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A66029	A discourse concerning the gift of prayer shewing what it is, wherein it consists, and how far it is attainable by industry, with divers useful and proper directions to that purpose, both in respect of matter, method, and expression / by John Wilkins, D.D. ; whereunto may be added Ecclesiastes, or, A discourse concerning the gift of preaching by the same authour.	Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.	1653 (1653)	Wing W2180; ESTC R7133	129,988	242

forget not the congregation of the poor for ever O let not the oppressed return ashamed let the poor and needy praise thy name Arise O God plead thine own cause c. We are become a reproach to our neighbours a scorn and derision to them that are round about us How long Lord wilt thou be angry for ever shall thy jealousie burn like fire O remember not against us our former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name deliver us and purge away our sins for thy names sake O God the proud are risen against me and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before them But thou O Lord art our God full of compassion gracious long-suffering plenteous in mercy and truth O turne unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and save the sonne of thine handmaid Shew me some token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Arise O Lord and have mercy upon Sion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come 2. In times of Famine We should pray that our land may yield us bread without scarcenesse That he would not send upon us the evil arrowes of famine nor break our staffe of bread Nor take away our corne in the time thereof nor afflict us with cleannesse of teeth When men shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry and shall eat on the left hand and shall not be satisfied but every man shall eat the flesh of his own arme When we shall pine away and be stricken through for want of the fruits of the earth When we shall eat bread by weight and with care and drink water by measure and with astonishment When the land shall mourne and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field and the fowles of the Heaven When the husband-man shall be ashamed and the vine-dressers shall howle because the harvest of the field is perished The fig-tree shall not blossome neither shall fruit be in the vine the labour of the Olive shall fail and the fields shall yield no meat the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no heard in the stalls When we shall sowe much and bring in little when we shall eat and not have enough drink and not be filled cloath our selves and not be warme That he would according to his promise abundantly blesse our provision and satisfie our poore with bread That our Garners may be full and plenteous affording all manner of store That he would hear the Heavens and let them hear the Earth and the Earth hear the Corne and the Wine and the oyle and that they may hear his people Now because Famine is usually occasioned either by immoderate raine or drought therefore in our intercessions against this National judgement we may frame our Petitions more immediately against each of these as necessity shall require 1. Against immoderate raine That God would remember the Covenant which he hath made and though our wickednesse be very great upon the earth so that he might justly repent that he hath made us and now again resolve to destroy us from the face of the earth yet he hath promised that he will not any more cut off all flesh by the waters of a flood neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth That he would give us the former and the latter rain moderately and not punish us with a sweeping rain which leaveth no food 'T is he alone by whom the windows of Heaven are opened who giveth raine upon the earth and sendeth waters upon the fields Who cloatheth the Heavens with blacknesse and maketh sack-cloth their covering Who calleth for the waters of the Sea and poureth them out upon the face of the Earth He maketh small the drops of water they poure down raine according to the vapor thereof which the clouds do drop and distill upon men abundantly He covereth the light with clouds and commandeth it not to shine He commandeth the clouds from above and openeth the doors of Heaven That he would so order all those things which are at his disposal as that the earth may yield her increase and all the ends of the earth may fear him 2. Against Drought That he would open to us the good treasures of Heaven and give rain to our land in its season and blesse the labour of our hands He is the Father of the rain and does beget the drops of dew The bottles of heaven are at his command to open and shut them as he pleases He bindes up the waters in thick clouds and the cloud is not rent under them 'T is he that does stay the heaven over us from dew and the earth from his fruits Who doth with-hold the raine from us causing it to rain upon one City and not upon another It is by his command that the Vine-tree is dryed up and the Fig-tree languisheth and all the trees of the field are withered The seed is rotten under the clods the garners are laid desolate the barnes are broken down for the corne is withered the beasts groan and the herds of cattel are perplexed because they have no pasture and the flocks of sheep are made desolate 'T is at his command that the clouds do not raine upon us He makes the heavens over us to be brasse and the earth under us to be iron and the rain of our land to be powder and dust He causes the land to mourne and the herbs of every field to wither When the ground is chapt for want of rain when the plowmen are ashamed and cover their heads when the wilde Asses do stand in the high places and snuffe up the winde like Draggons and their eyes do faile because there is no grasse And therefore unto him it is that we must make our addresses for help and supply in all such exigences That when heaven is shut up and there is no rain because of our sins against him Yet if we shall pray unto him and confesse his name and turne from our sins when he afflicts us That then he would hear in heaven and forgive the sins of his servants and teach them the good way wherein they should walk and give rain unto the land which he hath bestowed upon them for an inheritance Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain or can the heavens give showers art not thou he O Lord our God therefore we will waite upon thee for thou hast made all these things That he would open the windows of heaven and cause the rain

