of the Righteous for all holy and humble men of heart Those Incarnate Cherubims Inflamed Seraphims Strong Powers against Devils Principalities in the midst of contumelies Dominions reigning over all enticements Those Virtues in a miraculous life Those Angels of the Churches and Arch-Angels who by close Communion with thee illuminate and encourage us to serve thee For Ananias Azarias and Misael their courage and miraculous deliverance I praise bless and magnifie thy Name for ever Saying Glory be to the Father c. Thanksgivings for all Persons and Times BLessed art thou O Lord God who sustainest all things by the word of thy Power For by thine Ordinance all things are and do continue Thou givest us Rain and fruitful Seasons and fillest our Hearts with food and gladness With admirable Wisdom didst thou create and dost still govern all things But above all I admire thy Wisdom Power and Goodness shewed unto Man Thou madest him of the mould of the Earth and didst breath into his Nostrils the breath of Life Thou didst honour him and create him after thine own Image giving him a capacious Soul sound Judgment clear Understanding ready Apprehension useful Memory clear Reason a ready and obedient Will so that with these faculties we can by thy Divine aid walk at large in the liberty of our thoughts into all the Regions of Heaven and Earth see thee in all times and before all time in that Eternity wherein thou didst live before Time began to be and in that Eternity also which shall be when Time shall be no more By these powers and faculties of our immortal Souls we can see thee also by thy divine Illumination In all thy works of Grace In thy Government of all Ages And in that most stupendious work of Redemption promised in the beginning and performed in the fulness of time for our Salvation O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the World It is thou who givest us well order'd Passions sound Sences Health of Body strength of Limbs and useful Members Thou givest us peace of Mind and tranquillity of Spirit by which only we can happily enjoy thee and all things in thee It is thou alone who givest thine Angels charge over us to keep us from falls fractures of Bones Dislocations Epidemical and noisome Diseases from the hands of the violent and wicked man Having placed Man in Paradise when he fell from thee even then thou didst not despise him but didst open the gate of Life in the promised seed unto him Thou didst write thy Laws in his Heart and instruct him in the service of Sacrifices Strengthen our faith by the Oracles of the Prophets Enliven our Hearts with the Melody of the Psalms Teach us by the Wisdom of the Proverbs Evidently point out the coming of thy Son by Types and Figures And at last recompence all their long waitings and expectations by sending him unto us Who took our nature upon him and sanctified it in his Incarnation Birth and Life Redeemed us by his Death and Passion Quickened us by his Resurrection Exalted us by his Ascension Intercedeth for us in his Session at the right hand of the Father Sent down his holy Spirit for our Illumination Sanctification and hope of Glory O blessed be thy Name for giving this Lord of Life and this Son of thy Love unto us For thy glorious Gospel Evangelizing him For the prospect and benefit of his Life and Death It is thou most holy Father who with thine only Son freely givest us all things By thee Kings reign and Princes decree Justice Thou instructest all our Rulers and teachest our Senators wisdom Thou givest us Pastors after thine own heart to fill us with the knowledg of thee and feed us with true faith and obedience unto thee Thou bringest down our hearts for sin so that we sometimes fall before our enemies and there is none to help us Again upon our Repentance thou raisest us up and breakest our bonds in sunder For it is thou who castest our cords from us Thou dost not leave us in the hardness of our hearts but givest us preventing grace with which if we co-operate O how sweet and heavenly are the glorious effects thereof Then we feel compunction for our sins shame of them hearty indignation against them and our selves for them then the sense of thy Love of thy Mercies and of our moâ—t base and vile ingrateful abuse of thy mercies throws down all the strong holds of sin in us and fortifies us against them Nay sometimes thou dost send thy grace so forcibly upon us that thou dost even compell us to come in unto thee Though thou delightest O thou lover of men to see thy Voluntary goodness shine in our Souls O would we draw nigh unto thee with what infinite joy dost thou draw nigh unto us But thou wilt not always force us because thou desirest a free obedience and lovest to save us in the best of all possible manners The glory of a sinner voluntarily returning being greater than that of Adams Innocence and causing greater joy in Heaven then there is over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance Blessed magnified highly exalted and honoured be thy Name for putting such a power into our hands of turning unto thee such desires into our Hearts such powerful workings in our Souls that every true penitent is always turning more and more unto thee ever moving to thee and aspiring after thee till by thy grace he be wholly