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A05792 A Beautifull baybush to shrowd us from the sharp shovvers of sinne containing many notable prayers and meditations, being very profitable for all true Christians that delight to laud the Lord. Wolfe, John. 1610 (1610) STC 1599.7; ESTC S5176 64,350 324

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Amen A prayer to be said in affliction O Thou onely wise God and most louing and mercifull father I thy vnworthy seruant doe humbly beseech thee to look down from heauen and beholde the wounded heart of him whome thou hast stricken and visited according to the good pleasure of thy will and because man in his owne nature is nothing but blindnesse and folly before thee and therefore cannot poss●bly conceiue rightly of the thinges that are aboue it may therefore please thee according to thy wonted mercy towards me to renew and refresh thy spirit in thy seruant that the same instructing my heart in true wisdome and feare of thee whereby I may willingly and obediently studie thy commaundements and exrecise my selfe in thy Statutes I may come to the vnderstanding of mine owne euils and feele the cause of thy scourge that so my wound being laid open to mine eyes I may deferre no time to seeke the salue to heale it My good God heare the voice of thy seruant that crieth vnto thee consider my complaints and weigh mine inward wo conceiued through hate of mine owne infirmities for I flie from my selfe as from an vnwalled castle and I feare all my footings as though I walked on thornes O Lord therefore deale not with me in thy displeasure neither let my sinnes separate thy fauour from me but quicken me in my afflictions and make me waxe wiser by thy punishments giue me such a feeling of my infirmities and so perfect a perseuerance of my great negligences in seruing of thee as that I may wholly dispose my selfe to a contrary order and thereunto so ioyne the encrease of thy grace and strengthning spirit as I may be able thereby to perfourme my race in that good way which thy goodnesse hath mooued me to And that I may not be a vaine beholder of thy workes a momentaneous ●iewer of thy graces but diligently noting the effectuall working of thy wisdome and making due obseruations of thy profitable exercises in thy children I may locke them in the closet of my heart and make store of them for mine owne vses in the time of my triall in which times also O mercifull father be neere vnto me with thy ioyfull countenance and open my eies of faith to behold thy loue so that I be not too much shaken by the enemies assaults but may be furnished from thee both with abilitie constancie and patience to giue him both his daily and finall repulse and ouerthrow which that I may doe to the greater credit of thy Church and increase of thy kingdome make O sweete Lord now and the rather for that I haue had triall of my enemy his sleights already me thy seruant to arise out of all the fathers of sloth and neuer to trust hereafter to the the trecherie of the enemy but to stand warily vpon my guard and neuer to discend from the watch tower of my health but there night and day to vse the counsell of thy spirit and to exercise my selfe in the spirituall weapons of my saluation that when I haue spent my youthfull daies in the vigilant watch of my charge as thy mercy and louing kindnes shall inable me when thy sonne our Generall shall come to take account I may be indued with the daies of rest which he hath purchased for me with the price of his most pretious blood receiue at his hands the priuiledged rod of liberty for euer The loue of our good God that created vs the grace of our Lord Iesus who hath redeemed vs and the assistant fellowship of the Holy Ghost who hath sanctified vs gouerne and continue with vs euen all thy Israel for euer Before we receiue the Lords supper it shall be profitable thus to meditate ALl the righteousnesse that may rise vnto man or can be in vs we haue it neither from the East nor from the West but from the body of Christ neither is therein the world any other sanctification so that all we that be here this day and all people els of the world except we know perfect manhood and our owne nature to be really vnited to the person of the sonne of God who hath sanctified himse fe for vs there is no sanctification for vs vnder heauē Euen as our hands and armes and other members are not nourished but onely by the meat receiued by the head so our spirituall meate of righteousnesse and life is not giuen vs but from our head Iesus Christ And as the veines are meanes by which nourishment is conueighed to euery part so faith is the meanes by which we reteine from Christ all that is healthfull vnto vs. And as by ioynts and sinewes our members are really knit and made a body vnto the head so really truly and indeede by one spirit we be knit vnto Christ as perfectly and substantially made one with him as our members are one with our head A praier before the receiuing of the Lords supper O Almighty God and my most mercifull father in wonderfull mercy I acknowledge it hath pleased thee to purge me vnworthy wretch by the bloody passion of thy sonne from all my sinnes to haue adopted me thy child and g●uen me