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A63950	The golden grove, or, A manuall of daily prayers and letanies, fitted to the dayes of the week containing a short summary of what is to be believed, practised, desired : also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church, composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons / by the author of The great exemplar.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1655 (1655)	Wing T336; ESTC R17298	60,024	193

dearest union of love and holiness and mine to him in all sweetness and charity and compliance Keep from me all morosity and ungentleness all sullenness and harshness of disposition all pride and vanity all discontentedness and unreasonableness of passion and humour and make me humble and obedient charitable and loving patient and contented useful and observant that we may delight in each other according to thy blessed Word and Ordinance and both of us may rejoyce in thee having our portion in the love and service of God for ever and ever IV. OBlessed Father never suffer any mistakes or discontent any distrustfulness or sorrow any trifling arrests of fancy or unhandsome accident to cause any unkindness between us but let us so dearly love so affectionately observe so religiously attend to each others good and content that we may alwayes please thee and by this learn and practise our duty and greatest love to thee and become mutual helps to each other in the way of godliness that when we have received the blessings of a married life the comforts of society the endearments of a holy and great affection and the dowry of blessed children we may for ever dwell together in the embraces of thy love and glories feasting in the Marriage-supper of the Lamb to eternal ages through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Amen A Prayer for a holy and happy Death Oeternal and holy Jesus who by death hast overcome death and by thy Passion hast taken out its sting and made it to become one of the gates of heaven and an entrance to felicity have mercy upon me now and at the hour of my death let thy grace accompany me all the dayes of my life that I may by a holy conversation and an habitual performance of my duty wait for the coming of our Lord and be ready to enter with thee at whatsoever hour thou shalt come Lord let not my death be in any sense unprovided nor untimely nor hasty but after the manner of men having in it nothing extraordinary but an extraordinary piety and the manifestation of a great and miraculous mercy Let my senses and my understanding be preserved intire till the last of my dayes and grant that I may die the death of the righteous free from debt and deadly sin having first discharged all my obligations of Justice leaving none miserable and unprovided in my departure but be thou the portion of all my friends and relatives and let thy blessing descend upon their heads and abide there till they shall meet me in the bosome of our Lord Preserve me ever in the communion and peace of the Church and bless my Death-bed with the opportunity of a holy and a spiritual Guide with the assistance and guard of Angels with the reception of the holy Sacrament with patience and dereliction of my own desires with a strong faith and a firm and humbled hope with just measures of repentance and great treasures of charity to thee my God and to all the world that my soul in the arms of the holy Jesus may be deposited with safety and joy there to expect the revelation of thy day and then to partake the glories of thy Kingdome O eternal and holy Jesus Amen FESTIVAL HYMNES I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the understanding also HYMNS Celebrating the Mysteries and chief Festivals of the Year according to the manner of the Ancient Church fitted to the fancy and devotion of the younger and pious persons Apt for memory and to be joyned to their other PRAYERS Hymns for Advent or the weeks immediately before the Birth of our blessed Saviour I. WHen Lord O when shall we Our dear Salvation see Arise arise Our fainting eyes Have long'd all night and 't was a long one too Man never yet could say He saw more then one day One day of Edens seven The guilty hours there blasted with the breath Of sin and death Have ever since worn a nocturnal hue But thou hast given us hopes that we At length another day shall see Wherein each vile neglected place Gilt with the aspect of thy face Shall be like that the porch and gate of Heaven How long dear God how long See how the Nations throng All humane kinde Knit and combin'd Into one body look for thee their Head Pity our multitude Lord we are vile and rude Headless and sensless without thee Of all things but the want of thy blest face O haste apace And thy bright self to this our body wed That through the influx of thy power Each part that er'st confusion wore May put on order and appear Spruce as the childhood of the year When thou to it shalt so united be Amen The second Hymn for Advent or Christs coming to Jerusalem in triumph LOrd come away