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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

set free from all earthly affections and fixed upon thee and upon things that are above and give up my heart and my life wholy to serve and glorify thee my God in a holy and a heavenly conversation which is the true state of Conversion help me to confesse my sins with sorrow and to reforme with joy and to make restitution where I have done wrong as thou givest oportunity and ability and where either are wanting let not will be wanting nor thy acceptance be wanting unto my sincere desires and endeavours Help me to accuse my self that thou mayest acquit me to judge condemn my self that thou mayest absolve me help me to exercise an holy revenge upon my self that thou mayest spare me help me to endeavour a redress of all scandals that I have given to reduce those whom I have seduced or with whom I have complied in any evill way and seal unto me thy pardon in the blood of Christ by the inward testimony of thy sanctifying spirit and let the reformation of mylife be an evidence unto me of the forgiveness of my sins which is the authentick seal of thy Spirit giving the impression of thine own Image Grant me a lively saving faith to believe thy Gospel and all thy Heavenly truthes that thou hast revealed in thy holy Word and to subdue and bring down all mine own thoughts apprehensions imaginations and affections thereunto that I may trust in the Lord with all mine heart and not lean unto mine own understanding Convince me O Lord of that great article of faith that my Jesus is thy Christ and the Son of the living God which is the rock upon which thou buildest thy Church and the gates of hell shal not prevail against it that I may not believe it by relation onely from men but by revelation from thee being wrought unto a full perswasion thereof by the arguments of thy spirit by the holy Prophecies that went before of him in the Old Testament which were all fulfilled in him in the New by the wonderfull miracles which he did by the descending of the Holy Ghost upon him in the visible form of a Dove by the voice from Heaven declaring him to be thy well beloved Sonne in whom thou art well pleased which voice was sent from thy heavenly Throne after his baptisme and at his tranfiguation by the holiness of his life the excellency of his Doctrine by the wonderfull sending of his Holy Spirit upon his Disciples in the likeness of fiery tongues and those excellent and wonderfull gifts that were bestowed upon them by the dreadfull judgment that fell upon the Jews for Crucifying him and reviling the Gospell by the blood of thy victorious Martyrs who sealed thy heavenly truth by their constancy in their sufferings and cruell deaths which they chearfully under went for the Testimony thereof and by the wonderfull wayes whereby thou hast carried on and maintained thy Church and Gospell against all the wisdome and power of the world that was against it Convince my Soul O Lord of that great truth by these arguments and by the experiment of the work of thy Grace in my Soul that I may firmly believe it and rely upon it for my falvation and that I may believe infallibly that this my Saviour by his death and passion hath satisfied for my sins that he hath justified me by his righteousness and that by his mediation he prevails with thee for obtaining of spiritual blessings all mercies needful for me and for the bring home of the fruit and benefit of that redemption which he hath wrought for me unto me bring a penitent sinner Give me faith to lay hold upon the Sacramental promise that I may come with a full and assured expectati on to receive thy Sons body crucified and his blood shed upon the Cross for my sins with all the benefits of his death and passion and of that great Redemption he hath wrought for me truly and really conveyed and applied and sealed to my soul in that thy holy Ordinance Let me take thy heavenly mysteries as thine earnest to oblidge me to serve thee and as thy pledges to assure me of thy love unto me and of my Interest in thy Christ and my Jesus unto my salvation And let my Faith work by Love that in the sense of thy great goodness offered and given unto me in Christ Jesus-I may love thee and thy Christ above all and with all my heart and soul mind and strength Let me think nothing too much to do or suffer for the who didst not think it too much to give thy son thy beloved son to suffer and die for me Enflame me with holy love unto all people that I may give up my self to them to serve them in love make me to own them in al their concernments to pitty them in all their miseries to be ready to relive them in all their wants to comfort them in all their distresses to counsel them in al their perplexity to pardon all their miscarriages towards me to bear their infirmities to study their good to love brotherly fellowship to delight in thy Sts. and holy ones and to walk comfortably chearfully together with them in thy holy worship and service Let not any poisoned dart of rancour or envy or malice or heart burning toward any rankle or feaster my soul But make us al up more more into the mistical body of thy Son that we may keep the unity fo the spirit in the bond of peace that we may be all one in thee as thou and thy Son Christ Jesus are one And let the Peace of God which passeth all nnderstanding rule in our hearts through Jesus Christ our Lord. Give me a thankfull sense and sweet relish of thy great mercy in that great redemption thou hast wrought for my soul by thy blesed Son That I may have an high esteem of thy love in giving thy son for me to be a sacrifice for my sins upon the Cross and in giving him unto me to be the nourishment life of my soul in the Sacrament Oh make me to receive him from thee there with a gratefull soule to return thee the devout and thankfull homage of my heart Strike me into an holy amazment at the wonders of thy great mercy toward me in him to poure out my soule in the praises of thy name to embrace thee in thy Christ and my Jesus with all the dearest affections of my heart to devote and consecrate my self unto thee to be a sacrifice of praise unto thee in the whole course of my life and conversation to rejoyce in the mercy and the loving kindenesse of my God Affect me with an awfull Reverence toward the greatnesse of thy Majesty with whō I there come to renew my Covenant toward the excellency of thy sonne whom I come to receive into my soul Toward the holiness of thy spirit by whom I come there to be

