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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44516	The exercise of prayer: or, A help to devotion Being a supplement to the happy ascetick, or best exercise. Containing prayers and devotions, suitable to the respective exercises with additional prayers for several occasions. By Anth. Horneck D.D.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1685 (1685)	Wing H2825; ESTC R213484	41,978	254

Amen A Prayer for Tuesday-Morning relating to the Meditation prescribed for Tuesday Exercise 3. OLord how wonderful are all thy Works in wisdom hast thou made them ill the Earth is full of thy riches What a Monument am I of thy Mercy How kind hast thou been to this miserable Creature How am I bound to magnifie thy goodness How excellent how great how vast how large how diffusive is it not confin'd to a day not restrain'd to a place not limited to an hour From my Cradle unto this moment I have seen and tasted how sweet and how gracious thou art Thou hast carried me on thy Wings as the Eagle doth her young thorough the various stages of my life what Miracles of Providences have mine Eyes beheld How hath thy Providence been at work for me while I have been asleep while I have been thinking and contriving something else even how to derogate from thy honour and glory Truly Lord thy Mercy and Patience ought to be my Song in the house of my Pilgrimage This I have reason to boast of to speak of to meditate of day and night by that I subsist by that I am supported fed maintain'd and preserv'd from the clutches of the Devil O let thy Mercy melt my Heart O let Mercy prevail with me to give up my Heart to thee Let mercy and goodness force me to love thee Give me that ingenuity that generous temper that noble Spirit that thy goodness may do more with me than Threatnings and Hell and everlasting Torments Let thy Love and Charity and constant Murificence oblige me to run in the way of thy Commandments Let these be greater motives with me to do thy Will than all the terrours of the burning Lake O let thy Love be of that force in my Soul that I may not be able to resist its motions but by the strength of that may hope believe endure deny my self love and obey thee to the end of my days through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for Tudsday-Evening GReat Governour and Disposer of the world who hast promised to them that love thee so to order all things that they shall all conspire to their good I am sensible of the good thou hast intended and dost intend me by the various Dispensations mine eyes have seen The various Spiritual and Temporal Blessings that have been conferred upon me what have they been but motives to be enamou'rd with the best of Beings Thou knowest if I depart from thee or love any thing better than thee I run away from mine own happiness and go to undo my self therefore so many various Tokens and Expressions of thy Love are sent to me to unite my Heart to thee to preserve me in thy Fear and to uphold my goings in thy Paths O wise O gracious O bountiful Master kinder to me than I am or have been to my self Let me find the good thou designest for me in thy numberless Blessings even the good of my Soul let that grow stronger under thy Favours warmer in thy Sunshine more fervent under these Beams more flaming with love under these enforcives The very afflictions thou sendest upon me are intended for my good I have found it I have seen it I have known it by experience I have learned Repentance Humility Submission fear of sinning by Afflictions which I should never have learned by Prosperity when I have thought I had great wrong done me by the contempt reproach trouble misery others have thrown upon me thou hast let me see that this was to make me reflect on the affronts and indignities I have put upon thee my best and greatest friend O let me never mistrust thy Providence Whatever befals me let me believe I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living and let me not be disappointed of my hope through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for wednesday-Wednesday-Morning relating to the Meditation prescribed Exercise 3 for Wednesday O Thou in whose hand is the power of Life and Death who art immortal invisible Blessed for evermore Before the Mountains were brought forth or ever the Earth and the World were made thou art God from Everlasting to Everlasting thou art he I am a frail dying creature and though I carry an immortal Soul about me yet the Vessel in which that glorious guest abides will soon grow leaky and decay and that must turn to dust and how soon I know not I admire thy wisdom in concealing the Day and Hour of my Death from me I am sensible it 's done to hasten my Repentance to keep me from adding sin unto sin to restrain me from the Vanities of this world to make me think of a better and to secure that happy Life which shall be after Death And O that my death might be ever before me How great are the things that depend upon it Two great Eternities whereof one of them will certainly fall to my share O let my death be my daily Meditation that I may prevent my everlasting death What a miserable creature should I be if my Soul should leave this Body to go into a more dismal Prison from whence there is no returning O make me wise O let me understand what preparation is necessary for that hour teach me to undervalue the World and to mind the things which are above that when I come to die I may die with joy and cheerfully resigne my Soul into the hands of my Creator Let Lust and Pride and Envy and Anger die in me before I die that they may not endanger my Soul after death Let me converse with Death more that I may die to sin more and live more to him that died for me Let the thoughts of death mortifie in me whatever is offensive to thy Holiness In all my actions let me remember my latter end that my death may be my gain and my departure out of the world an entrance into a better through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for Wednesday Evening O My God to whom belong the issues of Life and Death naked came I from my mothers Womb naked shall I return thither What is my life but a Vapour which appears for a while and then vanishes away O Lord thou hast made this life transitory dangerous short full of misery subject to vanity and as it were a span long and all to make me desire to be dissolv'd and to be with Christ yet how dreadful is death to me How do I tremble at the thoughts of it What should make me so deeply enamour'd with this Life At the best it is a Warfare within are Tumults without are Fightings I am in a continual state of War here with Covetousness with Passion with Pride with Ambition with carnal Lusts with Allurements of the world with suggestions of the Devil when one sin is beaten away another rises when I think I have mortified one Corruption another starts up The Discontents and Vexations the Troubles and the

