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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

faithfulnesse answer me and in thy righteousnesse 4. From his Truth Psal 69.13 O God in the multitude of thy mercy hear me in the truth of thy salvation 2 Sam. 7.28 And now O Lord God thou art that God and thy words be true and thou hast promised this goodnsse unto thy servant therefore now let it please thee c. 5. From his Mercies Psal. 6.4 O save me for thy mercies sake Psal. 25 6. Remember O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses for they have been ever of old Isa. 63.15 Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holines and thy glory where is thy zeal and thy strength the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me are they restrained 6. From his Glory Josh. 7.9 What wilt thou do unto thy great Name 2 Kings 17.19 Now therefore O Lord our God I beseech thee save thou us out of his hands that all the Kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God even thou onely Pal. 79.10 Wherefore should the Heathen say where is their God Jer. 14.21 Do not abhor us for thy names sake do not disgrace the Throne of thy Glory 7. From his Covenant and Promise 1 Kings 8.25 26. O Lord God of Israel keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him c. And now O God of Israel let thy word I pray thee be verified which thou spakest unto him c. Psal. 74.20 O deliver not the soul of thy Turtle unto the multitude of the wicked forget not the Congregation of the poor for ever Have respect unto the Covenant c. Jer. 14.21 Remember break not thy Covenant with us 8. From his Command of calling upon him and appointing this Ordinance as the means of our help and supply in any condition Psal. ●7 8 Thou saidst Seek ye my face my heart answered Thy face Lord will I seek Psal. 50.5 Call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal. 86.5 For thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee 2. The second sort of arguments from our selves are derivable from some of these heads 1. From our Relation to him as being his people servants children Psal 74.1 2. Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture remember the Congregation which thou hast purchased of old the rod of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed this Mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt Psal. 116.16 O Lord truly I am thy servant I am thy servant and the son of thine handmaid thou hast loosed my bonds Psal. 143.12 Of thy mercy cut off mine enemies and destroy all them that afflict my soul for I am thy servant Isa. 63.16 Doubtlesse thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledge us not thou O Lord art our Father our Redeemer Isa. 64.8 But now O Lord thou art our Father we are the clay and thou our Potter we are all the work of thine hand Be not wroth very sore O Lord neither remember iniquity for ever Behold see we beseech thee we are all thy people Jer. 14.8 9. O! the hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in time of trouble why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land and as a wayfayring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night Why shouldst thou be as a man astonied as a mighty man that cannot save yet thou O Lord art in the midst of us and we are called by thy name leave us not 2. From our own sincerity Psal 40.16 Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee let such as love thy salvation say continually The Lord be magnified Psal. 119.38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant who is devoted to thy fear vers 94. I am thine save me for I have sought thy precepts vers 159. Consider how I do love thy prece●t quicken me O Lord according to thy loving kindnesse Isa. 38.3 Remember now O Lord how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight 3. From our present Dependance upon him Ps. 7.1 O Lord my God in thee do I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me Psal. 2● 2 O my God I trust in thee let me not be ashamed vers 20. Keep my soul and deliver me let me not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee Psal. 57.1 Be merciful unto me O God be merciful unto me for my soul trusteth in thee yea in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge untill these calamities be over-past 4. From the greatnesse of our Need and sufferings Psal. 25.19 Consider mine enemies for they are many and they hate me with a cruel hatred Psal. 60.1 2 3. O God thou hast cast us off thou hast scattered us thou hast been d●spleased O turne thy self to us again thou hast made the earth to tremble thou hast broken it thou hast shewed thy people hard things thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment Psal. 79.8 Let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low Psal. 142.6 Attend unto my cry for I am brought very low deliver me from my persecutors for they are stronger then I. 5. From the Benefit of his hearing and granting our requests Psal. 80.18 So will not we go back from thee quicken us and we will call upon thy name Psal. 102.15 So the Heathens shall fear the name of the Lord and all the Kings of the earth thy glory vers 18. This shall be written for the generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. Psal. 106 47. Save us O Lord our God and gather us from among the Heathen to give thanks unto thy holy name and to triumph in thy praise 6. From our Experience and former examples Judg. 15.18 Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant and now shall I die for thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised Psal. 22.4 5. Our father 's trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them They cryed unto thee and were delivered they trusted in thee and were not confounded Psal. 27.9 Thou hast been my help leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation To these may be added in the businesse of Imprecation another Topicke from the insolence and impiety of Gods enemies Exod. 32.12 Wherefore should the Egyptians say for mischief did he bring them out to stay them in the mountaines and to consume them from the face of the earth Psal. 140.8 Grant not O Lord the desires of the wicked further not his wicked device lest they exalt themselves From some of these heads a man may fetch arguments

