us in &s;incerity, <HI>Amen. Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> Evening.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Holy, Great and Infinitely Glorious Lord God, for ever prai&s;ed and adored be thy Holy Name, in and through our Lord Je&s;us,
<PB N="34" REF="25">for all thy continued mercies from day to day. O give us &s;erious thoughts of our later end, give us good hope through grace, at our down-lying, of a future Glory; let us not &s;leep with vain hopes of Heaven and the Glory to come in the other world.</P>
<P>Let the great work and bu&s;ine&s;s of each day we live, be to make &s;ure for a ble&s;&s;ed eternity. Give us to con&s;i|der the danger of &s;leeping without hopes of a better life, when this is ended. Let us fear le&s;t we &s;hould dye and be pa&s;t hope before the morning. Let us not live negligently or unpre|paredly one day more, le&s;t we turn Gods merciful patience and mercy towards us, into pre&s;umption again&s;t him, to the hardning of our hearts and the delaying of our repentance; give us to con&s;ider thy long forbear|ance, and the danger of our delay, knowing that certainly death will come, and how &s;oon we are altoge|ther uncertain; give us &s;eriou&s;ly to bethink our &s;elves, what it is for a
<PB N="35" REF="25">&s;oul to take its farewell of this world, and pre&s;ently to appear in another, and to be judged according to its preparation made in this life; and to take up a place in Heaven or Hell, without any hopes of ever changing.</P>
<P>O that we might &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider, though death cannot be prevented, damnation may be prevented, and Hell may be prevented, and e&s;caped by fear and care and diligence: let us rather choo&s;e to betake our &s;elves to our duty and avoid &s;in and danger: is Hell ea&s;ier, than fear and care to offend?</P>
<P>Give us to con&s;ider that we mu&s;t live for ever: and that we may live in Heavenly joys for ever, if in due time we will u&s;e the means: let us bethink our &s;elves for what end God gave us our rea&s;on and did difference us from bea&s;ts, that it was for us to u&s;e by preparing for an endle&s;s life.</P>
<P>O the folly of all tho&s;e who have a God to &s;erve, and a &s;oul to &s;ave,
<PB N="36" REF="26">and a Heaven to enjoy, and a Hell to e&s;cape, and a death to prepare for, and that &s;pend this life in worldly wicked vanities that peri&s;h in the u&s;ing, and leave all their chief work undone; O po&s;&s;e&s;s us with &s;erious thoughts of the folly and madne&s;s of tho&s;e, that &s;et more by a little meat and drink and bea&s;tly plea&s;ure, for a few days, than by an endle&s;s Heaven|ly Glory; that care more for a body that mu&s;t rot in the earth, than for a never dying &s;oul; that &s;pare no pains to avoid &s;hame, &s;orrow and &s;ickne&s;s, and will do &s;o little to avoid everla&s;t|ing &s;hame and horror in Hell.</P>
<P>Oh give us to con&s;ider how &s;ad it is for men to exerci&s;e their rea&s;on for trifles, and none for their &s;alvati|on; and are wi&s;e in nothing but un|profitable vanities, and cunning to cheat them&s;elves out of all their hopes of Heaven.</P>
<P>O our God, let us love thee above all, with the &s;weete&s;t and highe&s;t de|light, bring us to Heaven by Grace,
<PB N="37" REF="26">&s;ave us from this mi&s;erable world.</P>
<P>Fill us with everla&s;ting hope of Hea|venly joys, the only cordial again&s;t all our calamities here below; O the reviving hopes of an endle&s;s Glory!</P>
<P>This is that we live for in the world, we have nothing el&s;e can up|hold our &s;pirits for one day under all our cro&s;&s;es, but this comfortable fore-thought, that we &s;hall be for ever with the Lord and all his Holy Glorified ones!</P>
<P>Ble&s;&s;ed be the God and Father of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who hath in him cho&s;en us through faith to &s;o great and glorious an Inheri|tance prepared for all tho&s;e that look for his Glorious appearance, even &s;o <HI>Amen,</HI> come Lord Je&s;us, come quickly.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="38" REF="27">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a Family for <HI>Wedne&s;|day</HI>-Morning.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Gracious Lord, the God and Father of our ble&s;&s;ed Lord Je&s;us: O what are we &s;inful du&s;t and a&s;hes, that we &s;hould enjoy &s;o great a priviledge, to make our approaches into thy pre&s;ence, and in the name of our Mediator and Advocate with thee, to pour out our &s;ouls, and that with good hope, through grace, to find grace and favour to help in our time of need!</P>
<P>Our great reque&s;t at this addre&s;s of ours this morning is, that all our &s;cales of ignorance and blindne&s;s may fall off, that we may no longer live ignorantly, carele&s;ly or &s;infully to pro|voke thy Glorious Maje&s;ty; O give us a clear re&s;olution of our conver&s;i|on and reconciliation through our Lord Je&s;us, let us not be alwayes thinking that we &s;tand; &s;trengthen our Faith, that we may be followers
<PB N="39" REF="27">of tho&s;e who through faith and pati|ence inherited the promi&s;e: Let repen|tance to life evidence our truth of Grace, let &s;anctification witne&s;s our hope of &s;alvation, let our death to &s;in witne&s;s our life and intere&s;t in our Lord Je&s;us. O give us to con&s;ider that light hath no communion with darkne&s;s, per&s;wade us more and more of the impo&s;&s;ibility of any unholy per&s;on, whil&s;t &s;uch, to be forgiven, and &s;aved. Sin is the &s;ouls mi&s;ery, and to pardon a &s;inner is to deliver him from his mi&s;ery. O make us &s;en&s;ible that there is no hopes of the &s;alvation of a &s;inner that con|tinues in his unconverted condition, and that everla&s;ting de&s;pair in Hell will be the Portion of all that dye unconverted and un&s;anctified. Con|vince us of the nece&s;&s;ity of regenera|tion, repentance, conver&s;ion and ho|line&s;s, without which none can be &s;a|ved. Inable us to tru&s;t God to be our only everla&s;ting joy, and to be the Law giver and Ruler of our Lives.
<PB N="40" REF="28">And to tru&s;t Chri&s;t to ju&s;tifie us and &s;ave us from our &s;ins; and tru&s;t the Holy-Gho&s;t to kill our &s;ins, and to illuminate, &s;anctifie and quicken us, and by degrees to make us perfectly holy.</P>
<P>O Let us never expect God will &s;ave us from Hell and not from &s;in, or from the guilt of &s;in and not from the power of &s;in, or that &s;inners &s;hould keep their &s;ins whil&s;t they live, and then to give them Heaven at death.</P>
<P>Per&s;wade our &s;ouls of the truth of our Repentance, which &s;tands not in our opinion being changed, but it con&s;i&s;ts in the change of the heart and conver&s;ation.</P>
<P>O give us that truth of repentance that reforms the worldly mind, as well as open wickedne&s;s: kill the love of every &s;in in us: &s;et our hearts and hopes on Heaven, &s;o that we may now love holine&s;s and &s;eek Gods Kingdom above this world. Keep us from a counterfeit repentance of &s;orrowing for &s;in and not amending
<PB N="41" REF="28">our lives; or of &s;orrowing to day and &s;inning again to morrow. Oh deliver us from ignorance, unbelief and aver&s;ne&s;s or enmity to God and ho|line&s;s, from pride, &s;en&s;uality, world|line&s;s, di&s;obedience and carnal &s;el|fi&s;hne&s;s: O let our hearts &s;ubmit to the holy Laws and ways of God: let us no longer live in &s;lavery to the Devil, nor &s;pend our time in the world to gratifie the fle&s;h.</P>
<P>O pre&s;erve us from the neglect of our &s;alvation; above all callings in|able us to make our Calling and Ele|ction &s;ure, through our Lord Je&s;us who hath loved us and given him&s;elf to death for all tho&s;e that come la|den and weary to him, and take up his Cro&s;s and follow him. Now the God and Father of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t pre&s;erve you blamele&s;s to the coming of his Son and our Redeemer, for whom and to whom be Prai&s;e, Ho|nour and everla&s;ting Obedience ren|dred henceforth and for evermore, <HI>Amen, Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="42" REF="29">
<HEAD>A Prayer for <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> Evening.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t Great and mo&s;t Glorious Lord, the alone Pre&s;erver and Di&s;po&s;er of all thy works:</P>
<P>It is our happine&s;s as well as our duty that at all times we may with freedom in and through the mediati|on of our Lord Je&s;us, make our wants known, and &s;eek for grace and mercy to help in time of need: in all our addre&s;&s;es into the pre&s;ence of thee the Holy God, O let Chri&s;t Je&s;us be pretious to us, and let us be of that number to whom he is &s;o; di&s;cover to us more and more our intere&s;t in him, let that be cleared to us by the work he hath performed in us, inable us to find and feel the power of the new birth, by our new nature, let our faith in him appear by our light received and obedience there|unto, let our deeds be made mani|fe&s;t that they are wrought in God, and that there is no condemnation to
<PB N="43" REF="29">them that are in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who walk not after the fle&s;h, but after the &s;pirit, they only mind the things of the &s;pirit, and to be &s;piritually mind|ed is life and peace. Inable us to mortifie more and more the deeds of the body by the &s;pirit, and let it appear that we are the &s;ons of God by our being led by his &s;pirit. De|liver us from the works of the fle&s;h, and fill us with the fruits of the Spi|rit: inable us more and more to cru|cifie the fle&s;h, with the affections and lu&s;ts. Let it appear that we are in Chri&s;t by the workman&s;hip of the new creature. Let us not deceive our &s;elves, he that doth righteou&s;ne&s;s is righteous, and that without holi|ne&s;s no man &s;hall &s;ee the Lord. O that the enmity within our own &s;ouls again&s;t the&s;e &s;acred rules might more affect our hearts to con&s;ider how we have forgot our God, neg|lected our Saviour, de&s;pi&s;ed Heaven, and &s;lighted holine&s;s, and a holy God, and holy Scriptures, and holy per|&s;ons,
<PB N="44" REF="30">that have lo&s;t our precious time, and omitted holy duties, whereby we became the wor&s;t ene|mies to our own &s;alvation, for which cau&s;e we may ju&s;tly loath our &s;elves, for our &s;ins and our &s;elf-ruine; all men might be holy and happy if they would in time apply them&s;elves to it, but mo&s;t men will not. O let not the world have more of our hearts than Heaven, let us no longer love plea|&s;ure more than God: Let us no longer be more weary of holy thoughts, or holy Conference, or Prayer than of our worldly concerns.</P>
<P>Deliver us from a proud, worldly, fle&s;hly heart and life, which is the &s;ting, and will give the &s;inner no re&s;t! and the defiled guilty Con&s;cience, which will never let the &s;oul be quiet! Which hath a life of unpardoned &s;in to look back upon: a life of &s;en&s;ua|lity, and ungodline&s;s, of pride, ful|ne&s;s and idlene&s;s, abundance of oaths, cur&s;es, lies and contempt of God; God hateth all the workers of iniqui|ty,
<PB N="45" REF="30">what peace then can there be to &s;uch?</P>
<P>Give us to con&s;ider the &s;hortne&s;s of our lives, the preciou&s;ne&s;s of our &s;ouls, the &s;wiftne&s;s of time; and what we have lo&s;t; how terrible Hell is, and how glorious Heaven, to which Glory bring us by our Lord Je|&s;us, to whom be glory for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Morning Prayer for <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> to be u&s;ed by a Family.</HEAD>
<P>GRacious and Mo&s;t Glorious Lord God, thy Glory is above the Heavens, to thee all Power, Wi&s;dom, Might, Maje&s;ty and Dominion be|long, enable us thy poor Creatures in all humility to render unto thy ble&s;|&s;ed &s;elf in and through thy Son, our Lord Je&s;us, all prai&s;e, thank&s;giving, all honour, and &s;ervice, and obedience; for all tho&s;e continued mercies we to this day have received and enjoy|ed; Oh that thy daily renewed mer|cies
<PB N="46" REF="31">might more and more engage us to higher degrees of obedience, and to clean&s;e our &s;elves from all filthi|ne&s;s of fle&s;h and &s;pirit, perfecting ho|line&s;s in the fear of thy great Name. And that we may continually pre&s;s forward towards the mark, for the attaining of that high calling of God in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, affect our hearts with our backward carriage towards thee; let us &s;trive to enter in at the &s;trait gate, and account our utmo&s;t endea|vours too little to an&s;wer that unde|&s;erved unfathomed love &s;hed abroad in our hearts, by and through our Lord Je&s;us, and that good hope through Grace of an everla&s;ting ha|bitation in that life to come, of Glo|ry and happine&s;s; deliver us more and more from the power of &s;in the only plague of the world, and troubler of &s;ouls, the great interrupter of our peace.</P>
<P>Give us thy ble&s;&s;ed Spirit more fully whereby we may be enabled to mind the great work of this life, which is
<PB N="47" REF="31">to obey our God, and to &s;ave our own &s;ouls; let his be fir&s;t and mo&s;t minded by us: we know that nothing can be more worth our labour than Heaven, or the fruition of God in Glory.</P>
<P>O Lord pardon our &s;lothfulne&s;s for doing &s;o little for thee; O make us believe more &s;trongly, and hope for Heaven more confirmed|ly, and love thee more fervently, and &s;erve thee more faithfully and &s;ucce&s;sfully, and bear the Cro&s;s more patiently; And Oh thou who art our tru&s;t and hope, our portion; our fir&s;t and la&s;t, our de&s;ire, our all! O leave not any of us to a dead and unbelieving heart, or to a world|ly &s;elfi&s;h mind, to live and dye a &s;tranger to thee our God, and the Heavenly Society, Chri&s;t and his Triumphant Church; make us &s;en|&s;ible of that &s;weet and admirable co|operation between the bountiful communications of God, and the holy and con&s;tant de&s;ires of the &s;oul:
<PB N="48" REF="32">and that we are receiving Grace all the while that we are de&s;iring it. Let us improve our rea&s;on to know the original and end of all that good we receive, and that we have our tongues for to glorifie God, and to &s;peak out his and our Redeemers prai&s;e.</P>
<P>This is our duty, our honour and our joy. O let us never think it a toil to be prai&s;ing our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour, our glorious God, and the Heavenly joys; we de&s;ire &s;till to remember that we are created in Chri&s;t Je&s;us to good works, and redeemed and puri|fied to be zealous of good works.</P>
<P>Enable us to adorn our profe&s;&s;ion with a holy and blamele&s;s conver&s;a|tion.</P>
<P>We ble&s;s thee for feeding and cloathing us; for our continued health and &s;trength, for our daily pre&s;ervation from innumerable dan|gers, for thy renewed mercies morn|ing after morning; pre&s;erve and pro|&s;per us in our imployments; feed us
<PB N="49" REF="32">with food convenient; let us live as ever under thine all-&s;eeing eye, that living continually in thy fear, we may live in thy love, and find at all times thine a&s;&s;i&s;tance: in all our ways ena|ble us to give to thy ble&s;&s;ed Maje&s;ty all the Glory, Honour, Power and Thankful Obedience through our ble&s;&s;ed Redeemer, in who&s;e name and words we de&s;ire to pray as he him&s;elf hath taught us, &s;aying,</P>
<P><HI>Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a Family for <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> Evening.</HEAD>
<P>GLorious and for ever ble&s;&s;ed Lord, in the name and in the &s;trength of our Lord Je&s;us, and by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his Spirit we de&s;ire to offer up this our Evening Sacrifice of prai&s;e, acknowledging our unworthi|ne&s;s and unpreparedne&s;s to approach &s;o great and Glorious a Maje&s;ty; thou knowe&s;t our hearts, and how
<PB N="50" REF="33">we &s;tand affected in the performance of this Great duty.</P>
<P>Shoulde&s;t thou take advantage of our mi&s;carriages this day, thou mighte&s;t ju&s;tly askt us that &s;ad que&s;ti|on, Wherefore we take thy name and words into our mouths, &s;ince we hate to be reformed, to depart from all iniquity? Suffer us, O our God, no longer to re&s;i&s;t thy ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, or to harden our hearts from thy fear; let our repentance for &s;in be manife&s;ted by our for&s;aking of all &s;in, &s;ince confe&s;&s;ion of &s;in without for&s;a|king of &s;in &s;hall find no mercy; pre|&s;erve us from wilful &s;in and known conviction, give us to con&s;ider that Chri&s;t will never alter his Terms and change his Law and Go&s;pel to excu&s;e us for not changing our hearts and lives; mind us of our task, of that knowledge; faith, hope, a&s;&s;urance, and patience and comfort that we have yet to get, of the many tem|ptations we have yet to overcome, and the many duties we have yet to
<PB N="51" REF="33">perform, and what a great work it is to prepare for immortality. Give us to remember that Satan doth not loyter, and that time &s;tands not &s;till, and that delay is denial.</P>
<P>God needs not us but we need him, we would not have him to delay to help us in time of our need! O let us con&s;ider that patience will not be abu&s;ed for ever, and that this is the accepted time, this is the time of Salvation.</P>
<P>Let us &s;ee that afflictions are not the lea&s;t of Gods mercies, which our dull and hardned hearts make nece&s;|&s;ary. O fools that we are, we will not under&s;tand without the Rod. Help us to be thankful that we are cha&s;ti&s;ed, knowing that it is the Por|tion of the deare&s;t of Gods Children: without which cha&s;ti&s;ement the wick|ed that are of the &s;eed of the Ser|pent do e&s;cape. Give, O our God, the Spirit of our Lord Je&s;us to abide with us as an indwelling Princi|ple; &s;anctifie our vital power with
