a Traveller without a Guide How earnest therefore should we be in praying to God for Grace both for our selves and for our Relations He had intended to preach upon that Text when he was at Chester the Year before but was then prevented by a particular sad occasion which obliged him to a Funeral Sermon Divine Providence reserving that Benediction which his Heart was much upon for his Valediction The Thursday following being kept as a Fast in his Sons Congregation at Chester he Preached on Luke 19. 41. He beheld the City and wept over it which proved his Farewel to the Town as the former was his Farewel to his Friends and Relations in it It was not many Weeks before he dyed that he wrote thus to one of his Children We are well here thanks be to God and are glad to hear that you and yours are well also God in Mercy continue it But why should we be well always Do we deserve it Are there no mixtures in our Obedience Are there any Persons or Families at whose door Sickness and Death never knock'd Must the Earth be forsaken for us or the Rock removed out of its place Is it not enough that we be dealt with according to the manner of Men and that we have a Promise that it shall end well everlastingly well To another of his Children about the same time he writes We are sensible that we decline a pace but the best of it is that as Time goes Eternity comes and we are in good hope through Grace that it will be a comfortable Eternity It was in April 1696. a few Weeks before he dy'd that his Sons Father-in-Law Robert Warbinton Esq was gather'd to his Grave in peace in a good old Age Upon the tidings of whose Death Mr. Henry wrote thus to his Son Your Fathers Where are they Your Father-in-Law gone and your own Father going but you have a God-Father that lives for ever He was wont sometimes to subscribe his Letters Your ever-loving but not ever-living Father It was not a Month before he Dy'd that in a Letter to his very dear and worthy Friend and Brother Mr. Tallents of Shrewsbury he had this passage Methinks it is strange that it should be your Lot and mine to abide so long on Earth by the Stuff when so many of our Friends are dividing the Spoil above but God will have it so and to be willing to live in obedience to his Holy Will is as true an Act of Grace as to be willing to dye when he calls especially when Life is Labour and Sorrow But when it is Labour and Joy Service to his Name and some measure of Success and Comfort in serving him When it is to stop a Gap and stem a Tide it is to be rejoyced in 't is Heaven upon Earth nay one would think by the Psalmists oft repeated Plea Psal. 6. 30. 88. and 115. and 118. that it were better than to be in Heaven itself and can that be A little before his Sickness and Death being Summer time he had several of his Children and his Childrens Children about him at Broad-Oak with whom he was much refreshed and very cheerful but ever and anon spoke of the fashion he was in as passing away and often told them he should be there but a while to bid them welcome And he was observed frequently in Prayer to beg of God that he would make us ready for that which would come certainly and might come suddenly One asking him how he did he answer'd I find the Chips fly off apace the Tree will be down shortly The last time he Administred the Lord's Supper a Fortnight before he dy'd he closed the Administration with that Scripture 1 Ioh. 3. 2. It doth not yet appear what we shall be not yet but it will shortly The Sabbath but one before he dy'd being in the course of his Exposition come to that difficult part of Scripture the 40th of Ezekiel and the following Chapters he said he would endeavour to explain those Prophecies to them and added If I do not do it now I never shall And he observed that the only Prophetical Sermon which our Lord Jesus Preached was but a few days before he dy'd This many of his Hearers not only Reflected upon afterwards but took Notice of at that time with a Concern as having something in it more than ordinary On the Lord's Day Iune 21. 