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A70285	Prayers in the closet, for the use of all devout Christians Collected out of the Best companion, by the author of the same. Imprimatur, Apr. 11th. Jonath. Edwards Vice-Can.; Common-prayer book the best companion in the house and closet as well as in the temple. Selections	Howell, William, 1656-1714.; Church of England. Liturgies. Book of common prayer.	1692 (1692)	Wing H3133D; ESTC R223640	13,354	39

the Glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen ASsist me mercifully O Lord in these my supplications and prayers And so dispose me towards the attainment of everlasting Salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal Life I may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready Help through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty and everlasting God who of thy tender Love towards Mankind hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our Flesh and to suffer death upon the Cross that all Mankind should follow the Example of his great Humility Mercifully grant that I may both follow the Example of his Patience and also be made partaker of his Resurrection through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God the King of Glory who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph into thy Kingdom in Heaven I beseech thee leave me not comfortless but send me thine Holy Ghost to comfort me and exalt me unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Our Father c. PRAYERS for your self or other being sick ALmighty everliving God Maker of Mankind who dost correct those whom thou dost love and chastise every one whom thou dost receive I beseech thee have mercy upon me thy Servant or thy Servant A. B. now visited with thine hand Grant that I he may take my his sickness patiently and so sanctifie this thy fatherly Correction to me him that the sense of my his weakness may add strength to my his Faith and Seriousness to my his Repentance If it shall be thy good pleasure to restore me him to my his former health grant that I he may lead the residue of my his Life in thy fear and to thy glory Or else give me him grace so to take thy Visitation that after this Life ended I he may dwell with thee in Life everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord look down from Heaven behold visit and relieve me thy Servant or thy Servant A. B. Look upon me him with the eyes of thy Mercy give me him comfort and sure confidence in thee defend me him from the danger of the Enemy and keep me him in perpetual peace and safety through Jesus Christ our Lord. For his sake renew in me him most loving Father whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the Devil or by my his own carnal will and frailness Impute not to me him my his former sins but strengthen me him with thy Blessed Spirit And whensoever thou shalt be pleased to take me him hence take me him into thy favour through the merits of thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. PRAYERS for your self or other being sick beyond hope of Recovery O Father of Mercies and God of all Comfort our only help in time of need I beseech thee to succour me or thy Servant A.B. now lying under thy hand in great weakness of Body Look graciously upon me him O Lord and the more the outward man decayeth strengthen me him I beseech thee so much the more continually with thy Grace and holy Spirit in the inner man Give me him unfeigned Repentance for all the Errors of my his Life past and stedfast Faith in thy Son Jesus that my his sins may be done away by thy Mercy and my his Pardon seal'd in Heaven before I go he goes hence and be no more seen I know O Lord that there is no word impossible with thee and that if thou wilt thou canst even yet raise me him up and grant me him a longer continuance in this World Yet forasmuch as in all appearance the time of my his departure draweth near so fit and prepare me him I beseech thee against the hour of Death that after my his departure hence in peace and in thy favour my his Soul may be received into thine everlasting Kingdom Wash it I pray thee in the Blood of that immaculate Lamb that was slain to take away the sins of the World that whatsoever defilements it may have contracted in the midst of this miserable and naughty World through the lusts of the Flesh or the Wiles of Satan being purged and done away it may be presented pure and without spot before thee that so at the general Resurrection in the last day I he may be found acceptable in thy sight and receive that Blessing which thy Well-beloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee saying Come ye blessed Children of my Father receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the World Grant this I beseech thee O merciful Father through Jesus Christ our Mediatour and Redeemer Amen Our Father c. Prayers for your Child being sick O Almighty God and Merciful Father to whom alone belong the the issues of Life and Death Look down from Heaven I beseech thee with the Eyes of Mercy upon my Child now lying on the bed of sickness Visit him O Lord with thy Salvation Deliver him in thy good appointed time from his bodily pain and save his Soul for thy Mercies sake If it shall be thy good pleasure to prolong his days here on Earth grant that he may live to thee and be an Instrument of thy Glory by serving thee faithfully and doing good in his generation or else receive him into those Heavenly Habitations where the Souls of them that sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity Grant this O Lord for thy Mercies sake in the same thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God world without end Amen DEfend O Lord my Child with thy heavenly Grace that he may continue thine for ever and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit more and more until he come to thine everlasting Kingdom Amen Our Father c. Prayers for your self or other being troubled in Mind or Conscience O Blessed Lord the Father of Mercies and the God of all comforts I beseech thee look down in pity and compassion upon me or A. B. thy afflicted Servant Thou writest bitter things against me him and makest me him to possess my his former iniquities Thy wrath lieth hard upon me him and my his Soul is full of trouble But O merciful God who hast written thy holy Word for our learning that we through patience and comfort of thy holy Scriptures might have hope Give me him a right understanding of my self himself and of thy Threats and Promises that I he may neither cast away my his confidence in thee nor place it any where else but in thee give me him strength against all my his temptations and heal all my his distempers Break not the bruised Reed nor quench the smoaking Flax. Shut not up thy tender Mercies in displeasure but make me him to hear of joy and gladness

holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Intercession O God the Creator and preserver of all mankind I humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men that thou would be pleased to make thy ways known unto them thy saving health unto all Nations Have mercy upon all Jews Turks Infidels and Hereticks and take from them all ignorance hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and so fetch them home blessed Lord to thy Flock that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites and be made one fold under one shepherd Jesus Christ our Lord. More especially I pray for the good estate of the Catholick Church that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of Truth and hold the Faith in Unity of Spirit in the bond of peace and in righteousness of Life I beseech thee O Lord for this whole Kingdom in general and particularly for the King and Queen that thou wouldst be pleas'd so to dispose and govern their hearts that in all their thoughts words and works they may ever seek thy honour and glory and study so to preserve Us that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be established among us for all generations So bless them O Lord and all the Royal Family with the dew of thy heavenly Spirit that ever trusting in thy Goodness protected by thy Power and crowned with thy gracious and endless Favour may continue before thee in health peace joy and honour a long and happy Life upon Earth and after death obtain everlasting Life and Glory in the Kingdom of Heaven Be pleased to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and grant that both by their Preaching and Living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly Be pleased to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with Grace Wisdom and Understanding Be pleased to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute Justice and Maintain Truth Be pleased to bless and keep all thy people especially my Relations Benefactors and Friends Let thy Fatherly hand I beseech thee ever be over them let thy holy Spirit ever be with them and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy Word that in the end they may attain everlasting life Be pleased to forgive all mine enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts Lastly I most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness O Lord to comfort and succour all them who in this transitory life are in trouble sorrow need sickness or any other adversity to relieve them according to their several necessities giving them patience under their sufferings and a happy issue out of all their afflictions And this I beg for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Thanksgiving ALmighty God Father of all Mercies I thine unworthy servant do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to me and to all men I bless thee for our Creation for my continual Preservation that of this Day or Night in particular and all the blessings of this life But above all for thine inestimable love in in the Redemption of the World by our Lord Jesus Christ for the means of Grace and for the hope of Glory Furthermore I give thee humble thanks that thou hast incorporated me into thy holy Church that thou hast vouchsafed to call me to the knowledge of thy Grace and Faith in thee Increase this knowledge and confirm this Faith in ●…ermore Give me a due sense of all 〈◊〉 Mercies that my heart may be unfeignedly thankful and that I may shew forth thy praise not only with my lips but in my life by giving up my self to thy service and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all my days through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen UNto thy mercy and protection O God I commit my self this day or Night and evermore O Lord bless and keep me Lord make thy fac● to shine upon me and be gracious unto 〈◊〉 Lord lift up thy countenance 〈…〉 and give me peace both now and 〈…〉 more Amen If your necessary Business be so great and urgent that it will not allow you time to use all the Prayers afore-going then begin with the Thanksgiving and joyn thereunto the short Prayer for Morning or Night as followeth A short Prayer for the Morning O Lord Heavenly Father Almighty and Everlasting God who hast safely brought me to the beginning of this Day Defend me in the same with thy mighty Power and grant that this Day I fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. O defend me with thy Heavenly grace that I may continue thine for ever and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit more and more until I come to thine everlasting Kingdom Amen Our Father c. A short Prayer for the Night 〈…〉 my darkness I beseech thee 〈…〉 And by thy great Mercy 〈…〉 all the perils and dangers of this Night for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ In his Name O God I commit my self to thy Mercy and Protection both this Night and evermore O Lord bless and keep me Lord make thy face to shine upon me and be gracious unto me Lord lift up the light of thy Countenance upon me and give me peace both now and evermore Keep me both outwardly in my body and inwardly in my soul that I may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. PRAYERS to be said by those that are Married O God who by thy mighty power hast made all things of nothing who also after other things set in order didst appoint that out of 〈◊〉 created after thine own image 〈…〉 militude Woman should 〈…〉 ●●ginning and knitting them 〈…〉 didst teach that it should never be lawful to put asunder those whom thou by Matrimony hast made One O God who hast consecrated the state of Matrimony to such an excellent Mystery that in it is signified and represented the Spiritual Marriage and Unity between Christ and his Church Look

