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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63950	The golden grove, or, A manuall of daily prayers and letanies, fitted to the dayes of the week containing a short summary of what is to be believed, practised, desired : also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church, composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons / by the author of The great exemplar.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1655 (1655)	Wing T336; ESTC R17298	60,024	193

perfe●… knowledge my weaknesses and dis●… 〈◊〉 the strength and beauties of the Sons ●…f God V. ●…N the mean time use what means thou 〈◊〉 pleasest to conform me to the image of ●…hy holy Son that I may be gentle to ●…thers and severe to my self that I may ●…t down in the lowest place striving to ●…o before my brother in nothing but in ●…oing him and thee honour staying for ●…ny glory till thou shalt please in the day ●…f recompences to reflect light from thy ●…ace and admit me to behold thy glories Grant this for Jesus Christs sake who ●…umbled himself to the death and shame of the Cross and is now exalted unto glory Unto him with thee O Father be glory and praise for ever and ever Amen For MUNDAY A Prayer against Covetousness I. O Almighty God eternal Treasure of all good things thou fillest all things with plenteousness Thou clothest the lillies of the field and feedest the young ravens that call upon thee Thou art all-sufficient in thy self and all-sufficient to us let thy Providence be my store-house thy dispensation of temporal things the limit of my labour my own necessity the measures of my desire but never let my desires of this world be greedy nor my labourimmoderate nor my care vexatious and distracting but prudent moderate holy subordinae to thy Will the measure thou hast appointed for me II. TEach me O God to despise the world to labour for the true riches ●…o seek the Kingdome of heaven and its ●…ighteousness to be content with what ●…hou providest to be in this world like a ●…tranger with affections set upon heaven ●…abouring for and longing after the pos●…estions of thy Kingdomes but never ●…uffer my affectious to dwell below but ●…ive me a heart compassionate to the ●…oor liberal to the needy open and free ●…n all my communications without base ●…nds or greedy designes or unworthy ●…rts of gain but let my strife be to gain ●…hy favour to obtain the blessedness of do●…ng good to others and giving to them ●…hat want and the blessedness of receiving●…rom thee pardon and support grace and ●…oliness perseverance and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord For TUESDAY A Prayer against Lust I. O Eternal Purity thou art brighter then the Sun purer then the Angels and the Heavens are not clean in thy sight with mercy behold thy servant apt to be tempted with every object and to be overcome by every enemy I cannot O God stand in the day of battel and danger unless thou coverest me with thy shield and hidest me under thy wings The fiery darts of the Devil are ready to consume me unless the dew of thy grace for ever descend upon me Thou didst make me after thy image be pleased to preserve me so pure and spotless chaste and clean that my body may be a holy Temple and my soul a sanctuary to entertain thy divinest Spirit the Spirit of love and holiness the Prince of Purities II. REprove in me the spirit of Fornication and Uncleanness and fill my soul with holy fires that no strange fire may come into the Temple of my body where thou hast chosen to dwell O cast out all those unclean spirits which have unhallowed the place where thy holy feet have trod Pardon all my hurtfull thoughts all my impurities that I who am a member of Christ may not become the member of a harlot nor the slave of 〈◊〉 Devil nor a servant of lust and 〈◊〉 desires But do thou purifie my 〈◊〉 and let me seek the things that are 〈◊〉 hating the garments spotted with the 〈◊〉 never any more grieving thy holy 〈◊〉 by filthy inclinations with impure 〈◊〉 phantastick thoughts but let my 〈◊〉 be holy my soul pure my body 〈◊〉 and healthful my spirit severe 〈◊〉 and religious every day more and more that at the day of our appearing 〈◊〉 may be presented to God washed and cleansed pure and spotless by the blood of the holy Lamb through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen For WEDNESDAY A Prayer against Gluttony and Drunkenness I. O Almighty Father of Men and Angels who hast of thy great bounty provided plentifully for all mankinde to support his state to relieve his necessities to refresh his sorrows to recreate his labours that he may praise thee and rejoyce in thy mercies and bounty Be thou gracious unto thy servant yet more and suffer me not by my folly to change thy bounty into sin thy grace into wantonness Give me the spirit of temperance and sobriety that I may use thy creatures in the same measures and to the same purposes which thou hast designed so as may best enable me to serve thee but not to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Let me not as Esau prefer meat before a blessing