the earnest of my saluation touching my heart with an infallible feeling of thy mercies and setled confidence in thy promises in the ioyfull commemoration of which thy vnspeakeable blessings my soule is now thirstingly entred into thine house to take the wholesome cup of saluation and to call vpon thy holy name giue me now therefore O Lord a wise and vnderstanding heart that I may cōceiue rightly of thy sacred mysteries discerne them secretly receiue them effectually to the perfect consummation and finishing of that happy building which thy worthy goodnes ha●h begun in me yea vntill I become to the measure of the age and fulnesse of my Lo●d and Sauiour Iesus Christ vnto whom with thee O father and the Holy Ghost be all power and do●inion for euer Amen of my health in this life O sweete Lord I take no care so that thy good pleasure be therein fulfilled for if thou wilt I liue and recouer of this my bodely infirmitie I haue iust cause to be thankefull vnto thee therefore and if thy wisdome hath now determined to finish in me these daies of sinne I haue double cause to poure forth the teares of a melting heart for ioy not because I would leaue these daies of paine and sorrow which my sinne ten thousand times double deserueth but that I would cease to displease so deare a Lord and louing a father and that being transported into that heauenly life of thy immortall children I may praise and serue thee in that sweet societie of Angels where the burthen of this flesh shall find no place to encumber me for euer Thither therefore O Father if thy wisdome haue so determined speedily conduct me in the meane time make that this my bodily affliction may conduce to thy glory on earth and my saluation in
to thy vse and increase of thy congregation And as hereby I feele thy heauie iudgements vpon me for sinne in feeling those grieuous paines and am put in minde of the old disobedience of our parents Adam and Eue the very cause of these punishments lighting iustly vpon me being a braunch of that poysoned stocke So O deare father let me feele againe thy mer●y who through thy beloued Sonne hast wrought my deliverance from the punishment of that disobedience to wit from sinne death and damnation so that now my transgressions are remooued from me the damnable sinne of my filthie concupiscence by nature is turned into a sanctified blessing and we both made heires of euerlasting glorie helpe me therefore O God of comfort and giue me safe deliuerance that I may dedicate that which thou hast giuen me wholly to thy seruice I know Lord that as many as thou hast tak●n to thy selfe to them thou hast giuen this honour that they be made thy children and beleeuers of thy name which are not begotten of blood nor of the lust of the flesh nor of the desire of man but of thy selfe whom thou fashionest according to thy will Thou therefore which hast promised not onely to be my God but the God of my seede seale this assurance of thy election in this feuit of my wombe to the glory of thy name mine owne comfort and the benefite of thy church Grant these things O father for Iesus Christ his sake to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glorie Amen A prayer made for the Church and all the estates thereof I. F. LOrd Iesus Christ sonne of the l●uing God who was crucified for our sins and did rise againe for our iustification and ascending vp to heauen raignest now at the right hand of thy father with full power and authority ruling and disposing all things according to their owne gratious and glorious purpose we sinfull creatures and yet seruants and members of thy church doe prostrate our selues and our prayers before thy imperiall maiestie hauing no other patron nor aduocate to speed our sutes or to resort vnto but thee alone beseeching thy goodnesse to be good to thy poore church militant here in this wretched earth sometimes a rich church a large church an vniuersall church spread farre and wide through the whole compasse of the earth now driuen into a narrow corner of the world and hath much need of thy gratious helpe First the Turke with his sword what lande nations and countries what emp●●es kingdomes and prouinces with cities innumerable hath be woon not from vs but from thee where thy name was woont to be inuocated the word preached thy sacraments administred there now raigneth barbarous Mahomet with his filthie Alcoran The flourishing churches in Asia the learned churches of Grecia the manifold churches in Africa which were woont to serue thee now are gone from thee The seauen churches of Asia with their candlestickes whom thou diddest so well forewarne are now remooued All the churches where thy diligent Apostle Saint Paule thy Apostle Peter and Iohn and other Apostles so laboriously trauelled preaching and writing to plant thy Gospell are now gone from the gospell In the kingdome of Oyria Palestina Arabia Persia in all Armenia and the Empire of Capadocia through the whole compasse of Asia with Egypt and Africa also vnlesse amongst the far Ethiopians some old steps of Christianitie peraduenture yet doe remaine either else all Asia and Africa thy church hath not one foot of free land but all is turned either to infidelitie or to captiuitie whatsoeuer