<PB N="52" REF="34">&s;piritual life, &s;trength, activity; our under&s;tanding with &s;piritual light, knowledge and faith, and our will with holy love and willingne&s;s. O let the Holy Gho&s;t be our light, life and love. Manife&s;t it to us by a holy life towards God; with a holy light to know and believe God, and a holy love to love God, and his Government and his Chil|dren. The&s;e things, and all other for this and a better life we humbly beg for the &s;ake of our alone Medi|ator and Redeemer, who now is &s;ate down on the right hand of his Father and our Father through him, for whom and to whom, with God the Father and the holy Spirit of Grace, be prai&s;e, honour and ever|la&s;ting obedience rendred of all that love our Lord Je&s;us in &s;incerity, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="53" REF="34">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a Family for <HI>Friday</HI>-Morning.</HEAD>
<P>O Eternal, mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed holy Lord, in and for the merits of our Lord Je&s;us give us admittance and accep|tance into thy pre&s;ence at this time, and let this our morning Sacrifice be offered up from a &s;en&s;ible knowledge of our own wants of fre&s;h &s;upplies from thee the God of all Grace, by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of thy Holy Spirit with|in us helping our infirmities, and bringing to our remembrance Petiti|ons according to our wants, grant unto us what&s;oever we &s;tand in need of, that may make for thy glory, and for our good, for this and a better life; &s;ave us by thy grace, let grace pre|pare us for glory; give us diligence, deliver us from <HI>Sodoms</HI> &s;ins, idlene&s;s and fulne&s;s, keep us from &s;lothfulne&s;s in bu&s;ine&s;s, and give us with fervency of Spirit to &s;erve the Lord. Inable us as well to labour for our daily
<PB N="54" REF="35">bread, as to pray for it, and that we may rather give than receive: Let the world and all things in it be on|ly the means to help us forward to|wards the great end we came into it for. O pre&s;erve us from pre&s;umptu|ous willful &s;in, let our fear to &s;in be in&s;trumental to pre&s;erve us from &s;in; let us dread the thoughts of joyning &s;in and holine&s;s together, or dividing our heart betwixt God and Mammon; let us account Gods &s;ervice our per|fect freedom; let the plea&s;ures of tho&s;e &s;weet experiences in thy &s;ervice, make us loath and leave every &s;inful way; let thy grace and &s;trength ap|pear in our weakne&s;s; let the com|forts of Faith, and Hope, and Love cau&s;e us to ca&s;t off all the filthy plea|&s;ures of the fle&s;h; magnifie thy &s;trength in our weakne&s;s, keep us from tru&s;ting to our own &s;trength; let us take unto us the whole armour of God, fix us in faith, love and obe|dience to all thy holy and righteous laws: &s;trengthen our re&s;olutions to
<PB N="55" REF="35">obey and &s;erve in the &s;trength of Chri&s;t, who&s;e grace is &s;ufficient for the upholding his weak and unable &s;ervants. Let us take the offer of Chri&s;t, and Holine&s;s, and Heaven, whil&s;t God offers them; but O give us wi&s;dom to &s;ee and &s;hun the Devils offer of the plea&s;ures of &s;in for a mo|ment, and everla&s;ting damnation in the end; help us truly to repent of &s;in with &s;hame and &s;orrow, loath our &s;elves, and to believe all the Go&s;pel promi&s;es, and the love that Chri&s;t hath manife&s;ted, and the wonderful love of the Father in giving us his Son, and reconciling us to him&s;elf&punc; help us to live under the helps and con&s;olations of the Holy Gho&s;t, and to live in the hopes and de&s;ires of everla&s;ting glory. Now unto God and our Father, be Glory in the Church by Chri&s;t Je&s;us throughout all ages, world without end, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="56" REF="36">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a Family for <HI>Fryday</HI>-Evening.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Gracious, mo&s;t Holy, Glo|rious Lord God, the Great Creator of Heaven and Earth, be|fore whom all things are naked and bare; thou art a God hearing Prayer, and that give&s;t gracious returns to thy praying Children and Servants; ble&s;|&s;ed be the God and Father of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, for that way that he hath appointed du&s;t and a&s;hes to approach unto him by. Oh the ex|cellency of that way whereby poor lo&s;t and undone &s;ouls are invited to pour out their &s;upplications through Je&s;us the Author and Fini&s;her of our faith, who endured the Cro&s;s and de|&s;pi&s;ed the &s;hame, and now is &s;at down at the right hand of the Ma|je&s;ty on high, pleading the cau&s;e of his poor Supplicants; the de&s;ire of our &s;ouls is that we may this night re&s;t under the &s;hadow of thy holy
<PB N="57" REF="36">protection, that thou wilt &s;ecure us from &s;in, Satan and our &s;elfi&s;h na|ture; we de&s;ire to take &s;hame to our &s;elves for all that &s;tain and guilt of &s;in that we have contracted; Oh that we might &s;o confe&s;s &s;in as to for&s;ake it, then and not until then we can expect return of mercy; Oh the precious time that we have &s;in|ned away, the glorious opportunities that we fooli&s;hly and wickedly have let &s;lip; we have oppo&s;ed and re&s;i&s;ted the gracious motions of thy ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, that would have &s;ealed us to the day of redemption; Oh that &s;in might appear to us as it is in it &s;elf, it is the greate&s;t &s;hame and bane of poor &s;ouls: give unto us the grace of per&s;everance in thy ways, and pro|fe&s;&s;ion with the practice of a holy life. Transform us into the likene&s;s of our great Pattern, the High Prie&s;t of our profe&s;&s;ion. O that we could blame our &s;elves for all tho&s;e difficul|ties and follies that &s;in hath brought upon us, &s;trengthen our inward man
<PB N="58" REF="37">again&s;t all Satans wiles to work our de&s;truction; O give unto us the grace of precious faith, that faith which will vanqui&s;h Satan, overcome the world and that purifies the heart. Let us con&s;ider that it is high time for us to awake out of &s;leep that have done &s;o little for Heaven and Eternity; our gla&s;s is almo&s;t run and our work is but uncertainly begun, help us to give all diligence to make our Calling and Election &s;ure; let us prepare our lamps, let our light &s;hine and our works manife&s;t that we are thine: hear, help, pardon and fit us by grace for glory, and all for Chri&s;ts &s;ake ble&s;&s;ed for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Morning Prayer for a Family for <HI>Saturday</HI>-Morning.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t holy Lord, thou art and there is more. be&s;ides thee, from everla&s;ting to everla&s;ting thou art God. A God hearing the reque&s;ts of thy poor creatures, and art plea&s;ed
<PB N="59" REF="37">to an&s;wer their de&s;ires, and to &s;treng|then them with renewed refre&s;hments from day to day. It is the great hap|pine&s;s as well as the priviledge that thy humble &s;upplicants in and through our Lord Je&s;us, may &s;ue for mercy and Grace in their time of need, and thou art graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to &s;treng|then them with &s;trength in their in|ward man, whereby they become fruitful in the works of righteou&s;|ne&s;s to his prai&s;e, who hath called them out of darkne&s;s into his mar|vellous light; help us to manage our race with joy, and our warfare with a holy re&s;olved re&s;olution; give us to con&s;ider that all our way to Hea|ven mu&s;t &s;tep by &s;tep, be carried by labour and victory, the wea|pons of our warface are mighty through God and the diligent &s;eekers of him &s;hall have a full and &s;ure re|ward; inable us to &s;erve the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> O our God, with reverence and godly fear, as knowing that our God is a con&s;u|ming fire; and though it be God
<PB N="60" REF="38">that giveth us to will and to do, yet we mu&s;t work out our &s;alvation with fear and trembling, and we mu&s;t be &s;tedfa&s;t and unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; inable us to overcome that we may inherit, and to be faithful to the death that we may receive the Crown of Righteou&s;ne&s;s; let us with <HI>Noah</HI> make &s;ure work to prepare an Ark to the &s;aving of our &s;ouls. O let us not be deceived in the great con|cerns of eternity, &s;trenghthen us again&s;t all the temptations to the plea&s;ures of &s;in, let us with <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> ra|ther choo&s;e affliction, though it be the allotted portion of the people of God; help us to avoid &s;in and all the occa&s;ions of it, and to hate the very garment &s;potted by the fle&s;h, and that we may neither wound our own &s;ouls nor grieve the Holy Spirit of God, or of tho&s;e that truly fear the Lord; give us &s;eriou&s;ly to think of our end, and what our fle&s;h mu&s;t turn to &s;ooner than we are aware;
<PB N="61" REF="38">let us u&s;e the world as though we u&s;ed it not. E&s;tabli&s;h us in the plain truths of Chri&s;t, to believe and re|pent, and love God above all, and Heaven above Earth, and our Neigh|bours as our &s;elves, and to mortifie the lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h by the Spirit, to deny our &s;elves, and &s;uffer patient|ly, and forgive our enemies; deliver us from all evil by thy grace until thou receive us into Glory, through our Lord Je&s;us, to whom be all Glo|ry for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a Family for <HI>Saturday</HI>-Evening.</HEAD>
<P>BLe&s;&s;ed, Great and Glorious Lord God, the God and Father of our Lord Je&s;us thy beloved, and the de&s;ire of our &s;ouls, the fountain of all our comforts, the Author and Fi|ni&s;ter of our Faith, who hath with one offering perfected all tho&s;e that are &s;anctified; in all our addre&s;&s;es in to thy pre&s;ence let thy Spirit &s;o a&s;|&s;i&s;t
<PB N="62" REF="39">us that we may offer up unto thee of thine own; make us &s;en&s;ible more and more of our own vilene&s;s and unworthine&s;s either to receive mer|cies from thee or to return prai&s;es for tho&s;e manifold favours and mer|cies received: let us be more and more &s;en&s;ible of the great want we &s;tand in of a Saviour and a Sancti|fier, in regard of our horrid defi|led natures, which cau&s;e us to loath and abhor our &s;elves; how much more loath&s;ome mu&s;t we needs ap|pear to thy pure eyes to behold &s;uch horrid creatures as we are! let the excellency of thy grace pre&s;erve us from &s;in, and inable us to ca&s;t out, and to ca&s;t off all the works of &s;in and darkne&s;s. Convince us of the nece&s;|&s;ity of humility and renewed repen|tance&punc; pre&s;erve us from idle &s;ecuri|ty, and the neglect of the great work of mortification: Let us con&s;i|der how God hates &s;in, and how he is &s;et again&s;t it, and how he hath &s;hown his di&s;like of it by his for bidding it,
<PB N="63" REF="39">and cau&s;ing his Son to dye for &s;in; and how he hath cha&s;ti&s;ed the godly them&s;elves for &s;in, and that he will ca&s;t the impenitent into Hell for &s;in, and that he will &s;uffer no &s;in nor &s;in|ner that &s;o continues, in Heaven: convince us of the folly and madne&s;s of &s;inners that wilfully run on in &s;in to the damning of their &s;ouls, and of the happine&s;s of tho&s;e &s;mall number that &s;hall be &s;aved, and what their duty is; make us of that number who mu&s;t neither think, &s;peak or do as the mo&s;t do; that the excellency of redeemed ones may &s;hine in our lives, in our fervent love, and holy and hearty obedience: &s;ecure us from the deceits of this la&s;t age, both from fal&s;e Prophets deceits and Satans transforming him&s;elf into an Angel of Light, and his Mini&s;ters into &s;eeming Mini&s;ters of Righteou&s;ne&s;s to deceive; help is to heep up the intere&s;t of God, and Heaven, and Chri&s;t, and Holine&s;s in our hearts, and by our faith to over dome the
<PB N="64" REF="40">world; inable us to go on in the &s;e|rious u&s;e of all the means of our &s;al|vation, and to for&s;ake the mo&s;t gain|ful or &s;weete&s;t &s;in, and to perform all the harde&s;t and co&s;tlie&s;t duties; above all gifts give us thy poor crea|tures &s;anctified hearts to pre&s;erve us from all &s;inful temptations, <HI>And de|liver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory for ever,</HI> Amen.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for Seamen in a dangerous Storm.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Gracious, Omnipre&s;ent, Powerful Holy Lord, thou ha&s;t commanded thy poor creatures in their day of trouble to call upon thee, to whom belong the i&s;&s;ues from death; this is a time of trouble, give thy poor greature a token for good in this his great di&s;tre&s;s; thou about can&s;t turn this dreadful &s;torm to a plea&s;ant calm, thou ha&s;t &s;hewed thy &s;ervant thy wonders in the deep, the
<PB N="65" REF="40">Sea roars, and the deep is ready to &s;wallow me up; the floods lift up their waves, the floods, O Lord, are lifted up, but the Lord on high is mightier than the noi&s;e of many wa|ters; powerful Lord, &s;ay to the&s;e proud waves, be &s;till, and thy &s;ervant &s;hall be &s;afe; thou ha&s;t commanded and rai&s;ed the &s;tormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof, they mount up to the Heaven, they go down again to the depths, and my &s;oul is melted becau&s;e of trouble. O &s;hew thy goodne&s;s and mercy to thy poor creature, command this &s;torm to be calm, and the waves thereof &s;hall be &s;till: cau&s;e thy &s;ervant to re|joyce in thy mercy, and bring him to his de&s;ired haven; O give him occa|&s;ion to&punc; &s;peak and publi&s;h thy good|ne&s;s to his &s;oul; thou ha&s;t &s;hut up the Sea with doors, and &s;aid hitherto &s;halt thou come but no further, and here &s;hall thy proud waves be &s;taid; thou ha&s;t &s;et a bound that they &s;hall not pa&s;s over, that they turn not
<PB N="66" REF="41">again to cover the earth; thou can&s;t command the Sea to &s;tand &s;till for thy redeemed to pa&s;s over, thy power is not le&s;&s;ened and thy hand is not &s;hortned, thou art the &s;ame ye&s;terday, to day and for ever; thou did&s;t blow with thy wind, and the Sea covered thine enemies; who is like unto thee O Lord, glorious in holine&s;s, fearful in prai&s;es, doing wonders! give thy &s;ervant cau&s;e for ever to prai&s;e thee by pre&s;erving him from this danger, and let it be as a &s;eal upon his heart to rememember thy mercy, and give thee the prai&s;e thereof, &s;o long as thou &s;halt continue my life here; grant this and all other mercies to thy poor unworthy creature for the &s;ake of thy Son, our Saviour and ble&s;|&s;ed Redeemer, in who&s;e Name I further pray, &s;aying, <HI>Our Father,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="67" REF="41">
<HEAD>A Thanksgiving after a &s;torm at Sea.</HEAD>
<P>BLe&s;s the Lord O my &s;oul, &s;ing un|to him, and talk of all his won|drous works; O forget not all his be|nefits, that regardeth the prayer of the de&s;titute, the Lord merciful and gracious, he hath not dealt with me after my &s;ins; for as the Heaven is high above the Earth, &s;o great is his mercy to them that fear him: Thou art worthy of all my love, what &s;hall I render unto thee, O thou who art the Saviour of tho&s;e that put their tru&s;t in thee; thou ha&s;t put a fre&s;h &s;ong of prai&s;e into my mouth, thou ha&s;t pre&s;erved me when the Sea ro&s;e up again&s;t me; ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord who hath not &s;uffered his billows to pa&s;s over me, the &s;torm cea&s;ed and I am e&s;caped, &s;alvation is of the Lord; &s;ince thou ha&s;t given me a new life and delivered me from the terrors of the deep waters, thy mercy is great above the Heavens, and thy truth
<PB N="68" REF="42">reacheth unto the Clouds; who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord, who can &s;hew forth all his prai&s;e? Let this deliverance cau&s;e me to re&s;ign up my &s;elf and all that I am entirely to thee, my God, my Father, my Saviour and Sanctifier; bring all the powers of my &s;oul and body into a full &s;ubjecti|on to thy government, &s;hed abroad thy love into my heart by the Holy-Gho&s;t, let thy love con&s;train me to love thee above all things, with all my heart, and &s;oul, and might: thy poor creatures great de&s;ire is that he may know thee better and love thee more; cau&s;e me to make thy glory my ultimate end, and to &s;eek thy glo|ry in all that I do, and in all things to plea&s;e thee, and how to live as I &s;hall wi&s;h at la&s;t I had lived; &s;treng|then me in my warfare that I may overcome through him that hath lo|ved me, to whom be rendred prai&s;e, honour, dominion and thanks for|ever and ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="69" REF="42">
<HEAD>Pious Meditations on the Birth, Life, Death, Re&s;urrection and A&s;cen&s;ion of our Ble&s;&s;ed Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>O The Greatne&s;s of that Love which the Angels came to de|clare! and the multitude of the Hea|venly Ho&s;t celebrated with Songs of Prai&s;e, at the birth of him who was &s;ent in the likene&s;s of &s;inful fle&s;h, and in the form of a &s;ervant; yet wonder|fully conceived, by being formed by the immediate finger of the Spirit, the power of the mo&s;t High over&s;ha|dowing the ble&s;&s;ed Virgin as it was foretold by the Angel at his Salutation; who was the brightne&s;s of his Fathers Glory, and the expre&s;s image of his per&s;on, and the upholder of all things by the word of his power, at who&s;e bringing into the world, he &s;aith, And let all the Angels of God wor&s;hip him. But unto the Son he &s;aith, Thy Throne, O God, is for ever and ever,
