things carry their own light with them and it must needs be the greatest stupidity to be wanting to our selves in a case where there are so many strict and weighty obligations 3. Besides these Works of Providence which relate mostly to this Life we are to consider the stupendious Work of Redemption whereby the great Lover of Souls hath done all that was on his part to do to prepare us for a Life Eternal And one would think this to be work enough for us all our days to Bless and Praise and Adore God for his unspeakable and infinite Love to lost Mankind in sending the Son of his Love the Lord Jesus into the World that whosoever believeth in him should not Perish The exemplary Holiness of Christ's Life his Death and Sufferings his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven his sending the Apostles to preach the Gospel unto all Nations and the wonderful effusion of the Holy Spirit to render their Ministry successful and to be with the Church to the Worlds end these were glorious Methods whereby God carried on the great work of Redemption And as we ought with the most Devout Hearts to offer unto God daily our Sacrifices of Praise for these inestimable Blessings so should we Beg the continual Assistance and Increment of his Grace that we may make a due use of them lest the Death of Christ and the Preaching of his Gospel be all in vain to us and lest we make our selves Reprobates and Sons of Perdition at the last In the next Life there will be an end of Christ's Oeconomy He will deliver up this his Kingdom to the Father and then the state of every Man whether it be in Bliss or in Misery will be unalterable And how can we think of another World and not Pray unto God to Deliver us in the hour of Death and in the day of Judgment We cannot be such Fools as to think we shall live here for ever All of us must dye in our turns though Men are apt to put the Day of their Dissolution far from them yet sooner or later it will certainly come for it is appointed unto Man once to die and after that to be judged Heb. 9. 27. And how can we expect any happiness another day if either we do not think there is such a thing or do not think it worth our Prayers It will be most just for God to deny us that which we would not so much as ask for That certainly is the easiest and least thing we can do and if our Salvation be of such vast concernment that we must work it out with fear and trembling it must needs be the greatest folly in the World to expect it if we will not take no not such little pains for it as the Lifting up of the Heart and the labour of ones Lips amounts to 2. Having thus considered those Motives unto Prayer which are taken from God's Perfections and Works let us now proceed to those which may be drawn from the thing it self Prayer is a necessary and due acknowledgment of God's Sovereignty over all He knoweth all our Necessities whether we ask him or no He is privy to the very secrets of our Hearts though we pour not out our Complaints before him He understandeth our thoughts afar off and therefore he doth not stand in any need of our Supplications He hath appointed us to Pray to him that thereby we may admire him the Lord Paramount and that we may testifie our inward sense that our whole dependence is upon him that whatever we have we receive at his hands that he hath the supreme Propriety in all that we enjoy that the whole Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof and for that Reason we are bound to do him Homage all people must fall down before him and all Nations must pay him service Prayer is the greatest Priviledge we poor Creatures have in this World That Dust and Ashes can speak freely to the God of Comfort that we can repair to him in all our Straits and most melancholy Circumstances that we can with confidence and safety open our very Hearts to him and acquaint him with our Condition that we can come with boldness to the Throne of Grace and that we can beg of God with a full assurance that we shall receive of him what we would have or that which is much better Prayer is a direct Instrument of Virtue and Holiness When we are at our Prayers we are or ought to be very serious and when we are so many serious thoughts are apt to fall in touching Death and Judgment touching Heaven and Hell touching the Purity and Omniscience of that Infinite Being we are speaking to and touching the vain and uncertain Condition of this World By this means our Hearts by degres come to be weaned from this World and to long for a Better our Minds are kept in continual Awe lest we offend God whose mercy and goodness is to bring us to it our Lusts cool and we are led to Repentance the Remembrance of our Sins and Follies becomes bitter Humility Charity and Meekness take possession of our Souls and we learn to be Patient to resign our selves up into the hands of God and to submit to his Heavenly will in all cases But nothing can be a greater Motive unto Prayer than the Power and Usefulness of it in the returns it makes us The effectual fervent Prayer of a righteous Man availeth much Jam. 5. 