Why dost thou stay Thy rode is ready and thy paths made strait With longing expectation wait The Consecration of thy beauteous feet Ride on triumphantly behold we lay Our lusts and proud wills in thy way Hosanna welcome to our hearts Lord here Thou hast a Temple too and full as dear As that of Sion and as full of sin Nothing but Thieves and Robbers dwell therein Enter and chase them forth cleanse the floore Crucifie them that they may never more Profane that holy place Where thou hast chose to set thy face And then if our stiff tongues shall be Mute in the praises of thy Deity The stones out of the Temple wall Shall cry aloud and call Hosanna and thy glorious footsteps greet Amen Hymns for Christmas-day I. MY sterious truth that the self same should be A Lamb a Shepherd and a Lion too Yet such was he Whom first the shepherds knew When they themselves became Sheep to the Shepherd Lambe Shepherd of Men and Angels Lamb of God Lion of Judah by these Titles keep The Wolf from thy indangered Sheep Bring all the world unto thy Fold Let Jews and Gentiles hither come In numbers great that can't be told And call thy Lambs that wander home Glory be to God on high All glories be to th' glorious Deity The second Hymn being a Dialogue between three Shepherds 1. WHere is this blessed Babe That hath made All the world so full of joy And expectation That glorious boy That crowns each Nation With a triumphant wreath of blessedness 2. Where should he be but in the throng And among His Angel Ministers that sing And take wing Just as may Echo to his Voyce And rejoyce When wing and tongue and all May so procure their happiness 3. But he hath other Waiters now A poor Cow An Ox and Mule stand and behold And wonder That a stable should enfold Him that can thunder Chorus O what a gracious God have we How good how great even as our misery The third Hymn Of Christs birth in an Inne THe blessed Virgin travail'd without pain And lodged in an Inne A glorious Star the signe But of a greater guest then ever

Throne and the Angels having gathered together Gods Elect from the four Corners of the world and all the kindreds of the earth being brought before the Judgement-feat shall have the Records of their Conscience laid open that is all that ever they thought or spake or did shall be brought to their memory to convince the wicked of the Justice of the Judge in passing the fearful Sentence upon them and to glorifie the mercies of God towards his Redeemed ones and then the righteous Judge shall condemn the wicked to the portion of Devils for ever to a state of torments the second and eternal and intolerable death and the godly being placed on his right hand shall hear the blessed Sentence of Absolution and shall be led by Christ to the participation of the glories of his Fathers Kingdome for ever and ever Amen I believe in the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit Who is the third person of the holy ●…ndivided everblessed Trinity which 〈◊〉 worship and adore and admire ●…ut look upon with wonder and am ●…ot in a capacity to understand I ●…elieve that the Holy Spirit into whose name as of the Father and the ●…on I was baptized is the heavenly Author the Captain the Teacher and the Witness of all the Truths of the Gospel That as the Father sent the Son so the Son from heaven sent the Holy Spirit to lead the Church into all Truth to assist us in all Temptations and to help us in the purchase of all Vertue This Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and our Lord Jesus received him from his Father and sent him into the world who receiving the things of Christ and declaring the same excellent doctrines speaks whatsoever he hath heard from him and instructed the Apostles and builds the Church and produces Faith and confirms our Hope and increases Charity and this Holy Spirit our blessed Lord hath left with his Church for ever by which all the servants of God are enabled to do all things necessary t●… Salvation which by the force of Nature they cannot do and we spea●… by the Spirit and work by the Spirit when by his assistances any wa●… imparted to us we speak or do an●… thing of our duty He it is wh●… inlightens our Understandings 〈◊〉 our Will orders and commands our Affections he comfo●… our sorrows supports our spirits i●… trouble and enables us by Promis●… and Confidences and Gifts to ●…suff for the Lord Jesus and the Gospel●… and all these things God the Fath●… does for us by his Son and the So●… by the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit by all means within and without which are operative upon and proportionable to the nature of reasonable creatures This is he wh●… works Miracles gives the gifts of●… Prophesie and of interpretation that teaches us what and how t●… pray that gives us Zeal and holy Desires who sanctifies children i●… Baptism and confirms them with his grace in Confirmation and reproves the world and consecrates Bishops and all the Ministers of the Gospel and absolves the penitent blesses ●…he obedient and comforts the sick and excommunicates