<PB N="70" REF="43">a Scepter of righteou&s;ne&s;s is the Scep|ter of thy Kingdom; yet when he came into the world, neither the world, nor his own knew him, though he dwelt among&s;t them; but as ma|ny as received him, to them he gave power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believed on his name. So wonderful was his wi&s;dom that the people cry out Whence hath this man this wi&s;dom? in him were hid all the trea&s;ures of wi&s;dom: O the riches of Grace to lo&s;t man that had forfeited all his mercies and &s;in|ned away all his hopes of ble&s;&s;edne&s;s, that then our Lord Je&s;us &s;hould a&s;|&s;ume our nature according to all tho&s;e Prophecies and Promi&s;es made of old, that he &s;hould be born of a Virgin, and born at <HI>Bethlehem,</HI> that Kings &s;hould offer unto him, that Children &s;hould be &s;lain thinking thereby to murther him; that a Star &s;hould appear at his Birth, that he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">hould fly into <HI>Egypt,</HI> that he &s;hould do &s;trange miracles and dye for &s;in|ners;
<PB N="71" REF="43">that he &s;hould be betrayed by his Di&s;ciple, and that he &s;hould be &s;old for thirty pieces of Silver; that he &s;hould ride into <HI>Jeru&s;alem;</HI> that he &s;hould be buffetted, &s;pit on, &s;courged and dye among&s;t thieves, that Vine|gar &s;hould be given him to drink, that his Apparel &s;hould be divided, and Lots ca&s;t for his Garments; that he &s;hould be crucified, and his &s;ide pierced; that he &s;hould ri&s;e from the dead the third day, and that he &s;hould a&s;cend into Heaven. O the depth of this mercy, that the Divine Nature &s;hould &s;toop &s;o low, and that the humane nature &s;hould be rai&s;ed &s;o high; that &s;o low, lo&s;t and undone creatures &s;hould be made one per|&s;on with the Divine Nuture; that God and man &s;hould meet in one Per&s;on; great is the my&s;terie of God|line&s;s, for the Creator to become a creature, for the Son of God to be made &s;in and a cur&s;e, and all to reco|ver lo&s;t &s;inners; that in this union Heaven and Earth &s;hould embrace,
<PB N="72" REF="44">and by way of reconciliation, that Chri&s;t &s;hould reconcile man to God, and by way of union make him one with God, &s;o that now the humani|ty doth co-operate with the Divinity in &s;waying the Scepter both of Hea|ven and Earth.</P>
<P>But yet further, O my &s;oul, admire that ble&s;&s;ed life of my Glorious Re|deemer, and how powerfully and faithfully according to the Scriptures he hath confirmed all tho&s;e miracles foretold and by him manife&s;tly &s;hew|ed while&s;t he was upon the earth; He turned Water into Wine, fed five thou&s;and, <HI>Matth.</HI> 14. fed four thou|&s;and, <HI>Matth.</HI> 15. gave &s;ight to the Blind, &s;peech the Dumb, re&s;tored the withered Hand, healed the lame that had been &s;o thirty eight years, healed the Lepro&s;ie, the Feavor, the Pal&s;ie, the Bloody-I&s;&s;ue, the Drop&s;ie, calm'd the Sea, walkt on the Waters, rai&s;ed to life the dead, and delivered the po&s;&s;e&s;t from the Devil. And at his death no le&s;s wonderful to confirm his truths
<PB N="73" REF="44">&s;poken to his Di&s;ciples and to all that believe. At his death he was betrayed by <HI>Judas,</HI> denied by <HI>Peter,</HI> condemned by <HI>Pilate</HI> though by fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es: yet O my &s;oul forget not his love, who before his &s;uffering in|&s;tituted the remembrance of his death and &s;uffering, taking bread when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave unto them, <HI>&s;aying, This is my body;</HI> al&s;o the cup, &s;aying, <HI>This is the New Te|&s;tament in my blood which is &s;hed for you, this do in remembrance of me.</HI></P>
<P>After this Legacy left to all that believe and obey him, he went to the Mount of Olives, and there ha|ving advi&s;ed his Di&s;ciples to pray, he withdrew from them and prayed, where there appeared an Angel to &s;trengthen him, who in his Agony prayed the more earne&s;tly; and his &s;weat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground: immediately after he was betrayed by <HI>Judas</HI> with a Ki&s;s. Afterward in the High-Prie&s;ts hou&s;e he was mocked,
<PB N="74" REF="45">&s;mitten, and blindfolded, and bla&s;|phemou&s;ly &s;poken again&s;t; and be|fore <HI>Herod</HI> he was &s;et at naught by him and his men of War; and <HI>Barab|bas</HI> that for &s;edition and murder was ca&s;t into Pri&s;on, him <HI>Pilate</HI> re|lea&s;t, and delivered Je&s;us to be cruci|fied: at who&s;e death the vail of the Temple rent in twane from the top to the bottom, and the Earth did quake, and the Rocks rent, and the Graves were opened, and many bo|dies of Saints which &s;lept aro&s;e.</P>
<P>Oh wonderful King in thy Con|que&s;t, a &s;trange King in thy Anoint|ing which was with the Spirit, his Scepter as &s;trange wherewith he &s;wayes, it is the word of his mouth, by which he &s;ubdues the heart, de|&s;troyes &s;in, and writes his Law in mens hearts.</P>
<P>A &s;trange King if we look upon the nature of his Kingdom, which con|&s;i&s;ts in Righteou&s;ne&s;s, Peace and Joy in the Holy-Gho&s;t: this Kingdom is upheld only by the power of the Eternal Spirit.</P>
<PB N="75" REF="45">
<P>O my &s;oul con&s;ider a little this wonderful Prie&s;t, he is &s;o a Prie&s;t, that he is al&s;o the Altar and the Sacrifice: the Sacrifice is his Humanity, the Al|tar is his Divinity; the Prie&s;t is both the&s;e in their union; in which Sacri|fice he hath made an end of &s;in, and brought in everla&s;ting Righteou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
<P>O wonderful Prophet, &s;uch a one that not only pre&s;ents divine Truths to us, but gives light and under&s;tand|ing to receive tho&s;e truths; he not only &s;peaks out truth but unites truth and the &s;oul together; yea he is both the Teacher and the truth taught. And how wonderful al&s;o is our Lord Je&s;us in his Re&s;urrection! As his Nativity was revealed by Angels, &s;o his Re&s;urrection was al&s;o declared by Angels, and by him&s;elf confirmed by his ten &s;everal appearances after his Re&s;urrection.</P>
<P>To <HI>Mary,</HI> to the other <HI>Mary,</HI> to <HI>Joanna,</HI> to <HI>Peter,</HI> to the two Di&s;ci|ples going to <HI>Emaus,</HI> to the Eleven, to the Eleven <HI>Thomas</HI> being pre&s;ent, to
<PB N="76" REF="46">above five hundred Brethren at once, to <HI>James</HI> alone at the Sea of <HI>Tiberi|as,</HI> and to his Di&s;ciples when he was received up into Heaven.</P>
<P>After &s;o many witne&s;&s;es of our Lords Re&s;urrection, and having &s;hewed him|&s;elf alive after his pa&s;&s;ion by many infallible proofs, being &s;een of them forty dayes: and being a&s;&s;embled to|gether with them, he commanded his Apo&s;tles that they &s;hould wait at <HI>Je|ru&s;alem</HI> for the promi&s;e of the Holy-Gho&s;t; after which they &s;hould re|ceive power to be witne&s;&s;es unto Chri&s;t; which Spirit they received and were witne&s;&s;es both in <HI>Jeru&s;alem, Judea</HI> and <HI>Samaria,</HI> and unto the ut|termo&s;t parts of the Earth. And now is Chri&s;t ri&s;en and &s;itteth at the right hand of God the Father, the Salvation of God, the Fountain of Grace, the Heir of all things, the Portion of our Inheritance, our Righteou&s;ne&s;s, Wi&s;|dom, Sanctification and Redemption, and hope of Glory; the chief Shep|herd and Bi&s;hop of our &s;ouls, the Sa|viour
<PB N="77" REF="46">of the world, the King of the Jews, the Salvation and light of the Gentiles: Having by his work of Redemption rai&s;ed up Salvation, wonderfully conquered Satan, done away &s;in, brought in Righteou&s;ne&s;s, &s;atisfied Ju&s;tice; and thus the my&s;te|ry of mans nece&s;&s;ity is fully an&s;wered, God coming down into communion with man in his &s;in, &s;hame, weak|ne&s;s and mi&s;ery; and then drawing up man into communion with him|&s;elf in his own Righteou&s;ne&s;s, Power, Ble&s;&s;edne&s;s and Glory. And when he actually brings forth this Redem|ption within us, and accompli&s;heth the work of Salvation in the &s;ouls of men; this O my &s;oul is again won|derful: when he comes and &s;ets up a glorious marvellous light in the mid&s;t of thick darkne&s;s, turning up&s;ide down the very frame and foundation of corrupt nature; throws down the powers of darkne&s;s, di&s;&s;olves and the works of the Devil, and &s;ets up a new Creation purely upon a new bot|tom;
<PB N="78" REF="47">that erecteth a beautiful &s;tru|cture of Righteou&s;ne&s;s and Holine&s;s, and &s;piritual Temple to the Lord in the mid&s;t of that rubbi&s;h of con|fu&s;ion, de&s;olation and di&s;order that was there before; and all this by the meer power of his word; he that doth the&s;e things, his name is and &s;hall be called Wonderful.</P>
<P>O my &s;oul let this invite thee from they e&s;trangedne&s;s to Chri&s;t, O that we could come to feed and to fea&s;t our &s;ouls upon the&s;e rare excellencies, delights and perfections, which are trea&s;ured up in Je&s;us Chri&s;t. Here is wonderful mercy, improved to par|don thee; wonderful grace, to ac|cept and entertain thee; wondrous goodne&s;s to relieve and &s;upply thee; wonderful power to redeem and &s;up|port thee; wonderful wi&s;dom to in|&s;truct and guide thee; and wonder|ful holine&s;s to adorn and &s;anctifie thee, and wonderful fulne&s;s to fill and &s;a|tisfie thee: O that with all Saints we may be able to comprehend what is
<PB N="79" REF="47">the height, depth and breadth of this love, and all in order to our &s;alvati|on, that we may more and more di&s;|cover the trea&s;ures of our own com|fort, happine&s;s and glory.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer before the Receiving the Holy Communion.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Holy Lord, the Father of Mercy, and the God of all con&s;olation, by who&s;e &s;pecial provi|dence we are pre&s;erved and main|tained: Eternally ble&s;&s;ed Lord, let that precious blood &s;hed to redeem us from our vile and vain conver&s;ations, be&s;prinkle our hearts from an evil Con&s;cience; to that end let that re|membrance of Our Lord Je&s;us this day to be celebrated by us be accord|ing to that in&s;titution, to confirm our faith, &s;ettle our knowledge and e&s;tabli&s;h us in our Communion of Saints, and to experience our union with our head Je&s;us Chri&s;t. O help us to examine our truth of faith, and
<PB N="80" REF="48">to prove our &s;elves, knowing that Chri&s;t is in us except we be repro|bates. O prevent our &s;etting &s;eal to a blank, or which is wor&s;e, to &s;ign to our own damnation; let Chri&s;t in us be our hope of Glory; let him be our &s;anctuary, our light, our glory, a tryed, precious Corner-&s;tone to us; let us ta&s;te and &s;ee that the Lord is gracious to us, and a &s;helter from that &s;torm which the wicked mu&s;t one day feel; let our &s;ins be pardon|ed and our &s;ouls purged, let the te|&s;timony of our intere&s;t in Chri&s;t be manife&s;ted in our holy walking, by our holy warfare, and our &s;trength received; let us give all diligence to make our calling and election &s;ure; help us to improve our new birth, let it appear by our renewed life, let us as our Lord Je&s;us once grew, grow in the &s;tature of grace; he did never &s;in, O let us therefore hate the &s;potted Garment, the corrupt Heart, and a walking and minding tho&s;e things that &s;avour of the fle&s;h; help
<PB N="81" REF="48">us by faith to &s;ee him that &s;ees us; and to walk with him and before him, &s;triving to be perfect as he who redeemed us was perfect. Let neither thy Table O our ble&s;&s;ed Lord, nor our own become a &s;nare to us; but let us ta&s;te how gracious thou art to tho&s;e that wait upon thee in &s;incerity, though with much weakne&s;s and an unan&s;werable preparedne&s;s according to the preparation of the Sanctuary. O grant that in the &s;trength we &s;hall receive by this ble&s;&s;ed food, we may walk as thy redeemed, and that for his &s;ake, who is our alone Redeemer, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Thanksgiving after the Receiving the Holy Communion.</HEAD>
<P>O Ble&s;&s;ed Lord, we thy poor and unde&s;erving unworthy crea|tures acknowledge that in all out addre&s;&s;es and approaches, there is nothing can be added to thee by us, who are worms and no men, of
<PB N="82" REF="49">who&s;e &s;ervices thou ha&s;t no need, who art ab&s;olutely happy in thy &s;elf; it will one day be our perfection and happine&s;s to admire and prai&s;e thee with the Spirits of ju&s;t men made perfect. O that we could love thee more and know thee better, and obey thee with a more perfect heart, and a more willing mind; if we neglect thee, we ca&s;t away our &s;elves; by thee we were formed, and by thee we were transformed and begotten again to a lively hope; ble&s;&s;ed be thy glorious name for all the good hopes through grace received, for that prucha&s;ed redemption for all that believe and obey thy ble&s;&s;ed Go&s;pel, wherein our Redeemer hath gone before us as our pattern, and paid our ran&s;om, that is the way, the truth and the life. O that the Spirit of thy Son might convince, &s;upport and &s;trengthen us with all might in our inward man, that we might grow up to a full &s;tature in Chri&s;t, and that his fle&s;h might be our meat in|deed,
<PB N="83" REF="49">and his blood might &s;o clean&s;e and puri&s;ie us, that &s;in may dye in us and grace grow in us; and above all our knowledge, let the knowledge of our Lord Je&s;us be the great bent, aim and de&s;ire of our &s;ouls: let Chri&s;t formed in us be our hope of Glory, he is the choice&s;t of ten thou|&s;and, what &s;hall we render unto him for all the pain and travail of his &s;oul for us! he dyed for us, let us live to him; he ro&s;e for us, let us be rai&s;ed by him; he is a&s;cended for us, let us a&s;cend to him; let our communion and fellow&s;hip be with the Father and the Son through the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of that &s;pirit promi&s;ed to comfort, guide and pre&s;erve us till we &s;hall be tran&s;lated to Glory, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="84" REF="50">
<HEAD>A Prayer for one that takes any difficult Journey or imployment, for good &s;uc|ce&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>HOly Lord, thou art the &s;upreme Governour and di&s;po&s;er of all things in Heaven and in Earth; in faithfulne&s;s thou pre&s;enve&s;t tho&s;e that &s;eek unto thee for help, direction and a&s;&s;i&s;tance in their time of need. Thou knowe&s;t all the devices and con|trivances in the heart of man, but thy coun&s;el only that &s;hall &s;tand. Mans ways are not in him&s;elf, nei|ther can he direct his paths; the i&s;&s;ue of all our ways belong to thee, and to thy guidance I commit my &s;elf, humbly de&s;iring the direction of my ways and the protection of my per|&s;on, in the difficulty and danger I am liable to expo&s;e my &s;elf unto; if thy good providence and pre&s;ervati|on pre&s;erve me not. The whole creation is at thy command; thou art the God of the Seas, and the God
<PB N="85" REF="50">of the Land, the God of the moun|tains as well as of the Valleys, a God hearing prayer in all places, unto thee and thee only I de&s;ire to re&s;ign up my &s;elf and my concerns; O pro&s;|per my imploy, e&s;pecially pre&s;erve my &s;oul, keep me &s;ecure under thy &s;helter, from &s;inful provocation and faithle&s;s di&s;tru&s;t. O leave me not to my own under&s;tanding, pre&s;erve all concerned with me, that prudently, ju&s;tly and faithfully we may di&s;charge our &s;elves. Direct me in all my ways, that I may have re&s;pect to all thy Commandments. Cau&s;e me to un|der&s;tand thy ways, and to walk ac|cording to thy Rule. Pre&s;erve me from &s;elf intere&s;t or &s;eeking great things to my &s;elf, and &s;o to bu|ry my &s;elf in worldly concerns. Let all thy mercies rai&s;e me up to admire thy glorious workman&s;hip in the world, but e&s;pecially thy new creati|on in and by Chri&s;t to the Heirs of glory; Chri&s;t &s;hall one day be admi|red in his Saints, and glorified in
<PB N="86" REF="51">them that believe. Let the infinite wi&s;dom, purity and excellency of Chri&s;t, cau&s;e me to reflect upon my own darkne&s;s, filthine&s;s and vilene&s;s with an holy fear and trembling; and with an holy dependance upon Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to rely upon that righ|teou&s;ne&s;s and fulne&s;s that is in him; that I may behold him to be a &s;ure Bulwork, a &s;trong and everla&s;ting Rock for the &s;oul to re&s;t and betru&s;t it &s;elf upon; &s;o that he is able to pre&s;erve the greate&s;t &s;inner and to deliver in the greate&s;t danger; and therefore I will ca&s;t my fear and care upon him in all my &s;treights and dan|gers of difficulties what&s;oever; let the experience of thy love in Chri&s;t rai&s;e and exalt thankfulne&s;s and &s;uta|ble returns of prai&s;e to thee O Father with the ble&s;&s;ed Spirit of Grace, for ever, and for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="87" REF="51">
<HEAD>A Prayer in Time of War.</HEAD>
<P>O Almighty Lord, to whom alone pre&s;ervation, protection and victory belongs, in thy &s;trength we &s;hall be more than Conquerors; it is all one to thee to &s;ave by many, or by few; thou can&s;t cau&s;e one to cha&s;e a thou&s;and, and the mo&s;t vali|ant &s;hall melt away if thou appear again&s;t them, their hands &s;hall be weak, their minds and courage &s;hall faint; if thou appear for us, we &s;hall overcome; thou knowe&s;t our cau&s;e, O give us &s;trength, go out with our Navies and Armies, cover our heads in the day of Battel, let the &s;pirit of wi&s;dom and courage be in our Gene|rals and Leaders; gird them with &s;trength, teach their hands to war, and their fingers to fight; let thy fear fall upon us, and thy terror up|on our enemies; let us find thy a&s;|&s;i&s;tance both in our con&s;ultations and re&s;olutions, and pro&s;per all our en|terprizes