down at noon and darkning the earth in the clear day Surprizing us with sad confusions when we think our selves most secure and happy Turning our feasts into mourning and our songs into lamentation bringing sack-cloath upon all loines and baldnesse upon every head making us to eat our bread with carefulnesse and to drink our water with astonishment If he should deny us his creatures when we want them take them from us when we have them withhold his blessing from attending them debarre us from the comfortable enjoyment of them sending upon us cleannesse of teeth The evil arrows of famine breaking the staffe of our bread taking away our corne in the time thereof making the heaven over us to be brasse and the earth under us to be iron If he should raine fire and brimstone down upon us if he should afflict us with hunger and thirst and nakednesse and the want of all things if he should send a rust and canker upon our estates making an hole in the bottome of our bags by which our gaines should insensibly drop away and slip from us if he should curse us in the city and in the field in our basket and in our store in the fruit of our land and the increase of our cattel in all our endeavours and the works of our hands Feeding us with the bread of affliction and with the water of affliction Giving us to drink the cup of trembling and the dregs of the cup of his fury Stretching out upon us the line of confusion and the stones of emptinesse if he should make the portion of our cup to be snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest 2. Internal punishments are those that concern the soul and inward man either in respect of blessings Natural Spiritual It were but justice if God should take from us our wits reasons memories If he should smite us with madnesse and astonishment of heart Giving us the hearts of beasts making us become raving and desperate or stupid and brutish if he should deprive us of our inward peace and quietnesse giving us a trembling heart and sorrow of minde Scaring us with dreams and terrifying us with visions Making our guilty consciences to fly into our faces to gnaw upon the soul with fierce and restlesse accusations to fill the thoughts with terrours and amazement It were but justice if he should deprive us of all his holy Ordinances sending upon us a famine of the Word Removing our Teachers into corners so that our eyes cannot see them making the night to come upon us wherein we should not have a vision that it should be dark unto us that we cannot divine that the Sun should go down over our Prophets and the day be dark over them that the Seers should be ashamed and the Diviners confounded all of them covering their lips because there is no answer of God If he should reject all our holy services hide himself from us when we seek his face stopping his ears when we cry unto him laughing at our calamities and mocking when our fear cometh if he should fling our Prayers back into our faces with a curse in stead of a blessing if he should take our confessions as an evidence against our selves and condemne us out of our own mouths If he should subtract the means of grace and not any longer continue the proffers of mercy to those who have so much undervalued and abused them If he should cause his grieved Spirit to retire from us and finally give us over to our own desperane hardnesse and impenitency to vile affections to a seared conscience and a reprobate sense whereby we might be continued in our evil courses till the day of his vengeance 3. Eternal punishments are such as concerne our immortal conditions after this life They are either of Losse Paine 1. The punishment of losse does consist in being for ever banished from the blessed presence of God and the joyes of heaven In being punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2. The pain of sense does consist in those most exquisite and unexpressible torments which shall be inflicted on the damned set forth in Scripture by everlasting fire utter darknesse the worme that dyes not ond the fire that is not quenched Chaines of darknesse The blacknesse of darknesse for ever The lake of fire burning with brimstone It were but justice if God should cut us off with swift destruction snatching us out of the land of the living with our sinnes and feares upon us and cast us into those regions of darknesse those black and cruel habitations where there is nothing but weeping and gnashing of teeth If he should take vengeance upon us in flaming fire making us to drink the wine of his wrath which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation Tormenting us with fire and brimstone in the presence of his holy Angels Should God deal with us according to our deserts it would have been much better for us that we had never been borne He might justly inflict upon us all the plagues of this life and eternal torments in the life to come There is nothing could remaine for us to expect but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation to devour us It were easie to amplifie each of these heads from those many curses and judgements denounced in Scripture which are all of them appliable to this purpose as being the desert of sinne The serious consideration and application of these things will very much conduce to the exciting of such affections in us as do become the duty of confession CHAP. XV. Of the proper materials for a Transition whereby Confession and Petition may be annexed THus much briefly concerning the Matter and Method to be observed in our Confession That which should succeed next unto it is Petition But for the better connexion of these two 't is requisite that they be joyned together by some fitting Transition The most natural materials for which may be referred unto some of these heads 1. A profession of our shame and sorrow in the consideration of our many sins and the punishments due unto them A readinesse to loath our selves for our abominations To judge and condemne our selves that we may not be condemned of the Lord. A willingnesse to set our sins ever before us as considering that though the acts of them be past yet the guilt and the danger may be present and that there may be many now in hell who have not been so great sinners as we Of this kinde is that speech of Ezra O my God I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee And Job I abhorre my self and repent in dust and ashes And Daniel O Lord to us belongeth confusion of face because we have sinned against