the refractary and makes intercession for the Saints that is the Church and those whom he hath blessed appointed and sanctified to these purposes do all these Ministeries by his Authority and his Commandment and his Aids This is he that testifies to our Spirits that we are the sons of God and that makes us to cry Abba Father that is who inspires into us such humble confidences of our being accepted in our hearty and constant endevours to please God that we can with chearfulness and joy call God our Father and expect and hope for the portion of sons both here and hereafter and in the certainty of this hope to work out our salvation with fear and reverence with trembling and joy with distrust of our selves and mighty confidence in God By this holy and ever-blessed Spirit several persons in the Church and every man in his proportion receives the gifts of Wisdome and utterance and Knowledge and Interpretation and Prophecy and Healing and Government and discerning of Spirits and Faith and Tongues and whatsoever can be necessary for the Church in several ages and periods for her beginning for her continuance for her in prosperity and for her in persecution This is the great Promise of the Father and it is the gift of God which he will give to all them that ask him and who live piously and chastely and are persons fit to entertain so Divine a Grace This Holy Spirit God gives to some more to some less according as they are capable They who obey his Motions and love his Presence and improve his Gifts shall have him yet more abundantly but they that grieve the holy Spirit shall lose that which they have and they that extinguish him belong not to Christ but are in the state of reprobation and they that blaspheme this holy Spirit and call him the Spirit of the Devil or the Spirit of Error or folly or do malicious despites to him that is they who on purpose considering and choosing do him hurt by word or by deed so far as ies●… in them shall for ever be separated from the presence of God and of Christ and shall never be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come Lastly this holy Spirit seals us to the day of Redemption that is God gives us his Holy Spirit as a testimony that he will raise us again at the last day and give us a portion in the glories of his Kingdome in the inheritance of our Lord Jesus The holy Catholick Church I believe that there is and ought to be a visible Company of men professing the service and discipline that is the Religion of the Gospel who agree together in the belief of all the Truths of God revealed by Jesus Christ and in confession of the Articles of this Creed and agree together in praying and praising God through Jesus Christ to reade and hear the Scriptures read and expounded to provoke each other to love and to good works to advance the honour of Christ and to propagate his Faith and Worship I believe this to be a Holy Church Spirituall and not Civill and Secular but sanctified by their Profession and the solemn Rites of it professing holiness and separating from the evil manners of heathens and wicked persons by their Laws and Institutions And this Church is Catholick that is it is not confin'd to the Nation of the Jews as was the old Religion but it is gathered out of all Nations and is not of a differing Faith in differing places but alwayes did doth and ever shall profess the Faith which the Apostles preached and which is contained in this Creed which whosoever believes is a Catholick and a Christian and he that believes not is

one think it an e●… cuse to lie in bed because he hath nothing to do when he is up for whoever hath●… Soul and hopes to save that Soul hat●… work enough to do to make his calling and election sure to serve God and to pray to reade and to meditate to repent and to amend to do good to others and to keep evil from themselves And if thou hast little to do thou ought'st to imploy the more time in laying up for●… greater Crown of Glory 4. At your opening your eyes enter upon the day with some act of piety 1. Of thanksgiving for the preservation of you the night past 2. Of the glorification of God for the works of the Creation or any thing for the honour of God 5. When you first go off from your bed solemnly and devoutly bow your head and worship the holy Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost 6. When you are making ready be as silent as you can and spend that time in holy thoughts there being no way left to redeem that time from loss but by meditation and short mental prayers If you choose to speak speak something of Gods praises of his goodness his mercies or his greatness Ever resolving ●…at the first fruits of thy reason and of ●…l thy faculties shall be presented to God 〈◊〉 sanctifie the whole harvest of thy conersation 7. Be not curious nor careless in your ●…abit but alwayes keep these measures 1. Be not troublesome to thy self or to others by unhandsomeness or uncleanness 2. Let it be according to your state and quality 3. Make Religion to be the difference of your habit so as to be best