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A09491	An inuitation vnto prayer, and the practise of piety, directing the way to true happinesse Wherein is principally to be considered, these foure things. 1. What prayer vnto God is. 2. The necessity of it. 3. The profit we receiue by this holy exercise. 4. The maner and vse of it.	Perrott, James, Sir, 1571-1637.	1624 (1624)	STC 19774; ESTC S100356	25,890	144

in health nor the body in life So are they indeede both whilest they haue their well-being like vnto Hippocrates twinnes born bred liuing and dying together It is true that at al times they cannot be conioined for sometimes Contemplation and Meditation may come and are inuited into the heart by the good Spirite of GOD at such times and places where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 publike nor priu●●● p● 〈…〉 when strength and ●acul●● of sp●ech ●aileth 〈…〉 when th● Conscience by contemplation may consider and secretly confesse the frailties falles which are then or hath bene before by them committed and yet there is no opportunitie or admittance to expresse it there mentall Prayer and Meditation is most proper But vocall is most powerfull when it may bee practised CAP. II. The Necessity of Prayer NExt to the examination and knowledg what Prayer is there comes to bee considered what the necessitie is of the same wherein I might well conceyue there shold neede no great labour to proue it nor more then to prooue it is day-light when the Sun shines the one being manifest in the workes of Nature the other as apparant in the effects of Grace Yet because ignorance needs information curiosity requires confirmation we will say somewhat to make the necessity of prayer to bee in our sight as indeede it is in it selfe perspicuous and plaine It is euident to all good and well instructed Christians That as wee are all Creatures of the heauenly Creator 1. Prayer is needfull in respect of Creation so to this end did he cheefely create vs that we being his Worke-manship we should worship our great Worke-master and giue him his deserued glory by acknowledging this innumerable benefites in magnifying his Diuine Maiesty making supplications vnto him Which most necessary Christian dutie wee cannot performe without Prayer Therefore the necessity of Prayer is proued in the cause and end of our Creation Next as we are created onely by God 2. For our Saluation so are wee onely saued by him and of our selues through our sinnes Originall and Actual we deserue nothing but destruction death damnation Therefore as we stand in 〈◊〉 of pardon for our sins and of 〈◊〉 pacifie Gods indignation for the sinne whome vnto doe dayly and greeuously offend so can bee no way so well satisfie him obtaine pardon of them and saluation of our soules as ●y frequent zeallous and feruent Prayer the best procurers of pardon for our transgressions against God Thirdly as well our temporall preseruation as our Creation and Saluation sheweth the necessitie of Prayer For our youth is accompanyed with rashnesse our riper yeares with dangerous aduentures our elder yeeres with sickenesse and sundry infirmities In all which seasons of mans life he is so subiect and so beset with calamities dangers and maladies both of minde and of body that without faithfull and feruent Prayer vnto God he cannot escape those miseries where-with this life and euery part thereof is enuironed And by acceptable Prayer vnto GOD he passeth thorow all these perils Therefore if wee consider who is our Creator what benefites hee hath bestowed on vs and to what end hee hath done this In acknowledging that hee hath created vs we are bound to confesse his power prouidence In beholding thankfully receiuing his blessings as life helth liberty peace wealth knowledge maintenance mutuall and comfortable society wee cannot in duty but agnize his wonderfull bountie clemency and mercy which by no other meanes be so performed as by ardent deuout Prayer vnto God So then we may see if sence do not blind reason or if reason go not too far in giuing rules vnto Religion the necessity of praier vnto God to be so great that without it we cannot well obtaine the things we rightly desire nor shun that which is hurtfull CAP. III. Of the profit of prayer THe third thing to be considred handled and well weighed is the benefit and profit of praier vnto God which though it cannot be truly valued by any but those that feele the fruites of it both inwardly in their comforts and consciences and outwardly in their estates and they only that taste and enioy the spiritual consolation they feele and find in this heauenly exercise of prayer can tell somewhat what it is though they are not able to expresse it yet to shew some sparkles of the splendor of praier besides that which hath beene already spoken of the necesity of it we will summarily set downe some examples what bene●●ts the Children of God haue receiued by the vse of holy and faithfull prayer and next touching the promises which our Sauior hath made vnto such as shall pray vnto God zealously and truly If we looke into the sacred Scripture and holy Bible wee shall find sufficient examples of deliuerance from dangers