<PB N="88" REF="52">with good &s;ucce&s;s which are undertaken for the common good and the Kingdoms Peace: Holy Lord, though for our &s;ins we de&s;erve thy wrath and vengeance, and the guilt thereof might ju&s;tly cau&s;e us to fear thy wrath and de&s;truction in this pre|&s;ent &s;ervice; yet for the &s;ake of our alone Saviour take not this advan|tage upon us. Let it appear that our call is in obedience to our Sove|raign, that for his defence we are to obey and &s;ubmit our &s;elves and lives, to whom we are to yield and &s;erve; let us rather fall into thy hands than into the hands of mercile&s;s ene|mies; but let it appear that thou art in the mid&s;t of us, and that as of old, thou wilt &s;till appear in thine own cau&s;e and quarrel again&s;t thine and thy peoples enemies: O let not the violence of our enemies, or the weight of our &s;ins cau&s;e us to &s;ink, but ari&s;e, help and deliver us for thy names &s;ake. We have no refuge to flee to, no &s;upport, no help but in
<PB N="89" REF="52">thy protection and pre&s;ervation; let it appear that thou art in the mid&s;t of us, and that we &s;hall not be a prey to the Enemy, nor a deri&s;ion to the Enemies of Peace and Truth, but let peace and truth meet together; be unto us a &s;trong Tower of de|fence, let peace be within our walls, and pro&s;perity within our gates, and let truth and peace meet together for the promoting the Go&s;pel of thy Son the Prince of peace, the Captain of our Salvation, for whom we de&s;ire to ble&s;s thee, to whom with thy ble&s;&s;ed Self and holy Spi|rit, be a&s;cribed prai&s;e, honour, do|minion and everla&s;ting prai&s;e, for ever and for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="90" REF="53">
<HEAD>A Prayer for Converting Grace, by a Convinced Sinner.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t holy, ju&s;t and dreadful Lord God, yet gracious and ready to receive poor &s;inners, who repentingly return unto thee by faith in Chri&s;t; I hear from thy word, that thou ha&s;t redeemed the world by Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and he hath &s;atisfi|ed thy Ju&s;tice as a propitiation for our &s;ins, and hath merited thy par|doning &s;aving grace, for all that tru|ly believe and repent, and heartily accept of Chri&s;t for the &s;aving work and benefits of his mediation. But I hear, that except we repent, we &s;hall all peri&s;h; and that he that be|lieveth not &s;hall be damned; and that except we be born again of the Spirit, and be converted; and that without holine&s;s none &s;hall &s;ee thee; and that if any man have not the Spirit of Chri&s;t, he is none of his; and that all that are in Chri&s;t are
<PB N="91" REF="53">new Creatures; old things are pa&s;|&s;ed away, and all things are become new; and that the carnal mind is enmity, and neither is nor can be &s;ubject to thy law; and that Chri&s;t is the Author of eternal Salvation to all them that obey him. I am convinc't that thou art be&s;t, and be&s;t to me; and that I &s;hould love thee with all my heart, and vilifie all the plea&s;ures, and Riches, and Honours of this world in compari&s;on of thee: I am convinc't that all this world is vanity; and that Heaven alone where thou art &s;een, and perfectly loved and prai&s;ed, is the only felici|ty of &s;ouls. I am convinced that thou art the fir&s;t and la&s;t, of whom and through whom, and to whom, both I and all things are. But alas, the hardne&s;s of my heart, the power of unbelief and fle&s;hly lu&s;ts, prevail|eth again&s;t all this conviction! I fear le&s;t all my knowledge &s;hould con|demn me to be beaten with many &s;tripes; when I know that I &s;hould
<PB N="92" REF="54">do good, evil is pre&s;ent with me; and the will of the fle&s;h prevaileth again&s;t thy holy will. The cu&s;tom of &s;inning hath increa&s;ed my &s;inful in|clination: Long have I been wi&s;hing and purpo&s;ing to repent, and come to thee; but alas, how many purpo|&s;es have I changed, and how many promi&s;es have I broken, and how many wi&s;hes have come to nothing? O that I had a heart, a will to love thee as much above all the world, as I know I &s;hould love thee! and to delight in thee, and in thy holy ways, in thy Grace and in the hopes of Glory. O that I had a heart would enlargedly run the way of thy Commandments, and did delight to do thy will O God; and did &s;till obey thee from the power of love! O that the new nature did more &s;trongly encline me to thee, and to thy &s;ervice, than my corrupted na|ture enclineth me to the intere&s;t of carnal &s;elf and &s;en&s;e! O that I had a heart to believe in Chri&s;t, as
<PB N="93" REF="54">&s;trongly as I know I &s;hould believe in him; and to hate &s;in as much as I am convinced that I &s;hould hate it, and to live by faith and not by &s;ight! I have corrupted this heart, O Lord, but I cannot renew it; I have defi|led it, but cannot clean&s;e it; I have kindled in it the fire of &s;inful lu&s;ts, but I cannot quench it: I have none to fly to now, or in the hour of my la&s;t extremity, but that God whom I have &s;o heinou&s;ly offended! I have none to tru&s;t in, but the Savi|our whom I have &s;o unthankfully neg|lected! I have none to regenerate and make clean my &s;oul, but the &s;ame Spirit whom I have &s;o long re&s;i&s;ted! Have mercy upon me, O God, ac|cording to the greatne&s;s of thy mer|cy. My time is going, O precious time! It is going, Lord, and almo&s;t gone; I have but a few more breaths to breath, and I am gone from hence for ever, and yet alas my work is un|done, my &s;oul is unready! If I dye this night, O where &s;hall I awake,
<PB N="94" REF="55">and where mu&s;t I take up my endle&s;s dwelling! It is thy wonderful mercy which hath kept me alive and from Hell &s;o long! The time that is pa&s;t will never return! Lord Je&s;us rai&s;e me by thy quickning Spirit, as ever thou had&s;t mercy on a mi&s;erable &s;in|ner; of all mercies in the world, O give me thy holy Spirit, through the mediation of my dear Redeemer; that I may live in the fruitful exer|ci&s;e of thy grace, unto thy glory here, and may live in the delights of thy glorious love for evermore; through the merits and interce&s;&s;ion of my ble&s;|&s;ed Saviour, for ever, and for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Form of Prayer for a &s;ick Sinner, who is unprepared to dye.</HEAD>
<P>O Merciful God, reject not me a &s;ad unworthy &s;inner, who un|der great pain and deep &s;orrow de|&s;ire to &s;helter my &s;elf under the wings of Je&s;us Chri&s;t. I have trifled away
<PB N="95" REF="55">too too much of the day of my &s;alvati|on, and wilfully and &s;infully neglect|ed thy call; O &s;ay not that it is too late. O that I had better found out my &s;in before it found me out; and that it was more my grief, be|fore it had been &s;o much my pain. O remember not the iniquities of my youth, nor the &s;ins which I have &s;ince committed again&s;t thy great and manifold mercies, the motions of thy Spirit, and the reproofs of my own Con&s;cience. I have &s;inned fooli&s;hly as a man, but do thou forgive me mercifully as a gracious God. If the &s;uffering of my fle&s;h do &s;eem &s;o grievous, how &s;hould I &s;uffer thy burning wrath for ever on my &s;oul? O give me true repentance unto life! Let not pain and fear only drive me to a purpo&s;e to amend: but let thy Spirit of grace renew my &s;oul, by the powerful &s;en&s;e of thy love in Chri&s;t. Let this be the fruit of my affliction through his grace, to purge and take away my &s;in, and to make
<PB N="96" REF="56">me partaker of thy holine&s;s. Have mercy on this weak and pained fle&s;h: O &s;pare me a little, and give me &s;pace to make a better preparation for my change, before I go hence and am &s;een no more! O let not my fear|ful &s;oul appear before thee the holy dreadful God, in an unpardoned or unrenewed &s;tate! Renew my time and renew my &s;oul, that I may live to thee before I dye. I have abu&s;ed thy long-&s;uffering; I have forfeited both health, and life, and hope; I have fooli&s;hly and &s;infully lo&s;t many an hour of precious time, which ne|ver can be called back! I fore&s;aw this day, and was oft fore-warned of it, by thy &s;ervants and by my Con&s;ci|ence! But I took not warning! And now, alas, how unready is my &s;oul to appear before thee! My &s;ins af|fright me! Thy ju&s;tice and holine&s;s affright me! Eternity, Eternity doth amaze my &s;oul! I have no a&s;&s;urance to e&s;cape thy wrath and everla&s;ting mi&s;ery! I have not &s;o &s;et my heart
<PB N="97" REF="56">on Heaven, nor lived in a heavenly conver&s;ation; as to de&s;ire to be di&s;|&s;olved that I may be with Chri&s;t, and to come with boldne&s;s and com|fortable hope before the Judge of all the world! Forgive me my &s;ins through the &s;acrifice and interce&s;&s;ion of my Redeemer. O try me once more with the opportunities and means of grace! Return, O Lord, de|liver my &s;oul, O &s;ave me for thy mercies &s;ake! Kill me not, till my &s;in be killed! End not this life till thou ha&s;t prepared me for a better! Cut not off my time, till I am ready for eternity! Let me not die in my &s;ins, nor fall into the hands of thy reven|ging ju&s;tice! O give me yet both time and grace! Or if thou wilt try me no longer here on earth! Now, Lord, before my &s;oul depart, &s;anctifie it by thy Spirit and wa&s;h it in the blood of Je&s;us Chri&s;t; and &s;hed abroad thy love upon it&punc; And if this be all the time that ever I &s;hall have, to beg thy &s;aving grace and mercy, though
<PB N="98" REF="57">it be &s;hort, let it be an accepted time. Have mercy, mercy, mercy, O Lord, upon a &s;inful undone &s;oul, and let me not be the fire-brand of thy hot di&s;plea&s;ure. I give up my &s;elf to thee, my reconciled God and Fa|ther, my Saviour and my Sanctifier. Accept me, and a&s;&s;ure me of the ble&s;&s;ings of thy Covenant! And then though I de&s;erve to dwell with De|vils, I &s;hall &s;ee thy glory, and be fil|led with thy love, and with Saints and Angels &s;hall joyfully prai&s;e my Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier for ever, <HI>Amen, Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a Woman in the time of her Travail.</HEAD>
<P>HOly, ble&s;&s;ed and mo&s;t merciful Lord God, thou art a pre&s;ent help in time of trouble, to thee alone belong the i&s;&s;ues of death. In regard of tho&s;e manifold evils I &s;tand guil|ty of before thee; I have ju&s;t cau&s;e to fear that &s;evere &s;entence, in &s;or|row
<PB N="99" REF="57">to bring forth: O give me an in|tere&s;t in him who hath recovered that &s;entence by his making him&s;elf an of|fering for &s;in, and remember that good word of thine upon which thou ha&s;t cau&s;ed thy poor Hand-maid to tru&s;t; thou ha&s;t commanded; us to call upon thee in the day of trouble, this is the time of trouble and the hour of di&s;tre&s;s: O hear, help and give &s;trength to thy poor creature; pre&s;erve me in this hour, and give me cau&s;e to rejoyce in thy Salvation; let there be &s;trength to bring forth as well as to bring to the birth; though &s;trength may, fail, and skill may fail, be thou my &s;upport, help and deliverer, who never faile&s;t tho&s;e that tru&s;t and depend upon thy mer|cy; give me &s;trength of Faith to ca&s;t all my fear and hopes upon thee, who ha&s;t given experience of thy goodne&s;s to thy poor creature, of thy loving kindne&s;s in the like times of danger; pre&s;erve me and the fruit of my womb, and grant that
<PB N="100" REF="58">both may be made as monuments of thy mercy to &s;peak of, and live to glorifie thy name in the land of the living; &s;upport and &s;trengthen my fainting &s;pirit; a&s;&s;i&s;t and in&s;truct tho&s;e that are helpers with me, and let this great mercy and all others from time to time received from thee, lay upon the heart of thy poor creature as an everla&s;ting ingagement of living to thy prai&s;e and glory the whole cour&s;e of my life. O inable me in my Relations to perform my du|ty as becomes a Daughter of <HI>Sarah</HI> by a Chri&s;tian &s;ubjection, and in all the pa&s;&s;ages of my concern that I may as a meet help di&s;charge my place as becomes one that ought to live in the &s;en&s;e of experienced mer|cies to the glory of thy mo&s;t holy name and the comfort of tho&s;e com|mitted to my care. The&s;e and what|&s;oever may advance thy glory, and my eternal welfare, I humbly crave for his &s;ake who is the hope of all in di&s;tre&s;s and the &s;upport of &s;inking
<PB N="101" REF="58">&s;ouls, for whom, and to whom, with thy ble&s;&s;ed Spirit of Grace be prai&s;e, honour and faithful obedience ren|dred for ever and ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Thanksgiving to be u&s;ed after &s;afe Deliverance.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Gracious, mo&s;t Merciful and mo&s;t Powerful Lord God; thou art a God that heare&s;t the &s;ighs and groans of thy poor langui&s;hing creatures when they are at the very brink of the Pit, when hope, and heart, and &s;trength fail; in the Mount thou ha&s;t been &s;een; the depth of mi&s;ery is and hath been the height of thy mercy: O what &s;hall thy poor creature render unto thee for this great deliverance to me and to the fruit of my womb! thine was the power, thine is the glory. O let my &s;oul live for ever in a thinkful frame, and let the re&s;olves made in the hour of my di&s;tre&s;s, for ever remain fre&s;h upon my Spirit. O add to the fruit
<PB N="102" REF="59">of my body the fruits of righteou&s;ne&s;s to my &s;oul, and let thy renewed mer|cies never &s;lip out of my thoughts; renew my &s;trength, and revew my thankfulne&s;s, and let the meditations of all thy manifold-favours be preci|ous to my &s;oul; let the Infant new born be pre&s;erved by thee, and &s;an|ctifie all tho&s;e means appointed for its growth both in natural proporti|on, and &s;piritual regeneration; let it be born again, that it may be a ve&s;&s;el of glory fit for the Ma&s;ters u&s;e. O that this mercy may more and more engage my &s;oul to a con&s;cienti|ous, &s;erious re&s;olvedne&s;s to di&s;charge my relations as it becomes all tho&s;e that have ta&s;ted and experienced thy wonderful ingaging mercies; inable me to tru&s;t in thee at all times; my &s;oul wait thou &s;till upon God, he only is my Rock and my Salvation: O let tho&s;e that love the Lord tru&s;t in him at all times, for thy loving kindne&s;s is better than life; becau&s;e thou ha&s;t been my help, therefore in the &s;ha|dow
<PB N="103" REF="59">of thy wings will I rejoyce. O thou that heare&s;t prayer, and an&s;we|re&s;t the petitions of thy Servants; thou art my hope, by thee I have been holpen up from the womb; thou art he that took me out of my Mothers bowels; I will hope conti|nually and will yet prai&s;e thee more and more. Ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord God&punc; the God who only doth wondrous things, and ble&s;&s;ed be his glorious name for ever, and for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>Parents Prayer for their Children.</HEAD>
<P>GReat and Glorious Lord, thou art the great po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or of Hea|ven and Earth, we humbly thank thee for all thy providential protection and care over us ever &s;ince thou ga|veft us our fir&s;t being, but more e&s;pe|cially for that knowledge thou ha&s;t given us of thy Son, and in him through grace the hopes of a better habitation eternal in the Heavens; O that this hope might engage us for
<PB N="104" REF="60">ever to love, and &s;erve and obey thee our God, as it becomes tho&s;e that are redeemed from their vile and vain conver&s;ations: O pardon the follies of our youth and the many &s;ins of our riper age; undeceive us in the deceits of &s;in, Satan and the world; make us wi&s;e in good earne&s;t to pro|vide for things eternal. Holy Lord, we be&s;eech thee take our Children, whom thou ha&s;t given us, into thy protection; we de&s;ire that ours by generation, may be thine by regene|ration; enable us to train them up in the knowledge of thee our gracious God. O ble&s;s all the ways and means ordained for that purpo&s;e; teach us our duty when to correct them, and how profitably to in&s;truct them; make us wi&s;e to &s;alvation, and con&s;cientiou&s;ly to improve all thy appointments, publick and private, for their and our own &s;ouls eternal advantage; help us in the management of our affecti|ons and pa&s;&s;ions, that we may neither indulge nor di&s;courage them by our
<PB N="105" REF="60">over-ra&s;h, or too fond mi&s;carriage; but that by a godly, &s;ober, grave, humble devoted behaviour our con|ver&s;ation may be blamele&s;s: Work in them a great reverence to all their Superiours, Teachers and Spiritual Pa&s;tors; and ble&s;s all godly Admoni|tions to them, that they may con&s;ci|entiou&s;ly follow and obey them. A&s;|&s;i&s;t and direct us in &s;uch per&s;ons as may be a&s;&s;i&s;tant in their education, and in our choice of fit employments. For ever ble&s;&s;ed be thy holy Name for all the pre&s;ervations from dan|gers of Infancy and Childhood; O pre&s;erve them from the ra&s;hne&s;s and indi&s;cretion of youth, and fortifie their minds again&s;t all allurements to &s;in. Give them grace by holy Exam|ples, choice company and pious di&s;|creet coun&s;el, but above all grant them the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of thy grace un|til thou remove them to Glory, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="106" REF="61">
<HEAD>The Childs Prayer for his Parents.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t Merciful Lord God, that take&s;t notice of any good thing in thy Children, and ha&s;t command|ed &s;uch to remember their Creator in the days of their youth; give me grace to improve all tho&s;e good and whole&s;om in&s;tructions that by my Parents godly education I have been trained and nurtured up in; let thy Holy Spirit in&s;pire me, that I may in|wardly ta&s;t and &s;ee thy goodne&s;s, and may grow in Grace and in the know|ledge of our Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t; let the in&s;truction and cor|rection of my Parents be &s;anctified to that end for which it was appointed. Let their cha&s;ti&s;ings betime drive out my childi&s;h folly, and endear my af|fections to them that were &s;o careful of my everla&s;ting good. Give me the Spirit of grace and of thy fear, that tho&s;e in&s;tructions begun without me may be powerful in me, and
