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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	form_n	psalm_n	set_a	2,252	5	11.5658	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45276	A Christian legacy consisting of two parts: I. A preparation for death. II. A consolation against death. By Edward Hyde, Dr. of Divinity, and late rector resident of Brightwell in Berks.	Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3863; ESTC R216954	160,798	388

offered and the time of my departure is at hand 2 Tim. 4. 6. Now therefore I pray thee if I have found grace in thy sight shew me now thy way that I may know thee that I may find grace in thy sight and consider that I am one of thy people And he said my presence shall go with thee and I will give thee rest And he said unto him if thy presence go not with me carry me not up hence for wherein shall it be known here that I have found grace in thy sight is it not in that thou goest with me And the Lord said I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken for thou hast found grace in my sight and I know thee by name And he said I beseech thee shew me thy glory so saith my soul O Lord and because no man shall see thee and live I desire to die that I may see thee Exod. 33. 13 14 15 16 17 18. Unto him that is able to keep me from falling into the pit of everlasting destruction and to present me faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy do I recommend my soul even to the only wise God our Saviour to whom be glory and Majesty dominion and power now and ever Amen Epist. of Saint Jude v. 24 25. The Lord shall preserve me from all evil yea it is even he that shall keep my soul. The Lord shall preserve my going out and my coming in from this time forth for evermore Amen Psal. 121. 7 8. The sick mans Departure or Dismission ARise ye and depart for this is not your Rest because it is polluted it shall destroy you even with a sore destruction Micah 2. 10. Return unto thy Rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee For thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling I will walk before the Lord in the Land of the living Psal. 116. 7 8 9. There remaineth therefore a Rest to the people of God Heb. 4. 9. Lord I willingly go out of this world that I may enter into that everlasting rest Amen I have set God before me he is at my right hand I shall not fall Therefore my heart is gland and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore Amen Psal. 16. 8 9 10 11. To me to live is Christ and to die is gain I have a desire to depart and to be with Christ. Lord now lettest thou servant depart in peace that he may rest in hope rise in joy and reign in glory Amen A sick mans Resignation Psal. 31. 5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit thou hast Redeemed me O Lord God of Truth THere is nothing more the duty of a good Christian then whiles he lives to possess his soul in patience and when he shall die to resign his soul in comfort And indeed he must possess his soul in patience that he may resign it in comfort He must possess his soul in patience as not being fully contented much less fully delighted with his present ●…ndition in this world wherein he can●…t but see very much to trouble him but ●…thing at all to satisfie him Help Lord ●…h the Psalmist Psal. 12. 1. in great ●…ation of his heart and we may gather threefold reason why he is so vexed 〈◊〉 the godly man ceaseth the faithful fail ●…d they speak vanity Defectus sanctitatis 〈◊〉 affectu veritatis in intellectu sanctitatis 〈◊〉 ●…ffectu saith Alensis The defect of holi●…ss in the will of truth in the understand●…g of innocency in the action This is ●…e threefold defect that makes the good ●…ristian possess his soul not in delight as ●…on choice but only in patience as upon ●…cessity because he wants holiness in his ●…ill and cannot love God because he ●…nts truth in his understanding and ●…not know God because he wants in●…grity in his action and cannot honour ●…od as he is bound and desires to do This the reason that he possesseth his soul not delight but in patience and the trouble ●…at he finds in his possession makes him 〈◊〉 think himself of a Resignation The ●…ssessing his soul in patience whiles he ●…es makes him Resign his soul in com●…t when he is to die And here we have the form of that comfortable Resignatio●… Into thy hands I commit my spirit thou ha●… redeemed me O Lord God of truth I hop●… no man will say that this set form of th●… Resignation of his soul doth stint Go●… Spirit which teacheth him how to Resig●… his own For sure we are that he use●… this same form of whom it is said G●… giveth not the spirit by measure unto hi●… John 3. 34. And if a set form did not co●…fine the spirit in him who received it not b●… measure much less can it confine the spir●… in us who have it measured from him Well may set forms teach us rightly t●… commend our own spirits to God but the●… cannot possibly make us confine his Spirit Had there been any such inconveniency 〈◊〉 using of set forms the Spirit of Go●… would not have provided us so many se●… forms of Prayers and Praises in the Psalm and other parts of the Text so that no objection can be made against set forms o●… Prayer as such which may not be retorte●… to some undervaluing if not underminin●… of the Scripture it self the very light o●… our eyes the breath of our nostrils and th●… joy of our hearts We may not then hearken to this objection above all the rest unless we will say That the Spirit of Go●… did intend to confine himself Or the Son ●…f God did intend to confine his own Spi●…it in us when he absolutely prescribed a ●…t form in his own most holy Prayer com●…anding it to be said Luke 11. 2. when ye ●…ray say Our Father nay yet more un●…ess we will say that the Son of God did ●…ntend to confine his own Spirit in himself when he used this very particular form 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Into thy hands I commend my spirit Luke 23. 46. For it is the very same Greek Text in both places and the very same translation in the vulgar Latine though we in English have seemed to make a Verbal but not a Real difference And therefore it is evident that our blessed Saviour by using this set form hath sanctified it for our use and taught us thereby how to Resign our souls to him that gave them And indeed the Spirit of God had sufficiently sanctified it before so that now we have this Resignation doubly sanctified to us by the spirit and by the Son of God so happy a thing is it for us seriously to consider and much