salvation for the glorie of Thy Name O deliver him and be merciful to his sins for Thy Names sake Psal. 79.8 9. Call to remembrance O Lord Thy tender mercies and Thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old O remember not the sins and offenses of his youth but according to Thy mercie think Thou upon him O Lord for Thy goodness Psal. 25.5 6. Cleanse him O Lord from his secret sins Psal. 19.12 From whatsoever he hath offended By Thought Word or Deed. Ignorance or Error Frailtie or Negligence In Excess or in Defect By Leaving Good undon or Doing Evil In Publik or Private By Day or Night Against Thee His Neighbour Own Bodie Before or since his effectual Calling By Himself or by Others Remembred or Forgotten From them all cleanse him O Lord even from them all Lay none of them to his charge Cast them behind Thee Burie them Drown them Scatter them as the mist and as the morning cloud Make them to vanish away and come to nothing And wherinsoever his conscience most accuseth him therin O Lord be Thou most merciful O enter not into judgment with Thy servant If Thou shouldst no flesh should be righteous in Thy fight Psal. 143.2 If Thou Lord shouldst be extreme to mark what is don amiss O Lord who may abide it Psal. 130.3 But good Lord one deep calleth another Psal. 42.9 the deep of our miserie the deep of Thy mercie Where fin hath abounded there let grace over-abound Rom. 5.20 And in and through all fins and offenses O Lord let Thy mercie triumph over Thy Justice S. James 2.13 O Lord hear O Lord forgive consider O Lord and do it P. Dan. 9.19 Delay not O Lord for his spirit waxeth faint Turn not Thy face away from him lest he be like unto them that go down into the pit Psal. 143.7 Be favorable O Lord be favorable For Thy Names sake Truths sake Mercies sake For Thy Many mercies sake Great mercies sake Wonderful mercies sake For Thine own self O Lord Our Creator and Redeemer Lord our Father our God King our Father our God Commendatio Animae Or The Recommending of the soul to God LOrd now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace S. Luke 2.29 Into Thy hands O Lord we commend his spirit for Thou hast redeemed it O Lord Thou God of truth Psal. 1.6 Bring his soul out of prison that it may praise Thee Psal. 142.9 O deliver him from this bodie of death Rom. 7.24 Say unto his soul I am Thy salvation Psal. 35.3 Say unto him This day shalt Thou be with me in Paradise S. Luke 23.43 Let him now feel the salvation of JESUS Let him now feel the Anointing of Christ even the oil of gladness wherwith Thou art anointed Guide Thou him through the vale of the shadow of death Psal. 23.4 Let him see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the living Psal. 27.15 O Lord command his spirit to be received up to Thee in peace O Lord will him to come to Thee S. Matth. 14.28 Lord JESU receive his spirit Acts 7.59 Andopen to him the gates of everlasting glorie Let Thy good Spirit conduct him into the land of righteousness Psal. 143.10 Into Thy holie Hill Psal. 15.1 and heavenlie Kingdom Send Thine Angel to meet him and to bring him into Abrahams bosom S. Luke 16.22 Place him in the habitation of light and peace of joy and gladness Receive him in the armes of Thy mercie and give him an inheritance with Thy Saints in light Colos. 1.12 There to reign with Thy elect Angels Thy blessed Saints departed Thy holie Prophets and glorious Apostles in all joy glorie felicitie and happiness for ever and ever Amen Comfortable Scriptures to be applied to the friends of the deceased partie PRetious in the fight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal. 116.13 I heard a voice from heaven saying Write Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord For they rest from their labors and their works follow them Revel 14.13 A General Confession of sins collected out of the Holie Prophets and Apostles P. Moses WE have sinned O Lord. Thou hast set our faults before Thee and our secret sins in the fight of Thy countenance Psal. 90.8 Return O Lord how long and be merciful toward Thy servants Psal. 90.13 H. Job I have sinned what shal I do unto Thee O Thou Preserver of men Why hast Thou set me as a mark against Thee that I am become a burthen to myself Job 7.20 That I have offended Thee wo is me Job 10.14 Have mercie upon me O Lord and restore unto me my righteousness again Say concerning me O Lord Deliver him for I have received a reconciliation Job 33.24 26. Yet if Thou kill me will I put my trust in Thee Job 13.15 P. David My misdeeds have prevailed against me O be Thou mercifull unto my sin Psal. 65.3 I have gon astray like a sheep that is lost O seek Thy servant for I do not forget Thy cōmandments Psal. 119.176 We have sinned with our fathers we have don amiss and dealt wickedly Psal. 106.6 For Thy Names sake O Lord be merciful unto our sin for it is great Psal. 25.10 My foot hath slipped Let Thy mercie O Lord lift me up Psal. 94.18 P Isai. Behold Thou art angrie for we have sinned We have been as an unclean thing and all our righteousness as a defiled cloth We all fade away as a leaf and our iniquities like a wind have taken us away But now O Lord Thou art our Father we are the clay and Thou art the Potter We all are the work of Thy hands Be not angrie O Lord above measure neither remember our iniquitie for ever Lord we beseech Thee remember we are all Thy people Ch. 64. V. 5 6 8 9. P. Jeremie Lord our iniquities are against us Our rebellions