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Jacobs ladder, or, The devout souls ascention to Heaven, in prayers, thanksgivings, and praises in four parts ... : with graces and thanksgivings : illustrated with sculptures / by Jo. Hall.
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Hall, John, d. 1707.
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my fortress my strength in whom I trust my buckler the horn of my Salvation and my high Tower O save me now in this heavy distress and deliver thy servant hear me O Lord in this day of trouble O God of Jacob deâ—end me Give an happy end to these my torments that I may enjoy the fruit of my Womb for which I suffer them O Lord in mercy if it may stand with thy eternal decree preserve both my life and the life of my issue arm me with patience to undergo these pangs and in the end give me comfort in what thou shalt send me but if otherwise thou hast determined to end my life by these heavy torments O my sweet and merciful Jesus receive me into thy bosom that I may pass from misery to eternal happiness Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me and mine and grant my petitions for the worthiness of that most merciful and blessed Son of a woman thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour in whose most holy name and words I pray Our Father c. A Prayer of a Woman after her delivery O Merciful God and heavenly Father who hast now most especially made known unto me that thou art able to do more exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think make me thankfully to rejoyce in the works of thy love and thy tender mercy thy favours are great and wonderful in sparing the life of my self and mine Infant and freeing me from my pangs and it from the Darkness of the silent Womb. Thine O Lord is thy power by which I am delivered thine is the mercy by which I am safely returned into my bed thine is the work of the frame and fashion of this my Babe thine therefore shall be likewise thy glory for ever and ever Grant blessed Father that I may never forget thy goodness but may express my thankfulness in new obedience Make me careful to perform what service I promised thee in the extremity of mine Anguish As thou hast given me the fruit of my body to the joy of my heart so give me the fruit of Righteousness sown in Peace Give me the Wisdom which is from above that is full of good Works without hypocrisy Lord make me thy servant by grace and make this child thy child by adoption mercy give me comfort in its life for the sorrows which I endured at his birthâ— Give thy blessing on the meanes for the nourishment of this Child Give it strength that it may live to receive the seal of thy Mercy in the Laver of Baptism and do thou be present with thy blessing when the sign shall be administred O let it live if it be thy blessed Will and grow up in wisdome and in stature and in grace both with thee and with men that so I may magnifie thy Name for making me an instrument to propagate the number of thine Elect. Take pity upon all that suffer afflictions especially on those Women who are in Labour with Children Give them comfort in the time of their miseries ease from their Torments joy in their desired Issue and thankfulness for thy blessings Lord grant that both I and they may sing praises to thy Name for the greatness of our deliverance and express our thanks in our godly lives that when this painful life shall have end we may sing triumphantly in Eternal Glory through Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour in whose most blessed Name and words I conclude my imperfect Prayers saying as he himself hath taught me Our Father c. The Prayer of a Widdow O God in the knowledg of whom is the perfection of all joy at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore thou makest the comforts of this life momentany that we may not overprize them and yet hast made them requisite that we may not undervalue them I a late sharer of this worlds happiness but now a sad witness of its Vanity do here address my self to thee the only Crown of all my joys in whom there is no variableness nor shadow of change Lord thou didst give me what my unthankfulness hath taken from me but thou hast taken from me what thy goodness hath promised to Supply Thou hast given and thou hast taken blessed be thy name for ever Thou then O God who art not less able to perform then willing to promise whose mercy is more ready to bestow then my misery is to beg strengthen my faith that I may believe thy promise encourage my hopes that I may expect thy performance quicken my affections that I may love the Promiser Be thou all in all unto me that am nothing without thee Sweeten my misery with the sence of thy mercy and lighten my darkness with the Sun of thy glory Seal in my heart the assurance of adoption that I may with boldness call thee my Father sanctifie my affections with the Spirit of meekness that my conversation may testify that I am thy Child wean my heart from worldly sorrow lost I mourn like those that have no hope But thou my Bridegroom and let our marriage-chamber be thy heart Own me as thy Bride and purifie me with the odours of thy spirit prevent me with thy blessings protect me by thy grace preserver me for thy self and prepare me for thy Kingdom be thou a Father to bless me be thou a husband to comfort me in the midst of my want be thou my plenty in the depth of my mourning be thou my mirth Raise my glory from the dust and then my dust shall shew forth thy praise Supply all my wants for the sake of Jesus Christ my blessed Lord in whose most holy words I further pray Our Father c. The Prayer of an Orphan ALmighty God and heavenly Father who art a Lord of comfort and a God of Consolation look down upon a sinful and distressed Orphan beâ—eâ—â— of the joy and help of earthly Parents It was my own unworthiness of so loving parents that hath made thee to take them away from mine eyes my disobedience to their commands and my neglect of honouring them according to thy laws hath provoked thee to anger and to deprive me of them O Lord forgive me my manifold offences and remember thy promises which thou hast made unto the fatherless and that I may be capable of those thy promises give me grace to become thy child by obedience thou O Lord art my Father to whom belongeth honour thou art my Master and requirest me to fear thee Lord make me fear to offend thee who art a righteous Judg and make me love and honour thee who art a gracious Father be with me in all the ways wherein I shall walk in this mortal life comfort me in my sorrows support me in my miseries provide for me in my wants and in all places and at all times be thou my Father my Rock and my strong salvation do thou defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the
