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A93269	The true Christians path way to heaven Wherein is shewed, the great afflictions which God imposeth upon His children in this life, and the assurance of their delivery out of the same. Being very profitable and comfortable for all those who are in any crosses or afflictions. Thereunto is added a prayer for morning and evening, and graces before and after meat. Dedicated to all those that desire to arrive at Mount Sion, the harbour of peace and joy. By William Simons.	Simons, William, fl. 1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing S3805B; ESTC R231571	10,852	29

and deserved for these sinnes ederlasting damnation and to be utterly thrown from Thy presence Neverthelesse we appeal from thy justice to thy mercy beseeching thee for Iesus Christ his sake to be mercifull to us in the pardoning and forgiving all our sins whether they be known or unknown good Lord bldt them out of the book of thy rememberance that they may never rise up either in this life to move us to desperation nor yet in the life to come to bring us to eternall death and condemnation that they be not a wall of separation at this time to hinder our prayers from ascending up unto Thee and thy blessing from descenting upon us Seeing that we cannot do any thing that is good and pleasing in thy sight we beseech thee that thou will so renew and change us in all the parts and powers of our souls and bodies that as heretofore we have been instruments of ungodlinesse and sin we may now be instruments of righteousnesse and true holinesse all the dayes of our lives Together with our selves we beseech shee blesse thy whole Church wheresoever disperst or howsoever distrust over the face of the earth O Lord fight for them that fight for Thee Blesse thy friends and destroy thy foes Be gracious to this Land where we live continue thy holy Gospel with us We beseech thee Blesse every particular Member thereof from the highest to the lowest whether by Sea or Land or in any crosse or affliction or suffering for the testimony of a good conscience or any that do crave the benefite of our Prayers Lord thou seest them all thou knowest were they dwell Good Father do abundantly for them more then we are able to ask or crave at thy hands Now we are to come to The again for our selves here present giving Thee hearly thanks that thou hast kept us this night from all hurt and danger giving to our bodies sweet and comfortable rest And as thou hast drought us to the beginning of this day we beseech Thee that thou wilt direct us this day by Thy Holy Spirit keep us from all the temptations of Sathan from all kind of sin and wickednesse that being shadowed under thy wings we may go on constantly and chearfully to the end of our dayes Blesse all our true and lawfull endeavours this day let us not lack the thing without which we cannot serve thee But that we may have sufficient and not be chargeable but rather helpfull unto others Great these graces unto us and whatsoever else thou knowst most needfull for us and that for Christ Iesus sake in whose Name and words we do conclude our imperfect Prayers in that most perfect form which he himself hath taught us saying Our Father c. Evening Prayer O Gracious God and loving Father in Iesus Christ we thy unworthy Children do here how down our selves to offer up unto thee our evening Sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving for all thy blessings and benefits continued unto us Acknowledging and confessing that as we are born and bred in sin and stained in the Womb so have we continually brought forth the fruit thereof both in Thought Word and Works So that if we should go about to reckon up our particular offences we know not where to begin or where to make an end they are far more in number then the hairs on your heads or the sands in the Sea For who knoweth how often he offen deth Our Lord thou knowest our hearts thou knowest our sins nothing is hid from thee Our conscience doth accuse us of many and grievous evils We daily feel by woefull experience how weak we are unto all goodnesse and how willing towards all evil Our minds are full of vanity our hearts are full of deadnesse dulnesse and drusinesse in matters of thy Worship and Service yea our Souls are full of spirituall blindnesse hardnesse unprofitablenesse coldnesse security So that in very deed we are a lump of sinne a masse of all misery and therefore have forfeited thy favour and procured thy high displeasure against us But we beseech Thee look not upon us as we are in our selves but through thy Son Iesus Christ and for his sake to pardon and forgive us all our sinnes and accept His death and passion as a full satisfacton for them all And we beseech Thee Seal up the forgivenesse of our sinnes by the testimony of his blessed Spirit that when we shall be stripped naked of all outward comfort we may have in us peace of conscience which passeth all understanding work in us true repentance in all particular actions Fill our souls with joy and peace in believing Fill us all with inward comfort and spirituall strength against all the temptations of the World the flesh and the devil Mortifie in us whatsoever is carnal Sanctifie us with thy Spirit write it in our hearts for ever that we may fear thy name Renew in us the Image of thy Son Christ Iesus dally more and more Never leave us nor forsake us till thou hast brought us to