<PB N="107" REF="61">grant that as I grow in years I may grow in grace to a full &s;tature, to thy glory, the comfort and joy of my Parents, and to the eternal welfare of my never dying &s;oul when time &s;hall be no more; continually pre|&s;erve me by thy preventing grace; let thy love con&s;train me, thy threat|nings awe me, thy judgements upon &s;inners affright me; let thy promi&s;es incourage me, and the hopes of eter|nal glory enable me to fight the good fight of Faith, to lay hold on eter|nal life, and to &s;tand fa&s;t in that good hope through grace wrought in me through Je&s;us. Chri&s;t the Righte|ous, in who&s;e name I am by him taught further to &s;ay, <HI>Our Father which art in Heaven,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="108" REF="62">
<HEAD>A Prayer for the Church of Chri&s;t Mi|litant here on Earth.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t Holy, Everliving, and for ever ble&s;&s;ed Lord God, who ha&s;t commanded us to make Prayers and Supplications for all men; we be&s;eech thee in&s;pire continually the univer&s;al Church with the Spirit of Truth, that it may be guided and governed by thy good Word and Spi|rit; that all tho&s;e that profe&s;s and call them&s;elves Chri&s;tians, may adorn their profe&s;&s;ion with a Chri&s;tian con|ver&s;ation in godline&s;s and hone&s;ty, that they may hold the Truth in Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and that they may hold the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace, and in Righteou&s;ne&s;s of Life. We be&s;eech thee al&s;o to &s;ave and defend all Chri&s;tian Kings, Princes and Governours; make them according to thy promi&s;e Nur&s;ing Fa|thers and Incouragers of Truth and Piety, more e&s;pecially thy Servant
<PB N="109" REF="62">and our Soveraign <HI>Charles</HI> our King, that under him we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godline&s;s and hone&s;ty; ble&s;s His Council, let them be in&s;truments of thy honour here, and partakers of Eternal Glory hereafter; be gracious to tho&s;e that rule in Spiritual Concerns, the Reve|rend Bi&s;hops, Pa&s;tors and Curates, that they may be burning and &s;hining Lights, both in their Lives and Do|ctrine, to adorn the Glorious Go|&s;pel of God and our Saviour; deli|ver thy Captives, comfort thine af|flicted, and gather thy &s;cattered for the &s;ake of thy Son, and our Re|deemer, <HI>Amen, Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for the King and the Royal Family.</HEAD>
<P>GLorious, Ble&s;&s;ed and Eternal, Everliving Lord God; thou alone art King of Kings, Lord above all Lords, and the only Ruler and Di&s;po&s;er of Princes; who from
<PB N="110" REF="63">thy Glorious Throne beholde&s;t the per&s;ons, and art acquainted with all the mo&s;t &s;ecret actings of the chil|dren of men: Mo&s;t humbly we be|&s;eech thee, with the choi&s;e&s;t of thy favours to behold thy Servant, and our Soveraign <HI>Charles,</HI> by thy Grace and &s;pecial Providence, King of <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defen|der of the Faith. Ble&s;s him, O our God, with the ble&s;&s;ing of Heaven and the ble&s;&s;ings of the Earth; pre|&s;erve his &s;oul, let that be precious in thy account; pro&s;per all his great de&s;igns; let the event of all center in thy Glory and the Nations welfare. Ble&s;s him in his Queen and Royal Re|lations, in his Council and all their Con&s;ultations. Let there be peace and truth in his dayes, and when he &s;hall have fini&s;ht his Cour&s;e here, re|ceive him to Reign for ever in Glo|ry, for the &s;ake of thy Son our ble&s;|&s;ed Saviour and Redeemer, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="111" REF="63">
<HEAD>A Prayer for <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI>-day.</HEAD>
<P>ALmighty, Ever Ble&s;&s;ed Lord, the God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t; for ever ble&s;&s;ed be thy Holy Name for Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the Son of thy Love, whom as at this time thou ha&s;t &s;ent out of thy Bo&s;om according to thy faithful promi&s;e made unto thy faithful &s;er|vants of old, that he &s;hould take up|on him our Nature, and be born af|ter a mo&s;t wonderful manner, of a pure Virgin; at who&s;e Birth the An|gels rejoyce, and the Wi&s;e Men gui|ded by a Star offer him pre&s;ents. O ble&s;&s;ed Lord, &s;hall we rejoyce and partake of that great benefit, by being delivered from the hands of all our enemies, to &s;erve thee without fear, in righteou&s;ne&s;s and holine&s;s all the days of our lives! let Chri&s;t that was born to redeem us be formed in us; let our joy be the joy of the new|born; let the life of Chri&s;t-be our ex|ample,
<PB N="112" REF="64">his mean entertainment our contemplation, and his wonderful pre&s;ervation our con&s;olation: As he grew in wi&s;dom to admiration, O grant that we may be wi&s;e to &s;alva|tion; make us thy Children by grace, and then tran&s;late us for his &s;ake who hath redeemed us from wrath to come, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI>-day.</HEAD>
<P>GRacious and Mo&s;t Holy Lord God, who through thy ble&s;&s;ed Son and our alone Saviour, ha&s;t con|quered and overcome Death, Hell and Sin; and ha&s;t now opened unto us the way to Eternal Life: O grant, that as Chri&s;t hath died for &s;in, &s;o that we may die to &s;in; let the effects of our contemplation upon what he hath done and &s;uffered for us, rai&s;e us up to a renewed life of faith and holy obedience: Chri&s;t being rai&s;ed from the dead, dieth no more; O let this con&s;ideration rai&s;e us with holy re|&s;olves
<PB N="113" REF="64">to &s;in no more; pre&s;erve us from the practice of &s;in, and then we &s;hall be &s;ecured from the wages of &s;in. Let thy preventing grace &s;ecure us, holy &s;triving delight us, thy continu|al aid a&s;&s;i&s;t us, and thy holy Spirit enable us to perfect holine&s;s in thy fear, that we may live holily, and live eternally to &s;ound forth the prai&s;e of our Redeemer everla&s;tingly; to whom be rendred Prai&s;e, Honour and Living thankfulne&s;s, by us, and all thine, for ever, and for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for <HI>Whit</HI>-Sunday.</HEAD>
<P>HOly, Glorious Lord, who ac|cording to that good word of promi&s;e, made by our ble&s;&s;ed Re|deemer to his Di&s;ciples, that he would &s;end the Holy Spirit the Com|forter, the which he did upon the day appointed; O grant unto us that by the &s;ame Spirit we may be in&s;pi|red and enlightned, to know things that differ, that we may know the
<PB N="114" REF="65">height, the depth, the length and breadth of the love of God in his Son; that Chri&s;t in us may be our hope of Glory, that the Spirit of Truth may guide us into all truth; let our fellow&s;hip with the Father and the Son be manife&s;t to us by this Spi|rit, and our obedience to all the commands of Chri&s;t our witne&s;s; let us be taught by this Spirit, and led by this Spirit; and O ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, remember us what we are to do and what we are to &s;uffer, and how we &s;hall an&s;wer, and give a rea&s;on of our faith, that we may be able to &s;top the mouths of all Gain&s;ayers. Let thy Spirit give us utterance, and &s;trengthen us in our holy obedience; po&s;&s;e&s;s us with thy peace, pre&s;erve us from our troubles and our fears, give us an entrance that we may go in and find pa&s;ture: Now to him that is able to keep us from falling, and to pre&s;ent us &s;potle&s;s to his Father, to the only wi&s;e God and our Savi|our, be Prai&s;e, Honour, Dominion
<PB N="115" REF="65">and Power, for ever, and for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a Widow.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Wi&s;e, Mo&s;t Holy Lord God, by who&s;e Gracious di&s;|po&s;e all things are ordered as thou &s;ee&s;t be&s;t, for tho&s;e that hope and tru&s;t in thy faithfulne&s;s and truth: Since I am deprived of a meet help, be plea&s;ed to be my pre&s;ent help in this troublous &s;tate and &s;orrowful conditi|on. O let not my &s;inful mi&s;carri|age in that relation I was lately in be charged upon me; O let thy graci|ous &s;upporting a&s;&s;i&s;tance ingage me to draw nearer into communion with thee and with thy Son and Spirit; let the con&s;ideration of my lo&s;s be the improvement of my gain; help me to prize mercies better, and to return thanks whil&s;t they are enjoyed; let death be more minded by me, and health more prized, and for a dying hour enable me to give all diligence
<PB N="116" REF="66">to be better prepared. Be a Father to the Fatherle&s;s, and a &s;upport to the &s;oul of thy poor Creature, that &s;he may &s;ee thy love in this affliction; thy love in every tran&s;action, and in the end good hope through grace of an everla&s;ting enjoyment of Glo|ry, and all for the merits of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a Servant.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Glorious and mo&s;t Graci|ous Lord God, with whom there is no re&s;pect of per&s;ons; yet thou art plea&s;ed to command the du|ty of &s;ervants to be ju&s;t, not purloin|ing, to be patient and not retorting, to be diligent and faithful, neither eye-&s;ervants, nor fal&s;e, e&s;pecially if members of Chri&s;t and fellow-heirs of the &s;ame hopes of Glory: O par|don my mi&s;carriage in this condition, the ignorance and folly that hath po&s;|&s;e&s;t me in this relation; my murmu|ring, and repining, and envying tho&s;e
<PB N="117" REF="66">above me. O deliver me from that bondage that cau&s;es &s;hame, let not &s;in prevail over me, let thy &s;ervice which is perfect freedom po&s;&s;e&s;s me, and the di&s;charge of my duty faith|fully in my place delight me; let thy ble&s;&s;ing be upon my imploy, and give me favour in the eyes of my Ma&s;ter, and his family; enable me to do all heartily as to the Lord, and as I would expect to be dealt with in that condition; ble&s;s me at my going out and coming in, and make me more and more zealous of good works; Di|rect me in the path of holine&s;s to ex|pect eternal happine&s;s, and all for Chri&s;ts &s;ake ble&s;&s;ed for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for a &s;ick Per&s;on.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Gracious God, thou art he that ca&s;te&s;t down and rai&s;e&s;t up, thou art a God hearing prayer, and ha&s;t commanded us to call upon thee in the time of trouble, and thou wilt hear and have mercy. O Lord hear,
<PB N="118" REF="67">O Lord forgive all the &s;ins of thine afflicted, weak and &s;orrowful poor creature; let thy cha&s;ti&s;ements teach how to profit, let thy correction teach and in&s;truct, &s;hew me my own &s;ore, &s;hew me the Rod and him that appointed it; O give me cau&s;e to &s;ay experimentally, that it is good for me that I have been afflicted; let inward &s;trength &s;upport the weak|ne&s;s of the outward man; let &s;in re|ceive its deaths wound, and the life of Chri&s;t gather growth and &s;trength; O give repentance to life, and a holy &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to be at thy di&s;po&s;e. Ble&s;s the means u&s;ed and the in&s;truments imployed, and whether life or death be my lot, give me a holy &s;ubmi&s;|&s;ive &s;pirit, and the evidence of thy love; &s;o &s;hall thy name be glorified, and my &s;oul re&s;t &s;atisfied in and through Je&s;us Chri&s;t; in who&s;e name I further Pray, &s;aying, <HI>Our Father which art in Heaven,</HI> &amp;c. Amen.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="119" REF="67">
<HEAD>A brief relation of the Gunpowder Trea|&s;on Plot.</HEAD>
<P>THe Plot was de&s;igned to de&s;troy King, Peers and Parliament at one Blow, by undermining the Par|liament-hou&s;e. This damnable de|&s;ign was contrived and pro&s;ecuted by the Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts, and others of that faction; and the Con&s;pirators inga|ged in an Oath of fecrelle, by taking the Sacrament to ratifie the de&s;ign the more Helli&s;hly.</P>
<P>The day was appointed and all things prepared ready; <HI>November</HI> the fifth 1605 was the day for execu|tion; but about ten days before a Let|ter was &s;ent to the Lord <HI>Monteagle,</HI> the Contents whereof &s;o troubled him, that he pre&s;ently imparts it to the Secretary of State, and he immedi|ately pre&s;ents it to the King; which was to this effect, To advi&s;e the &s;aid, Lord to be tender of his own pre&s;er|vation, as he tendred his life, and
<PB N="120" REF="68">to &s;tudy to &s;hift off his attendance at this Parliament; for God and man had concurred to puni&s;h the wicked|ne&s;s of this Time, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> for though there be no appearance of any &s;tir, yet, I &s;ay, they &s;hall receive a dead|ly blow this Parliament, and yet they &s;hall not &s;ee who hurts them, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>The King reading this Letter, did immediately conclude by the &s;eve|ral dark &s;entences, that this Blow mu&s;t be by Gunpowder. Whereup|on &s;trict &s;earch being made under the Parliament-hou&s;e at midnight, the very night before the Parliament &s;ate, at the dore at the entrance of the Cellar, was found one <HI>Guy Faux</HI> Cloathed and Booted, who being ap|prehended, upon farther &s;earch, re|moving &s;ome Billets they found thirty &s;ix Barrels of Gunpowder; and &s;earching the Traytor, they find about him a Dark Lanthorn, and three Matches, and other in&s;truments for blowing up the Powder.</P>
<PB N="121" REF="68">
<P>This horrid Plot thus being di&s;co|vered, the King, Peers and Commons were pre&s;erved, and the Con&s;pira|tors received their de&s;erved puni&s;h|ment. And be&s;ides <HI>Fauks, R. Catesby, T. Piercy, T. Winter, R. Winter, J. Wright, C. Wright</HI> and <HI>Bates, Catesbyes</HI> man, The&s;e eight were fir&s;t in the Trea&s;on.</P>
<P>The&s;e &s;ive were promoters of the Plot,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sir <HI>Everard Digby.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ambro&s;e Rookwood</HI> E&s;quires.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Francis We&s;ham</HI> E&s;quires.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Kegs</HI> Gentlemen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Grant</HI> Gentlemen.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="122" REF="69">
<HEAD>A Thanksgiving for the fifth day of <HI>November,</HI> for the happy and mira|culous deliverance of this Land, King and the Two other E&s;tates of the Realm, from that Horrid, Bloody Plot by Gunpowder.</HEAD>
<P>ALmighty Lord, thou art God alone, thy Power and Mercy hath in all Ages miraculou&s;ly appear|ed for the pre&s;ervation of thy Church and cho&s;en people; no weapon form|ed again&s;t them hath ever pro&s;pered, when thou undertake&s;t their protecti|on, thou ha&s;t &s;cattered and de&s;troy|ed all tho&s;e that delight in blood. We de&s;ire from the bottom of our hearts to offer up our unfeigned thanks and prai&s;e for this thy won|derful deliverance of our late graci|ous Sovereign King <HI>James,</HI> the Queen and all the Royal Family, with the Nobility, Clergy and Commons of this Realm, then by Popi&s;h Treachery ap|pointed as Sheep to a mo&s;t barbarous
<PB N="123" REF="69">and &s;avage &s;laughter; ble&s;&s;ed for ever be thy mercy and providence for pre|venting this unparrallel'd, de&s;igned de&s;truction. O let not our Religion, our liberty and freedom of thy Go|&s;pel be either &s;ubverted or corrupted; pardon our unthankfulne&s;s, our un|profitablene&s;s, our neglect and con|tempt of the means of grace: give us humble hearts towards thee, hearts &s;ubject to all thine In&s;titutions and Ordinances; increa&s;e in us a lively faith, fruitful love in all holy obedi|ence; continue thy Go&s;pel, pre&s;erve our Governours and Government; e&s;tabli&s;h truth and righteou&s;ne&s;s in this Kingdom; pre&s;erve all thine, from the King upon the Throne to the meane&s;t Subject, for the &s;ake of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in who&s;e Name we fur|ther pray, &s;aying, <HI>Our Father,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="124" REF="70">
<HEAD>A Prayer for the thirtieth of <HI>January,</HI> being the day of the Martyrdom of King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, <HI>1648.</HI></HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t Glorious, Mo&s;t Merciful, and yet to &s;inful tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors of thy Laws and Con&s;titutions a mo&s;t terrible God; O let thy Judgements of old again&s;t rebellious <HI>Corah</HI> and his A&s;&s;ociates, arm all thy humble &s;er|vants again&s;t all the motions or en|ticements to that great and grievous &s;in of Rebellion, which is as the &s;in of Witchcraft, a &s;in that hath never gone unpuni&s;hed; we de&s;ire to be|wail our own &s;ins, and the &s;ins of the Nation, which have cau&s;ed this hea|vy judgement to befall us. Thou art righteous in all thy ways, and holy in all thy works; holy Lord, when thou make&s;t inqui&s;ition for blood, &s;pare the Innocent; let the blood of Je&s;us expiate this great and grievous guilt, nothing but that can do it. O give us to know thy will,
<PB REF="70">
<PB REF="71">
<FIGURE>
<P>R. Charles 1. Murthared.</P>
<FIGDESC>woodcut depicting the execution block for King Charles I, 1648</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>
<PB N="125" REF="71">and to &s;ubmit to thine appointments; thou only who art &s;upream Lord or the world do&s;t appoint Kings and Princes, he appoints and he exalts; thine is the Kingdom, he divides and gives Kings and Kingdoms, again&s;t Kings there is no ri&s;ing up, or an evil thought to be harboured. O that a deep humiliation might &s;ei&s;e upon us in the con&s;ideration of that great Ordinance of Divine Appoint|ment; we &s;lighted our mercy, and it was removed, de&s;troyed, and we &s;cattered, divided and ruined: The Laws of Heaven were violated, the Land confu&s;ed and di&s;tracted. Pre|&s;erve us from thinking or &s;peaking evil of dignities, much more from re|&s;i&s;ting. Settle us and e&s;tabli&s;h us, let our fear of the Lord and the King be manife&s;ted by our &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, &s;ubje|ction, honour, readine&s;s to defend, and to give to <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> what is <HI>Cae&s;ars,</HI> and unto God all holy &s;ervice and everla&s;ting prai&s;e in and through our ble&s;&s;ed Redeemer, in who&s;e Name we