attired upon Holy or Festival dayes 8. In your dressing let there be ejaculations fitted to the severall actions of dressing as at washing your hands and face pray God to cleanse your Soul from sin In putting on your clothes pray him to clothe your Soul with the righteousness of your Saviour and so in all the rest For Religion must not onely be the garment of your Soul to invest it all over but it must be also as the fringes to every of your actions that something of Religion appear in every one of them besides the innocence of all of them 9. As soon as you are dressed with the first preparation of your clothes that you can decently do it kneel and say the Lords Prayer then rise from your knees and do what is necessary for you in order to your further dressing or affairs of the house which is speedily to be done and then finish your dressing according to the foregoing Rules 10. When you are dressed retire your self to your Closet and go to your usuall devotions which it is good that at the first prayers they divided were into seven actions of piety 1. An act of Adoration 2. Of Thanksgiving 3. Of Oblation 4. Of Confession 5. Of Petition 6. Of Intercession 7. Of Meditation or serious deliberate useful reading of the holy Scriptures 11. I advise that your reading should be governed by these measures 1. Let it be not of the whole Bible in order but for your devotion use the New Testament and such portions of the Old as contain the Precepts of holy life 2. The Historical and less useful part let it be read at such other times which you have of leisure from your domestick imployments 3. Those portions of Scripture which you use in your Prayers let them not be long A Chapter at once no more but then what time you can afford spend it in thinking and meditating upon the holy Precepts which you read 4. Be sure to meditate so long till you make some act of piety upon the occasion of what you meditate either that you get some new arguments against a sin or some new incouragements to vertue some spiritual strength and advantage or else some act of Prayer to God or glorification of him 5. I advise that you would reade your Chapter in the midst of your Prayers in the Morning if they be divided according to the number of the former actions because little interruptions will b●… apt to make your Prayers less tedious and your self more atte●… upon them But if you finde any other way more agreeing to yo●… spirit and disposition use your liberty without scruple 12. Before you go forth of your Closet after your Prayers are done set you self down a little while and consider wh●… you are to do that day what matter 〈◊〉 business is like to imploy you or to tem●… you and take particular resolution against that whether it be matter of wrangling or anger or covetousness or vai●… courtship or feasting and when you enter upon it remember upon what you resolved in your Closet If you are likely to have nothing extraordinary that day a general recommendation of the affai●… of that day to God in your Prayers wi●… be sufficient but if there be any thi●… foreseen that is not usual be sure to be armed for it by a hearty though a sho●… Prayer and an earnest prudent resolutio●… before-hand and then watch when th●… thing comes 13. Whosoever hath Children or Servants let him or her take care that a●… the Children and Servants of the family ●…y their Prayers before they begin their ●…ork The Lords Prayer and the Ten Commandments with the short verse at ●…he end of every Commandment which ●…he Church uses and the Creed is a very good office for them if they be not fitted ●…or more regular offies And to these al●…o it were good that some proper Prayer were apportioned and they taught it It were well if they would serve themselves of this form set down at the end of this Diary 14. Then go about the affairs of your house and proper imployment ever avoiding idlenes or too much earnestness of affection upon the things of the world Do your business prudently temperately diligently humbly charitably 15. Let there be no idle person in or about your family of beggers or unimployed Servants but finde them all work and meat call upon them carefully reprove them without reproaches or fierce railings Be a master or a mistress and a friend to them and exact of them to be faithful and diligent 16. In your Servants suffer any offence against your self rather then against God endure not that they should swear or lie or steal or be wanton or curse each other or be railers or slanderers or tell-tales and sowers of dissension in the family or amongst neighbors 17. In all your entercourse with your neighbors in the day let your affairs be wholly matter of business or civility and alwayes managed with Justice and Charity never let it be matter of curiosity or inquiry into the actions of others alwayes without censuring or rash judgement without backbiting slandering or detraction Do it not your self neither converse with them that do He or she that loves tale-bearers shall never be beloved or be innocent 18. Before dinner and supper