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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51398	Some collections of scripture, with private mediations as an help in prayer, with some hymns and psalms of David. Cum humilitatis reverentia. By G. M.	G. M., fl. 1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing M27B; ESTC R219297	36,037	92

sleep not in sin lest the sleep of death surprize thee the hour is certain in nothing but uncertainties For sure thou must die yet thou knowest not on what day nor in what place nor how thou shalt be disposed when death must be entertained O Lord how many thousand Bills of Mortality have passed over our heads and we little or nothing regard them who knows but some of us may fill up the next weeks account and be forc'd to render up our accounts before the Just Judg of all the Earth of all our deeds done in the flesh whether they be good or evil He that once thought to begin to take his ease was fain that very night whether he would or no to make his end would you have thought this He but now flourished like a green bay tree his thoughts full of mirth his soul of ease but I passed by and lo he was goue Gone whither his body to the grave his soul to hell whose turn may be next God only knows who knoweth all But whosoever we be that go on in a course of sin in the name of God let us seriously bethink our selves of Mortality how many have we heard of that went well to bed over night for ought any man could tell and yet have been found dead the next mo●ning O help us to repent of all our sins by crying and sighing and sorrowing for sin It may be this night and that is not long to come but we may sleep our last in this world O keep us that we go not to bed with a conscience laden with sin O how should we take any rest or sleep with the brother of death when we lie down in danger of eternal death O there is no more but a breath one breath and no more no more but a step one step and no more Oh were not this lamentable that some One of us who are standing or sitting here should this night sleep his last and to morrow have his body carried to his Grave yea and before to morrow morning which the good Lord in mercy forbid have his soul cast from a bed of Feathers into a bed of Fire And yet alas alas if any of us should die this night in our sins or in an unregenerated state thus will it be with whomsoever we be To morrow may our bodies be cold under earth and our souls frying in the flames of hell 'T is good for us all to expect death every day and by this means death foreseen cannot possibly be sudden No 't is he dies suddenly that dies unpreparedly Watch therefore saith our Saviour be ever in a readiness and as we tender the everlasting wellfare of our poor souls let us learn that Lesson of our blessed Saviour not to lay up for our selves treasures on earth where Moth and Rust doth corrupt and where Thieves break through and steal but lay up for our selves treasure in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where Thieves do not break thro' and steal it is those treasures those stocks of grace that will last us for ever which is a circumspect walking that Fervency of spirit that Zeal of good works that purity of conscience St. John speaketh of which is the property of every true hearted profe●sor It is the work the life the power of that prayer that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy O that we could lay up such heavenly provision against the day of caamity if while it is called to day we could make our peace with our peace with our heavenly Father by an humble exercise of repentance If in this time of grace we could purchase Gods Favour and those rarest Jewels of Faith and a good conscience if now before we come to appear at that dreadful Tribunal that we could be so happy as to make God and Christ our Friends in the Court of Heaven O how wellcom and how blessed then would our death be unto us come it never so suddenly still should death find us ready and if ready no matter how suddenly yea tho it were this night Oh help us seriously to consider what Jesus Christ did and suffered for us and for our sins O how was he sorrowful even unto death with exceeding sorrow which made him pray that the cup might pass from him yet with submission to his Fathers will and all to save our poor lost and undone souls O the riches and love and the free grace of Jesus Christ to us Oh the earnestness of his prayers and the agony he was in not drops of water only but his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground O how was he buffeted spit on reviled mocked and scourged sor our sins Oh how was the chastisement of our sins laid upon him and by his stripes are we healed And dear Father do thou be graciously pleased to keep up in us an humble remembrance of this abundant love wherewith the Lord Jesus Christ hath bound us he was crowned with Thorns for our sins that we through his merits might be crown'd with glory in the Kingdom of Heaven O unspeakable love how were his tender hands and feet nailed to the Cross his holy unspotted breast peirced with a spear and his dearest hearts blood let forth and all to save our poor souls from the pit of eternal destruction O let us consider the great necessity we are in in not looking unto this Jesus we have need of Christ we have need that he pray in us and need that he pray for us unto our heavenly Father we have need that he work in us and need that he work for us of his plessed will and pleasure We have need that he present us and ours blameless before his Fathers presence in life and death and at the Judgment day O Lord there is not a moment in our lives wherein we stand not in continual need of Jesus Christ O then let our necessities drive us to Christ and mind us of Christ And as it hath been our great misery in departing from God dear Father we beseech thee to cause us now to lay out all our strength by the blessed assistance of thy holy spirit of grace to the uttermost of our power to gain a reconciliation with God to close with him on his own terms propounded to us in the Gospel And dear Father be pleased to raise up in us a love and a delight in the keeping holy thy Sabbaths here on earth that so we may be fitted and prepared to keep an ever lasting Sabbath with thee in Heaven Dear Lord pardon cleanse purge O purifie and make new our inward man by thine Almighty power subdue our corruptions and renew our Natures and bring us near unto thy self by the gracious workings of thy blessed spirit O forget not thy loving kindnesses of old but reach O reach our souls by the blessed spirit of thy grace O let us feel the power of thy

