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A16315	Certaine devout prayers of Mr. Bolton upon solemne occasions. Published by E. B. by M. Boltons owne coppy	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.; Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.	1638 (1638)	STC 3226; ESTC S119263	46,718	310

direct we beseech thee and sanctifie all our courses that for a few and evill daies in this vale of teares wee may so store our selves with spirituall comfort with a sound heart with a strong faith and a good conscience that we may stand firme and sure at the day of our visitation and when upon our deaths bed we shall bee set upon by the weakenesse of our owne flesh the terrors of death the fearefullnes of the grave and the firiest darts of Satan we may comfortably passe thorow them all in the name and power of thy Son and be receiv'd with joyfulnes triumph into those sacred mansions which he hath already made ready in Heaven for all those that truly love and feare thee In his blessed name we powre out our soules in thankfullnesse for all those many blessings and comforts which thou hast vouchsafed us both upon our soules and bodies both for this life and a better For our health wealth and liberty our peace plenty and prosperity our food apparell and preservation from our infancy to this very hower and for all the good meanes of all these For the free passage of thy glorious Gospell now so many yeares amongst us But amongst all other temporall blessings of our times let us never forget nor we nor all our posterity for ever how it pleased thee in our daies miraculously to magnifie the glory of thy mercy in our wonderfull deliverance from the most secret bloody and fiery plot of the Gun-powder Treason that great astonishment of men and Angels All these outward comforts both publicke and particular are excellent and pretious yet they are such as wee have common with the reprobates and those that shall never see thy face with comfort but after a short time spent in the miserable pleasures of this vaine world shall bee turn'd to hell and everlasting fire Wee therefore more especially magnifie thy great name for the more speciall pledges and tokens of thy infinite love for that it hath pleased thee to confirme and seale unto us by our effectuall calling and the earnest of thy good Spirit our Election to eternall life from all eternity our particular Redemption from the powers of hell by the death of thy Sonne and an undoubted assurance of the joyes of Heaven in the world to come Increase in us good LORD wee beseech thee daily more and more this blessed assurance which we infinitely esteeme more deare then tenne thousand worlds by making us to grow in repentance and faith and spirituall wisedome and framing us to the obedience of thy Sonne in all knowledge love and obedience Furthermore gracious Father wee humbly intreate thee with the bowels of thy tenderest compassions to be mercifull unto thy whole Church and every member thereof Fence it mightily wee pray thee with the Spirit of truth knowledge and zeale and constancy that in these worst and last daies it may make a strong resistance against the great maine floods of Popery Schisme profanesse and Atheisme Be gracious unto this sinnefull Kingdome and enter not into judgement with the horrible and crying sinnes and the many fearefull provocations thereof In the same looke downe with the speciall eye of providence and protection upon our dread Soveraigne JAMES by thy grace King of great Brittaine France and Ireland Defender of the truly Catholike faith and in all causes and over all persons next and immediatly under thy Sonne CHRIST JESVS in all his Dominions supreme Governour O LORD as thou hast enlarg'd his royall heart even as the sand which is on the sea-shore for understanding learning and wisedome so wee beseech thee to continue unto him a proportionable measure of holinesse zeale and sanctification for the execution of that great place wherin thou hast set him and the enlargement of thy Kingdome here on earth Settle his crowne fast upon his head that he may long and religiously raigne over us in despight of all his enemies both at home and abroad Vouchsafe all the graces of thy good Spirit unto his gracious Queene Plant the true feare of thy great Name in the Princely heart of his Sonne and let thy watchfull providence and thy loving mercies for ever rest upon all that royall family Inspire his Honourable Privie Counsell his Nobility Gentry and Magistracy with spirituall wisedome and heavenly understanding Leade them all into thy Sanctuary and teach them out of thy holy Word first and chiefly those things which concerne thy honour and glory the good of the people which depend upon them and lastly the comfort of their own soules at the dreadfull day of judgement when they shall give an account of their stewardships Enrich we pray thee with thy best graces all the Reverend Bishops and Ministers of this Land Endew them plentifully with knowledge zeale sincerity and discretion that by their faithfullnesse and conscionable discharge of their duties the many multitudes in this Land that lie in darknesse ignorance profanesse Popery and Schisme may be brought to the knowledge of thy truth into a holy obedience to thy heavenly Gospell to their owne everlasting salvation Blesse and be mercifull to both our Universities Oxford and Cambridge Comfort all thy distressed children wheresoever or howsoever afflicted whither with Pestilence Warre Famine banishment sicknesse poverty imprisonment disquietnesse of minde vexation of conscience want of spirituall comfort or what other crosse or calamity soever it pleaseth thee to exercise them with Give them in the meane time a sure faith in thy promises and inward comfort in thy blessed Spirit and in thy good time a happy deliverance whither by life or death as it shall be best for thy glory and the good of their owne soules Lastly gracious Father for this sacred businesse wee have now in hand wee humbly beseech thee to blesse and sanctifie unto us at this time the preaching and hearing of thy holy Word it is the ordinance of thy owne infinite wisedome it is the glorious instrument which thou hast appointed for the conversion and salvation of the soules of men But unto us miserable wretches it hath beene many times thorow the barrennesse of our hearts the secret and deceitfull corruptions of our nature much sleepinesse and drowsinesse but as water spilt on the ground and even the breath of thy Ministers scattered in the aire Forgive us deare Father all our former untowardnesse irreverence and unprofitablenes in these holy exercises and now at length before we goe downe into our graves into black and cruell habitations from whence we must never returne to praise thee upon earth let us feele thy divine finger working in us effectually at the preaching of thy Word Let us have the sence of thine Omnipotency in conquering our corruptions and temptations that we being thorowly sanctified both in our soules and bodies forsaking all our knowne sinnes and labouring with sincerity to please thee in all things may have our fruit in holinesse and the end everlasting life Heare us c. A Morning

