the greatnesse of thine excellencie confounding all those that are implacable enemies to thine elect we the people of this land who have at this day tasted and seene how gracious thou art in saving us by so great a deliverance as the like was never heard of since man dwelt upon the faâ—e of the earth doe with all humble and hearty acknowledgement prayse and blesseâ— thy glorious name for that admirable and strange deliverance which thou graciously vouchsafedst to our King Prince Nobles and the whole body of this Kingdome and state assembled together in the high-court of Parliament How great a cause have wee to praise thee day by day and to blesse thy name for ever ever who hast given us such deliverance as this which if ever we forget let our tongues cleave to the roofe of our mouth Doubtlesse unto God the Lord belong the issues from death it was thou that saidst hither to shall yee goe and no further here shall the proud waves of your hellish attempts stop themselves O yee popish conspiratours your mischiefe shall returne upon your owne head and your violent dealing shall come downe upon your owne pate and all that see it shall say this hath God done for they shall perceive it was thy worke Blessed be thy name O Lord who hast not given us as a prey unto their teeth that kept the proud waters from going over our soule and deliveredst us from so great a death thou hast broken the jaw-bone of those ravening Lyons and hast plucked us as a prey out of their teeth our soule is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are delivered Not unto us O Lord not to us but to thy name be the praise for ever given that thus savedst thy people with an outstretched hand and watchedst betwixt our enemies and us they thought to have cut off head and tayle branch and rush in one day to have swallowed us up alive as the grave and whole as those that goe downe into the pit but themselves are salne into the pit which they digged for us Righteous art thou O Lord God of recompences just and true are thy judgements who maintainedst our right and our cause and gavest not the soule of thy turtle into their hands but gavest them blood to drinke for they were worthy Blessed be thy name who redeemedst our life from destruction and thus crownest us with loving kindnesse thou satest in heaven and laughedst them to scorne thou Lord hadst them in derision and though they cursed yet thou didst blesse us yea thou didst curse them and didst blow upon them in the fire of thy wrath and dashedst them in pieces like a Potters vessell They digged deepe to hide their counsell from thee but the darkenesse â—ideth not from thee thou broughtest to light their workes of darkenesse thou causedst their own tongus to maâ—e them to fall thus when thou pleasest to worke for thy Church a bird of the aire shall carry the voyce and that which hath wings shall discover the matter and in the thing wherein they deale proudly thou wilt bee above them They tooke craftie counsell against thy Saints and were mad against thy people and sworne together against us and had their mischievous device not beene defeated by thee our land had beene as Sodome our people as Gomorrah a desolation our Cities Golgotha our fields Aceldama Cursed bee their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruell but blessed bee thou O Lord who savedst us by a great deliverance and gavest us not over to the will of our enemies into the hands of bruitish men and skilfull to dust oy more fierce then the Evening Woulues bloody and breathing out cruelty This was none other but the finger of God this was thy doing O Lord and it is marvellous in our eyes this is the day which thou hast mâ—de to be unto us a good day a day of blessings and prayses we will rejoyce and be glad in it yea and the children which are yet unborne shall arise and for it praise thy name and tell it also unto their children that even to perpetuall generations we all may remember this day as the Iewes did their feast of Purim and keepe it throughout every generation every Family every Province and every Citie that it may not faile from among the people of this land nor the memoriall of it perish from our seed Still confound all their devilish practises blast their purposes infatuate their policies as many as have evill will to Zion Let the ravens of the valies picke out those eyes and the young Eagles eate them as many as rejoyce not to see thy Gospell flourish nor thy Saints prosper nor the welfare of this state and Church all their dayes So let all thine enemies perish O Lord but let them that love thee bee as the Sunne when hee goeth forth in his might Amen Deut. 4. 7. What nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord the shield of thy helpe and who is the sword of thy excellencie and thine enemies shall be found lyars unto thee A Praxis upon the Holy Oyle shewing the Vse of the Scripture Phrases In Praying meditating writing Letters exhorting comforting reproving c. yea in any Christian dutie on any occasion to be performed For Example Wouldst thou in the time of dearth and famine insert a seasonable petition or two into thy prayers that God would please to provide for thee thy family and the poore c. to remove this judgement and send plenty Turne then to the Heads Famine Poore Plenty provide c. Let me if thou wilt spell thee out this lesson and shew thee the way-thus then O Lord the God of the Spirits Scripture Numb 27. 16. Head GOD of all flesh who givest to the beast Scripture Psal 247 9 his food and to the young ravens which cry the God which Scripture Gen. 48. 15. hast fed us all our life long unto this day and hast said thou wilt never Scripture Heb. 13. 5. leave us nor forsake us Give us this day Scripture Math. 6. 11. Head Compe ∣ tencie our daily bread feed us with food Scripture Fro. 30 8. convenient for us The eyes of all wait Scripture Psal 145. 15 -16. Head Provide upon thee and thou givest them their meate in due season thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing Look Scripture Deut. 26. 15. downe now from thy holy habitation from heaven and Head Famine kill not the assembly Scripture Exod. 16. 3. of thy people with hunger Thou hast Scripture Amos 4. 6. given us cleannesse of teeth in all our Cities and want of bread in all our palaces Scripture Hos 2. 9. thou hast
