shall not depart from thee the Covenant of thy Peace shall not fail It is better to trust in God than to have any confidence in Man It is better to trust in God than to have confidence in Princes Thy Faithfulness is well-known in the Congregation of Saints They that know thee put their trust in thee because thou forsakest not them that seek thee Thou art the Hope of Israel and the Saviour thereof in a time of trouble the Strength of their Heart and their Portion for ever Thou art known for a Refuge in the Palaces of thy City for thou art their mighty Protection and strong Ground a Succour from Stumbling and a Help from Falling Thou fulfillest the Desires of them that fear thee thou hearest their Cry and art a present Help in trouble Thou art the best Refuge in the midst of Storms and the best Support to all afflicted Spirits How excellent is thy loving-kindness O Lord therefore thy people put their trust under the shadow of thy Wings As the Heavens are above the Earth so great is thy Love unto them that fear thee Thou art their God for ever and ever Who is God save the Lord Who is a Rock save our God Good and plenteous in mercy to all them that call upon him Thou ridest upon the Heavens in thine Excellency for the help of thy people thou art their refuge and underneath them are his everlasting Arms. As the Mountains are about Jerusalem so the Lord is about his people even for ever and ever Thy way O God is in the Sanctuary who is so great a God as our God thou art a God that do'st Wonders thou hast declared thy Strength among tha people There is none like unto thee O Lord whose Name is great in Might Thy Name alone is excellent The Lord is above all Gods the only Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords the absolute Monarch who hath a boundless and infinite Supremacy Thou deservest to receive from every Understanding Nature Never-ceasing Praises and perpetually to be worshipp'd with the most humble Prostrations Who is like unto thee O Lord among the Gods Who is like unto thee among the Gods glorious in Holiness fearful in Praises doing Wonders Thou rulest by thy power for ever of old thou hast laid the Foundations of the Earth The Heavens are the Works of thy Hands they shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a Garment and as a Vesture shalt thou change them they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy years have no end Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom O Lord thou art worthy of all Honour Glory and Power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created The glorious Productions of thine Omnipotency they speak thee to be infinitely Excellent They are the Evidences and Demonstrations of thy Infinite Wisdom Power and Providence Thou hast garnished the excellent Works of thy Wisdom and art from everlasting to everlasting Thy Works praise thee and are honourable and glorious and are to be had in remembrance to all generations They are thy Witnesses that thou art God The Heavens declare thy Glory and the Firmament sheweth thy Handy-work The Operations of thy Hands are Testimonies of thy Glory Glasses of thy Beauty Preachers of thy Wisdom and Provokers of Love O Lord how manifold are thy Works in Wisdom hast thou made them Thou formedst the Earth by thy Power established the World by thy Wisdom and didst spread forth the Heavens by thy Understanding By thy Word thou didst hang the Earth upon the Waters Thou createst all things thou bringest out their Host by number by the greatness of thy Might Thou tellest the number of the Stars by thy Word they are established Thou hast appointed the Moon for Seasons and the Sun knoweth his going down Thou hast builded thy Stories in the Heavens and founded thy Troops upon Earth Thou dost greater things than these are for we have seen but a few of thy Works Thou do'st great things unsearchable marvellous things without number With thee is Wisdom and Strength Counsel and Understanding The Consideration of thy Works are Entertainments worthy of the best and most raised Minds Honour and Majesty are bfore thee Strength and Beauty are in thy Sanctuary Glory and Honour are in thy Presence Strength and Gladness are in thy Place In thy presence is fulness of Joy and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore Thou humblest thy Self when thou beholdest the things that are done in Heaven and in Earth Even as the Clay is in the hand of the Potter so all the Nations of the Earth are at thy disposal The Kingdom is the Lords thou art Governour among the Nations Thou art great in Wisdom and mighty in Power and beholdest all things continually Thou seest from everlasting to everlasting there is nothing that is wonderful