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A34165	A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; Nalton, James, 1600-1662.; Lye, Thomas, 1621-1684.; Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing C5638; ESTC R8646	623,694	660

wholly flesh totally opposite to the holy Laws of thy Majesty and were it not for thy renuing and restraining grace we should break forth into as vile abominations as the vilest of men our lives have been a continuall piece of rebellion against God who did make us and doth feed and cloath us all thy paths have been paths of mercy to us but we have requited thee evil for thy good and hatted for thy love Oh foolish men and women that we have been I we acknowledge our Gospel-sins are of a deep dye Thou hast not been a VVildernss or Land of darkness to us we have been exalted to heaven in the means of salvation but Oh! how short do we come of knowledge to the time and means we have enjoyed and our obedience comes short of our knowledge we have not walked up to that light which thou hast given us We desire to lay our selves low before thee Oh do thou open our eyes and present us to our selves show us the vilenss of our lives Blessed be thy Name that thou hast laid help upon one that is mighty to save all that come to thy Majesty by him and thou hast promised all that beleeve on him shall not perish but have everlasting life Oh help us to receive him in all his Offices in our hearts help us to give him the keys of our hearts and help us to live and die to him that died for us and let our souls be united to thee by him that his death may be ours and his life ours and his intercession ours Oh let our unity to Christ be demonstrated to us by our communion with and conformity to him in grace and holiness And we pray thee dearest Lord pardon our sins in the Court of heaven and in the Court of our own consciences besprinkle our conscienees in the blood of Christ and say to all before thee at this time that desire to fear thee more and serve thee better Sons and Daughters be of good cheer your sins are forgiven you And do not only justifie us but sanctifie us purge our consciences from dead works inform our understanding conform our wills to thy holy VVill let our hearts and lives be comformed to the Image of thy Son that beholding thereof we may be changed from glory to glory and let us have more knowledge of thy will that we may do thy will und suffer thy will with more patience and be filled with the fruits of Righteousness which are to the glory of God Let us not be empty Vines that bring forth fruit to themselves but let us bring forth fruit to God whereby thou maiest be glorified Oh plant that great grace of Self-denial in our souls and let us take the Cross of Jesus Christ and follow him wheresoever he goes Remember all thine extend thy favour to those thou hast cast on beds of sickness and let there be a saving change wrought in them before that change by death shall come and they that are drawing nigh their time of Travel let the arms of the All-sufficient God be under them and be better to them than their Faith or our prayers and look graciously upon poor children entitle them to an inheritance that fadeth not away make them a blessing in themselves and a blessing to their Parents And those that de●re the conversion of Relations that walk in waies of perdition do not let them find peace in any way against thy Majesty and let them know that sin will be bitter in the latter eud Look upon us that are before thee at this time before we go hence and shall be here no more make thy face to shine upon us let our coming together be for the better and not for the worse to any of us let thy poor Servant be able to deliver thy Message plainly and powerfull and give thy People hearing ears and obedient hearts and let us rejoyce that we did wait upo thee in thy Worship this day and all For Christ his sake in whose Name and Words we call upon thee Our Father ' which art in Heaven c. Doctor Manton's Prayer at Covent-garden O Lord God all that we can do is nothing of our selves we can do nothing Oh let us have the gracious Assistance of thy Spirit as this time let thy love constrain us say unto us Thou art our Salvation Do not say that we shall fill up the measure of our Iniquities and there shall be no hope for us O Lord we are ashamed that we have waited so long in thine Ordinannances and have got no more profit to our toor pouls but we have given up our hearts to the pleasures and vanities of this world that are but for a season even those that thou hast drawn out after thee do not walk worthy of thee anseerable to that blessed hope of future Happiness in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation Jesus Christ is to many of us become a stumbling-blook and a reck of offence while our hearts are caried out after the wirld with such strong affections Oh! when shall we carry our selves so as those that profess themselves to be secke's of a better life We come into thy presence now for strength do thou manifest thy self to us thou hast promised to pour out thy Spirit upon all Flesh Oh let it be unto us according to thy promise O Lord our hearts naturally are averse to thee so that of our selves we shall never be able to do any thing that may be wel-plensing to thee but do thou regulate us by thy blessed Spirit that we may observe thy statutes and do