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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25834	Secret and family prayers with brief helps for the more devout receiving of the Lords-Supper And better observation of the Lords-day, as also to further the needfull duties of catechizing, visiting the sick, and personal instruction. Fitted for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Cartmel in Lancashire.	Armstrong, John, 1634 or 5-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing A3708A; ESTC R214879	44,221	112

of offending Thee and more solicitous to please Thee then ever we have yet been being more wisely zealous and active for thy Glory and more reverent in the use of all things that relate unto Thee That thou wouldest give us an universal Good Will towards others in the World that we may love our Neighbours as our Selves and love even our Enemies for thy sake and be more carefull that we do hurt unto none but deal justly and mercifully towards all as we would that they should do unto us That thou wouldest help us to perform more and better then ever those Duties which we owe unto our selves that we may live yet more in the exercise of Meekness of Humility of Temperance and Contentedness of Mind Thus O Lord that thou wouldest help us to serve Thee all our days in the Uptightness of our Hearts improving all opportunities of doing and receiving Good preparing for our great Change from time to Eternity and in every respect by a constant watchfulness over all our Thoughts Words and Actions so behaving our selves as those that know and stedfastly believe that we have Thee an everliving God to serve that we have precious and Immortal Souls to save that we have endless Woes to avoid and Everlasting Happiness to seek after And O God with us we beseech Thee likewise to bless all those that desire or stand in need of our Prayers and to communicate of thy Grace and Mercy according to their and our severall wants and necessities Oh do Thou enlarge the Church and Kingdom of Christ weaken and destroy the Power of Sin and Antichrist be favourable in particular to these Nations wherein we live vouchsafing to us those Mercies we stand in need of and turning from us those Judgements which our sins may cry for Bless our Magistrates and Ministers bless those that are near unto us by the bonds of Nature with all such as suffer sickness or any other affliction or misery Bless this Place and grant that real Godliness Saving Knowledge Peace and Truth may flourish here more and more Accept of Praise for all thy Mercies hitherto vouchsafed unto us Continue we pray Thee thy mercifull Protection over us this night keep us from sin and the dangers that a Night may bring forth let us be refreshed and raised the next Day more able and willing to serve Thee in the Duties of it These and all other needfull Mercies we humbly beg for the sake of Christ continuing further to pray unto Thee as he himself hath taught us saying Our Father which art in Heaven c. Concerning the Lords-Day LEt it always be remembred before it comes to prepare for it and when it is come to keep it Holy It hath been honoured 1 by God the Father forming thereupon the Elements of the World 2 by God the Son rising from the Dead and appearing several times after his Resurrection 3 by God the Holy Ghost descending with his miraculous Gifts and Graces upon the Apostles and Others 4 by the Christian Church making it the time of her Solemn Assemblies Let us not therefore profane any part of it but be now as carefull for the Welfare of our Souls as we are upon other days for our bodily Sustenance Excepting such time as is for works of absolute Necessity which cannot be done the Day before or the Day following let us with Chearfulness spend it wholly in hearing the Word of God read and taught in private Devotion and publick Prayers which are both for the Morning and After-noon in acknowledgment of our offences to God and amendment of the same in reconciling our selves charitably to our Neighbours where displeasure hath been in often Receiving the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ in Visiting of the Poor and Sick and using all good and sober Conversation Thus we shall please the Will of God and conscientiously obey our Civil and Ecclesiastical Governours who strictly enjoyn the same by their Power derived from God Thus we shall have a more deep and lasting sense of God and Religion imprest upon our Hearts and so live more holily the Week following Besides prudent and good Men have observed their outward worldly Affairs most prospered that Week which they began with a diligent and religious Observation of the Lords-Day But However that is most certainly if we duly sanctifie this Day of Rest here we shall celebrate an Everlasting Rest and Sabbath hereafter If now we sincerely and willingly joyn with the Congregations of Gods People to worship him as we ought to do we shall in due time joyn with the Blessed Company of Saints and Angels above to sing his Praises for evermore Psal 118. 24. This is the Day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it V. 20. This is the Gate of the Lord the Righteous shall enter into it Psal 122. 1. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the House of the Lord. Revel 1. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lords-Day Acts 20. 7. And upon the First Day of the Week when the Disciples came together to break Bread Paul preached unto them 1 Cor. 16. 2. Upon the First Day of the Week let every one of you lay by him in Store as God hath prospered him A Morning Prayer for the Lords-Day which may be used by more together or by one alone for the reason mentioned page 4 PRaised be thy holy Name O God for all thy favours and benefits bestowed upon us from time to time concerning this or a better Life Blessed be thy Goodness for the Mercies of the last Night and this Morning that thou hast brought us to the beginning of another Christian Sabbath Oh let not our former unfruitfulness hinder thy present Blessing and Assistance in what we have to do but do thou we pray Thee in Christ Jesus pardon and mend us both at once And help us now so to remember and esteem this thy Day as to lay aside all secular businesses and diversions and to apply our selves to all those private and publick Duties which concern the Sanctification thereof not doint after our own ways nor finding our own Pleasures nor speaking our own words but consecrating our own selves and services to thy more especial Worship spending the whole Day in works of Religion Necessity and Mercy Be graciously present with all those Assemblies of thy Saints which do on this Day meet together for thy Worship and Service More especially be pleased to direct and assist the Minister to whose charge we belong that he may speak to the Consciences and Conditions of this People And do thou remove from us all irreverence distraction dulness prejudice and unbelief in hearing of thy Word that having the same accompanied by the Power of thy Spirit it may be effectual for the further enlightning of our Minds the quickening of our Affections the bettering of our Hearts and the amendment of our Lives And let