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A67627	A box of spikenard: or A little manual of sacramental instruction and devotion especially, helpful to the people of God, at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper. With some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions. The third edition, by Thomas Walmestry, Dean of Worcester.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W881; ESTC R218419	28,612	228

excellency and perfection The Angels are amazed at the brightnesse of thy glory The Devils tremble at the dreadfulness of thy Majesty what am I that I should approach unto thee Oh my God Thou art a holy God and of purer eyes than to behold iniquity Thou canst haveno communion with Belial thou canst have no fellowship with unrighteousnesse And I am a base wretched unholy unthankful sinner overspread from top to toe soul and body with a leprosy of sin and my very righteousnes are as filthy rags Thy Angels thou chargedst with folly and the Stars are not pure in thy sight and how shall I then appear before thee or draw near unto thee Oh my God thou art all light and I am a cloud of darknesse Thou art a wise God and I am a foolish and simple creature so blinde that I can neither bear thy light nor discover my own blindeness as I ought to do and how then shall my darkness endure the beams of thy heavenly light and not be confounded at thy unsupportable brightness Oh my God I am a poor a weak feeble worm trodden under foot and trampled bruised in the dirt and mire of corruption by mine own sins and wickednesses thou art a strong a powerfull and an Almighty God that artable with a look of thine to frown me into no thing and into hell that art able with one thought of thine to think me to destruction how then dare my weakness and nothingnesse approach unto thy Grace invisible strength and not expect to be crushed into nothing undone And yet O Lord now thou callest me I am about to come unto thee and what shall I say or doe O God how am I perplexed with severall sears if I come not when thou callest I am in danger to provoke thy wrath by dispising thy Authority if I come I may seem to be in danger to incense thine anger by offending against thy Majesty I may justly he afraid to come by reason of my sin and yet O Lord if I forbear to come this will encrease my sin And in so great a strait that I am in what can thy poor sinfull creature do Oh my God I am undone know not what to do unles thou help me To thee therefore I come O Lord desiring to receive thy heavenly Councel and advice that I may obey thy authority that I may not faile of thy mercy Othou that hast called me unto thee let thy compassion pitty my vileness let thy mercy pardon my sinfulnesse let thy grace cleanse my filthinesse let thy wisdome enlighten my darkness let thy strength support my weakness Pardon me by thy mercy that I may receive thy grace fit me by thy grace that I may receive thy mercy Let thy spirit be thy holy Harbinger to provide entertainment for thy Son and my heavenly Lord Christ Jesus in my soul that he may come and make it the Sanctuary of his holiness Adorne me O God with the wedding garment of the righteousnesse of thy Son the holiness of thy spirit that all my nakedness may be covered and my great deformities may be hid from thine eyes Purge away all the polutions of my heart life that thou mayest not be offended at me nor in ty displeasure cast me out Fill me with heavenly desires toward my Lord Jesus with holy meditations of the wonders of thy love with holy devotions to the excellency of thy glory Send a beam of thy light from heaven into my heart that I may be illuminated thereby to the right understanding of those great mercies thou offerest unto me vailed with the cloud of thy divine mysteries and that I may understand my Saviours heavenly language in the Sacrament both in the mysterious signs what he speaks in them in the mysterious words what he speaks of them That I may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent which is eternal life That I may know the power of his sufferings And that I may be able to comprehend what 's the breadth and the length and the depth and the height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge That I may know them so as to be enflamed by them Oh let thy heavenly beams be contracted upon my heart and shine upon it through the burning glass of thy love in this Sacrament That all the light may burne and that all my knowledg of thee and of thy misteries may be turned into love unto thee for they only know thee indeed that love thee For if any man love God he knoweth God or rather is known of him And as thy holy Prophet when he was exalted into a sight of thy Majesty was there by stricken down into an humble sense of his own vileness and iniquity as with a flash of thy heavenly lightening bringing with it a thunder bolt of humiliation that broke his heart as it were in pieces and made that lamentation of his gush out at a breach of his wounded soul Woe is me for I am undone for I am a man of uncleane lips and dwell among a people of uncleane lips for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts So let the sight of thy Glory cast me down into a sense of mine own vileness and iniquity strike an holy terrour into my soul and lay me in the dust at the apprehension of my sins send a thunderbolt of grace from heaven and dash my heart in pieces with contrition for mine offences that I may be undone in my self that so I may be made up again in thee smite the rock of my hard heart with the rod of thy holy fear that the water of repentance may flow out even that pretious heart wate of penitent tears and Godly sorrow for all my transgressions Make me to sow in tears that I may reap in joy and let the apprehension of thy love to me and the heat of my love to thee and my Jesus imprint he impression of his wounds upon my soul that they may wound me first and then heal me and let that love affect me with a perfect hatred against sin and against my self for sin for my sin against thee my great my glorious my gratious God my Maker my Saviour and the God of all my mercies against those sins of mine that have been the Traitors and Murderers of my Dear Saviour and let the sense of thy pardon of my great and manifold sins would me yet the more for them make me to mourn more for pardoned sin than for sin as exposing unto judgement Oh let thy mercy soften me more than thy wrath and make me out of love with all things that engage or move me into sin out of love with the world with the flesh and with my self with my own corrupt and sinfull heart and inclinations that have been so often the factours and the snares of Sathan to my soul that so I may be