throughly and effectually turned unto thee Finding no true satisfaction but in thee no rest no comfort no peace but in thee Thus by degrees dost thou wean us from the world and wed us unto thee Till at last we are fully accepted pardoned and in Jesus Christ justified and by thy Spirit wholly united unto thee So thirsting for and drinking in thy grace that at last thou givest us full satisfaction in all thy Glories Dearest Lord it is thine own self that workest all our works in us And therefore well mayest thou require all good works from us Thou makest that good ours which first was thine That so in us thy whole goodness might shine For thou alone enablest us to do good and to resist evil Thou teachest us how to abound without abusing thy mercy and how to want without repining at thy justice Thou dost help us to overcome yet crownest us for overcoming O wonder of Mercy miracle of Grace It is thou only dost comfort us in our sorrows support us in our trials and take care of our welfare in all estates Thou givest us Songs in the night of affliction and victory in the day of temptation It is only thou canst qualifie our turbulent tempestuous spirits and give us calmness and serenity therein Who could make our impatient natures contented in the midst of all the storms and tempests of a raging world but only thou It is thou alone dost establish our fickle hearts and fix them fast on
yea even for the living God When shall I come and appear before God My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise Truly my soul waiteth upon God from him cometh my Salvation He only is my Rock and Salvation my soul wait thou only upon God For my expectation is from him he only is my Rock and my Salvation He is my defence I shall not be moved In God is my Salvation and my Glory the Rock of my strength and my refuge is in God Trust in him at all times pour out your heart before him He is our refuge O God thou art my God early will I seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty Land where no water is To see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary Because thy loving kindness is better than life my lips shall praise thee Thus will I bless thee while I live I will lift up my hands in thy name My Soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips I will praise God in the great Congregations I will enter into thy gates with thanksgiving and into thy Courts with praise Open to me the gates of Righteousness I will go into them and I will praise the Lord. This is the day that the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it Give Israel thine Oracles and fill Zion with thine unspeakable Glory O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstool for he is holy O worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness O come let us fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker In thy fear do I worship thee in this thy holy Temple desiring to praise thee in the great Congregation before much people Here O Lord in the beauty of Holiness I approach to worship thee among thy Saints in the great Assembly I adore thine infinite Bounty that notwithstanding all my sins thou permittest me to tread thy Courts to attend thy Majesty in thy holy Temple For I have profaned thy Sabbaths Defiled thy Sanctuary Polluted thine holy Ordinances Dishonoured my Profession Been cold in my Prayers Dull in my Praises Careless and censorious in my Hearing Extreamly negligent in my Meditation Miserably distracted in all So that I have deserved a curse rather than a blessing from thee But O merciful Father Tender and compassionate Lord. Jesus my Saviour Most blessed and holy Spirit By thy Grace I return unto my heart and with all my heart I return unto thee Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me Pardon all my sins and let them not hinder the ascending of my prayers and praises unto thee nor the descending of thy mercies and graces now upon me My Soul breaketh for the longing it hath to thy Judgments The Law of thy mouth is dearer unto me than thousands of Gold and Silver Thy Testimonies are my delight and my counsellers O now in the accepted time make them so to thy servant Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wonderful things of thy law Make me to understand the way of thy precepts Order my steps in thy Word and let not any iniquity have dominion over me Teach me thy way O God and I will walk in thy paths O knit my heart fast unto thee that I may fear thy name It is my joy to see these Temples erected in the Land To see all Nations adoring and offering prayers and praises unto thee O that thou wouldst fill my heart with all the love of all the Souls that ever were are or shall be that I might offer it up now unto thee with all the love of Angels and glorified Saints for thou hast shewed more mercy to me than to them For I have offended thee more than all Give me therefore the love and obedience of them all to offer it up now unto thee Amen Devotions in the Church O Most holy God who art glorious in Holiness fearful in praises doing wonders give me great and dreadful apprehensions of thee that all the words of my mouth and thoughts of my heart may now and ever be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Bless all thine holy