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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

meet for repentance Labouring to draw nigh unto God by cleansing our hands and purifying our hearts 2. For faith that God would discover to us the great need of a Saviour and since he hath set forth his Son to be a Propitiation through faith in his blood and hath made him the authour of eternal salvation to all that obey him That he would win over our souls to an earnest endeavour of acquaintance with him and high esteem of him That God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse would shine into our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ That he would make us more especially inquisitive after the saving experimental knowledge of him in whom are laid up the treasures of wisdome and knowledge whom to know is perfect wisdome and eternal life That he would count us worthy of his holy calling and fulfill in us all the good pleasure of his goodnesse and the work of faith with power that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in us and we in him That Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith that we being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that we may be filled with all the fulnesse of God That we may truly value the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindnesse towards us through Christ Jesus Glorying in his Gospel as being the power of God to salvation Counting all things but losse and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus that we may win him and he found in him not having our own righteousnesse which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ. That in all estates and conditions we may learn to live by faith 1. In regard of our temporal life with all the various uncertainties of it whether Prosperity that by this grace of faith we may keep our hearts in an holy frame of humility meeknesse dis-ingagement from the world and all outward confidences or Adversity wherein this grace may serve to sweeten our afflictions to support us under them teaching us to profit by them to bear them meekly to triumph over them assuring the heart that nothing befals us but by the disposal of Gods Providence who is infinitely wise and merciful and faithfull 2. In regard of Spiritual life both for our Justification that we may not expect it from our own services or graces Not having our own righteousnesse but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith And so for the life of Sanctification that we may not live unto our selves but unto him who died for us and rose again That our conversation may be as becometh the Gospel of Christ standing fast in one spirit with one minde striving together for the faith of the Gospel Alwayes remembring that we are not our own but bought with a price and therefore should make it our businesse to glorifie Christ with our bodies and spirits which are his That he would work in us such a lively faith as may make us rich in good works that we may demean our selves as becomes our professed subjection to the Gospel of Christ walking worthy of that vocation wherewith we are called as becomes children of the light Being holy in all manner of conversation Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ Exercising our selves unto godlinesse Walking uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel Diligently following every good work Shewing out of a good conversation our works with meeknesse and wisdome That we may adorne the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things Considering that we are created in Christ Jesus unto good works that we should walk in them Having our conversation in heaven walking worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitfull in all good works That every one of us who professeth the name of Christ may depart from iniquity Because for this reason was the Gospel preached to those that are dead in sin that they might live according to God in the Spirit That we may give all diligence to adde to our faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity that these things being in us and abounding we may not be barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ but may hereby clear up unto our selves the evidences of our calling and election That we may deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts living soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and that glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Considering that he shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take vengeance on those that obey not his Gospel who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired of all them that believe in that day For if he that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and hath done despight to the Spirit of grace That the God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus would make us perfect stablish strengthen settle us That we may continue in the faith grounded and setled and not be moved away from the hope of the Gospel being rooted and built up and stablished in the faith Laying aside every weight and the sin that doth so easily beset us and running with patience the race that is set before us Holding fast our profession without wavering that we may abide in Christ and his words may abide in us Continuing in the things which we have learned Being faithful unto the death that then he may bestow upon us a crown of life That the Word of Christ may dwell in us richly in all wisdome That we may grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Being filled with the fruits of righteousnesse which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God That we may be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus That having fought a good fight and finished our course and kept the faith we may receive that

