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A47235 Prayers for the use of all persons who come to the baths for cure. By the author of the Manual of prayers, for the use of the scholars of Winchester Colledge. Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711. 1692 (1692) Wing K277; ESTC R220999 15,192 82

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you that he dealeth with you as with a Child and that his paternal Bowels are ever yearning on you 'T is most true in common experience what the Appostle affirms That no Chastning for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous and so will your Chastning seem to you nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceble fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby Heb. xii 11 and such fruit it will in the end infallibly yield to you Believe me then that you will at last to your unutterable joy experimentally find that all things even the sharpest and the most continued afflictions work together for good to those that love God Rom. viii 28 Ejaculations for the Afflicted DEal thou with me O Lord according to thy Name for sweet is thy Mercy Thou hast been my Succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my Salvation I should utterly have faintted but that I verily believe to see the Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living I will wait on the Lord from whom cometh my Salvation Though I am somtime afraid yet put I my trust in thee Thou shalt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee because he trusteth in thee O what great Troubles and Adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turn and refresh me As for me I patiently abide alway and will praise thee more and more In the multitude of the sorrows I had in my heart thy comforts have refreshed my Soul Unto thy entire disposal I resign my Spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of Truth O may I always Do and Suffer thy will My God though thou slayest me yet will I put my trust in thee It is the Lord it is my God it is my Father it is my Friend it is infinite Love that afflicts me let him do what seemeth him good he can will nothing but good to me his Will be ever done and not my own To these Ejaculations may be added that Prayer for Amendment when God is pleased to try us which went before IF want of Children good Christian and hopes of Benefit from the Water bring you hither then I beseech you as I did those who were sick or lame to begin with God Repentance and Prayer and Resignation and Charity are all as proper for your condition as for them Be assured that Children are the Gift of God and let your first and chief recourse be to him and from him only expect a Bessing 'T is true the Blessing of the Womb are temporal only yet they are such which all married persons regularly ought to desire and for which they ought with humility and submission to Pray Though the blessing of Children is very often indulged to wicked persons as well as to good yet we see many times that God denies them to both though they never so passionately desire them When God denies Children to wicked persons it is in his anger and for punishment Thus Nadab and Abihu for offering strange fire died before the Lord Num. iii. 4 and as an aggravation of their punishment it is remarked that they had no children And the doom that God pronounced against wicked Coniah was Thus saith the Lord write this man childless Jer. xxii 30 God threatens incestuous persons That they shall die childless Lev. xx 20 32. And sometimes when hopes of Issue appear he gives the Wife a miscarrying womb and dry breasts Hos. ix 14 It is therefore most needful that you should ground your hopes of Children on a previous Repentance Children are no certain marks of Gods Favour and ●herefore the good often want them Never were ●here two better married Couples than Abraham the friend of God and Sarah ●han Zechary and Elizabeth ●ho were both righteous before God walking in all the Commandments of the Lord ●lameless and yet Sarah and Elizabeth were both barren ●nd never had been mothers ●ut by Miracle Rebeckah and Rachel and Hannah had all for a long time their wombs shut up and by Prayer they were all at last opened However when God foresees Children like to prove either Temptations or Calamities or Curses to their good Parents it is a grea● blessing then to deny them which our Lord imitates t● the Daughters of Jerusalem when he told them Th● dayes were coming in which they should say blessed are th● barren and the wombs th●● never bare and the paps th●● never gave suck Luk xxiii 29● But when God denie● Children to Holy Persons he makes up the blessing some other way and gives them a name better than of sons and of daughters an everlasting name that shall not be cut off Isa. lvi 5 so that which way soever God thinks fit to deal with you you have all the reason imaginable to assure your self that what is Gods Will is best for you and chearfully to acquiesce in his good pleasure A Prayer for a Wife O Lord God Almighty who formest us from the womb who coverest us there and seest our substance when imperfect and all our Members and how they are curiously formed Ps. cxxxix 16 All Glory be to thee I know Lord that Children and the Fruit of the womb are an heritage and gift that cometh of thee and therefore of thee only I beg it O vouchsafe me that gift in thy good time Glory be to thee O Lord who makest the barren Woman to keep House and to be a joyful Mother of Children O that it might please thee to make me a joyful Mother Deliver me O my God from either a barren or from a miscarrying womb and from dry Breasts and if it be thy will bless the Waters that they may dispose me to to be Fruitful and to Conceive and do thou O Lord most tenderly preserve the Fruit of my womb that I may at last happily bring forth and may forget my pangs and may praise thy Name for joy that a Child is born into the World To thee O Lord God do I Vow this Vow that if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid and remember me and wilt give unto thy handmaid Children then I will give them unto thee 1 Sam. i. 11 I will early devote them to thee in Holy Baptism I will do my utmost to bring them up in thy nurture and admonition in thy filial Fear and reverential Love that they may become instruments of thy Glory on Earth and may at last become Saints in Heaven to sing eternal praises to thee there Bless me and my Husband O Lord God Almighty bless us with the blessings of Heaven above and with the blessings of the deep that lyeth under bless us with the blessings of the Breasts and of the Womb if it be thy will O Lord if thou art pleased for most wise and gracious purposes to deny us the blessings of Children thy most Holy Will be done O give us an entire contentedness without them and though it is not thy pleasure to make us Fruitful in our Bodies yet make us Fruitful in our Souls Fruitful in all saving Graces which will in the end prove a much greater joy and comfort and blessing to us both than Children Hear me O Lord and help me and grant my Petition if it be thy Will for thy infinite Goodness sake and the sake of Jesus the Son of thy Love Amen Amen If it please God to bless the Waters to your Fruitfulness then use the forgoing Form of Thanksgiving And if you or any one besides who have made use of this Paper have received the least good from it to God be all the Glory Amen FINIS
