2. Surely there will bee wrath upon us from the Lord for so doing 2 Wicked men are Sonnes of Belial 1 Sam. 2. 12. of their father the Devill Ioh. 8. 44. servants of â—inne Rom. 6. 20. now the Godly are borne of God Sons of God 1 Ioh. 3. 9. heires of God Gal. 4. 7. the servants of God 1 Pet. 2. 16. who have fellowship with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ 1 Ioh. 1. 3. and shall such keepe company with prophane wretches uncircumcised in the heart Ier. 9. 26. 3 Wicked men are of the Synagogue of Satan Rev. 3. 9 the Godly are the Temple of the living God 2 Cor. 6. 16. of the houshold of Faith Gal. 6. 10. Besides the Godly feare the Lord and thinke upon his name Malch 3. 16. Wicked men forget God neither is God in all their thoughts their 's are the paths of all that forget God Iob. 8. 13. 4 What communion hath light with darkenesse now wicked men walke in darkenesse 1 Ioh. 1. 6. nay are darknesse Ephe. 5. 8. But the Godly are light in the Lord 1 Thes 5. 5. yee are all the children of the light Againe Godly men are Wise men Math. 7. 24. wicked men Fooles Psalm 14. 1. and what credit shall a Wise man have by keeping Fooles company 5 What should living men doe among the dead Luk. 24. 5. why seeke yee the living among the dead None but Lâ—gion a mad man possessed of the Devill lived among the tombes But all ungodly men are dead in trespasses and sinnes Ephe. 2. 1. Dead while they live 1 Tim. 5. 6. yea they seeke death Pro. 21. 6. Now the Godly are quickened together with Christ Eph. 2. 5. and therefore should arise from the dead Eph. 5. 14. Vse Exhort Therefore have no fellowship with the unfruitfull workes of darknesse all yee that know righteousnesse the people in whose heart is Gods law order your conversation aright and walke worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing behave your selves holily justly and unblameably say with David Psal 139 â—2 Doe not I hate them that hate thee O Lord And as inducements Feare lest ye perish in the sinnes of the ungodly men and partake of their Plagues for consider I pray that among prophane ungodly men the best of them are as a Bryer and the most upright of them are like a thorne hedge Bryers and Thornes bee with thee and thou dwellest among scorpions a generation of vipers that will sting the conscience scratch and teare your flesh 2 Wicked men pervert their wayes are out of the way but the Godly walke in the way of the Lord they walke with God their faces are to Zion-ward what then should they doe in such company as turne their backs on heaven they have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord and turned their backs 2 Chr. 29. 6. 3 Consider your owne dignity you are Saints on earth and excellent Psal 16. 3. Gods jewells Mal. 3. 17. wicked men make themselves vile very swine dogs that love the myre 2 Pet. 2. 22. 4 The Godly are trees of righteousnesse the planting of the Lord wicked men are roots that beare gall and wormwood Deut. 29. 18. 5 The shame and discredit will light on your selfe If you follow vaine persons you will get to your selfe a blot Prov. 9. 7. It s a shame for Christs Spouse whom he hath married to himselfe Hos 9. 1. to keepe strumpets company they are a wicked and adulterous generation Math. 12. 39. that goe a whoriug from the Lord Psal 37. 24. and will you associate your selfe with such This for a taste I meant not to handle the Point exactly but only to point to a way in which there may be use of these Phrases for who seeth not that Reasons Uses Motives Meanes Marks c. may from hence as a Sacrum pena be drawne which have a speciall weight Emphasis and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in them surely the Spirit and blessing of God goes along with his Word even those expressions which it pleased the Holy Ghost to utter himselfe in at the first carry with them an heate and warmth to the soule of a beleever And why may not the most able memorie and best versed in Scripture be helped hereby to find readily some apt expressions which memorie could not command presently What disparagement to any mans Prayers Meditations Exhortations to have a helpe at hand In the time of Pestilence thou mayest thus order thy complaint and meditate RIghteous art thou O Lord Head God Scripture Ier. 12. 1. when I plead with thee yet let mee who am but dust Scripture Gen. 18. 27. and ashes talk with thee of thy judgements Wherefore hast thou shewed Head Man Scripture Esal 60. 3 thy people hard things and made us to drinke the wine of astonishment why hast thou smitten Scripture Ier. 14. 19. Head Afflict and there is no healing for us why doth thine anger Scripture Psal 74 1. smoake against the sheepe of thy pasture All joy is Scripture Isai 24. 