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Directions for prayer, for the Diocess of Bath and Wells. To the poor inhabitants within the Diocess of Bath and Wells, Thomas their unworthy bishop wisheth the knowledge and the love of God.
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Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.
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1686
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of God and the Salvation of his own Soul I do by all means exhort you to give your Servants a few Minutes leisure at Noon to pray after your Example and to use your Children to do the same for they will soon be able to say the Lord's Prayer and two or three Ejaculations and teach them to say these at Noon as well as at Morning and at Night and 't is incredible to think how much good this Practice will do them and what great comfort you your selves will reap from the early Devotion of your Children To further this Devotion in your Children instead of Idle Tales and Songs which Pollute their Souls and when they come to be serious will cost them great pains to unlearn You must teach them short Psalms by heart which will exercise their Memories and Piety both together and as you teach the Psalms to your Children I exhort you to learn them your selves You cannot imagine the great benefit of learning Psalms by heart for when you are under any Temptation or are in any Affliction or when you lie Waking in the Night or when you are Sick these Psalms will come into your Mind and the Devout repeating them will yield you most seasonable Consolations The very common People in the first and purest Ages of the Church were so sensible of the Spiritual Advantages of learning Psalms that they learned the whole Psalter by heart and sung or said the Psalms in their Shops and at the Plow insomuch that St. James makes it the proper Expression of Christian Mirth James 5. 13. If any be merry let him sing Psalms This is the way to store your own and your Childrens Minds with Ejaculations or short Prayers for all Occasions which I advise both Old and young to accustom themselves to because it is the true way of Praying without ceasing and it is a kind of Prayer most easie and may be used at any time of the day or in any Place and is one of the most efficacious means in the world to keep us in God's Favour which is of all things most desirable Ejaculations At going out or coming in Lord bless my going out and my coming in from rhis time forth for evermore Psal 121. 8. At Meales Lord grant that whether I eat or drink or whatsoever I do I may do all to thy glory 1 Cor. 19. 31. At Work Prosper thou the Work of my Hands O Lord O prosper thou my Handy-work Psal 90. 17. In the Shop or Market Lord give me grace to use this World so as not to abuse it 1 Cor. 7. 31. Lord grant that I may never go beyond or defraud my Brother in any matter for thou art the Avenger of all such 1 Thess 4. 6. In temptation or danger O God make speed to save me O Lord make haste to help me At any time of the Day Wherever I am whatever I do Thou Lord seest me O keep me in thy fear all the Day long Prov. 23. 17. Lord give me grace to keep always a Conscience void of offence towards thee and towards Men Acts 24. 16. Lord teach me so to number my Days that I may apply my heart to Wisdom Psal 90. 12. O let my Mouth be filled with thy Praise that I may sing of thy Glory and Honour all the Day long Psal 71.7 All love all glory be to thee O God who didst first love me Vnto him that lov'd us and wash'd us from our sins in his own Blood be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen Rev. 1. 5. O blessed Spirit shed abroad the love of God in my Heart Praise the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me Praise his Holy Name Psal 103. 1. Praise the Lord O my Soul while I live will I praise the Lord Yea as long as I have any Being I will sing Praises unto my God Psal 146. 1. You that have Families I do farther exhort that besides your private Prayers you would offer up to God a Morning and Evening Sacrifice in your Families and that every one of you would take up the Holy Resolution of Joshua as for me and my House we will serve the Lord Josh 24. 15. And the Prayers I advise you to use are taken out of the Common Prayer as being most familiar and of greatest Authority withall If any of your Family are gone abroad to their Work before the rest can be ready call that little Congregation about you that is at home and you that are present pray for those that are absent and by this means those that are absent upon necessary Employments will share in the Blessings for which you pray Morning Prayer for a Family Let the Words of our Mouths and the Meditations of our hearts be alway acceptable in thy sight O Lord our Strength and our Redeemer O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable Sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us miserable Sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us mirerable Sinners O Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable Sinners O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our Prayers and spare all those who confess their Sins unto thee and they whose Consciences by Sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty God who seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves we give thee humble Thanks for thy preservation of us this Day past or this Night past and for all the Blessings thou daily vouchsafest us and we beseech thee to 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 Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty God whose Kingdom is everlasting and power infinite have mercy upon the whole Church and so rule the Heart of thy Servant our King and Governor that he knowing whose Minister he is may above all things seek thy Honour and Glory and that we and all his Subjects duly considering whose Authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed Word and Ordinance through Iesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth ever one God World without end Amen Vnto thy gracious Mercy and Protection O Lord do we commit our selves this Day or this Night and all our Relations and Friends Lord prosper us in our Callings Lord bless us and keep us Lord make thy Face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us Lord lift up thy Countenance upon us and give us Peace both now and evermore for the sake of Iesus thy Beloved in whose own blessed Words we sum up all our wants Our Father which art in Heaven c. The same form changing but one word is proper for the Night as well as the Morning to make Family Prayer the more easie to you That Prayer which I have set down wherein you pray for the King and pray for your selves also that you may be good Subjects I exhort you never to omit because you know that the Country wherein you live was the only Seat of the late Rebellion and the Tares of Sedition have been industriously sown among you and you have the greater reason to pray that you may continue firm in your Allegiance besides St. Paul teaches you that to pray for Kings is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2. 2 3. To your Family Prayers you may add as you see occasion one of these following Almighty and everlasting God give unto us the increase of Faith Hope and Charity and that we may obtain war which thou doest promise make us to love that which thou doest command through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord we beseech thee Grant thy People grace to withstand the Temptations of the World the Flesh and the Devil and with pure Hearts and Minds to follow thee the only God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prevent us O Lord in all our Doings with thy most gracious favour and further us with thy continual help that in all our Works begun continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting Life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen These and the like short Prayers may be said alone in the Closet as well as in the Family by changing only the Number and for we saying all along I and for us saying me As for Example when you read any part of the Holy Scripture either alone by your selves or with your Families both which you should do daily if you have leisure but if you have not see that you do both on the Lord's-Days and on Holy-Days and therefore Reading say this Prayer Blessed Lord who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our Learning Grant that we I may in suchwise hear them read mark learn and inwardly digest them that by patience and comfort of thy Holy Word we I may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting Life which thou hast given us in our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen God of his Infinite Mercy bless these Instructions to his Glory and to the furtherance of your Devotions through Jesus the beloved Amen Amen FINIS