within me thy comforts Lord delight my Soul Ps. 94. 19. Glory be to the Father c. 3. On taking Physick Man liveth not by Bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Mat. 4. 4. And it was neither Herb nor mollifying Plaster that restored them to health but thy word O! Lord which healeth all things For thou hast power of Life and Death thou leadest to the Gates of Hell and bringest up again Wisd. 16. 12 13. He that is our God is the God of Salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues from Death Ps. 68. 20. 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 For of the most High cometh healing and he hath given men Skill that he might be honoured in his marve lous works Ecclus. 38. 2 4 6 7. My time is in thy hand therefore I trust in thee O Lord Ps. 31. 14 15. Oh! Send thy word and heal me and deliver me from my Destruction Ps. 107. 20. Glory be to the Father c. V. For Attendants about Sick Persons I. HE that is ready to slip with his feet is as a Lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease Job 12. 5. But to him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his Friends Job 6. 14. For a Friend loveth at all times and a Brother is born for adversity Prov. 17. 17. And if your Soul were in my Souls stead I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief Job 16. 4 5. But my Brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook and as the stream of brooks they pass away As Brooks that are blackish with Ice wherein Snow is hid What time they wax warm they vanish when it is hot they are consumed out of their place Now ye are nothing you see my casting down and are afraid Yea you dig a pit for your friend Job 6. 15 16 17 21 27. II. Whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it or one member rejoyce all the members rejoyce with it 1 Cor. 12. 26. Distribute then to the necessity of Saints and weep with those that weep Rom. 12. 13 15. And he that sheweth mercy let him do it with chearfulness v. 8. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shew'd towards his Name in that ye have ministred to the Saints and do Minister Heb. 6. 10. I was sick and ye visited me In as much as ye have done it to the least of these my Brethren ye did it unto me Mat. 25. 36 40. And this is pure and undefiled Religion to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their affliction Jam. 1. 27. And the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning for by the sadness of the Countenance the Heart is made better That is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart Eccles. 7. 2 3 4. Glory be to the Father c. VI. An Hymn of Thanksgiving for Recovery from Sickness IN my wrath I smote thee but in my favour have I had mercy on thee Is. 60. 10. The Lord hath chastned me sore but he hath not given me over unto death Ps. 118. 18. In love to my soul he hath delivered it from the pit of corruption for he hath cast all my sins behind his back Is. 38. 17. O! Lord my God thou hast considered my trouble thou hast known my soul in adversities Ps. 31. 7. Thou healest the broken in heart and bindest up their wounds Psal. 147. 3. And I cryed unto thee and thou hast healed me And hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my Sack-cloath and girded me with gladness To the end that my Glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent O! Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Ps. 30. 2 11 12. My Mouth shall shew forth thy Righteousness and thy Salvation all the day For I know not the numbers thereof And my Lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee and my Soul which thou hast redeemed Psal. 71. 15. 23. O! Sing unto the Lord ye Saints of his and give thanks at the Remembrance of his Holiness Ps. 30. 4. And ye that fear the Lord trust in the Lord he is their help and their shield Ps. 115. 11. To the upright he maketh light to arise in the darkness Ps. 112. 4. For his Anger endureth but a moment in his Favour is Life Weeping may endure for a Night but Joy cometh in the Morning Psal. 30. 5. I will offer the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and will call upon the Name of the Lord Ps. 116. 17. And I will pay thee my Vows O! God which my Lips have uttered and my Mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Psal. 66. 13 14. I will not hide thy Righteousness within my Heart I will declare thy Faithfulness and thy Salvation I will not conceal thy Loving Kindness and thy Truth from the great Congregation Psal. 40. 10. I will pay my Vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his People In the Courts of the Lord's House in the midst of thee O! Jerusalem Praise ye the Lord Psal. 116. 18 19. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without end Amen PRAYERS FOR THE Duties and Needs OF SICK PERSONS I. A General Prayer for things needful under Sickness O! Almighty and most Righteous Lord who makest sore and bindest up and in whose Hands are the Issues of life and death Give me Grace to look upon this my Sickness as of thy sending â—nd to own both the justice and the mercifulness of thy Visitation and of my suffering therein and to look up to thee for strength to bear and for Grace to profit by the same It comes O! My God as thy scourge for my sins which is to make me see them and avoid them And as thy Medicine to cure my Spiritual Diseases and repair in me the Decays of thy Grace And as thy Fiery Tryal which is to prove my Virtues and to purge away my Dross And Lord Let it not miss of serving and effecting in me all these Gracious purposes And make all my thoughts under the same to be only thoughts of Love and Thankfulness of Holy Resignation and Obedience unto thee and of humble hope in thy Mercy And suffer me not to fall into impatience or mistrust of thy Love and Gracious promises or into any evil and indecent carriage which will add to my guilt if I die or to my remorse and shame if I live Temper my Sorrows also O! Father to my weakness and support me under them by thy Comforts And direct and recompence the labours and kindness of