11. Head Plague darkned the mirth of the land is gone all the merry-hearted Scripture 7 doe sigh weep and howle Scripture Iam. 5. 1. Head Mourne for the miseries that are come upon us Scripture Psal 83. 15. for thou persecutest us with thy tempest and makeâ—â— us afraid with thy stormes The arrowes of the Scripture Iob 6. 4. Almiâ—hty are within us the poyson whereof drinketh Head Afflict up our spirits the terrours of God do set themselves in array against us For Loe Death is come up Head Pestilence Scripture Ier. 9. 21. into our windowes and is entred into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets thy anger Scripture Deut. 29. 20 and thy jealousie smoake against us and thou hast Scripture 21 separated us unto evill there is a Head Plagues Scripture 1 Sam. 5. 11 deadly destruction throughout all the Citie and Country the hand of the Lord is very heavie there upon us The Scripture 1 Chr. 21. 12. Sword of the Lord even the Pestilencefills all places with Scripture Psal 110. 6. the dead bodies Head Slay the carkeises of men Scripture Ier 9. 21 fall as dung upon the open held the valliant men are swept Scripture Ier. 46. 15. away and thou Scripture Rev. 2. 23. hast killed our children with death O thou Sword of Scripture Ier. 47. 6. the Lord how long will it be ere thou be quiet put up thy Head Peace selfe into thy Scabberd rest and bee still Surely for the Scripture Ier. 13. 22. greatnesse of our iniquities Head Plague our skirts are discovered and our heeles made bare Our transgressions Scripture Ezek. 33. 10 and our Head Sinne. sinnes bee upon us and wee pine away in them how should we then live We are a people that Scripture Isai 65. 3. provoke thee continually Scripture Psal 78. 8. a generation that set not our heart aright and Head
rise not againe Make them like Iohn burning and shining lights that they may bee holinesse to the Lord Whom thou hast set as watch-men over thy people make them instant in season and out of season that they may give warning from thee that they may cry aloud and not spare lifting up their voyce like a trumpet and shew thy people their transgressions COMMONALTIE Blesse all Israel from Dan to Beershebah make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowles of heaven breake the bow and the sword and the battell out of the earth and make them to lye downe safely For the AFFLICTED And thou Lord who givest power to the faint and to them that have no might encreasest strength comfort them that lie upon beds of languishing make all their beds in their sicknesse for unto thee Lord belong the issues from death Behold the teares of such as are oppressed and have no comforter Lord remember them that are in bonds that are tryed in the furnace of affliction Bind up the breach of thy people heale the stroke of their wound Let the sighing of the prisoners come before thee according to the greatnesse of thy power preserve thou those that are appoynted to dye Bee thou a strength to the poore a strength to the needy in their distresse a refuge from the storme a shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible Ones is a storme against the wall His place of defence shall bee the munition of rockes bread shall be given him his waters shall be sure THANKS GIVING for Blessings Spirituall and Eternall And now our God we thanke thee and praise thy glorious name for blessing us with all spirituall blessings in heavenly places in Christ for delivering us from the power of darknesse and translating us into the Kingdome of thy deare Sonne Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort who when we were sometimes aliens and enemies in our mind by wicked workes and were by nature the children of wrath as well as others out of his rich mercy for the great love where with hee loved us even when we were dead in trespasses and sinnes and the uncircumcision of our flesh hath quickned us together with Christ having forgiven us all trespasses Blotting out the hand-writing of Ordinances that was against us which was contrary unto us and tooke it out of the way nayling it to his Crosse Blessed bee thy glorious Name which is exalted above all blessing and praise for great is thy mercie towards us and thou hast delivered our soule from the lowest hell and hast made us meet to bee partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light 3. For TEMPORALL blessings of Creation and Providence I thanke thee Father Lord of heaven and earth that Blesse the Lord O my soule and all that is within mee blesse his holy name c. For thou art he that tookest me out of the wombe thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mothers breasts I was cast upon thee from the wombe thou art my God from my mothers belly We have beene borne by thee from the belly and are carried