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heaven_n	bless_v	lord_n	praise_n	6,339	5	9.8316	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86127	Hell's everlasting flames avoided, and heaven's eternal felicities injoyed containing the penitent sinner's sad lamentation for the deplorableness of his impious life ... : also holy preparations to a worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper ... / by John Hayward, D.D.	Hayward, John, D.D.	1696 (1696)	Wing H1231A; ESTC R42331	47,842	119

Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order Ma●thew 25. ve 3● Come ve Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom● prepared for you c ●●●thew 25. ver 41 Depart from me ye Curse● 〈◊〉 Everlasting Fire prepared for the Dev●● HELL's Everlasting Flames AVOIDED AND Heaven's Eternal Felicities INJOYED The First Part. Containing the Penitent Sinner's Sad Lamentation for the Deplorableness of his impious Life With a short View of the Terrors of the Damned in Hell and his Holy Resolutions to a thorough Reformation with some Considerations upon the Glory of the Saints in Heaven Also holy Preparations to a Worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper With Devout Prayers Praises and Thanksgivings upon several Occasions with Graces before and after Meat To all which are Added Hymns and Spiritual Songs of Praises to Almighty God for our happy Deliverance from Popery and the horrid Cruelty and Barbarity of Blood-thirsty Men With an excellent Prayer for King William By that eminent Divine Mr. John Hayward The Tenth Edition London Printed for Robert Gifford and are to be sold at his Shop in Old-Bedlam without Bishopsgate 1696. Price bound 1s TO THE Christian READER AS you tender the Everlasting Welfare of your Precious and Immortal Souls cease from doing Evil learn to do well and with this humble Penitent take a view and look back upon what you hav● been a doing ever since you came in to the World to this day and I doub● not but that you will find you hav● been too much like him in doing th● which you ought not and leavin● that undone which you ought to do Therefore let him be your Pattern and take up with him in his Resolutions which is fully to leave h● old course of Life and to follow on hard after the Lord and to seek him while he may be found and to call upon him while he is near and to press forward towards the Mark of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus our Lord for which end this small Piece is Published And that you may reap this Benefit by it of finding Acceptance with the Lord Jesus and by his Merits be received into Glory is and shall be the Constant and Hearty Prayer of Your Soul 's Cordial Friend JOHN HAYWARD THE PENITENT SINNER Bemoaning and Bewailing the DEPLORABLENESS OF HIS IMPIOUS LIFE PART I. Psal xi 6. Upon the Wicked he shall rain Snares Fir● and Brimstone and a horrible Tempe● This shall be the Portion of their Cup. O Christ the Son of the most H●● God the Saviour of most mi●rable Men who for us Men a● for our Salvation left thy Glorious Ha●tation in the highest Heavens whose B●fed Body was buffetted with Fists to with Whips stretched upon the Cropierced with Nails and Spears and bath in the sweet Streams of thy own preci● Blood for the Redemption of all 〈◊〉 kind O Father O Restorer O Preserver of Life to thy Majesty to thy Mercy my sinful Soul full of fresh bleeding Wounds full of old corrupted Sores sick to the Death with the surfeit of Sin would willingly present it self and send a few faint Groans unto thy heavenly Ears But alas the greatness of my Disease ha●● almost taken away the sense thereof and so horrible is my corruption that I fear I shall offend thy pure Presence and altogether turn thee from regarding me thine Ear from attending me and thy Compassion from relieving me for I have a sharp Testimony within me which accuseth which condemneth that altho' in words I have profess'd thy Service yet my Actions have charged my Tongue with Untruth For I have never subdued my own Will and ●elinquisht the Prey whereon it hath fed which Conquest is a necessary part of Christian Duty to obey the Pleasure But I have remain'd Proud Ambitious Angry Cruel Rash Vain-glorious Envious Covetous Deceitful Delicate Sensual Idle Light a great lover of my self of my Flesh of my Estimation of all wordly both Advantages and De●●ghts I have added Folly unto Blindness Malice to Ignorance and Obstinacy to Offence I have sinned with a high hand against thee and more impudently should I have sinned if as I had ended with my Conscience I had ended also with my Shame In a word all my Passions have been so lively and strong that I cannot cast my trembling thoughts into any corner of thy Commandments but my Conscience giveth me a sharp conviction and crieth out guilty against me Adam did once taste of one forbidden Fruit but I have often tasted of all I have broken every Branch of the Tree of Good which thou hast commanded and of the Tree of Evil which thou hast forbidden I have taken delight in all sorts of sins not always for pleasure but either in meer Licentiousness or depraved Custom and many times not without great trouble and toil even as the Prophet said Jer. 9. 