pertaineth to thee And if Asia and Africa only decaied the decay were great but yet the defection were not so vniuersall Now in Europe a great part also is shrunke from thy Church All Th●acia with the Empire of Constantinople al Grecia Epirus Illyricum and now of late al the kingdomes almost of Hungaria with much of Austria with lamentable slaughter of Christian blood is wasted and all become Turkes Only a little angle of the West pa●tes yet remaineth in some profession of thy name But there alacke commeth another mischiefe as great or greater than the other For the Turke with his sword is not so cruell but the Bishop of Rome on the other side is more fiecce bitter against vs st●r●i●g vp his Bishops to burne vs his confederates to conspireour destruction setting kings against their subiects and subiects disloyally to rebell against their Princes and all for thy name Such dissention and host lity Sathan hath set amongst vs that Turkes be not more enemies to Christians than Christians to Christians Papists to protestants yea protestants w●th protestants doe not agree but fall out for trifles So that the poore little flocke of thy church distressed on euery side hath neither rest without nor peace within no place almost in the world where to abide but many crie now from the earth euen as thine owne reuerence cried once from the crosse My God why hast thou forsaken me Amongst vs Englishmen here in England after so great storms of persecution and cruell murther of so many Martyrs it hath pleased thy grace to giue vs these Ascion daies which yet we enioy and beseech thy mercifull goodnesse st●il they may continue But here also alacke what should we say So many enemies we haue that enuie at this rest and tranquilitie and doe what they can to disturbe it They which be friends and louers of the bishop of Rome although they eate the fat of the land and haue the best preferments and offices and liue most at ease and alle nothing yet are they not therewith content They grudge they mutter and murmure they conspire and take on against vs. It fretteth them that we liue by them or with them and cannot abide that we should draw the bare breathing of the aire when they haue all the most libertie of the land And albeit thy singular goodnesse hath giuen them a King so calme so patient so mercifull more like a naturall father than a Prince to gouerne ouer them such as neither they nor their ancestors euer read of in the stories of this land before yet all this will not calme them their vnquiet spirit is not yet content they repine and rebell and needes would haue with the frogs of Esope a Cicema an Italian stranger the Bishop of Rome to play Rex ouer them and care not if all the world were set on fire so they with their Italian Lord might raigne alone So fond are we Englishmen of strange forraine things so vnaturall to our selues so greedie of newfangled nouelties neuer contented with any state long to continue be it neuer so good and furthermore so cruell one to another that we thinke our life vnquiet vnlesse it be seasoned with the blood of other For that is their hope that is their golden day their day of Iubiley which they thirst for so much not to haue the Lord to come in the clouds but to haue our bloud and to spill our liues That that is it which they would haue and long since would haue had their wils vpon vs had not thy gratious pittie and mercie raised vp to vs this our mercifull King thy seruant Iames somewhat to stay their furie For whom as me most condignly giue thee most heartie thankes so likewise we beseech thy heauenly Maiestie that as thou hast giuen him vnto vs and hast from many daungers preserued him to the comfort of thy seruants so now in his royall estate he may continually be preserued not onely from their hands but from all malignant deuises wrought attempted or conceiued of the enemies both ghostly and bodily against him In this his gouernment be his gouernour we beseech thee So shall his Maiestie well gouerne vs if first he be gouerned by thee Multiplie his raigne with many daies and his yeares with much felicitie with aboundance of peace and life ghostly that he with his Braunthes may flourish in this land vntill the consummation of the world And because no gouernment can long stand without good counsell neither can any counsell be good except it be prospered by thee blesse therefore we beseech thee both his maiestie and his honourable counsell that both they rightly may vnderstand what is to be done and he accordingly may accomplish that they doe counsell to thy glory and furtherance of thy Gospell and publicke wealth of this realme In generall giue to all the people and the whole state of this Realme such brotherly vnitie in knowledge of thy truth and such obedience to their superiours as they neither prouoke the scourge of God against them nor the Princessword to be drawne against his will out of the scabard of long sufferance where it hath beene long hid especially giue thy gospell long continuance amongst vs. And if our sinnes haue deserued the contrarie graunt we beseech thee with an earnest repentance of that which is past to ioine a heartie purpose of amendment to come FINIS LONDON Printed by Ed. All for Ed. White 1610.