The Explanation of the Frontispiece T Is not the Portracture that here In Sculpture thou do'st sce But th' Emblem of thy Saviour dear Presented unto thee The King imports his Majesty This calls thy heart to bow To his Coelestial Dignity Thou can'st not be too low The Table richly furnished With Mysteries of Love Before thee doth his Bounty spread Imparting from above Himself the Lamb the Bread the Wine To nourish thee with Grace That thou that Aliment Divine May'st thankefully embrace whil'st thy ●●art that with love doth burn Devotions Spikenard doth return When the king Sitteth att his tables My Spikenarde Sendeth for h the smell there of Cant 1.12 .. A Box of Spikenard or a little Manual OF Sacramental Instruction AND Devotion Especially helpful to the People of God at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper WITH Some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions The third Edition By Thomas Walmestry Dean of Worcester London Printed by T. Mabb for William Sheares at the Bible in Bedford street 166● To the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Courtney Eldest Daughter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Cork Madam THE two great Offices of Magnificence are to do great things where there is no desert to merit the performance and to accept of small returns where there is no worth to challenge and acceptance There is bounty and charity in the one and humility and meekness in the other you have been very free and active towards former in those many great favours you have bestowed upon one that is so unworthy And now I am bold to offer you an occasion to exercise the noblenesse of your disposition in the latter in the Present of this poor acknowledgment unto your Honour in the Dedication of this small piece of devotion unto you The love that you beare unto the service of God to the promotion whereof it is designed and the tender respect you have manifested unto the Author gives me so good assurance of a fair admission hereof unto your hands that I do with confidence cast and leave all the faults and imperfections thereof at your mercy It hath bin twice published already hath found so much of entertainment abroad as hath been enough to encourage a third Edition wherein it hath received some enlargement and though it may yet want growth to render it serviceable to you yet I hope it may receive some power from the countenance of your Honourable Patronage to be instrumental to the Good of others which is Humbly implored by him who is exceedingly obliged to remain Madam Your humble and faithfull Servant in Christ Jesus Tho. Walmestry To his Honoured loving and Christian Friends of his Congregation in the Strand at London and to other Christian Communicants as they are concerned Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Dear Christians OF all the operations of the life of man and indeed of the whole Creation and of the highest and most perfect creatures that are found in the whole extent thereof The most Noble and Excellent the most Profitable and truly Delectable and that which is the Crown and Diadem of their perfection and being is the operation of Religion as that whereby the creature hath Communion with God which is the most excellent being and the chiefest good and whereby it offereth homage and acknowledgement unto his Infinite greatness and receives again the influence enjoyment of his Eternal and Infinite goodnesse And indeed without this the generality of mankinde is not onely degraded from its dignity but deprived of its use and in the uselesnesse or unprofitablenesse of mankinde all the creatures that were made for his comfort and preservation are rendered uselesse and unprofitable So that the end of the whole material Creation is in a sort lost in the want of Religion in mankinde for if mankinde be good for nothing without Religion if he loose that action then all the creatures would become serviceable for the preservation of them that are good for nothing and so being ordered unto a vain end they would all be as it were vain and unprofitable creatures which would lay an unsufferable charge upon Gods wisedome as well as goodnesse not onely that he made all men in vain but that he made the creatures of the world for a vain end and purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which God forbid Now there is no reason in the world why mankind should live or be in the world if man be not a worshipper of God whereby he is to attain the enjoyment of God Other Creatures indeed have their several ends inferior unto this yet in order unto this in man some are made for the preservation of others and all for the good and preservation of man But if man be not the servant of his God here what is he but fruges consumere nat us an unprofitable plunderer of the world and destroyer of the rest of the creatures whom he wastes and devours in great multitudes daily whilest he himself liveth to no considerable end that may be answerable for so great a ruine And if his end be in the Grave and in the Dust when he hath spent a few dayes and hours in eating and drinking and sleeping and enduring many calamities and troubles in this world it may put all the world to a stand how it could stand with the wisdome of God to make such an excellent Creature to no better end and as the Apostle tells us of Christians That if in this life only we have hope we are of all men most miserable So it may be said of all mankinde that if in this life onely we have our end we are of all creatures in the world the most miserable and unprofitable and the rather because man hath so much knowledge of his infelicity and such a stomach unto eternity which he cannot upon that supposition upon any terms ever attain unto Which is to me I confesse one of the strongest arguments to prove the immortality of the soul of man and the assurance of another and better life after this that I know how to draw out of the quiver of humane reason without the clearer light of Divine Revelation For though it may be said that particular men are made and are of use for the good of Community which hath it may be given the occasion unto some Philosophers that could see no higher to place the end final operation of man in politique good or advantage of humane Society Yet when all is done if man hath no other end but this that Society Community Generality of mankinde for the service whereof every particular man is supposed to be made will prove in the end to be either of no use at all or of none proportionable to such a multitude of so many so excellent beings if that Generality of mankinde be not appointed for some end higher than it self which what other can it be

