our selues in the wayes of wickednesse and the light of righteousnesse hath not shined vpon our soules No maruell therefore if the bands of wickednesse bee called heauy and importable burthens Sinne is onus Deo a burthen to God Esay 1. 14. Your sacrifices are a burthen vnto me Sinne is onus Angelis a burthen to the Angels for it sunke them downe from heauen Luke 10. 18. Sinne is onus creaturis a burthen to the creatures for it makes them grone Rom. 8. 22. Sinne is onus hominibus a burthen to men Mine iniquities are gone euer my head and as a weighty burthen too heauy for me to beare Psal 38. 4. Let vs then beware of sinne that made this Iayler roare and cry O what must I doe to be saued For though sinne fawne vpon thee now yet it will in the end pluck out the very throat of thy soule Let vs then flye from sinne as from a stinging serpent and biting Cockatrice for they that doe such things shall neuer see the saluation of God To bee saued THirdly let vs behold the substance and subiect of his fute It is not with Iames to sit by Christ in his glory It is not to haue an inheritance diuided with that worldling in the Gospell It is not for any worldly pompe or honor but it is for saluation What must I doe to be saued The most principall thing that all men should striue for vnder Gods glory is the saluation of their soules First and aboue all things seeke the Kingdome of God and the righteousnesse thereof and in a subordinate manner the things of this life for what if wee haue all the world and bee damned when wee dye what a miserable condition is this O how Moses beg'd to see the face of the Lord Lord saith he shew me thy glory O how Dauid sued to God for his loue Some craue worldly goods and riches doe imbrace but Lord grant me thy countenance thy fauour and thy grace O how this Iayler cries out heere for saluation O what must I doe to be saued This meets with carelesse and desperate people of the world that worke not out this their saluation with feare and trembling that make not sure their election and calling O better for these neuer to haue beene borne than not to be reborne O how carefull were the Apostles when Christ told them that one of them should betray him they could neither eate nor drinke till they knew themselues freed from that cursed fact Numquid ego Domine Is it l Lord is it l O wee should resolue with Dauid not to suffer our eyes to sleepe nor eye-lids to slumber nor the temples of our head to take any rest till wee haue found the boxe of Election opened vnto vs and the sweete odour of Gods loue shed abroad in our hearts To bee saued IN that this Iayler by the Iudgements of God is drawne neerer to God wee may see the different working of Gods iudgements vpon the Elect and Reprobate the one hardened by them the other humbled the one desperate the other seeking to God for remission and saluation Euen as the Sunne in the Heauens melieth wax but hardeneth clay as the same water saued Israel but drowned Pharao and as the same trumpe in battell incourageth the one side but discourageth the other So the same word and iudgements of God draw neerer to the Lord the elect but harden the hearts of the wicked Cain hardened Manasses humbled Iudas desperate but Paul by Gods iudgements conuerted It makes against such as with Pharac harden their hearts against God by his iudgements vtterly despairing of his mercy for remission Maior est Deipictas quam quaeuis iniquitas Gods mercy is greater then mans misery God is more merciful then man can be sinful if man wil be truly and heartily sorrowfull All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth God hath two feet whereby hee walkes in his wayes the foot of mercy and the foote of iustice If we looke vpon his mercy only ten to one we shall perish by presumption if wee looke vpon his iustice onely ten to one wee shall perish by desperation therefore let vs humbly fall downe and kisse both of his feete that in respect of his mercy wee may keepe hope and in respect of his iustice wee may keepe awe reuerence and feare If therefore the Diuell tempts thee to presumption look what thou art in thy selfe vile wretched miserable and thou shalt neuer presume if hee tempts thee to desparation looke what thou art or maist be in Christ Iesus spotlesse holy glorious then thou shalt neuer despaire Thus the Church of Christ did I am blacke O yee daughters of Ierusalem yet comely as the curteines of Salomon How could shee bee black and beautifull black in her