us to them and Naturally imprints the same And it is our truest wisdom to entertain them in our Sickness For if we dye we shall all judge it was the best way we had to employ our thoughts and that of all things Death should not be met unthought of And they render us fitter to Live if God spare us They make Death Safer but do not hasten or bring it sooner and are no hindrance to our Living longer but a great help if we recover to our Living better In this Preparation to leave the World the Sick Persons first care is to seperate himself from worldly cares and incumbrances of Business Let him look upon himself as one call'd off from the conduct of these matters to the giving a strict account of â—â—â—m And who has work enough cut out for his thoughts and prepare to take a decent leave of this World and to trim up his Lamp and 〈◊〉 his Soul for a better His business now is how to meet Death with most safety and comfort to himself if he dyes as for ought he knows he may dye of this Sickness and to commit no Errors therein because he is to dye but once and cannot afterwards amend them The work and worldly Cares of Life are to be left to those who think of living but how to dye is the Business that lyes before him To cast off these worldly Cares 't is fit he first settle them And that is by setting his House in order and making his â—ill This methinks should be done with great consideration and Men are wanting in that Prudence and Care which they usually shew in their affairs thro all their Lives if this is left to be clapt up in haste at their Deaths When they dispose of a little parcel of Land or of a moderate sum of money they consider well of it before they part with it And if they are thus considerate when they dispose of any single Branch of their Estate must that be left to be the only hasty and unconsidered act when they are to dispose of all When a Person has his Worldly Estate to give away it will take much thought to do it like a wise Man and a good Christian. To consider what Portions are fit to be given to Dependants as Recompence of Diligence and good Services What to Benefactors as respectful tokens of Gratitude for Favours and obligations What to particular Friends and acquaintance as Memorials of Love and Dearness What among Kindred in Declaration of natural Affection for their nearness their deserts or their wants And what to himself for so I more especially call that which is given to Religious or Pious uses since these works follow him and these layings out go along with him to be recompenced and repaid in a better place Such as are all gifts of Restitution when he had wrong'd or defrauded any Persons of equitable compensation where he has taken too great advantage of other Peoples wants or weakness and been too hard upon them and made too great advantage of them in Bargaining or Dealing of Charity or Piety in Gifts or Settlements on the Poor and Needy or for the encouragement and promotion of piety To settle Accounts in Dealing what he ows or what is owing unto him what he has in his hands in trust for others and what he has left in their hands or in trust with them For this disposal he must remember is the Farewel he takes of all the World And when he is parting with Kindred and Relations Friends and Benefactors Servants and Dependants Chapmen and Customers Poor and Rich Sacred and Secular Persons a Wise and Good Man who has carryed it well towards them all his Life should think of continuing to do the same and supplying of former Defects at his Death and study to take a fair and Friendly and decent leave of all Especially to carry it as becomes him towards God and in this great disposal of all his Goods to look at him the Soveraign Donor of them And to do all this with discretion and to a Man's satisfaction will require consideration And therefore is like to be best dispatch'd whilst the Person hath both Ability and Leisure for it And accordingly is always most providently and is like to be most perfectly settled in time of Health However in the beginnings of Sickness e're Nature is weak and Time is short or a Disease is come to Extremities When all his Worldly cares and concerns are thus settled and laid aside having taken this leave of the World he may give himself up to the Will and good Pleasure of Almighty God to dispose of him either in Life or Death and make his Sickness end either in Health or Heaven as he sees will make most for the Sick-mans good and for his own Glory If the Physitians are called in to take care of his Body 't is fit he receive their advice with meekness and