1696. he went through the work of the Day with his usual vigor and liveliness He was then Preaching over the first Chapter of St. Peter's second Epistle and was that day on those words add to your Faith Virtue v. 5. he took Virtue for Christian Courage and Resolution in the Exercise of Faith and the last thing he mentioned in which Christians have need of Courage is in Dying for as he was often us'd to say It is a serious thing to dye and to dye is a work by itself That day he gave Notice both Morning and Afternoon with much Affection and Enlargement of the Publick Fast which was appointed by Authority the Friday following Iune 26. pressing his Hearers as he us'd to do upon such occasions to come in a prepared Frame to the solemn Services of that day The Tuesday following Iune 23. he rose at Six a Clock according to his Custom after a better Nights Sleep than ordinary and in wonted Health Between seven and eight a Clock he performed Family Worship according to the usual manner he Expounded very largely the former half of the 104th Psalm and sung it but he was somewhat shorter in Prayer than he us'd to be being then as it was thought taken ill Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he comes shall find so doing Immediately after Prayer he retired to his Chamber not saying any thing of his illness but was soon after found upon his Bed in great Extremity of pain in his Back Breast and Bowels it seem'd to be a complicated Fit of the Stone and Cholick together with very great Extremity The means that had been us'd to give him Relief in his illness were altogether ineffectual He had not the least intermission or remission of Pain neither up nor in Bed but in a continual toss He had said sometimes that God's Israel may find Iordan rough but there 's no Remedy they must through it to Canaan and would tell of a good Man who us'd to say He was not so much afraid of Death as of Dying We know they are not the Godly People part of the Description of whose Condition it is that there are no Bands in their Death and yet their End is Peace and their Death Gain and they have Hope in it In this Extremity he was still looking up to God and calling upon him who is a present Help in the needful Hour When the Exquisiteness of his Pain forced Groans and Complaints from him he would presently Correct himself with a patient and quiet submission to the Hand of his
c. He acknowledgeth God in all And indeed after all this is it my dear Cosins that you must satisfie your selves with under this sad Providence that the Lord hath done it and the same Will that ordered the thing it self ordered all the Circumstances of it and who are we that we should dispute with our Maker Let the Potsherds strive with the Potsherds of the Earth but let not the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus And as for the Improvement of this Affliction which I hope both of you earnestly desire for it is a great Loss to lose such a Providence and not be made better by it I conceive there are four Lessons which it should teach you and they are good Lessons and should be well learned for the advantage of them is unspeakable 1. It should for ever imbitter Sin to you you know what she said to the Prophet 1 Kings 17. 18. Art thou come to call my Sin to remembrance and to slay my Son 'T is Sin Sin that is the old Kill-Friend the Ionah that hath raised this Storm the Achan that hath troubled your House then how should you grow in your hatred of it and endeavours against it that you may be the Death of that which hath been the Death of your dear Children I say the Death of it for nothing less will satisfie the true Penitent than the Death of such a Malefactor 2. It should be a Spur to you to put you on in Heavens way It may be you were growing remiss in Duty beginning to slack your former pace in Religion and your Heavenly Father saw it and was grieved at it and sent this sad Providence to be your Monitor to tell you you should remember whence you were fallen and do your first Works and be more Humble and Holy and Heavenly and self-denying and Watchful abounding always in the work of the Lord. O Blessed are they that come out of such a Furnace thus resined they will say hereafter 't was a happy day for them that ever they were put in 3. You muâ—… learn by it as long as you live to keep your Affections in due Bounds towards Creature Comforts How hard is it to love and not to over-love to delight in Children or Yoke-fellows and not over-delight now God is a jealous God and will not give his Glory to any other and our excess this way doth often provoke him to remove that Mercy from us which we do thus make an Idol of and our Duty is to labour when he doth so to get that matter mended and to rejoyce in all our Enjoyments with Trembling and as if we rejoyced not 4. It should be a means of drawing your Hearts and Thoughts more upwards and home-wards I mean your Everlasting-Home You should be looking oftner now than before into the other World I shall go to him saith David when his little Son was gone before It is yet but a little while e're all the things of Time shall be swallowed up in Eternity And the matter is not great whether we or ours die first whilst we are all dying in the midst of Life we are in Death What manner of persons then ought we to be Now our Lord Iesus Christ himself and God even our Father be your support under and do you