unto thee The great Orderer and Disposer of all Things There is nothing so high that is above thy Providence there is nothing so low that is beneath thy Providence There is nothing so large but it is bounded by thy Providence there is nothing so confused but thou canst order it there is nothing so contrived but thou canst disappoint it Thou keepest every thing upon the right Wheel for the managing of thy most righteous Affairs both in Heaven and Earth Thou turnest the way of the Wicked upside down the Deceiver and the Deceived are thine The Lord bringeth the Counsel of the Wicked to naught he maketh the Devices of the People of none effect Thou disappointest the Devices of the Crafty so that they cannot perform their Enterprize Thou takest the Wise in their own Craftiness the Counsel of the Froward thou carry'st head-long Thou hast power of Life and Death thou leadest down to the gates of Hell and bringest up again Before thee the Nations are but as the Drop of a Bucket or as the Small Dust of the Ballance Thou guidest the Stars thou thunderest in the Clouds and turnest the hearts of Kings as Rivers of Water Thou treadest upon the Circle of the Earth and all the Inhabitants are but as Grashoppers Thou stretchest out the Heavens like a Curtain and foldest them up as a Tent to dwell in Thy Blessed Will the power of man is not able to with-stand the Eternal Decrees no conspiracy is able to impair Thou increasest the Nations and destroyest them thou enlargest the Nations and straitens them again When thou stretchest out thy Hand who can restrain it Thou weakenest the strength of the mighty thou powrest contempt upon Princes Thy Counsels stand sure thou dost all thy Pleasure The Lord hath his way in the Whirlwind the Storm and the Clouds are the Dust of his Feet Thou dost whatsoever thou pleasest both in Heaven and in Earth Thy Will cannot go beyond thy Power who can speak the World into nothing It
be satisfied that all the miseries of this life is not worthy to be compared with that glory that shall afterward be revealed That all the thoughts of misery may be drowned in the precious deeps of Eternity For the Afflicted O Lord be Gracious to all them that are under the Wring of Sorrow and in the Press of Adversity That are Wounded with the Weapons of thy Indignation and cast down with the Evidences of thy Displeasure That are sunk into Inconsolable Afflictions captivated and fetter'd in the Darksom Prison of Discontentedness and hurried upon the Shelves and Rocks of Infelicity We humbly own thou mightest justly have made us Examples unto them our sins was in the Cry that brought down Vengeance We are not spared because we are more righteous but because to us thou art more gracious Thou dealest with us as with Princes Children others are beaten for our faults but 't is intended for our amendment Thou hast distributed sorrows in thine anger and hast broken them with breach upon breach Thou reapest that glory in their calamity that they robb'd thee of in their prosperity Thou hast builded against them and incompassed them with Gall and Travel Thou hast fill'd them with Bitterness and made them drunken with Wormwood Thou hast spoken against them in thy Wrath and vex'd them with thy sore displeasure Thy Wrath lieth hard upon them thou hast afflicted them with many waves Thou hast spread thy Net upon them and hast brought them down as the Fowls of Heaven Terrors are turned upon them they pursue their Souls like the Wind the days of affliction have taken hold upon them With thy strong hand thou opposest thy self against them Thou hast lifted them up to the Wind. Thou hast wrote bitter things against them and caused them possess the Sins of their Youth Thou hast seal'd up their transgressions in a Bagg Their Foundation is over-flown with a Flood Black Clouds have darken'd their day Gall and Wormwood hath bitter'd their Cup. Afflictions are Stinging Serpents We humbly own Sin is both the Mother and the Nurse of all Calamity There 's some of the Golden Calf in all our Suffering They have betray'd themselves into the Hands of Sorrow Afflictions spring not out of the dust nor trouble out of the ground They have largely contributed to their own ruin They have made Wings for thy Judgments which made them come so swiftly upon them Their Sins have been sure Pullies to draw on unexpected Wrath. Sin is the Venemous Root out of which springeth all Calamities Vengeance like a Blood-hound hunteth and findeth out the Guilty Their Life spendeth in Grief and their days in sighing their Strength faileth because of their Iniquity They have trodden the Paths of Death else they had not met with the Drawn Sword of thy Displeasure They have necessitated thee