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A13211
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Sermons, meditations, and prayers, upon the plague. 1636. By T.S.
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Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.
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I doe give Almes ' 2. Quam facis Eleemosynam else I should put lesse into the pot and more into my purse but what good will the saving of the one or the filling of the other doe me if I lose my owne soule My soule is lost if I doe it not though I doe not doe it thereby to save my soule My salvation is thy gift and I begge it but I shall not obtaine it though I begge it unlesse I worke it out to obtaine it The Almes of my meat Ver. 16. WheÌ„ thou dost fast Ver. 33. Seeke first the Kingdome c. of my mony of my cloathes cannot purchase it for Christ purchas'd it by his blood yet for mee that purchase is not effectuall without these workes These workes will move thee to such a mercy as to turne away this Plague or some such temporall judgement These workes will make mee like thee for thou art the Father of Mercy and these are workes of Mercy These workes shall follow me to the grave hereafter are to me now an evidence and sure foundation of eternall life And yet none of these ends doe I looke upon in mine Almes all that I aime at in them is to glorifie thee to glorifie thee in my obedience to glorifie thee in my example to glorifie thee in my Faith and if thou pleasest to accept this Charity so well â—s to make it a light to shine so far as that others may thereby be stirred up to doe likewise Ver. 2. WheÌ„ thou dost thine Almes Ver. 5. WheÌ„ thou dost pray as to take it done by me because thou hast charged it upon me as by it to make my calling and election sure I blesse thee with my soule and shall evermore acknowledge my selfe created to good workes in Christ Jesus and walke in them and so carefully that my left hand of vanity and vaine glory shall not know what my right hand of sincerity and obedience doth for I doe give this Almes because thou hast commanded me so to doe and beseech thee to accept them as that they may abound to my account through Iesus Christ Amen And as I give Almes so I pray I pray Deaetically 5. Quam or as and I pray proseucetically and I pray Eucharistically and all these Exteuxetically I Deprecate and pray against evill Leade us not into Tentation Ver. 16. WheÌ„ thou dost Fast Ver. 33. Seeke first the Kingdome c. but deliver us from evill I supplicate and pray for good Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy Will be done in earth as it is in heaven give us this day our dayly bread and forgine us our trespasses as wee forgive them that trespasse against us And I gratulate and pray thee in praise and thank sgiving Thine is the Kingdome power and glory and in all these I intercede and pray for all men as for my selfe saying Our Father which art in Heaven In Faith I pray and dare say My Father as Thomas said and praid to Christ My God and my Lord but in Charity I dare not but pray and say as Christ taught St. Thomas to pray Our Father Father of us all all Creatures and things by Creation of all men by Redemption of all Christians by Regeneration of all Saints by Adoption and Obsignation still Verse 2. WheÌ„ thou dost thine Almes Verse 5. WheÌ„ thou dost pray Our Father and that so I may finde thee I pray that prayer in the same words Our Father which art in Heaven not that my thoughts limit thy Vbiquity in this place of residence or confine thee to Heaven but that this place may limit the Vbiquity of my thoughts and give them no other residence but in and confine them onely to Heaven to restraine my thoughts from roaving and ranging and to fixe them onely on heavenly things to levell them especially for heavenly blessings while I pray to a heavenly Father and principally for that which is the principallest of all things and all blessings the Hallowing of thy Name not onely for the knowing of thy Name to bee great not onely for the acknowledging of thy Name to be good not onely for the allowing thy Name to be good and great but for the hallowing of thy Name Ver. 16. WheÌ„ thou dost Fast Ver. 33. Seeke first the kingdome c. to thinke of it reverently to speake of it fearefully to sweare by it truely to call upon it confidently to use it in thought word and deed holily A good Name is preferred by men above all things and Thy Name is preferred by Christians above all Names and the Hallowing of thy Name is the chiefest of all Christian desires This I desire and desire that thy Name may be esteemed beleeved honoured obeyed and reverenced by all men as Holy And to effect this I desire againe Thy Kingdome come Thy Kingdome come into us powerfully to rule us justly to bridle us mercifully to pardon us graciously to sanctifie us and gloriously to change our vile bodies and make them like unto Thy glorious Body or rather like His glorious Body who hath taught us to pray Our Father which art in heaven Ver. 2. WheÌ„ thou dost thine Almes Ver. 5. WheÌ„ thou dost pray Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come and that we may obey thee in the kingdome of Thy Grace and reigne with thee in the kingdome of Thy Glory I desire Thy Will bee done in Earth in the kingdome of thy grace as it is in Heaven in the kingdome of thy glory Thy Will that was delivered by thy Mouth written by thy Finger preached by thy Sonne revealed by thy Spirit expounded by thy Prophets and applied by thy Pastors This thy wil I wil desire be done as knowingly without errour as faithfully without hazard as fearfully without pride in earth by earthly men as it is in heaven by heavenly Angels iâ— carth by sinners as in heaven by Saints in the earth of the common-wealth as in the heaven of the Church in the earth of the outward man as in the Heaven of the inward man Vers 16. WheÌ„ thou doest ast Vers 33. Seek first the kingdome c. in the earth of the flesh as in the heaven of the Spirit in the earth of passion as in the heaven of action that wee may not blaspheme thee in suffering by too much adversitie and not doe thy will passively nor forget thee in action by too much abundance and not doe thy will actively I desire and pray unto thee Give us this day our daily bread give freely for we deserve it not give liberally for we stand in need of it Give perpetually for else our sinnes will abridge it give Vs thy unworthy servants Vs thy adopted sonnes Vs thy divorced Spouse Vs thy defaced Image Vs thy wandring sheepe Give us this day of the Sunne and delay it not this day of our life else wee enjoy it not this day