SOME Collections of Scripture WITH Private Meditations As an help in PRAYER WITH Some Hymns and Psalms of DAVID 2 Chro 6. 19. Have respect therefore to the Prayer of thy Servant and to his Supplication c. Jer. 29. 12 13. Then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and Pray unto me and I will hearken unto you And ye shall seek me c. Collos 3. 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom c. Cum Humilitatis Reverentia By G. M. London Printed for the Author 1695. A Form of Prayer in Scripture-Phrase O GOD the God of the Spirits of all Flesh who hath Created the Heavens and stretched them out and the Earth with the Fruits thereof and Breath and Spirit to them that walk herein who art clothed with Honour and Majesty who coverest thy self with Light as with a Garment Look down from Heaven ●hy holy Habitation and have respect unto the Prayers of thy Servants and let our Prayers ●ome before thee as Incense and the lifting up of our hands as the Morning Sacrifice We ●onfess O Lord thou didst Create our first Parents in thy own Image and beathedst into ●hem the Breath of Life but they have eaten of the forbidden Fruit all mankind from their Loyns have sinned and come short of the Glory of God And yet O Lord to fill up the Measure of our Condemnation we have ●dded actual Sins for who can say he hath made his Heart clean We have sinned in thought opur Souls which should have been seasoned with the sweet Meditations of thy Goodness Mercy and Grace have been prostrated and assailed with black and hollish thoughts of Atheism and Dispair Blasphemy and all manner of Soul-vexing fears O! what a world of Ignorance Vanity of M● and disesteem of thy mercy and unb●● have seated themselves in our Hearts confess O Lord we have sinned in our wo● o●r Tongues that should have been as Tr●pets to sound thy praise have been de●guilty of Blasphemy Swearing Lying S●dering Reviling Rayling Brawling Scos● Boasting Sowing Seeds of Discord amo● our Neighbours The Tongue is a Fir● World of Iniquity and hath defiled whole Bodies and is set on Fire of Hell confess Lord we have sinned indeed wit● our worldliness covetousness pride lust ●● lice lukewarmness impatiency vain glory self love O the wrongs we have done the Goods we have ill-gotten and the time have mispent and O the Sabbath we have p●phaned Oh! the pollutions the distemp● and estrangedness from God in our Sou● Oh the Villanies and the Vanities of ●● who le Life O Lord we may as well num● the Stars as our sins But dear Father thou pleased to translate us from darkness light and from the Power of Satan into ●● Kingdom of thy dear Son Let us no lon● abuse the good gifts of our God and turn Grace into wantonntss And let us not gri● the Holy Spirit of God whereby we are sea● unto the day of Redemption O help a keep us that we do not wrong the bles● Name of God his Word Religiopn and P●●fession of Godliness We confess Lord have sinned against thy Law and have 〈◊〉 all thy Commandments O Lord we confess we have sinned against the Gospel we are ashamed of the Gospel of Christ tho it be the power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth We have not thirsted after Christ our Souls have not panted after him as the Hart panteth after the water-brooks We have not loved the Lord Jesus in Sincerity nor considered him as the Life of our Souls We have not counted all things loss and dung for the knowledg of Christ Jesus our Lord we take no pains to know him and the power of his Resurrection and the Fellowship of his Sufferings we hide as it were our Faces from him and will not have him to Reign over us we have not relied upon Christ for Justification Sanctification and Salvation O Christ there is not one of us that stireth up himself to take hold on thee And yet Lord thou hast given us space to repent of all our Abominations which we have committed yet we have not repented but have made our faces harder than a Rock and have refused to return But above all Oh the insolencies and accesses and tyrannies of our bosom sins our darling delights which we cannot part withal And for all these sins thou O God hast Punished us less than our Iniquities have deserved It is of the Lord's Mercy we are not consumed because his compassions fail not If thou shouldst lay Judgment to the line and righteousness to the plume● thou mightest make thy Jealousy to smoke against us and the Curses that are written in thy book th● mightest lay upon us and blot out our Nam● from under Heaven Thou mightest ma●thine Arrows Drunk with Blood and t●● Sword devour Flesh from the beginning of r●venges and give us our Portion with t●● wicked that are turned into Hell and all t●● Nations that forget God But thou O Lor● hast said If we confess our Sins thou art fait●ful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse u● from all our unrighteousness Thou hast pro●mised That he that covereth his sins shall no● prosper but he that confesseth his sins an● forsaketh them shall have Mercy Thou ha● proclaimed Return thou back-sliding Israel saith the Lord and I will not cause mine an●ger to fall upon thee for I am Merciful saith the Lord only acknowledg thy Iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God Thou hast threatened I will return to● my place till they acknowledg their Offences in their Afflictions they will seek me early Thou hast sweetly encouraged us if any man say I have sinned and p●rverted that which was right and it profitted me not thou wilt deliver his Soul from the Pit and his Life shall see the Light And O Lord in reference to these thy sayings promises and proclamations threats and encouragments we do embolden our selves to come before thee to acknowledg our Wickedness and our iniquities O Lord we lie down in our shame and ●ur confusion covereth us We cannot but say we have sinned against the Lord our God we ●nd our Fathers from our youth have not o●eyed the voice of the Lord our God And ●oh that we could seek the Lord as the Children of Israel and Judah together going and weep●ng asking the way to Zion with our Faces thither-ward This is a time of Mourning our sins have given us an occasion of sorrow Oh that we were on the Mountains like the Doves of the Vallies every one of us mourning for our Iniquities Why Lord it is thy own promise A new Heart will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away thy stony Heart out of your Flesh and I will give you an Heart of Flesh Oh let us take to us words and say to the Lord take away all iniquity from us and receive