good by this Dispensation and give you a Name better than that of Sons and Daughters We are daily mindful of you at the Throne of Grace in our poor measure and dearly recommended to you c. We shall next gather up some Passages out of his Letters to his Children after they were married and gone from him To one of his Daughters with Child of her first Child he thus writes You have now one kind of Burthen more than ever you had before to cast upon God and if you do so he will sustain you according to his Promise And when the time of Travel was near thus You know whom you have trusted even him who is true and faithful and never yet did noâ—… ever will forsake the Soul that seeks him Though he be Almighty and can do every thing yet this he cannot do he cannot deny himself nor be worse than his Word But what is his Word Hath he promised that there shall be always a safe and speedy delivery that there shall be no Iabez no Benoni No but if there be he hath promised it shall work together for good hath promised if he doth not save from he will save through If he call to go even through the valley of the shadow of death and what less is Child-bearing 〈◊〉 he will be with you his Rod and his Staff shall comfort you and that 's well Therefore your Faith must be in those things as the Promise is either so or so and which way soever it be God is good and doth good Therefore my dear Daughter lift up the Hands that hang down cast your Burthen upon him trust also in him and let your Thoughts be established We are mindful of you in our daily Prayers but you have a better Intecessor than we who is heard always To another of them in the same Circumstance he thus writes Your last Letter speaks you in a good Frame which rejoyced my Heart that you were fixed fixed waiting upon God that your Faith was uppermost above your Fears that you could say Behold the handmaid of the Lord let him do with me as seemeth good in his eyes We are never fitter for a Mercy nor is it more likely to be a Mercy indeed than when it is so with us now the Lord keep it always in the Imagination of the Thoughts of your Heart And he concludes ' Forget not 1 Tom. 2. last When one of his Daughters was safely delivered in a Letter to another of them that was drawing near to that needful Hour he observ'd that when David said Psal. 116. 12. What shall I render He presently adds v. 13. I will call upon the Name of the Lord. As if saith he calling upon the Name of the Lord for Mercy for you were one way of rendring unto the Lord for the great Benefit done to your Sister On occasion of affliction in their Families by the sickness or Death of Children or otherwise he always wrote some word in season In the Furnace again saith he but a good Friend sits by and it is only to take away more of the Dross If less Fire would do we should not have it so much and so often O for Faith to trust the Refiner and to refer all to his Will and Wisdom and to wait the Issue for I have been young and now am old but I never yet saw it in vain to seek God and to hope in him At another time he thus writes Tough and knotty Blocks must have more and more Wedges our heavenly Father when he judgeth will overcome We hear of the death of dear S. T. and chide ourselves for being so
last Clause of the Act which when the Gentlemen perceived they discharged him from that Office before he had served out the Time He was much affected with it that the Burning of London happned so soon after the Nonconformists were banished out of it He thought it was in Mercy to them that they were removed before that desolating judgment came but that it spoke aloud to our Governours Let my People go that they may serve me and if ye will not behold thus and thus will I do unto you This was the Lord's voice crying in the City In the Beginning of the Year 1667. he removed with his Family to Whitchurch and dwelt there above a Year except that for one quarter of a Year about harvest he returned again to Broad-Oak His Remove to Whitchurch was partly to quiet his Adversaries who were ready to quarrel with him upon the five Mile Act and partly for the benefit of the School there for his Children There in Apr. following he buried his eldest Son not quite six Years old a child of extraordinary praegnancy and forwardness in learning and of a very towardly disposition his Character of this Child is Praeterquam aetatem nil puerile fuit This Child before he was seized with the Sickness whereof he died was much affected with some Verses which he met with in Mr. Whites Power of Godliness said to be found in the Pocket of a hopeful young Man who died before he was twenty four Years old Of his own accord he got them without Book and would be often rehearsing them they were these Not twice twelve Years he might say Not half twelve years full told a wearied Breath I have exchanged for a happy Death Short was my Life the longer is my Rest God takes them soonest whom he loveth best He that is born to day and die's to morrow Loses some hours of joy but months of sorrow Other Diseases often come to grieve us Death Strikes but once and that Stroak doth relieve us This was a great Affliction to the render Parents Mr. Henry writes upon it in the reflection Quicquid amas oupias non placuisse nimis Many Years after he said he thought he did apply to himself at that Time but too sensibly that Scripture Lam. 3. 