them and that thy Commands may not be grievous to us that it may not be burdensom for us to do the work of God O Lord when shall our hearts be made sound in thy statutes we wait upon thee in the use of thine Ordinances that we may have a new supply from thee that at length we may come to see that thou art at work with us to save our soules O help us to be followers of them who with faith and patience do follow thee to do nothing unbecomming our holy Call suffer us not to swerve from thy Commandments but let us have a constant and earnest desire after thee Let the choicest of thy Mercies come down on our Sovereign Charles King of England Scotland France and Ireland let His heart be guided by thee let him always set the before his eyes that under the shadow of his Goverment we may have Peace in all Godliness and honesty Bless him in his Relations in his Councils Teach our Senators wisdom Be with all thy Faithfull Magistrates and Ministers let them be a terrour to evil doers and an encouragement to them that do well Be with us in the way of thy worship we are here met together to hear and handle thy holy Word Oh do thou command it to light upon all our hearts let it come in the evidence and demonstratian

Nation to worship No my Brethren no Land no ground is now unholy as famous old Doctor Reynolds said every place is now a Judea no Coast but is a Judea every house is a Jerusalem every Congregation is now a Sion See here the goodness of God in indulging of us so far as to take any service done by us in a solemn and real manner as if it had been done in those places which were formerly appointed for it to be done in Thirdly I infer hence there are several persons to be reproved 1. We find hereby that all the holiness of Relicks of Saints doth fall to the ground and we see the folly of those that make Pilgrimages unto Saints and Reliques as the Papists do there was a time say they when such a Saints Relicks were laid up in such a place and these are more holy then other places so that this you see falls to the ground in its self I might tell you concerning their lying about their Relicks as one said that there were as many Reliques as would fill an hundred Carts but supposing so all that would not make that place the more holy 2. Hence the superstition of those is to be reproved which put holiness in place of Burial and make it more holy to be buried in one place then in another it is more holy say they to be buried in the Church then in the Church-yard and more holy under the Communion-Table then in any other part of the Church 3. This reproves them which cannot pray any where but in the Temple and they that use private prayers in Churches if you have houses and Rooms at home what is the reason that if Pauls or any other Church stand open you must run in thither and drop down behind a Pillar to say your Prayers 4. This reproves them that have reverence towards any place more then another as if they did deserve more holiness in one part then another as bowing to the Altar or Communion-Table or the like 5. It reproves those that have reverence for scituation of these places they must stand East and West and why not North and South All these things fall off like Fig-leaves if what I have said be true that there is no holiness in places and this I have made known to you not only as my judgment but as my duty Now for exhortation I shall desire you to take notice of four things and I have done and shall leave you to God and commit you to the word of his grace If this be so that there is no holiness in places then first of all bee the more encouraged to serve God in your Families in those places where God hath set you where God is as well pleased with your service as in publick places serve God upon your knees with devotion humility and reverence And therefore though I am against Superstition and Popish practices and those wicked cursed traps of innovations that the men of the World have disturbed the Church of God with yet I am against putting on your Hats in prayer and sitting in Prayer Those that are for holiness of places do not with Abraham in every place they come build God an Altar But let us in every closet and room build God an Altar let no morning nor evening go without a Prayer in thy Family pray often and pray continually let your houses be as so many Churches as you read in Rom. 16.5 Likewise greet the Church that is in their House and in the second verse of Philemons Epistle To the Church that is in thy Hovse There the Houses of the Saints are called Churches This will bring a blessing upon your Families And if you be not willing to have that curse denounced against you in Jer. 10.25 Pour out fury upon the Heathen that know thee not and upon the families that call not upon thy Name then neglect not family-Family-Prayers be much in Prayer and pray with frequency and encouragement because God binds you to no place The second Exhortation is this labour to promote personal holiness as well as Family Devotion I am against local holiness As one said that I heared once when I was a Youth Happy are those garments that can carry away any of the dust of the Temple but they think not that any of their Garments are unclean in wallowing in the mire of sin But I say do you labour to promote holiness in your lives in your hearts and conversations The Holy Ghost saith Vnless you be pure in heart you shall