to chastise them Their Sin hath burned hot and hath set on fire the Train of Gods Wrath. They have strung Gods Bow with the Cords of Iniquity Their own Wickedness hath corrected them and their own Backslidings have cast them down as Trees and Garments are eaten up with Moths and Worms which they breed themselves The Vapors of Sin have ascended that have made such thundering in the Clouds Like Thunder-bolts and such fearful Meteors that fall upon the Earth from whence they had their original Their Iniquities are gone over their Heads like a heavy Burthen The Deluge of Impiety drowned the Old World The Fire of Lust fetch'd fire from Heaven upon Sodom The Stinking Coruption of Manners breed the Plague They have broken the Hedge therefore the Serpent hath bit them They have eaten the forbidden Fruit therefore the Curse is upon them Their Quails are sauced with thy Wrath. Sin hath been the Herauld that hath gone before therefore Afflictions are th' Attendants that follow after They have made paths in Sin therefore thou hast made paths in Judgment They are eating the Fruit of their own Ways and are intangled in their own Devices They have rewarded Evil unto themselves The Steps of their Strength are straitned their own Counsels have cast them down The Effects of their Transgressions are heavy upon them Is not their Condition heavier than their Complaint and their Stroke heavier than their Groanings O Lord our God their Sores are not so great but thou canst salve them The Lord upholdeth all them that fall and raiseth up them who are bowed down In regard that Sin hath been a means to bring them into Suffering grant that Suffering may be a means to bring them out of Sin Write their Sin legible in their Sorrows Cause their Chastisements to be remedies not ruins to them Cause the Arrows of Vengeance to wound the Old Man of Sin Let the Rod beat out the Moths Cause the rough File to take away the Rust Make the bitter Pills take away the peccant Humours Let their be no worse consequences of their Afflictions than the purging away their Iniquity and the taking away their Sin That the Waters of Affliction may so season their Earthen Vessels that they may be freed from all tincture of Sin and Corruption The more Correction the less Corruption we beseech thee If the Furnace be seven times hotter cause it to make them seven times better In regard thou do'st bring them thro the Fire refine them as Silver is refined and try them as Gold is tryed That they may learn Obedience by the things that they suffer Cause the pollishing of those Stones to make them fit for the Building of the Temple That their Chast'ning may yield unto them the peaceable Fruits of Righteousness Open their Ears to Discipline That all the Black Lines of Affliction may lead to the true Center of Happiness That thy Rods may become Sermons That they may hear the Rod and who hath appointed it Put Wisdom into their Inward Parts and Undestanding into their Hearts Add Instruction to Correction that they may be corrigible by the Rod lest thou send thy Axe That they may learn by Correction lest thou bring them to Destruction That they may be as Sea-marks unto them that they in future beware of the dangerous Rocks that lie hid under the smooth Waters of Sin Cause them to feel the weight of their Sin as well as the weight of their Punishment â—ake them to know their Transâ—â—â—â—â—â—on and their Sin that they 〈…〉 be truly humbled that thou â—â—â—vest put an end to all their Traâ—â—dies and turn away thine Anger and comfort them Deliver them that are big with Grief Tho they have lain among the Pots that they may be as the Wings of a Dove cover'd with Silver and his Feathers of Yellow Gold Cause the Night of Sorrow to vanish by the appearance of the Sun of Mercy like the Sun of Righteousness with Healing in his Wings That their Afflictions may be Preparatives for future Blessings and better Hearts to enjoy them That thou may'st make them glad according to the days wherein thou hast
's God that bringeth down the high and exalteth the low That drieth up the Green Tree and that causeth the Dry Tree to flourish God is Judg he setteth up one and pulleth down another Thou art the great Rewarder and Punisher of Good and Evil. Thou fillest Heaven and Earth with thy presence Thou art acquainted with all our ways and ponderest all our goings Thou sittest upon the Thrones in the Heavens and from thence beholdest the bottomless places There is not any Creature that is not manifest in thy sight All things are naked before thine Eyes with whom we have to do He that planted the Ear shall he not hear and he that formed the Eye shall he not see Thou discoverest Deep things out of Darkness and bringeth