1. I am the Man that hath seen affliction And he would say to his Friends upon such occasions Loosers think they may have leave to speak but they must have a care what they say lest speaking amiss to God's dishonour they make work for Repentance and shed tears that must be wipt over again He observed concerning this child that he had always been very patient under rebukes The remembrance of which saith he teacheth me now how to carry it under the rebuke's of my heavenly Father His Prayer under this Providence was shew me Lord shew me wherefore thou contendest with me have I over-boasted overlov'd over-priz'd A Lord's Day intervening between the Death and burial of the Child I attended saith he on publick Ordinances though sad in Spirit as Job who after all the evil Tidings that were brought him whereof Death of Children was the last and heaviest yet fell down and worshipped And he would often say upon such occasions that weeping must not hinder sowing Upon the Interment of the Child he writes My dear Child now mine no longer was laid in the cold Earth not lost but sown to be raised again a glorious Body and I shall go to him but he shall not return to me A few days after his dear Friend Mr. Lawrence then living in Whitchurch Parish Buried a Daughter that was grown up and very hopeful and giving good Evidence of a work of Grace wrought upon her Soul how willing saith he may Parents be to part with such when the Lord calls they are not amissi but praemissi And he hath this further Remark The Lord hath made his poor Servants that have been often Companions in his Work now companions in Tribulation the very same Tribulation me for my Sin him for his Trial. While he liv'd at Whitchurch he attended constantly upon the publick Ministry and there as ever he was careful to come to the beginning of the Service which he attended upon with Reverence and Devotion standing all the time even while the Chapters were read In the Evening of the Lord's day he spent some time in instructing his Family to which a few of his Friends and Neighbours in the Town would sometimes come in and it was a little gleam of opportunity but very short for as he Notes He was offended at it who should rather have rejoyced if by any means the Work might be carried on in his Peoples Souls He observes in his Diary this Year how zealous People had generally been for the Observation of Lent a while ago and how cold they are towards it now The same he Notes of Processions in Ascention Week for saith he what hath no good Foundation will not hold up long but in that which is Duty and of God it is good to be zealously affected always In this Year I think was the first time that he Administred the Lord's Supper very privately to be sure after he was Silenced by the Act of Uniformity and he did not do it without mature Deliberation A fear of Separation kept him from it so long what induced him to it at last I find thus under his own Hand I am a Minister of Christ and as such I am obliged Virtute Officii by all means to endeavour the good of Souls Now here 's a company of serious Christians whose Lot is cast to live in a Parish where there is one set over them who Preacheth the Truth and they come to hear him and join with him in other parts of Worship only as to the Lord's Supper they scruple the lawfulness of the Gesture of Kneeling and he tells them his hands are tyed and he cannot administer it unto them any other way wherefore they come to me and tell me they earnestly long for that Ordinance and there is a competent number of them and opportunity to partake and how dare I deny this Request of theirs without betraying my Ministerial Trâ—…st and incuring the Guilt of a grievous Omission In February 1667 8. Mr. Laurence and he were invited by some of their Friends to Betley in Staffordshire and there being some little publick Connivance at that time with the Consent of all concerned they adventured to Preach in the Church one in the Morning and the other in the Afternoon of the Lords day very peaceably and profitably This Action of theirs was presently after Reported in the House of Commons by a Member of Parliament with these Additions That they tore the Common-Prayer Book trampled the Surplice under their Feet pull'd the Minister of the place out of the Pulpit c. Reports which there was not the least Colour for But that with some other such like false Stories produced an Address of the