thy Heavenly Kingdome We beseech Thee to be mercifull to Thy whole Church call home thy ancient people of the Iews bring in the sulnesse of the Gentiles Blesse this Land wherein we live be thou still our God and give us Grace to be thy people Romove far from us all those plagues and punishments which we for our sins have justly deserved We beseech thee to prevent Popery and continue thy Word and Gospel unto us and our posterity to the end of the world Confound all plots and devices of all those which do secretly or openly seek to hinder the same Blesse O LORD all those that truely seek thy Honour and Glory and the happy peace of this sad and distracted Nation LORD uphold them that uphold thy truth unite our hearts all as one if it be thy holy wil that we may al serve thee in truth and holinesse of life and keep us from the foul errours of these latter times Blesse al the Ministers of thy Word and Sacraments The Harvest is great and the Labourers are few O LORD we beseech Thee to encrease faithful and painful Labourers in thy Harvest and double thy Spirit upon them for the discharge of so great and weighty a duetie Blesse al our Brethren that are at Sea keep them from al storms and tempests defend them from all their enemies give good successe to all their lawfull endeavours prosper their voyages and in good time bring them home in peace and safety O LORD be merciful to all that Thou hast laid Thy hand of affliction upon whether inwardly in soul or outwardly in body or for the testimonie of a good consciences O Lord sanctifie all their afflictions unto them and in Thy good time give a happy and joyfull deliderance Now we are to return to thee again for our selves here present giving the heartie thanks that thou hast kept us this day from all hurt and dangers both body and soul That thou hast given us food and raiment and all things needfull for this life and hast blest our labours for this day beseeching thee to continue thy favour to us this night Give unto our bodies sweet and comfortable rest this night that our minds be not drawn aside by the temptations of Satan nor by unquiet dreams But that we may fear thee and rest in thee that when the light of the day shall spring forth and appear we bring in perfect health may joyfully rise up and walk forth in our severall callings to the glory of thy Name and the benefit of our brethren Hear these our petitions for thy Church sake and thy Church for us and Iesus Christ for us all In whose name and words we further call upon thee as he hath taught us in his holy Gospil saying Our Father c. Learn these prayers in your hearts and print them in your mind Using them morning and evening great comfort you shall find Grace before meat O Lord we beseech Thee Blesse and Sanctifie these thy good Creatures which of thy great mercy Thou hast provided for us Give us Grace to receive them thankfully and use them soberly to the glory of thy Blessed Name AMEN Grace after meat BLessed be Thy Great and Glorious Name O Lord our God for refreshing us at this time with these thy good Creatures of Meat and Drink O Lord we beseech Thee that thou wilt make us truely thankfull to thee in all holy obedience according to thy blessed will And good Father Sanctifie us more and more both in souls and bodies to do thine own service and that for Christ Jesus his sake our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer O Lord increase our Faith forgive us our sins continue thy holy Gospel with us send us peace in our conscience that we may do uprightly justly in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord AMEN Grace before meat O Gracious God and loving Father that hast kept us by thy good Providence untill this time by nourishing us with thy good Creatures and hast not likewise far beyond our deserts bestowe them on us again according to thy wonted mercy We beseech thee to blesse them and give us grace to be thankfull unto thee for them without murmuring Grant us these Graces for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen Grace after meat O Most gracious God and heavenly Father we give thee humble and heartie thanks for refreshing our bodie at this time will thy good Creatures We beseech thee to feed our souls wit thy heavenly Grace that we may live eternally through thy Son our only Saviour Amen FINIS

them afflictions do over-cloud it crosses do dim it troubles do shadow it there is an interposition of the earth between the sight and it But this is most certainly true all the best is behind the sweetest is to come their happinesse doth not appear in this life it is hidden with God in Christ When Christ appears then shall they also appear with him in Glory It doth not yet appear what they shall be but when he cometh they shall be made like unto him their names are already taken and entred in the Book of life and one day they shall be crowned one day it shall be said to them Come ye blessed of my Father receive the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the World One day they shall enjoy his presence where is fulness of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore well then let all God's secret ones rejoyce and be merry however in this world they be troden underfoot and walk like shadowes and counted the very racts and abjects of the world yet the time wil come when their happinesse and felicity shall be such as never could enter into the heart of man for it shall be