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prayer_n	meditation_n	morning_n	night_n	6,381	5	10.0234	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63049	A serious and pathetical contemplation of the mercies of God in several most devout and sublime thanksgivings for the same / published by the Reverend Doctor Hicks at the request of a friend of the authors.	Traherne, Thomas, d. 1674.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1699 (1699)	Wing T2021A; ESTC R22798	56,194	161

in the earth in whom is all my delight Bereave me not O Lord of these delights These Kings Daughters Holy Sons Saints and Angels Angels in the Churches The Angels of the Churches do thou also preserve Let me see their Order Ministry and Service Resist Satan at their right hand Set a fair Miter on their head Cleath them with Garments and let thine Angels stand by O let them walk in thy ways and keep thy charge then shall they judge thy House and keep thy Courts and have Places given them to walk among those that stand by Let me see O Lord the grand mystery of thy spiritual Building The Union of Souls in the Government of Nations the perfect closure of those living Stones constituting a Temple one Temple entire unto thee The two Pillars of the Earth strengthening each other Religion rooting Justice within Justice fencing Religion without And both making an Arch of Government immovable These two Pillars as steady as they are will except they have an upholder cleave and bend And the whole frame sink with them Therefore O Lord do thou support him that beareth them up Thy Spirit hath compared our Princes to a nail driven into a wall whereon are hanged all both the Vessels of service and instruments of Musick Firm may this nail abide and never stir For if it should all our Cups would batter with the fall the musick of our Quire be marr'd Both Church and Country put into danger Let me see the the combination of our Christian state The Glory and Beauty and Sweetness of it Pardon mine Eyes that I see no better Make our Sons and Daughters like Corner Stones polished after the similitude of a Palace A celestial Blessing to heavenly eyes Thy people walking in the Land of the living in the light of prosperity Truth and. Glory Beholding the beauty of Gods works and rejoycing in the happiness of each other understanding the excellency of their Souls and Bodies flourishing in Villages joyful Cities magnificent Temples pleasant Streets Gates of strength praising God in righteousness of life These are my joys A sight worthy of the Holy Angels Make me not void of such O Lord by our Desolations O continue them that I may excercise the the works of Justice and Mercy and Charity among them may be not as a Beast in a desolate Wilderness Spoiled of all occasions of vertue But a fruitful Tree in the paradice of God laden with more than Apples of Gold in pictures of Silver more precious than Rubies Of greater contents than the Skies themselves Were they for nothing my Treasures but only this that I might excercise Goodness and Loving kindness among them I would not O Lord for ten thousand Worlds be 〈◊〉 of them They are commanded all to love me as themselves though they refuse to do it give me Grace to love them more than my self As Moses did the Israelites David his Jews Jesus Sinners Give me wide and publick Affections So strong to each as if I loved him alone Make me a Blessing to all the Kingdom A peculiar Treasure after thy similitude to every Soul Especially to those whom thou hast given me by love make me a shining light a Golden Candlestick A Temple of thy presence in the midst of them Giving me power from day to day To Praise thy wonders To Glorify thy name To magnify the excellencies of thy Loving kindness in all their ears and to publish thy righteousness in the great Congregation Be thou gracious unto us Be a wall of fire round about us and a Glory in the midst of us Let thy Blessedness O God and that of thy Bride according to the Wisdom wherewith thou hast made us be more than mine ten thousand fold O my Lord where my voice saileth let love be great Plead effectually be accepted graciously Replenish my Soul more than I am able to ask or conceive Amen Amen FINIS Some Books of Devotion Printed for Samuel Keble at the Turks-head in Fleet-street MEditations upon Living Holily and dying Happily with suitable Prayers at the end of each Chapter Written in Latin by Daniel Senertus a Physitian A Weeks Preparation towards a worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper c. The Holy Days or the Feasts and Fasts as they are observed in the Church of England throughout the year explained And the reason why they are yearly celebrated with Cuts before each day Preparations to a Holy Life Or Devotions for Families and private Persons also Meditations Prayers and Rules for the more pious observing the Holy time of Lent By the Author of the Weeks Preparation to the Holy Sacrament The Spiritual Combat or the Christian Pilgrim Translated from the French Revised and Recommended by Richard Lucas D. D. Contemplations on the Love of God c. with a Devout Prayer suitable thereunto The Church of England mans private Devotions being a Collection of Prayers out of the Common prayer Book for Morning Noon and Night and other special Occasions By the Author of the Weeks Preparation to the Sacrament Death made comfortable or the way to die well By John Kettlewel A Companion for the Penitent and Persecuted consisting of Directions and Devotions for persons troubled in Mind By John Kettlewel Divine and Moral Discourses on divers Subjects The Mourner comforted or Epistles consolatory writ by Hugo Grotius Perused and recommended to the World by John Scot D. D. * Ps. 139. 16. O give me Grace to understan its Excellency That doth not fill but 〈◊〉 all Things Receiveth 〈◊〉 discerneth enjoyeth them