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A67627	A box of spikenard: or A little manual of sacramental instruction and devotion especially, helpful to the people of God, at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper. With some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions. The third edition, by Thomas Walmestry, Dean of Worcester.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W881; ESTC R218419	28,612	228

safety and make them at length to know their own happiness and to acknowledg and embrace that fatherly care that thou hast taken of them that they may no more take thy Castle for a Prison nor the bounds of their safety for a restraint of their liberty vindicate ô Lord those two great trusts that thou hast established for the good of thy people in the world from those high presumptions and from that Sedition and Schisme whereby they have been violated so haniously in the world and in these Nations make the people sensible now at length both of the folly and iniquity of their rebellions and return them to obedience that they may be received to thy favour And open we beseech thee the bowels of thy compassion to our afflicted Soveraign that hath suffered so long under the cloud of our sins and his own miseries Remember O Lord our David and all his troubles remember all the holy Vows and resolutions of his soul for the establishment of thy truth and the advancement of thy worship remember his patience and humility under those great trials that thou hast been pleased to send upon him Remember his constancy in adhearance unto thy truth against all the temptations wherewith he hath been assaulted in that time of his distres remember O God the care that he hath taken of thy Church and of thy Gospel and of the spiritual concernments of thy peoples souls and how willing he hath been rather to undergo the continuance of his own trouble and afflictions than to purchase his release by betraying thy Truth by compliance with Romane superstition or permitting the corruption of the true Religion in this Nation remember him O Lord we beseech thee for good and cause thou his people to remember these things and the great offence that they have committed against him and the great obligations that are upon them toward him by thy Laws and the Laws and sacred Oaths of this Nation in point of recompence for those great injuries they have done and in point of thankfulness for all his love and tenderness toward them and his sufferings for them subdue the hearts of his enemies unto him increase the desires of his people after him And as thou hast brought him home out of his afflictions as Gold out of the fire pure and precious in thy sight and in the eyes of his people furnished and adorned with all those Royall endowments and christian graces that may make him a glorious Instrument of thy praise of the advancement of the Gospel and Kingdome of thy sonne of great good unto thy Church and of peace and happines unto these poor Nations That mercy and truth may meet together and righteousnes and peace may kisse each other That thy people may rejoyce under the shadow of his Government that he may be a nursing Father unto thy Church and people through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS The First Table A Prayer for incitement for affection to attend upon the Lord in the use of the Lords Supper folio 1. A Prayer for preparation to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper folio 20 A Prayer when the Bread and VVine is brought to the Table folio 68 Employment for Thoughts in the pauses of the Congregations folio 77 Between the Sermons end the Communion when the people that do not Communicate are going out folio 90 The judgment and practice of the antient Church concerning the frequent and constant use of the Lords Supper folio 93 The second Table A Clear and short Catechisme for those that are to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper folio 1 Prayers before the Sacrament to God the Father folio 21 To Christ Jesus folio 26 A prayer to the Holy Ghost folio 49 A prayer after the Sacrament folio 53 A prayer for Perseverance in grace and godlinsse after the receiving of the Lord Supper folio 63 A prayer of Intercession for the sick to be used by those that are with him or that come to visite him folio 80 A prayer to be used when we hear a Passing-Bell toll or have any other notice of a Soul ready to depart folio 113 A prayer for the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland proper for all times folio 122 A prayer for the restoring of our afflicted Soveraign folio 130 FINIS

that he may stand with joy and comfort before the Tribunal of thy Sonne Christ Jesus and receive the blessed sentence of everlasting life and salvation give him a saving sight and sense of his sinns that he may mourn for them from the bottom of his heart and offer unto thee the sacrifice of a broken and contrite spirit which thou O God wilt not despise grant him that godly sorrow that worketh Repentance unto salvation not to be repented of let nothing be so grievous unto him as that he hath sin'd against thee his mercifull and gracious God the God of his life and of his being and of all the blessings and comforts that ever he hath enjoyed The God that didest not spare thine own Sonne but gavest him up to dye for him enable him to confesse his sins unto thee that he may mouth for his sinns and finde pardon from thee affect him with a perfect hatred against sin that he may hate it above death hell it self Help him to loath himself