16. It hath wrought Miracles and though Miracles are ceased long ago yet God heareth still and never do we go away from the Throne of Grace empty if we pray as we should Many times God hears our Prayers and we are not sensible of it because we do not presently receive the very thing we desire But the request is Granted though it may not be actually Fulfilled at our own time and in our own way For wise and good reasons God doth defer the bestowing of the matter we crave for and sometimes exchangeth it and gives us a Better thing in lieu of it No Prayers miscarry if they be rightly Qualified or if they who offer them be rightly Disposed II And this brings me to that which we are to consider in the next place viz. After what way and manner this great and soâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 of Religion ought to be perâ—â—â—â—â—â— I. And First When we are going to our Prayers we must be very careful to go with Souls purified from Sin by sincere Repentance For God heareth not Sinners John 9. 31. If I regard Iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me Psal 66. 18. He that turneth away his Ear from hearing the Law even his Prayer shall be abomination Prov. 28. 9. I will that men pray every where lifting up holy hands 1 Tim. 2. 8. where the Apostle alludes to a custom among the Jews instituted by God himself and observed anciently by most Nations of washing before Prayer Exod. 40. 32. A Mystical Rite
that all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in me Grant that I may have power and strength to have Victory and to Triumph against the Devil the World and the Flesh Lord send me help from thy Holy place And evermore mightily defend me Let the Enemy have no advantage of me Nor let the Wicked approach to hurt me Be unto me O Lord a strong tower From the face of my Enemies O Saviour of the World who by thy Cross and precious Blood hast redeemed me save me and help me I humbly beseech thee O Lord. 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a true sense of God that People are so seldom at Prayer so hardly drawn to it so cold and careless and as it were unconcerned at it Right apprehensions of his Nature and Perfections do naturally cast such an influence upon the mind as would soon set the Powers and Faculties of the Soul on motion if we would dispose our selves so as to be capable of those Divine impressions and if we would duly consider what God is in himself And for that purpose we should look every day for him in the Scriptures and contemplate those Beauties and Glories under which he is represented to us in the Scriptures for there we have a true Revelation of his Essence and Attributes there he is represented as a Being so Great and Holy so Immense and Glorious so Omnipotent and Omniscient so Wise and Powerful so Communicative Kind and Beneficent and in every respect so Amiable and Adorable that were there no other considerations this alone touching the transcendent Excellence of his Nature would be a strong Argument to move us to worship him daily in the beauty of Holiness II. If besides this we consider God in his Works and as he stands related to us under the notion of a Being in whom we Live and Move and have our own Being and to whom we owe all that we have all that we are and all that we expect and hope to be we shall find what a just Right Title and Claim he hath to our daily Devotion These Works of God are of three sorts 1. First His Creating and Forming of us in the Womb. By Virtue hereof he doth justly challenge and require all possible services from us as his peculiar Right and Due and it was for this end that he fashioned the several Members of our Bodies and endued us with Rational Souls that we should Glorifie him with our Bodies and with our Spirits And what can be more reasonable then that he who gave us Hearts should have them That he who Formed our Lips should be praised and magnified with them That we should Worship and Fall down and Kneel before that infinite Being which is our Maker I will praise thee O Lord saith the Holy Psalmist for this reason because I am fearfully and wonderfully made Ps 139. 14. And would to God every Man would seriously consider before he goes out of the World for what end and purpose he came into it 'T will be a very dismal thing in that day when the terrors of Death are about him to have the Torments of an Evil Conscience too and to remember with anguish and bitterness how many blessed Opportunities of Devotion he hath despised how much time he has thrown away upon Wicked or upon vain Employments which God sent him into the World to spend upon offices of Religion and for how many years together he hath dishonoured the Majesty of Heaven with those Faculties which were made to serve and Glorifie and Adore him Think often I beseech you of the Day of your dissolntion when the Dust shall return to the Earth as it was and the Spirit shall return unto God who gave it Lay up betimes a good treasure against that day Put not off Devotion as a work proper only for a Death-bed God alone knoweth how you will be disposed at that time They have not cryed unto me with their heart when they howled upon their Bed saith God Hosea 7. 