trial Holy Scripture teacheth us that God has threatened very many and very sore bodily Diseases to Disobedience Deu. xviii 58 59 60. and that they who are sick are stricken by God 2 Sam. xii 15 The Corinthians who profaned the blessed Sacrament were for that cause many of them weak and sickly 2 Chron. xxi 18 1 Cor. xi 30 And our Saviour in his advice he gives to the Man whom he cured of an Infirmity of thirty eight years continuance intimates that sin was the cause of that inveterate Disease Jo. v. 14 But when God is pleased to afflict righteous persons with Sickness as he did King David and Hezekiah then Sickness is not an effect of God's Anger but of his Paternal disciplin towards them Ps. xxxviii 7 Isa. xxxviii 1 The like may be said of Lameness which happens by the Divine Direction to good Men as well as to the wicked King Asa who did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God in the time of his old age was diseased in his feet 1 King xv 23 Mephibosheth was lame from five years old 2 Sam. iv 4 And the poor Man whom St. Peter and St. John miraculously healed was lame from his mothers womb Acts iii. 2 Since then both Sickness and Lameness are strokes given us by God to him we must chiefly and in the first place betake our selves for Cure and the Holy Ghost has set a mark of spiritual disgrace on Asa who was otherwise a good King That in his disease he sought not to the Lord but to the Physicians 2 Chr. xvi 12 Not that the Scripture does in the least condemn or discourage our going to the Physicians when we are sick or our use of all due means for our Recovery Our Saviour himself when he says They that are whole need not a Physician but they that are sick Mat. ix 12 sufficiently intimates that they that are sick did need one The Son of Sira●h gives excellent advice to both the sick and the Physician Honour a Physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which you may have of him the Lord hath created him the Lord hath created Medicines out of the earth and he that is wise will not abhor them and with such doth he heal men and taketh away their pains Ecclus. xxxviii 1 c. But then he adds My son in thy sickness be not negligent but pray unto the Lord and he will make thee whole leave off from sin and order thy hands aright and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness give a sweet savour and a memorial of fine flower then give place to the Physician There is a time when in their hands there is good success for they also shall pray unto the Lord that he would prosper that which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life I earnestly recommend to you this Counsel of the Son of Sirach and therefore to you that are sick or infirm or lame I recommend Repentance and Prayer and Sacrifice the Sacrifice of Alms by which you will offer to God a sweet savour To your Physician I also recommend devout Prayer to the Author of Health and Sickness that his Physick may prosper and then is Physick like to procure a Blessing when both the Patient and the Physician joyn in their Prayers for it I exhort you to begin with Repentance and to read Devotional Books on that Subject of which blessed be God there are good store for it is Repentance that must dispose you for Prayer The Prophet complains of the obdurateness of those who when God had stricken them did not grieve Jer. v. 3 God forbid you should be thus obdurate God forbid but since he has stricken you you should grieve and grieve with that godly sorrow which worketh Repentance to Salvation not to be repented of I ●●seech you then to examine your selves very seriously whether you have ever repented of your sins so as to bring forth fruits meet for repentance for if you are guilty either of total Impenitence or of an universal relapse into your old sins or if you lie under the dominion of any one wilful sin look no further for the original cause of your Distemper God has in Justice sent it you for your punishment But the most merciful God who delights not in the death of a sinner in his very Punishments designs rather to awaken than to destroy us and if this punishment by which God calls you to repentance does awaken you out of your former security it turns to a Blessing to a happy occasion of your eternal Bliss be of good cheer then and repent Your very bodily Distemper will present you with a lively Idea of your sins and Holy Scripture makes use of the former to picture out to us the latter Think then of the weakness and the pain and the indisposedness and the restlessness and the danger that afflict the sick Man and compare them with that impotence to good that anguish of a wounded Spirit that universal indisposedness to Duty that restlessness of Conscience those horrors of eternal torment which attend the sinner and which without Repentance are for ever incurable and make this reflection with your self that if we are so very sollicitous for the cure of our Bodies much more ought we to be sollicitous for the cure of our Souls But if your heart does not condemn you if you are conscious to your self you have truly repented and have never returned to your vomit again and indulge no one wilful sin and have nothing to accuse your self of but your daily failings which are the unavoidable infelicities of lapsed nature and for which you daily beg pardon then is your Distemper a fatherly Chastisement only and you ought to rejoyce in it rather than in the least to regret it However it is your best way to renew your repentance on this occasion and to be sure to bear Gods Rod and to learn that Lesson from it in which you are sensible you were deficient before and which God has sent this ●ffliction on purpose to ●each you True Repentance will rightly dispose you for Prayer and you will come with boldness with an humble but firm confidence to the throne of Grace when you can look on God as reconciled to you in Jesus and shall be sure to obtain help in time of need To obtain either the Cure of your Distemper or if God sees th● continuance of it to be mor● for your spiritual advantage such Grace which is sufficien● for you such Consolation i● your own Soul and satisfaction in God's good pleasure as shall abundantl● over-balance your Calamity● Prayer is a Duty alway● obliging and to be practised by all because all stand alike in need of the Divine Mercy and Benediction but it is more especially the Duty proper for the time of affliction because our needs are then most pressing and therefore says St. James Is any afflicted let him pray Jam. v.