and all thy people sober and chast and undefiled in our selves Make us alwayes mindefull of thy presence with us wheresoever we are or whatsoever we do and to walk before thee as it becometh us in thy sight and as having to do with thee our God in all things Keep us alwayes in the sense of our frailty and of our uncertaine condition and continuance in this world that we may live every day as if it were to be our last and to labour to make our accounts even with thee daily Make us to be often thinking upon the houre of death the day of judgment the paines of Hell and the joyes of Heaven let the dread and aw of eternity be ever upon our Souls Teach us how to carry our selves prudently and innocently in these dangerous times that we may be wise as serpents and harmlesse as Doves and direct us in all the changes that are or shall be upon us in this world to walk inoffensively in thy presence and herein to exercise our selves to have alwayes a Conscience void of offence towards God and towards man Suffer us neither through sinfull fears to desert our duties or to comply with wickednes or to forsake thy righteousnes or yet imprudently rashly or unadvisedly to cast our selves into any unnecessary dingers and whensoever through our frailty we shall fall into any sinne as what man is he that sins not Oh our God let us not rest in sin nor perish in our iniquities but be thou alwayes ready with thy mercy and grace to raise us up again and to give us repentance unto Salvation Grant all these blessings to me and all thy people And make us all the better for ever for this our approach unto thee this day Through that thy blessed Son whom thou hast given us to be our Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer of Intercession for the sick to be used by those that are with him or that come to visit him OH Eternal God and our most Gracious Father in Christ Jesus That art the God of health and the God of life and the God of all mercy compassion in thy hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind thou woundest and thou healest thou bringest to the grave and bringest back again thou turnest man to destruction and again thou sayest Come again yo children of men thou doest whatsoever pleaseth thee in Heaven and Earth and in things under the Earth And as for us O Lord we are all the workes of thy hand and we are in thy hands at the clay in the hands of the Potter that thou mayest do with us whatsoever pleaseth thee Whilst thou preservest us we live when thou takest away our breath we dy and turn again unto our dust and then all our thoughts perish and after death commeth Judgement wherein we must render an account unto thee our God for the whole course of our lives and conversation and receive from thee according to that which we have done in the body whether it be good or whether it be evill Have mercy O Lord have mercy we beseech thee upon us all thy poore weake fraile sinfull and mortall creatures give us not up unto utter ruin and destruction but grant us thy grace that we may so walke before thee both in sicknesse and in health that we may have comfort in our deaths and look downe wee humbly beseech thee with the eyes of thy tender pitty and compassion upon this thy servant that is here before thee under the visitation of thy heavenly hand it is thou that hast wounded him and it is thou onely that canst heal him it is thou that hast brought him down it is thou onely that canst raise him up and we know Oh Lord that thou art able to do all things all means will be helplesse without thee and thy blessing But thou art able to make the weakest meanes to become beneficiall unto thy people and to help them by thine own power and goodnesse in all they want and in all the failings of outward help Thy word O God is an al sufficient remedy There is no disease so desperate but thou canst Cure it there is no wound so deadly but thou canst heal it thou wert able to raise the Rulers Daughter from the bed when she was in the gripes of death The Widdowes sonne from the beer when he was upon his journey to the grave thou wert able to raise Lazarus out of the Grave when he had bin foure dayes dead and buried And thou art the same God still the same in power and the same in mercy thou hast as open an Eare and as compassionate a heart and as able a hand to hear pitty and help thy poor people as ever thou hadst When Physicians can do nothing and when medicines can do nothing and when Angels can do nothing and when all the creatures are at a stand and when the strength of nature faileth yet there is help and comfort in thee and thou makest the extremities of thy people the opportunities of thy power and goodness To thee therefore O Lord we come beseeching thee to glorify the power of thy mercy in restoring this thy servant to his former health and strength if it be thy blessed will that he may live to praise and glorifie thy name To amend his life to increase in knowledge and grace to do good amongst thy people to make his calling and election more and more sure unto himself against his departure out of this world and that he may have strength of Body and vigorous soundness of his faculties powers to come before thee in the holy Assemblies of thy people and to enjoy the benefit of thy heavenly and publique ordinance Do it Lord if it be thy blessed will speak but the word and thy servant shall be whole Direct him unto the use of those means which thou knowest to be most expedient and let thy blessing be above all means unto him Or if thou hast otherwise determined in thy wisdome and if it be thy heavenly pleasure by this sicknesse to put a period unto the dayes of this his earthly pilgrimage O Lord thy heavenly will be done but let it be done in great mercy and compassion Do nothing in wrath nothing in indignation for Christ Jesus his sake Sanctify this thy visitation unto thy servant that it may be a meanes to prepare him for thy kingdom let the sicknesse of his Body be unto the health of his soul that whether he live he may live unto the Lord and whether he dye he may dye unto the Lord and whether he live or dye he may be the Lords Help him to improve that time that is yet remaining unto him in this world in the best manner to thy glory and to his eternal good make him seriously to minde the things that belong unto his everlasting peace and so to make up his accounts with thee