of the Gospell and deny it not this day of thy grace and refuse it not this day of peace and thy blessing with it Vers 2. Whē thou dost thine almes Vers 5. Whē thou dost pray give us bread to nourish our booies to feed our soules even all things necessarie for our being and well-being But let it hee as thy gift so our bread gotten by labour honestly obtained by prayer fervently sanctified by than sgiving holily and let it be our daily bread as is eaily fie for us and may make us daily depend on thee without murmure or distrust That thy hand may not be shortned to give I desire and pray thee to forgive and drowne in the sea of thy mercie to forgive and blot out of the book of our accounts to forgive us poore rich great small old young all Our dehts both originall wherein wee were borne and actuall wherein wee have liued whether omitted by ignorance neglect or disobedience or committed against thee thy creatures others or our selves unreservedly without future revenge Vers 16. Whē thou doest fast Vers 33. Seek first the kingdome c. unconditionally without present exception as wee doe with our hearts sincerely all debts wholly to all men generally for Christs sake lovingly in whose name and for whose sake I pray by deprecation Lead us not into tentation but deliver us from evill For if thou joyne not perseverance to my repentance I shall run upon a new score of debts and make my end worse than my beginning give us therefore either freedome from tentation and lead us not into it or assistance in tentation and deliver us from the evil of it either exempt us from the fight or assure us of the crowne Our estate is weake and we desire therefore to be led the way is dangerous and wee desire therefore not to be led into tentation or if by the leading hand of thy justice we take some falles in the way Vers 2. Whē thou dost thine almes Vers 5. Whē thou dost pray yet by the guiding hand of thy mercie lead us out that we feele no harme in the end We desire not to bee encountred by the Divels furie or the worlds subtilty or the fleshes treacherie not with the force of that Lion or the fraud of this enemie or the falshood of the other friend or if thou doest lead us into these encounters of tentation yet baile us againe and deliver us from evill We desire thee to keepe thy hand over us that we be not foiled at least to keep thy hand under us that wee be not foundred we desire such a triall that wee bee not cast or if so yet that we bee not condemned We are fearfull not of thee for thou temptest no man but of them and our selves and therefore we deprecate Lead us not into tentation and we are faithfull not in our selves but in thee and therefore wee obsecrate Deliver us from evill Lead us not Vers 16. Whē thou dost Fast Vers 33. Seeke first the kingdome c. beyond our abilitie to beare above our strength to resist without thy grace to quench the fierie Dorts of Sathan Lead us not into tentation of the Flesh within us by delight of wanton imaginations or presumption in vaine opinions lead us not into tentation of the World without us by the suggestion of wicked motions or motions to wicked suggestions Lead us not into tentation of the Devill against us by the injection of wicked desires or the illusion of desperate attempts but deliver us by thy preventing Grace before the infection by thy present Grace in the assault by thy redeeming Grace after the fall from evill from the cause of evill which is the Divell from wicked companions which are the instruments of evill from worldly vanities which are the enticements to evill Vers 2. Whē thou dost thine Almes Vers 5. Whē thou dost pray from sinne which is the guilt of evill and from damnation which is the curse of evill Heare us ô our Faether in our desire of Holinesse that thy Name bee hallowed in our desire of Hope that thy Kingdome come in our desire of Obedience that thy will be done Heare us ô our Father in our desire of thy providence to give us our dayly bread in our desire of Repentance to forgive us our sinnes in the desire of our Charity as we forgive others in our desire of perseverance to preserve us from Tentation and deliver us from evill and none of this for our sakes but thine owne For thine is the Kingdome wherein keepe us in the desires of our Holinesse Repentance Charity and Obedience For thine is the Power whereby establish our desires in thy providence and our perseverance and thine is the Glory wherewith crowne our desires in the longing Amen of us the wishers Vers 16. Whē thou dost Fast Vers 33. Seeke first the kingdome c. in the needfull Amen of us the suitors in the confident Amen of us the beleevers in the faithfull Amen of thy selfe the promiser in the certaine Amen of Iesus Christ the teacher of us from thee who to thee and him and the Holy Ghost ascribe the glory and power of thy Kingdome of the Kingdome of this Kingdome and of all Kingdomes so be it Amen And that these prayers may ascend and pierce thy Eares and not returne empty I send them up empty for I fast and I fast not coactively or by constraint for I blesse thy Name I am in health and have meate for my stomacke and stomacke to my meate But I fast willingly I doe it chearefully not politically to exchange a meale of Flesh into another of Fish not Hypocritically to macre my face Verse 2. Whē thou dost thine Almes Verse 5. Whē thou dost pray and make it looke leane but I doe in religiously For why doe I withhold suftenance from my body but to cheare up my Soule Why doe I barre my Soule of her delights but to keepe downe my body why doe I keepe them both hungry but to observe that Law thou gavest in Paradise Eate not this Fruite but to imitate the promulgation the restauration and the consummation of the Law Thou diddest not pronounce it by Moses thou diddest not restore it by Elias thou did dest not consummate it by thy Sonne without fasting why doe I thus diet them both but that I may enjoy the promise of the Gospell and be filled be filled with grace to doe thy Will upon Earth as it is in Heaven Never am I so like an Angell as when I fast For in this Act Nature and Grace conourre by Nature his memory is strongest Ver. 16. Whē thou dost fast Ver. 33. Seeke first the Kingdome c. his minde clearest his understanding brightest his affections most moderate that eates but little And by Grace his flesh most mortified his Chastity best preserved from evils loonest delivered and with blessings