the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith For REPENTANCE Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for O that all the night I could make my bed to swim that I could water my couch with my teares that I might repent in sacke-cloth and ashes and grant us repentance unto life Thou hast in love to our soules vouchsafed unto us space and time to repent in O that thou wouldst also give us grace to repent O that there were such an heart in us that wee might repent and recover our selues out of the snare of the Devill who have beene hither to taken captive by him at his will Doe thou melt our stonie hearts into godly sorow which worketh repentance unto salvation not to bee repented of SANCTIFYING GRACE Sprinkle cleane water upon us that we may bee cleane from all our filthinesse and from all our a new heart also doe thou give us and a new spirit doe thou put within us and take away the stony heart out of the middest of us and give thou unto us an heart of flesh and put thy Spirit within us and cause thou us to walke in thy statutes and keepe thy judgements and doe them KNOWLEDGE That the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the father of glory would give unto us the spirit of wisedome and â—evelation in the knowledge of him The eyes of our understanding being inlightned that we may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints that the earth may bee filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea that all may know thee from the least to the greatest of us That Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith that we being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and heighth And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that wee might be filled with all the fulnesse of God That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death And because it is not good that the soule bee without knowledge incline our eares to wisedome and apply our hearts to understanding that we may cry after knowledge and lift up our voice for understanding that wee may understand the feare of the Lord and find the knowledge of God That wee may be enabled to cry unto thee Our God wee know thee Vid. Ier. 31. 33. 34. LOVE of GOD c. That wee may love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soule and with all our mind that because our sinnes which are many are forgiven us therefore we may love thee much That wee may love one another as Christ hath loved us that our love may abound yet more and more towards all men especially them that are of the houshold of faith That wee may love our enemies blesse them that curse us doe good unto them that hate us and pray for them that dispitefully use and persecute us ZEALE Make us to bee zealous of good workes that we may not rest contented with a luke-warme profession being neither cold nor hot but that our soule may breake for the longing that it hath to thy judgements at all times that the zeale of thine house may eate us up that so our zeale may provoke very many SINCERITIE Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts O therefore make us Israelites indeed in whom there is no guile That in simplicitie and godly purenesse wee may have our conversation in the world because thine eyes are upon all our wayes and thou understandest our thoughts a farre off and art acquainted with all our wayes for there is not a word in our tongue but loe O Lord thou knowest it altogether And thou wilt bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and wilt make manifest the counsels of the heart Though they dig into hell thence shall my hand take them though they climbe up to heaven thence will I bring them downe And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel I will search and take them out thence and though they be hid from my sight in the bottome of the Sea thence will I command the Serpent and hee shall bite them If thou sayest behold wee knew it not doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it and that keepeth thy soule doth not he know it and shall not he render to every man according to his workes God shall bring every worke into judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evill the Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart I beseech thee O Lord remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts Can any hide himselfe in secret places that I shall not see him sayeth the Lord doe not I fill heaven and earth sayeth the Lord. Shall not God know this for he knoweth the secrets of the heart The darknesse hideth not from thee but the night shineth as the day the darknesse and the light are both alike to thee The Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly thou even thou knowest the hearts of all the children of men Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom they have to doe BOLDNES the Profession of the GOSPEL That we may not be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that beleeveth Grant unto thy servants that with all boldnesse we may speak of and professe thy word Considering that if we shall bee ashamed of Our Lord Iesus Christ and of his words in this adulterous and sinfull generation the Sonne of man also will be ashamed of us when he commeth in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels PERSEVERANCE O that there were such an heart in us that we might feare thee and keepe thy commandements alway that it might be well with us and with our children after us for ever Give us our heart and our way that we may feare thee for ever and make thou an everlasting covenant with vs that thou wilt not turne away from us to doe us good and put