to Light the Shadow of Death Thou declarest the things that are past and for to come and revealeth the steps of hidden things No thought escapeth thee neither is any word hidden from thee The ways of good men and the goodness of their ways and the ways of evil men and the evil of their ways are not hidden from thee The Lord is in his Holy Temple the Lords Throne is in Heaven his Eyes behold his Eye lids try the Children of Men. Thou searchest the Heart thou triest the Reins that thou may'st give unto every Man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings Thou watchest over the Wicked to pluck them up and to destroy them but thou watchest over the Righteous to build them and to plant We own thy absolute Soveraignty over us and although thou art girded with Strength and who can say What doest thou Yet thou doest nothing but what is equal and right Thy ways are always full of righteousness tho not always full of clearness to mortals Thou art righteous in all thy Ways and just in all thy Judgments As thou art known to be King of Nations by thy works of Providence abroad in the World so thou art known to be the King of Saints because the Scepter of thy Kingdom is a Scepter of Righteousness Thou lovest Righteousness and Judgment and takest pleasure in Uprightness All the Works of the Lord are good he giveth every one in season and when need is so that a man need not say this is worse than that for in due time all thy doings will prove worthy of praise Our God one day will bring forth all the grounds of all his Dispensations towards Man and all the Proceedings with him in such a demonstrative and undeniable Consonancy even to the very Reason of Man that every Mouth shall be stopped It s far from thee to do wickedness it s far from the Almighty to commit iniquity Thy Counsels of old are Faithfulness and Truth Thou sittest upon the Throne of Holiness To thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabbaoth Righteousness and Judgment are the Habitations of thy Throne Thou keepest the Paths of Judgment According to thy Name O Lord so are thy praises to the ends of the Earth thy right hand is full of Righteousness Thou exercisest Loving Kindness Righteousness and Judgment in the Earth for thou excellest therein They that honour thee thou wilt honour but they that despise thee shall be but lightly esteemed The righteousness of the Upright shall deliver them but the Wicked shall be caught in their own naughtiness The Lord loveth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his Soul hateth The Lord is known by the Judgment that he executeth the wicked is snar'd in the work of his own hands The foolish shall not stand in thy sight thou hatest all the workers of iniquity He that will not bow to thy Scepter of Mercy shall be crushed in pieces by the Rod of thy Wrath. With thee is terrible Majesty Thou canst shew thy strength at all times and who may with-stand the power of thine Arm. At thy wrath the Earth shall tremble the wicked shall not be able to abide thine Indignation Thou who build'st the World can'st easily destroy the wicked Thou art wise in heart and mighty in strength who hath harden'd himself against thee and prosper'd The Pillars of Heaven tremble and are astonish'd at thy reproof Thro the greatness of thy power shall thy enemies submit unto thee We adore thy righteousness O God when thou punishest the wicked because they trample upon thy most righteous Edicts When thou judgest 't is not out of Soveraignty but Justice Thou never did'st command Man to do any thing but what was conducible to his own happiness Thou madest the World for Man thou madest Man to obey thee and the reason thou commanded'st Man to serve thee was that thereby he might be eternally blessed If we had walk'd in thy Counsels they had before this time led us out from under the Curse we are now labouring under One day in thy Courts is better than a thousand elsewhere It 's better to be a Door-keeper in the House of God than to dwell in the Tents of Wickedness We taste and relish the joys of Heaven when we contemplate thy Attributes which are the Notifications of thy Nature so far as is knowable The Demonstrations that thou hast given of thy self in thy Attributes is sufficient if we did but rightly consider to make us both fear and love thee Thy Holiness Justice and Power well consider'd would put a Bridle in our Jaws to keep us from rushing into Sin as a Horse rusheth into the Battle And thy Mercy Truth Goodness and Sufficiency well learn'd is enough to make us love thee and to be a willing people in the day of thy Power Confession of Sin OUR Guilt flasheth in our Faces wo unto us for we have sinned We have not kept the way of the