the Mysteries of Salvation my hope established in the promises of the Gospel and my life set forward in a setled course of holyness and righteousness whereby the Kingdom of sin and Satan is beat down and destroyed and the Kingdom of Christ built up in me By this thy Word the careless sinner is admonished the ignorant instructed the presumptuous teâ—rified and the Penitent comforted the Power of sin is abated the force of temptations weakned the motions of the Spirit quickned grace received and my Election assured by the infallible marks and tokens thereof set before me in holy Scriptures Blessed be thy Name for it this day thy word hath dwelt with me richly in all wisdom The dispencer of thy Mysteries hath scattered many Doctrines like so many Pearls among the People Lord grant that with Mary I may keep these and all thy sayings in my heart and make use of them in my life and receive comfort from them at my Death And here I would proceed to intreat at thy hands the continuance and increase of thy Spiritual Temporal blessings upon me but my sins lye at the door of my Conscience and affright me My heart smites me for my failings in the performance of the duties of this day My devout meditations have been â—tifled in the womb that bare them my Prayers have not been without distractions my hearing without â—earisomness nor my Alms-deeds without Grudging Pardon dear Father the want of preparation before I come to thy house of intention and Zeal at thy service and of Meditation and Application of those things which I heard there since I came thence Bury I beseech thee these slips and all my sins especially of this week and day in the night of eternal oblivion Ease me of the burthen of them that I may more securely repose my soul and body upon thy gracious protection to take their natural refreshing by sleep whereby I may be enabled and strengthened to do the better service the next day in walking carefully diligently conscionably and constantly in the wayes of thy Commandements and in the duties of my Calling so as may be to thy honour and Glory and my eternal comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord. To whom be honour and glory world without end Amen Our Father c. A Prayer for Munday-Morning MOst Glorious Lord God the great Creator and preserver of all mankind Blessed be thy Name that thou hast been graciously pleased to preserve me the night past and that thou hast once more vouchsafed me the light of the Morning whereby to manage my affairs and business O Lord preserve me this day and keep me in all my wayes give unto me the repose of a quiet Conscience and the clear light of the Gospel to guide my feet in the way of peace and grant that this light may convince me of the Errors of my understanding the depravedness of my will the disorder of my affections the Impunity of my thoughts the vanity of my desires the deceitfulness of my heart and the wickedness thereof Make me sensible O Lord what a wretched creature I was in my birth slime and filthiness what I am in my life vanity and solly and what shall be in my death stench and rottenness Discover unto me O Lord that I have nothing which I have not received that without Christ I can do nothing that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good that I am not able of my self as of my self to think a good thought that I cannot desire to think nor have will to desire nor grace to will any good O Lord let me consider that my comforts in this world are very few and small my crosses and troubles many and great my pleasures here are momentary and short my pains hereafter without my repentance and thy great mercy are permanent and everlasting My gifts O Lord are very small my wants and infirmities are great my helps are weak my assaults and temptations are strong my good deeds are few and they tainted with Imperfections but my ill deeds are infinite Let these considerations O Lord humble me in my self that Christ may raise me and wound me in my self that Christ may heal me And O Lord who this day madest the Heavens or Air without which I cannot breath naturally no not for a moment infuse into my heart the Spirit of thy grace without which I cannot breath Spiritually in my Prayers nor sigh nor so much as move any part or faculty of my soul or body unto thee and as oft as I take in or let out the air which I breath let receive me in grace from thee and breathe out praise unto thee Be my guide O Lord this day and do thou keep me both Now and Ever Amen Our Father c. A Prayer for Munday-Evening HOly and Eternal Lord God who art the King of Heaven and the Watchman of Israel who never slumbrest nor sleepest Look upon me thy unworthy servant who by reason of my sin and the corruption of my nature am wholly subject to sloth and am even now ready to ease and rest my self upon my bed I know not whether thou wilt this very night make my bed in the dark and the hour of my visitation be this present Evening all my years are but a span long my dayes pass like a Weavers Shuttle my life ends like a Tail that is told this hour may be my last hour my next sleep may be my last and long sleep I beseech thee therefore that I may every Evening seriously ponder and meditate heaven that I may be the better prepared in that day and hour that thou shalt call me And though my Eyes shall now sleep and enjoy that moderate refreshment which thou hast appointed for the wearisome condition of my weak body yet let my soul continually watch unto thee to attend thy coming Forgive me O Lord the sins of this day past and all other my former sins and misdemeanors keep me this night both in body and soul that I may with the next light joyfully rise again Let not my sleep be unmeasurable and excessive to please the ease of my flesh but sufficient and seasonable whereby I may be the better disposed to thy service to morrow diligently and fruitfully walking in my calling and repenting me of my sins with fear to offend thee Let thy unspeakable mercy alwayes preserve me let thine endless sweetness rejoyce me let thine heavenly truth strengthen me let thy knowledg imbolden me and thy goodness keep me from my Enemies visible and invisible now and for Evermore Amen Our Father c. A Prayer for Tuesday Morning O Eternal Lord God thou commandest us alwayes at all times and in all things to call upon thee day by day I come unto thee beging refreshment from the overflowing streams of thy mercy O Lord open unto me the gate of thy favour and let me be satisfied with the fountain of thy loving kindness O merciful Lord who