Year 1687. and the other two in a Year and a half after so many Swarms as he us'd to call them out of his Hive and all not only with his full Consent but to his abundant Comfort and Satisfaction He would say he thought it the Duty of Parents to study to oblige their Children in that affair And though never could Children be more easie and at rest in a Father's House than his were yet he would sometimes say concerning them as Naomi to Ruth Ruth 3. 1. Shall I not seek rest for thee Two advices he us'd to give both to his Children and others in their Choice of that Relation One was Keep within the bounds of Profession such as one may charitably hope is from a good Principle The other was Look at Suitableness in Age Quality Education Temper c. He us'd to observe from Gen. 2. 18. I will make him a help meet for him that where there is not Meetness there will not be much Help And he would commonly say to his Children with reference to that choice Please God and please your selves and you shall never displease me and greatly blamed those Parents who conclude Matches for their Children and do not ask Counsel at their Mouth He never aim'd at great things in the World for his Children but sought for them in the first place the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness thereof He us'd to mention sometimes the saying of a Pious Gentlewoman that had many Daughters The Care of most People is how to get good Husbands for their Daughters but my care is to fit my Daughters to be good Wives and then let God provide for them In this as in other things Mr. Henry steer'd by that Principle That a Man's Life consisteth not in the abundance of the things that he possesseth And it pleased God so to order it that all his Children were disposed of into Circumstances very agreeable and comfortable both for Life and Godliness He was greatly affected with the Goodness of God to him herein without any forecast or contrivance of his own The Country saith he in his Diary takes notice of it and what then shall I render Surely this is a Token for good All his Four Daughters were Marry'd at Whitewel Chappel and he Preach'd a Wedding Sermon for each of them in his own Family after He would often tell his Friends That those who desire in the Marâ—…ied Condition to live in the Favour of God must enter upon that Condition in the Fear of God For it 's an ill Omen to stumble at the Threshold and an Error in the first Concoction is seldom amended in the second While he lived he had much comfort in all his Children and their Yoke fellows and somewhat the more that by the Divine Providence four of the five Families which Branched out of his were settled in Chester His youngest Daughter was Married April 26. 1688. the same Day of the Year as he observes in his Diary and the same Day of the Week and in the same place that he was Married to his dear Wife twenty eight Years before upon which this is his Remark I cannot desire for them that they should receive more from God than we have received in that Relation and Condition but I would desire and do desire that they may do more for God in it than we have done His usual Complement to his New-Married Friends was others wish you all Happiness I wish you all Holiness and then there is no doubt but you will have all Happiness When the Marriage of the last of his Daughters was about to be concluded on he thus writes But is Joseph gone and Simeon gone and must Benjamin go also We will not say that all these things are against us but for us If we must be thus in this merciful way bereav'd of our Children let us be bereav'd and God turn it for good to them as we know he will if they love and fear his Name And when sometime after she was Married he parted with her to the House of her Husband he thus writes We have sent her away not as Laban said he would have sent his Daughters away with Mirth and with Songs with Tabret and with Harp but with Prayers and Tears and hearty good wishes And now saith he in his Diary we are alone again as we were in our beginning God be better to us than twenty Children Upon the same occasion he thus writes to a dear Relation We are now left as we were One and One and yet but one One the Lord I trust that hath brought us thus far will enable us to finish well and then all will be well and not till then That which he often mentioned as the matter of his great Comfort that it was so and his desire that it might continue so was the Love and Unity that was among his Children and that as he writes the Transplanting of them into new Relations had not lessened that Love but rather increased it for this he often gave thanks to the God of Love noting from Iob 1. 