selfe and beautifull in Christ Iesus Thus plainly haue I vnfolded the first part of my text the Iaylers misery the second part is ministred mercy by Paul and Sylas and as plainly by Gods assistance I purpose to passe thorow that for I had rather pleasure your hearts then please your heads worthy is your science but I feare me farre short comes your conscience giue me leaue then to bestow my labour where there is most need and I pray God as meane an instrument as I am I may be a meane to further you all in the way of Gods Kingdome And they said Beleeue in the Lord Iesus Christ thou shalt be saued and thy house BEfore I come to the particulars of their answere I must needs commend the wisdome and discretion of these Preachers they minister a fit salue to this poore mans sore they put oyle to vineger mercy to iudgement Gospell to Law an excellent temper for health euerlasting Had they preached the Law and denounced Gods curses against him they had sunke him downe to hell by despaire but perceiuing him ready to bee swallowed vp of damnation by the casting-net of the Gospell they saue his soule from sinking A good president for all Gods ministers that they bee carefull wisely discreetly and rightly to breake the Bread of life to the people Wee must preach the Gospell to languishing soules and the Law to presumptuous otherwise wee shall sooner damne then saue by our preaching To this poore Iayler in the very iawes of Hell and mouth of damnation Paul and Sylas tender Christ Iesus for his recouery and saluation And thy house I Must here resolue a doubt before I come to this heauenly resolution Some may obiect and say What shall the Iaylers faith redeeme his family if the master beleeueth shall the houshold be saued It may seeme so by the words of the text Beleene thou and thy house shall be saued To answer this heere is something implyed that is not expressed Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ thou shalt bee saued and thy houshold that is they beleeuing with thee As if
they had said Poore Iayler be no disparaged but looke vpon Christ Iesus there 's mercy enough in store not onely for thy selfe but for thy whole houshold if they can but beleeue yea aboundant saluation for all humbled beleeuers That the faith of one saueth not another at least in adultis looke into Ezekiel That soule that sinneth that soule shall dye the righteousnes of the righteous shall be vpon him and the wickednesse of the wicked shall be vpon himselfe also In the old Law it was Fac hoc and viues Do this and thou shalt liue God gaue vs leaue to doe it by another Iesus Christ the righteous but in the new Law it is Crede viues beleeue and thou shalt liue God gaue vs leaue to doe this by no other Can a man see with another mans eye No more can a man goe to heauen by another mans faith Euery man must beleeue for himselfe if he will be saued himselfe This is notably apparant in the Parable of the Virgins The foolish would haue borrowed oyle of the wise but they answered Not so lest there be not enough for vs and you they had it seemeth grace little enough to saue themselues they could saue none for their sistren I know for the godly mans sake God many times spareth the wicked as if there had beene found ten righteous in Sodome for their sakes the City had beene spared but this was in a temporary saluation but in the point of iustification to eternall happinesse euery man must haue faith in himselfe therefore quod dixit Christus dico vobis Habete salem in vobis what Christ said in his Gospel that I say vnto you al Haue the salt of faith in your selues for Iustus exsua fide viuet the iust shall liue by his faith Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt be saued IN this heauenly resolution I note three 1. First the act Beleeue Secondly the obiect on the Lord Iesus Christ Thirdly the euent And thou shalt be saued Beleeue Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt bee saued Beleeue FIdes faith in the Hebrew is called Amnah of Aman which signifies firmum esse to be firme or strong or well resolued In the Greeke it signifies a perswasion in the Latine fides quasi fiat quod dicitur of the two sillables fi-factum des dictum that shall bee done that is spoken 'T is Augustines descant vpon them Thus therefore I describe faith It is firmus ac constans animi assensus Verbo Dei Spiritus Sancti afflatu ad credentium salutem Faith is a stedfast and resolute assent or consent of the heart to Gods Word by the