he may And thou who preservest the way of thy Saints hold up my goings in thy paths that my foote steps slip not Give thine Angels charge over us to keepe us in all our wayes that they may beare us up in their handes lest at any time we dash our foot O be thou with us and keepe us in all places whither we goe and bring us againe and leave us not untill thou hast done that which thou hast spoken to us of O that thou wouldst blesse mee indeed and enlarge my coast and that thine hand might bee with me and that thou wouldest keepe me from evill that it may not grieve me Prosper now I pray thee thy servant this day and grant him mercy in the sight of the man and let the beauty of the Lord our God bee upon us and establish thou the worke of our hands upon us yea the worke of our hands establish thou it We know not what to doe but our eyes are upon thee thou also must worke all our workes in us It is in vaine for us to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrowes O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himselfe it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps neither is hee that planteth any thing neither hee that watereth but God that giveth the increase Deliverance from Evill 1. Of SINNE Let not sinne raigne in our mortall bodies that wee should obey it in the lusts thereof neither suffer us to yeeld our members as instruments of unrighteousnesse unto sinne but unto God as those that are aliue from the deast and our members as instruments of righteousnesse unto God looking diligently lest any man faile of the grace of God lest any root of bitternesse springing up trouble us and thereby we be deluded that being now made free from sinne and become the servants of God wee may have our fruit unto holinesse and the end everlasting life But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing mee into captivity to the law of Sinne which is in my members O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death Cleanse thou mee from secret faults Keepe backe thy servant also from presumptuous sinnes let them not have dominion over me then shall I bee upright and I shall be innocent from the great transgression Subdue the pride of our nature cast downe every imagination and every high thing that exalteth it selfe against thee and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ Let not my heart be haughty nor my eyes lofty neither suffer me to exercise my selfe in great matters or in things too high for me but behave and quiet my selfe as a child that is weaned by his mother Order my steps in thy word and let none inâ—quity have donion over me make me also to be upright before thee and to keepe my selfe from mine inâ—quity Let us lay aside every weight and the sinne that doth so easily beset us that we may run with patience the race that is set before us that we may not love the world nor the things in the world because all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but of the world that denying ungodlines and worldly lusts wee may live soberly righteously and godly in this present world That we may walke circumspectly not as fooles but as wise giving none occasion to the adversary to speake reproachfully Mortifying our members which are on the earth fornication uncleannesse the inordinate affection evill concupiscence and covetousnesse which is idolatry Putting off all these anger wrath malice blasphemie filthy communication That wee may resist unto blood striving against sinne taking heed lest there bee in any of us an evill heart of unbeliefe in departing from the living God taking heed to our selves lest at any time our hearts bee over-charged with suffering and drunkennesse and cares of this life That wee may bee sober and vigilant because our adversary the devill as a roaring Lyon walketh about seeking whom hee may devoure whom that wee may resist stedfast in the faith let us take unto us the whole armour of God that we may bee able to stand against all his wiles being strong in the Lord and in the power of his might 2. PVNISHMENT Let no evill befall us neither let any plague come nigh our dwelling Send from heaven and save mee from the reproach of him that would swallow me up My soule is among Lyons and I lye even among them that are set on fire even the sonnes of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes and their tongue a sharpe sword Plead my cause O Lord with them that strive with me fight thou against them that fight against me Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weake O Lord heale me for my bones are vexed My soule also is sore vexed c. Returne O Lord deliver my soule O save me for thy mercies sake For in death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thankes I am weary with my groaning all the night make I my bed to swimme I water my couch with my teares Mine eye is consumed because of griefe it waxeth old because of all mine enemies Turne thee unto mee and have mercie upon me for I am desolate and afflicted The troubles of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my distresses Looke upon mine affliction and my paine and forgive all my sinnes O my Father if it be possible let this affliction passe from me neverthelesse not as I will but as thou wilt Lord make mee to know mine end and the measure of my dayes what it is that I may know how fraile I am Behold thou hast made my dayes as an hand-breadth and mine age is as nothing before thee verely every man at his best state is altogether vanity So teach us to number our dayes that wee may apply our hearts unto wisedome The HOLY CATHOLIKE CHVRCH of IESVS CHRIST Preserve that little flocke to whom thou hast promised and reserved the Kingdome Be unto it a wall of fire round about Let thy delight be to Mount Sion grave her on the palmes of thy hands let her walls bee continually before thee Let her builders make haste and cause her destroyers and such as would lay her wast to depart from her Feed them that oppresse her with their owne flesh and make them drunken with their owne blood as with sweet wine Looke downe from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holinesse