14. Your Hearts may deceive you at your last Hour though you think your selves sure of them now A Life of Piety and Devotion cannot possibly deceive you It must needs save you many Tears and Groans and bitter Thoughts of Heart but it cannot cost you any to consider that you have remember'd the Creator from the days of your Youth 2. Another work of God by Virtue whereof he hath a just right to our Prayers and Praises is his Providence Hereby God preserves that Being which he first gave us supports our Faculties and supplies us with all things that are necessary and suitable to our Natures The Measures of God's Providence are not all equal or alike but it differs in its proportion according as things differ in Degree and Dignity It is general over all things and shews it self by conserving and sustaining every part of the Universe It is particular and special over Men who are the principal part of the sublunary World and as they are Evil or Good so doth God adapt and suit his Providence to them according to their respective conditions He tenders his Grace and Mercy even to the Wicked is Patient and Long-suffering towards them that the sense of his Goodness may lead them to Repentance Upon their sincere Repentance he Pardons them but if instead of hearkning to his Calls they continue obstinate and go on still in their Wickedness then he doth Punish and Plague them oftentimes makes them visible Examples of his Wrath and Vengeance even in this World and sometimes too delivers them up to a Reprobate mind which is the heaviest and forest Plague of all To such as make a due use of his Grace he giveth more These he Nurtureth and Loves as a Father doth his Children and indeed with much more tenderness and compassion He taketh a most especial care of them the very Hairs of their Heads are all numbred they want no manner of thing that is really good for them and though he doth suffer them sometimes to be evil intreated and hardly used here yet he never lets them go out of his hands but compensates their sufferings abundantly and makes all things work together for their good nor can any thing in this World be able to separate them from his Love And doth not all this make it Necessary for us to be conversant daily at the Throne of Grace Is it God that upholdeth us and are not we concerned to beseech him not to withdraw his arm from under us Is it of his meer Compassion and Mercy that we are not utterly consumed and shall we not Praise and Adore him for it Is it at his hands that we must receive every good and perfect gift and shall we not repair to him in all our Necessities Is the Sword Famine and Pestilence every calamity we feel and every Judgment we are afraid of are all these sent from God and are we not deeply concerned to deprecate his Vengeance Is it God alone that can forgive Sin and is it not our duty to Beg it upon our Knees Or have we not Sins to ask his Pardon for Have we no other wants to be supplyed Are there no Mercies that we stand in need of Have we no Souls nor Bodies to be provided for Are there no Evils we desire to be delivered from Are there no Dangers we would avoid Is not God's Protection Day and Night necessary to be desired Is not his special Grace and Favour to be Implored Or have we not received any Favours and Blessings to return him our Thanks for These
and an unbended Knee are far from being expressions of that great sense we ought to have of God's Majesty and of our own Vileness and infinite distance from him And besides the Decency of this matter it is to be considered that Bowings and Prostrations and such outward acts of Religious Worship are God's proper and peculiar right or else the second Commandment would not have it unlawful to give them away to other things Indeed as to actions of this nature Men should be careful not to fly out into Vanity Fantasticalness or Superstition but contain themselves within the bounds of an Humble and Reasonable service When Decency and Prudence are observed Reverent gestures are of great use to heighten the Devotion of the Heart and at the Publick Service of the Church they are Exemplary too and by consequence good means in their kind to provoke assist and raise the Devotion of all I have now done these two things which I was desirous to discourse of in their due order to form in your Hearts a Devout temper and to instruct you in the way how you are to offer unto God your Daily Sacrifice so that it may be Holy and Acceptable to him If we intend to be wise for our selves and to order our Life so that it may be well with us nothing can be of greater concernment excellence or advantage to us than a Spirit of Devotion Hereby we become conformable to the Image of our Blessed Saviour whose custom was not only to repair to the Temple and Synagogues there to joyn with the rest of the Jews in the Publick Worship of God but to retire also into Solitudes and Desarts for Private Commerce with his Father and sometimes to continue whole Nights in Prayer Nor is it possible for us to walk as we should but by treading in some fair measure in those steps of his and by leading as he did a life of Piety Hereby we resemble too those first Disciples of his on whose Hearts the Blood of Christ was so warm and in whose Spirits there was such a constant Fervor and Zeal that they were daily in the Temple praising