thankfulness and willingly follow and submit himself to their wholesome and Reasonable Directions A Prudent and Compassionate Physitian will be tenderly and conscientiously careful of his ease so far as that is consistent with the Care of his Health Especially he will consider well how he proposes and much more how he presses any Medicine which the Patient has an Antipathy against and which is found greatly to disorder him tho' it generally relieve others And when he sends for him he must put his Body into his Hands under God and willingly take such Medicines and submit to such Rules and Restraints as he Judges needful for his Safety or for the Recovery of his Health and not order and tell his Physitian what he shall prescribe to him nor weary him out with importunities to let him have what he himself fancies tho' the other thinks it would be to his prejudice And these prescriptions of the Physitian he must use with looking up to God in the first place for the good effect of all Medicines and without fretfulness and accusations of the means and methods if by the pleasure of God the Disease increase and grow more troublesom in spight of all Remedies and without being too eagerly desirous of Life or ease unless God please thanking his Physitian for the ease which he studies but at the same time submitting to God for the Pains which he sends And let him still remember to make fervent Prayers one ingredient in all his Medicines considering that since it is God who works cures Prayers are as necessary thereto as any thing else He must not like Asa set God a side when he seeks to the Physitians but expect all the Cure from Gods blessing and when it comes give him the chief Honour and Praise for the same and acknowledge that the Prayers of pious Friends have been among the powerfullest of his Medicines If it be thought needful or profitable for the body some times at intervals especially in slow and languishing diseases to divert his spirits
that when he can bear no longer God will inflict no longer And who can say how much or how long God's Grace shall enable a man to bear And the same Grace that did enable him to bear it yesterday is as powerful and as ready now to enable him to bear as much again to day Yea and till we are tryed we none of us know what or how long we can bear And Resolution by God's Crace can bear much a great deal more and a great deal longer than we thought of But if we are irresolute any thing of trouble is difficult And any Difficulty will conquer those who come prepared not to bear and strive with it but to yield If his thoughts are disturbed and his Devotions faint and broken by reason of his weakness or pain let him have Patience with himself and believe that God will have Patience with him too and exact no more of him whilst he is in that condition And let him frequently say Under our infirmity's the Spirit helpeth us by holy and affectionate tho' unuttered groans and he who Searcheth the Heart hears them Lord I will Honour thee by submitting my will to thine and being content with my Sickness And when thou makest me sick I will present thee with a sick man's offering and Pray to thee the best I can with my sickly Faculties And from a sickly and feeble man Good Lord accept a sickly and Feeble Supplication Amen Lord thou rejectest not the broken Spirit despise not the brokenness of my Devotions Amen Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings thou hast Perfected Praise Refuse it not out of my mouth then O! God which in the midst of all my weakness is not more weak than theirs Amen Let him also be constantly mindful to shew Patience and thankfulness towards those who kindly attend about him And not be fretful and show uneasieness on every little slowness or forgetfulness or when things are not done for him just when and as he would have them And let him often say to himself under any Temptations to uneasiness with his Attendants Lord if they Err even their Errors are governed and directed by thy hand which Errs not and thou hast some wise and kind end to serve by it either for my Soul or Body Thou bringest about thy gracious purposes concerning me by their Errours and oversights as well as by their Care and Kindness And therefore instead of being angry at them I humbly submit to thee and look to have it turn'd to good because it is thy doing Amen Lord enable me to receive all the Pains which thou sendest upon me with Patience but all the kind Services which they seek to do me with Thankfulness Amen Remember Lord for them all their charitable Services but remember not against me my fretfulness or uneasiness in the acceptance thereof Amen Lord enable them to consider my weakness and to Pity and bear with it and enable me to watch against it and not to fall any more into it Amen And let him think it is now his work and Task to shew an example of Humility Patience Quiet Resignation to the Hand that smites him and of comfortable Hope and trust in God and a thankful Sense of all his past and present mercies to all visitants And to arm him yet more thoroly with all this Patience which is the virtue most particularly required and marked out and yet most difficult to be exercised and preserved in his Case Let him set before his Eyes the far greater Tryals and Sufferings of the ever Blessed Son of God Jesus Christ. Let