5. They have taken great pains to do evil Behold O gracious Lord the Guides which I have followed the Friends which I have affected the Counsellors which 〈◊〉 have credited and the Masters which I ha● obeyed with these have I lovingly liv● with these have I loyally kept my Fai● even wi●h the Appetites of my filthy Fle●● with the Transitory Treasures of this World bathing my unhappy Soul in the soul and foolish Pleasures of this Life These have been my Gods these have been my Idols but now they are my Accusers now Witnesses against me now my Judges now my Tormentors I am far more wretched than I can possibly imagine and altho' I think that I am at the very bottom of my Misery yet do I find my self to sink daily more deep in the Mire I am one of the most poor and wretched Creatures in the World I am one that hath most abused thy benefits and if thou hadst wrought so much both by secret Inspiration and by outward means in them of Tyre and Sidon even in other great Sinners as thou hast wrought in me they would have converted unto thee in Sackcloth and Ashes I am unworthy of the service and use of any of thy Creatures I am unworthy to lift up mine Eyes towards Heaven and more unworthy to speak unto thee but most of all to ●eceive from thee those Comforts and Consolations wherewith thou usest to cherish thy Children O Sin the very Bane and Death of my Soul was it not enough for th●e to infect a heedless Creature with thy Poyson bu● thou must make it so ugly and loathsom● that the Eye of Mercy should not endu●● to behold Was it not enough for thee ●● crush it in pieces with thy weight but tho● must also go to stop the Ear of Pity wit● Horror and the Mouth of Praye● 〈◊〉 Shame Was it not enough for thee to draw me to destruction but thou must all so take from me both the sense of my Grief and the sight of my Danger an● consequently the Cure of the one and the Care of the other I was wounded and I felt it not

of this Sacrifice of Thanks giving for thy great Mercy in appearing so wonderfully for me to my great Ease and Comfort in that dreadful and painful Hour of Child-bearing that thou hast been pleased safely to deliver me from the Perils of it and to lengthen out my Days in the Land of the Living and to see the Fruit of my hard Labour and Travail Lord grant that it may prosper and grow up in thy Fear to thy Glory and both our Comforts And grant Lord that I may live worthy of this Mercy and make thee some grateful Returns for all thy Mercies Pardon and forgive me all my Sins and preserve me from sining against thee any more And all I beg upon the account of thy dear Son To whom with the O Father and with the blessed Spirit be all Honour Praise and Glory both now and for evermore A Prayer for all Christian Vertues as Love Faith Hope and Charity c. O Lord Father of all Mercies and God of all Consolations bless me with all thy Spiritual Blessings and Heavenly Graces make me rich in Love strong in Faith full in Assurance of Hope and abound in all Charitable Actions according to that Sufficiency thou hast been ple●sed to bless and entrust me with that I may have nothing to answer for at that great and terrible Day wherein the Secrets of all Hearts shall be opened and every one rewarded according to their Doings Lord grant that thy Graces may all flourish in me as the Bay-Tree that so by my good Example others may return to thee their Lord and Saviour and so have cause to sing Praises to thy Great Name for all thy Wondrous Works Lord keep me from Insolence and Pride and grant me true Humility and Zealousness of Mind and give me a true Consideration of my own Vileness that so I may tremble and stand in Awe before thee as a sinful Man having always a better esteem of others than my self Gracious Lord when the Devil shall accuse my own Conscience bear Witness against me and the whole World forsake me for my Sins do