4. That the Childrens Love to one another is the Parents Comfort and Joy In his Last Will and Testament this is the Prayer which he puts up for his Children That the Lord would build them up in Holiness and continue them still in Brotherly Love as a bundle of Arrows which cannot be broken When his Children were removed from him he was a daily Intercessor at the Throne of Grace for them and their Families Still the Burnt-offerings were offered according to the number of them all He used to say Surely the Children of so many Prayers will not miscarry Their particular Circumstances of Affliction and Danger were sure to be mentioned by him with suitable Petitions The greatest Affliction he saw in his Family was the Death of his dear Daughter in Law Catharine the only Daughter of Samuel Hardware Esq who about a Year and a half after she was Transplanted into his Family to which she was the greatest Comfort and Ornament imaginable dy'd of the Small-Pox in Child-bed upon the Thanks giving day for King William's coming in She dy'd but a few Weeks after Mr. Henry had Married the last of his Daughters upon which Marriage he had said Now we have a full Lease God only knows which Life will drop first She comforted her self in the extremity of her illness with this word Well when I come to Heaven I shall see that I could not have been without this Affliction She had been for some time before under some Fears as to her Spiritual State but the Clouds were through Grace dispell'd and she finished her Course with Joy and a Cheerful Expectation of the Glory to be reveal'd When she lay ill Mr. Henry being in fear not only for her that was ill but for the rest of his Children in Chester who had none of them past the Pikes of that perillous Distemper wrote thus to his Son on
often pleased with his little pretty fashions lest we offended therein by being too much so No Rival must sit with him in his Throne who deserves all our Love and Ioy and hath too little of it At another time upon the death of another little one The dear little one saith he made but a short Passage through this to another World where it is to be for ever a living Member of the great Body whereof Jesus Christ is the ever-living Head but for which Hope there were cause for Sorrow indeed If he that gives takes and it is but his own why should we say What dost thou At another time upon the like occasion Our Quiver of Childrens Children is not so full but God can soon empty it O for Grace Grace at such a time which will do that that Nature cannot The God of all Grace supply your Need and ours according to his Riches in Glory The Lord is still training you up in his good School and though no Affliction for the present be joyous but grievous nevertheless afterwards it yields well your Work is in every thing to bring your Will to the Will of God To one of his Daughters concerning her little one he thus writes They are but Bubbles we have many warnings to sit loose the less we rely upon them in our Ioys and Hopes the more likely to have them continued to us Our God is a jealous God nor will he suffer the Creature to usurp his Throne in our Affections Upon the death of a little Child but few days old he thus writes The tidings of the death of your little one were afflicting to us but the Clay must nor say to the Potter What dost thou If he that took be the same that gave and what he gave and took was his own by our own consent it becomes us to say Blessed be the Name of the Lord. I hope you have been learning to acknowledge God in all Events and to take all as from his Hand who hath given us to know Isay to know for Paul saith so that all things do work together not only shall but do for our good that we may be more and more partakers of his Holiness He can make the two left as comfortable to you as all the three as all your five could have been However if all the Cisterns were drawn dry while you have your Fountain to go to you are well you may also by Faith look forward and say it was a Covenant-child and through Mercy we shall see it again in a better World Upon the sickness of a dear Child he thus writes to the Parent You and we are taught to say It is the Lord upon his Will must we wait and to it must we submit in every thing not upon constraint but of choice nor only because he is the Potter and we the Clay and therefore in a way of Soveraignty he may do what he pleaseth with us and ours