thy holy spirit from mee make mee one with Christ my head flesh of his flesh bone of his bone make mee one with the mysticall body of thine Elect that I may have my part in the prayers of the Church in the Communion of Saints here on earth in the kingdome of grace and may enjoy thee and them face to face and sit downe and eat and drinke with thee in thy kingdome of glory Amen For the Sacrament of Baptisme O Lord our God the great the mighty and the terrible God who keepest covenant and mercy with all them that feare thy name and trust upon thee even to a thousand generations thou hast promised to bee our God and the God of our seed to enter into covenant with us that wee should bee thine O Lord I come to thy throne of grace at this time to lay claime to my interest in that new covenant sealed unto thy Church in the blood of Iesus that thou wouldst performe the same unto mee and mine also hast not thou said thou wilt circumcise mine heart and the heart of my seed to love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soule that thou wilt put thy Law in our inward parts and write it in our hearts and that thou wilt bee our God and wee shall bee thy people that thou wilt forgive our injquity and wilt remember our sinne no more O Lord hast thou said it and wilt not thou also doe it By faith I plead my interest thereunto not for my selfe alone but for mine also with whom I beseech thee to make an everlasting covenant of life and peace that being baptized into Iesus Christ they may bee sanctified and cleansed with the washing of water by the word O Lord wee are all borne the children of wrath and there is no way for us to escape the damnation of hell except wee bee borne againe of water and of the Spirit O Lord doe thou sprinkle cleane water upon us wash away the filth of Zion and purge the blood of Ierusalem from the midst thereof Baptize us with the Holy Ghost that having our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience and our bodies washed with pure water wee may bee new creatures fit to bee an habitation of God through the spirit O blessed be thy goodnesse for ever which hast given us this seale of thy rich promise this is that Arke in and through which thou savest thine Elect thou dalliest not with us herein it is no idle ceremonie thou art present in thy own ordinance to fulfill that which thou hast promised O wash our soules with the baptisme of Repentance as thou doest our bodies with the outward element of water Let the vertue of Christs death kill sinne in us for how shall wee that are buried with Christ by baptisme and thereby dead to sinne live yet therein Doe not wee herein vow to forsake the Devill the Pomps and vanities of this wicked world and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh and shal we break our vow transgresse the covenant O let this be far from us teach us therefore to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts deliver us from every evill worke that we may serve the living God Sprinkle cleane water upon us that we may bee cleane from our naturall filthinesse and from all our uncleannesses Wash us O wash us throughly from our iniquities and cleanse us from our sinnes Make our hearts to be stedfast in thy love and never to forget this covenant of our God thy mercie doe thou keepe for us and ours for evermore and let thy covenant stand fast with us and bee established for ever as the Moone and as a faithfull witnesse in heaven And as thou hast thus brought us into the bond of the covenant so let us never depart from thee Bee thou unto us a God and let us be thy people for evermore even till thou bringest us unto Mount Sion and to the Citie of the living God the heavenly Ierusalem and to an inumerable company of Angels to the generall assembly and Church of the first borne which are written in heaven and to God the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Iesus the Mediatour of the new covenant and to the bloud of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel Make me to be thine my self be thou my Father and make me to be thy Sonne for if the first fruit be holy the lumpe also shall be holy and if the roote be holy so also shall the branches bee This mercie I beg of thee in his name merits and mediation out of whose pierced side issued forth water and bloud for the sanctifying and justifying of thine Elect. To whom with thee and the Holy Spirit be all glory service thanksgiving and dominion through all the Churches of the Saints for ever Amen For Regeneration Sanctification and grace to serve God O Lord thou God of truth who hast sworne in thy faithfulnesse that as thou livest thou hast no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that hee should turne from his way and live and therefore commandest thy people saying Turne ye turne ye from your evill wayes for why will ye dye O house of Israel and hast enjoyned that I should wash me and make me cleane put away the evill of my doings from before thine eyes promising moreover that though my sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as Snow though they bee red like crimson they shall be as wooll I that am a wicked and miserable caitiffe a sinner before the Lord exceedingly even as the men of Sodome that have done abominable workes and denied the God that is above wilfully sinning after I had received the knowledge of the truth and treading under foote the Sonne of God counting the bloud of the covenant wherewith I was sanctified an unholy thing and having done deâ—piâ—e to the spirit of grace O Lord even out of the deepes doe I call unto thee for helpe yea out of the belly of hell doe I earnestly cry for thy mercie O cast not out my prayer Though mine iniquities be more than the haires of my head my transgressions heavier than the sand yet is there forgivenesse with thee and although my sinnes have reached up to heaven yet thy mercie is above the heavens mine are at the most but the sinnes of a man but thine at the least are the mercies of an infinite God yea thou hast the relenting bowells of a most tender Father O spread the robe of thy Sonnes righteousnesse over me that so thou mayest not behold my nakednesse cloath me with the garments of his salvation say unto my soule Live cause breath to enter into my dry bones lay sinewes upon them and bring flesh upon them and cover them with skinne that I may know that thou art the Lord. And albeit I be dead in trespasses and sinnes yet open my grave and cause me
