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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23804	The whole duty of prayer containing devotions for every day in the week, and for several occasions, ordinary and extraordinary / by the author of The whole duty of man ...	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1692 (1692)	Wing A1195; ESTC R7356	61,296	178

Heathen PRIVATE Prayer is a Duty to be used in secret where we can more particularize our sins when alone then is requisite to be done in publick Next we are to be frequent in Prayer and not Complain we want leisure for so doing for he which is most busie may find some time to perform this Duty else how can he expect his Employment should be Sanctified now it is a great advantage for Men to seek God at least Morning and Evening if they expect a Blessing upon their endeavours Next the advantages we reap by Prayer are many First It is a great honour to speak freely to the Almighty Secondly It is a great benifit for it brings down Blessings both Spiritual and Temporal to us Thirdly it is a pleasant Duty it draws us nearer to God which qualifies us for the joys of Heaven where Christ is at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore NEXT we must take care that we ask nothing which is unlawful but whatsoever we stand in need of to ask it in faith and great humility Secondly we must be attentive and mind what we are about Considering that it is the Majesty of Heaven we are to treat withal and that our necessities cannot be supplied without his Divine aid and assistance Thirdly Vigilancy Zeal and Purity of intention must not be omitted for the Sacrifice of the wicked are abomination to the Lord Lastly what we Pray for must be to a good end that is not to Pray for Wealth to Consume it upon our Lusts Or for grandeur to exercise our malice upon our Enemies but whatever we do must be done to the glory of God through whom we have Redemption in his blood even the forgiveness of our Sins Ejaculations at uprising AWake O my Soul and sing unto the Lord. Glory be to the Holy and undivided Trinity for watching and preserving me this Night I laid me down and slept for thou Lord sustainest me Lord arise and lift up the Light of thy Countenance upon me A Prayer for a Private Person in the Morning MOst gracious God whose Mercies are rich and infinite to all thy Servants that call upon thee accept I humbly beseech thee this my morning Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving which I now am to offer up unto thy Divine Majesty O Lord in thee I live move and have my being thou formdst me in the womb and hast writ my name in the Book of Life and that I might not be miserable but happy thou sentest thy only beloved Son to dye for me and to redeem me from all iniquity WHAT shall I render unto thee O Lord for all these thine inestimable benefits pour forth thy Grace upon me I beseech thee that I may abound in Thanksgiving and Praise for them Enlarge my heart with thy Love that I may in some degree Comprehend with all Saints the measure of thine infinite Mercy and goodness manifested to me by thy dear Son and my alone Saviour To whom therefore with thee and thy blessed Spirit be ascribed the whole glory of my Creation Redemption Sanctification and Salvation FORGIVE O Lord the manifold Sins which I commit daily and hourly against thee and grant that for the time to come thy restraining Grace may subdue my unruly inclinations and distempered affections and as I have been a Servant of Sin I may now become an Example of reformation That so I may rejoyce in thee as my only Treasure and rest in thee who art the Center of my felicity and be throughly convinced how good it is to draw nigh unto thee accounting all things but dross and dung in Comparison of the excellency of Jesus Christ and my alone Saviour and Redeemer O LORD as thou in thy tender Mercy and Compassion hast watched over me this Night and defended me from my Ghostly adversary so I beseech thee let thy all-seeing Eye of providence guide me this day in all my Thoughts Words and Actions whereby I may fall into no Sin nor run into any kind of danger But that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance to do alwayes that which is Righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour in whose Blessed name and Words I shut up these my imperfect Prayers in that most absolute form of Prayer which he himself hath taught me saying Our Father c. A Prayer at Departure from Home ALmighty and Everlasting God who art the way the truth and the Life looke down from thy Throne of Mercy to thy scorstcol of Compassion and behold me now betwixt the Assaults of the Devil the allurements of the World and my own vain inclinations I cannot look abroad but they are ever ready to molest me but O thou that leadest Ioseph like a sheep thou most faithful and Almighty guide lend me thy hand open mine Eyes direct my steps and cause me to walk in thy fear THOU that didst go out with Iacob from Beer sheba unto Padan aran guiding him in the wast-plains and watching over him on his pillow of Stones be not now far from me lead me O Lord in thy righteousness make my Paths straight and strengthen my goings that having finished my course here I may sit down in thy Kingdom hereafter an inheritance undefiled purchased for me with the blood of my Saviour and thy beloved Son Jesus Christ Amen Ejaculations for the Evening LET not the Sun go down upon thy Wrath Eph. 4. 6. Watch ye for ye know not when the Master of the House cometh at Even or at Mid-night or at the Cock crowing or in the Morning lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping Mark 13. 35 An Evening Prayer for a Private Person OEternal God full of loving kindness and long suffering whose Mercy is above all thy Works and thy Glory above the Heavens forgive me I beseech thee my transgressions this day my vain thoughts idle words and loose Conversation my exceeding neglect and forgetfulness of thee my headstrong inclinations and lusting after the World preferring this Land of Cabul before the Snow of Lebanon and a broken Cistern before the Well of Life JUSTLY O Lord might'st thou have cut me off this day and cast me into the Lake of thy Displeasure but thou hast had Mercy and not Sacrifice thou hast shed upon me the Light of thy Countenance and removed my sins far out of thy sight I know O Lord it is not in Man to Establish his own Ways it is thy Almighty Arm must do it it is thou alone that hast led me through this day and kept me both from doing and from suffering Evil. AND now O thou Preserver of men What shall I do unto thee What shall I render unto my Lord for all the mercies and loving kindnesses shewed unto thy Servant this day and all the days of my life even to this moment I will offer unto thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and call upon the Name of the Lord I will ever love thee fear thee praise thee