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A47235 Prayers for the use of all persons who come to the baths for cure. By the author of the Manual of prayers, for the use of the scholars of Winchester Colledge. Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711. 1692 (1692) Wing K277; ESTC R220999 15,192 82

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condition Thou Lord hast been pleased to deny me the good things the Conveniencies of this Life blessed be thy Name for it thou sawest I should abuse them and therefore hast in mercy with-held from me those occasions of sin But since thou art pleased beyond my poverty to lay this further Calamity this Sickness Lameness on me which has brought me hither O be thou also pleased to succour and to support me under it Ah Lord I come to my Remedy but have not wherewithal to apply it I come to the Waters but have none to assist me none to help me into the Bath O let thy infinite Love kindle a compassionate Charity in the Hearts of the Rich and incline some merciful persons to relieve me Send seasonable relief O my God to all other poor and needy persons who come hither calamitous like my self O bless the Waters to our Cure that being restored to our health and strength we may return to our Labour and according to thy Divine Appointment In the sweat of our brows may eat our bread Bless the Waters O Lord to all other infirm persons but especially bless them to my Benefactors Lord sanctifie my poverty to me that I may be humble and constant under it and submissive to the Disposals of thy most wise and gracious Providence O my God though I am poor in this World make me rich in faith I will gladly want Riches here so I may have Treasure in Heaven hereafter and be an Heir of the Kingdom which thou hast promised to those that love thee Lord pity me Lord hear me Lord help me Lord save me according to the multitude of thy Mercies and the Merits of my Saviour Amen Amen The Poor Man's Prayer for those that relieve him GLory be to thee O Lord for my Benefactors Glory be to thee who hast given them ability and inlarged their Hearts to relieve the poor and needy Glory be to thee for directing them in particular to relieve me O my God I earnestly beg of thee to shew mercy to them who have shewed mercy to me I have had the comfort of their Alms Blessed be thy Name O give them a plentiful recompence for it reward them sevenfold into their Bosom through Jesus thy Beloved Amen Amen Ejaculations for the Poor AS for me I am poor and needy but thou Lord carest for me and on thee Lord I cast all my cares Glory be to thee O Lord who deliverest the poor in his affliction O let it be thy pleasure to deliver me O Lord the poor committeth himself to thee for thou art the helper of the friendless and to thee poor as I am I wholly commit my self O be thou my Helper O be thou my Friend Thou O God hast of thy goodness prepared for the poor and the poor and needy shall give thanks unto thy Name O my Soul put thy trust in the Lord and by doing good dwell in the Land and verily thou shalt be fed Having thus allotted to you that are Rich and to you that are Poor your distinct Duties I must now again joyn you together and I most passionately beseech you if you have a concern for the eternal wellfare of your Souls any Honour for that most Holy Religion you profess any Reverence for the Pure All-seeing Eyes of God to take all imaginable care that you do not abuse the Bath by any Lasciviousness or Impurity which may defile your selves or others for this is the way to turn the means of your cure into an occasion of the more outragious sin and to provoke God to send you away with a dreadful Curse instead of a Blessing If after a due use of the Baths you find any benefit by them and that your Distemper is either removed or abated as you desired the Prayers of the Congregation at your first coming for God's Blessing on the Waters So it is most just you should desire the Congregation to give thanks for you and to render to God a publick acknowledgment for the Mercy he has vouchsafed you Be very careful that when you are well you do not forget you were sick but let that advice which our Lord gives to the impotent Man be deeply impressed on your mind say it often to your own Soul Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee Renew all those good Resolutions you made in the day of your distress be very watchful and jealous over your self for fear of Backslidings avoid all occasions of sin for the future and dedicate that Health to which God has in tender mercy restored you to his Glory A Thanksgiving ALL Praise all Glory be to thee my Lord and my God for hearing my Prayers in the time of my trouble for blessing the Waters to my Good to my Ease to my Cure O may I never forget this Blessing O may I ever give thee thanks for it Lord I am jealous over my own treacherous Heart that now thou hast abated freed me from my Calamity I shall grow cold in my Devotion and that the sense of my Duty will be apt to wear off with my affliction but my sure and only Trust is in the assistances of thy Grace O hold up my goings in thy paths that my foot-steps slip not O keep me as the Apple of the Eye O may I sin no more left a worse thing come unto me Praise the Lord O my Soul while I live will I praise the Lord as long as I have my Being I will sing Praises unto my God I called upon the Lord in my trouble and the Lord heard me at large therefore will I praise him Thou art my God and I will thank thee thou art the Lord and I will praise thee Praised be the Lord who hath not cast out my Prayer nor turned his mercy from me O give thanks unto the Lord for he is Gracious and his mercy endureth for ever I will not only praise thee O Lord in private but I will tell abroad what thou hast done for my Soul I will give thanks unto thee in the great Congregation I will praise thee amongst much people Accept O my God this my Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving and since the longer I live the more I experience thy most adorable and boundless Goodness the more devoutly may I daily praise thee the more intensely may I daily love thee through Jesus thy Beloved Amen Amen To this you may properly add the hundred and third Psalm IF after you have used the Waters you find no relief by them be not discouraged it may be God designs to effect your Cure some other ways it may be he sees it best for your spiritual good that your Distemper should continue and it is your Duty patiently to submit to his good pleasure If you are conscious to your self that you have truly repented of all your sins past and that the desire of your Soul is towards God you may be then assured that God chastened you because he loves