brightnesse of thy Heavenly Kingdome and in this weake tabernacle of small continuance we may know the dwelling place which wee shall have for ever in the resurrection of the just Thou that hast the issues of death in thy hand I beseech thee in mercy set before mine eyes alwaies the remembrance of thy judgement seate and my last end whereby I may be daily stirred up to consider in what great danger I stand through the horrible punishments due unto my sins Set before us the shortnesse of our owne life the vanity of all things we enjoy the excellent waight of glory prepared for all those that love thee the plagues of the wicked that great account we must make at our death that great and terrible day that having these things in our sight wee may not put our hands to any iniquity O LORD at this time goe out with the Armies of thy Saints and that fight thy battells in the whole Christian world Pardon we pray thee and passe by all their and our sinnes Helpe us to repent to renew covenant with thee and to feare before thee that they may more cheerefully couragiously and successively defend their righteous cause But infatuate we beseech thee the counsells and strike faintnesse into the heart of al them that lift their hearts or swords against the kingdome of Jesus Christ. And now find out and call to account the blasphemies idolatries cruelties and insolencies of thine and our adversaries and all the blood of the Martyrs of JESVS CHRIST which they have spilt as water upon the ground And if they will not returne unto thee returne it now O LORD GOD of recompences into their bosomes in fury and in jealousie Make them like a wheele c. Psal. 83. 13. Thou hast promised ever to helpe thy people in the needfull time of trouble even now LORD is the season for thy succour And therefore we pray thee for JESVS CHRIST his sake to stirre up thy selfe like a man of warre against all those boisterous and railing Rabsakees that band and combine themselves to put out the glory of Israels or any of thine anointed And give us LORD in the meane time pittifull compassionate and fellow-feeling hearts over the wofull calamities and miseries of thy people in these parts that we may powre out our hearts more fervently unto thee and give thee no rest untill for thine owne names sake thou become glorious in giving deliverance and victory unto thy poore humble servants that trust in thee alone and call upon thy name O LORD of Hosts GOD of Israel which dwellest betweene the Cherubims thou art very GOD alone over all the kingdomes of the earth thou hast made the Heavens and the Earth Encline thine eares O LORD and heare Open thine eyes O LORD and see the blasphemies and bloody desolations which thine and our enemies have cruelly brought upon thine owne people O LORD put on the garments of thy just indignation for clothing O LORD tread downe our enemies in thy wrath and make them drunken in thine indignation and bring downe their strength to the earth O LORD we are all as an uncleane thing and all our righteousnesse as filthy rags and wee all do fade as a leafe and our iniquities like the winde have taken us away Rise up O LORD and let thine enemies be scattered and let them that hate thee flee before thee Returne O LORD to the many thousands of Israel Numb 10. 35. Let thy people eate up the Nations their enemies and bruise their bones and shoote them through with their arrowes Numb 24. 8. That in our songs of praise and solemne thankes giving hereafter thy whole Church may joyfully sing and say It was not our owne arme or our own sword O Lord God of Hoasts that did save us but thy right hand and thy holy arme and the light of thy countenance because thou didst favour them Psal. 44. 3. O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us deale with us according to thy Name for our rebellions are many we have sinned against thee O thou hope and holy one of Israel the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble why art thou as a stranger in the Land as one that passeth by to tarry for a night c. Ier. 14. 9. See Daniels Prayer Dan. 9. 4. c. O Lord God destroy not the people of thine inheritance O Lord our God thou art God of gods and Lord of lords a great God mighty and terrible which accepteth no persons nor taketh reward c. Deut. 10. 17. c. with all reverence and lowlinesse of spirit we acknowledge adore and onely rely upon thy greatnesse thy mighty hand and stretched out arme Deut. 11. 2. And finally we most humbly thanke thee for that it hath pleased thee to keepe us this day and all the daies and times of our lives beseeching thee that thou wouldest receive us this night into thy holy keeping that we may have quiet rest not of bodies alone but of our bodies also resting from all those things that are contrary to thy most holy will attending whilst thou raisest us up in the morning to doe all those things that thou hast appointed us Grant that we laying our bodies downe to rest may be thereby put in mind of our long rest of death that as we do now lay downe our bodies in bed so we may be thereby admonished that hereafter they shall bee laid downe in the grave to be consumed to dust earth and ashes from whence they were taken that we having this before our eyes may bee stirred up in mind warily to walke in this our pilgrimage not knowing when the time shall be of our departure but alwaies to be found ready with our lamps of pure faith clearely burning that we may be accepted to meere the Bridegroome when our Saviour shall call us to judgement at the last day LORD we deserve that thou shouldst leave us to the vilenesse of our owne hearts and to the corruptions we nourish in them and sith wee have so often neglected and abused those good meanes which thou hast ordained for our comfort and salvation wee even deserve that thou shouldest take them quite from us or turne them to be curses unto us we deserve that thou shouldest say to the ignorant be ignorant still to the filthy be filthy still to the malicious be malicious still c. till we have fild up the measure of our iniquiries so that at length thou mightest have a full stroke at our destruction c. The Preachers Prayer GRant that thy Word may bee delivered according to the true meaning of thy Word as it is left unto us by thy holy Prophets and Apostles that it may be divided with conscience wisdome and discretion with all plainenesse and evidence to the capacity of those that are most simple amongst us And blesse we beseech thee our conceptions and memories that we conceive a right use of those things that shall be delivered