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

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

is most profitable for vs as well for the fulfilling of Gods heauenly will as for the accomplishing of our owne godly desires And also if wee see so many comfortable plaine patternes of the great safety and saluation that hath come doth daily grow vnto the seruants of God by hearty faithfull praiers vnto him then haue we no cause to doubt the profit of prayer or to deferre the doing of it with our best deuotion And lastly if wee looke into the plaine and effectuall promises of our All-powerfull God for the performance of that which we do effectually pray for then there shal be no need of more perswasion of the inestimable benefit which powerfull prayer doth bring with it neither shal there bee any necessity or motiue to follow frequēt the same but willing minds directed and assisted by heauenly grace to bee often conuersant in this most holy and heauenly exercise of zealous prayer which is so profitable vnto man so acceptable and sweet a sacrifice vnto the Creator of mankind CAP. IV. Of the manner of Prayer HAuing as we hope shewed what praier is and proued the necessity and profit thereof next comes to be considered the manner of it consisting in three things that is the time place and words to bee vsed in prayer First for the time of prayer it ought not alwaies to bee limited how often or how long wee should pray but as often as conueniently wee can and as long as our faith without fainting or time without distraction will giue leaue Neither are the prescribed rules of the Romish Church in this behalfe so profitable or so tollerable as to obserue Mattin at such houres to say so many Creeds so many Aue maries so many Pater Nosters and to recite the name of Iesus or the like so many times or to vse such and such prayers vppon such Beades vnto such Saints for such men soules As though God would haue mens deuotions practised more according to the obseruation of those prescribed rules and times then at any other time or in any other manner or as if you were bound to heare them more in these regulated rehearsals then in any other sort when they shall be deuoted to offer vp the lncense of Prayer Thanksgiuing being sti● 〈…〉 therto by the inwar● good motion of zeale and deuotion which ought to be in vs at all times as well as at any time certaine But if the mind be not at al times well prepared to Prayer yet as often as we may find time and meanes we must endeuour to bee exercised therein without ouer stri●t obseruation of times limited other then at such times as we are called therto by a generall assembly of the Church and Congregation wherein we liue 2 Likewise for the place of Prayer it cannot be alwayes restrained nor appointed no more then the time can be alwayes limited For although the Churche● where the congregation of the faithfull are or ought to bee assembled bee the fittest place● for Prayers yet it ought not to be lonely there but also elsewhere because men cannot be alwai●s or most commonly in the Church And if th●y may not bee there yet euerie faithfull mans he attri●●●● time of prayer is the temple of God Whether therfore hee bee alone or in company or to what place soeuer he bee his faithfull prayers shall be heard and he is bound to pray as Christ went alone in the Mountaine to pray David prayed in his house toppe Ionas in the Whales belly Daniel in the Lyons den Peter in the pris● 〈…〉 the child 〈◊〉 so Go●● might 〈◊〉 pray in all places where they come and as they ca●● whether it bee in the Church in the house in the fields in the war and in time of peace at home and abroad 3. Lastly for the words that shall be vsed in prayer it is a matter worthy of consideration whith●● they ought alwayes to bee set downe ce●taine● eyther in writing or in the memory before we come vnto prayer Or whether they must be alwayes left vn●● euery m●ns meditation present deliuery as occasion and his inuention shall serue him or as the Spirit of God shall direct him wherein as they do affirm that prayers ought alwaies to be set downe in certaine words may not haue allowance of their opinions so on the other side such as auerre that the forme of prayer shold be at no time certaine nor set downe in writing or in the memory must not be beleeued nor their assertions allowed as true and infallible For the first sort which say that one forme of praier in the selfesame words is alwayes to be vsed they tye Gods guifts and grace● which are in euery man in some measure or other ther more or lesse vnto prescription and to formal obseruation which most commonly begetteth cold affection in prayer For when a mans deuotion and all his meditation are tyed vnto certaine and vsuall words there familiaritie of vttering one thing often taketh away the feeling of that which is vttered so that it becommeth ●●it ●ip-labour and loseth the feruent zeal of an inward deuotion which doeth best please God in prayer and without the f●●uency praier is of none effect Then touching their opinions who affirme that there should bee no set forme of prayer at any time or in any place they do asmuch erre as the former which follow tradition and prescription onely in prayer For in Churches in Congregations and in Assemblyes where publike Prayer is vsed and where manie doe frequent to pray together there no doubt that a form of prayer is very profitable both for vnity and vniuersall framing of mens mindes and inward affections in one sence in one saying and at one time to lift vp both hands harts vnto God which is the sweetest harmony that can bee on earth And more then that it is the heauenly harmony that transporteth our bodies our minds and our soules from earth vnto heauen But as this vnity and setled forme of prayer is most profitable and needefull in the publike assemblies so in priuate prayers and inuocations ought no man to bee forbidden the vse of his secret and seuerall Meditations according as God shal giue him grace and abilitie to praise him and to pray vnto him For although it be not euery mans guift to deliuer in apt wordes the secret and particular desires of his soule in praiers vnto God yet there is no doubt but the man of meanest conceite and vnderstanding hauing a desire to performe his duty in this seruice of God shall finde by exercise and practise heerein his minde more apt This sences more sharp and his words more ready with daily and continuall vse of prayer Therefore as euerie man ought not in publicke places of prayer to follow his owne forme and separate himselfe in prayer from the Congregation so in priuate prayer no man ought to bee forbidden that forme of prayer which his faith and