<PB N="126" REF="72">conclude, &s;aying, <HI>Our Father which art in Heaven,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>The Dreadful Plague in <HI>London 1665.</HI> in which were Buried &s;ixty eight thou|&s;and five hundred eighty &s;ix.</HEAD>
<HEAD>A Prayer in time of the Pe&s;tilence.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t Holy, Ju&s;t and Righteous Lord God, thou art righteous in all thy ways, but we have &s;inned and provoked thee to wrath; thy wrath is gone forth, the Plague is begun, and it increa&s;eth; we have re|belliou&s;ly provoked thee, and the ini|quity of our ways hath overtaken us: O accept of that full atonement made by the High-Prie&s;t of our pro|fe&s;&s;ion, Je&s;us, that with one offering hath for ever perfected tho&s;e that are &s;anctified. In him behold us, and pardon and purge us; cau&s;e thy de|&s;troying Angel to cea&s;e from puni&s;h|ing, and give us thy gracious Spirit to cau&s;e us to cea&s;e from provoking
<PB REF="72">
<FIGURE>
<HEAD>The Great Plague, 1665.</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>woodcut depicting a churchyard during the plague</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>
<PB REF="73">
<PB N="127" REF="73">thy ble&s;&s;ed Maje&s;ty by &s;inning again&s;t thee. Let us be pre&s;erved under thy protection, O defend us from this noy&s;om Pe&s;tilence, let thy faithfulne&s;s and truth be our Shield and Buckler; &s;ay there &s;hall no Plague come near our dwelling, though a thou&s;and fall be&s;ide us, and ten thou&s;and at our right hand: give thy Angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways. Deliver thy poor creatures, behold weeping eyes, dejected countenances, wringing hands, and bended knees, mourning voices, and groaning hearts; thou God of all Con&s;olation &s;upport us, thou art a God of mercy, pardon us, and heal us, and deliver us for thy Names &s;ake, for Chri&s;ts Name in whom alone thou art well plea&s;ed; let his interce&s;&s;ion prevail, that we may yet prai&s;e thee, &s;erve and obey thee, and all this we beg farther as he hath taught us, &s;aying, <HI>Our Father which art in Heaven,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<PB N="128" REF="74">
<P>The Lamentable and Dreadful Fire in London began the &s;econd of <HI>Sep|tember</HI> 1666. about one of the Clock in the morning, and &s;o continued for near four days, till it had burnt down thirteen thou&s;and, two hun|dred Hou&s;es, be&s;ides eighty nine Pa|ri&s;h Churches, and many magnificent Halls and other places; the lo&s;s being computed to be nine millions nine hundred thou&s;and pounds.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for <HI>September</HI> the &s;econd, the beginning of that lamentable Fire in <HI>London, 1666.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HOly, Ju&s;t and Righteous Lord God, thy ways are holy, and thy Judgements ju&s;t; our crying &s;ins have brought down terrible venge|ance; our pride, oppre&s;&s;ion and ful|ne&s;s of bread, <HI>Sodoms</HI> &s;ins, have brought upon us <HI>Sodoms</HI> Judgements: O our God, our &s;ins have de&s;erved more &s;everity, we have &s;inned again&s;t
<PB REF="74">
<PB REF="75">
<FIGURE>
<HEAD>London in Flames by Night</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>woodcut of the London fire, 1666</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>
<PB N="129" REF="75">Go&s;pel-light, we have held the truth in unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, we are a corrupt Generation; we have walked after the cour&s;e of the Prince of the Power of the Air; he wrought mightily in us, and we were as ready to work for him; our greate&s;t pains was in the &s;ervice of &s;in; we forgot the God of all our mercies, we grew wor&s;e and wor&s;e, and we fear grea|ter judgements to follow. Let the&s;e burnings alarm us to con&s;ider this dreadful way of thy pleading with a &s;inful people; the la&s;t and great de&s;truction will be in fire, to render vengeance upon all ungodly, when the Elements &s;hall melt, and the Heavens being on fire &s;hall be di&s;|&s;olved; grant that &s;eeing all the&s;e things mu&s;t be di&s;&s;olved, we may be diligent, that we may be found without &s;pot, and blamele&s;s. O Lord, con&s;ider we are thy people, though rebellious and unthankful; O prevent our ruine, and lay us not open to the mercile&s;s rage of
<PB N="130" REF="76">con&s;uming flames; the Winds and Seas are at thy command, the fire &s;hall not burn if thou &s;peak the word. Take from us this cup of trembling, and let all thy &s;everity work in us a greater humility; &s;ubdue us to thy will, cau&s;e us to &s;ee the things that belong to our everla&s;ting peace, be|fore they be hid from our eyes. Give us to &s;ee in the mid&s;t of this dreadful judgement thy mercy, that we with our hou&s;es were not con&s;u|med; thou had&s;t dealt with us le&s;s than our &s;ins de&s;erved, had&s;t thou made an utter ruine; but thou ha&s;t pluckt us as a Brand out of the fire. Awaken our Con&s;ciences, melt our hard hearts, humble us by thy cha|&s;ti&s;ements; let thy goodne&s;s lead us to repentance, help us to redeem the time, to improve opportunities to the glory of thy Name, the credit of the Go&s;pel and the &s;alvation of our poor &s;ouls in the day of the Lord. Grant the&s;e, and all other thy mercies thou be&s;t knowe&s;t we
<PB REF="76">
<FIGURE>
<HEAD>The Kings Returne</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>woodcut depicting the return from exile of Charles II</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>
<PB REF="77">
<PB N="131" REF="77">want, for his &s;ake who alone is wor|thy, our Lord and ble&s;&s;ed Redeemer, to whom be prai&s;e, thank&s;giving and obedience rendred of us and all thine, henceforth and for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Thanksgiving for the twenty ninth of <HI>May,</HI> being the day of His Maje&s;ties Birth, and happy return from Exile.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Holy Lord, for ever to be adored and admired in thy divine and glorious over-ruling Pro|vidence, that on this day gave&s;t Birth to our mo&s;t Gracious Soveraign, and on the &s;ame day ha&s;t returned him to his undoubted Right, to the re|joycing of all loyal Chri&s;tians, and to the terror of his and the Kingdoms enemies. Ble&s;&s;ed be the God of Peace, that &s;ent us in a Prince of peace, that hath without blood-&s;hed been &s;o wonderfully re&s;tored, above all the expectation of his choi&s;e&s;t &s;ub|jects, and to the amazement of his wor&s;t and mo&s;t powerful enemies, to
<PB N="132" REF="78">his undoubted Rights; this is the Lords doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Ble&s;&s;ed Lord &s;ettle him in his Throne, cloath his Enemies with &s;hame, but upon him&s;elf let his Crown flouri&s;h; ble&s;s him with a pro&s;perous reign and a long life; enable him to &s;ee thy won|derful works to him, that all the de|&s;igns of open and &s;ecret enemies have continually been bla&s;ted, and that the rod of the wicked is taken off. San|ctifie all his many and great &s;uffer|ings, let all his aim be to rule for thee who ha&s;t pre&s;erved him, and brought him to the inheritance of his Father; give to all his &s;ubjects obe|dient hearts for Con&s;cience &s;ake; make him, holy Lord, a terror to the wicked, and an incourager of true piety and holine&s;s. The Lord ble&s;s him in his coun&s;els, and pro&s;|per his undertakings; let his &s;acred per&s;on be &s;till precious in thine eye. Ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord who hath rai&s;ed up his Anointed, he hath been mind|ful of his Servant, and our King. O
<PB N="133" REF="78">let thy benefits be con&s;idered by him, that he may render unto the Lord according to all his goodne&s;s, and pay all his vows which he made in trou|ble, &s;ince he is &s;et at large from all his di&s;tre&s;s. Crown him with a Roy|al Crown him with a Roy|al Crown here upon earth, and let his Subjects rejoyce in his happy and long reign; and when he &s;hall go to his Fathers in peace, give him a Crown of Glory: And all this, and whatever may add to his Comfort, grant for the &s;ake of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in who&s;e Name and Words we con|clude, &s;aying, <HI>Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="examples">
<PB N="134" REF="79">
<HEAD>Bible-Examples upon the breakers of the Ten Commandments, how they were puni&s;hed with Death in &s;everal per&s;ons.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>1. <HI>Pharaoh, Exodus</HI> 5.</HEAD>
<P>ANd Mo&s;es and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, thus &s;aith the Lord God of I&s;ael, Let my peo|ple go, that they may hold a fea&s;t unto me in the wilderne&s;s, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1.</P>
<P>And Pharaoh &s;aid, Who is the Lord, that I &s;hould obey his voice to let I&s;rael go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let I&s;rael go, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 2.</P>
<P><HI>Exodus</HI> 6. hen the Lord &s;aid to Mo&s;es, Now &s;halt thou &s;ee what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a &s;trong hand &s;hall he let them go, and with a &s;trong hand &s;hall he drive them out of his Land, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1.</P>
<PB N="135" REF="79">
<P><HI>Exodus</HI> 12. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 30, 31. And Pha|raoh ro&s;e up in the night, and he called for Mo&s;es and Aaron by night, and &s;aid, Ri&s;e up, and get you forth from among&s;t my people.</P>
<P>And the Egyptians were urgent up|on the people, that they might &s;end them out of the land in ha&s;te, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 33.</P>
<P><HI>Exodus</HI> 14. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 17. I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upn all his Ho&s;t.</P>
<P>And the Egyptians &s;hall know that I am the Lord, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 18.</P>
<P>And the Lord overthrew all the Ho&s;t of Pharaoh that came into the Sea, there remained not &s;o much as one of them, <HI>ver&s;s.</HI> 27, 28.</P>
<Q><L><HI>Nile</HI> famed <HI>Egypt</HI> &s;toops unto my &s;word,</L>
<L>Then whom &s;hall I obey, who is the Lord,</L>
<L>Proud <HI>Pharaoh</HI> &s;aid? But he that did &s;o &s;well,</L>
<L>In &s;welling waves the Lord &s;ent down to Hell.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<PB N="136" REF="80">
<HEAD>2. <HI>Jerobaom,</HI> 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 12.</HEAD>
<P>JEroboam took coun&s;el, and made two Calves of Gold, and &s;aid, Be|hold thy Gods O I&s;rael, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 28.</P>
<P>1 <HI>Kings</HI> 13. And it came to pa&s;s, when King Jeroboam heard the &s;ay|ing of the man of God, which he had cryed again&s;t the Altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the Altar, &s;aying, Lay hold on him; and his hand which he put forth again&s;t him was dryed up, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 4.</P>
<P><HI>Exodus</HI> 32. And Mo&s;es took the Calf and burnt it in the fire, <HI>&amp;c. ver&s;.</HI> 20.</P>
<P>And the Children of Levi, accord|ing to the word of Mo&s;es, &s;lew that day above three thou&s;and, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 28.</P>
<Q><L>Whil&s;t <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was with God on their be|half,</L>
<L>&V;ngratefull <HI>I&s;rael</HI> rears a Golden Calf,</L>
<PB N="137" REF="80">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> wor&s;hip it: which when good <HI>Mo|&s;es</HI> &s;pi'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> wrath waxt hot, and thou&s;ands of them dy'd.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>3. <HI>Goliah,</HI> 1 <HI>Samuel</HI> 17.</HEAD>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">Nd the Phili&s;tin &s;aid, I defie the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">; armies of I&s;rael this day, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 10&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd the Phili&s;tin &s;aid unto David, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> a Dog, that thou come&s;t to me <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">; Staves? And the Phili&s;tin cur|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> David by his gods, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 43.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">hen &s;aid David to the Phili&s;tin, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">u come&s;t to me with a &s;word, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">; a &s;pear, and with a &s;hield: but <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">me to thee in the name of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">d of ho&s;ts, the God of the armies <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">; I&s;rael whom thou ha&s;t defied, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;.</HI> 45.</P>
<P>And it came to pa&s;s when the Phi|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">in aro&s;e, and came, and drew <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">h to meet David, then David ha&s;t|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and ran toward the army to meet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">; Phili&s;tin, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 48.</P>
<PB N="138" REF="81">
<P>And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a &s;tone, and &s;lang it, and &s;mote the Phili&s;tin in his forehead, that the &s;tone &s;unk into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevail|ed over the Phili&s;tin, with a &s;ling and with a &s;tone, and &s;mote the Phi|li&s;tin and &s;lew him.</P>
<P><HI>Leviticus</HI> 24. And the I&s;raeliti&s;h womans &s;on bla&s;phemed the name of the Lord, and cur&s;ed, <HI>&amp;c. ver&s;.</HI> 11.</P>
<P>And the Lord &s;pake unto Mo&s;es, &s;aying, Bring forth him that hath cur|&s;ed without the Camp, and let all that heard him, lay their hands up|on his head, and let all the Congre|gation &s;tone him, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 14.</P>
<Q><L>The Son of <HI>Shelomith</HI> bla&s;phem'd the Lord</L>
<L>Of Ho&s;t, and cur&s;t in terms to be ahhor'd.</L>
<L>So all that heard, laid hand upon his head,</L>
<L>And, as they were commanded, &s;ton'd him dead.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<PB N="139" REF="81">
<HEAD>4. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">e man that gathered &s;ticks upon <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">e Sabbath day, Numbers <HI>15.</HI></HEAD>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">Nd while the Children of I&s;rael were in the wilderne&s;s, they a man that gathered &s;ticks up|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;abbath day, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 32.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">d they that found him gather|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">cks, brought him unto Mo&s;es <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ron, and unto all the Congre|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 33.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> they put him in ward, becau&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> not declared what &s;hould be <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">o him, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 34.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> the Lord &s;aid unto Mo&s;es, The <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> all &s;urely be put to death: all <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ngregation &s;hall &s;tone him with <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> without the Camp, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 35.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">s &s;in in the Captivity of Baby|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> as to fulfil the Prophet Jeremi|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ords from the Lord, until the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ad enjoyed her &s;abbaths; for as <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">s &s;he lay de&s;olate, &s;he kept the|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">h to fulfill three&s;core and ten 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 36.21.</P>
<PB N="140" REF="82">
<Q><L>If he were &s;lain upon the Sabbath day</L>
<L>For need did gather &s;ticks, O how &s;hall they</L>
<L>E&s;cape Gods wrath, that for ba&s;e pelf or plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Profane Gods Sabbaths in mo&s;t frequent mea&s;ure.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD><HI>5.</HI> Ab&s;olom rebelleth again&s;t his Father, his Death, <HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>18.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd Ab&s;alom met the &s;ervants of David, and Ab&s;alom rode up|on a Mule, and the Mule went under the thick boughs of a great Oak, and his head caught hold of the Oak, and he was taken up between the Heaven and the Earth, and the Mule that was under him went away, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 9.</P>