the diuerting of Gods iudgements from sinners by the prayers of holy men euen at the time when most eminent perils haue presented themselues And when there hath beene no hope or likelyhood of helpe to bee deliuered by mortall man yet the faithfull prayer of one man hath deliuered many from destruction As when the Israelites did fight against the Amalekites as long as Aaron H●z● held vp the hands of Moses to pray the Israelites did preuaile when Iudas Machabeus fought against Gorgeas and his armie against Lysias and his armie hee prayed and by effectuall prayer vnto God he ouercame and got the victory By prayer Moses freed his Sister from the Leprosie and by prayer he pacified Gods displeasure against the people And by praier Abraham did oure Abimelech all which and many more examples might be alledged how profitable the praier of one man hath beene for the preseruation of many Then if we consider the promises which God who is able to performe all that hee doth promise hath made vnto all those that make faithfull supplications vnto him wee shall finde the same to bee so great as greater cannot come to man by any indeauour For it is said if two or three be assembled together to aske any thing lawfull in Gods name hee will giue it And againe the holy Ghost saith by the princely Prophet David Call vpon me in the time of thy need and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt praise me Likewise the same Prophet speaking by the same Spirit Let him call vpon mee and I will heare him I am with him in his trouble and will bring him to honour But because the sacred Scriptures are full of these certaine promises for the obtaining of things faithfully and rightly asked of God in prayer it shall bee sufficient for confirmation of this point to adde what our Sauiour himselfe hath said Verily verily I say vnto you whatsoeuer you shall aske for vnto the Father in my name it shall be giuen you If then we be commanded by God himselfe to pray vnto him we cannot but clearly see as in a Christall glasse of Gods holy word that prayer

and in the life to come Amen A prayer to be kept from all vncleannesse of our Lustes O Most eternall and gracious GOD thou art pure and perfect but we are most impure and polluted all the faculties of our soules are full of corruptions and our bodyes are fraught with infirmities those parts of our bodies and of our mindes which should be the seruants of our soules doe draw vs to be slaues to euil affections Our eyes which are ordained to behold contemplate the wonderful workmanship of the world and of all the creatures therein contained do commonly become like vnto sluces and flood-gates to carrie and conuey lust and Concupiscence vnto our harts and our harts which shold be as Clossets to keep thy Commandements are for the most part made the members and instruments of sinne and of Satan This O Lord we confesse is our wofull and wretched condition Yet thou O most mercifull God art able to cleanse vs from these contagions of our vncleane lusts purge vs we beseech thee and we shall be pure keepe vs from inward infections of our owne euill imaginations from outward temptations which lasciuious sights and dalliance● and fleshly prouocations pull vpon vs and that by the assistance of thy holy Spirite when these temptations assalt vs pray vnto thee beseeching thee to be our buckler and our strength in the time of our weaknesse our stay when we are ready to fall and that by thy power wee may resist and repel all the sensuall and fleshly lustes which are in vs and fight against vs. Wee haue no helpe nor no hope but in thee defend vs giue vs the victory and take the glory vnto thy selfe deliuer vs from these noysome lusts and giue vs grace to giue thee praise to whom all honor belongeth So be it good Lord Amen A Prayer before the hearing of the Word preached THy Word O Lord is a light vnto our feete and a Lanterne vnto our paths Thy word preached is the propagation of thy glorious Gospell it is the seed that fructifies knowledge conscience Let it not therefore be as good seede sowen in barren soyle but first clense the weedes and corruptions which growe in the vnfallowed fields of my heart And then most gracious God when thou hast remoued those impediments of faith and feruency make my heart by hearing thy holy word a harbour of sanctitie and sincerity And in this O Lord prepare me to hear to beleeue to receyue retaine and to remember the lessons that shall bee taught out of thy Sacred Word take away in the hearing thereof all drowsinesse distraction and coldnesse of zeale In this I pray not onely for my selfe but for the people in all places professing thy trueth for their profit and for thy glorie Send forth Labourers into thy Vineyard teach them to plant make vs to be plyant in hearing learning and following So shall wee haue sustenance vnto our soules reape the fruites of those fields that thou hast giuen vs and we shall giue vnto thee nothing but what is thine and belongs to thy Maiestie which is all honour glory praise and dominion thorow Iesus Christ our onely Lord Sauiour Amen A Prayer after the hearing of a Sermon MOST mercifull and mighty gouerner of heauen of earth