for all those offences that he hath committed against thee make him vile in his own eyes that he may be dear precious in thy sight and give him a true love unto thy Lawes and Commandements that it may be the joy of his heart to do thy heavenly will in all things and let the sense and horrour of the corruptions of his nature and the wickednesse of his life not drive him from thee but let it drive him unto thee that he may fly for refuge into the bosome of that rich mercy that thou hast opened unto him in the Lord Jesus Christ Help him to reforme every thing that is amisse and to give himself up wholly unto thee to seek thy glory and to do thy heavenly will in all things purge and cleanse his soul from all evill thoughts ungodly affections distempered passions from all sinfull inclinations whatsoever and fill him full of holy thoughts of heavenly meditations devour affections and good inclinations toward thee his God wean him from the world and from all the vanities thereof and from all the sinfull pleasures of the flesh that he may set his affections wholly upon thee and upon things that are above where Christ Jesus sitteth at thy right hand seal unto him his pardon in the blood of thy Sonn by the inward testimony and grace of thy spirit let thy spirit of adoption cry Abba father in his heart strengthen his faith unto an holy and comfortable assurance of his interest in Christ crucified and in all thy mercies towards thy people in him make him to know that though he is a miserable sinner in himself yet the Death and Passion of thy Son hath satisfied thy Justice for all his iniquities and that though he hath no righteousnesse of his own to plead unto thee yet the righteousnesse of thy Son is his Justification in thy sight Oh Transcribe the promises of thy holy Gospel upon the Table of his heart that they may be unto him the sure evidence of his eternal inheritance in heaven Oh let the Mediation and Intercession of thy Sonne Christ Jesus at thy right hand prevaile with thee for all those mercies and graces and heavenly blessings that are needfull for him And let the sense of thy great mercies toward him and of thy great love unto him in the Lord Jesus his Saviour enflame his soul with an holy and fervent love unto thee that he may love thee with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his minde and with all his strength that he may love thee above his life and above his soul and that he may be willing to part with all that is dear unto him for thee that nothing may be dear unto him in respect of thee That he may love thee in all thy perfections in all thy mercies and all thy works in all thy dispensations in all thy corrections that thou art pleased to lay upon him Help him to discover thy tender mercy and Fatherly loving kindnesse unto his Soul shining forth unto him through all the clouds of that sickness and affliction that is or shall be upon him from thy hand and to taste thy sweetnesse in all the bitternesse of his trouble give him some comfortable relishes of those incomprehensible joyes and delights that are in thee that as the Hart panteth after the water-brooks so his soul may long and thirst and faint and languish after thee make him sick of love toward thee which is the only true health of his Soul Blessed God furnish thy servant with true Christian love charity to all thy people for thy sake Help him to forgive al that have wronged him to love his enemies to blesse them that curse him to do good to them that hate him to pray for them that despightfully use him and persecute him Give him reconciled affections to all with whom he hath had any difference make him desirous to do good unto all and as much as in him lyeth to live peaceably with all men Direct him and incline him readily willingly to seek reconciliation and to make satisfaction in case he hath done wrong or given any just cause of offence unto any Help him to settle his estate according to the rules of prudence righteousnes and charity to shew mercy to the poor as thou enablest him and to order all his affairs with discretion Bind him up in the Communion of thy Church and in the fellowship of a spiritual love and of a heavenly life with thy people give him tender affections towards thy Church and to those that are thine in faith and holinesse that he may be known to be thy disciple by his love unto thy people Give him patience to submit unto thy chastisements that he may bear them with a christian minde make him with a child like affection to accept of thy correction and to kiss every rod wherewith thou smitest him for his good give him an heart wholy resigned up unto to thy heavenly pleasure that he may refer himself entirely unto thee to choose for him and to deal with him as thou knowest to be most expedient that he may entrust thee as his merciful father reconciled to him in Christ and as the alwise and all sufficient God with his life and soul and all his happiness and with all his relations and concernments And deal with him in all things tenderly and graciously according to those bowells of compassion that thou bearest to thy people Be thou health unto him in all his sicknesse strength unto him in all his weaknesse comfort unto him in all his distresse life unto him in death it self stand by him in all temptations and trials to keep him from fainting and to give him the victory in Christ Jesus that he may obtain the Crown of thy heavenly glory Binde up Satan and all his spiritual enemies that they may not be able to hurt him make thou all his bed in his sicknesse and