Ordinances at this time and at all times unto me Give me understanding in thy Word both read and preached Grant that it may be so mixt with faith and obedience that it may be the savour of life unto life to me and to every one here before thee and not the savour of death unto death Direct I beseech thee and assist thy Minister that he may rightly divide and utter thy Word that what in his Studies he hath conceived and composed of thy holy Oracles he may now powerfully preach to thy Glory Fill him with the Holy Ghost that he by thy Spirit may minister grace to the Hearers Make him to speak Knowledg and Instruction to the ignorant Comfort to the afflicted Terror to the profane That he may melt the hard hearted and make the proud to tremble at thy Word Lord enable him to correct all my errors to search out and eradicat all all my sins And then and not till then let him speak peace to my Conscience So guide the sword of the Spirit in his hand that it may meet with and smite all our corruptions and bosom sins who are now before thee known or unknown to us but all known to thee discover them all by this thy holy Minister that we may be purged purified and cleansed before thee Endue me and all that are here with wisdom to understand thy Word With serious attention to it With holy veneration of it With love and delight in it With all obedience to it And give us the grace of perfect amendment by it O let thy word drop as heavenly dew upon me and make my barren heart fruitful in the fruits of the same What I beg for my self I beg for all thy people for all my friends in special for all mankind in general and for all thine all the world over humbly beseeching thee to make thine holy Ordinances profitable unto all Amen After Church I Praise and magnifie thy great and Glorious Name that notwithstanding all my sins and great unworthinesses thou hast again admitted me into thy Holy Temple to make my prayers and supplications unto thee and to offer up my Praises in the Songs of Zion to thy great and Glorious Name I humbly thank thee for thy most holy Word read and Preached That Treasury of thy Graces That dispensation of thy Mercies That word of Life and Comfort That Helmet and Shield of Salvation Make it to have mighty operation upon me Let it make a deep impression in me Write it in my heart Record it in my Memory Make it familiar pleasant and present to my understanding The only subject of my Study And the sole object of my Love Let it
daily by it Grant me by the same spirit therefore to have a right Judgment in all things that I may both perceive and know what I have to do and have grace and power to fulfill the same Give me I beseech thee all the gifts and graces of thy holy Spirit Give me the spirit of wisdom to be sober wise and considerate in all things Give me the spirit of understanding to be quick clear and distinctive in my Apprehensions to distinguish between truth and falshood good and evil Give me the spirit of counsel to consult thy holy will and pleasure before I act any thing Make me meekly to receive all good counsel and prudently to give it Give me the spirit of ghostly strength that I may be modestly confident and impregnably couragious in thy service Give me the spirit of knowledg to know all thy revealed will to me and all my bounden duty to thee that so neither thy Law nor my duty thy mercy nor my sin may ever lie undiscerned in my Soul Give me I beseech thee the spirit of piety that I may ever be devoted unto thee And O my Saviour give me above all things thy holy filial fear that I may never more dare to offend thee Deliver me therefore I humbly beseech thee from all rashness inadvertency and inconsideration From a perverse confused unstable Understanding From refusing Counsel or neglecting to give it From ignorance of thy Will and my duty From all confidence of my self or diffidence in thee From all impiety and profaneness From casting off thy holy fear thereby growing bold or careless in offending And now dearest Lord having implored the gifts of thy holy Spirit and deprecated those evils that oppose it I humbly beg of thy divine Majesty the fruits of thy holy Spirit also that by finding those within me I may know thy holy Spirit rules and governs me Give me dear Lord I beseech thee an universal love make me to love thee for thy self my friend in thee and mine enemy for thee Give me joy in thee in thy works in thy ways in thy Laws in thy Saints and Servants in all the friends and blessings which I enjoy Give me O Prince of peace peace with thee my self my friends and enemies Give me patience in all my sufferings mercy to all who offend me or need my mercy Give me meekness in my heart words and behaviour in all to all Give me a true and irreprovable faith Give me modesty in all disputations shamefac'dness amidst all commendations sobriety in the midst of plenty that I never abuse thy bounty And with these give me I beseech thee the four Cardinal Virtues Prudence to govern me Justice to direct me Fortitude to discharge my duty Temperance to be moderate in all things Make me ever mindful Of Death to be prepared for it Of Heaven to desire it Of Judgment to dread it Of Hell to be deliver'd from it O keep me in with bit and bridle when I stick not close unto thee Make me to