PRAYERS IN THE CLOSET For the Use of all DEVOUT CHRISTIANS Collected out of the BEST COMPANION by the Author of the same Matth. 6.6 When thou prayest enter into thy Closet and when thou hast shut the door pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly Imprimatur Apr. ●● th JONATH EDWARDS Vice-Can OXFORD Printed by Leon. Lichfield for John Howell 1692. TO THE READER IN the Preface to the Best Companion I gave some Directions how those Prayers which were principally designed for Publick Use might also become serviceable to any one in his most secret Retirement And though the Directions there given were exemplified after the plainest manner yet still some whose capacities are of a lower size might not understand them Others again conceiving it a trouble too great to follow them might perhaps be altogether discouraged upon this account from the private use of the Devotions themselves So much being suggested to me and a Request withall being made That for the sake of these I would draw the substance of the said Prayers into two or three Collects and make them yet more easily subservient to every ones Closet-Necessities I readily complied and promised my Endeavour 'T is impossible indeed that the Wisest heads should ever frame such a form of words as shall answer the Wants and Exigences of every ones private Condition The utmost advance that can be made in this kind of Essay will go no farther than the laying down such Generals as ought to be the Matter of every Christian's Requests to Heaven and the accommodating their expressions so that each single Votary may readily apply them to his own particular Concerns Now both these are most eminently conspicuous in the devout Prayers of our Church and if they are not equally so in the parts of the same here brought together in this Performance the Workman only must be blamed For true Precious Stones if artificially cut and rightly placed can never fail to shew themselves to the greatest Advantage However if these Prayers are truly directed to the same end for which they have been compiled I doubt not but they will bring glory to God honour to the Church whose sound and wholsom words they are and everlasting Comfort to every soul that useth them The CONTENTS PRayers both for Morning and Night viz. Confession Page 1 For Pardon and Grace 3 Intercession 4 Thanksgiving 7 A short Prayer for the Morning 9 A short Prayer for Night Ib. Prayers for the Married 10 Prayers for those that have children 13 Prayers to be said upon days of Fasting and Humiliation 15 Prayers to be said in any time of Trouble or Affliction 16 Prayers for your self or other being sick 19 Prayers for your self or other being sick beyond hope of Recovery 20 Prayers for your Child being sick 22 Prayers for your self or other being troubled in Mind or Conscience 23 Prayers before you to go to Church 26 Prayers when you are return'd from Church 27 Prayers on Sacrament-days to be said in the Morning before you go out 28 Prayers on Sacrament-days to be said after you are returned from the Sacrament 31 PRAYERS In the CLOSET Prayers both for Morning and Night CONFESSION ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men I acknowledg and bewail my manifold sins and wickedness which I from time to time most grievously have committed by thought word and deed against thy Divine Majesty provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against me I have followed too much the devices and desires of mine own heart I have offended against thy holy Laws I have left undone those things which I ought to have done * Here confess thy particular Sins of Omission And I have done those things which I ought not to have done † Here confess thy particular Sins of Commission And there is no health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable offender Spare me O God who confess my faults And grant that I whose Conscience by sin is accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. O create and make in me a new and contrite heart that I worthily lamenting my sins and acknowledging my wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through the same Jesus Christ our Lord whom of thy tender mercy thou didst give to suffer death upon the Cross for our Redemption and who made there by that oblation of himself once offered a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world Spare me therefore good Lord spare me whom thou hast redeemed Enter not into judgment with thy servant who am vile earth a miserable sinner But so turn thine anger from me and so make haste to help me in this world that I may ever live with thee in the World to come Amen That you may the better call to mind what particular Sins you have been guilty of before you begin to confess them you would do well carefully to peruse the Table of Sins at the end of The Best Companion For Pardon and Grace ALmighty and everlasting God who art always more ready to hear than we to pray and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve Pour down upon me the abundance of thy Mercy forgiving me those things whereof my conscience is afraid and giving me those good things which I am not worthy to ask but through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord. For his sake O Lord give me true Repentance Forgive me all my sins negligences and ignorances and endue me with the Grace of thy Holy Spirit that I may amend my life according to thy holy Word Mortifie and kill all vices in me and so strengthen me by thy Grace that by the innocency of my life and constancy of my Faith even unto death I may glorifie thy holy Name Grant me grace to withstand the Temptations of the World the Flesh and the Devil and with a pure heart and mind to follow thee the Only God Vouchsafe I beseech thee to direct sanctifie and govern both my heart and body in the ways of thy Laws and in the works of thy Commandments that through thy most mighty protection both now and ever I may be preserved in body and and soul that I may please thee both in will and deed that I may both perceive and know what things I ought to do and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfill them Graft in my heart the love of thy Name increase in me true Religion nourish me with all goodness and of thy great mercy evermore keep me in the same O grant that thy grace may always prevent and follow me and make me continually to be given to all good works so that in all my works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorifie thy