endlesse unspeakable and inconceivable and therefore there is no cause why Gods Children should be too much cast down in their afflictions for though they be not free from all afflictions yet they are free from hurtfull afflictions for there is no rod no crosse nor no chastisement but all in the end hath a blessed and happy issue for this is most certain and true there is no crosse nor affliction which God imposeth upon his Children in this life but if they endure it quietly and trust in his mercy firmly and tarry his good leasure obediently it all cometh to a comfortable and blessed end and therefore God's Children may rejoyce in the midst of their afflictions and patiently kiss his holy rod seeing it is his good pleasere I am willing withall seeing he will have it so I am well content as old Eli said 1 Sam. 3.18 It is the Lord let him do with me what he will and as David said in a certain case 2 Sam 15.26 Behold here I am do with me as seemeth best in thine own eyes And again David said in Psal 39.9 Behold I was dumb and opened not my mouth for thou Lord hast done it Behold here the patience of God's Children and their humble submission to his most holy Will they know all shall end well and therefore they are glad of it To conclude this point Gods children are happy in what state soever they are in happy in trouble happy out of trouble blessed in sicknesse blessed in health blessed at home and blessed abroad and every where blessed The next is a use of reproof First of all it reproves those that when any crosse or affliction befalls them they fall to cursing and swearing and therefore I beseech you consider how is it possible that any cursing or cursed person should be a Member of that blessed Head Christ Jesus who hath expresly forbid us to curse As in Mat. 5. Luk. 6. Rom. 10. where he saith Bless them that curse you pray for them that despitfully use you It is said of all them that accustom themselves to cursing Psal 109.17 They delighted in cursing therefore it shall happen to them They loved not blessing and therefore it shall be far from them It is said Ecclesiasticus 23.13 The plague shall never depart from the house of the swearer And therefore if ever ye desire to be partakers of the Kingdom of Heaven give your selves to blessing and prayer a and then ye shall have that blessed welcom Mat. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father receive the Kingdom It serves to reprove all those who being in afflictions do make great protestations they will become new creatures And yet so soon as their affliction is over they become as hard hearted and miserable as before Like as the 9. Lepers who being cleansed returned to their old Byas again And as St. Peter saith The dog that vomited is returned to his vomit again The sow that was washed is wallowed in the mire again Therefore let all such know these are but whips and lashes wherewith God doth whip and lain wicked and ungodly men And therefore in conclusion let all those to whom any crosses or afflictions do befall for Gods sake for their own sake and for their souls sake Labour to make their calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 and then they shall never fall And that we may all so do I commend you to GOD and to the word of his Grace who is able to build you up further and to give you an everlasting inheritance among them that are sanctified Now the GOD of mercy and the Father of all consolation prosper and sanctifie you and that which I have written unto you To Him be all praise honour and glory now and for evermore Amen YOu that have read or heard this Book either old or young I pray That seriously you would in it look and learn this heavenly way Delay no time for to be sure now in these latter dayes The Devil lurketh up and down in many by-path wyaes For like an Angel now of light transform'd he doth appear And many in this Land are led by him too much I fear Lord give us strength for to resist his power and force so strong That in this heavenly path we may most safely walk along In all these changes of these times and trouble eke to 〈◊〉 There 's no protests 〈…〉 O Lord is 〈…〉 An Exhortation to Prayer Job 33.25 HE shall pray unto the Lord and he will be favourable unto him he shall see his face with joy and he will render unto him his righteousnesse Isa 65.24 Before they ask I will answer saith the Lord and while they pray I will hear Jer. 10.25 A curse is threatned upon that family that doth not pray unto the Lord. Then let us not pray coldly with our lips and our hearts far from God But pour out our prayers with attentive mind and a carefull heart Morning Prayer O LDRD prepare our unprepared hearts for the performance of this Duty of Prayer Gide us the help of thy Holy Spirit Without which we can do nothing O LORD our GOD and headenly Father in Iesus Christ we thy poor and unworthy 〈◊〉 here humble our selves before thy 〈…〉 Majesty to offer up our Morning 〈…〉 Prayer and thanksgiving for all thy mercies and savours bestowed upon us acknowledging and confessing that we are miserable and sinfull wretches conceided and born in sin brought forth in iniquity And so have continued all our life time breaking and transgressing of thy holy Commandements in thought word and deed So that in us there is no whole part from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head all is polinted with iniquity sinne and I hil And therefore we have forfeited thy fabour