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A66950	The Protestant's crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher's prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1690 (1690)	Wing W342; ESTC R219333	41,249	189

Death of thine only Son hast redeemed us from death to life and hast continually a care of us preserving us as the Apple of thine Eye from the dangerous Assaults of Satan and providest for us all things necessary that more Thanks and Praise is due unto thee than the Tongue of Men or Angels can declare II. Accept these my Praises and Thanksgivings O Lord Ibeseech thee and encrease in me a daily desire to praise thy Goodness acknowledging every good and perfect Gift to come from thee to whom with the Son and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for evermore Amen To God for all his Benefits Most merciful God we yield thee humble thanks for thy continual favour and kindness towards us thy poor and unworthy Creatures for whose Salvation when we were lost thou wert pleased even of thy mere Love to send thine only beloved Son Christ Jesus into the World taking humane Nature upon him and suffering most bitter pangs of Death upon the Cross to redeem us again to thy favour II. Such O Lord was thine unspeakable Love for which we are never able to pay the least recompence but give us O Lord thankfull and obedient hearts that we may yield thee praises not only with our Lips but in our lives not only in giving thy Son for us but in leaving unto us a continual remembrance of the same thine unspeakable Love thy Holy Gospel wherein consists the rule whereby we are directed and though Heaven and Earth pass away yet not one tittle of that shall decay or diminish for without which we should have been in our accustomed Ignorance accept us we beseech thee in thy Son our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen Christian Courage IN AFFLICTION A Prayer before the following Advice to the besieged Souldiers in London-Derry under the Command of that worthy Divine and most Loyal and Valiant Commander Col. Walker O Most Eternal Lord God whose Providence never fails those who trust in thy Name and Word mercifully we beseech thee to cast down thy Eyes of Pity and Compassion upon us miserable Sinners which are here met together we do in all humility prostrate our selves before thy Divine Majesty beseeching thee to pardon all our Sins and help our Infirmities O Lord we are not able of our selves to do any thing but offend thee committing daily and hourly Sins without number but O Lord hear thy Son Christ Jesus for us and nail them to his Cross that they may never rise up in Judgment against us either to shame us in this World or condemn us in the World to come bury them in the bottomless Sea of thy Mercy and Forgetfulness that they may never appear before thee to hinder thy Favours unto us seal the remission of them to our Souls and Consciences that they may not disturb or distract us in our Devotions and Duty pour thy Grace and holy Spirit into us that may enable us to walk before thee in Holiness Righteousness and in Sobriety all the days of our lives Bless we beseech thee our dear and dread Soveraign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary Katherine the Queen Dowager the Princess Anne of Denmark and the rest of the Royal Family Bless the Archbishops and Bishops with the rest of the Dispencers of thy holy Sacraments and grant that the light of thy Gospel may never depart from us And Lastly we come unto thee for a Blessing upon our Governours Commanders and fellow Souldiers guide and conduct them in this Calamity fortifie them with Courage and Strength against our Romish Adversaries that thy Name may be glorified our Lives preserved and our Souls Eternally saved in the great day of the Lord Jesus when all flesh shall appear Grant that our Meeting at this time may be for the better and not for the worse to praise and glorifie thy holy Name in whose holy Name and Word we put up these our imperfect Prayers in that most absolute and perfect form of Prayer which Christ himself bath taught us Our Father c. Christian Courage IN AFFLICTION A Discourse by way of Advice to the besieged in London-Derry 2 Chron. 20. Chap. Verse 9. latter part of it Be not afraid nor dismay'd by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not yours but God's THE Context runs thus And he said Hearken ye all Judah and ye Inhabitants of Jerusalem and thou King Jehoshaphat Thus saith the Lord unto you Be not afraid nor dismaied by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not yours but God's These are the words of God which he commanded Jahaziel the Prophet to deliver to Jehoshaphat King of Judah When the Moabites and Ammonites came to make War against him to dispossess him of his Kingdom verse the 8th of this Chapter and may be a seasonable Text for this Auditory Our Sins indeed are many which have justly provoked God's heavy Wrath against us and our Enemies are very numerous which surround us therefore now let us cry mightily unto God earnestly beseeching him that he would pardon all our Sins blot out all our Iniquities and receive us graciously let us sincerely repent and be heartily sorry for our manifold Transgressions committed against him so shall we by his Divine Assistance be in a readiness to encounter with Roman Malice these Moabites and Ammonites who are Enemies to our Lives Religion Laws and Liberties and be animated with Courage to go out cheerfully against Rome's Force and Cruelties fighting manfully the Lord's Battel every one of us laying his hand upon his Heart with this comfortable Expression in our Mouths Be not afraid nor dismaied by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not ours but God's Servile Fear is the harbinger of the Guilty and a slavish timorousness belongs not to the Strong and Couragious but a God like Fear attends upon the Vertuous and produces Success in their Undertakings Holy Job that great Proficient in God's School and great Example of Christian Patience tells you Job 28. 28. The fear of the Lord that is Wisdom and to depart from Evil is Understanding This is the only supream Good and Fear which secures us from committing shameful Acts and creates a circumspection in our Lives for as the shadow of the Body is followed by the Sun so doth Glory attend Vertue in our progress to Christ. Let us then put our whole trust in God in this time of danger and take the Royal Prophets resolution Psal. 118. 6. Not to fear what man can do unto us but rather fear the Lord who pitieth those that fear him Psal. 103. 13. It is the Duty of every one of us to be circumspect in our Lives but more especially at this season and time of Affliction when the hand of God is stretched out against us when the Enemy waits even at our doors ready to devour us when they stand gaping ready to swallow us up quick and none of us can prognosticate how soon his