But because he is our Father and will do nothing but what shall be for good to us The more you can be satisfied in this and the more willing to resign the more likely to have Be strong therefore in the Grace which is in Christ Iesus it is given for such a time of need as this I hope your Fears and ours will be prevented and pray they may but thanks be to God we know the Worst of it and that Worst hath no harm in it while the better part is ours which cannot be taken away from us To one of his Children in affliction he writes thus T is a time of Trial with you according to the Will of your and our Heavenly Father Though you see not yet what he means by it you shall see He means you good and not hurt he is shewing you the vanity of all things under the Sun that your happiness lies not in them but in himself only that they and we are passing away withering Flowers that therefore we may learn to die to them and live above them placing our Hope and Happiness in better things trusting in him alone who is the Rock of Ages who fails not neither can fail nor will fail those that fly to him I pray you think not a hard thought of him no not one hard thought for he is good and doth good in all he doth and therefore all shall work for good but then as you are called according to his purpose blessed be his Name for it so you must love him and Love you know thinks no evil but puts the best construction upon all that the Person loved saith or doth and so must you though now for a Season if need be you are in Heaviness And at another time Your Times and the Times of yours are in the Lord 's good Hand whose Will is his Wisdom 'T is one thing as we read and observ'd this Morning out of Ezek. 22 to be put into a Furnace and left there as Dross to be consumed and another thing to be put in as Gold or Silver to be melted for use and to have the Refiner set by You know whom you have believed keep your hold of the everlasting Covenant He is faithfull that hath promised We pray for you and we give Thanks for you daily for the Cup is mixed therefore trust in the Lord for ever and rejoyce in the Lord always again I say rejoyce To one of his Sons in Law that was a little engaged â—…n building he thus writes Be sure to take God along with you in this as in all other your Affairs for except he build the House they labour in vain that build it Count upon troublesome Oâ—…crrences in it and keep the Spirit quiet within And lâ—… nor God's Time nor Dues be entrenched upon and then all will be well 'T was but a little before he died that he wrote thus to one of his Children We rejoyce in God's goodness to you that your Distemper hath been a Rod shaken only and not laid on He is good and doth good and should we not love him and rest in our love to him He saith he doth in his to us and rejoyceth over us with singing Zeph. 3. 17. And have not we much more cause What loveliness in us What not in him I pray let me recommend him to your Love love him love him with all the Powers of your Soul and out of love to him please him He is pleas'd with honest Endeavours to please him though after all in many things we come short for we are not under the Law but under Grace To one of his Children recovered from Sickness he gives this hint Remember that a New Life must be a New Life indeed Reprieves extraordinary call for Returns extraordinary The last Journey he made to London was in August 1690. before he went he sent this Farewel-Letter to his Son at Chester I am going forth this Morning towards the great City not knowing but it may be Mount Nebo to me
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M. and Minister of the Gospel 12ves Prayers for the use of private Families with Grace both before and after Meat 8vo Rules and Motives to Holy Prayer By Daniel Burgess 8vo The Golden Snuffers Or Christian Reprovers and Reformers Characterized cautioned and encouraged a Sermon preached to the Societies for Reformation of Manners in London By D. Burgess 12ves Proofs of God's Being and of the Scriptures Divine Original with 20 Directions for the profitable reading of them By D. Burgess 12ves A most familiar Explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechism Corrected and much amended by Ios. Allein 12ves Spiritual Songs or Songs of Praise to Almighty God upon several Occasions together with the Song of Songs which is Solomon's first turn'd then Paraphras'd in English Verse to which may be added Penitential Cries 8vo The Psalms of David in Metre commonly called the Scots Psalms Recommended by divers Ministers BOOKS Printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey MR. Pool's English Annotations Folio The Life of the Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter Folio Lorimer's Apology for the Ministers who Subscribed only unto the stating of the Truths and Errors in William's Book in answer to Trail's Letter to a Minister in the Country 4to An Answer of Mr. Giles Firmin to Mr. Grantham about Infant Baptism 4to Some Remarks upon two Anabaptists Pamphlets By Giles Firmin 4to Firmin's Review of Richard Davis his Vindication 4to Shower's Winter Meditations Or a Sermon concerning Frosts and Snow and Winds c. and the wonders of God therein 4to Slater's Thanksgiving Sermon October 27th 1692. 