from the wombe And even to our old age be thou hee and even to hoarie haires doe thou carry us Thou hast covered me in my mothers wombe I will praise thee for I am fearefully and wonderfully made marveilous are thy workes and that my soule knoweth right well How precious are thy thoughts unto me O God how great is the summe of them If I should count them they are moe in number than the sand Thy hands have made me and fashioned me I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed nuto thy servant Thus will I blesse thee while I live I will lift up my hands in thy name My soule shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse and my mouth shall praise thee with joyfull lips when I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches c I know Lord that thy judgements are right and that thou in faithfulnesse hast afflicted me Before I was afflicted I went astry but now I have kept thy word O Lord my God I cryed unto thee and thou hast healed me O Lord thou hast brought up my soule from the grave thou hast kept me alive that I should not goe downe to the pit c. Thou hast delivered mee in sixe troubles yea in seven there hath no evill touched me c. There hath no evill befallen me neither hath any plague come neere my dwelling Thou hast delivered my soule from death my eyes from teares and my feete from falling What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. Thou hast extended peace unto us like a river and prosperity like a flowing streame we drinke waters out of our owne Wells Thou hast strengthened the barres of our gates and blessed our children within us c. Thou hast given us bread to eate and rayment to put on yea our bread like Ashurs is fat and wee have pleasures which even Kings doe want Thou hast not dealt so with any nation O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men CONCLVSION with a craving of Audience Two things have I required of thee deny me them not before I depart Thy Sonne our Saviour hath promised that What things soever wee desire when we pray if we beleeve we shall receive them Lord we beleeve helpe thou our unbeliefe Now unto him that is able to doe exceeding abundantly above all that wee aske or thinke according to the power that worketh in us unto him be glory in the Church of Christ throughout all ages world without end Amen Now the God of Peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus that great Shepheard of the Sheepe through the the bloud of the everlasting covenant Make us perfect in every good worke to doe his will working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight through Iesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen REVEL 5 13. Blessing honour glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lambe for ever and ever Reve. 7. 12. Amen Blessing and glory and wisedome and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever Amen MEDITATIONS for the Morning My soule waiteth on thee O Lord more than the morning watch watcheth
thy holy spirit from mee make mee one with Christ my head flesh of his flesh bone of his bone make mee one with the mysticall body of thine Elect that I may have my part in the prayers of the Church in the Communion of Saints here on earth in the kingdome of grace and may enjoy thee and them face to face and sit downe and eat and drinke with thee in thy kingdome of glory Amen For the Sacrament of Baptisme O Lord our God the great the mighty and the terrible God who keepest covenant and mercy with all them that feare thy name and trust upon thee even to a thousand generations thou hast promised to bee our God and the God of our seed to enter into covenant with us that wee should bee thine O Lord I come to thy throne of grace at this time to lay claime to my interest in that new covenant sealed unto thy Church in the blood of Iesus that thou wouldst performe the same unto mee and mine also hast not thou said thou wilt circumcise mine heart and the heart of my seed to love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soule that thou wilt put thy Law in our inward parts and write it in our hearts and that thou wilt bee our God and wee shall bee thy people that thou wilt forgive our injquity and wilt remember our sinne no more O Lord hast thou said it and wilt not thou also doe it By faith I plead my interest thereunto not for my selfe alone but for mine also with whom I beseech thee to make an everlasting covenant of life and peace that being baptized into Iesus Christ they may bee sanctified and cleansed with the washing of water by the word O Lord wee are all borne the children of wrath and there is no way for us to escape the damnation of hell except wee bee borne againe of water and of the Spirit O Lord doe thou sprinkle cleane