but subdue my appetite subjecting it to reason and the grace of God being content with what is moderate and useful and easie to be obtained taking it in due time receiving it thankfully making it to minister to my body that my body may be a good instrument of the soul and the soul a servant of thy Divine Majesty for ever and ever 11. PArdon O God in whatsoever I have offended thee by meat and drink and pleasures and never let my body any more be oppressed with loads of sloth and delicacies or my soul drowned in seas of ●…ine or strong drink but let my appe●…ites be changed into spiritual desires that 〈◊〉 may hunger after the food of Angels and thirst for the wine of elect souls and may account it meat and drink and pleasure to do thy will O God Lord let me ●…eat and drink so that my food may not become a temptation or a sin or a ●…ease but grant that with so much caution and prudence I may watch over my ap●…petite that I may in the strength of thy ●…mercies and refreshmnets in the light of thy countenance and in the paths of thy Commandments walk before thee all the dayes of my life acceptable to thee in Jesus Christ ever advancing his honour and being filled with his Spirit that I may at last partake of his glory through the same Jesus Christ our Lord Amen For THURSDAY A Prayer against Envy I. O Most gracious Father thou Spring of an Eternal Charity who hast so loved mankinde that thou didst open thy bosome and send thy holy Son to convey thy mercies to us and thou didst create Angels and Men that thou mightest have objects to whom thou mightest communicate thy goodness Give me grace to follow so glorious a precedent that I may never envy the prosperity of any one but rejoyce to honour him whom thou honourest to love him whom thou lovest to commend the vertuous to discern the precious from the vile giving honour to whom honour belongs that I may go to heaven in the noblest way of rejoycing in the good of others II. O Dear God never suffer the Devil to rub his vilest Leprosie of Envy

persons of one minde and spirit be gathered together in God 22. We should enjoy more peace if we did not busie our selves with the words and deeds of other men which appertain not to our charge 23. He that esteems his progress in Religion to consist in exterior Observances his devotion will quickly be at an end But to free our selves of passions is to lay the axe at the root of the tree and the true way of peace 24. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted and ill thought of and that we alwayes bear it well even when we deserve to be well spoken of perfect peace and security cannot be had in this world 25. All the Saints have profited by tribulations and they that could not bear temptations became reprobates and fell from God 26. Think not all is well within when all is well without or that thy being pleas'd is a sign that God is pleas'd but suspect every thing that is prosperous unless it promotes Piety and Charity and Humility 27. Do no evil for no interest and to please no man for no friendship and for no fear 28. God regards not how much we do but from how much it proceeds He does much that loves much 29. Patiently suffer that from others which thou canst not mend in them untill God please to do it for thee and remember that thou mend thy self since thou art so willing others should not offend in any thing 30. Every mans virtue is best seen in adversity and temptation WEDNESDAY The fourth Decad. ●… BEgin every day to repent not that thou shouldst at all defer it or stand the door but because all that is past ●…aght to seem little to thee because it is 〈◊〉 in it self begin the next day with the ●…me zeal and the same fear and the same ●…umility as if thou hadst never begun ●…efore 32. A little omission of any usual ex●…cise of piety cannot happen to thee ●…ithout some loss and considerable detri●…ent even though it be upon a ●…erable cause 33. Be not slow in common and usual ●…cts of Piety and Devotion and quick ●…nd prompt at singularities but having ●…rst done what thou art bound to pro●…eed to counsels and perfections and the ●…xtraordinaries of Religion as you see ●…ause 34. He that desires much to hear news ●…s never void of passions and secular deires and adherencies to the world 35. Complain not too much of hin●… drances of Devotion if thou let me●… alone they will let you alone and if yo●… desire not to converse with them let the●… know it and they will not desire to converse with thee 36. Draw not to thy self the affai●… of others neither involve thy self in th●… suits and parties of great personages 37. Know that if any trouble happen to thee it is what thou hast deserved and therefore brought upon thy self But i●… any comfort come to thee it is a gift of God and what thou didst not deserve And remember that oftentimes when th●… body complains of trouble it is not so much the greatness of trouble as littleness of thy spirit that makes thee to complain 38. He that knows ow to suffer a●… thing for God that desires heartily th●… will of God may be done in him th●… studies to please others rather then himself to do the will of his superior not his own that chooseth the least portio●… and is not greedy for the biggest th●… takes the lowest place and does not mu●… secretly he is in the best conditio●… and state of things 39. Let no man despair of mercy 〈◊〉 ●…ccess so long as he hath life and health 40. Every man must pass through fire ●…nd water before he can come to re●…eshment THURSDAY The fifth Decad. 