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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65377	A weeks work: shewing the whole duty of a Chritian Laying down in seven particular heads for the practise of the seven days of the week, what prayer is, how to use it profitably, wherein is shewed the true nature, power, and effects of vocal and mental prayer; with advice and instructions (for such as be ignorant in prayer and spiritual duty) how to attain to a true spiritual, effectual, and proficient way of praying. Very useful and requisite to be read in societies and families. To which is added seven copper-plates, suitable to each days exercise.	G. V.	1668 (1668)	Wing W1250AB; ESTC R220908	22,326	107

or how dare I presume to come to thy presence my God and King of infinite Majesty and Glory for I am nothing but Dust and Ashes meat for worms and which is worse a wicked Sinner who have often offended thee and deserve thy wrath and indignation rather than any favour which makes me with fear and trembling now appear before thee Sect. 9 But because thou art Goodness it self and as well the God and Lord of Sinners as Just having all Power over both and art very desirous of the good and Salvation of all thy Subjects being infinitely mercifull and canst forgive more in an instant than I have done or ever can commit with an humble and submissive heart yea with shame and confusion I do come to thee Oh most merciful and great God of Glory being a grievous Sinner yet desirous to amend my Life and never more offend thy Divine Majesty Wherefore I humbly beseech thee not to cast me from thy presence but give me Audience my dear God and incline thine Ears and Heart my most gracious King unto my words and hear what I shall say for I will not despair but confide in thy mercy and goodness and do humbly beg of thee to grant me thy Grace that I may truly open my Heart and make the cause of my Soul known unto thee Sect. 10 These or the like words you may use and then read in some pious and divine Book possessing Reading your self of the quality of the business by Reading Sect. 11 Then will necessarily follow The second part of prayer being Meditation Meditation by which you do consider that Matter or Subject with all its circumstances and conveniences as how it was is or may be for your Spiritual good and profit what and how great a benefit it is to you or you may get thereby and what Obligation it doth cast upon you For the end for which we Meditate is to move the Will to some good Affection which once had Meditation or Discourse is needless and will rather hinder than profit the Soul which remaining in any pious Affection doth spend the time very profitably Sect. 12 But if you be not moved or the Affection governeth cold go on with your Meditation or Discourse thus O Lord how spightfully are they striving who shall abuse thee most and consider that when they rested a while they begin again as it were in your presence and what approbrious and injurious words they speak unto him laying heavy Lashes on every side and not so much as once to favour him or to take compassion on him The Meditation of his holy Passion is very great but I am sorry that so few have a feeling of it by reason they do not try how sweet our Saviour is to all that through Love do come to him Consider that our Saviour by his Suffering made satisfaction to his Heavenly Father for our sins and the great Torments that in Hell we were to suffer for them which is a great and special benefit that ought to move you to take compassion upon Him to hate Sins and to be very thankfull for his Love in suffering for you And consider your great Obligation to serve him ever after with more fidelity and sincerity procuring your Salvation with so great pain meerly of his goodness and love without any merit or desert of thine Sect. 13 This well considered and your Soul well possessed of this great Obligation she may say of her own feeling blessed mayst Soul 's own feeling thou be my God for all thy favours I do acknowledge and confess this to be so great that it doth oblige me for ever to thy Love and Service Oh Jesus how admirable how excessive great is thy Love to me Dust and Ashes the worst of Creatures the greatest of Sinners O Lord thy Goodness is incomprehensible and thy Mercy is truly far beyond all thy Works and thus Meditations with Reason is to move the Will to acknowledge God's benefits and to induce it to love and gratitude Sect. 14 For if you meditate of Sin and that thereby you offend God who might cast you into perpetual Torment yet did not what a benefit this is to bear God's forbearance with thee expecting thy repentance and conversion if the pains of Hell be considered how often have you deserved them by breaking the Laws of God yet this punishment was not inflicted then when you were in Sin and thereby the Slave of the Divel how many sweet inspirations and remorses of Conscience had you from God which by the benefit of his holy Sacrament brought you to Grace and freed you from the power of Satan which is no small favour now do not many thousands Rot in the filth of Sin and Sin and 't is feared will be Eternally damned Sect. 15 If you think of Death how often you might by it have been deprived of Life and time of Repentance when in Sin you might have perished in Body and Soul for ever which by God's goodness and mercy was God's goodness prevented though daily many others are suddenly Dead and God knows in what case If you consider the Joys of Heaven which you lost by Sin and see that it is recovered again and purchased for you with no less price than the precious Blood and Death of Christ our Saviour what a high Obligation doth it cast upon you of some requital of Love you see how all these and what else you can consider in Prayer do plainly appear to be great benefits of Almighty God to the knowledge and feeling understanding of which Meditation doth bring you and consequently to be thankfull to love and serve his Divine Majesty with great sincerity and fidelity I have written these Examples briefly to help you the better to meditate and know what to conclude upon out of what you do consider Sect. 16 The next part of Prayer that The third part of prayer being Thanksgiving follows is Thanksgiving for when you perceive by what you have Meditated that you received a benefit from God stands it not with reason you should acknowledge the favour but also give him thanks in the best words and expressions you are able or can make your thankfull mind known which may be thus done O Lord my God the true lover and most faithfull friend of my Soul when or how shall I be thankfull unto thee for all thy gracious favours and gifts and for this particular benefit bestowed and done unto me poor wretch wholly unworthy of thy Love Oh my dear Jesus how shall I requite this thy tender affection Oh how shall I serve thee or wherein can I please thee Oh how shall I praise thee being what I am Oh how shall I honour thee my God who hast so highly exprest thy love and desire of my Salvation in this great benefit Oh most loving Creator how near and dear to thy sweet Heart the Creature is Rest in this if you can looking on