water upon us wash away the filth of Zion and purge the blood of Ierusalem from the midst thereof Baptize us with the Holy Ghost that having our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience and our bodies washed with pure water wee may bee new creatures fit to bee an habitation of God through the spirit O blessed be thy goodnesse for ever which hast given us this seale of thy rich promise this is that Arke in and through which thou savest thine Elect thou dalliest not with us herein it is no idle ceremonie thou art present in thy own ordinance to fulfill that which thou hast promised O wash our soules with the baptisme of Repentance as thou doest our bodies with the outward element of water Let the vertue of Christs death kill sinne in us for how shall wee that are buried with Christ by baptisme and thereby dead to sinne live yet therein Doe not wee herein vow to forsake the Devill the Pomps and vanities of this wicked world and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh and shal we break our vow transgresse the covenant O let this be far from us teach us therefore to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts deliver us from every evill worke that we may serve the living God Sprinkle cleane water upon us that we may bee cleane from our naturall filthinesse and from all our uncleannesses Wash us O wash us throughly from our iniquities and cleanse us from our sinnes Make our hearts to be stedfast in thy love and never to forget this covenant of our God thy mercie doe thou keepe for us and ours for evermore and let thy covenant stand fast with us and bee established for ever as the Moone and as a faithfull witnesse in heaven And as thou hast thus brought us into the bond of the covenant so let us never depart from thee Bee thou unto us a God and let us be thy people for evermore even till thou bringest us unto Mount Sion and to the Citie of the living God the heavenly Ierusalem and to an inumerable company of Angels to the generall assembly and Church of the first borne which are written in heaven and to God the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Iesus the Mediatour of the new covenant and to the bloud of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel Make me to be thine my self be thou my Father and make me to be thy Sonne for if the first fruit be holy the lumpe also shall be holy and if the roote be holy so also shall the branches bee This mercie I beg of thee in his name merits and mediation out of whose pierced side issued forth water and bloud for the sanctifying and justifying of thine Elect. To whom with thee and the Holy Spirit be all glory service thanksgiving and dominion through all the Churches of the Saints for ever Amen For Regeneration Sanctification and grace to serve God O Lord thou God of truth who hast sworne in thy faithfulnesse that as thou livest thou hast no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that hee should turne from his way and live and therefore commandest thy people saying Turne ye turne ye from your evill wayes for why will ye dye O house of Israel and hast enjoyned that I should wash me and make me cleane put away the evill of my doings from before thine eyes promising moreover that though my sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as Snow though they bee red like crimson they shall be as wooll I that am a wicked and miserable caitiffe a sinner before the Lord exceedingly even as the men of Sodome that have done abominable workes and denied the God that is above wilfully sinning after I had received the knowledge of the truth and treading under foote the Sonne of God counting the bloud of the covenant wherewith I was sanctified an unholy thing and having done deâ—piâ—e to the spirit of grace O Lord even out of the deepes doe I call unto thee for helpe yea out of the belly of hell doe I earnestly cry for thy mercie O cast not out my prayer Though mine iniquities be more than the haires of my head my transgressions heavier than the sand yet is there forgivenesse with thee and although my sinnes have reached up to heaven yet thy mercie is above the heavens mine are at the most but the sinnes of a man but thine at the least are the mercies of an infinite God yea thou hast the relenting bowells of a most tender Father O spread the robe of thy Sonnes righteousnesse over me that so thou mayest not behold my nakednesse cloath me with the garments of his salvation say unto my soule Live cause breath to enter into my dry bones lay sinewes upon them and bring flesh upon them and cover them with skinne that I may know that thou art the Lord. And albeit I be dead in trespasses and sinnes yet open my grave and cause me