Lord but perfidiously departed from our God In the greatness of our Folly we have gone astray We have Prophan'd our Affections which are due onely to God by setting them upon base and contemptible Objects The Spirit of Fornication is in the midst of us According to the multitude of the Fruit we have increased the Altars according to the goodness of our Land we have made the Images We have gone a Whoring after our own Inventions Sin like a strong Byass hath drawn our hearts from God We have run after other Lovers our Adulteries are between our Breasts We have tempted Temptation to deceive us How hotly we have follow'd the Chase of our own Delusions We are guilty of the two Old Evils we have snatch'd at the Shadow but let go the Substance VVe have forsaken the Fountains of Living Water and have hewn unto our selves broken Cisterns that hold no VVater Instead of trusting in God that giveth good things we have trusted in the good things that God hath sent Instead of rejoycing in God that giveth us Blessings we rejoyce in the Blessings that God hath given We have gaz'd upon the brightness but consider'd not the britleness We have
Earth Vice braves it with a bolden'd Face Sin is in its Power Corruption is upon its Throne Take away the Covering that covereth the face of all People For the CHVRCH WE have had a long Summer but small Harvest Increase the precious Sons of Sion Call thy Sons from far and thy Daughters from the ends of the Earth that they may be called by thy Name Let all the Nations of the Heathen become the Kingdom of the Lord Christ Take in the Heathen for thine Inheritance and the Utmost Parts of the Earth forthy Possession Let all the People praise thee O God yea let all the People praise thee Cause all the Kindred of the Nations to worship before thee and lead them in the Paths of Righteousness for thy Names sake Cast thy Net into the Seas and gather of all Kinds That the Sun of the Gospel may rise to such an Altitude that it may inlighten every Dark Corner of the Earth That the World that is geneâ—ally ruled by the Malicious Prince of Darkness may now receive and obey thy Holy Laws in the Beauty and Harmony of Holiness Search thy Sheep and seek them out as a Shepard seeketh out his Flock in the Day that he is among his Sheep and deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark Day Feed them upon Lebanon by the Rivers that they may lie them down in peace Seek that which is Lost Bring again that which is Driven away Bind up that which is Broken and strengthen that which is Sick Cause thy saving health to be known among all Nations Pull down the Strong Holds of Satan build up the Walls of Jerusalem and gather together the Out-casts of Israel Lamentable are the breaches and ruins of thy Church scarce one stone left upon another Thou art the Owner thereof and able enough therefore repair it Thy Vineyard looks very wild and instead of Grapes it bringeth forth Wild Grapes Oh prune it and fence it cleanse away the Impurity Sinfulness and Defilements of it Suffer no Root of Schism Slip of Error or Fruit of Disobedience to grow in thy Garden Cause the North Wind to arise and the South Wind to blow that the Spices may flow out Adorn the Profession of Religion with an Accession of a Blessing That the Sun of Righteousness may inliven the Church to a higher pregnancy That the Innate Power of the Gospel may prove so Victorious that Paganism Mahumatism Judaism Atheism and Papism may melt under the powerful Influences of it Oh feed thy Flock and fold them Thou who commandest the Clouds from above and openest the Windows of Heaven remember and refresh thine Inheritance with Showers of Divine Favour least it prove like a Heath in the Desart Open the Coelestial Casements and showre down Gospel Blessings If our Root be not Rottenness Heavenly Waterings and Influences will make it sprout forth into Fruits of Obedience Send down the spirit of Obedience and Fidelity that the adored Commands of our aimiable Redeemer may be obeyed Reform those parts of thy Church that are dark'ned and defiled Cast down that Tyranny Heresie and Schism which keepeth out Truth Holiness and Peace that Truth may triumph over Errour That the Streams of Truth in the Banks of Unity may make glad the City of God That Right may be restored Worth prized Vertue honoured Vice degraded and Honesty and Godliness encouraged Set Bounds to our Passions by Reason to our Errors by Truth to our Seditions by Laws to our Schisms by Charity that the Church may be as a City at Unity in it self Cause the Fire of Divine Love to burn up and consume all Roughness Hatred and Cruelty that a Willing and Peaceful Obedience may be-calm the World That Ephraim may not envy Judah