amongst all thy blessings multiplied vpon mankind there is nothing doeth more magnifie thy Maiesty or helpe the infirmities of vs miserable Creatures then the manifestation of our weakenes and wickednesse in the reuelation of both and reconciliation of thy selfe after all our infinite transgressions thorow the suffering of thy Sonne his mediation and the Ministerie of the word preached Of this O Lord we haue bin vnprofitable hearers and learners We haue heard with our eares but yet we haue beene vnprofitable hearers We haue not felt and followed that we haue heard we haue bene told and plainely taught our sinnes but wee haue not amended them nor truly repented for our misdeeds We haue learned somewhat though but little haue performed and practised lesse the fault is ours yet let it not good Lord stand in the way of thy grace to stop from vs good things but as thou hast prouided for vs the word of life and hast conueied it by thy conducter men like our selues the Ministers and Preachers of thy Gospell so graunt that we go not from this exercise of preaching and publishing thy holy word like vnto empty vesselles which whilst they are moued and strucken vpon yeeld some sound but afterwards lying still afford neyther sweetnes sauour nor good liquor O Lord blesse fructifie our hearing make vs not onely hearers but dooers of thy word make it a sauour of life vnto life and not of death vnto death teach vs thereby to amend our liues to increase knowledge and conscience to yeelde comfort in afflictions strength and support in temptations and when we shall depart the world we may carry with vs a testimony of good Consciences that we haue profited by the word haue thereby learned to loue our Brethren to forsake sinne to imbrace righteousnesse to liue and to die well and that by faith in Iesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer before the receiuing of the Lords Supper BLessed Lord wee do not presume to present our selues before thee in the receyuing of this Sacrament celebration of thy Sonnes last Supper as beleeuing we are of our selues worthy to be partakers of thy heauenly banquet For we acknowledge our great greeuous sinnes our manifold mistakings our vnbeleefe vncharitablenesse hardnesse of heart selfe-loue pride and presumption with many other transgressions wherby we are made most vnworthie to come vnto thy heauenly Table Yet O Lord as it is thy holy Ordinance instruct and help vs to do that which may make vs more meete partakers of this spirituall Manna To this end take from vs our corruptions and carelesnesse in thy seruice graunt vs true repentance for our sinnes past for the trespasses that we haue committed against thee and those that professe thy trueth Lord euen now giue mee thy vnworthy seruant being so vnable of my selfe to doe this or any other spirituall duty a right and regenerated heart a sanctified soule purged from former pollutions by thy power and the grace of thy holy Spirite a desire to forgiue all men and to be forgiuen of all men to forsake sinne to follow thy holy Lawes Suffer not Sathan to worke in me his will any more but that as I now come to receyue this Sacrament so I may be a partaker of the benefites of our Sauiours death and suffering wherof this is a symbole that thorow his death sinne may dye in me and thorow his resurrection I may rise to newnesse of life A Prayer after the receiuing of the holy Communion WEE blesse and praise thy holie name O heauenly Father that amongst all thy innumerable benefits thou hast bestowed this is not the least but greatest mercie vppon mankinde to send thy Sonne our Sauiour

into the world to suffer for vs sinners to redeeme vs from life to death to lay downe his owne life to saue vs from damnation This thy mercie as it is vnspeakeable and vnualewable O Lord wee acknowledge it to bee so great that we cannot giue thee condigne prayses but doe pray thee to accept our weake sacrifices in the Eucharisticall reioycing rendering of laud vnto thee for the suffering of thy Sonne to offer himselfe vnto death euen for them that were become enemies to our gracious God breakers of thy Couenants defilers of thy Sabaths haters of truth truce breakers loaden with sin and voyde of grace Now most mercifull Lord God that thou hast vouchsafed vs this fauour to approach vnto thy blessed Table and to renew the seale of the Couenant graunt likewise for a farther addition of grace for the increase of thy glorie that we may approach neerer and neerer vnto thee by newnesse of life watchfulnesse ouer our owne wayes firmenesse in faith constancie in keeping thy Commandements obedience to thy holy word and will and this thorow the helpe of thee our Lord which only art able to saue those that serue thee Amen A prayer in the time of vnseasonable weather THe heauens the earth and all the Creatures therein contained thou O Lord hast ordained thou in thy eternall counsell and prouidence hast appoynted seasons of the yeere fit to produce and propagate things needfull for the sustenance and vse of man and hast vsually sent weather fit for those seasons but our sinnes which onely make a seperation betwixt thee and vs haue caused some alterations of