HOLY INCENSE FOR THE CENSERS of the SAINTS OR A method of Prayer with matter and formes in selected Sentences of sacred Scripture ALSO A PRAXIS upon the HOLY OYLE shewing the VSE of SCRIPTURE-PHRASES And Choyse Places taken out of the singing PSALMES digested into a Method of Prayer and Praises Pray alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watch thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints Ephes 6. 18. LONDON Printed for Robert Milbourne at the signe of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1634. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Sir EDVVARD AYSCOVGH Knight and to his religious and noble Lady the best blessings of this and the blessednesse of a better life through IESVS CHRIST Right Worshipfull IT was the Farewell-clause of HER Letter who is the Honour of this Country the Praise of her owne Sexe and the Glory of your Noble family Mistresse ANNE AYSCOVGH Martyr Pray Pray Pray and in another Letter written to IOHN LACELS Sacrificed with her in the same fire for the Word of God and for the Testimonie which they held Farewell Pray This hath beene the practice of all the Saints Bishop Latimer is famous to Posteritie for his three Grand-petitions which God most graciously granted Master Luther not lesse powerfull with God by Praying than prevailing with Men by his Preaching daily breathed his soule herein like Iacob wrastling with God and not letting him goe without a Blessing and thus the Captaine of our salvation our blessed Saviour continued all night in Prayer to God and in the dayes of his flesh offered up Prayers and Supplications with strong crying and teares unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard as the Apostle tells us Heb 5. 7. PRAYER doubtlesse is the very element in which the Soule liveth the very aliment by which it subsisteth Saint Paul as soone as converted Behold hee Prayeth O Lord by these men live As well may a fish live out of Water or a bird without Ayre as the Christian without Prayer 'T is the vitall breath of Faith stop it and take away Spirituall life And though at sometimes hee breathes short and hardly and insensibly in his deliquium animae fits of Spirituall desertion and temptation yet his life is still in him as in Epilepticks the man possessed with the dum be Spirit Mark 9. 26. who was as one dead yet when Christ takes him by the hand he ariseth Sinne prevailing may tongue-tie him a while that hee chatters not with Hezekiah yet when his lips move not nor his voyce is heard his desires will beate strongly upward his heart works and pants and grones and sighes and breathes and breakes in its longing and looking towards Heaven O thinks hee that my sinnes such and such were Pardoned ô that I had more grace to serve my God! O that I could master such and such a prevailing Lust O that I could more abound in fruits of righteousnesse in my conversation thus his heart is fired alway thus fixed And who can marvell that the children of God are so much herein seeing all the blessings of this and the hopes of a better life are assured and conveyed unto them hereby yea and that the whole service and worship of God is in Scripture stiled a calling upon the name of the Lord the Church a house of Prayer and God himselfe a God that heareth Prayers O thou that hearest Prayer unto thee shall all flesh come Psal 65. 2. Vpon this sacred subject is the ensuing treatise which though but now presented to you Right Worshipfull long since was intended in that mournefull and praying time when Gods chastening was upon the City of my habitation the space of almost two whole yeares together Your noble house was then the Zoar whither I was invited whereto I fled where I was above my deserts freely entertained Those and many other your favours before and since challenge my Prayers and best services Accept of this I intreate you as a testimonie of my thankefull observance towards you yet not as mine but as it hath received spirit and life from the word of life 'T is Holy Incense for the Censers of the Saints dropping from the Tree of Life smelling sweetely in the coales of the Altar hearts enkindled with true devotion flaming and blazing upward Prayer will make the face to shine as Moses talking with God in the Mount The more time we spend herein the more heavenly is our life on earth Godlinesse hath the promises 't will make your names to live and flourish when other Magnifico's whose portion is in the huskey profits frothie pleasures windie honours c emptie shadowes of this life shall bee written in the * earth and rot And though now it bee undervalued and the price beaten downe as a merchandize not worth the owning much lesse of buying at any low rate yet it will quite for cost and be of high esteeme in another world a pearl of price that