him think within himself and let it often be suggested to him by others that 't is not for us to accuse God for suffering our patience to be tryed when he could thus suffer his Patience to be tryed That we are not to think much at suffering Tryals deservedly and for our selves when he refused not to suffer infinitely Greater without having deserved to suffer any thing himself but merely in Pity and kindness for others yea for his Enemies Let him be reminded that God has made Pain the way to pleasure and that Jesus bore pains before he was fixed in ease That if the present pains are sad Eternal pains are infinitely sadder and that we need these here to prevent our falling under those hereafter And instead of repineing that we are left still to suffer the pains of this world let him rejoyce and give God thanks that we are delivered by his Mercy and our Blessed Saviour's merits from the endless and insupportable Anguish of the next World Instead of Repineing therefore let him often say Thy will be done O! my God give me my evil things here that I may have Everlasting Rest and joy with thee hereafter Amen I am content to be a member of an afflicted Saviour and to suffer with him in Hopes at last thro' thy mercy to rejoyce and Reign with him Amen 'T is enough yea too much O! Lord for the Servant to be as his Master Since he bore Sorrows I will not refuse them but meekly bear them after him whilst thou pleasest and Patiently wait to be eased thereof at thy time Amen Lord thou art just in my Sorrows thou art kind in them I justifie thee yea I thank thee for what I feel I disclaim my own will either about the bringing or removing of my Pains and submit my Self wholly to take up with thine Amen And during all the progress of the Sickness Devotions and Pious Thoughts and set Prayers or short Ejaculations are to be the Sick mans vital Breath and should constantly be sent up to God whilst he has Spirit left to offer them Let him be frequently enjoying the Prayers of the Church from the Minister or others And any of the Prayers hereafter following for particular Graces or for any of his Particular needs or desires not burdening himself with too many Prayers or too long ones at once but taking them as his Strength or Time Serves or as employing his thoughts thereupon to exercise not to burden them And when he is kept from reading and using them himself let such of them as he likes or desires be read to him by his Friends for him to follow and put up to God with Holy desires And when he wants leisure or Strength for longer let him distinguish minutes or the small Portions of his time with shorter Petitions and Ejaculations He may be often affectionately repeating the Lords Prayer Or any Particular Petitions thereof as thy Kingdom come thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that Trespass against us Lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from evil or the like as best Suits with his present needs or desires Or any of the forementioned short Petitions and Ejaculations which he may be often repeating and devoutly offering up from his own Memory or the Reading of his friends
receive my Death and think 't is time for me to die if thou doest because Life now is grown very uneasie to me and every day brings much more evil than good and is more my Burden than my Blessing I receive it from thee O! Lord as my passage to a better Life and am not only willing but thankful to change Weariness for Rest and Earthly Sorrows for Heavenly and Everlasting Joys Amen If the Dying persons have lived ill and loosly they have Reason indeed if God please to desire to live longer that they may learn to live better and may be more perfect before they Die Yea and even good persons do many times desire the same since the best may mend and still grow better But let such good Souls think with themselves that if they should live longer yet living on in the same frail Natures peradventure more days would still heap up more Frailties and Infirmities to make them still more afraid of Death and they would be more imperfect and less fit to die then than they are now So that 't is best to let God chuse for them and be willing to Die when he pleases If he would not leave the ordering and Expences of his Funeral to the Discretion of his Friends but is minded to give Directions about the â—â—me himself let him declare where he desires they should lay his Body and who should be desired to accompany it and who to bear it to his Grave and what Tokens of kind Remembrance shall be given to any of them And if he see fit he may order some of the smaller Gifts and Memorials of kindness which I mentionâ—d before at the making of his Will to be given at that time In proportioning the Expences thereof he should have regard to the Estate which he has to leave and to his Rank and Station in the World And in laying cut the same he will most comfort and benefit himself by such ways of expence as best Honour God and profit others such as satisfying the Hungry with Doles and cloathing the Needy with Garments and sending Gifts in Money more or less as he pleases and as suits with his Worldly Circumstances to his own or other adjacent Parishes to be distributed among the â—oor thereof or in such other Acts of Piety and Beneficence as are fit to attend the Body of one who