delight in the Assembly of the faithful to be among them that the holy Spirit which thou didst send upon thine Apostles may descend upon me even me also O my Lord compell I beseech thee my dearest N.N. to come in unto thee Make him to see the felicity of thy chosen Give him a taste and relish of all these Gifts and Graces of thy holy Spirit that he also may be filled with those unspeakable joys which they feel and find who spend their days and hours spirits souls and forces in knowing loving and obeying thee Give me the whole armor of God that I may resist all evil and persist in doing all good O give me the spirit of Grace and Supplication that these and all my other prayers may be acceptable to thee blessed to me and graciously answered for thy mercy sake Amen A Prayer to the Holy Ghost out of St. Augustine O Love of the Divine Power the holy Communication of the Omnipotent Lord and Father and of the most blessed Son come down even now I beseech thee by thy powerful Virtue into my Soul and get into all the corners of my heart and by thy splendor clearly illuminate all the darkness thereof Let thy gracious Visitation and abundant dew make my Soul fruitful in all good works pierce the most retired parts of mine inward man with the keen piercing darts of thy love enflame me with thy holy fires feed me with delicious Viands replenish me with thy Coelestial Graces Give me so to drink of the torrents of thy delights that I may have no taste of vain or sinful pleasures Come O thou comforter of all sorrowful Souls come thou comforter of the weak and strength of the strong come thou supporter of the falling and thou lifter up of the faln come thou cleanser of our sins and curer of our wounds Come thou teacher of the Meek and destroyer of the Proud Come O thou hope of the Poor and reviver of those that faint Come propitious Star of such as sail and haven against Shipwrack Come thou stay and comfort of those that live and thou only hope of all those that die Have mercy upon me have mercy upon me and make me fit for thy self and abide in me for ever And that thou mayst abide with me I do again beg of thee the fear of the Lord because this fear is Beautified by Wisdom Informed by Understanding Directed by Counsel Strengthened by courage Filled with Knowledg And crowned with Piety As this fear advanceth our knowledg so our knowledg brings us to this fear Therefore O thou only spirit of Wisdom give me this knowledg that I may always have this fear Such a fear as may make me wise unto Salvation Give me wisdom to understand thy Word Open mine eyes to see the wondrous things of thy Law Enlighten my Understanding to find out the hidden and glorious treasures thereof Fill me with the love of it With all delight in it Inspire me to meditate humbly of it Make me in every reading or hearing of it to profit by it and in all things to be obedient to it Amen Dearest Lord and most blessed Saviour give me I beseech thee such grace in meditating such divine light in understanding thy sacred sufferings in thy passion for me That by faith I may believe in thee and depend upon thy Merits therein By love feel thy sufferings be crucified to the world and be transformed into thee Make me willing to suffer any thing for thee Enable me to imitate thee in all thy imitable perfections and virtues which thou hast exemplified to me in this thy sacred Passion Give me the vast extensive love which thou didst shew to Almighty God in thy obedience to his Will and satisfaction of his Justice Give me that great Zeal of Souls which thou hadst even to die for their good especially their Coversion as thou didst for their Salvation Give me O Lord I beseech thee thy
For the Musick of our Songs and Praises For the Harmony and unity of our Versicles and Responsals For our strong loud powerful Cries to importune thy mercy For our soft silent dropping Tears to move thy pity For our Regeneration in Baptism Our Renovation in the Eucharist Our daily growth and comfort in the means of Grace For our comforts and increase of grace in the Seals of Salvation For the Infallibility of thy Holy Word For thy Judgments denounced therein to keep us from sinning For thy saving promises to keep us from despairing For thy Righteous Laws Glorious Attributes wonderful works and all the ways of thy divine Providence making our faith and dependance strong in thee I praise thee for the great delight of the Mosaical part of thy Word shewing us thy Wonders Laws and Ordinances enrich'd with thy second Covenant which was believ'd and depended on by all the Holy Patriarchs I praise thee for the Historical part of thy Word declaring to us thy Wisdom Power and Providence in the Oecumenical Government of thy Church and People both under Judges and Kings making Monarchy to succeed Aristocracy because far exceeding it I praise thee for the History and Patience of Job For the Poetical part of thy Word In the Melody of the Psalms The Instructions of the Proverbs The mirrour of Vanity The transporting Raptures of the Canticles The melting Lamentations for our Sins and thy Judgments I praise thee for the stupendious Prophetical part of thy Word whereby we are filled with wonder at the mysteriousness of thy Prophecies and raised to exultation in seeing their Accomplishments