not see God And therefore put away sin for if you regard iniquity God will not hear your prayers It is not your ducking or bowing or cringing never so much or your going with your Hat off through the Church that will make God hear your Prayers these will but dishonour you because you live not accordingly 3. Love the holiness of the living Members be not so much in love with the Holiness of Wood and Timber Bricks and Stones but wheresoever you see the Image of Christ be in love with that soul where ever the Presence of God shines and where ever thou seest one that gives up himself to God in holy duties do thou say Oh! my soul delight to come into the company of these men The Righteous is more excellent then his neighbour If there be a Heaven upon earth I tell you it is in the company of godly men I remember a famous man hath this expression saith he When I was in the company of the Saints and people of God I was as a living coal but when I was separated from them and was among the wicked Swearers and Drunkards methoughts there was a spiritual coldness and frozenness went over my soul Though the People of God are best company in Heaven yet they are very good company here on earth And Christians should stir up one another and be provoking one another to love and good works and where ever you have grace be sure to impart it to others Endeavour to love the holiness of Saints and be willing to impart your experiences to others for this is your duty Do not make a Monopoly of Holiness but carry company with you to Heaven Lastly to name no more labour to preserve the holiness of Gods true Institutions those things which are of divine Consecration What is humane Consecration without divine Institution The Sabbath day is of divine Institution labour to keep it holy this is a Holy day indeed and this labour to keep your families from profaning of but for other holy dayes and holy things they are much alike for holiness The Lords day is a holy day indeed and for shame do not let your children gad abroad on this day Truly I do verily believe that though here be a great company of people in the Congregation yet they are but a handful in comparison of what are drinking in Ale-houses and whoring and walking in the Fields that one can hardly get home to

a little before Hippo was taken and Pareus a little before Hiddleburg was taken and ●uther a little before the wars in Germany began The death of the Godly is like the separating the Israelites from the Tents of Corah and his company like the taking of Lot out of Sodom When the Israelites departed from Corah and his company the earth swallowed them up and when Lot departed out of Sodom God rained down fire and brimstone upon them Let the thoughts of these things cause us to provide our Arks to get our Zoars Let it teach young Samuels to rise up in the room of old Elies young Elisha's in the room of old Elijahs and young Timothies in the room of Paul the aged that there may be a succession of Gospel-ministers to hold forth the Word of life to the Nation And let us labour to be Inheritors of the Twelve Excellencies that beautified this our Reverend Brother Secondly Let me speak a few words to you of this Parish the Auditors of this worthy Minister There is scarce one man of an hundred that understands the tye and obligation that is betwixt a Minister and his People Oh the Love and Affection that ought to be betwixt them Paul tells the Galatians that they could have plucked out their eyes for him if need were Chrysostom tells us that when Miletus was taken away by death from his People their hearts sunk with sorrow and such love had they to him that they called all their Children by his name and got his picture engraven on their Rings And I have read of Chrysostom that when he was banished from his People there was not a corner in the City but was full of People weeping and lamenting The loss of a Godly Minister is a publick loss and therefore there ought to be a publick mourning it is a soul loss and therefore methinks every one of you should weep and mourn you have lost your common Father you of this Congregation have lost your spiritual Father your spiritual Shepheard you have lost your eyes your guide and indeed it is you that are his Flock that must commend your Minister by practising that which he preached saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 3.1 Do we again begin to commend our selves or need we as some others Epistles of Commendations to you or Letters of commendation from you Ye are our Epistle written in our bearts known and read all men As if the Apostle should say do we need Letters of commendation is it necessary that we should spend time in commending our Ministry you are our Letters of commendation your holiness piety commends a Minister above all other things As when a man comes into an Orchard or Vineyard saith Chrysostom and sees every thing skilfully handled and neatly trimmed he need not spend time in commending the Vine-dresser or Carpenter the work its self commends them So ought it to be among you When we preach the Funeral Sermons of Ministers we must look into the Parish or Congregation and see what Letters of commendation there are whether the proficiency of the Auditors commend their Ministers I grant it is not always true God doth not always give suceess to a godly Minister but the worst is yours I had almost said