both living in the World and leaving it was studious to be found doing good And when he is near about to leave the World he may take a pious and solemn leave of it Let him call in his Parents if he has any to ask their pardon for any offence he ever gave them and to beg their Blessing and give them his Thanks for all their Love and Care of him And also his Children to give them his Blessing and charge them to keep upright and constant in Gods Fear and in loving and helping one another And likewise his Friends and Family and Dependants to receive his last Farewell Let him profess the great need he has of God's Mercy and the good hopes he has through the Merits of Christ and through his alone to find it Let him profess also that he Dies in the Faith of Christ and repeat the Creed And that he hopes for the acceptance of his Faith and Repentâ—nce in the Unity and Communion of Christs Church in which he Dies and particularly as a stedfast and sincere though unworthy Member of the Church c. whose declared Belief he professes whose way of Worship he heartily receives and in whose Peace and Communion he has hitherto lived and now dies Then let him profess that he takes leave of the World in peace And forgives all both present and absent as he desires himself God would forgive him And that if any have ever taken any thing ill of him he desires they would forgive him After which let him send Messages to any absent Friends whose Reformation he desires whose Peace he seeks or whose Love or Favors he would express either a just thankfulness or a friendly sense of And as for themselves let him thank them all for all their good Wishes and good Services in his Life and at his Death and pray God to remember the same for their Benefit And let him heartily beg their pardon for all the Unreasonable or passionate or unequal usage which he had ever been guilty of towards any of them in his Health for all the unnecessary trouble which he has given to any of them by his weakness but especially for all the provocation and offence which he has given to any of them by his fretfulness and impatience during the time of his sickness And then let him charge all about him to keep constant in the Faith and firm in the Unity of the Church and endeavour to confirm them in the ways of Piety Sobriety Justice Charity and to warn them against falling from any of them for any Intrests or Injoyments of this World or if at any time they do against delaying Repentance or growing hardened and secure under their Fall Then let him exhort them all to keep Peace among themselves especially those who are concerned in the Division of his Estate And desire all their prayers to assist him in his Agonies And so recommend them all to God's Mercy praying that he will keep them all stedfast in his fear and safe under his care whilst they live and give them all comfort when they come into his condition and bring them all at last to meet together again in his Heavenly Kingdom After this he may tell those Friends who attend more about him that in his departure he desires he may have no disturbance to lengthen out his Pains and molest his Passage And therefore if any of them think they cannot contain themselves and govern their Grief nor see him Die without bursting into passionate Out-crys and noisie disturbance to call back his retiring Spirit let him beg them to withdraw when his Death approaches and pray for him and vent their own grief by themselves But if any of them can stand by and accompany him in silence if they happen then to be about him he may desire that they would stay to assist him with their Prayers in his last Agonies and recommend his departing Soul to God at his last Breath After he hath taken such Religious and solemn leave of all his Friends he has nothing left to do but whilst his strength serves to employ his Spirit in Holy Thoughts and Desires as he did before and devoutly and willingly wait God's time for his change And under this expectation let him often say My Flesh and my Heart faileth but thou art the strength of my Heart and my Portion for ever Ps. 73 26. Lord strengthen me in my last Agonies and guard me from all Frights and Molestations of the Enemy Amen I have a good Master for Jesus that most Blessed of all Names is my Master and
them not refrain going to Church for such a certain space of Time or number of Weeks after a Dear Wife or Husbands Death as the manner of some is which I think is a very ill chosen expression of Grief or Ceremony of Mourning For this looks as if we were out of Humour with God because he has taken our Friend from us and is very unsuitable to that Patience and Thankfulness which we ought to express and to that Devotion which we not only ought but need to use on such occasions For these Changes should not make us less Religious but more and call us to God and his House and Service instead of Driving us from them The House of God is the House of comfort and in our affliction we have the more need to run to it to be eased of our Sorrows as well as to show our intire Submission and Service to that most Wise and good Hand which has now Disposed of our Friend and in his Due time will Dispose of us too to his own mercy And as for the Mourning of the Surviver when God has this way parted dear Pairs the Memory of the Deceased should not easily