to come Amen A Prayer for a Trades-man Merchant c. O Lord the righteous God that triest the reines and the heart thou lovest truth in the inward parts and hast commanded all those that call upon thy name to depart from iniquity and to put away lying speaking the truth from his heart every man unto his neighbour not using false weights deceitfull ballances or unjust measures and wouldest that no man should goe beyond and defraud his brother in any matter because that the Lord is the avenger of all such O Lord the heart of man is deceitfull above all things and desperately wicked and in nothing more discovers it selfe than in the gaine of unrighteousnesse The love of money is the roote of all evill which while some have coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrowes Thus in buying and selling and trading with each other so they may lade themselves with thicke clay they care not to load their consciences with heavie Sinne. Thus it often is as with the buyer so with the seller 'T is naught 't is naught saith the buyer but when he is gone his way he boasteth and how many severall tricks of deceit and sleights there are practised by the cunning craftinesse of men that lye in waite to deceive which the false and dissembling heart of man is guilty of thou onely knowest who searchest the heart and tryest the reines and wilt one day bring to light the hidden things of dishonesty and darknesse so that as a naile sticketh fast betweene the joyning of stones so doth Sinne sticke close betweene buying and selling O Lord what shall it profit me to win the whole world and to lose mine owne soule could I rejoyce because my wealth was great or because my hand had gotten much If I should get my house full of silver and gold heaping up silver as dust and fine gold as the mire in the streets or prepare rayment as the clay being filled with all precious and pleasant riches yet thou that hatest false ballances and the bag of deceitfull weights canst blow upon all my substance that it shall melt away by thy blast it would perish a fire not blowne should consume it suddenly thou couldst make my riches to take them wings and fly away as an Eagle towards heaven to vanish as a dreame and not bee found or chased away as a vision of the night And thou hast in thy assured mee that hee that getteth riches and not by right shall leave them in the midst of his dayes and at his end shall bee a foole and howsoever bread of deceit may bee sweet to a man yet afterwards his mouth shall bee filled with gravell O let mee never be given over to that reprobate mind supposing that gaine iâ— godlinesse Let mee not grind the face of my brother or pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poore making the Ephah small and the shekell great and falsifying the ballances by deceit Never let me bee so greedy of gaine that in the seeking thereof I should enlarge my desire as hell or as death that cannot be satisfied O make me to hate and take heed of guile Let not my soule bee poysoned with the mammon of unrighteousnesse that I should by lying and fraud obtrude bad wares on the men I trade withall for hereby I should take the name of my God in vaine and cause thy Gospell to bee evill spoken of Wicked ballances and the bag of deceitfull weights are an abomination unto thee and much better will a dry morsell be or a dinner of greene herbes gotten by honest dealing then a stalled Oxe by coozening and deceit Godlinesse with contentment is great gaine but they that will bee rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drowne men in destruction and perdition O Lord faith and a good conscience are speciall jewels a precious treasure Let not mee make shipwracke of them for every trifle how ever prophane and godlesse men may disesteeme them they are not to bee valued with the gold of Ophir with the precious Onyx or the Saphire Let mee ever remember that golden rule to doe unto other men as I would they should doe unto me And if by my industry thou doest please to blesse my estate that my riches doe encrease O let me not set my heart upon them making gold my hope or saying to fine gold thou art my confidence or if I shall wax poore and fall into decay through crosses and losses by thy hand of providence and not by mine owne negligence sloth or ill husbandry yet make mee to learne in whatsoever state I am therewith to bee content and may know both how to be abased and how to abound to be full and to bee hungry which grace I beseech thee to grant me for Christ Iesus sake Amen A Servants Prayer MOst holy and great God thou hast commanded servants to be obedient to them which are their masters according to the flesh with feare and trembling in singlenesse of heart as unto Christ not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart Therefore as thy good hand of providence hath placed mee in this condition so I beseech thee give me thy grace that with good will I may doe service as to the Lord and not unto men knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth the same shall hee receive of the Lord whether he be bond or free O teach me therefore first to serve and to feare thee for thy service is perfect freedome thus being the Lords free man I shall no more be a Servant but a Sonne and heire of God through Christ To this end make thy face to shine upon thy servant be thou with me in all that I doe and let the beauty of the Lord my God be upon mee and establish thou the worke of my hands upon me that thy blessing may be upon all that my master hath in the house and in the field make thou a hedge about him and about all that he hath on every side and blesse thou the worke of his hands that his substance may be encreased in the Land And as thou blessedst Laban for Iacobs sake Potiphar for Iosephs sake Obed Edom for the Arkes sake Ahab for Obadiahs sake so also I beseech thee to blesse me and all the things that are under my hand cause thy blessing to rest in my masters house prevent him daily with blessings of goodnesse that he may learne by experience that thou Lord hast blessed him since my comming O make mee a faithfull and a wise servant as Eliezer unto Abraham that if my master commit his goods into my hand and make me ruler over his houshold to appoint them their worke to give them their meate in due season I may with all my power serve him therein not eating the bread of