41. SOon may a man lose that by negligence which hath by much labour ●…nd a long time and a mighty grace scarce●…y been obtain'd And what shall become of us before night who are weary ●…o early in the morning Woe be to that man who would be at rest even when he hath scarcely a footstep of holiness appearing in his conversation 42. So think and so do as if thou wert ●…o die to day and at night to give an account of thy whole life 43. Beg not a long life but a good one for length of dayes oftentimes prolongs the evil and augments the guilt It were well if that little time we live we would live well 44. Entertain the same opinions and thoughts of thy sin and of thy present state as thou wilt in the dayes of sorrow Thou wilt then think thy self very miserable and very foolish for neglecting one hour and one day of thy salvation Think so now and thou wilt be more provident of thy time and of thy talent For there will a time come when every careless man shall desire the respite of one hour for Prayer and Repentance and I know not who will grant it Happy is he that so lives that in the day of death he rejoyces and is not amazed 45. He that would die comfortably may serve his ends by first procuring to himself a contempt of the world a fervent desire of growing in grace love of discipline a laborious repentance a prompt obedience self-deniall and toleration of every cross accident for the love of Christ and a tender Charity 46. While thou art well thou mayest do much good if thou wilt but when thou art sick neither thou nor I can tell what thou shalt be able to do It is not very much nor very good Few men mend with sickness as there are but few who by travell and a wandring life become devout 47. Be not troubled nor faint in the ●…ours of mortification and the austeries of Repentance for in Hell one ●…ur is more intolerable then a hundred ●…ars in the house of Repentance and ●…y for if thou canst not endure God pu●…shing thy follies gently for a while to ●…end thee how wilt thou endure his ●…ngeance for ever to undo thee 48. In thy Prayers wait for God and ●…ink not every hearty Prayer can procure ●…ery thing thou askest These things ●…hich the Saints did not obtain without ●…any Prayers and much labour and a ●…ower of tears and a long protracted ●…archfulness and industry do thou ex●…ct also in its own time and by its usuall ●…easures Do thou valiantly and hope ●…nfidently and wait patiently and thou ●…alt finde thou wilt not be deceived 49. Be careful thou dost not speak a 〈◊〉 in thy Prayers which though not ob●…ved is frequently practis'd by careless ●…fons especially in the forms of ●…sion affirming things which they have ●…t thought professing sorrow which is ●…t making a vow they mean not 50. If thou meanest to be devout and 〈◊〉 enlarge thy Religion do it rather by ●…creasing thy ordinary devotions then thy extraordinary For if they be not regular but come by chance they will not last long But if they be added to your ordinary offices or made to be daily

breach of our promises to ●…en and the breach of all our holy vows ●…ade to thee our God Lord have mercy c. Remember not O Lord how often we ●…ave omitted the several parts and actions ●…f our duty for our sins of Omission ●…re infinite and we have not sought after ●…he righteousness of God but have rested 〈◊〉 carelesness and forgetfulness in a false ●…eace and a silent Conscience Lord have mercy c. O most gracious Lord enter not into ●…udgement with thy servants lest we be ●…onsumed in thy wrath and just displea●…ure from which Good Lord deliver us and preserve thy servants for ever 11. For deliverance from evils FRom gross ignorance and stupid negligence from a wandring head and a trifling spirit from the violence and rule of passion from a servile will and a commanding lust from all intemperance inordination and irregularity whatsoever Good Lord deliver and preserve thy servants for ever From a covetous minde and greedy desires from lustful thoughts and a wanton eye from rebellious members and the pride and vanity of spirit from false opinions and ignorant confidences Good Lord deliver c. From improvidence and prodigality from envy and the spirit of ssander from idleness and sensuality from presumption and despair from sinful action and all vicious habits Good Lord deliver c. From fierceness of rage and hastiness ●…f spirit from clamorous and reproachful ●…nguage from peevish anger and inhu●…ane malice from the spirit of conten●…on and hasty and indiscreet zeal Good Lord deliver c. From a schismatical and heretical spirit ●…om tyranny and tumults from sedition ●…nd factions from envying the grace of God in our Brotber from impenitence and ●…ardness of heart from obstinacy and apo●…asie