breathing of the holy Ghost to the saluation of beleeuers The materiall cause of faith is the Word of God The formall cause is the act of consent The efficient cause is the holy Ghost the finall cause is the saluation of our soules Now lest wee should imagine euery beleeuer to bee blessed wee are to know that there is a fourefold faith yet but one salutiferous The first Historicall when a man assents to the truth of the word the Diuels goe thus farre in faith and tremble The second momentany when a man with some howerly delight imbraceth the Word meerely for knowledge sake and no further and suffers not the power of it to bee lodged and seated in his soule in prosperity to make a great flourish in Religion but in the time of triall to fall away as in that of Saint Luke They depart from God in time of tribulation The third Miraculous spoken of in the Corinths What if I had all faith that I could remoue mountaines and haue not Charity such a faith profits me nothing The fourth Iustifying whereby a man possessing and imbracing Christ Iesus with his merits and graces is accepted as iust before God This is also called a liuely faith shewing that it may bee as easily perceiued in the wombe of the conscience as a childe after quickening in the wombe of the mother Bede makes a triple distinction of faith Credere Deum Deo In Deum To beleeue there is a God to beleeue that he is faithfull and iust in his mercies and iudgements to beleeue that hee is reconciled to vs in the bloud of his Sonne into whom wee are inserted as an ympe or sciens into a stocke or tree and so liue by the sap and iuyce of his deriued merits and graces this is the faith that instrumentally is said to saue all our poore soules euerlastingly aliue And I may well say instrumentally for faith as it is a bare and meere quality saueth no man but as it hath reference to the obiect Iesus As a Diamond Ring is said to be rich and precious but take out the Diamond and it is worth little Faith is this Ring Christ is this Diamond which enricheth vs all with heauenly saluation Now lest wee should build vpon the sands of presumption and thinke wee are in this faith being yet farre wide Let vs examine this faith by his fruits for as fire is not without heate and the Sunne without shine so this faith is neuer knowne without workes of amendment Hee that rubbleth muske cannot but smell thereof so hee that hath put on Christ cannot but bee a new creature cannot but smell of Myrrhe Aloes and Cassia out of Christs Iuory Palaces whereby his heart is made exceedingly glad There are fiue especiall euidences and fruits of this faith It brings peace of conscience and ioy in the holy Ghost vpon our reconcilement with God Being iustified by faith wee are at peace with God c. It causeth a man boldly and openly to confesse the name of Christ For by the heart a man beleeueth to righteousnesse and by the tongue a man confesseth to saluation Where there is a beleeuing heart there will bee a confessing tongue and professing life to Gods glory It teacheth a man to rest vpon Gods promise and prouidence in all streights and tryalls whatsoeuer The iust shall liue by faith that is they by faith shall rest vpon God in their streights and God will preserue them It stirres vs vp to often and earnest prayer Lord I beleeue there is his faith Helpe mine vnbeliefe there is his prayer therefore no prayer no faith cold prayer dead faith vehement prayer strong faith It behaueth it selfe as a Preacher in the Pulpit of the soule alwayes mouing the soule to holinesse Beleeue thus on the Lord Iesus Christ thou shalt be saued and thy houshold Now by these examine your selues proue your selues whether you are in the faith know yee not that Iesus Christ is thus in you except you bee reprobates yee are reprobates if these things more or lesse be not in you The Lord then worke in our hearts this faith and encrease it towards perfection that so our selues with our houshold euerlastingly