Lord our 〈◊〉 may be upon us prospering the work of our hand 〈◊〉 Abrahams servant O Lord my God I beseech 〈◊〉 send me good speed this day and shew kindnes unto me c. It is he alone that must work all our works 〈◊〉 us and for us The way of man being not in himself neither is it in him that walketh to direct his steps that he would therefore lead us in the way that we should go teaching us to make straight paths to our feet and the rather because we are now fallen under a crooked and perverse generation that he would counsel and guide us in all our doubts and difficulties That he would enable us every day to poceed somewhat forward in our spiritual growth to get the mastery over our own evil hearts and affections To renue and practise all those holy purposes and resolutions which we have formerly made that proceeding from grace to grace we may at length come to be perfect in Christ Jesus 2. In our evening prayers we should likewise petition him for his particular protection over us the night following Because he hath commanded his loving kind●esse in the d●y time therefore in the night shall our song be with him and our prayer unto the Go● of our life It is the frailty of our natures to need a continual reparation of our strength by sleep But God is the Keeper of Israel who neither slumbreth nor sleepeth and therefore we should beseech him that he would wake for us watch over us for good Commanding his Angels to incamp round about us that we may not be afraid of any terrors by night but may lie down in peace and sleep and that he would make us to dwell in safety That he who gives his beloved sleep would refresh us with quiet rest That we may hear of his loving kindness betimes in the morning for in him is our trust That in the time of our waking he would fill our souls with the meditations of himself that he would teach us to commune with our own hearts upon our beds and be still To remember his all-seeing eyes that the darknesse hideth not from him but the night shineth as the day the darknes and light to him are bo●h alike That though perhaps we have foolishly wasted the day past amongst the many other dayes of our lives which he hath alotted for our repentance and amendment yet that he would still be graciously pleased out of his free bouty to continue his former protection and care over us to refresh us with sufficient rest that therby we may be enabled to do him better service in the duties of the following day Expressing our desires of commending our spirits and bodies into his hands who hath redeemed us and is the Lord God of truth That by our sleep this night we may be put in mind of our last sleep by death of the days of darkness which shall be many of that time which will shortly come when these our bodies shall be stretched on a bed of earth That when a few days are come we shall go into the place whence we shall not return That many go well to bed and never rise again till the day of judgement That every day which passeth over us does bring us neerer to our last day our dissolution and that dreadful judgement when we must give a strict account of all our actions and receive an eternal doom according to the works which we have done That these considerations may make us walk warily as being in continual expectation of the time of our departure That we may labour to grow better as we grow older that the neerer we come to our latter ends the neerer we may approach to him and his glory That if he hath determined to take us out of the world before we have another opportunity of approaching unto him in this holy duty that then he would be pleased to pardon our sins and save our souls CHAP. XXIV Concerning Intercession more General both Ordinary and Occasional NExt to praying for our selves we should likewise be careful to intercede for others because we are all fellow-members of one body And the members should have the same care one of another These Intercessions are either General Special Particular 1. General For the whole Catholick Church Militant here on earth dispersed over the face of the whole world That peace and mercy may be upon the Israel of God that he would give his Gospel a free and an effectual passage prospering it where it is and sending it where it is not that it may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men That his delight may be in mount Sion That he would grave her on the palmes of his hands and let her walls be continually before him that her builders may make haste and that he would cause her destroyers and such as would lay her waste to depart from her That he would be merciful unto all his elect people and blesse them and cause his face to shine upon them that his way may be known upon earth and his saving health among all Nations That he would enlarge the borders of Christs Kingdom and adde daily to the Church such as shall be saved Enlightening those that sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death and guiding their feet into the way of peace And here we may derive arguments from those many promises that are made in Scripture to this purpose that he would give unto Christ the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession That the mountain of the Lords house shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all Nations shall flow unto it That the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea That the worme Jacob shall thresh the mountains and make the hills as chaffe Speaking of the Kingdom of Christ under he Gospel That all the ends of the earth should see the salvation of God That all the Kingdomes of the world should become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ. And to this purpose that he would afford the means that are requisit to this end that he would informe the ignorant reclaim the erroneous encourage the backward strengthen the weak binde up the broken succour the tempted comfort the sorrowful restore the sick deliver the prisoners relieve the needy break every yoke of the oppressour and hasten the coming of his Kingdome That he would sanctifie the several gifts distributed in the Church for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministery for the edifying of the body of Christ Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of