trial Holy Scripture teacheth us that God has threatened very many and very sore bodily Diseases to Disobedience Deu. xviii 58 59 60. and that they who are sick are stricken by God 2 Sam. xii 15 The Corinthians who profaned the blessed Sacrament were for that cause many of them weak and sickly 2 Chron. xxi 18 1 Cor. xi 30 And our Saviour in his advice he gives to the Man whom he cured of an Infirmity of thirty eight years continuance intimates that sin was the cause of that inveterate Disease Jo. v. 14 But when God is pleased to afflict righteous persons with Sickness as he did King David and Hezekiah then Sickness is not an effect of God's Anger but of his Paternal disciplin towards them Ps. xxxviii 7 Isa. xxxviii 1 The like may be said of Lameness which happens by the Divine Direction to good Men as well as to the wicked King Asa who did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God in the time of his old age was diseased in his feet 1 King xv 23 Mephibosheth was lame from five years old 2 Sam. iv 4 And the poor Man whom St. Peter and St. John miraculously healed was lame from his mothers womb Acts iii. 2 Since then both Sickness and Lameness are strokes given us by God to him we must chiefly and in the first place betake our selves for Cure and the Holy Ghost has set a mark of spiritual disgrace on Asa who was otherwise a good King That in his disease he sought not to the Lord but to the Physicians 2 Chr. xvi 12 Not that the Scripture does in the least condemn or discourage our going to the Physicians when we are sick or our use of all due means for our Recovery Our Saviour himself when he says They that are whole need not a Physician but they that are sick Mat. ix 12 sufficiently intimates that they that are sick did need one The Son of Sira●h gives excellent advice to both the sick and the Physician Honour a Physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which you may have of him the Lord hath created him the Lord hath created Medicines out of the earth and he that is wise will not abhor them and with such doth he heal men and taketh away their pains Ecclus. xxxviii 1 c. But then he adds My son in thy sickness be not negligent but pray unto the Lord and he will make thee whole leave off from sin and order thy hands aright and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness give a sweet savour and a memorial of fine flower then give place to the Physician There is a time when in their hands there is good success for they also shall pray unto the Lord that he would prosper that which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life I earnestly recommend to you this Counsel of the Son of Sirach and therefore to you that are sick or infirm or lame I recommend Repentance and Prayer and Sacrifice the Sacrifice of Alms by which you will offer to God a sweet savour To your Physician I also recommend devout Prayer to the Author of Health and Sickness that his Physick may prosper and then is Physick like to procure a Blessing when both the Patient and the Physician joyn in their Prayers for it I exhort you to begin with Repentance and to read Devotional Books on that Subject of which blessed be God there are good store for it is Repentance that must dispose you for Prayer The Prophet complains of the obdurateness of those who when God had stricken them did not grieve Jer. v. 3 God forbid you should be thus obdurate God forbid but since he has stricken you you should grieve and grieve with that godly sorrow which worketh Repentance to Salvation not to be repented of I ●●seech you then to examine your selves very seriously whether you have ever repented of your sins so as to bring forth fruits meet for repentance for if you are guilty either of total Impenitence or of an universal relapse into your old sins or if you lie under the dominion of any one wilful sin look no further for the original cause of your Distemper God has in Justice sent it you for your punishment But the most merciful God who delights not in the death of a sinner in his very Punishments designs rather to awaken than to destroy us and if this punishment by which God calls you to repentance does awaken you out of your former security it turns to a Blessing to a happy occasion of your eternal Bliss be of good cheer then and repent Your very bodily Distemper will present you with a lively Idea of your sins and Holy Scripture makes use of the former to picture out to us the latter Think then of the weakness and the pain and the indisposedness and the restlessness and the danger that afflict the sick Man and compare them with that impotence to good that anguish of a wounded Spirit that universal indisposedness to Duty that restlessness of Conscience those horrors of eternal torment which attend the sinner and which without Repentance are for ever incurable and make this reflection with your self that if we are so very sollicitous for the cure of our Bodies much more ought we to be sollicitous for the cure of our Souls But if your heart does not condemn you if you are conscious to your self you have truly repented and have never returned to your vomit again and indulge no one wilful sin and have nothing to accuse your self of but your daily failings which are the unavoidable infelicities of lapsed nature and for which you daily beg pardon then is your Distemper a fatherly Chastisement only and you ought to rejoyce in it rather than in the least to regret it However it is your best way to renew your repentance on this occasion and to be sure to bear Gods Rod and to learn that Lesson from it in which you are sensible you were deficient before and which God has sent this ●ffliction on purpose to ●each you True Repentance will rightly dispose you for Prayer and you will come with boldness with an humble but firm confidence to the throne of Grace when you can look on God as reconciled to you in Jesus and shall be sure to obtain help in time of need To obtain either the Cure of your Distemper or if God sees th● continuance of it to be mor● for your spiritual advantage such Grace which is sufficien● for you such Consolation i● your own Soul and satisfaction in God's good pleasure as shall abundantl● over-balance your Calamity● Prayer is a Duty alway● obliging and to be practised by all because all stand alike in need of the Divine Mercy and Benediction but it is more especially the Duty proper for the time of affliction because our needs are then most pressing and therefore says St. James Is any afflicted let him pray Jam. v.