taken away thy corne in the time thereof Scripture Ezek. 5. 16. and hast sent upon us the evill arrowes of Famine O Lord the Land Scripture Hos 4. 8. Head Satisfie mourneth and every one that dwelleth therein doth languish they that were full have hired Scripture 1 Sam. 2. 5. out themselves for bread and yet Scripture Eccles 6. 7. the appetite is not filled Our bread formerly Scripture Gen. 49. 20. Head Plentie hath bene fat and we have enjoyed royall dainties the Lord our God Scripture Deut. 7. 2. hath beene with us and we have lacked nothing we have Scripture 8. 9. Head Abound lived in a Land wherein wee have eaten bread without scarsenesse in Scripture Iudg 18. 10 a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth But now for Scripture 2 King 8. 1. our sinnes thou hast called for a Famine Head Famine and it is also come Scripture Psal 105. 16. and thou hast broken the whole staffe of bread such as Scripture Iob 20. 22. have hither to beene in the fulnesse of sufficiencie are likely now to bee in straits some that Scripture 1 Sam. 25. 36. Head Feast have held feasts in their houses like the feasts of a King are hardly bestead Scripture Isai 8. 21. Scripture Iudg. 19 5. hungry would now comfort their heart with a morsel Head Eat of bread Many Scripture Deut. 15 8. that have opened their hand wide unto their brethren distributing to the Scripture Rom. 12. 13. Head Liberall necessitie of the Saints are now Scripture Lev. 25. 35. Head Almes themselves waxen poore and falne into decay and are Scripture Iam. 2. 15. Head Poore deâ—titute of daily food Lord open unto Scripture Deut. 28. 12 us thy good treasure and let not Scripture Gen. 41. 30. Head Plentie the Famine consume the land minister Scripture 2 Cor. 9. 10. bread for our food Head Feed and fill the hungry Scripture Luk. 1. 53 soule of thy people with good things that there may bee Scripture Psal 144. 11. no complaining in our streets Thou hast promised thou wilt abundantly Scripture Psa 132. 15 blesse our provision and wilt satisfie the poore with bread Open now unto us the windowes Scripture Mal. 3. 10. Head Plenty of heaven and poure us out a blessing that our Scripture Psal 144. 13. garners may be full affording all manner of store with Scripture Gen. 27. 37. Head Abound corne also and wine doe thou susteine Scripture Psal 104. 15. us and with bread which strengthens mans heart Stirre Scripture Ezra 1. 1. Head Perswade up the spirit bow Scripture 2 Sam 19. 14. Scripture 2 Kin. 15. 20 the hearts of the mighty men of Head Rich. wealth that have Scripture Pro. 28. 19. plenty of bread Head Abound whose portion is Scripture Hab 1. 16. fat and their meat plenteous to remember the poore Head Almes to draw out their Scripture Isai 58. 10. soule to the hungry and satisfie the afflicted soule not Scripture Iob 31. 17. eating their morsell alone but sending Scripture Nehe. 8. 10 portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared and Scripture Esth 9. 22. gifts to the poore O make them put Scripture Col. 3. 12. on the bowells of mercy being kind Head Compassi ∣ on to their brethren Scripture Eph. 4. 32. and tender hearted rich in good Scripture 1 Tim. 6. 18. workes ready to distribute willing to communicate Scripture Deut. 15. 7. not hardening their heart nor shutting their hand from their poore brethren that wee may all eate in plenty Scripture Ioel 2. 26. and bee satisfied and praise the name of the Lord our God that hath dealt wonderously with us giving us Scripture 1 Tim 6. 17. richly all things to enjoy Amen In the time of Drought thou mayest thus poure out thy soule to God in prayer O Lord thou art the father of Scripture Iob. 38. 28. the raine thou hast Head Raine begotten the drops Scripture Deut. 28. 12. of dew Wee beseâ—ch thee to open now unto us thy good treasure the heaven to give us raine unto our land in his season because Scripture Ier. 14. 4. the ground is Head Drought chapt the land perisheth and is burnt Scripture 9. 12. Head Drie up like a wildernesse In our wants Scripture Psal 68. 9. heretofore thou O God didst send a plentifull Raine whereby thou didst confirme thine inheritance when it was weary but now thou stayest Scripture Iob. 38. 37. the bottles of heaven the showers Head Clouds Scripture Ier. 3. 3. are with-holden from us and there hath beene no latter raine Thus Scripture Lev. 26. 19. for our sinnes thou hast made our heaven as iron and our earth as brasse and hast commanded the Scripture Isai 5. 6. clouds that they rain no raine upon us How doe the Scripture Ioel 1. 18. beasts mourne and the heards of cattell Head Drought are perplexed because they have no pasture How Scripture Ier. 12. 4. doth the land mourn and the herbes of every field wither Command now therfore Scripture Psal 78. 23. O Lord the clouds from above and open the doores of heaven and water Scripture Psa 65. 10. Head Heaven the ridges of the earth abundantly settle the furrowes thereof make it soft with showres Scripture 104. 14. cause the grasse to grow for the cattell and herbe for the service of man that thou mayest bring forth food out of the earth Drop Head Raine downe then yee heavens from above and let the skies Scripture Eccles 11. 8. empty themselves upon the earth Lord why bindest Scripture Iob 26. 8. thou up the waters in thy thick clouds and the cloud is not rent under them O cause the showre Scripture Eze. 34. 26. to come downe in his season let there be showres of blessing that the earth Scripture Iam. 5. 18. may bring forth her fruit that we may Scripture Ier. 5 24. feare thee the Lord our God that givest us raine both the former and the latter in his season Amen Dost thou goe to visit some sicke friend with whom thou shalt happily be desired to pray and wouldst thou bee able to speake a word in season to him Run over with thine eye some of these heads Pardon Sinne Sicke Die Death Heaven c. and some choyse phrases of more speciall note and use will offer themselves which thou occasionally maist turne into Petitions or make matter of comfortable meditation and discourse Yea suppose thou thy selfe wert falne sicke of the sicknesse wherof thou maist die having received the sentence of death in thy selfe and that some friend as Isaiah to King Hezekiah should advise thee to set thine house and heart in order for thou must dye and not live thou mightst weepe out with Hezekiah this comfortable meditation under these Heads Heaven Desire Glorified Death Grave Resurrection O Heaven the citie of our solemnities a quiet habitation a tabernacle Scripture Isai 33. 20. Head Heaven that shall not be taken downe not one of the stakes thereof shall ever