good part and that one thing necessary You are happy Right Worshipfull above many in that God hath given you a mind to know him a heart to love him Presse on still toward the marke study which way to honour God most and to live to him this will bring you peace at the last 'T is not a forme of godlinesse which even the civill gentry affect hereby gilding over their baser courses rotten practises but the power of it in a sanctified life which before God is much set by Goe on in that good way you have begun count all things but dung that yee may winne Christ and bee found in him Take up the crosse which lies in the waies of God Deny your selves This doe and you shall cause the blessing to rest on your house and posteritie after you and those Olive plants about your table shall become trees of righteousnesse the planting of the Lord for so long as you hold you fast by him you shall you cannot but prosper and grow as the Lilie as the Olive-tree as the Vine and spread out your branches as the Cedars in Lebanon Thus praying to God for a blessing on these my prayers and on you both I commend my selfe and them to you you and yours to God and to the word of his grace ◠which is able to build you up further and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified by faith in Christ Jesus In whom he resteth that is Lincolne May 6. 1634. Your Worships in all Christian services to be commanded IOHN CLARKE TO THE READER TO gratifie the expectation of friends and to satisfie some to whom I have long beene much obliged rather than for any conceited worth of any thing that is mine in these formes and method of Prayer are they thus now presented to thy view Christian Reader There be many blessed be God in manifold respects farre beyond these of mine Excellent moulds
acted with a high hand against Knowledge and the cries of a convinced conscience which makes sinne rebellion to know God yet not to glorifie him as God not in the dayes of our ignorance onely but since the light of the glorious Gospell hath shone into our hearts 3 Without any or with small temptation resolving to sinne selling themselves with Ahab even in cold bloud to doe wickedly Heb. 10. 26. as in sinnes in which there is neither pleasure or profit c. As to sweare prophane the Sabbath refuse preaching praying scorning Gods wayes 4 Against frequent purposes faire promises of more holy obedience reiterated vowes and covenants generall in Baptisme Lords Supper particular on such and such an occasion 5 Against meanes 1 Blessings coards of love 2 Corrections thou hast striken us but wee have not sorrowed Ier. 5. 3. 3 Word early and late all the day long 2 Actuall sinnes against the Gospell 1 Not thirsting after Christ Iesus nor prizing nor loving and cleaving unto him with our dearest affection 2 denying him in our lives 2 Not repenting us of our sinnes though God in mercie vouchsafe space and means but hiding excusing not mourning for nor forsaking sinne 3 Not believing the promises of salvation nor relying upon Iesus Christ for justification sanctification and salvation c. not stirring up our selves to take hold of him but forsaking our owne mercies 4 Sâ—â—ning against the holâ— Ghost by tempting grieving or quenching the holy spirit of God receiving the grace of God in vaine turning it into wantonnes growing cold in religion losing our first love Thus bringing our iniquities to remembrance 1 wee must acknowledge and bewayle them not onely generally but individually also one by one fetching and ferreting them out as so many Achans by the poll especially those which are naturalized and habituated in us our beloved and darling sinnes our dearest Dalilahs And that from a 1 Trobled broken bleeding melting spirit beleeving heart clasping the promises Ezr. 10. 2. yet now there is hope in Israel c. 2 Honest heart wishing the confusion as wel as making the confessioÌ„ of sin meaning to leave every wicked way and with purpose of heart cleaving to the Lord 2 Confession of the evill of punishment acknowledging our selves in regard of these our so many and grievous sinnes not onely to bee lesse than the least of all Gods mercies but most justly worthy of his most dreadfull plagues lyable and obnoxious to all evills of punishment in Iudgements Corporall Spirituall Temporall Eternall vid. Ezr. 9. Dan 9. Thus of the first part of Prayer viz. CONFESSION The Second followes which is PETITION PEtition is either for Our selves Others 1 Our selves and is called Supplication consisting of two branches viz. Apprecation Deprecation 1 Apprecation or collation of good which also consists in desiring 1 Supply of all wants Spirituall Corporall 2 Continuance and encrease of all blessings both Eternall Spirituall Corporall 1 Apprecation for bestowing