<P>And a certain man &s;aw it, and told Joab, <HI>&amp;c. ver&s;.</HI> 10.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid Joab, I may not tarry thus, and he took three darts in his hand, and thru&s;t them through the heart of Ab&s;olom, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 14.</P>
<PB N="141" REF="82">
<Q><L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd <HI>Ab&s;olom,</HI> con&s;piring to defeat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Royal Father, of his Kingly &s;eat;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ng is tangled by his prided Hair,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">hin a Tree, and &s;lain by <HI>Joabs</HI> &s;pear.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD><HI>6.</HI> Cain murthers Abel, Gene&s;is <HI>4.</HI></HEAD>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">Nd Cain ro&s;e up again&s;t Abel his Brother, and &s;lew him, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;.</HI> 8.</P>
<P>And the Lord &s;aid unto Cain, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">here is Abel thy Brother? And he <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, I know not: am I my Brothers <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">per? <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 9.</P>
<P>And he &s;aid, What ha&s;t thou done? <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">e voice of thy Brothers blood cry|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> unto me from the ground, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 10. And now art thou cur&s;ed from the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">rth, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 11.</P>
<P>And Cain &s;aid, My puni&s;hment is <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">eater than I can bear, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 13.</P>
<P>Joab <HI>&s;layeth</HI> Ama&s;a, 2 <HI>Samuel</HI> 20.</P>
<P>And Joab &s;aid to Ama&s;a, Art thou <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">n health my Brother, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 9.</P>
<PB N="142" REF="83">
<P>But Ama&s;a took no heed to the &s;word that was in Joabs hand, &s;o he &s;mote him therewith in the fifth rib, and &s;hed out his bowels to the ground, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 10.</P>
<P>Then Solomon &s;ent Benaiah the Son of Jehoiada, &s;aying, Go fall up|on Joab, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 29.</P>
<P>So Benaiah went up, and fell upon Joab, and &s;lew him, who had &s;lain Ama&s;a, and Abner, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 34.</P>
<Q><L>All hale my Brother, treacherous <HI>Joab</HI> &s;ays:</L>
<L>Yet &s;ecretly the &s;tout <HI>Ama&s;a</HI> &s;lays.</L>
<L>Deferred vengeance quitteth not the guilt,</L>
<L>By &s;trong <HI>Benajah, Joabs</HI> blood is &s;pilt.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<PB N="143" REF="83">
<HEAD>7. Zimri <HI>and</HI> Cozbi, <HI>Numbers</HI> 25.</HEAD>
<P>ANd I&s;rael abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1.</P>
<P>And behold one of the Children of I&s;rael came, and brought unto his brethren a Midianiti&s;h woman in the &s;ight of Mo&s;es, <HI>&amp;c. ver&s;.</HI> 6.</P>
<P>And when Phineas the &s;on of Elea|zar, the &s;on of Aaron the Prie&s;t &s;aw it, he ro&s;e up from among&s;t the Con|gregation, and took a Javelin in his hand, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 7.</P>
<P>And he went after the man of I&s;ra|el into the Tent, and thru&s;t both of them through, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 8.</P>
<P>So the Plague was &s;taid, And tho&s;e that dyed of the Plague, were twen|ty and four thou&s;and, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 9.</P>
<PB N="144" REF="84">
<Q><L>Lu&s;h burning <HI>Zimri</HI> with his <HI>Moabite,</HI></L>
<L>&V;ncleanne&s;s acted in all <HI>I&s;raels</HI> &s;ight.</L>
<L>Zealous <HI>Phineas</HI> &s;o abhors the fact,</L>
<L>That both he &s;laughters in the very act.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD><HI>8. Achan</HI> &s;toned to death for theft, Jo&s;hua <HI>7.25.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd Achan an&s;wered Jo&s;hua, and &s;aid, Indeed I have &s;inned again&s;t the Lord God of I&s;rael, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 20.</P>
<P>When I &s;aw among&s;t the &s;poils a goodly Babyloni&s;h Garment, and two hundred &s;hekels of Silver, and a wedge of Gold, of fifty &s;hekels weight: then I coveted them, and took them, and behold they are hid in the earth in the mid&s;t of my Tent, and the Silver under it. So Jo&s;hua &s;ent me&s;&s;engers, and they took them out of the mid&s;t of the Tent, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 22, 23.</P>
<P>And all I&s;rael &s;toned him with &s;tones, and burned all that he had, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 24, 25.</P>
<PB N="145" REF="84">
<Q><L>In <HI>Achans</HI> Tent was found the cur&s;ed thing,</L>
<L>Which to all <HI>I&s;rael</HI> did &s;uch &s;orrow bring.</L>
<L>Wherefore to &s;tay the Lords conceived Ire,</L>
<L>The thief with all his hou&s;e was burnt with fire.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD><HI>9. Jezebel</HI> is &s;lain for &s;uborning fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es again&s;t <HI>Naboth, 1</HI> Kings <HI>21.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd Ahab &s;pake unto Naboth, &s;aying, Give me thy Vineyard, that I may have it for a Garden, and I will give thee for it a better Vine|yard, or I will give thee the worth of it in money, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 2.</P>
<P>And Naboth &s;aid to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I &s;hould give the Inheritance of my Fathers unto thee, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 3.</P>
<P>And Ahab came into his hou&s;e heavy, and di&s;plea&s;ed, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 4.</P>
<PB N="146" REF="85">
<P>But Jezebel his Wife came to him, and &s;aid unto him, Why is thy &s;pirit &s;o &s;ad, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 5.</P>
<P>And &s;he &s;aid unto him Ari&s;e and let thine heart be merry, I will give thee the Vineyard, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 7.</P>
<P>So &s;he wrote Letters in Ahabs name, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 8.</P>
<P>And there came in two men, Chil|dren of Belial, and witne&s;&s;ed, &s;aying, Naboth did bla&s;pheme God and the King.</P>
<P>Then they carried him out of the City, and &s;toned him with &s;tones, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 13.</P>
<P>2 <HI>Kings</HI> 9. And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and &s;he painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window, and Jehu &s;aid, Throw her down: and &s;ome of her blood &s;prinkled on the wall, and on the Hor&s;es, and he trod her under foot, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 33.</P>
<P>And Jehu &s;aid, This is the word of the Lord, which he &s;pake by his &s;er|vant Elijah, &s;aying, In the portion
<PB N="147" REF="85">of Jezreel &s;hall Dogs eat the fle&s;h of Jezebel.</P>
<Q><L>Proud <HI>Jezebel</HI> &s;ets <HI>Naboth</HI> up on high:</L>
<L>Suborns fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es, &s;tones him by and by;</L>
<L>Yet Divine vengeance &s;he could not de|feat,</L>
<L>For hungry Dogs her painted carka&s;e eat.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>10. Ahab <HI>coveteth</HI> Nabotlis <HI>Vineyard,</HI> 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 21. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 16, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd it came to pa&s;s, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab ro&s;e up to go down to the Vineyard of Naboth the Jezrelite, to take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of it.</P>
<P>And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Ti&s;hbite, &s;aying, Ari&s;e, go down to meet Ahab King of I&s;rael, which is in Samaria: behold he is in the Vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to po&s;&s;e&s;s it. And thou &s;halt &s;peak unto him, &s;aying, Thus &s;aith the Lord, Ha&s;t thou kil|led
<PB N="148" REF="86">and al&s;o taken po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion? And thou &s;halt &s;peak unto him, &s;aying, Thus &s;aith the Lord, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, &s;hall dogs lick thy blood, even thine, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 19.</P>
<Q><L>Di&s;&s;embling <HI>Ahab</HI> covets <HI>Naboth</HI>'s field,</L>
<L>Which once obtain'd, the owner being kil'd,</L>
<L>Th' unju&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion did him little good,</L>
<L>That Vineyard to him prov'd a field of Blood.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="examples">
<PB N="149" REF="86">
<HEAD>Bible-Examples of Gods &s;evere Ju&s;tice in Puni&s;hing of one Sin.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>For one Sin <HI>Adam</HI> and <HI>Eve</HI> were both turned out of Paradi&s;e, Gene&s;is <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd when the woman &s;aw that the Tree was good for food, and that it was plea&s;ant to the eyes, and a Tree to be de&s;ired to make one wi&s;e; &s;he took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave al&s;o unto her Husband with her, and he did eat, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 6.</P>
<P>And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they &s;ewed Fig|leaves together, and made them&s;elves Aprons, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 7.</P>
<P>And they heard the voice of the Lord God, walking in the Garden in the cool of the day: and Adam
<PB N="150" REF="87">and his Wife hid them&s;elves from the pre&s;ence of the Lord God, among&s;t the Trees of the Garden, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 8.</P>
<P>And the Lord God called unto Adam, and &s;aid unto him, Where art thou? <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 9.</P>
<P>And he &s;aid, I heard thy voice in the Garden: and I was afraid, becau&s;e I was naked; and I hid my &s;elf, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 10.</P>
<P>And he &s;aid, Who told thee that thou wa&s;t naked? Ha&s;t thou eaten of the Tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou &s;houlde&s;t not eat? <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 11.</P>
<P>And the man &s;aid, The woman whom thou gave&s;t to be with me, &s;he gave me of the Tree, and I did eat, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 12.</P>
<P>And the Lord God &s;aid unto the woman, What is this that thou ha&s;t done? and the woman &s;aid, The Ser|pent beguiled me, and I did eat, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 13.</P>
<P>And the Lord God &s;aid unto the Serpent; Becau&s;e thou ha&s;t done this, thou art cur&s;ed above all cattel, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 14.</P>
<PB N="151" REF="87">
<P>Unto the woman he &s;aid, I will greatly multiply thy &s;orrow, and thy conception. In &s;orrow &s;halt thou bring forth Children, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 16.</P>
<P>And unto Adam he &s;aid, Becau&s;e thou ha&s;t hearkned unto the voice of thy wife, and ha&s;t eaten of the Tree, of which I commanded thee, &s;aying, Thou &s;halt not eat of it: cur&s;ed is the ground for thy &s;ake, in &s;orrow &s;halt thou eat of it all the days of thy life, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 17.</P>
<P>So he drove out the man, &amp;c. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 24.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>For one &s;in <HI>Cain</HI> was ca&s;t out from Gods Pre&s;ence, Gene&s;is <HI>4.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd Cain talked with Abel his Brother: and it came to pa&s;s, when they were in the field, that Cain ro&s;e up again&s;t Abel his brother and &s;lew him, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 8.</P>
<P>And the Lord &s;aid unto Cain, Where is Abel thy Brother? And he &s;aid, I know not: am I my Brothers keeper? <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 9.</P>
<PB N="152" REF="88">
<P>And he &s;aid, What ha&s;t thou done? The voice of thy Brothers blood cri|eth unto me from the ground, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 10</P>
<P>And now cur&s;ed art thou from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy Brothers blood from thy hand, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 11.</P>
<P>When thou tille&s;t the ground, it &s;hall not henceforth yield unto thee her &s;trength: a fugitive and a vagabond &s;halt thou be in the earth, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 12.</P>
<P>And Cain &s;aid unto the Lord, My puni&s;hment is greater than I can bear, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 13.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>For o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 chunk"> &s;in many little Children were de|&s;troyed by Bears, <HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ELi&s;ha went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">tle Children out of the City, and mock|ed him, and &s;aid unto him, Go up thou Bald-head, go up thou Bald-head, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 23.</P>
<PB N="153" REF="88">
<P>And he turned back, and looked on them, and cur&s;ed them in the name of the Lord: and there came forth two She-Bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two Children of them, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 24.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>For one &s;in <HI>Achan</HI> was &s;toned to death, Jo&s;hua <HI>7.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd Jo&s;hua &s;aid unto Achan, My Son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of I&s;rael, and make confe&s;&s;ion unto him, and tell me now what thou ha&s;t done, hide it not from me, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 19.</P>
<P>And Achan an&s;wered Jo&s;hua, and &s;aid, Indeed I have &s;inned again&s;t the Lord God of I&s;rael, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 20.</P>
<P>When I &s;aw among the &s;poyls a goodly Babyloni&s;h Garm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nt, and two hundred &s;hekles of Silver, and a wedge of Gold of f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ty &s;hekles weight; then I coveted them<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> took them, and behold they<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> in the earth, in the mid&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="154" REF="89">Tent, and the Silver under it, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 21.</P>
<P>So Jo&s;hua &s;ent Me&s;&s;engers, and they ran and took them out of the mid&s;t of the Tent, and brought them unto Jo&s;hua, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 22, 23.</P>
<P>And Jo&s;hua, and all I&s;rael with him, took Achan, and the Silver, and the Garment, and the wedge of Gold, and his Sons, and his Daugh|ters, and his Oxen, and his A&s;&s;es, and his Sheep, and his Tent, and all that he had: and they brought them to the Valley of Achor, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 24.</P>
<P>And Jo&s;hua &s;aid, Why ha&s;t thou troubled us? The Lord &s;hall trouble thee this day. And all I&s;rael &s;toned him with &s;tones, and burned them with fire, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 25.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<PB N="155" REF="89">
<HEAD>For one &s;in three thou&s;and <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> were &s;lain, Exodus <HI>32.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd Mo&s;es &s;aid unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou ha&s;t brought &s;o great a &s;in upon them? <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 21.</P>
<P>And Aaron &s;aid, Let not the an|ger of my Lord wax hot: thou knowe&s;t the people, that they are &s;et on mi&s;chief, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 22.</P>
<P>For they &s;aid unto me, Make us Gods which &s;hall go before us: for as for this Mo&s;es, the man that brought us up out of the Land of Egypt, we wote not what is become of him, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 23.</P>
<P>And I &s;aid unto them, Who&s;oever hath any Gold, let them break it off: &s;o they gave it me: then I ca&s;t it in|to the fire, and there came out this Calf. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 24.</P>
<P>And when Mo&s;es &s;aw that the peo|ple were naked, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<PB N="156" REF="90">
<P>Then Mo&s;es &s;tood in the Gate of the Camp, and &s;aid, Who is on the Lords &s;ide? let him come unto me: and all the Sons of Levi gathered them&s;elves together unto him, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 25, 26.</P>
<P>And he &s;aid unto them, Thus &s;aith the Lord God of I&s;rael, put every man his &s;word by his &s;ide, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the Camp, and &s;lay eve|ry man his Brother, and every man his Companion, and every man his Neighbour, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 27.</P>
<P>And the Children of Levi did ac|cording to the word of Mo&s;es, and there fell of the people that day about three thou&s;and men, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 28.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<PB N="157" REF="90">
<HEAD>For one &s;in <HI>Jeroboams</HI> hand withered, <HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>13.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd behold there came a man of God out of Judah, by the word of the Lord unto Bethel: and Jeroboam &s;tood by the Altar to burn Incen&s;e, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1.</P>
