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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

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

that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce Deliver me him from fear of the Enemy and lift up the light of thy Countenance upon me him and give me him peace through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty and everlasting God who art always more ready to hear than we to pray and art wont to give more then either we desire or deserve Pour down upon me or thy Servant A. B. the abundance of thy Mercy forgiving me him those things whereof my his conscience is afraid and giving me him those good things which I am not worthy to ask but through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen O God who dost teach the hearts of thy faithful People by sending to them the light of thy holy Spirit Grant me or thy Servant A. B. by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things and evermore to rejoyce in his holy Comfort through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee in the Unity of the same Spirit one God world without end Amen Our Father c. Prayers before you go to Church ALmighty and Merciful God of whose only gift it cometh that thy faithful People do unto thee true and laudable service Grant I beseech thee that I may so faithfully serve thee in this Life that I fail not finally to attain thy Heavenly Promises through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee Mercifully grant that thy holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule my heart through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty God who by thy Son Jesus Christ dost give to the Ministers of thy Church many excellent Gifts and commandest them earnestly to feed thy Flock I beseech thee leave them not destitute of those Gifts nor yet of Grace to use them always to thy Honour and Glory but grant that they may both by their Life and Doctrine set forth thy true and lively Word and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments And to me and all thy People give thy heavenly Grace that with meek heart and due reverence we may hear and receive thy holy Word truly serving thee in Holiness and Righteousness all the days of our Life that so at last we may be all partakers of thy Heavenly Kingdom and receive the Crown of Righteousness which thou hast promised in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. Prayers when you are returned from Church GRant I beseech thee Almighty God that the Words which I have heard this day with my outward Ears may through thy Grace be so grafted inwardly in my heart that they may bring forth in me the fruit of good living to the honour and praise of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty God whom truly to know is everlasting Life Grant me perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the Way the Truth and the Life That obeying his Doctrine and following his steps I may stedfastly walk in the Way that leadeth to eternal Life through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd of all Power and Might who art the Author and Giver of all good things Graft in my heart the love of thy Name increase in me true Religion nourish me with all Goodness and of thy great Mercy keep me in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd I pray thee that thy Grace may always prevent and follow me and make me continually to be given to all good works through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. Prayers on Sacrament Days before you go out of your House ALmighty God who through thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome Death and opened unto us the Gate of everlasting Life I humbly beseech thee that as by thy special Grace preventing me thou hast put into my Mind good desires so by thy continual help I may bring the same to good effect through Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost ever one God world without end Amen ALmighty Father who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins and to rise again for our Justification Grant me so to put away the leaven of Malice and Wickedness that I may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth through the merits of the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty and everlasting God give unto me the increase of Faith Hope and Charity And that I may obtain that which thou dost promise make me to love that which thou dost command through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God heavenly Father who hast this day called and invited me to thy Holy Table where will be administred the most comfortable Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ to be received in remembrance of his Meritorious Cross and Passion whereby alone we obtain Remission of our sins and are made partakers of the Kingdom of Heaven I give thee most humble and hearty thanks for that thou hast given thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ not only to die for us but also to be our spiritual Food and Sustenance in that holy Sacrament Which being so divine and comfortable a thing to them who receive it worthily and so dangerous to them who presume to receive it unworthily I most humbly beseech thee to give me thy Grace that I may truly consider the dignity of that holy Mystery and the great peril of the unworthy receiving thereof as also that I may so search and examine my conscience and that not lightly or after the manner of Dissemblers with thee but so as to come holy and clean to the heavenly Feast in the Marriage-garment required by thy Blessed Son in holy Scripture and be received as a worthy partaker of that holy Table Grant this O Lord for the sake of the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. If you want a Form of Devotion for your use in the Church at the time of the Celebration of the Sacrament you may serve your self from The Best Companion Prayers when you are returned from the Sacrament ALmighty and everliving God I most heartily thank thee for that thou hast vouchsafed to feed me this day with the spiritual Food of the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ whereby thou dost assure the Faithful of thy favour and goodness towards them as also that they are heirs through hope of thy everlasting Kingdom And I entirely desire thy fatherly goodness to accept this my Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving most humbly beseeching thee to grant that by the Merits and Death of thy Son Jesus Christ and through Faith in his Blood I and all the whole Church may obtain Remission of our sins and all other Benefits of his Passion And now again I offer and present unto thee O Lord my self Soul and Body to be a reasonable holy and lively Sacrifice unto thee humbly beseeching thee that I and all those who have been partakers of thy holy Communion may be fulfilled with thy heavenly Benediction Grant this O Lord for thy Mercies sake through Jesus Christ thy dear Son our Lord. Amen STrengthen me I beseech thee O Lord with the holy Ghost the Comforter And daily increase in me thy manifold gifts of Grace the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding the Spirit of Counsel and ghostly Strength the Spirit of Knowledge and true Godliness and fill me O Lord with the Spirit of thy holy Fear now and for ever Amen Our Father c. FINIS ADVERTISEMENT There is lately published by the Author of this a Book Intituled the Word of God the Best Guide Or the Christians Whole Duty laid down in plain Texts of Scripture BOOKS Printed for John Howell Bookseller in OXFORD THE Common-Prayer-Book the Best Companion in the House and Closet as well as in the Temple c. The Fifth Edition Prayers in the Closet Collected out of the Best Companion by the Author of the same The Word of God the best Guide to all Persons at all times and in all places Or A Collection of Scripture Texts plainly shewing such things as are necessary for every Christian's Knowledge and Practice By the Author of the Best Companion Of Education especially of Young Gentlemen in Two parts The Fifth Impression Globe Notes by R. Holland His Notes touching the Parallax Tozer's Directions to a Godly Life Grammatica Rationis sive Institutiones Logicae Authore Johan Fell Episc Oxon. Burgersdicii Metaph. 12 o. Idea Philosophiae 12 o. Epictetus Theophrastus Gr. Lat. è Theatro 12 o. M. Foelix Edit Wower 12 o. Praeces Aedis Christi 12o. Sandersoni Logica 8o. Stierii Philosophia 4o. Pliny's Panegyrick in English An Account of Mineral Waters with Directions for Drinking Ilmington Waters By Sam. Derham Bishop Ridley's Disputation at Oxford with a Treatise of the Sacrament by the same Author Epistle of Lysimachus Nicanor to the Covenanters in Scotland Danger of the Church of England from a General Assembly of Covenanters in Scotland A Sermon about Oaths by H. Hellier Fellow of C.C.C. in Oxon. The 2d Edit Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia in Tabulas digesta Authore Richardo Cosin Legum Doctore olim Dec. Cur. de Arcubies Cancellario se● Vic. Generali Reverend Patris Johannis Archiepisc Cantuariensis Tabellae Diaelectorum in Gracis Declinationibus cum Carmine Memoriali in usum Scholae privatae Authore Joh. Meddens A. M. è Coll. Exon. Oxon. Tractatus de veroe Christi Deitate adversus Arii Socini Haereses Authore Daniele Whitby SS T.D. Eccles Cath. Sarum Praecent●re

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