of all good blessings viz. 1 Supplying all our wants of things 1 Spirituall viz. Grace Encrease of Grace Meanes of Grace 1 For the grace of free Pardon for our sinnes that God for his mercies promise Christs sake even the abundant merits of our Lord Iesus his bloudy passion who hath satisfyed for them to the utmost farthing by pouring out his soule for an oblation for the sinnes of the whole world would be pleased freely to forgive and blot them out of his booke never laying them to our charge beforemen to shame us in this world or to our everlasting confusion before men and Angels in the world to come Of which that we may more fully bee assured wee pray for a lively and apprehensive Faith by which we may be inabled to lay hold on and apply the generall and free Promises of Salvation to our selves in particular that God would seale up the assurance hereof to our consciences by the gracious testimony of his holy spirit giving unto us the spirit of adoption whereby we may with comfort and confidence cry ABEA father that so being justifyed and freed from the guilt and punishment of all our sinnes wee may have peace of conscience being reconciled to him in his Sonne 2 Repentance unto life whereby our stony hearts may be softned broken w th godly sorrow our eyes run down w th rivers of teares for our falls and faylings heretofore and we quickned to new obedience to serve the living God in holinesse and righteousnesse all our remaining dayes 3 All other sanctifying graces accompanying furthering our everlasting happinesse 1. as saving knowledge that we may understand what the holy and acceptable will of the Lord is 2 Fervent love to God our brethren yea our very enemies for his sake that loved us when wee were enemies 3 Ardent zeale 4 Lively hope 5 Son-like feare of God 6 True humility and contrition of spirit 7 Sincerity and boldnesse in the profession of the truth Perseverance patience and strength under the crosse Contentation in all estates either of weale or woe want or abundance 2 Encrease and growth of all these graces that the bruised reed may not be broken nor the smoking Flaxe quenched but that our graces like the light may shine more and more to the perfect day and our works be more at last than at the first 3 The meanes of grace continued and sanctifyed unto us as 1 Gods Word preached at Church 2 Read in private that the holy Ghost blessing it from heaven may bring it close home unto and savingly worke it upon our hearts that thus the heavenly spirit breathing on his own ordinances they may quicken us and become effectuall to our salvation 2 Sacraments 3 Sabbaths 4 Prayer 5 Fasting c. 2 Supply of wants temporall our owne personall concernements and all outward blessings appertayning to this present life Health Liberty Friends Rayment Food giving and preserving to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time wee may enjoy them preservation in our persons and estates Direction in all our courses thoughts words actions the blessing of God upon all our labours a right and sanctifyed use of all Gods blessings and chastisements 2 Deprecation of Evills personall nationall both of sinne and punishment either before or after it comes Before it comes aversion prevention After it comes ablation or removall 1 Wee pray against the evill of sinne that we may be 1 Delivered freed and acquitted of the guilt and danger of all our sinnes 2 Endued with watchfulnesse power and dominion over them all in our judgements to dislike them in affections to hate them in heart to bewaile them and in life to forsake them 1 From the guilt and danger that our sinne may not shame us before men and torture our consciences here in this life nor condemne us body and soule in the world to com that our doing evil
7. Exod. 19. 6. Mal. 1. 11. Rom. 8. 26. Psal 10. 17 Mar. 11. 24. 2. Promises made to each several head of Prayer c. Pro. 28. 13. I Iohn 1. 9. Isai 1. 18. Isai 43. 25. Ier. 31 34. Isay 57. 1â— Ezek. 18. 21. 22 23. Mat. 11. 28. Mic. 7. 18. 19. Rom. 16. 20. Rom. 6. 14. Psal 37. 24. Ezech. 36. 25. 26. 27 Deut. 30. 6. Isai 44 3. Isai 42 3. Math. 5. 6. Phil. 1 6. Isai 12. 3. Isai 55. 1. Exod. 20. 24. Prov. 16. 3. prov 3. 6. Isai 30. 21. psal 121. 8. Deut. 28. 6. 30. 9. 31 8. Psal 91. 11. Isay 35. 6. 10. Ioel. 2. 26. Isai 55. 12. Psal 25. 1. 