That he would sanctifie to us the knowledge we have already attained that it may not be idle and ineffectual but may produce in our lives answerable obedience that we do not with-h●ld any truth in unrighteousnesse That he would open our hearts to believe all those truths revealed in his Word that he would inable us to take diligent heed lest there should be in any of us an evill heart of unbelief in departing from the living God That we may firmly assent unto his promises and threats and as we do professe our selves to believe in God so we may be carefull to maintain good works That we may not rely on such outward means as cannot help us but in all our wants and troubles we may place our chief confidence on him as knowing that he is infinitely wise powerful merciful both able and willing to succour us that when we know not what to do our eyes may be upon him That in our greatest exigences when we are in a state of darknesse and can see no light we may then trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon our God That we may still cast our burden upon him and abide under the shadow of the Almighty Committing our wayes unto the Lord Being careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplications make our requests known unto God who careth for us and will never leave or forsake us That we may labour to stirre up and strengthen our hope in him such hope as may be well grounded and will not make us ashamed of which we may be alwayes able and ready to give answer to every man that asketh us a reason That we may look more at the things which are not seen then at those things which are seen That in times of fear and danger we may fly for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us which hope may be as an Anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast That no condition or temptation may make us cast away our confidence That we may give all dilligence to make our callings and elections sure To clear unto our selves the evidences of our own everlasting well-beings That we may love the Lord our God with all our heart with all our soul and with all our might so farre above that natural affection which we do bear to those other things whether father or mother wife or children brethren or sisters yea and our own lives also that we may be said to hate and despise them in comparison of him That our love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgement that we may approve the things that are excellent That we may delight in all those holy duties whereby we may enjoy communion with him That we may earnestly long and thirst after the enjoyment of him when we shall come and appear before him That he would make us Zealous and fervent in all holy duties resolute and couragious in standing to the truth not to be deterred by hopes or fears Not wronging any good cause either by our cowardize or indiscretion Not resting our selves in a luke-warm profession being neither cold nor hot but being valiant for the truth and fervent in spirit Alwayes zealously affected in a good thing Not being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ which is the power of God to salvation considering what he hath said That if we shall be ashamed of him in this adulterous generation he also will be ashamed of us when he comes in the glory of his Father with his holy Angels That we may rejoyce and glory in the LORD placing our chief happinesse in a spiritual communion with him Serving him with joyfulnesse and gladnesse of heart Delighting greatly in his Commandments Finding more happinesse in the light of his countenance then in the increase of corn and wine preferring his loving kindnesse before life it self That he would make us more heartily sensible of those many great favours which are continually multiplied upon us That he would draw up our hearts to heaven in the acknowledgement of his bounty and goodnesse that our souls may blesse him and our desires may be alwayes towards him that we may be ready to talk of his loving kindnesse and to speak good of his name endeavouring to expresse our gratitude by the readinesse and cheerfulnesse of our obedience Seeking to glorifie his name by bearing much fruit unto him That we may be patient under his afflicting hand as considering that he is the Author as well of the evil we suffer as of the good we enjoy And shall we receive good from the hand of God and shall we not receive evil The greatest judgement that can befal us in this life is farre lesse then our deserts 'T is the Lords mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions faile not And then besides he hath promised that all things shall work together for the good of them that love him And though the cup may be bitter yet it proceeds from the hand of a Father That we may count our selves happy in what we suffer for righteousnesse sake because the Spirit of God and the Spirit of glory resteth upon us That we may rejoyce and glory in our tribulations as knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed Reckoning with our selves that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us That in all our sufferings we may trust in the living God committing our souls unto him who is their faithfull Creatour and righteous Judge That we may accept the punishment of our iniquity waiting upon God in the way of his judgements Being willing to put our mouths in the dust rather then to open them in murmuring against him Considering how unjust and unreasonable it is for a living man to complaine a man for the punishment of his sins And that it is rather meet to be said unto God I have borne chastisement I will not offend any more that which I see not teach thou me if I have done iniquity I will do no more I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him He does punish us lesse then our iniquities deserve Not dealing with us after our sins nor rewarding us according to our iniquities and we have no reason to repine at kinde and moderated corrections Though in some respects he hath chastened us sore yet he hath not given us over to death He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men and therefore we have great reason totally to submit and resigne up both our selves and affaires to be governed by his wise providence and to let the Lord do with us what