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

forget not the congregation of the poor for ever O let not the oppressed return ashamed let the poor and needy praise thy name Arise O God plead thine own cause c. We are become a reproach to our neighbours a scorn and derision to them that are round about us How long Lord wilt thou be angry for ever shall thy jealousie burn like fire O remember not against us our former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name deliver us and purge away our sins for thy names sake O God the proud are risen against me and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before them But thou O Lord art our God full of compassion gracious long-suffering plenteous in mercy and truth O turne unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and save the sonne of thine handmaid Shew me some token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Arise O Lord and have mercy upon Sion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come 2. In times of Famine We should pray that our land may yield us bread without scarcenesse That he would not send upon us the evil arrowes of famine nor break our staffe of bread Nor take away our corne in the time thereof nor afflict us with cleannesse of teeth When men shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry and shall eat on the left hand and shall not be satisfied but every man shall eat the flesh of his own arme When we shall pine away and be stricken through for want of the fruits of the earth When we shall eat bread by weight and with care and drink water by measure and with astonishment When the land shall mourne and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field and the fowles of the Heaven When the husband-man shall be ashamed and the vine-dressers shall howle because the harvest of the field is perished The fig-tree shall not blossome neither shall fruit be in the vine the labour of the Olive shall fail and the fields shall yield no meat the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no heard in the stalls When we shall sowe much and bring in little when we shall eat and not have enough drink and not be filled cloath our selves and not be warme That he would according to his promise abundantly blesse our provision and satisfie our poore with bread That our Garners may be full and plenteous affording all manner of store That he would hear the Heavens and let them hear the Earth and the Earth hear the Corne and the Wine and the oyle and that they may hear his people Now because Famine is usually occasioned either by immoderate raine or drought therefore in our intercessions against this National judgement we may frame our Petitions more immediately against each of these as necessity shall require 1. Against immoderate raine That God would remember the Covenant which he hath made and though our wickednesse be very great upon the earth so that he might justly repent that he hath made us and now again resolve to destroy us from the face of the earth yet he hath promised that he will not any more cut off all flesh by the waters of a flood neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth That he would give us the former and the latter rain moderately and not punish us with a sweeping rain which leaveth no food 'T is he alone by whom the windows of Heaven are opened who giveth raine upon the earth and sendeth waters upon the fields Who cloatheth the Heavens with blacknesse and maketh sack-cloth their covering Who calleth for the waters of the Sea and poureth them out upon the face of the Earth He maketh small the drops of water they poure down raine according to the vapor thereof which the clouds do drop and distill upon men abundantly He covereth the light with clouds and commandeth it not to shine He commandeth the clouds from above and openeth the doors of Heaven That he would so order all those things which are at his disposal as that the earth may yield her increase and all the ends of the earth may fear him 2. Against Drought That he would open to us the good treasures of Heaven and give rain to our land in its season and blesse the labour of our hands He is the Father of the rain and does beget the drops of dew The bottles of heaven are at his command to open and shut them as he pleases He bindes up the waters in thick clouds and the cloud is not rent under them 'T is he that does stay the heaven over us from dew and the earth from his fruits Who doth with-hold the raine from us causing it to rain upon one City and not upon another It is by his command that the Vine-tree is dryed up and the Fig-tree languisheth and all the trees of the field are withered The seed is rotten under the clods the garners are laid desolate the barnes are broken down for the corne is withered the beasts groan and the herds of cattel are perplexed because they have no pasture and the flocks of sheep are made desolate 'T is at his command that the clouds do not raine upon us He makes the heavens over us to be brasse and the earth under us to be iron and the rain of our land to be powder and dust He causes the land to mourne and the herbs of every field to wither When the ground is chapt for want of rain when the plowmen are ashamed and cover their heads when the wilde Asses do stand in the high places and snuffe up the winde like Draggons and their eyes do faile because there is no grasse And therefore unto him it is that we must make our addresses for help and supply in all such exigences That when heaven is shut up and there is no rain because of our sins against him Yet if we shall pray unto him and confesse his name and turne from our sins when he afflicts us That then he would hear in heaven and forgive the sins of his servants and teach them the good way wherein they should walk and give rain unto the land which he hath bestowed upon them for an inheritance Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain or can the heavens give showers art not thou he O Lord our God therefore we will waite upon thee for thou hast made all these things That he would open the windows of heaven and cause the rain