alway As fire consume and burne But sure the Lord will not forget The poore mans griefe and paine The patient people never looke For helpe of God in vaine Therefore I pray thee be not farre From me at my great neede But rather sich thou art my strength To helpe me Lord make speed And from the sword Lord save my soule By thy might and thy power And keepe my soule thy darling deare From dogges that would devoure And from the Lions mouth that would Me all in sunder shiver And from the hornes of Vnicornes Lord safely me deliver Then shall I to my brethren all Thy Majesty record And in the Church shall praise the Name Of thee the living Lord. O Lord my God thou onely art The strength that saveth me My head in day of battell hath Bèene covered still by thee Oft they now Israel may say Me from my youth assail'd Oft they assail'd me from my youth Yet never they prevail'd The Lord himselfe is on my side I will not stand in doubt Nor feare what man can doe to me When God stands me about The Lord doth take my part with them That helpe to succour me Therefore I shall see my desire Vpon mine enemy The Lord is my defence and strength My joy my mirth my song He is become for me indeede A Saviour most strong The Lord is both my health and light Shall man make me dismaid Sith God doth give me strength and might Why should I be affraid While that my foes with all their strength Begin with me to brawle And thinke to eate me up at length Themselves have caught the fall Though they in campe against me lie My heart is not affraide In battaile pight if they will trie I trust in God for ayd Lord plead my cause against my foes Confound their force and might Fight on my part against all those That seeke with me to fight Lay hand upon the speare and shield Thy selfe in armour dresse Stand up for me and fight the field And helpe me from distresse Gird on thy sword and stop the way Mine enemies to withstand That thou unto my soule mayest say Loe I thy helpe at hand Confound them with rebuke and blame That seeke my soule to spill Let them turne backe and fly with shame That thinke to worke me ill When they thinke least and haue no care O Lord destroy them all Let them be trap't in their owne snare And in their mischiefe fall Awake arise nnd stirre abroad Defend me in my right Revenge my cause my Lord my God And aide me with thy might Let not their heart rejoyce and cry There there this geare goeth trim Nor give them cause to say on hie Wee have our will on him Heare me O Lord and that anon To helpe me make good speed Be thou my rocke and house of stone My fence in time of need Plucke thou my feete out of the snare Which they for me have laide Thou art my strength and all my care Is for thy might and aide Plucke thou my feete out of the mire From drowning doe me keepe From such as owe me wrath and ire And from the waters deepe Lest with the waves I should be drown'd And depth my soule devoure And that the pit should me confound And shut me in her power Have mercy Lord on me I pray For man would me devoure He fighteth with me day by day And troubleth me each houre Send aide and save me from my foes O Lord I pray to thee Defend and keepe me from all those That rise and strive with me O Lord preserve me from those men Whose doings are not good And set me sure and safe from them That thirst still after blood For loe they waite my soule to take They rage against me still Yea for no fault that I did make I never did them ill Have mercy Lord on me poore wretch Whose enemies still remaine Which from the gates of death are wont To raise me up againe Alas how long shall I yet live Before I see the houre I hat on my foes which me torment Thy vengeance thou wilt poure Arise O Lord O God in whom The poore mans hope doth rest Lift up thy hand forget not Lord The poore that be opprest What blasphemy is this to thee Lord dost thou not abhorre it To heare the wicked in their hearts Say tush thou ear'st not for it Loc dayly in reproachfull wise Mine enemies doe me scorne And they that doe against me rage Against me they have sworne Although they curse with spite yet thou Shalt blesse with loving voyce They shall arise and come to shame Thy servant shall rejoyce Let them be clothed all with shame That enemies are to me And with confusion as a cloake Eke covered let them be LOrd save me from the evill man And from the cruell wight And from all those which evill doe Imagine in their spirit Which make on me continuall warre Their tongues loe they have whet Like Serpents un derne ath their lips Is Adders poyson set They mocke the doeings of the poore To their reproach and shame Because they put their trust in God And call upon his name The drunkards which in wine delight It is their chiefe pastime To seeke which way to worke me spight Of me they sing and rime O God of Hosts defend and stay All those that trust in thee Let no man doubt or shrinke away For ought that chanceth me The wicked and the bloudy men O that thou wouldest slay Even those O God to whom depart Depart from me I say Even those of thee O Lord my God That speake full wickedly Those that are lifted up in vaine Being enemies to thee O Lord thou doest revenge all wrong That office longs to thee Sith vengeance to thee doth belong Declare that all may see Set forth thy selfe for thou of right The earth doest judge and guide Reward the proud and men of might According to their pride For they consent against the life Of righteous men and good And in their counsels they are rise To shed the guiltlesse blood And he shall cause their mischiefes all Themselves for to annoy And in their malice they shall fall Our God shall them destroy Let them sustaine rebuke and shame That seeke my soule to spill Drive backe my foes and them defame That wish and would me ill For their ill feates doe them descry That would deface my name Alwayes on me they raile and cry Fie on him fie for shame Confound them with rebuke and shame That joy when I doe mourne And pay hem home with spite and blame That bragge at me with scorne WHy are thou Lord so long from us In all these dangers deepe Why doth thine anger