1. Preface 2. Parts 1. Confession of 1 Sinne. to which is necessary 1 A particular knovvledge of sin 2. Sense of it and sorrow for it 3. particular enumeration 1. Of Adams disobedience 2. Originall sinne to be descried in the Vnderstanding 1. Conscience 3. Memory 4. Will. 5. Sensitive appetite 6. Affections 7. Body and members 3 Actuall sin in deeds of 1. Omission and Dâ—sâ—â—uncie 2. Commission 1. Against God 2. Presumptuously 3. Without or with temptations 4. Against vowes 2. Sinnes against the Gospell 2. part of Confession viz. of the wages of punishment The second part of prayer which is Petition Apprecation for 1. Pardon of sinne 2. Faith in Christ 3. Repentance 4. All sanctifying grace 2. For growth and encrease of Grace 3. The meanes of grace continued and sanctifyed to us 2. Petition for supply of temporall wants 2. Deprecation 1. To be freed from the guilt of Sin Personall Nationall 2. To have povver 1. Over Sinne. 2. The world 3. The Devill 2. To hee freed from the evill of punishment Nationall Personall 2. Iâ—tercession for the Catholike Church 2. Called 3. In forraine arts 2. Our land at home 3. Afflicted The third part of Prayer which is Thankesgiving for the Church in generall 2. Our selves in particular Election c. â— For grace in any measure 2. Thankesgiving for Temporall Blessings Helpes against Distraction in Prayer 1 Tim. 2. 8 Isai 66. 2. Eccles. 5. 2. vers 1. Mal. 13. 14. Mal. 1. 11. Zech. 12. 10. M. Dyke on the hearts deceiptf Gen. 27. 34. Iob 27. 8. 10. Hos 5. 15. Isai 26. 16. 2 Chr 7. 14. M. Dyke ibid. Our sacrifices must bee offered with fire warmth of enflamed Zeale Cold Prayers are to God as dead drinks be to us Psal 42. 1. Ps 119. 20. Luk. 18. 10. 1 Thes 5. 17 Isai 1. Tergat speculum mundet spiritum Bern. Out of M. Byfield 1. For confession of sin 2. For petition of necessaries 3. for thankesgiving 3 For Thankesgiving * Practice of Christianity pag. 622. To these Common-places thou mayest in thy daily reading the Scriptures referre many of the like nature Lam. 3. 41. Psal 123. 1. Num. 16. 22. Nehe. 9. 17. Psal 75. 2. Isai 42. 5. Dan. 5. 23. Isai 57. 15. Ier. 10. 10. 12. Amos 4. 15. 1 Tim. 6. 15. 16. Sam. 1. 4. 4 1 King 8. 27 1 Chr. 29. 11 12. Iob 25. 5. Psal 104. 1. 2. Isai 40. 15. 17. 22. Ier. 20. 12. Ier. 31. 35. Ier. 32. 17. 18. 19. Ier. 46. 18. Amos 5 8. Amos 9 6. Mich. 7. 18. Nah. 1. 4. Hab. 1. 13. Deut. 26. 15 1 Reg. 8. 28. Psal 50. 15. 2 Reg. 19. 16. Psal 141. 2. Iohn 14. 14. Dan. 9. 17. 18. Rom. 8. 26. Exo. 22. 27. 1 Kin. 8. 30. 36 43. 39. Nehe. 1. 6. Psal 5. 2. Psal 28. 2. Psal 86. 6. Psal 19. 14. Psal 123. 1 Psal 143. 1 7. Isai 63. 15. Hab. 1. 2. â— Ezra 9. 6. Gen 1. 27. 2. 7. 3. 13. Heb. 7. 10. Rom. 3. 23. Eccles. â— 29 Num. 32. 14 â—il â— â—â— Rom. 7. 18. Gen. 6. 5. Ioâ— 9. 20. 20. 27. 15. 14. 〈…〉 6. Psal 38. 4. Pro. 20. 9. Isai 64. 6. 7. Isai 43. 24. Isai 3. 9. Psal 130. 3. Dan. 5. 27. Rom 7. 13. Isa 26. 10. Rom. 1. 16. Isa 65. 2. 1 Cor. 16. 22 Eph. 6. 24. Isai 53. 3. Phil. 3. 8. 9. 10. Rev. 2. 21. Psal 32. 5. Ier. 5. 3. Ephes 4. 30 Iude 4. Revel 2. 4. Psal 42. 2. Heb. 10. 26. 27. 28. 29. Isai 1. 18. 2 Sam. 12. 14 Ier. 5. 28. Iob 42. 6. Psal 40. 12. Psal 43. 2. Psal 90. 8. Isai 1. 12. Isai 3. 8. Isai 5. 18. Isai 59. 2. Ier. 6. 7. Ier. 2. 21. Ier. 2. 22. Ier. 17. 1. Amos. 2. 13. Amos 5. 12. Rom. 7. 14. 23. 24. Ezr. 9. 13. Lam. 3. 22. Isay 28. 17. Deu. 29. 23. Psal 9. 17. Psal 130. 7. Exod. 34. 9. Isai 44. 2. Ier. 14. 7. Iob 6. 8. Nehe 4 5. Psal 25. 7. Psal 25. 11. Psal 79. 8. Hos 14. 2. Mic. 7. 19. Ioh. 1. 29. Ioh. 18 37. Isai 53. 5. Psal 57. 2. Psal 51. 2. 7. 2 Sam 24. 10 Ps 119. 132 Isai 1. 18. Ier. 32. 27. Math. 6. 39. Luk. 17. 5. Math. 7. 20. Rom. 5. 1. Iam. 2. 20. Heb. 12. 14. Psa 51. 10. Phil. 3. 9. Psa 6. 6. Mat. 11. 21. Act. 11. 18. Rev. 2. 21. Deut 5. 29. 2 Tim 2. 26. 2 Cor. 7. 10. Ezek 37. 25. Eze. 36. 26. 27 Ephes 1. 17. 18. Hab. 2. 14 Heb. 8. 11. Ephes 3. 17. 18. 19. Phil. 3. 10. Prov. 192. Prov. 2. 2. 3. 5. Hos 8. 2. Mat. 22. 37. Luke 7. 47. Iohn 13. 34. Phil. 1. 9. Gal. 6. 10. Mat. 5. 44. Tit. 2. 14. Rev. 3. 16. Psa 119. 20 Iohn 2. 17. 2 Cor. 9. 2. Psal 51. 6. Iohn 1. 47. 2 Cor. 1. 12. Ier. 16 17. Psal 139. 2 3. 1 Cor 4. 5. Amos 9. 2. 3. Prov. 24. 12. Eeles 12. 14 1 Sam. 16. 7. 2 Kin. 20. 3. 1 Chr. 28. 2. Ier. 23. 24. Psal 44. 21. Ps 139. 12. Prov. 20. 27. 1 King 8. 39 Heb. 4. 13. Rom. 1. 1â— Act 4. 29. Mark 8. 38. Deut. 5. 29. Ier. 32. 39. 40. Heb. 10. 23. Phil. 4. 11. Phil 4. â—2 1 Tim. 6. 6. 7. 8. Heb. 13. 5. 1 Pet. 5. 7. Iob. 2. 10. Math. 6. 25. Math. 6. 26. 2â— 27. 30. 31. 32. Prov. 30. â— Prov. 30. 9. Luk. 9. 23. Ioh. 16. 33 Act. 14. 2â— Rom. 8. 1â— Phil. 1. 29. Heb 12. 1. 2. 3. 1 Pet. 4. 12. 13 14. 〈◊〉 119. 105 Psal 16. 7. Heb. 4. 12. Pro 20. 12. Ier. 23. 29. Isai 55. 10. 11. Isai 50. 4. Isai 53. 10. Psal 36. 8. 9. Psal 132. 7. Psa 119. 18 Isai 26. 8. Mic. 4. 2. Isai 30. 21. Psal 65. 4. Isai 25. 6. â—â— 7. 1 Cor. 11. 28. loh. 6. 32. 35. 36. 37. Psal 42. 1. Psal 63. 2. Psa 126. 12. 13. Gen. 28. 20. 21. 43. 14. Prov. 2. 8. Psal 17. 5. Psal 91. 11 12. Gen. 28 15. 1 Chr. 4. 10. Neh. 1. 11. Psal 90. 17. 2 Chr. 20. 12 Isai 26. 12. Psal 127. 2. Ier. 10. 23. 1 Cor. 2. 3. Rom. 6. 12. 12. Heb. 12. 15. Rom. 6. 22. Rom 7 23. 24 Psal 19. 12. 13. 2 Cor. 10. 5. Ps 131.