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A14004	The practise of the faithfull containing many godly praiers both of morning and euening and other necessarie occasions. Whereunto are added diuers profitable and comfortable meditations necessarie to be remembered and practised of euery Christian.	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1613 (1613)	STC 24314; ESTC S102481	54,477	274

neither fast nor pray some fast and pray some fast pray not some pray and fast not but I would both fast and pray Some thinke that th● place doth sanctifie praier others thinke that praier doth sanctifie the place I think that Christ doth sanctifie both and that any place may serue to pray in if the heart be prepaired yet of the twaine I doe thinke that the place is sanctified by praier rather thē the praier by the place I loue the Temple yet in case my study mine house the field the high-waies shall bée my Temple and my chiefest care shall be to cary a Temple alwaies with me in me Some pray saying some singing whether a man sing or say it skils not if he truly pray and crosse not order Some aske their parents blessing but seriously think not of Gods blessing others ask God blessing but care not for their parents But I will aske my father blessing that I may haue Gods and I will aske God blessing that I may haue my fathers I will aske my father blessing that he may commend me to God I wil aske God blessing that he may commend me to my father I will aske them both because I would not be condemned of vndutifulnesse to either but especially God because he is mine especiall father and is able to blesse both mée and my father me to my father and my father to mée and vs both to himselfe Some are common and importunate beggers to Princes but if they were as instant with god I suppose they would not bée so great as good and I thinke Princes would haue more gold in their coffers they also more grace in their hearts though perhaps lesse goods in their houses Some are deuoted to praier and some to preaching I loue them both well I wil preach for praying pray for preaching He that can not finde in his heart to come to the church to heare nothing but praier by my consent he should not be suffered to come into the Church to heare nothing but preaching Gods house is the house of preaching and of praying to There may wée speake to God and heare him speake to vs. And as occasion serueth I will goe thither either for both or for either And I hold him vnworthy to receiue a blessing with the people of God that refuses to goe with them thither though it bée not to heare a Sermon but only to pray for his blessing Some pray and worke not and some worke and pray not the one would séeme to be all for heauen the other is set wholly on the earth But I will both worke and pray for God hath made Munday as wel as Sunday and hath giuen me an earthly body as wel as an heauenly soule But yet this is not all I will sometimes pray when I will not work but I would neuer worke but I will also pray pray before my worke and in my worke and when I haue done my worke I haue heard some extoll preaching and others magnific praying I doe magnifie them both but am loath to compare them I sée not how the one can wel stand without the other This will say hée that is not fit to pray is not fit to preach and he that hath not a good care to héere can not haue a good heart to pray he that hath no deuotion to pray hée cannot haue a deuout affection to heare for surely hée that with a good will can speake vnto God will also with a good will heare God speak vnto him and hée that hath an attentiue and obedient care for the voice of God cannot want an honest and humble heart to poure out his praiers vnto God In like manner also he that is fit to bée Gods mouth to his people is not vnfit to bée the peoples mouth vnto God and hée that is vnfit for this cannot but bée vnfit for that Some pray being halfe a sléepe but Christ saith Watch and pray I thinke a man may do well to pray when others sléep and that a man in case may sléepe when others pray But certainely he that praies sléepily shall be heard sléepily If thy heart be dead Gods eare is deafe his eare is much after our heart I wil therefore watch when I pray and pray when I watch One when hée praies cries a loud another speakes very low But both are loud enough if their hearts be loud but if their hearts open not both are too low Some pray for this and some for that but I will pray for God For hée that hath God wants nothing but hée that wants God hath nothing A man may giue so much as that he may leaue himself nothing but God though hée giue neuer so much is nothing the poorer A man may perhaps turne away beggars lest hee should begge himselfe but God delightes in the number of beggars if their behauiour be good and can giue content to all without detriment vnto himselfe I will therefore goe with my pitcher to this well that can neuer bée drawne dry I will borrow my light at this sunne that cannot but continue I wil begge of this King whose Exchequer is neuer but full whose gates are alwaies open for any of his Subiects that ●ue vnto him There are some that hearing the fourth commandement read vpon the Sabbath day do pray that God would haue mercy vpon them and incline their hearts to kéepe that law which yet doe commonly transgresse that commandement and profane the Sabbath day by glouzing and gaming or by buying selling themselues or their Seruants euen in those few houres that are appointed for the solemne and publike seruice of Almightie God Of whom it may be said they loue their owne gaine more then Gods glorie their own pleasures more then his precepts and that they are more fearefull of their own losse then trustfull to his prouidence But I will pray and practise to kéepe the Sabbath because God doth bid me kéep it and as knowing that he that sets light by the Lords Sabbath on earth shall not celebrate a Sabbath with the Lord in heauen and that they that make so small account of the assembiies of his Saints in this life are vnworthy to liue in the assemblies of ●is Saints in the life to come I would not haue men forget the Market-day for their bodies and I would haue them likewise remember the Market-day for their Soules Being sicke we pray for the health of our bodies seeing then wee be sinfull why should we not pray for the health of our soules Because God hath giuen me a Soule and a Body my prayer and and labour shall be that I may haue an healthy Soule in an healthy Bodie Some mens prayers are abominable some mens are accepted The reason is this some men are out of fauour therefore their suites are scorned some men are in grace therfore their prayers are heard I had therefore rather bee in grace with God then haue all the