and blessing God and divided their hours between the publick Sanctuary and that private House or Oratory by it whither they were constrained to go for those solemn offices which were peculiar to Christianity By a Spirit of Devotion we have our Hearts daily there where our only true treasure is we are taking every hour a new step out of this vexatious and vain World we exercise the Faith Patience and Humility of Saints we learn to be Meek Charitable and Holy We are full of the joys and comforts of the Holy Ghost even amidst those Thistles and Brambles which we are to go through towards God's Kingdom we lye down with Pleasure sleep in Peace and rise again under the covert of the Divine Protection we have God always in our thoughts and live daily upon the sense of his present Goodness and upon the Credit of his Power Faithfulness and Truth for the future replenished with those hopes which will never make us ashamed we think every day of our latter end and prepare for it and lay up before hand an inestimable Treasure against it which is the only thing that can stand us in stead on our Death-Beds when the satisfactions of this life will slip out of our hands like Sands and slide away from us like a Shadow This and much more comes by a Spirit of Devotion and therefore let me beseech you to be ever mindful of that that which will return you your last and richest Crop when you have done with all your Corn Wine and Oyl Now for the kindling and cherishing of a Spirit of Devotion in the Hearts give me leave to propose these following means I. That we never neglect Private Prayer Our Blessed Saviour sends us into our Closets there to shut our Doors after us Matth. 6. And the reason is because every man hath some Particular Sins to beg God's forgiveness for some particular Mercies to be implored some particular wants to be supplied some particular Graces to be desired God hath no where required nor is it proper for us to proclaim all our necessities from the House-top and therefore we are to go to him who is in secret and to whom we may unbosom our selves with freedom and safety This will not only breed an awe upon our Minds with an hearty affection to that Divine Beiug we familiarly speak to in Private but it will also make us in Love with that which is the means of this familiarity so that by Praying often we shall be the more willing and ready to pray still nor will it be an easie matter for us to venture either to begin any business without begging God's assistance and protection over us or to close up the Day without giving him thanks and praise for the Mercies of it II. Where Men have the care of Families committed to them they should teach them to be of a devout temper too by their own Example Remember the pious resolution of Josuah Jo. 24. 15. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. When a Spirit of Devotion influenceth a whole Houshold every ones Zeal is kept warm and increased by it and the Blessing of God is upon them all To this end we should teach our Children and Servants to pray as our Lord taught his Family And by his giving them a Form he hath shewed us which is an Effectual way of breeding up our respective charges in the fear and nurture of the Lord viz. by putting some short and wholesome Prayers into their Mouths and Memories And this advantage every private Family might easily get by our publick Service Books if people would but apply their minds in Diligence to use it as they should There is in it great variety and store of choice Forms which may be digested and remembred with the more facility because they are concise Nor is there any condition of Life but we may pick out some Forms which are one way or other suitable to our circumstances especially as to our spiritual wants and if people would be careful to learn them and imprint them in their hearts they would not only be devoutly disposed in the midst of their secular affairs but be furnished too with matter to offer continually up to God at lost in their minds and thoughts For even at the works of their Callings men may meditate They may think often upon God and of things pertaining to Godliness without any loss of time or hindrance to their worldly Employments By the very lifting up of the Eye a thought of Heaven may fall in and of the way to get thither Any the least work of Nature is enough to put us in mind of the Divine Power and Wisdom Nay the very Works of our own hands may help us to consider how necessary it is to work out our Salvation above all things If