these seasons hath sent many times vnseasonable weather wherby the fruits of the earth haue not come to their full ripenes the Cattle haue not theyr nourishment and man by this meanes wants things necess●ry All this and other thy chastisements we confesse do come from the demerits of our owne sinfull liues which draw on deseruedly thy iust indignation Yet O Lord since only thy mercie can free vs from miseries first free vs from our sinnes the causes of them and then from the punishment they haue procured Make our harts cleane so make the weather seasonable vs moderate in the vse of thy creatures them holsome to vs and with the amendment of the weather amend our liues and forgiue our sins So chaunge vs that thy chastisement may be taken away and by this let vs learne to consider thy power to confesse thy mercie and to set foorth thy praise throughout all ages Amen A Prayer to be vsed vvhen dearth and scarsity comes O Most gracious Lord God thou which diddest permit Iosephs Brethren to sell to send him into Egypt that hee being carried from his father into a strange Country might there in time of most want and necessitie after the ouer-passing of his owne afflictions be able to make prouision not onely for his Fathers Family but also for his countrey from which hee was carried So wee good Lord being solde by our owne selues vnto sinne Sathan thereby carried into the Egypt of Ignorance and Iniquitie doe beseech thee by thine owne mercies to grant vs true repentance that the scarsity thou hast sent may bee remooued Encrease our Faith zeale sorrow for our sins with amendment of life and therewith encrease our store the fruits of the earth and prouision of the Land that hauing sufficiencie wee may therewith haue content and thankefulnesse Comfort vs in thy mercies and consolations in the continuance of thy loue Let vs not O Lord with the prodigall Sonne mispend our times estates and thy blessings but with the penitent Publican lift vp our hearts and hands vnto Heauen say still from the heart God be mercifull vnto vs miserable sinners So good Lord take away this dearth and our sinnes which will bring vs vnto death A Prayer in time of plague and pestilence THe Contagion and corruption of our bodies comming O Lord from the sinnes of our soules brings all the diseases of our bodies and dangers of our liues So are we filled with infection which threatneth death vnto vs when as we see others dayly die before our eyes Since then good Lord thou giuest vs a sight and continual representation of our mortality giue vs also a sense and a true feeling with a thorow repentance of all our sinnes past the causers of all our woe distresse and perill and as our first parent by his fall and our naturall parents by theyr transgressions haue drawn vppon themselues and vs death and destruction and we our selues by our actuall iniquities haue added more curses to our particular persons and to the publike state wherein wee liue so yet good Lord remember thy Couenant of Grace remember the Sonne of thy loue and his sufferings whom thou hast sent into the world for the redemption of mankinde let these thy former and long continued mercies mooue thee to continue thy compassion in remoouing thy iudgements from vs in renewing the graces of thy holy Spirit in teaching vs to repent and renounce our former euill liues Then let thy Angel and Messenger of good tydings our Mediator sprinkle the postes and doores of our hearts with the blood of that Paschall Lambe who hath shedde his blood for the sinnes of the world in such sort that receiuing grace from thy all-giuing grace our sins and punishments for the same may cease and wee may with purified hearts after all our pollutions learn to publish thy praise and hauing receyued deliuerance for the contagion of soule and of bodie may be made instruments of thy glory both in this world and in the world to come A Prayer for increase and continuance of spirituall giftes and graces O Almighty God though wee are weake and not strong of our selues specially in the spirituall graces which might make vs beutifull corner-stones in thy Celestiall building yet thou good Lord who hast created Heauen and Earth and doest conserue all heerein contayned art able by thy wonderfull Workemanship not onely to begin and to beget but to increase and to preserue in our hearts the seedes of humility penitence patience piety zeale and other good sauing Graces We are thy creatures and thou our Creator therefore though we haue long dwelt in darkenesse yet now send vs the light of thy countenance to enlighten our vnderstanding the seale and testimony of thy holy Spirit to assure our hearts and consciences of thy loue and of our saluation To this end giue vs fortitude and corage to maintaine thy cause and to defend the trueth a subduing power to master our owne lustes and to subdue our sinnes wisedome from aboue to withstand the assaults of Sathan so of Captiues made Conquerors and of slaues vnto sinne and sathan made subduers of them both We may by the same thy mercy and power magnifie thy Maiesty hallow thy name not only in this world but in the world to come thorow all Ages euen euerlastingly So be it and so