thou be my Strength my Salvation my Rock and strong Tower of Defence against these potent Enemies of my Soul Enflame my Dead Heart with the Heavenly Affection of an unseign'd Love that I may love and adore thee above all and my Neighbour as my self Grant me a good Mind to help and succour all to my Ability to forbear and forgive all that ever any did against me Let not the least Spark of Envy or Wrath lodge within my Breast nor never let the Sun go down upon my Anger but let me be satisfied that Vengeance is thine and that thou art so just that thou wilt send it upon the Heads of those that fear thee not and call not upon thee but that live in Envy and Malice and Implacableness of Spirit against thy Children Give me Grace O Lord to follow the Example of all good Men and keep me from that hateful Sin of Sloath and I●leness which is the High-way to Want and Beggary Grant me a contented mind and moderate my Des●res towards the Things of this World and Lord be with me at the Hour of Death and when I go hence and be no more seen I may be admitted into thy Kingdom of Glory that I may eternally sing Hallelujah's to thy great Name Grant this O God and whatever else I stand in need of for Jesus Christ his sake To whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all Honour Praise and Glory both now and for evermore A Prayer for all Earthly Blessings O Lord God Eternal which causeth the Sun to shine upon the Just and the Unjust satisfie the Desires of thy Servants with thy bountiful Goodness we cannot but must humbly acknowledge that we are not worthy of the least of thy Favours but that it is of thy Eternal Goodness we are living Monuments of thy mercy all this Day Lord do thou supply our daily Necessities and give us this Day and every Day our daily Bread Bless the manuring of our Ground prosper 〈◊〉 Corn and bless the Seed-time with the Former and Latter Rain in their due Seasons Keep our Fruits while they be upon the Earth from Ha●l and Thunder from excessive Droughts over much Ra●o and Mildews and send us a joyful Harvest O Lord bless and increase our Cattle and keep them from those Casualties they are obnoxious to amd bless our ●●ske● and our Store and keep our Granaries Barns and Store Houses from Fire and boisterous Winds Thieves a●d sudden Inundations Prosper all our Undertaki●gs whether by Sea or Land Be thou a present H●lp in time of Trouble and turn our Dear●●s into Cheapness and Scarcity into Ple●ty And Lord open the Hearts of those to whom thou hast dealt liberally that as thou hast been to them they may be to their poor Fellow-Creatures that are in Want Help us O Lord in all our Straits and oppress us not with too much Poverty neither let us be puffed up in the Day of Prosperity but keep us in Evenness of Temper in either extreme that we may live in thy Fear and die in thy Favour And all this we beg upon the Account of thy dear Son and our blessed Redeemer to whom with thee O Father and the blessed Spirit be all Praise Honour and Glory both now and for evermore Graces before and after Meat Grace before Meat O Lord God Maker of Heaven and Earth who hast created ●ll things for the use and service of Men Bless these thy Creatures which thou hast provided for us and set before us at this time that they may strengthen our Bodies so that thereby we may be the better able to live to thy Praise Honour and Glory both now and for evermore Grace after Meat ALmighty God and Everlasting Father who out of thy infinite Goodness hast most plentifully fed us for which and all other Mercies we return thee hearty Thanks begging of thee so to direct and guide us as that we may in some measure live answerable to thy Goodness to us All which we beg for Jesus Christ his sake To whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be Praise Honour and Glory henceforth and for evermore Grace before Meat MOst Gracious Father we crave thy Blessing upon these good Creatures that thou by thy good hand of Providence hast bestowed upon us grant that they may give Nourishment to these our mortal Bodies and sanctifie them so unto us as that we may live to thy Praise to thy Honour and to thy Glory both now henceforth and for evermore Grace after Meat MOst Bountiful and Gracious Lord God whose Goodness is extended to the uttermost Parts of the Earth what cause have we to praise and magnifie thy holy Name for this great and singular mercy of daily taking care for us and plentifully feeding of us with the best and choicest of thy Creatures As thou hast filled our Bodies with them so fill