kindle thus At thine owne pasture sheepe Lord call the people to thy thought Which have beene thine so long The which thou hast redeem'd and brought From bondage sore and strong Have minde therefore and thinke upon Remember it full well The pleasant place thy Mount Zion Where thou was wont to dwell Lift up thy foote and come in haste and all my soesdeface Which now at pleasure rob and waste Within thy holy place Rise Lord let be by thee maintain'd The cause that is thine owne Remember how that thou blasphem'd Art by the foolish one The voyee forget not of thy foes For the presumption hie Is more and more increast of those That hate thee spitefully Give ayde O Lord and us relieve From them that us disdaine The helpe that Hoasts of men can give It is but all in vaine Except the Lord had beene mine ayde Mine enemies to repell My soule and life had now beene layde Almost as low as hell When I did say my foote did slide I now am like to fall Thy goodnesse Lord did so provide To stay me up withall In Chariots some put confidence And some in horses trust But we remember God our Lord That keepeth promise just They fall downe flat but we doe rise And stand up stedfastly Now save and helpe us Lord and King On thee when we doe cry IN thy good-will deale geutly Lord To Sion and withall Grant that of thy Ierusalem Vprear'd may be the wall O Lord give thou thy people health And thou O Lord fulfill Thy promise made to Israel From out of Sion hill Thy people and thine heritage Lord blesse guide and preserve Increase them Lord and rule their hearts That they may never swerve The Lord will give his people power In vertue to increase The Lord will blesse his chosen flocke With everlasting peace Let them in thee have joy and wealth That seeke to thee alwayes That such as love thy saving health May say to God be praise God loves the Gates of Sion best His grace doth there abide He loves them more than all the rest Of Iacobs tents besides Though Basan be a fruitfull hill And in hight others passe Yet Sion Gods most holy hill Doth farre excell in grace From such as thee desire to know Let not thy grace depart Thy righteousnesse declare and shew To men of upright heart O Thou the Saviour of all them That put their trust in thee Declare thy strength on them that spurne Against thy Majesty Destroy them not at once O Lord Lest it from minde doe fall But vvith thy strength drive them abroad And so consume them all For their ill vvords and truthlesse tongues Confound them in their pride Their vvicked Oathes vvith lies wrongs Let all the vvorld deride And as the fire doth melt the vvaxe And vvinde blowes smoake away So in the presence of the Lord The vvicked shall decay Our God vvill vvound his enemies head And breake the hairy sealpe Of those that in their wickednesse Continually doe vvalke Lord turne their table to a snare To take themselves therein And vvhen they thinke full vvell to fare Then trap them in the gin The third head of Prayer is Thankesgiving TO sing the mercies of the Lord My tongue shall never spare And vvith my lips from age to age Thy truth I vvill declare The Heavens doe shew with joy and mirth Thy vvondrous vvorkes O Lord Thy Saints within thy Church on earth Thy Faith and Truth record O how great good hast thou in store Laid up full safe for them That feare and trust in thee therefore Before the sonnes of men Thou wilt them teach the vvay to life For all treasure and store Of perfect joy are in thy face And povver for evermore O Lord my God thy vvondrous deedes In greatnesse farre doe passe Thy favour tovvards us exceedes All things that ever vvas When I intend and doe devise Thy workes abroad to shovv To such â— reckoning they doe rise Thereof no end I know My soule from death thou doest defend And keep'st my feete vpright That I before thee may ascend With such as live in light COme forth and hearken here full soone All yee that feare the Lord What he for my poore soule hath done To you I vvill record Full oft I call to minde his grace This mouth to him doth cry And thou my tongue make speede apace To praise him by and by THe doctrine of his holy Word To Iacob he doth show His Statutes and his Iudgements he Gives Israel to knovv With every Nation hath he not So dealt nor they have knowne His secret judgements yee therefore Praise yee the Lord alone O Lord out of my mothers wombe I came by thy request Thou didst preserve me still in hope While I did sucke her brest I vvas committed from my birth With thee to have abode Since I vvas in my mothers wombe Thou hast beene e're my God FOr vvhy the eyes of God above Vpon the just are bent His eares likevvise doe heare the plaint Of the poore innocent What thou commandedst vvrought it vvas At once vvith present speede What thou doest vvill is brought to passe With full effect indeede Knovv that the Lord our God he is He did us make and keepe Not we our selves for wee are his Ovvne flocke and pasture sheepe The Lord of Hoasts doth take our part To us he hath an eye Our hope of health vvith all our heart On Iacobs God doth lie Thou openest thy plenteous hand And bounteously doest fill All things vvhatsoever doe live With gifts of thy good-will O praise the Lord Ierusalem Thy God O Sion praise For he the barres hath forged strong Wherewith thy Gates he stayes Thy children he hath blest in thee And in thy borders â—e Doth settle peace and vvith the floure Of wheate â—e filleth thee BVt Lord that man is happy sure Whom thou dost keepe in avve And through correction dost procure To teach him in thy Lavv. ALl praise to thee O Lord of Hoasts Both now and eke for aye Through skie and earth and all the coasts Amen Amen I say FINIS THis for an Essay I desired to shew on every head of Prayer that some place or other in the Psalmes might be made use of on severall occasions which a Christian hath to doe about There may be divers added but for peâ—â—â—ring this Booke I had added all those which I have lying by me thus digested but these may suffice to shew thee Christian Reader my meaning who mayst as thy neede requires supply what is now wanting in this Sing with the Spirit and sing with the understanding also Maister QVARLES on Ionah in the generall use of the STORY MAlâ—â—do rouze thy leaden spirit bestirre thee Hold up thy drousie head