THE IAYLERS IAYL-DELIVERY Preached at Great Saint Maries in CAMBRIDGE the 6. of February 1619. By HENRY GREENVVOOD Master of Art and Preacher of the Word of God 1. PET. 5. 5. God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble AT LONDON Printed by George Purslow for Henry Bell and are to be sold at his Shop at the signe of the Sunne in Bethlem 1620. TO THE RIGHT WORTHY AND WORSHIPFVLL Mrs IANE BVRGOYNE Wife to the Right Worshipfull M. IOHN BVRGOYNE of Sutton in Bedford and Daughter to the Right Worshipfull Mr. WILLIAM KEMPE of Spainshall in Fiching-field Essex Esquire all encrease of grace from the Father of light and of life be most heartily commended * ⎠* RIght vertuous and much belou'd and grac'd of God J cannot but present this trembling yet not all trembling Tractate to you partly knowing how welcome holy subiects are vnto your soule and especially considering your importunity for a written Copie of the same It is not fit that holy things bee giuen to dogges nor pearles be cast to swine but matters diuine to persons denoute most meete for presentment both for godly vse and strong defence against disgracers of them J haue therefore made this Jayler your Prisoner and committed him to your safe watch and warde looke what paines you take and time expend about him the Preacher of deliuerance to all Captiues Luke 4. 18. will one day most faithfully and richly reward I pray haue an eye alwayes vnto him see him sicke see him sound see him condemned see him saued see his passage through Hell to Heauen Let his example be your instruction his feare your humbling his faith your happying you must bee touchd with Legall attrition or else no taste of heauenly remission Let not his Hell despaire you nor his Heauen presume you but by the one hold awe of God and feare and by the other hope of happinesse for euer Now the Lord adde vnto your glory by these and other holy helps and meanes and his best blessings bee multiplyed vpon you your learned louing and religious Husband and all your tender Oliue-branches for his deare Christs sake Amen From Hempstead in Essex this 3. of April 1620. Your Worships faithfull welwiller and euer to bee commanded in the Lord HENRY GREENVVOOD THE IAYLERS IAYL-DELIVERY ACTS 26. 30 31. Sirs what must I doe to be saued And they said Beleeue in the Lord Iesus Christ thou shalt be saued and thine houshold THE onely course the Lord our God doth take in the effectuall calling and conuerting of such whose names are written in the booke of Life is this hee humbleth before he exalteth he shews our daninable estate through sinne by the Law before euer hee signifieth vnto vs that hee is our saluation A three-fold reason may be rendred thereof First because till men bee thus humbled they will neuer seek after Christ nor desire him without which they can neuer finde him for God hath appointed that by seeking we shall finde him Secondly that our redemption might be more precious vnto vs as health is more pleasant after sicknesse liberty after bonds plenty after scarcitie peace after warre and faire weather after foule Thirdly that Gods mercy in our deliuerance might bee prized in his kinde the redeemed in heauen for this especiall cause extoll the Lord and the Lambe with a perpetuall Halleluiah for an euerlasting redemption from an euerlasting damnation requireth an euerlasting glorification This generall truth is confirmed by a particular example in the words of my text for this poore Iayler is most greeuously tormented through the horror of the Law before euer hee can finde his soule recouered by the saluation of the Gospell Sirs what must I doe to bee saued and they said Beleeue in the Lord c. In which words I commend to your religious considerations in generall these two First an earnest inquisition for saluation and that on the Iaylers part Sirs what must I doe to bee saued Secondly a comfortable resolution to this perplexed Iayler and that on Paul and Syla's part Beleeue in the Lord Iesus Christ thou shalt bee saued and thine houshold In this Iaylers earnest enquiry for saluation I note these three First his reuerent carriage to the Ministers of the most high God in the first word Sirs Secondly the occasion of this his earnest inquisition and that was his humiliation by the Law in those words What must I doe I that am the sonne of bitternesse indignation and eternall weeping what must poore lamentable damnable I doe to bee saued Thirdly the inquisition it selfe and that is for saluation in these words To be saued Sirs Sirs what must I doe Sirs what must I doe to be saued Sirs It is nomen honoris a name of honour and title of dignity elim tributum ijs qui sapientia abundarunt in elder time appropriated to wisdome and learning Heere first I might take occasion to shew with how great reuerence Ministers of the Gospell are to bee respected good Pastors are to bee had in double honour yea their feet to be esteemed blessed that bring glad tidings of peace to our soules but I forbeare