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New prayers and meditations with pious exhortations for fast-days pursuant to Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary's injunctions to suppress irreligion and prophaneness / by Tho. Watts, Vicar of Orpington and St. Mary Crey in Kent.
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Watts, Thomas, 1665-1739.
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Wing W1157; ESTC R38244
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occasions of Delight gives more light to our Knowledge more heat to our Affections and more life to our Devotion Repentance and holy Living wherewith we ought to begin proceed and end every Year and Day to our last hour Thus may we grow to be as we ought Strangers and Pilgrims upon Earth and out of a right estimation of all earthly Things into a sweet fruition of invisible Comforts In a word thus we see our Saviour with Stephen talk with God as Moses and are ravish'd with St. Paul into Paradice and so qualify'd for the eternal Hallelujahs above A Morning Prayer for Family or Closet extracted out of the Whole Duty of Man and our holy Liturgy c. and composed according to that most excellent Form which our Lord Jesus hath taught and left us Mat. 6.9 O Thou that hearest Prayer unto whom all Flesh should come have thou respect unto the Prayers of thy Servants and to our Supplications O Lord our God to hearken unto the cry and to the Prayers which thy Servants pray before thee this day 1 King 8.28 O Lord who dwellest in the highest Heavens thou art the Author of our Being thou hast also begotten us again unto a lively Hope and carryest towards us the tenderness and Bowels of a compassionate Father O make us to render to thee the Love and Obedience of Children and that we may resemble thee our Father in Heaven that place of true Delight and Purity give us an holy Disdain of all the deceitful Pleasures and foul Pollutions of this World and so raise up our Minds that we may always have our Conversation in Heaven from whence we look for our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Strike such an awe in our Hearts that we may humbly reverence thee in thy Name which is great wonderful and holy and carry such a sacred respect to all things that relate to thee and thy Worship as may express our Reverence to thy great Majesty Let all the People praise thee O God yea let all the People praise thee in a firm Belief due Sense and grateful Acknowledgment of all thy wonderful Works of Providence particularly let us praise thee for our common Creation Preservation and all the Blessings of this Life but above all for thine inestimable love in the Redemption of the World by our Lord Jesus Christ for the happy and visible means of Grace and hope of Glory so miraculously continued to us within the Pale of an holy Communion in the due Administration of thy sacred Word and Ordinances And now thus more particularly O Father of Mercies let us thine unworthy Servants render thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness as to all Men so to us and ours day and night here mentioned particular Blessings both spiritual and temporal For these and all thy gracious Wonders of the right hand and the left tending to this life and a better let our Souls magnifie the Lord and all that is within us praise his holy Name Establish thy Throne and rule for ever in our Souls and by the power of thy grace subdue those Rebellious Corruptions that exalt themselves against thee they are those Enemies of thine which would not thou shouldst reign over them O let them be brought forth and slain before thee and make us such faithful Subjects of this thy Kingdom of Grace that we may be capable of thy Kingdom of Glory and Lord Jesus come quickly Enable us by thy grace chearfully to suffer thy will in all thy Afflictions and readily to perform it in all thy Commands give us of that heavenly Zeal to thy Service wherewith the blessed Angels of thy presence are inspired that we may obey thee with the like fervour and alacrity and that following them in their Obedience we may be join'd with them to sing eternal Praises in thy Kingdom to God and to the Lamb for ever And O merciful God who hast made all Men and hatest nothing that thou hast made nor wouldest the death of a sinner but rather that he should be converted and live have mercy upon all Jews Turks Infidels and Hereticks and take from them all ignorance hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and so fetch them home blessed Lord to thy Flock that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites and be made one fold under one Shepherd Jesus Chrit our Lord. O incorporate all Mankind into thy holy Church and regenerate all with thy Holy Spirit receiving us for thine own Children by Adoption and thus graft in our Hearts the love of thy Name encrease in us true Religion nourish us with all Goodness and of thy great mercy keep us in the same and give unto us the encrease of Faith Hope and Charity and that we may obtain that which thou dost promise make us to love that which thou dost command Give us that continual supply of thy grace which may sustain and nourish our Souls unto eternal Life and be thou pleased also to provide for our Bodies all those things which thou seest fit for their support thro' this our earthly Pilgrimage and make us chearfully to rest on thee for them first seeking thy Kingdom and the Righteousness thereof and then not doubting but all these things shall be added unto us O God the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing holy encrease and multiply upon us thy mercy that thou being our Ruler and Guide we may so pass through things temporal that we finally lose not the things eternal Prevent us O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious Favour and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continu'd and ended in thee we may glorify thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting Life Grant O Lord that the course of this World may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness And grant that all those who do lean only upon the hope of thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power Heal our Souls O Lord for we have sinned against thee let thy tender Mercies abound towards us in the forgiveness of all our Offences Here mention particular Transgressions And grant O Lord that we may never forfeit this pardon of thine by denying our's to our Brethren but give us those Bowels of Compassion to others which we stand in so much greater need of from thee that we may forgive as fully and finally upon Christ's Command and Example as we desire to be forgiven for his Merits and Intercession O Lord we have no strength against those multitudes of Temptations that daily assault us only our eyes are upon thee O be thou pleased either to restrain them or assist us and in thy faithfulness suffer us not to be tempted above that we are able but in all our Temptations make us a way to escape