wear off but stick fast and long with the Living as is very fit both in Respect to the Dead and in Decency and due Regard to the censure of the Wise and Sober part of the World And unless the Circumstances or needs of Families are very extraordinary and Pressing for them to change their condition sooner they should at least wait the Time which Custom and good Report have fixed in mourning for the Dead before they forget their Sorrows or hearken to any motions of exchanging them for new Joys Lastly the Executors and nearest Relations may still further shew their kindness and careful Respect and Deserve well of their Deceased Friends by being very studious to keep Peace among themselves and if any Clauses of the will are not clearly worded or any matters about the Estate are left lyable to Dispute by Composing them amicably among themselves without fuits that the contentions of the Living may not spoil or disparage the Kindness nor ever be laid by God or men to the Neglect or carelessness of the Dead By fulfilling their Wills punctually and giving to every one at their Time with Good-will and without unnecessary trouble or Delays what is really intended for them and Due to them thereby Yea by having Regard to what was fit for them to Order tho' they forgot to Order it Or what they needed to Order but could not as Payment of Debts which they left not Estate enough to pay The Law indeed will not compel them to pay beyond Assets or what the Deceased has left them to pay out of But Natural Affection and the Virtue of Gratitude in near and dear Kindred especially in Children towards their Parents may call for more than any humane Law doth For Children have received abundance from their Parents and if ever they see them brought to want they ought to look upon themselves as much in their Debt and greatly obliged in Gratitude to requite them if they are able which St. Paul calls shewing Piety at home Especially to shew this Piety in doing such things for them as they would most Desire to be done for themselves And if these Deceased Relations had Liberty to speak their own mindes to us I belive we should hear that nothing lyes nearer to their Hearts or would be more for their Ease or Comfort than doing Justice for them where they owe it or paying their just Debts is And therefore to take these up according to our Ability and Circumstances and reasonably to content and satisfie their Creditors is a Great and Noble part of Religious Piety towards them and a most Rewardable instance of Gratitude and Natâ—ral kindness Which is of the more account as being shown towards those who tho' heretofore they have done much more for us yet now can doe nothing either for us or for themselves and as being thereby an Office full of Humanity and Generosity as well as of Gratitude and Piety Thus much I thought fit to premise for a Brief Direction to Sick or Dying Persons how to manage and employ themselves when call'd by God to these Conditions and also to the surviving Relations how to discharge their Parts well upon the Death of Friends But for a more full Assistance and Direction of their Practice or Devotions I have laid together some choice Scriptures and Composed particular Prayers fit to Guide their Practice and express their Devotion on the several Duties and Exigencies of the State of Sick or Dying men or of the surviving Kindred when their Friends are taking from them And these are contained in the Pages following Prayers and Devotions FOR The State of Sickness Scriptures for the Duties and Needs of Sick Persons Psal. 39. and 130. Job 7. Matt 25. to v. 14. 2 Cor. 5. to v. 12. Psal. 77. and Psal. 6. Isa. 38. Heb. 12. I. Sickness and Afflictions are sent and ordered by Almighty God and come on Errands of Mercy AFfliction cometh not forth of the dust neither doth trouble spring out of the ground For God maketh sorâ— and bindeth up he woundeth and his hands make whole Job 5. 6. 18. I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand Deut 32. 39. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Rev. 3. 19. Even as the Father doth the Son in whom he delighteth Prov. 3. 12. For what Son is he whom the Father Chastneth not So that if ye endure chastning God dealeth with you as with Sons But if ye be without chastizement whereof all are partakers then are ye Bastards and not Sons Hebr. 12. 7 8. You only have I known of all the Families of the Earth therefore I will punish you for all your Iniquities Amos 3. 2. Behold then happy is the Man whom God correcteth Job 5. 17. For when we are judged we are chastned of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the World 1 Cor. 11. 32. And 't is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy Statutes Psal. 119. 71. Our Earthly Fathers indeed chastned us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his Holiness Heb. 12. 10. So that I know O! Lord thy Iudgments are Right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me Psal. 119. 75. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without end Amen And this Glory be to the Father c. may be added at the end of all the following Collections of Scripture when they are used Devotionally II. How they are to be received I. With Repentance of their Sins BY sin came death and death hath passed upon all men because all have sinned Rom.