fit to correct us let 's look upon the providence as intended for our good Whenever we are exercised by Temptations let 's not grow impatient but rest in an humble and cheerful resignation to thy Will Fit us for the hour of our death and let 's not delay our seriousness to a sick bed Let 's readily obey thy present call and take heed of procrastinations Let the great things that depend upon our death be much in our thoughts and let 's not put the evil day far from us Encourage us so to so journ here that at our journeys end we may be received into everlasting habitations Take us all into thy protection this following night O thou great Shepherd of Israel who neither slumberest nor sleepest spread thy wings over us and we shall be safe Fit us for the duties of the following day Teach us to commune with our hearts upon our beds and to meditate of thy wondrous works Let our rest be comfortable to the refreshing of our bodies and that we may be the better able to discharge our duties the following day Let our everlasting rest be never out of our minds and from the sweetness of our rest on our Beds let 's take occasion to consider how much sweeter our eternal rest will be in thy bosom Banish from our minds all foolish and vain imaginations and let 's ever think our selves most happy when we do most converse with thee who art most blessed for ever Visit us with the favour thou bearest unto thine own people and give us all such resolutions to serve thee that we may never be faint or weary in thy service through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Grace before meat O Lord thy bountiful hand hath provided these thy good Creatures for me us Let me use them with Moderation Temperance and Sobriety to the glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or LOrd let me see thee the great Creator in these thy Creatures and as thou dost intend them for my nourishment so let my Soul be encouraged by these Mercies to abound more and more in Goodness and Vertue through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Grace after meat O Lord who art the great Preserver of men and who hast fed me at this time with thy Blessings receive my humble Praises for these thy Mercies and engage me to walk before thee in Righteousness and true Holiness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or HOw excellent O Lord is thy loving Kindness I have seen and tasted again how sweet and gracious the Lord is Make my will perfectly conformable to thy Will and let these and all thy other Mercies prove Motives to me to love thee unto the end thorough Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS THE TABLE A Prayer relating to Exercise 1. which is to pray without ceasing Page 1 A Prayer relating to Exercise 2. which is every Morning to resolve to tie our selves that day to certain Rules of Living 5 A Prayer relating to Exercise 3. viz. Every day to spend half an hour or some such time in thinking of good things 10 A Prayer relating to Exercise 4. viz. To study deep Humility 16 A Prayer relating to Exercise 5. viz. To bridle our Tongues 21 A Prayer relating to Exercise 6. viz. To watch against little sins 26 A Prayer relating to Exercise 7. viz. To keep a strict guard over our Eyes 33 A Prayer relating to Exercise 8. viz. To make use of the Virtues and Vices of our Neighbours 40 A Prayer relating to Exercise 9. viz. To put a charitable interpretation upon what we see or hear 45 A Prayer relating to Exercise 10. viz. Conscientiously to discharge the duties of our several Callings and Relations 51 A Prayer relating to Exercise 11. viz. To resist all sorts of Temptations 56 A Prayer relating to Exercise 12. viz. To stand in awe of God when we are alone and no creature sees us 62 A Prayer relating to Exercise 13. viz. To do all things to Gods Glory 67 A Prayer relating to Exercise 14. viz. To stir up and exercise the Graces God hath given us 73 A Prayer relating to Exercise 15. viz. Every night before we go to bed to call our selves to an account for the actions of the day 80 A Prayer relating to Exercise Extraordinary 1. viz. To enter into solemn vows and promises 85 A Prayer relating to Exercise Extraordinary 2. viz. To subdue the body by fasting 91 A Prayer relating to Exercise Extraordinary 3. viz. To use watching or abstinence from sleep 97 A Prayer relating to Exercise Extraordinary 4. viz. To apply our selves to Self-revenge 103 A Prayer for Sunday Morning 109 A Prayer for Sunday Evening 117 A Prayer for Munday Morning 124 A Prayer for Munday Evening 128 A Prayer for Tuesday Morning 132 A Prayer for Tuesday Evening 136 A Prayer for Wednesday Morning 140 A Prayer for Wednesday Evening 144 A Prayer for Thursday Morning 149 A Prayer for Thursday Evening 154 A Prayer for Friday Morning 159 A Prayer for Friday Evening 163 A Prayer for Saturday Morning 167 A Prayer for Saturday Evening 172 A Prayer for the whole Race of Mankind 178 A Prayer for the universal Church of Christ. 180 A Prayer for the King 181 A Prayer for the Royal Family 183 A Prayer for the Bishops and Clergy 184 A Prayer for the People of the Land 185 A Prayer for persons distressed in body or mind 187 A Prayer for Relations 189 A Prayer for Benefactors 190 A Prayer for Enemies 192 A Prayer for a Sick person 193 A Thanksgiving after Recovery 195 A Prayer for a Woman with Child 197 A Thanksgiving after safe Deliverance 199 A Prayer for one that intends a single Life 201 A Prayer for one that is entring into a Married state 203 A Prayer before a Journey 205 A Thanksgiving after a safe Return 207 A Prayer for one that is going to Sea 209 A Thanksgiving when one is returned safely 211 A short Prayer before Divine Service or Sermon 213 A Prayer after Divine Service and Sermon 215 A Morning-Prayer for a Family 217 An Evening-Prayer for a Family 224. A Grace before Meat 231 A Grace after Meat 233. FINIS Here the Benefactors Names may be mentioned