the prosecution of this point and propound vnto you the marueylous change that is found in this Iayler for in the precedent verses it is euident how doggedly and despectiuely hee vsed these holymen he laid vpon them hand and foot bolts and fetters as many as they could beare hee thrust them into the inner dungeon and prison but now the Lord hauing taken him to doe and giuen him the true and terrible fight and sense of his sinnes hee is of another minde now he brings them out washeth their wounds refresheth their bodies and reuerenceth their persons Sirs Reuerend Sirs you Ministers of the most high God what must I doe to be saued No reason can be rendred for this miraculous change but this The winde bloweth where it luftâ—th and God hath mercy on whom he will haue mercy and Of this stone God can raise a childe to Abraham This change wee must all be acquainted with if euer wee will proue our selues truely conuerted The Greek word for repentance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by name signifieth a change signifying vnto vs that hee that will proue himselfe truly penitent for his sinne must bee truly changed from his sinne This change we finde in penitent Mary those eyes which once inticed to sinne and those hayres which once were employed to iniquity were wondrously altered and changed for her eyes were conduits to distill whole buckets of teares to wash our Sauiours feet and her hayres an acceptable towell to wipe them This change wee finde in penitent Paul who of a Persecutor became a Profossor of a Lyon a Lambe and as he put to death others for the Gospell so in the end himselfe put to death for the same This change wee finde in Zacchee who before his conuersion was a notable pick-purse and poller of the
may bee saued On the Lord Iesus Christ THe obiect of our faith is the Lord Iesus Christ There is not a name vnder Heauen wherein saluation can be expected and had but in the name merit and power of Iesus Hee is our Iacobs Ladder on whom wee must climbe to life euerlasting Let vs not goe to Rome for a Pardon nor to Mahomet for a blessing nor to the Sorcerer for skill nor to the Magician for counsell but let vs come vnto Christ and hee will refresh vs. Quo ibimus Whither shall we goe Thou O Christ and none but thou hast the words of eternall life Lord Iesus Christ ALl the names of our blessed Redeemer are happily met together Lord his name of power Iesus his name of propriety Christ his name of Office Lord a name of power attributing to God his Essence and being shewing that hee receiued his being from none but himselfe alone as all things else haue their being from him For in him wee liâ—e wee moue and haue our being Christ is a Lord By power coequall with his Father By purchase redeeming vs by his bloud And therfore called Dominus Dens Dominus Electorum the Lord of the Elect. Heerein his Deity is apparant He must be thus a Lord or else hee could neuer haue beene a Iesus First a Lord to support deliuer and make conquer his humanity Againe a Lord to dignifie and make meritorious euery act done in his humanity for the saluation of his Elect. That this glorious title is duely giuen vnto our Sauiour witnesse that of the Psalmes The Lord said vnto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enimies thy foot-stoole And Thomas thus confesseth him Thou art my Lord and my God This then is no small comfort to the faithfull that they haue so powerfull and glorious a Messiah And it maketh also much against those base Heretickes that mock vs for our dependance on Christ for saluation Againe in the last place it should teach vs what manner of persons wee should bee to our Redeemer A sonne honoureth his father and a seruant his master if I then be your Lord and master where is then my feare Many would haue Christ their Iesus but few can brooke him their Lord Wee must bee conformed to this our Lord in two in grace in crosse if euer wee will be glorified with him There are fiue properties of a faithfull seruant which we must labour to haue if euer we will make account of Christ for our Lord. The first is Obedience such were the Centurions seruants He said to one Come and hee commeth to another Goe and he goeth to another Doe this and hee doth it O that wee were such obedients to our Lord The second is Diligence He toyleth and labours dayly in his masters seruice for his masters aduantage and gaine so industrious and laborious should wee be for the glory of our Lord Iesus The third