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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	pray_v	prayer_n	supplication_n	1,875	5	11.3215	5	true

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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

without many vain repetitions and broken impertinent expressions have quite left off the Duty it self T is true some few may attain an habit of uttering their Desires freely and becomingly upon any occasion yet the most though well-minded People are so defective both in their Conceptions and Utterance that they greatly need the Assistance which is here offered them and ought by no means to be discouraged from performing thus safely and piously their known Duty towards God especially considering that when we pray for such things as are contained in the Scriptures which are from the Spirit of God and when by the same Blessed Spirit helping our infirmities we are enabled to Pray for those things fervently and sincerely we do truly pray by the Gift or Assistance of the Spirit whether the Prayer we use be written in a Book or imprinted in the Memory or suddenly uttered and such a Prayer is acceptable unto God who looks not at the outward varied expressions of the Tongue but the inward holy Affections of the Heart And so our Saviour pray'd in or by the Spirit when he repeated the same requests at several times and so still do all plain and honest-hearted People when they devoutly use that form of Prayer which he hath taught us or any other after that manner judiciously composed The Prayers Directions and Catechisms of the following Book I have for the most part collected out of several approved Authours of great Judgement Learning Piety and Christian experience only fitting them with needfull Alterations and Additions for your easier use and benefit And in the whole you have comprehended those things which make for your greater Holiness here and Happiness hereafter which are often more fully explained by the publick Ministry of the Word and which agree with the sense of the most and best Christians in the truly Catholick or universall Church beginning at Jerusalem and dispersed throughout the whole Christian World Yet I doubt not but many deceivers and deceived who have cast off the Ordinances of Christ and lately taken up a new Religion of their own devising building their Altars of false Worship besides the Altar of the Lord these will be ready to revile me for my pains to call me Deceiver as some did the Apostles themselves to prate maliciously against me and to oppose and gainsay what I am doing that they may hinder your being benefited thereby But I beseech you do you hold fast the form of sound Words or Christian Doctrine which you have received in Faith and Love which is in Christ Jesus adhere to the Spirit Ministry and Ordinances of Christ keep in the Communion of his Saints and People and as you have the true Religion so be true unto your Religion by living accordingly and my Soul for yours by the Grace of God you shall not miscarry Be not offended at the bad lives of some there will be tares among the good Wheat 'till the Harvest Be not offended at the errours and heresies of others of your own selves says the Apostle shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them And again There must be Heresies among you that they which be approved may be made manifest among you There will be unstable and unlearned People who will boldly wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction But remember how God hath given Pastours and Teachers for the Work of the Ministry c. That we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive Therefore be not carried about with divers and strange Doctrines for it is a good thing that the heart be established with Grace Hold fast the Profession of your Faith without wavering Mark them that cause Divisions and avoid them Let not your soul come into their secret out of Curiosity least when you forsake his ways God justly forsake your Understandings and leave you to your selves and so you be led by your corrupt Natures to close sooner with that which is evil then with that which is good And if at any time you cannot fully answer such objections as cunning Deceivers may make against any thing contained in this Book or in our holy Religion do not as some have done therefore presently turn to them without any more ado do not think that because you cannot answer them that no body else can do not suffer your selves and your Religion to be so soon so sadly and shamefully parted but in the name of God I most humbly and most earnestly beseech you take the pains to acquaint me with them or with my consent and assistance to consult such faithfull and able Ministers of Christ as will help you most clearly to see the weakness and falshood of those arguments which so much puzled you before Remember I beseech you that this is the advice of one whom God by his gracious Providence and Holy Spirit hath made your Overseer and the Guide of your Souls of one who hath the same care for your Salvation that he hath for his own Who can as truly rejoyce to see the fruit of his labours in your Holy Walking as you can to reap a plentifull Harvest after your Labours or to see your Children do well according to your care and trouble about them Of one concerning whom with others Christ hath said He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me Remember that this is the advice of one who is always near you and is in some measure acquainted with your Condition and is ever ready to direct and assist you as your Necessities shall require Remember that this is the advice of one who is devoted to the Work of the Ministry and the Service of your Souls and so may more reasonably then others that are not so set apart expect as it is his daily Prayer to be led of God in the ways of Truth and Holiness that he may lead you in them to and to be blessed of God that he may be made a Comfort and a Blessing unto you Remember further that this is the Advice of one who having lived long among you sincerely loves you and hath no other design upon you but by all Good means to promote your Happiness and to prevent your utter Undoing of one lastly who is ready to spare neither Cost nor Pains for your real Good as in other things so in helping you to practice what is contained in this Book which I intreat you to accept of and to use as a testimony of my Unfeigned Desires of your Eternal welfare recommending both it and you to the Blessing and Protection of Almighty God and ever remaining Your Servant for Christs sake J. A. Eph. 6. 18 19. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and Watching thereunto with all Perseverance and Supplication for all Saints And for