nor Judah vex Ephraim Shew thy Compassions unto them who are upon the Mountains of Gilboa where there are no Dews and in Egypt where there are no Showres thou art sufficient for them Shew Pity and Favour unto them who are tossed to and fro upon the Main of Ignorance with every Wind of Doctrine Bring them under a powerful Spiritual Teaching from the Heart to the Heart from the Conscience to the Conscience from Experience to Experience Especially favour this Part of thy Church in this Kingdom that it may be a Paradise of Pleasure the Garden of God that the Valleys may be like Eden the Hills like Lebanon the Springs like Pisgah and the Rivers like Jordan and the Defence thereof the Lord Jehovah Cause thy Spirit as a mighty East Wind to disperse the Locusts That our Nation may be as a Field which the Lord hath blessed For the KING IN a most Eminent Manner give Demonstrations of thy Favour unto our Most Dread Soveraign Lord CHARLES by thy Grace of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and in all Causes and over all Persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civil in these His Majesties Realms and Dominions Supream Head and Governour Let him be precious in thy Sight Watch over him for Good Cause all Designs that are against him to prove abortive Make his Enemies to be as Dagon was before the Ark fallen down and broken in pieces having neither Heads to plot nor Hands to fight against Him As thou hast placed him on high above us make thy Blessings suitable to his Exaltation and Dignity Let not the Sun of his Prosperity decline but when his Course is finished here below he may ascend into the Unchangeable Glory and be cloathed upon and be a Star of the First Magnitude ever shining in the Heaven of Heavens For the Ministers of the GOSPEL PLace in every one of us an Over-flowing Fountain that we may not onely be constant but abundant in the Work of the Lord. That we may be a Means to mollifie their hard Hearts and bespeak their Love to God Let us be more and more under the Influences and rich Pourings of thy Spirit Make ut Masters of great Judgment and Experience in Soul Affairs That we may weild the Weapons of our Warfare which are not Carnal to the beating down of every high and towring Imagination that shall exalt themselves against the Kingdom of our Lord Christ That with sweet Insinuations and a holy Importunity we may compel them to come in that thy House may be filled and thy Feast furnished with Guests Inspire us with Zeal and Industry That we may partake of the Fountain of Wisdom and drink of the River of Knowledg that in us may be the Vein of Understanding Impregnate us with Divine Notions in such abundance that we may have teeming Wombs to inrich the World Adorn and Beautifie us with such a Brightness of Wisdom and Understanding that we may sparkle with ravishing heat of Love and Piety That the Divine Image may fairly be reflected on us that it may shine brightly in the Faces of Others Fill us with Prudence and Advice Mould many and Wise Resolutions
all prove such Predominant Lights that the People cannot but chuse us for Direction That we may be as Tutular Angels to our Flocks And that we may make all good to Heavens Eye that we shew to the World For a Blessing upon the WORD preached O Lord cause thy Word to run and be glorified Ingrave thy Counsels in our Hearts The fruitfulness of the Seed dependeth upon the Sun and the Rain Let us not onely have the presence of Ordinances but thy presence in the Ordinances Let us feel the inward Sweetness and Deliciousness that truly are in Divine Truths Confirm the Words of thy Servants and perform the Counsel of thy Messengers Shall our Lipps drop Honey and they taste no Sweetness Cause the Entrance of thy Word to give Light and Understanding to the Simple that thy Statutes may be our Songs in the House of our Pilgrimage That the efflux of Life and Power from God may beget in us a true and lively Faith The Law of the Lord being perfect cause it to convert the Soul the Testimonies of the Lord being sure that they may make Wise the Simple that the Testimonies of the Lord being right may rejoyce the Heart and the Commandments of the Lord being pure may inlighten the Eyes Imprint thy Word in Living Characters upon the Vital Powers of our Souls Cause the blind to see out of Obscurity and out of Darkness Our Sins are fast rooted in us the Branches are wide and large lay the Axe close to the Root of the Tree Let thy Call not onely reach our Ears but our Hearts That our Ears may not onely be tickl'd but our Hearts touch'd That thy VVord may not onely dwell with us but in us That we may not onely learn what to do but do what we learn That we may not onely talk like