safety O hide us under the Shadow of thy Wings keep us from all those Dangers which increase upon us when our Spirits are in heaviness and our Bodies bowed down with infirmities II. Stand thou evermore at our right hand and aid us so with the power of thy Grace that our Temptations and Enemies may at no time molest and disturb us Grant that our Souls in thy good time may depart out of the Prison of the Body with joy and not with grief and enter into thine eternal Joy to reign with thee for evermore Amen Meditations for Thursday Night O Lord thou hast searched me out and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before Thou art about my Bed and about my path and spiest out all my ways For lo there is not a Word in my Tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether Thou hast fashioned me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me II. Such Knowledge is too wonderfull and excellent for me I cannot attain unto it Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit or whither shall I go then from thy presence If I climb up into Heaven thou art there If I go down to Hell thou art there also If I take the Wings of the Morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the Sea III. Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me If I say peradventure the Darkness shall cover me then shall my Night be turned into day Yea the darkness is no darkness with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darkness and light to thee are both alike For my Reins are thine thou hast covered me in my Mothers Womb. The Prayer INfinite art thou O Lord in Wisedom and omnipresent in all places thou fillest Heaven and Earth with Majesty and the effects of thy Glory Hell feels thy Mighty power but thou communicatest to us thy poor Creatures thy boundless Mercy II. And O Lord as thou art present with us so we humbly beseech thee be President amongst us teach us thy Holy Laws and so guide us by thy Golden Rule and Divine Precepts that we wander not in the darkness of our own Errors but in thy Light whom no Clouds can overcast nor Darkness eclipse Preserve us O Lord from falling into utter darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of Teeth Meditations for Friday Morning I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy Works and that my Soul knoweth right well My Bones are not hid from thee though I am made secretly and fashioned beneath in the Earth Thine Eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy Book were all my Members written Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them II. How dear are thy Counsels unto me O God! O how great is the Summe of them If I tell them they are more ●n number than the Sand When I awake up I am pre●ent with thee Wilt thou not slay the Wick●d O God Depart from me ●e bloud-thirsty Men. For they speak unrighte●usly against thee and thine Enemies take thy Name in ●ain III. Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee And am not grieved with those that ri●● up against thee Yea I hate them right sor● even as though they we●● mine Enemies Try me O God and se●● the ground of my heart Prove me and examine m● thoughts Look well if there be a● way of Wickedness in m● and lead me in the way ev●● lasting The Prayer O Lord thy Works are marvell● for thou hast done great thi● for my Soul it is thou that hast 〈◊〉 med me in the Womb and thy 〈◊〉 der care hath preserved me to 〈◊〉 moment Teach me to hate and hor all iniquity und to love Counsells as my dearest Treasure we may be as fearfull of committing Sins in Secret with that circumspection as in the Eye of the World II. Lead me in thy Truth and guide me in the Paths of a Holy Life that I may examine my self strictly of what Sins I stand guilty off and earnestly repent of those offences Make me to shun all wicked ways and conduct me into the way everlasting through Christ our Lord Amen Friday Noon's Meditations O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best Member I have Awake thou Lute and Harp I my self will awake right early I will give thanks unto thee O Lord among the People I will sing praises unto thee among the Nations II. For thy Mercy is greater than the Heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds Set up thy self O God above the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and hear thou me III. God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce therefore and divide Sic●em and meet out the Valley of Succoth Gilead is mine and Mana●se● is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Juda is my Law-giver Moab is my Wash-pot over Edom will I ●ast out my Shoe upon the Philistines will I triumph III. Who will lead me into the strong City and who will bring me into Edom Hast not thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God go forth with our Hosts O help us against the Enemy for vain is the help of Man Through God we shall do great Acts and it is he that shall tread down our Enemies The Prayer EArly O my God to thee will I make my Prayer and Supplication for thy Mercy in extent is greater than the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth for ever be thou exalted in thine own strength and magnifie thy power and thy never-failing Mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our Enemies temporal and spiritual II. Leave us not nor forsake us O God who art our strong Tower and Defence for in vain is Man's help unless thou strengthen us fortifie us and go forth with our Hosts to Battel that we being defended and armed by thee may perform Acts great and good fighting thy Battels and place our Confidence in thy Righteousness only and thy Salvation Amen Meditations for Friday Evening IN Jury is God known his Name is great in Israel at Salem is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling in Sion There he brake the Arrows of the Bow the Shield the Sword and the Battel Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the Robbers II. The proud are robbed they have slept their sleep and all the Men whose hands were mighty have found nothing At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the Chariot and Horse are fallen Thou even thou art to be ●cared and who may stand ●n thy sight when thou art angry Thou didst cause thy Judgments to be heard from Heaven the Earth trembled and was still III. When God