often they do not attend to the end but hasten their Body to the place where their Mind was all Prayer time Sect. 4 Truly the light of Faith is very much darkned in these luke-warm The light of Faith darkned Christians are not they in a poor case What can they expect or hope for at the hour of Death from God whom in their Life they did so little respect and regard For though his Divine Majesty be mercifull yet He is also Just and when his Mercy is God just not excepted but abused his Justice will in due time inflict condigne punishment God's mercy is great who endureth with patience so many Years such wrongs and abuses as their grievous sins and doth not cast them suddenly into Hell-fire as He did the Angels of Heaven for one sin graciously expecting their Conversion and Repentance which they think not off putting all of untill they grow Old or fall Sick with a time enough to Repent as if time and repentance were in their power Death-bed repentance and at their disposal But what if they be short taken and the thread of their Life cut off by a sudden Death which doth daily happen to many What will become of them which they ought to consider Others for a moment wherein they might have made use of God's mercy when they lived and did not and gained the Joy of Heaven by Repentance which they neglected they must now endure without Remission the rigour of God's Justice and suffer the Torments of Hell-fire for all Eternity O dear Christian beware of this and repent whilst thou hast time not knowing but this very hour is Use present repentance the last of thy Life Sect. 5 There be others whose Devotion is but small and sometimes they have a confused memory of Confusion in devotion their Obligation to serve God and thence they fear his punishments VVhich maketh them sometime go to Prayer and to those things to which they are bound their Prayers are not many and in haste thinking that to say them is enough and that they have done well and a great matter too But surely they also Mistakes in Christians are mistaken for what honour have they done to God therein or what great profit to themselves that considered not for what nor to whom they Prayed whereas they mind not God all the time of Prayer but still mind when they should end to be gone away which is a gross abuse of Prayer Danger There are many of this sort whose case is dangerous enough and they are to be pitied instructed and admonished by their Ministers Sect. 6 Another sort of people I find that have a custom to go every Every day to Church Day to Church to Prayer which is very laudable but if they should truly examine themselves when all is done perhaps they would find that they were thinking of their worldly affairs most of the time and did scarce reflect upon such Prayers as was said being smoothly carried away with Man deceiv'd some thoughts which the Devil suggested according to their inclination or natural disposition wherein they take such content that they easily forget what in Prayer they are saying For he can fit every man's humour yet by reason their first Intention was good they are the more excusable because their Destruction Not intentional Impieties was not Intentional yet they cannot be excused for their negligence and dis-respect to God who is present and to whom they ought in Prayer to direct their Speech with great Humility and Reverence Others there are that have the Stint of prayer good custom of imposing upon themselves the Stint keeping off set times to Prayer and when they have performed their task they think they have done much but while they are at Prayer their mind runs more when they shall end their task than how to please or praise God Though this be a great abuse of Prayer yet it is of more importance than the other for they have an intention to go Intent of prayer to Prayer to serve God and to spend time to perform that task which they have obliged themselves to though afterwards they are carried away with vain thoughts Another good it hath that they are never quiet untill they have performed their Stint of Devotions which makes them mindfull of God when they are about business Sect. 7 But what shall I say of Men that seem to be of understanding and know much and can discourse of our Obligation to God when they are among those that speak of that matter yet are as careless of their duty to God as Wilfull carelesness others and perhaps more they seldome Pray at home and when they frequent the Churches they stand and gaze they come to see and be seen and often for company sake rather than to Pray as to attend this Nobleman or Too much used a custom that Lady whom they led by the hand more than for the love of God and many times to meet this or that Friend with whom they have some business on which their mind is more busied than on their Prayers But those young Gallants and Damsels are worst of all that prate and laugh even Derision in Prayer time taking notice of their Neighbour's attire and fashion of the Minister's behaviour and Doctrine c. They go to Church as if it were but a bare ceremony to serve God not minding that holy Action as they ought and they whose Sex requires most modesty in the Church where it ought to be most do shew but Levity and Vanity mixt with a small deal of Devotion yet there are many pious In short though these Gallants seem to be of some capacity more than others yet they so forget themselves and their duty to God forgot God that they may be without offence compared to the Jews who kneeling before our Saviour adored him in scorn and laughter looking on each other in like manner these Pray carelessly which is to undervalue our Saviour Christ undervalued speedily turning faces about prate and smile at each other this considered is it not a foul abuse a great irreverence and dis-respect to that great God of Glory their Creator and Redeemer Sect. 8 There is many that also frequent Frequenting the Sacrament the Sacraments that they may not be noted for cold Christians nor indevout and many times when they see others of their quality communicating without due preparations and examination of themselves will receive the Sacrament for company sake this is a great abuse A great abuse There are divers other abuses in this kind which I shall now omit least I be too tedious but returning to what I said in the beginning that whether the Prayer be vocal or mental without the application to God it is of little or no profit at all Sect. 9 For who going to treat with a Gentleman of fashion about some weighty