And for all those heights and depths not yet revealed but still obscure is thy Wisdom Power and Majesty to be reverenc'd By which springs of Glory thou hast made all our fresh springs to arise in thee But if in thy Law and Prophets thy Gospel lay concealed how glorious in thy Gospel that brings us a Saviour by whom thy Law is fulfilled and thy Prophecies revealed I praise thee therefore with intense and fervent praises for thy glorious Gospel above all which brings us the tydings of a Saviour sent from Heaven to redeem and restore lost undone and faln man I praise thee exaltedly most holy Father for my dear and blessed Saviour For his Miraculous Incarnation Joyful Birth sharp Circumcision Glorious Epiphany painful and concealed life till his Baptism I praise thee for his Prophetical Office then taken and executed in his Sermons of Salvation excellent precepts gracious Promises Miracles Prophesies and works of mercy For all his hard Labours Travels on foot Watchings Tears Fastings Prayers and humble life of pain and poverty for our example and encouragement therein For his Priestly Office in his Life-giving and all-saving death wherein he sacrificed himself for the Sins of the whole World and even for me as if there had been no other I praise thee for his Kingly Office manifested in his Almighty Resurrection Triumphant Ascension Regal Session at the right hand of God and his Intercession for us For the glorious descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost For the blessed presence residence and assistance of the same spirit upon thy holy Church throughout all Ages For the knowledg of an Incomprehensible Trinity in an undivided Unity thy Name be blessed and praised for evermore I praise thee also for the Glorious Acts of the Holy Apostles For the propagation of thy Church by them For the riches of Wisdom and the sacred Mysteries that lie hid in their Epistles The Humility of their Lives Their courage and patience in suffering Their Charity in forgiving Their powerful declamation against Vice Their practice of Virtue Thy spirit of truth in all And for that Map of the Coelestial Canaan in the all-bright and glorious Revelation thy name be blessed and praised both now and for evermore Amen I praise thee also for the successful Ministry of thy Word in all Ages since For the Learning of the Fathers The Holiness of their Lives Their zealous Devotions For the Tears Watchings and Prayers of all Christians For their patience in suffering and courage manifested in the Primitive Times For thy saving truth shining more or less in all times For the excellent Preaching of thy Word in our times For the co-operation of thy Spirit with it To the awakening of our seared Consciences The melting of our hard Hearts To the dividing between the Soul and Spirit the Heart and Reins For the discovery of our Sins The quickening of our Spirits The fear of thy Judgments The hope of thy Mercies For the Reformation of our Lives I praise thee also for all those who have benefited me by their Writings Sermons Discourses Prayers Books Rebukes and Advices and for all other helps unto Heaven I praise thee for all thy sanctified afflictions to chastise my rebellions For all the unkindness of Friends ingratitude and contempt of enemies Thereby to wean me from the World Scowre me from my rust Refine me from my dregs And unite me closer unto thee For raising me up many comforts and Friends I neither deserved nor thought upon For giving me the grace of Penitence The super-exalted love of a Redeemed and the care and piety of a regenerated person For upholding me from falling For lifting me up when I was down For strengthening me in my weakness For confirming me in goodness For the Conversion of all Sinners For thy patience in waiting for their Conversion For thy pardon of the Penitent For thy Justice on the Obstinate For thy preventing and initiating Grace Thy illuminating and co-operating Grace Thy restraining and restoring Grace Thy renewing assisting and quickning Grace For thy many great strong loud calls by thy Judgments For thy soft melting whispering calls in our Consciences to turn unto thee For alluring us by thy Word read and preached Thy Mercies and thy Judgments Thy Divine Inspirations The stings of our Consciences in sinning The humility and fear of a pardoned person For making Sin bitter unto us The burden intollerable I praise thee for giving us any hunger or thirst after Righteousness For any power thou givest us to do good works and for thy blessing upon those we do For a good and right understanding A ready unloosed Tongue A clear apprehension and a little comprehension of divine things A serviceable Memory An obedient will at any times to thy calls For giving me a great love to thee my friend in thee mine enemy for thee For the comfort and delight thou givest me in my Prayers and Praises For the fidelity of my Friends The love of my Neighbours The good acceptation thou givest me with all kind of persons For the interest thou givest me in the souls of men For any love care or Conscience that is in my servants For giving me a Heart to pardon mine enemies For the gratitude thou dost enable me to pay to my Friends For my compassion of others and theirs on me For giving me grace to leave the