4to His Sermons at the Funerals of Mr. Iohn Reynolds and Mr. Fincher Ministers of the Gospel 4to Burton's Discourses of Purity Charity Repentance and seeking first the Kingdom of God Published with a Preface by Dr. Iohn Tillotson late Archbishop of Canterbury 8vo Remarks on a late Discourse of William Lord Bishop of Derry concerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God Also a Defence of the said Remarks against his Lordship's Admonition By I. Boyse 8vo Bishop Wilkin's Discourses of the Gifts of Prayer and Preaching the latter much enlarged By the Bishop of Norwich and Bishop Williams 8vo Slater's Earnest Call to Family Religion being the substance of 18 Sermons 8vo Addy's Stenographia Or the art of short Writing Compleated in a far more compendious way than any yet extant 8vo The London Dispensatory reduced to the practise of the London Physicians Wherein are contained the Medicines both Galenical and Chymical that are now in use Those out of use omitted and those in use and not in the Latin Copy here added By Iohn Peachy of the Colledge of Physitians in London 12ves A Sermon Preached at a publick Ordination to a Countrey Congregation By Mr. S. Clark 4to Cambridge Phrases By A. Robinson 8vo Hammond's Sermon at Steel's Funeral 8vo Shower's Discourse of Tempting Christ. 12ves His Discourse of Family Religion in Three Letters 12ves Burgess's Discourse of the Death Rest Resurrection and blessed Portion of the Saints 12ves Hammond's and Barker's Discourses of Family Worship Written at the Request of the United Ministers of London 12ves The Triumphs of Grace Or the last words and edifying Death of the Lady Margaret de la Musse a Noble French Lady aged but Sixteen Years in May 1681. 12ves The Map of man's Misery Or the poor man's Pocket Book being a perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Meditations containing many useful Instructions Meditations and Prayer c. 12ves Man's whole Duty and God's wonderful intreaty of him thereunto By Mr. Daniel Burgess 12ves Advice to Parents and Children By Mr. Daniel Burgess 12ves Gibbon's Sermon of Justification 4to Vincent's Funeral Sermon Preached by Mr. N. Taylor 4to Addy's Short Hand Bible Shower's Sermon on the Death of Mr. Nat. Oldfield who departed December 31 1696. 8vo The Dying Man's Assistant Or short Instructions for those who are concerned in the preparing of sick Persons for Death 12ves Shower's Thanksgiving Sermon April 16th 1696. 4to Clark's brief Concordance to the whole Bible of the most usual and useful places which one may have occasion to seek for In a new Method 12ves Stephen's Sermon before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen at St. Mary le Bow Ian. 30. 1693. 4to His Thanksgiving Sermon April 16. 1696. 4to Woodhous's Sermon Preached to the Societies for Reformation of Manners at Salters-Hall 8vo Sir Howard's free Discourse wherein the Doctrines that make for Tyranny are displayed the Title of our Rightful and Lawful King William vindicated and the unreasonableness and mischievous tendency of the odious distinction of a King de facto and de jure discovered 8vo Mr Lorrimer's Answer to Goodwin's 4to Calamy's Discourse of Vows 8vo Since well abbreviated by Mr. Faldo * See the Bishop of Chichester's Sermon before the King Ian. 30. 1697. p. 25 29. Where he saith he did not see how it could be call'd a National Sin 2 Pet. 1. 21. 2 Tim. 3. 15. Heb. 11. 6. 1. Ioh. 5. 7. Ioh. 1. 18. Ioh. 4. 24. Ioh. 5. 26. Ioh. 5. 17. Eccl. 7. 29. Gen. 1. 26. Col. 3. 10. Eph. 4. 24. Ps. 51. 5. Eph. 2. 3. Zech. 11. 8. Rom. 7. 18. Gen. 6. 5. 1 Tim. 25. Eph. 1. 4 5. Rom. 5. 11. Gal. 4. 4. Ioh. 17. 19. Phil. 2. 8 9. Eph. 1. 20. 21. Heb. 7. 25. Ioh. 17. 9. Rom. 8. 30. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Ro. 5. 1. Ps. 143. 2. Ier. 23. 6. Mat. 3. 17. Rom. 15. 16. Col. 3. 11. 1 Cor. 13. 9 10. 1 Pet. 1. 5. Eph. 4. 11. Matt. 28. 20. Rom. 4. 11. Matt. 28. 1â—… Rom. 6. 7. Acts 2. 39. Matt. 26. 26. 1 Cor. 11. 26. Eccl. 12. 7. Matt. 25. 34 41. Acts 17. 31. 2 Cor. 5. 10. 1 Cor. 15. 42. Ioh. 5. 29. * Thus he writes in his Diary upon it How oft have we said that Changes are at the door but blessed be God there is no Sting in this