from proceeding in judgement against his people Pillers to support the ruinous fabrick of the tottering societies of men to keep the world from ruine and destruction according to that saying I take it of the Jews Sine stationibus non consisteret mundus The world is held up by the Congregations of Gods people and if there be any charms to be had that may raise up our dry bones of this confused and distracted and demolished Church and Nation they must be had not from Councels or Armies but from the devout performances of the congregations of Gods people which may shew you the reason why I have been so earnest with you for your presence and assistance in these assemblies in these times of our calamity of non conformity Sure I am if the Devill trembles at any thing that can be done upon earth it is at the gatherings of holy Congregation and at the work that they have in hand And of all the holy actions of a Congregation the most heavenly excellent the most perfect glorious and comfortable is the Holy Solemnity of the Supper of the Lord which is as it were the summe and recapitulation of all other duties There the Covenant of Baptisme is renued and confirmed There the Word is administred and sealed There the Laws of God are owned and subscribed as the articles on our part in that treaty of Peace between God and us which is there presented and managed There the promises the articles on Gods part are made sure established particularly unto every faithful receiver which are promised in general in the Holy Book and the Gospel is brought home unto every devout soul with all the blessings thereof for look what the Gospel promiseth that the Sacrament sealeth and delivereth unto every faithfull receiver in particular Their solemn praise and thanksgiving is offered unto God in the thankfull memorial of the death and passion of Christ which is there presented unto us for that great redemption that he hath wrought for us There the sweet incense of most earnest prayers and holy desires are exhaled unto God And there we have our petitions granted subscribed and sealed with the blood of Christ There we offer up our selves in homage unto God and Christ that gave his Son and that offered up himself for us There we present our Almes and Oblations to the Lord that we may answer his Mercy and Compassion unto us in mercy unto others and devotion unto him There we binde up our selves afresh and more and more in the holy Communion of Saints with the Church triumphant in Heaven and militant upon Earth There we are confirmed in our Union and Communion with Christ and receive his body and blood inseparably united to his Divinity with all the benefits of his Death and Passion really and truly applied unto our soules that by the merrit of his death and sufferings our sins may be pardoned that by the merrit of his Righteousnesse our persons may be justified that we may be enlightened by the beams of his heavenly Wisdome sanctified by the holinesse of his heavenly Graces refreshed with the cordials of his heavenly Comforts that we may be strengthened by the might of his heavenly Virtue that we may be enriched with the riches of his heavenly Blessings that we may be crowned at length and saved by his heavenly Glory and Salvation And receiving Christ we have power in him to become the Sonnes of God John 1.12 And if Sons then heirs heirs of God and joynt heirs with Christ If so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together Rom. 8.17 Yea we have God in him For in him dwelleth all the fulnesse of the God-head bodily Col. 2.9 We have the Father in him For he that acknowledgeth the Sonne hath the Father also and truly our fellowship is with his Father and with his Sonne Jesus Christ 1 Joh. 2.23 1 Joh. 1.3 And if we have the Father and the Sonne we have the Holy Ghost For hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath giveu us 1 Joh. 3.24 So that the whole blessing of the Apostle is upon us in the use of this holy Sacrament The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen What shall I say it is visibile Evangelium a visible Gospel and if you use it as you ought to do it will be to you vivum Evangelium a living Gospel a working Gospell a Gospel in possession not in your ears but in your hearts Here all mercies are conveyed and sealed all graces are confirmed and exercised Here repentance is imployed quickened faith is actuated strengthned hope encouraged devotion enflamed charity kindled peace concord established if there be a heaven upon earth it is in the holy opperation of a congregation devoutly celebrating the holy Supper of the Lord. This is the Holy plaister or love-charm to make us in love with God and one another and to make God also in love with us The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or soveraign antidote against sin The food of life the viaticum of eternity The universal medicine for all our diseases and an Ark of safety against all our dangers And now by this you may know the reason why I have been so earnest with you of my Congregation not to neglect the blessed opportunities that God offers you for your addresses unto him in the use of this holy mistery and to prepare your selves thereunto and why I have offered you this help which is presented unto you in this ensuing Treatise The truth is that I finde my self under very great obligations unto you I have received much of the comfort of my life from you and the great tenderness love and care that you have shew'd unto me in my late sickness the recovery from which Low under God in a great measure unto some of you addeth unto the endearments that are upon my soul toward you and it lies upon me to do my endeavour to answer your love which God in his mercy inable me and direct me to do in such a way as may be most for your good and spirituall advantage and truly I think I am in the way for I cannot pitch upon any thing that can be done more summarily or effectually in order to all your good and happinesse than to assist you in that great and excellent performance of the use of the Lords Supper for since it is a duty of so great perfection and so comprehensive of the whole businesse of a Christian and so entitling us to the whole treasure comfort of the Gospel if I shall prevaile with you to be good Communicants I am sure I shal have then prevailed with you to be good Christians and then you must needs be both a holy and a happy people Now there are three things that I finde necessary to be done that

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