God of thy bountiful goodness keep us we beseech thee from all things that may hurt us that we being ready both in Body and Soul may chearfully accomplish those things that thou wouldst have done through Jesus Christ our Lord. ALmighty and Everlasting God give us the increase of Faith Hope and Charity and that we may receive that which thou dost promise make us to love that which thou dost command through Jesus Christ our Lord. GRant to us Lord we beseech thee the Spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful that we who cannot do any thing that is good without thee may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will through Christ our Lord. LOrd of all Power and Might who art the Author and giver of all good things graft in our Hearts the Love of thy Name increase in us true Religion nourish us with all goodness and of thy great mercy keep us in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. ALmighty God who hast given thine only Son to be unto us 〈◊〉 a Sacrifice for Sin and also an Ensample of Godly Life give us grace that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable Benefit and also daily endeavour ourselves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy Life through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. GRant O Lord we beseech thee that the course of this World may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness through Jesus Christ our Lord. ALmighty and Everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the Sins of all them that are Penitent Create and make in us new and contrite Hearts that we worthily lamenting our Sins and acknowledging our Wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all Mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord. WE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy name turn from us all those Evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy Honour and Glory through our only Mediator and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. O God who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that by reason of the frailty of our Nature we cannot always stand upright grant unto us such strength and protection as may support us in all dangers and carry us through all temptations through Jesus Christ our Lord. Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name c. EVENING PRAYERS LIghten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great Mercy defend us from all Perils and Dangers of this Night for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ ALmighty and Everlasting God mercifully look upon our infirmities and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth thy Righthand to help and defend us through Jesus Christ our Lord. ALmighty God who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our Souls that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the Body and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our Prayers and spare all those who confess their Sins unto thee that they whose Consciences by Sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ALmighty and Everlasting God who dost govern all things in Heaven and Earth mercifully hear the supplications of thy people and grant us thy peace all the days of our Life through Christ our Lord. O Lord who hast taught us that all our doings without Charity are nothing worth send thy Holy Ghost and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of Charity the very bond of Peace and of all virtues without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christ's sake O Lord God most Holy O Lord most Mighty O Holy and most merciful Saviour deliver us not into the bitter pains of Eternal Death Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our Hearts shut not thy merciful Ears to our Prayers but spare us Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and merciful Saviour thou most worthy Judge Eternal suffer us not at our last hour for any pains of Death to fall from thee O God whose blessed Son was manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil and make us the Sons of God and Heirs of Eternal Life grant us we beseech thee that having this hope we may purifie our selves even as he is pure that when he shall appear again with power and great Glory we may be made like unto him in his Eternal and Glorious Kingdom where with thee O Father and thee O Holy Ghost he liveth and reigneth ever one God World without end GRant O Lord that as we are Baptized into the Death of thy Blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections we may be buried with him and that through the Grave and Gate of Death we may pass to our joyful Resurrection for his Merits who died and was buried and rose again for us thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord who never failest to help and govern them whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast fear and love Keep us we beseech thee under the protection of thy good Providence and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord we beseech thee let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness through Christ our Lord. UNto God's gracious mercy and protection we commit our selves The Lord bless us and keep us The Lord make his face to shine upon us and be gracions unto us The Lord lift up his Countenance upon us and give us peace both now and evermore Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy name c. Short PRAYERS fit to be learn'd by Heart and to be used by single Persons at any time LOrd have mercy upon me O God make clean my Heart within me And take not thy holy Spirit from me O Lamb of God that takest away the Sins of the World grant me thy Peace O Lord deal not with me after my Sins Neither reward me after mine iniquities Lord have mercy upon me and incline my Heart to keep thy Laws Grant that all Carnal affections may die in me and