<P>And he cryed again&s;t the Altar in the word of the Lord, and &s;aid, O Altar, Altar, thus &s;aith the Lord, Be|hold, a Child &s;hall be born unto the Hou&s;e of David, Jo&s;iah by name; and upon thee &s;hall he offer the Prie&s;ts of the High Places, that burn Incen&s;e upon thee, and mens bones &s;hall be burnt upon thee, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 2.</P>
<P>And he gave a &s;ign the &s;ame day, &s;aying, This is the &s;ign which the Lord hath &s;poken: Behold the Altar &s;hall be rent, and the A&s;hes that are upon it &s;hall be poured out, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 3.</P>
<P>And it came to pa&s;s when King Je|roboam heard the &s;aying of the man of God&punc; which had cryed again&s;t the
<PB N="158" REF="91">Altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the Altar, &s;aying, Lay hold on him: and his hand which he put forth again&s;t him dryed up, &s;o that he could not pull it in again to him, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 4.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>For one &s;in good <HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> dyed by the hand of an <HI>Egyptian, 2</HI> Chron. <HI>35.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AFter all this, when Jo&s;iah had pre|pared the Temple, Necho King of Egypt came up to fight again&s;t Circhemi&s;h by Euphrates: and Jo&s;iah went out again&s;t him, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 20.</P>
<P>But he &s;ent Amba&s;&s;adors to him, &s;aying, What have I to do with thee, thou King of Judah? I come not again&s;t thee this day, but again&s;t the hou&s;e wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make ha&s;te: forbear thee from medling with God, who is with me, that he de&s;troy thee not, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 21.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s Jo&s;iah would not turn his face from him, but di&s;gui&s;ed him|&s;elf,
<PB N="159" REF="91">that he might fight with him, and hearkned not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the Valley of Me|giddo, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 22.</P>
<P>And the Archers &s;hot at King Jo&s;i|ah, and the King &s;aid to his &s;ervants, Have me away, for I am &s;ore wound|ed. And they brought him to Jeru|&s;alem, and he died there, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 23, 24.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>For one &s;in fifty thou&s;and <HI>Beth&s;hemites</HI> were &s;lain, <HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>6.19.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd he &s;mote the men of Beth|&s;heme&s;h, becau&s;e they had look|ed into the Ark of the Lord, even he &s;mote of the people fifty thou&s;and and three&s;core and ten men: and the peo|ple lamented, becau&s;e the Lord had &s;mitten many of the people with a great &s;laughter. And the men of Beth&s;heme&s;h &s;aid, Who is able to &s;tand before this holy Lord God? <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 20.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<PB N="160" REF="92">
<HEAD>For one &s;in <HI>Nadab</HI> and <HI>Abihu</HI> were both con&s;umed, Levit. <HI>10.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd Nadab and Abihu, the Sons of Aaron, took either of them his Cen&s;er, and put fire therein, and put Incen&s;e thereon, and offered &s;trange fire before the Lord which he commanded them not, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1.</P>
<P>And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they dyed before the Lord, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 2.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>For one &s;in <HI>Saul</HI> was ca&s;t out from be|ing King, <HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>15.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd Samuel &s;aid unto Saul, Stay and I will tell thee what the Lord hath &s;aid unto me this night, and he &s;aid Say on, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 16.</P>
<P>And Samuel &s;aid, When thou wa&s;t little in thine own &s;ight, wa&s;t thou not made the head of the Tribes of I&s;rael, and the Lord anointed thee King over I&s;rael, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 17.</P>
<PB N="161" REF="92">
<P>And the Lord &s;ent thee on a jour|ney, and &s;aid Go, and utterly de&s;troy the &s;inners the Amalekites, <HI>&amp;c. ver&s;.</HI> 18.</P>
<P>Wherefore then did&s;t thou not obey the voice of the Lord, <HI>ver&s;</HI> 19.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e thou ha&s;t rejected the word of the Lord, he hath al&s;o rejected thee from being King, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 23.</P>
<P>And as Samuel turned about to go away, Saul laid hold upon the ski<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">t of his Mantle and it rent, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 27.</P>
<P>And Samuel &s;aid unto him, The Lord hath rent the Kingdom of I&s;ra|el from thee this day, and hath given it to a Neighbour of thine, that is better than thou, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 28.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<PB N="162" REF="93">
<HEAD>A Prayer for one troubled in Con&s;cience for his Sins.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Great and Glorious Lord God, who hate&s;t iniquity, un|to thee I poor polluted &s;inner am come, not in my own name or wor|thine&s;s, but in the name and worthi|ne&s;s of thy deare&s;t Son. I confe&s;s, Lord, I have &s;inned again&s;t Heaven, and again&s;t Earth, and in thy &s;ight, and I am no more worthy to be called a Child of God. I have forfeited all thy mercies, I have grieved thy mo&s;t Holy Spirit, and gratified the Devil, and wronged my own &s;oul; and now, Lord, I have no re&s;t, thine Arrows &s;tick fa&s;t in me, and thy hand pre&s;|&s;eth me &s;ore; there is no &s;oundne&s;s in my fle&s;h becau&s;e of thine anger, nei|ther is there any re&s;t in my bones be|cau&s;e of my &s;ins: for mine iniquities are gone over my head as an heavy burden, they are too heavy for me to bear. I have &s;inned, what &s;hall I do
<PB N="163" REF="93">to thee, O thou pre&s;erver of men? I will glorifie thy ju&s;tice, and &s;ay The Lord is ju&s;t and I am a &s;inner. Ju&s;t and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints, to &s;end thy terrors into a &s;oul that would not be &s;en&s;ible of the in|vitations of thy mercy, and to make me feel thy wrath who have been a great abu&s;er of thy grace, and tran&s;|gre&s;&s;or of thy holy Commandments. Merciful God, thou who in wrath re|membre&s;t mercy, let me find &s;o much mercy, in and by thy wrath, that mine own wickedne&s;s may correct me, and my back&s;lidings may reprove me; and make me know and feel that 'tis an evil and bitter thing to &s;in again&s;t God, and that thy fear was not in me. O Lord, I have committed two evils, I have for&s;aken thee the foun|tain of living waters, and have hewen to my &s;elf Ci&s;terns, broken Ci&s;terns that can hold no water; I have for&s;a|ken thee the only true good, to fol|low the &s;inful plea&s;ures and deceitful promi&s;es of the world and the fle&s;h,
<PB N="164" REF="94">which have di&s;appointed me of my hopes. I have trea&s;ured up wrath again&s;t the day of wrath, and the re|velations of thy righteous judgements. O Lord, thou de&s;ire&s;t not the death of a &s;inner, but had&s;t rather that he repent and live; and 'tis to recover &s;uch great &s;inners as I am that thou ha&s;t provided the greate&s;t of reme|dies, thy mo&s;t precious Son, one God with thy &s;elf and thy Spirit; who in obedience to thee, and out of mercy and compa&s;&s;ion to us thy defaced ima|ges, hath taken upon him our weak fle&s;h, and in it hath yielded him&s;elf to the cur&s;ed death of the Cro&s;s, and pre&s;ented to thy Soveraign ju&s;tice the unvaluable price of his blood and merit, a full and perfect ran&s;om for the greate&s;t of &s;inners; that who&s;o|ever believeth in him &s;hould not pe|ri&s;h but have everla&s;ting life: Lord I believe, help thou my unbelief, the great &s;ickne&s;s of my afflicted &s;oul &s;inking under the burden of &s;in, and &s;o begin my cure. Grant that it may
<PB N="165" REF="94">be the burden of my &s;ins indeed that lye heavy upon me, rather than the horror of thy judgements. O teach me perfectly to hate tho&s;e offences which I have committed again&s;t thee the mo&s;t great and glorious God, my mo&s;t watchful Protector, my mo&s;t bountiful Benefactor, my tender-hearted Father, who ha&s;t not dealt with me after my &s;ins, nor rewarded me according to mine iniquities. My God, with this loathing of my &s;ins, give me &s;tedfa&s;t purpo&s;e to for|&s;ake them, and to be more ear|ne&s;t and con&s;tant to &s;eek to plea&s;e thee, and to glorifie thee in my Bo|dy and in my Spirit, which are thine, than ever I was eager to follow the &s;inful cour&s;es of this wicked world. Create in me a clean heart, O God, renew a right &s;pirit within me by thy &s;anctifying Spirit, and by the &s;ame heal now the &s;ores of my &s;ad &s;oul. O Lord pardon me, Lord accept of me in thy beloved Son. Lord make me to hear of Joy and Gladne&s;s, that
<PB N="166" REF="95">the bones that thou ha&s;t broken may rejoyce in thy &s;alvation, and more yet in the duties of thy &s;ervice, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t my Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<HEAD>A Prayer for Comfort in time of Trouble.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord God, unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwel|le&s;t in the Heavens; behold as the eyes of the Servants look unto the hands of their Ma&s;ter, and as the eyes of the Maiden look unto the hands of her Mi&s;tre&s;s, &s;o mine eyes wait upon thee, O Lord God, until thou have mercy upon me; have mercy upon me, O Lord, for thy mercies &s;ake, and graciou&s;ly be plea&s;ed to a&s;&s;i&s;t me with thy &s;trength, again&s;t the &s;trength of Satan. I humbly acknowledge, O Lord, that my &s;ins have de&s;erved at thy hands a wor&s;e di&s;tre&s;s than any that Satan can lay upon me; But I know al&s;o that thy goodne&s;s equal unto thy almighty &s;trength can re|buke and overcome Satan; and thy
<PB N="167" REF="95">gracious Spirit can rai&s;e and revive my dejected &s;pirit, though never &s;o much di&s;ordered by the wicked &s;pirit: then unto thy &s;trength and goodne&s;s I have my humble re|cour&s;e. Succour me, O Lord, take my part again&s;t Satan, and again&s;t my &s;elf. O &s;peak unto my heart, Seek thou my face, &s;peak it Lord, and enable my heart to &s;ay un|to thee, Thy face, Lord, will I &s;eek. Lord &s;peak the word and thy &s;ervant &s;hall be healed; O hide not thy face far from me, put not thy &s;ervant away in anger; thou ha&s;t been my help, leave me not, neither for&s;ake me, O God of my &s;alvation. O ble&s;&s;ed Lord who did&s;t heal &s;o many di&s;ea&s;ed per|&s;ons, and &s;aid&s;t unto them withall, Thy &s;ins are forgiven thee: &s;peak that comfortable word unto me a &s;ad ob|ject of thy compa&s;&s;ion. Thou that &s;aid&s;t at thy creating the world, Let light be, and it was &s;o; &s;peak the &s;ame word of power unto my &s;oul lying in darkne&s;s and in the &s;hadow
<PB N="168" REF="96">of death. Work within me a new creation, the illumination of thy holy knowledge, and the light of holine&s;s and heavenly comforts, that I may without di&s;turbance tend the duties of thy &s;ervice, and that I may &s;ee the beauty of holine&s;s and rejoyce in it, and glorifie thee by my light in it. Father of mercies create in me a clean heart, renew in me a right &s;pirit, and turn my mourning into &s;ongs of de|liverance, through the merit of thy dear Son, and by the operation of thy good Spirit. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="example">
<PB N="169" REF="96">
<HEAD>A Prayer for Patience in time of Tri|bulation.</HEAD>
<P>O Eternal Lord, my God, early will I &s;eek thee, my &s;oul thir&s;t|eth for thee, my &s;pirit longeth for thee as a dry and thir&s;ty land. My God, among the many wants of my weak and di&s;con&s;olate &s;oul; &s;o much I have yet of thy grace, that I feel my wants, that I long and pant for thee, and cannot imagine any true comfort but from thee. O Lord thou art &s;tiled the God, the God of pati|ence and con&s;olation; &s;hew thy &s;elf &s;o effectually to my poor &s;oul. When I find my faith trembling, my hope drooping, my zeal cool, and yet with the&s;e defects &s;ome grain of &s;in|cere love to thee: then &s;trengthen thou my &s;oul with &s;o much patience as to teach my heart how my pre&s;ent Chri&s;tian-Calling is not to be abun|dantly
<PB N="170" REF="97">&s;atisfied with the fatne&s;s of thy hou&s;e, and to drink of the rivers of thy plea&s;ures; but in that expectation to tru&s;t patiently under the &s;hadow of thy wings, fighting the good fight of faith, re&s;i&s;ting of the temptations of Satan, and the world, and tho&s;e of my own &s;infull fle&s;h, to make me a way to thee through corruptions, through afflictions and oppo&s;itions, through doubts and fears, and frail|ties of my &s;inful nature; again&s;t all the&s;e, O Lord, I be&s;eech thee to &s;trengthen me, e&s;pecially again&s;t all the powers of Darkne&s;s. O thou that art the God of Patience, be thou to me al&s;o a God of Con&s;olation; for unle&s;s in the multitude of my combates thy comforts refre&s;h my &s;oul, I cannot but faint and be finally overcome. O Lord, &s;hew thy graci|ous Countenance, &s;ay unto my &s;oul, &s;oul I am thy &s;alvation; grant me ac|cording to the riches of thy grace, to be &s;trengthned with all might by thy Spirit in my inward man, that Chri&s;t
<PB N="171" REF="97">may dwell in my heart by faith; that being rooted and grounded in love, I may be able to comprehend with all Saints, what is the breadth and length, height and depth, and to know the love of Chri&s;t which pa&s;&s;eth know|ledge; that I may be filled with all the fulne&s;s of God: No le&s;s, O my God, do I beg at thy hands than to be filled with all thy fulne&s;s; and in my weak condition yet will I com|mand my &s;oul to love thee, hope in thee and prai&s;e thee; &s;aying now un|to him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that I can ask or think according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the Church by Je&s;us Chri&s;t through|out all ages, world without end. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<PB N="172" REF="98">
<HEAD>A Grace before Meat.</HEAD>
<P>O God, thou art our Maker, our Pre&s;erver and our Provider, we daily ta&s;te of thy bounty, thou open|e&s;t our hands, and fille&s;t them with good things. Pardon our ingrati|tude, and ble&s;s thy provi&s;ions; and in the &s;trength of them be plea&s;ed to di&s;po&s;e us to do thee faithful &s;ervice in our &s;everal places and Relations, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t, our Lord and Saviour. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<PB N="173" REF="98">
<HEAD>Another.</HEAD>
<P>GRacious Lord God, thou renew|e&s;t thy mercies every day, though our &s;ins abound, thy goodne&s;s &s;uperabounds; we acknowledge our &s;elves unworthy of the lea&s;t of thy fa|vours, yet thou art plea&s;ed to &s;pread a Table for us, and to give us our meat in due &s;ea&s;on; and by them to &s;trengthen and refre&s;h our frail bo|dies. Indue our &s;ouls we pray thee with thy Holy Spirit, that we may return back unto thee the &s;trength we receive by the&s;e thy good crea|tures, in a way of well-doing, to the glory of thy great name, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<PB N="174" REF="99">
<HEAD>Another.</HEAD>
<P>O Holy God, we look unto thee who give&s;t us life, breath and being, 'tis of and through thy mer|cy we are not con&s;umed, becau&s;e thy compa&s;&s;ions fail not: Thou art plea&s;ed to renew thy mercies every day; make us thankful in the u&s;e of thy creatures, that they may refre&s;h our bodies, and that our fouls al&s;o may be filled with hearty endeavours to do thee true and faithful &s;ervice, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<PB N="175" REF="99">
<HEAD>After Meat.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord, we thank thee for what we have and are, 'Tis by thee we live, and move and have our being; thou give&s;t us what is need|ful to &s;upport this pre&s;ent life. Continue the&s;e thy ble&s;&s;ings we pray thee to us, and us in a faithful and hearty &s;en&s;e of thy love, that in the &s;trength of thy benefits we may live to thy prai&s;e and glory, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<PB N="176" REF="100">
<HEAD>Another.</HEAD>
<P>BLe&s;&s;ing, and honour, and prai&s;e be given to thee, our bounti|ful benefactor; thou continue&s;t life, health, food and raiment whereby our bodies are comforted and re|fre&s;hed; what &s;hall we render to thee, O thou pre&s;erver of men? As thou art plea&s;ed to give us the com|forts of this life, we pray thee give us hopes of better things in the other world; in the mean time bring us to a hearty obedience to thee all our days, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<PB N="177" REF="100">
<HEAD>Another.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord, as we have received from thee, &s;o we return the prai&s;e of all to thee; we ble&s;s thee for our Creation, Pre&s;ervation and all the ble&s;&s;ings of this life; but more e&s;pecially for the Redemption of the World by our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t. Enable us we pray thee to continue in the way of well-doing, to thy honour and glory; and ble&s;s the Univer&s;al Church, the King, Queen and Realm, and &s;end us peace and truth, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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