from delighting in sin and hating God and good men Good Lord deliver c. From fornication and adultery from annatural desires and unnatural hatreds from gluttony drunkenness from loving and believing lies and taking pleasure in the remembrances of evil things from de●…ighting in our Neighbours misery and ●…rocuring it from upbraiding others and ●…ating reproof of our selves Good Lord deliver c. From impudence and shame from contempt and scorn from oppression and cruelty from a pitiless and unrelenting spirit from a churlish behaviour and undecent usages of our selves or others Good Lord deliver c. From famine and pestilence from noisome and infectious diseases from sharp and intolerable pains from impatience and tediousness of spirit from a state of temptation and hardned spirits Good Lord deliver c. From banishments and prison from widowhood and want from violence of pains and passions from tempests and earthquakes from the rage of fire and water from Rebellion and Treason from fretfulness and inordinate cares from murmuring against God and disobedience to the divine Commandment Good Lord deliver c. From delaying our repentance and persevering in sin from false principles and prejudices from unthankfulness and irreligion from seducing others and being ●…bused our selves from the malice and ●…raftiness of the Devil and the deceit and ●…yings of the World Good Lord deliver c. From wounds and Murther from pre●…cipices and falls from fracture of bones and dislocation of joynts from dismembring our bodies and all infatuation of ●…our souls from folly and madness from uncertainty of minde and state and from a certainty of sinning Good Lord deliver c. From thunder and lightning from phantasms spectres and illusions of the night from sudden and great Changes from the snares of wealth and the contempt of beggery and extreme poverty from being made an example and a warning to others by suffering sad judgements our selves Good Lord deliver c. From condemning others and justifying our selves from mispending our time and abusing thy grace from calling good evil and evil good from consenting tofolly and tempting others Good Lord deliver c. From excess in speaking and peevish silence from looser laughing and immoderate weeping from giving evil example to others or following any our selves from giving or receiving scandal from the horrible sentence of endless death and damnation Good Lord deliver c. From cursing and swearing from uncharitable chiding and easiness to believe evil from the evil spirit that walketh at noon and the arrow that flieth in darkness from the Angel of wrath and perishing in popular diseases Good Lord deliver c. From the want of a Spiritual Guide from a famine of the Word and Sacraments from hurtful persecution and from taking part with persecutors Good Lord deliver c. From drowning or being burnt alive from sleepless nights and contentious dayes from a melancholy and a confused spirit from violent fears and the loss of reason from a vicious life and a sudden and unprovided death Good Lord deliver c. From relying upon vain fancies and false foundations from an evil and an amazed Conscience from sinning near the end of our life and from despairing in the day of our death Good Lord deliver c. From hypocrisie and wilfulness from self-love and vain ambition from curiosity and carelesness from being tempted in the dayes of our weakness from the prevailing of the flesh and grieving the Spirit from all thy wrath and from all our sins Good Lord deliver c. III. For Gifts and Graces HEar our Prayer O Lord and consider our desire hearken unto us for thy truth and righteousness sake O hide not thy face from us neither cast away thy servants in displeasure Give unto us the spirit of Prayer frequent and fervent holy and persevering an unreprovable Faith a just and a humble Hope and a never-failing Charity Hear our prayers O Lord and consider our desire Give unto us true humility a meek and a quiet spirit a loving and a friendly a holy and a useful conversation bearing the burthens of our Neighbours denying our selves and studying to benefit others and to please thee in all things Hear our prayers c. Give us a prudent and a sober a just ●…nd a sincere a temperate and a religious ●…pirit a great contempt of the world a ●…ove of holy things and a longing after ●…eaven and the instruments and paths that ●…ead thither Hear our prayers c. Grant us to be thankful to our Benefa●…ctors righteous in performing promises ●…oving to our relatives careful of our ●…harges to be gentle and easie to be in●…reated slow to anger and fully instructed and readily prepared for every good work Hear our prayers c. Give us a peaceable spirit and a peaceable free from debt and deadly sin grace to abstain from all appearances of evil and to do nothing but what is of good report to confess Christ and his holy Religion by a holy and obedient life and a minde ready to die for him when he shall call us and assist us Hear our prayers c. Give to thy servants a watchful and an observing spirit diligent in doing our duty inflexible to evil obedient to thy word