thou séeest euen the very secrets of our hearts and that nothing can be done be it neuer so secret without thy knowledge these mercies and blessings we pray thée to grant vnto vs for Iesus Christs sake our Lord Amen Another Euening Praier ETernall God and in Iesus Christ our most merciful father thou which art the father of mercies the God of al consolations we thy vnworthy seruants doe héere according to our bounden duties humble our selues before thy maiestie and rendring in that poore measure we are able all praise and thankes for all thy mercies blessings bestowed vpon vs from time to time euer since we were borne vntill this present for our election creation redemption vocation iustification sanctification preseruation and the hope of our glorification herafter as also for al those blessings that concern this life present furnishing vs continually with all good things necessarie that wée stand in néede of More especially O Lord we thank thée y ● thou hast preserued defended vs this day from al perils and dangers both of body and soule wherinto many haue fallen and wée might also had we not béen guided by thy merciful prouidence O Lord we confesse to the shame of our owne selues that wee are not worthy of the least of all these thy mercies but as we were conceiued and borne in sinne so haue wée liued in iniquity and in the transgression of thy lawes not regarding to be gouerned by the holy word and therefore haue iustly deserued that thou shouldest poure vpon vs all shame misery in this life and eternall condemnation in the World to come but O Lord we know that thou art a God full of mercy stow to anger great compassion and wilt not the death of a sinner but rather that we should liue In confidence of this thy mercie we confesse before thy maiestie our manifold sinnes in treating thée to pardon them all for the merits of Christ Iesus séeing thou hast giuen vs so large a time of repentance grant that we may now at length returne vnto thée in sinceritie of heart contrition of spirit And for this night present we beséech thée sanctific our rest vnto vs this night that we may enioy the same as thy blessing that thereby our wearied bodies being refreshed with moderate and quiet sléepe wée may be the better enabled to walke before thée in our callings the day following to thy glorie and our owne comforts throgh Iesus Christ Remember with vs thy Church and children in all places gather together thine elect forgiue the crying sinnes of this land make an end of these daies of sinne and hasten the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ Preserue thine annointed and our dread soueraign King the Quéen and their roiall Progenie defend and kéep them from plots and trecheries both abroad and at home Let thy spirit of wisdome of Councell and of vpright iudgement rest vpon all the Lords of his maiesties honourable Priuie Councell the Nobilitie and magistracie for the best good of this whole Land Blesse y ● painfull preachers of thy holy word giue good successe we pray thée to their studies and labours for the winning of so many soules as thou hast ordained to eternal life comfort all thy afflicted that suffer vnder thy hand and howsoeuer it shall please thée to deale with them yet support them with patience thankfullnesse to vndergoe whatsoeuer it shall please thée to lay vpon them and when thou shalt sée it fit send them deliuerance that either by life or by death Christ may be to them aduantage Lastly we beséech thée good Lord to blesse all our kinsfolkes in the flesh and all others whom thou would est we should pray for heare vs for them and them for vs Christ Iesus for vs all In whose name we shut vp these our imperfect praiers in that perfect forme which he himselfe hath left vs saying Our father c. Morning Praier for a priuate person MOst Glorious God and mercifull father I thy most vnworthy creature doe héere confesse before thy Diuine Maiestie to thy glory though it be to the shame and confusion of mine owne face that I am not worthy to appeare before thée much more vnworthy to offer vp my praiers vnto thée with confidence that thou shouldest heare them and grant my requests by reason of my manifold sinnes and transgressions that I haue heaped vp against thy maiesty ere since I was borne vntill this present day And now O Lord being come before thée I must néedes confesse the vilenesse of my estate I was conceiued bred born in sinne and in sinne haue I continued all my daies I haue drunke Iniquitie like water yea I haue drawne it after me and tied it vnto me as with great ropes yea I haue euē made a mock of sinne and it hath béene a pastime vnto me to doe wickedly Notwithstanding O Lord thou hast called vpon me but still I haue refused thou hast againe and againe stretched out thy hand but I haue not regarded thou hast sought to reclaime me but I haue hated to be reformed thou hast often called vpon mee by thy blessed word yet notwithstanding I haue despised thy patience and abused thy goodnesse so that I haue giuen thée iust cause to heap vpon me all thy seareful plagues and punishments which in the extremity of thy law do belong vnto the wicked It is thy vnspeakeable mercy that thou didst not make my bed my graue neuer to haue risen againe but O Lord I know there is abundance of mercies with thée that thou mayest be feared and excéeding experience haue I had of thy goodnesse long suffering and patience towards me therfore I grow in hope still that thou purposest me good not euill to saue me not to destroy me beséeching thée to accept the death of Christ as a full satisfaction for all my sm●●es to wash them away in his blood and to binds them in one bundle cast them behinde thy backe neuer to be remembred I humbly thank thy maiesty for thy manifold mercies extended towards me this night past al y ● daies of my life for my quiet rest sléep my foode and raiment my health peace and libertie and the hope of a better life in the merits of thy deare sonne Christ Iesus for all these thy mercies O Lord I haue nothing to render vnto thée but thine owne If I could giue thée my bodie and soule they might be saued by it but thou wert neuer the richer for it yea euen since I rose I haue tasted many of thy blessings and thou hast begun to serue me before I haue begun to serue thée I can shew no reason why thou shouldest bestow all these blessings vpon me more than others but that thou art mercifull and if thou shouldest draw all back againe from me as iustly thou maiest I haue nothing to say but that thou art iust and séeing O Lord I am now to enter