is Reuerence if his master doth but bend his browes hee quakes and trembles so when our Lord seemes angry we must with Noah be moued with reuerence The fourth is Patience if his master correcteth him hee beares it meekely quietly and patiently so when wee are chastised of our Lord wee should vndergoe it with meekenesse and patience The fift is Loue if his master bee wronged or reuiled he will not beare it with patience but stand vp to reuenge it so if wee heare or see our Lord Christ blasphemed and his most holy Profession derided it should be a Simeons sword to pierce our soules Iesus THis name was giuen him by an Angell before hee was conceiued in the wombe and a reason thereof rendred Because hee should saue his people from their sinnes Hee saues vs from sinnes Guilt Punishment Regiment From sinnes guilt and punishment by his imputatiue passions from sinnes regiment by his merits and graces applyed and deriued vpon vs and by his actiue obedience imputed he doth entitle vs to the glory of heauen Old Simeon acknowledged Christ such a saluation Mine eyes haue seene thy saluation yea and my saluation thine for sending mine for sauing thine for loue mine for life Mine eyes haue seene this saluation And the spirit of Mary also exulted in this her Sonne Sauiour And all you that would finde him a Iesus from Hell bee carefull yee finde him a Iesus from sinne Christ CHrist signifieth Anoynted In the Old Law they anointed three Kings Priests Prophets And for the worke of our Redemption Christ was necessarily anoynted to a triple Office with the oyle of holinesse aboue his fellowes He was anoynted to be a King Prophet Priest To be a King a type whereof was Salomon to be a Prophet a type whereof was Dauid to bee a Priest a type whereof was Melchisedech Melchisedech not Aaron Aaron a Priest but not a King Dauid a King but not a Priest Melchisedech both King and Priest King of Salem and Priest of the most high God and therefore a notable type of Iesus Hee was anoynted to bee a King to rule his Elect and protect them hee was anoyuted to bee a Prophet to teach his Elect and direct them hee was anoynted to be a Priest to ransome his Elect and redeeme them If Christ be thy Christ as King then the Diuell reignes not in thee but Christ if Christ bee thy Christ as Prophet then his word not thy will is the rule and square of all thine actions if Christ bee thy Christ as Priest then thy affections are slaine concerning sinne and thy whole man sacrificed to God And thou shalt be saued THe reward of our faith is the saluation of our soules Blessed is the estate of Christianity for it is rewarded with inexpressible felicity The benefit of beleeuing is multiple First heereby wee are adopted the children of God Yee are all the sonnes of God by faith in Christ Iesus Secondly hereby our sinnes are forgiuen vs as we reade in the Gospell Confide fils remittuntur tibi peccata Beleeue my sonne and thy sinnes are for giuen thee Thirdly hereby we haue right and interest in all Gods blessings of this life Godlinesse hath the promises of this life as well as of that which is to come Fourthly hereby we are freed from the damnation of hell Now then there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Iesus which walke not after the flesh but after the Spirit Lastly hereby we shall be possessed with the saluation of heauen the glories and ioyes whereof are so great as they cannot bee numbred so precious as they cannot be valued so lasting as they are euerlasting Neither eye hath seene nor eare hath heard nor heart of man hath euer imagined the thousand part of this heauenly felicity Beleene on the Lord Iesus Christ thus thou shalt bee saued and thine houshold If then to bee members of Christ Iesus bee so blessed a condition O let
vs begge of God the heauenly Husbandman to rend vs off by true humbling from the stocke of corruption and to plant vs into Christ Iesus by effectuall beleeuing that at that terrible Iudgement wee all with our poore housholds euerlastingly may be saued And that for Iesus Christ his sake our only Lord and euerlasting Redeemer Amen FINIS A GODLY AND Zealous Prayer O Most glorious God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him our Father the Fountaine of all our welfare and the giuer of all grace we thy poore children according to our bounden duty are at this present assembled together before thee in Prayer to offer vp euen from the ground of our hearts the Sacrifice of thanksgiuing for all