Christians but walk like Christians A good Profession and a good Conversation these two who God hath joyned together let no Man put assunder That we may be Companions of all them that fear thee and keep thy Commandments That we may not onely be Verbalists but Realists That our Heads may not onely be full of Notions but our Hearts full of Graces That Christ Jesus may not onely be the Subject of our Tongues but the Object of our Hearts That we may make it our Business yea our Meat and Drink to do the Will of our Lord. Cause the Word to prevail among us that we may meet with something that may meet with us That the Word of Christ may dwell in us in all Wisdom that his Testimonies may be our Delight and our Councellors that it may be unto us the Power of God unto Salvation Suffer not the Word to return void but that it may accomplish that which thou pleasest Quicken our Apprehensions strengthen our Memories let us not be like a Man beholding his Natural Face in a Glass and goeth away forgeting what manner of Man he was but grant that the Secret of the Lord may be with us that we may know his Covenant When the Watchmen sound the Lords Trumpet that we may take alarm with stout resolutions to follow the Lords Banner That the Words of thy Lips may keep us from the Paths of the Destroyer That the Gospel may not onely come unto us in Word but in Power in much Assurance and in the Holy Ghost Suffer not the Word to be intomb'd but inshrin'd in us That the Leaven may be hid within us until the whole be leavened that all the powers of our Souls may relish of it That we may be abundantly satisfied with the Fatness of thy House and that we may drink of the Rivers of thy Pleasure Cause thy Word to be an Engine to effect our Repentance Cause it to be as a Fire to consume our Lusts and as a Hammer to break our hard Hearts upon the Cushion of thy Mercy Bore our Ears that we may hear when thou speakest in Mercy otherwise thou wilt force us to hear when thou speakest in Wrath. That we may bow to thy Septer of Mercy lest thou break us in pieces with the Rod of thy Wrath. Grant that our Eyes may be inlightned by tasting of the Honey of the Gospel Open our Eyes that we may see the Worth and Excellency of the Pearls that are cast before us that we may gather them to inrich us that we may be known by the Bridegroom at his coming by the Gold that we have bought and the White Rayment we have put on Cause the Word of Reconcilation to make such a Conjunction betwixt Christ and our Souls that they may never be separated Grant that we may hear in thy House of Instruction lest thou bring us to thy House of Correction That we may hear thy Word lest we bear the Rod. That we may turn at thy Reproof that thou may'st pour thy Spirit upon us and make known thy Words unto us lest thou hedg up our Way with Thorns and make a Wall that we cannot find our Paths Thou art the Lord that must teach us to profit that must lead us the way that we should go for thy Commandments are a Lamp and thy Law a Light and Reprooss of Instruction are the Way of Life Grant that the same Spirit that wrote the Word may teach us to understand it That through thy Precepts we may get Understanding and by Understanding hate every false Way Open our Eyes that we may see the wondrous Things that are in thy Law That we may follow the Star until we find Jesus the Christ to worship him When the Scriptures are opened to our Understandings then open our Understandings to the Scriptures That we may discern what the Spirit saith unto the Churches Quicken us with thy Precepts that we may never forget them That they may make us wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus That the light in the Golden Candle-sticks may so illuminate us that we may walk in thy paths without stumbling Cause thy Word to take Root downward that it may bear Fruit upward that we may have respect unto all thy Commandments Make the VVord to be as a Remora to stay our Carnal Desires which are Voyaging in the Ocean of VVorldy and Sinful Pleasures Make us not onely constant but conscionable Hearers That thy VVord may be in us that Incorruptible Seed that liveth and abideth for ever When we meet for the better make us better for the Meeting They that serve the Lord let them be accepted with favour that their Prayers may reach unto the Clouds Let the Eye of the Lord be upon them that fear him and that hope in his mercy Let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. That they may be satisfied with the goodness of thy House even with the goodness of thy Holy Temple Dart in some Beams of Irresistible Light into our Minds That the Word may be a savour of Life unto Life and not of Death unto Death Cause that Word