one or other whereof may still be recited by her Self or read to her by her Friends as often as she pleases 1. LOrd now my Sorrows have got hold upon me let thy strength come in to support me Oh! let not my Burdens come faster upon me than thy Succours do But give me Patience to bear my Pains and quietly to wait thy time of easing them Give me Faith to relye upon thy Mercy and Promises and to believe that they will be shewn towards me and fulfilled upon me in their Season Give me Comfort under my pangs and after them And as thou hast enabled me to conceive a Child and to bear it hitherto in my Womb so now to Crown those Blessings give me strength to bring it forth at its full time and if it may please thee neither let my Pains be too sharp nor too long before I am happily delivered of the same for my dearest Lord and Saviour Jesus Christs sake Amen 2. O! Almighty God do thou direct the Counsels and Endeavours of those who charitably Minister about me Guide them to ways that are most for mine and my Childs safety and ease and of quickest dispatch Oh! let thy Counsel and thy hand go along with theirs for they can do nothing without thee Let me now be thy Care for thou art my Confidence And save and deliver me for now is the hour of my extreme need and of thy shewing Pity and Mercy on me thro' the Merits and Mediation of my dearest Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen 3. LOrd I receive these Pangs as the Sorrows which thou hast justly laid upon our Sex for being first in Disobedience I accept them as the punishment of mine iniquity Oh! let that appease and pacifie thee I resist not but submit my self to them meekly Oh! then smite not too sore nor lay too much upon me But proportion both their Degrees and continuance not according to my Sins but according to my weakness and as may best suit with thy tender Mercies thro' Jesus Christ my Lord Amen 4. SUpport me O! dear God for I am weak Support me for I am one that fears thee Support thou me for I trust my Self unto thee and wait on thee and long sore for thy Mercy and my safe Delivery for Jesus Christ's sake Amen 5. MAke hast to help me O! Lord and deliver me speedily for my Spirit waxeth faint This speedy ease my Flesh earnestly desires if thou seest it fit for me But yet I humbly submit the same to thee For be it quicker or â—lower thy time I acknowledge is always best Oh! then deliver me when thou pleasest and give me Patience to wait for my Delivery And delay it no longer O! my dear God than suits best with my weakness and with thy Goodness for my Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's sake Amen Short Ejaculations which she may use in time of her Travel LOrd my Groans are not hid from thee let not thy mercy be hid from me Thy Terrours come about me and threaten me on every side but what time I am afraid I will still put my trust in thee Consider O! my God that I am made of Flesh very sensible of Pains and short in Patience Oh! lay not too much upon me Help me Lord for thou art my hope Make hast to my help for my Spirit waxeth faint Oh! Jesu who wast thy self born of a Woman help this tender Babe strugling for Birth Amen IV. Prayers after Delivery The Collect in the Office of Churching of Women which may be said by some Friend there present O! Almighty God we give thee humble Thanks for that thou hast vouchsafed to deliver this Woman thy Servant from the great Pain and Peril of Child-birth Grant we beseech thee most merciful Father that she thro' thy help may both faithfully live and walk according to thy Will in this Life present and also may be partaker of everlasting Glory in the Life to come thro' Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Other Prayers which may be read to her for her devoutly to offer up to God her Friends heartily concurring and saying Amen with her 1. A Thanksgiving for safe Deliverance O! Father of Mercies what Thanks can I worthily give unto thee for thine unspeakable Goodness to my helpless Babe and me and for the wondrous things which thou hast now done for my Soul For the Pangs and Terrors of Death got hold of me and the mouth of the Pit was opened and ready to shut it self upon me But thou hast Graciously asswaged those Pains and wrought Deliverance and turned my Sorrows into Joys Lord I will ever adore and magnifie thy Mercy which hath dealt so lovingly with me and praise thy Truth and Faithfulness which have not suffered thy Promises or my Hopes to fail I will never forget how mindful thou hast been of me in my low Estate and how thou hast been a present help in the time of my greatest need For I have felt thy Power O! my God in my greatest weakness and have been enabled thereby above my strength I have tasted thy Goodness in the midst of all my piercing Pangs and Sorrows for thou didst comfort and support me under them and dist measure them out to me according as I could bear them and in tender Pity didst send ease yea hast turned those Sorrows into Joys when I could bear no more And oh that all thy Saints may praise thee for the Glories of thy Power and Mercy That they may be encouraged to fear and trust thee for the wonders which thou host wrought for me And that I may never grow weary of waiting on thee remembring how gracious thou art still in the end to me nor despair of thy most seasonable help and merciful Deliverance in my greatest Streights and Difficulties thro' my Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen 2. A Prayer for Grace and Assistance under the remaining Sorrows and Tryals of Child-bed PErfect Good Lord that Deliverance both to my child and me which thou hast most graciously begun and let us not be â—ost after the Wonders which thou hast already done for us for want of thy doing a little more Continue my Patience O! Father and my Humble dependance and comfortable hope in thee under any further pains and Accidents of my Child-bed Support my Spirit under them and if thou pleasest bring me safely thro' the same and raise me up again in thy due time Thy Mercy and Power are still the same and will be the same for ever Oh! Let them still be shewn for my Recovery as they have already been for my Delivery Let them be shewn upon me that I may still more and more praise thee and because I place my safety in thy love and care and put my hope and trust in thee But if in thy Paternal Providence whereto I willingly commit my self thou hast determined otherwise concerning me thy Blessed Will O! my God be done Dispose of me either
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