the curse is yours but I will speak modestly the worst is yours Tell me how many of you are able to say I bless God that ever such a Minister was sent among us blessed be God that ever we heard him preach what seal of his ministry is there here among you he was in another and another place of this City it may be here are people from all places that have been his Auditors what seal of his Ministry is there now to be found among you how many Souls hath he pluck'd out of the snares of the Devil how many of you have gone weeping from a Sermon knocking your breasts and pricked at the heart of sin crying out Men and Brethren what shall we do to be saved your tears and mourning for sin these are the Auditors that commend your Ministers Go home now and think with your selves what can I remember of all the Sermons that I have heard from Mr. Ash and give me leave to tell you woe be to you if as your Minister be dead so all the Sermons he made die with him for as Abel being dead yet speaketh so shall the Sermons of this worthy Minister at the great day speak for you or against you for they are spiritual Talents that God hath be-trusted you with and you must be accountable both he and you shall appear before the Tribunal of God your Minister shall be examined how he can free himself from the guilt of Soul-blood and you shall be examined what fruit you brought forth answerable to the means you have enjoyed and if it appear you have been unprofitable and unfruitful hearers Christ will say Cast the unprofitable servants into utter darkness But I hope better things of you and things that accompany salvation What ever was good in this reverend Minister let i● live in you and though he be dead yet let not his Sermons that he preached die with you but let them be in you that at the great day when he and you appear before God he may be able to say here am I and the Children that thou hast given me Dr. Seaman's Farewel-Sermon Heb. 13.20 21. Now the God of Peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepheard of the sheep through the blood of the Everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen THe Apostle being now upon the conclusion of this Epistle after a very large discovery of Jesus Christ in all those things that belong to his Person concerning his Nature as God as Man and concerning his Offices especially concerning his Priestly and concerning the blessings and benefits especially in matters of Sacrifice doth in this last Chapter insist on matters Hortatory and in the words draws near to a conclusion which contains a Prayer wish or desire which he puts up unto God in the behalf of them in order to their good and benefit Now the God of peace c. In which words there are two things considerable 1. The matter of the Apostles Prayer 2. The grounds which he doth insinuate for Audience In the things he desires the Matter of the Prayer is laid down in v. 21 and is summarily and generally propounded in several expressions yet nevertheless so as they have their Specialities belonging to them In the beginning he shews what he aims at make you perfect c. In general it refers to their Sanctification and that they be throughly sanctified as to their inward man and outward conversation as to those things that belong to them in the habits of their minds and Eternal carriage The Grounds

while you sit in health and ease what different thoughts you will then have of a holy and unholy life and with what gripes of Conscience will your undone Souls look back on a life of Mercy thus basely and blockishly slept away dream'd and sin'd away I beseech you then and that for your own sakes that you would not for a few fleshly pleasures which are passing away incur the torments of Hell which shall never pass away III. Thirdly I beseech you for Christs sake And me thinks when I beg of you in Christs name and for Christs sake you should not say nay If you love me saith Christ keep my Commandements Joh. 14.15 See with what perswasive Rhetorick he presseth this Duty If you love me saith he do it O Christians what may not the love of Christ command you If it were to lay down your blood for him would you not do it and will you not be perswaded to lay down your Strifes and Divisions your Animosities and Corruptions for his sake As Absalon said to Hushai 2 Sam. 16.17 Is this thy kindness to thy friend Such a friend as Christ hath been is and ever will be Certainly that Indictment will one day be prefer'd against you which the Apostle pronounceth with tears in his eyes Phil. 3.18 You are enemies to the Cross of Christ as if he had said Christ came to destroy the works of the Devil and you by your loose walkings destroy the works of Christ the Image of Christ and the Interest of Christ in the Soul Christ laid down his bloud to Purge you and you unworthily lay down your selves in sin to Pollute you and so become guilty of denying the Lord that bought you and trampling under foot the Bloud of the Covenant What Ear doth not tingle and what doth not tremble at such a horrid and flagicious Act I beseech you then be tender of Christs honour Quod vos divites relinquam and be holy for Christs sake whose heart you see or may see by what follows is engaged and concern'd to promote holiness among you Consider 1. His strict Command calls for it 2. His servent Prayer implyes it 3. His holy Example teacheth it First I say his Command calls