thy louing mercies and tender kindnesses whatsoeuer bestowed vpon vs. We highly blesse thy Maiesty for electing vs in thy Christ to life eternall before all worlds for creating vs after thine owne most glorious Image in purity and perfection of holinesse for iustifying vs by the perfect obedience of thy Sonne for sanctifying vs by thy holy Spirit and for the hope that thou hast giuen vs of our future glorification with thee heereafter in Heauen We also returne vnto thee all due and possible prayse for preseruing vs hitherto of thine especiall goodnesse and mercy supplying aboundantly all our necessities both in soule and in body and for thy blessing vpon vs and ours keeping vs from diuers dangers that might iustly for our sinnes haue come vpon vs both spirituall and corporall O what shall we render vnto thee for all these thy mercies done vnto vs what are wee that thou shouldst thus respect vs or what are our deseruings that thou shouldst thus esteeme vs To vs O Lord to vs most miserable sinners there nothing belongeth but shame and confusion If thou Lord markest strictly what is done amisse who is able to abide it O how farre doth thy mercy exceed thy iustice O the deepnesse of thy fauours towards vs So vnsearchable are they as no man can expresse them so vn-vtterable as no man can declare them And most mercifull Father wee humbly intreat for thy Christs sake the continuance of these mercies towards vs Blesse vs this day and euer with thy heauenly protection and benediction guide vs by thine owne Spirit into all godlinesse that we may profitably and conscionably walke before thee in our vocations both generall and particular blesse vs in the house and blesse vs in the field blesse vs in the basket and blesse vs in the store blesse vs in our out-goings and in our commings in compasse vs on euery side with thy mercies guard thine Angels round about vs keepe vs from the euill of this world and euery worke of darknesse and sanctifie both our soules and bodies with thy feare to thy seruice that as heretofore we haue serued the Diuell and the world by prophanenesse so euer heereafter redeeming the time wee may apply our selues vnto holinesse To which end we most earnestly craue O heauenly Father the presence of thy Spirit alwayes to direct vs the powerfull preaching of thy Gospell alwayes to instruct vs the holy vse of thy Sacraments alway to confirme vs that all heresie and vngodlinesse remoued farre from vs by these meanes sanctified vnto vs we may glorifie thy holy name by our holy conuersations in this life and bee glorified of thee euerlastingly in the life to come And because by reason of our sinnes in stead of thy mercies we haue deserued thy furious indignation against vs we therefore seriously begge at the throne of thy mercy in the meritorious mediation of Iesus Christ that thou wouldest remoue far from vs and our Land all thy fearefull and heauy iudgements whatsoeuer as famine pestilence sword and the like and giue vs all grace from the King to the beast that we may be truly humbled for all our iniquities that wee repenting vs of our euill which is sinne thou maist be pleased to repent thee of thy euill which is punishment for sinne Heare vs Oblessed Lord God in these our Petitions pardoning our sinnes and granting to vs all our requests with all other thy graces that we stand in need of that may make for thy glory and the sauing of our poore soules at the dismall Day of Iudgement and that for Christ Iesus his sake To whom with thee and thy blessed Spirit three glorious persons but one immortall God wee desire to returne all possible praise power dominion and thanksgiuing this day and euerlasting Amen FINIS Sirs Note John 3. 8. Rom. 9. 15. Math. 3. 9. Iohn 11. 2. Acts 9. 6. Luke 19. 8. What must I doe Note Gal. 3. 24. Rom. 7. 10. Act. 2. 37. Luke 3. 10. Ion. 3. 5. Act. 9 6. Esay 66. 2. Math. 11. 28. Similie 1. Kin. 19. 11. 12. Text. Note Wisd 5. 7. Esay 58. 6. Text. Mat. 20. 21. Luk. 12. 13. Note Math. 6. 33. Exod. 33. 18. Psal 4. 6. Math. 26. 22. Psal 132. 4. Text. Note Similie Psal 25. 10. Cant. 1. 4. Text. Text. Ob. Ans Ezek. 18. 20. Math. 25. 9. Gen. 18. 32. Hab. 2. Text. Text. Faith Iam. 2. 19. Luke 8. 13. 1 Cor. 13. 2. Simile Psal 45. 8. Rom. 5. 1. Rom. 10. 10. Hab. 2. 4. Mark 9. 24. Text. Note Text. Act. 7. 28. Psal 110. 1. Ioh. 20. 28. Mal. 1. 6. Luke 7. 8. Heb. 11. 7. Text. Math. 1. 21. Luke 2. 30. Luke 1. 47. Text. Text. Note Gal. 3. 26. 1. Tim. 4. 8. Rom. 8. 1. 1. Cor. 2. 9.