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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53961	A practical discourse upon prayer by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1693 (1693)	Wing P1088; ESTC R9437	29,107	80

then in our Secular Affairs there be frequent occasions for Meditation there must needs be frequent opportunities for Prayer too at lest for Mental Devotion And how easie a matter is it for any man at the business of his Vocation to lift up his heart with some such Ejaculations as these O Lord dispose the way of thy Servant towards the attainment of everlasting salvation O Lord direct sanctifie and govern both my heart and body in the ways of thy laws and in the works of thy commandments Prevent me O Lord in all my doings with thy most gracious favour and further me with thy continual help I humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon my infirmities O Lord grant me such strength and protection as may support me in all dangers and carry me through all temptations O Lord create and make in me a new and contrite heart O Lord keep me both outwardly in my body and inwardly in my soul O Lord give unto me the increase of Faith Hope and Charity O God mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule my heart We have a great number of such useful and holy Petitions in our Liturgy which if people would take but a little pains to fix in their Memories their hearts would be always ready ready for God ready with Sweet Incense to offer up to him so ready provided that honest Tradesmen in their very Shops painful Husbandmen at the Plough and the poorest Servants at the Mill would not be at a loss for some Godly Prayers to send to the Throne of Grace at every turn to be united to the intercessions of the Lord Jesus for us all III. But the best way to strengthen and increase in us a spirit of Devotion is constantly to attend the Publick Assemblies and to bear our parts in them at the House of God For this reason God loveth the Gates of Sion more than all the Dwellings or Private Houses of Jacob because at the Sanctuary the Prayers of his Saints are most fervent Thither we go to sing aloud unto God our strength to make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. There we meet together to offer up all our praises with one Heart and with one Lip There our Joynt Devotion conglomerates in its right Center There every one helpeth to inflame his own Zeal and his Brethrens also There spark mixeth with spark and all serves to set fire to the Sacrifice This therefore is the chief thing I would recommend to your Christian care and practice to attend with all possible diligence the publick and solemn service of God What a shame is it that the ways of Sion should mourn for want of comers to the Temple That the fire and the wood should be in a readiness and the Lambs be missing Men little think of those severe times when the Primitive Christians were wont rather than fail to rise up at Midnight and to steal and creep away into Holes and Caves to Pray and sing Praises together How joyful were all Pious Hearts in those peaceable times following when they saw Christian Churches erected and the Doors of them open so that they might without fear or danger enter in to worship God in the Beauty of Holiness What Multitudes thronged in to offer violence to the Kingdom of God in this sense and as Tertullian speaks to Beleaguer Heaven with a great Army And with Alacrity and Zeal did they send up their joynt Prayers when as St. Jerom tells us their Amen was like the noise of Thunder And how can we reflect on those happy Ages without lamenting the great Degeneracy of this when it is so hard a matter to perswade some people to repair though it be but once a day to the solemnities of God's Worship For God's-sake and your own Souls-sake let me at last perswade you What is Priest and Parish but one large Family and why should we not meet once aday especially I wish it might be oftner to pray unto God our Father to be Merciful and Gracious and provident for us all And where can we meet so properly so decently so conveniently as in our common Fathers House who hath called us all unto Hope and unto one Business Are our Families so little that we cannot spare so much as one out of an House to be Advocate and Intercessor for the rest Is the distance from the Church so great that you should count it more tedious then a Sabbaths Days journey Are our Sins so few and inconsiderable that there is no need of our Prayers for Pardon Is our business so urgent that we cannot spare a few minutes for the Honour of God and for the good of our Souls Have we lost no time that is necessary for us to redeem Our own safety and preservation and the Blessing of God upon all our Labours and the prosperity of the whole Kingdom are these such trifling things that we should not think it worth our while to step over our Thresholds to meet together at Prayer for them For God's sake let us in time lay to heart the things which thus manifestly belong to our Peace If nothing else can make us serious and thoughtful a Death-Bed will and then it may be too late because we may not be serious to good purpose Whether we shall be then true Penitents or truly Devout is a thing uncertain For it depends altogether upon the Grace of God and Men may Sin their time of Grace away Our safest course is to provide for Eternity betimes and not to harden our hearts but to hear the voice of God and to answer it with an Eccho of Prayers and Praises while it is yet called to Day And as many as walk according to this rule Peace be on them and Mercy and upon the whole Israel of God Amen Forms of PRAYER which may be used at Home every Morning and Evening daily MORNING PRAYERS O Lord our Heavenly Father Almighty and Everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day Defend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no Sin neither run into any kind of Danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Almighty Lord and Everlasting God vouchsafe we beseech thee to direct sanctify and govern both our Hearts and Bodies in the ways of thy Laws and in the works of thy Commandments that through thy mighty Protection both here and ever we may be preserved in Body and Soul through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 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 continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy Holy Name and finally by thy Mercy may obtain Everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Almighty and most Merciful