for it Mat. 5.16 Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works that is lead such convincing lives that the world may witness and certifie with you that you are certainly a choice Generation a Seed which the Lord hath blessed Here 's a Command you see now where 's your obedience will you make Conscience of it or will you not will you swear Allegiance to it or will you not shall it pass for an irrefragable Rule of Life or shall it not It was Pompey's boast that with a Word or a Nod he could a we his Souldiers to any thing and shall God command and go without shall Gods word have less authority then Pompey's I read much of the blind obedience of the Papists to their Rulers even in things scarce credible but that themselves have publisht them One Masseus a Franciscan tumbled himself in the dirt and crawled like a Child because that St. Francis told him That unless he became as a little Child he could not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven The Jesuites are so framed to Obedience that whatever service they are injoyned by their Superiours though never so abominable they must accomplish it Yea if the blessed Virgin vouchsafe her presence to one of the brethren if his Superiour call him he must presently break from her and go at his bidding although it be on a bloudy Errand and wondrous design with a hundred more Fopperies of this nature What do I reckon these for but to assure you that these who have paid such homage to man will rise up one day out of their Graves to condemn us who are less careful in our obedience to God Almighty They shut the eyes of Reason to obey their earthly Superiours and we dispute if not deny our Allegiance to our Heavenly Law-giver God bids us believe and we distrust God bids us obey and we dispute God bids us remember our Creator in the dayes of our Youth and we forget him even in our age God bids us learn of him to be meek and lowly and we learn of the Devil to be proud and haughty God bids us be sober and watch unto Prayer and we surfeit with excess and sleep at Prayer God bids us forbear and forgive one another in love and we reproach and persecute one another with much opposition and hatred In a word God bids us be content with what we have and we unthankfully murmur for what we want Ah sinners God sees and hears you all this while and his hand is setting down in the Table-book of his Remembrance all your undutifulness and disobedience and when the Book shall be open'd how think you will these Indictments be answer'd II. Secondly Christs servent Prayers calls for holiness John 27.17 Sanctifie them with thy Truth saith he Should you hear a Minister with abundance of zeal press a Duty upon his people in the Pulpit and as soon as he gets home you should go under his Closet Window and hear him hard at Prayer begging of God a blessing upon his labours that day you would easily believe the Minister was in earnest So here our Saviour hath no sooner done his Sermon but you finde him at Prayer John 17.17 and what he most insisted on in the Pulpit that he enlargeth most on in his Closet Father saith he Sanctifie them III. Thirdly As Christs Prayer so his Pattern and Example shews his desires to have his people a holy people Was not he a lover of holiness in others and a true practiser of holiness himself was not be the Israelite indeed in whom there was no guile no sin no spot and why was he so doth he not tell you John 13.15 I have given you an Example saith he that you should do as I have done He was content to have his Honour laid in the Dust his Credit or Bloud laid in the Dust but it was for an Example of all self-denial to you Again he was content to take a Towel and a Bason in his hand to wash his Disciples feet John 3.14 but it was for an Example of Humility to you In a word He was so Heavenly upon Earth so mortified to all worldly interests and liv'd so convincingly before men that his very enemies were forced to own his Divinity and to say that he could not possibly do such things unless God were with him now all this was for an Example of holiness to you I have given you saith he an Example that you should do as I have done O then set Christ in his holy Example before you as one would set the person whose Picture he intends to draw and labour to draw every line in your life according to your Copy O this would be a sweet way indeed to maintain

w●th us all thine remember thy people from one end of the world to the other Thy people are very low this is a time of Jacobs troubles the Bush is burning every day Oh thou the Hope of Israel the Saviour therof shew thy self in mercy to these Nations We bless thee for all thy mercies that thy judgements do not seize upon us every day that thou dost not sweep us away that thou dost not rain Fire Brimstone on England as thou didst on Sodom our sins cry aloud to heaven for vengeance God is greatly provoked every day it is a miracle of patience that thou hast not destroyed us God can pardon the sins of the Nation at once but we are not fit for pardon we do not humble our selves O Lord humble us give repentance to England from the highest to the lowest that we may return unto thee We desire to bless thee that our Eemies have not had their wills over us they said they would pursue and overtake and satisfie their lusts but God did blow upon them and they did sink in the mighty Water and thou hast yet preserved thy Church we pray thee do not leave us nor remove thy Gospel whatsoever thou dost Pour down elle choicest of thy b●essings upon our Sovereign Charles by thy Grace of England Scotland France and Ireland Bless him with the Blessing of Heaven and Earth make him a blessing to all of us Bless him in all his Relations the Lords of the privy Councel Look on them that have desired an interest in our prayers known to thee are all of them know their souls in this time of adversity make their beds in their siekness Give Faith to them that complain of unbelief give the Spirit of Prayer to those that complain they cannot pray be a Councellor to those that wan councel in their affaires either by Sea or Land let thy blessig go with them whereever they go Spare the lives of Children if it be thy will Prepare us for thy good and holy Word let it be a savour of lise unto life and let it come with power unto us Oh let us hear it as thy Word not as the word of a poor man but as the Word of God and all for the Lord Christ his sake for whom we bless thee to whom with thee and the Spirit of Grace be given Glory and Honour for evermore Mr. Waltons Prayer in Walbrook O Lord God all our springs are in thee it is good for us to draw nigh to thee through Jesus Christ thou art all fulness thou art the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and in him our Father thou art our light thou givest us these blessed opportunities of enjoying communian with thy self God blessed for ever These mercies are forfeited mercies we have abused the blessings of thy House we have grieved thy blessed Spirit therefore it is just with thee to deprive us of these comforts and to make us know the worth of these mercies by the want of them Lord we desire to judge our selves that we may not be condemned with the world Righteous art thou O Lord and just in all thy judgements we confess we are unworthy to have any converse with so holy a God we are polluted dust and ashes not worthy to tread thy Courts and it is of thy mercy that we are not consumed how often have we pluckt fruit from the forbidden tree we have sinned presumptuously against the clearest Light and the dearest love alwaies have we sinned thy footsteps have dropt fatness thou hast shewen mercy to us but the better thou hast been to us the worse we have been to thee thou hast loaded us with thy mercies and we have wearied thee with our sins when we look into our selves Oh the poyson of our natures whatever the Leper did touch was unclean Thus do we by our spiritual Leprosie infect our holy things our prayers had need have pardon and our tears had need have the blood of sprinkling to wash them how vain are our vows how sensual are our affections we confess we are untuned and unstrung for every holy Action we are never out of tune to sin but alwaies out of tune to pray we give the world our male affections and our strong desires we should use this world as if we used it not and alwies we pray as if we prayed not and serve thee as if we served thee not there is not that reverence nor that devotion nor that activeness of faith that there should be Lord if thou wouldst say that thou wouldst pardon all our sins to this time only judge us for this prayer wo unto us what breathings of unbelief and hypocrisie is there now when we approach unto thee we pray thee pardon us for Christs sake Who can tell how oft he doth offend we can as well reckon the drops of the Ocean as number our sins we have filled the number of the Nations sins but we have not filled thy bottle with our tears This is that that doth exceedingly aggravate our sins that we cannot mourn for sin we can grieve for our losses but we cannot mourn for our unkindnesses we have crucified the Lord of life sin hath not only defiled us but hardned us nothing can melt us but the love of Christ nothing can soften us but the blood of Christ O with-hold not thy mercies from us O help us to eat the Passeover with bitter herbs let us look on Christ weep over him let us look on a broken Christ with broken hearts and on a bleeding Christ with bleeding hearts let us mourn for our dis-ingenuity that we should grieve that God that is always doing us good Oh! humble us for our unkindnesse and for Christs sake blot out our transgressions they are more than we can number not more than God can pardon Though we have lost the duty of children thou hast not lost the goodness of a Father Let us be held forth as patterns of mercy so shall we trumpet forth thy praise to all Eternity Whatever afflictions thou layest upon our bodies let not our sins be unpardoned let not sin and affliction be together upon us let their be peace in Heaven and peace in the Court of Conscience We have found this part of thy Word true In the world we shall have troubles let us find the other part true in Jesus Christ we shall have peace Oh let peace and holiness go together make us new Creatures that we may be glorious Creatures Without Faith Christ will not profit us when we can call nothing in the world ours let us call Christ ours Lord draw thine Image every day more lively upon us a more lively hope and a more inflamed love to Christ let us have a spirit of courage and resolution keep us from the fallacies of our own hearts keep us from the defilements of the times make us pure in heart that we may see God that we may have Gospel spirits humble spirits