are many we have sinned against Thee Yet deal with us according to Thy Name For Thou Lord art in the midst of us and Thy Name is called upon us O Lord forsake us not O Lord the Hope of Israel the Savior of it in the time of trouble forsake us not Ch. 14. Ver. 7 8 9. P. Daniel We have sinned O Lord we have transgressed and don wickedly Yea we have rebelled and have departed from Thy precepts and from Thy judgments O Lord righteousness belongeth unto Thee but unto us confusion and shame of face because of all the offenses we have committed against Thee Yet compassion and forgiveness is with Thee O Lord our God though we have rebelled against Thee O Lord according to all Thy goodness I beseech Thee let Thine anger and Thy wrath be turned away from me and cause Thy face to shine upon Thy servant O my God incline Thine ear and hear open Thine eies and behold my afflictions For we do not present our supplications before Thee for our own righteousness but for Thy manifold and great mercies O Lord hear O Lord
sleep from mine eies and slumber from mine eie-lids Psal. 132.4 Who makest joyful outgoings of the Morning and Evening Psal. 65.8 For I laid me down and slept and rose up again Psal. 3.5 And Thou Lord madest me to dwel in fafetie Psal. 4.9 For I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me P. Jer. 31.26 O Lord blot out as a Night-mist mine iniquities P. Isa. 44.22 Scatter my sins as a Morning cloud Grant that I may become a child of the light and of the Day I Thes. 5.5 That I may walk soberly chastly and honestly as in the Day Rom. 13.13 Vouchsafe to keep me this day without sin Te Deum Uphold me when I am falling and lift me up when I am down Psal. 145.14 That I may never harden my heart as in the provocation Psalm 95.8 with the tentation or deceiptfulness of any sin Heb. 3.13 Moreover deliver me this day From The snare of the Hunter The noisome pestilence The arrow that flieth by day Mischance The Noon-day destruction Psal. 91.3 5 6. Preserve this day from any evil of mine and me from the evils of the day Let not my days consume in vanitie nor my years in trouble Psal. 78.33 Let one day certifie another Psal. 19.2 Let this day add some knowledg or practise to yesterday Psal. 143. O Let me hear Thy loving kindness betimes in the Morning for in Thee is my trust shew Thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soul unto Thee Ver. 8. Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies for I flee unto Thee to hide me Ver. 9. Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth Thee for Thou art my God Let Thy loving Spirit lead me forth in the way of righteousness Ver. 10. Quicken me O Lord for Thy Names sake and for Thy righteousness sake bring my soul out of trouble Ver. 11. REmove from my mind thoughts that are without understanding Wisd. 1.5 Inspire good thoughts into me even such as shall be wel pleasing unto Thee Turn away mine eies lest they behold vanitie Psal. 119.37 Let mine eies look after that which is right and mine eie-lids after just things Prov. 4.25 Hedg in mine ears with thorns that they listen not to foolish discourses In the Morning give me an ear to hear with and open mine ears to the doctrine of Thy Oracles P. Isa. 50.4 5. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and a dore with a guard about my lips Psal. 141.3 Let my speech be season'd with salt Col. 4.6 that it may minister grace unto the hearers Ephes. 4.29 Let me do nothing that shal make my heart ake or be a scandal to me 1 Sam. 25.31 But let my doings be such for which Thou maist remember me for good And spare me according to the greatness of Thy mercie Nehem 13.22 31. INto Thy hands I commend my spirit soul and bodie for Thou hast Created Redeemed Regenerated them O Lord Thou God of truth Psal. 31.6 And with myself I commend unto Thee all mine all that belong unto me Thou O Lord hast graciously given them unto Thy servant Genes 33.5 Preserve us O Lord from all evil O Lord I beseech Thee keep our souls Psal. 121.7 Keep us from falling and present us faultless before the presence of Thy glorie S. Jude Ver. 24. at that day 2 Tim. 1.18 O Lord preserve my going out and my coming in from this time forth for evermore Psal. 121.8 Prosper I beseech Thee Thy servant this day and grant him mercie in the sight of all he shal meet with Neh 1.11 Haste Thee O God to deliver me Make haste to help me O Lord. Psal. 70.1 O Turn Thee unto me and have mercie upon me give Thy strength unto Thy servant and help the son of Thine handmaid Shew some good token upon me for good that I be not put to shame in the sight of them that hate me because Thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Psal. 86.16 17. Evening Praier HAving passed over this day Lord I give thanks unto Thee The Evening draweth nigh make it comfortable An Evening there is as of the Day so of this Life The Evening of this Life is Old-age Old-age hath seiz'd upon me make that comfortable Cast me not away in the time of age Forsake me not when my strength faileth me Psal. 71.9 Be Thou with me until Old-age and even to hoar hairs do Thou carrie me P. Isa. 46.4 Do Thou do it do Thou forgive Do Thou receive and save me O Lord. Tarrie Thou with me O Lord for it is toward Evening with me and the Day is far spent S. Luke 24.29 of this my toilsome life Let Thy strength be made perfect in my weakness 2 Corinthians 12.9 THe Day is vanished and gon so doth my Life vanish my Life no Life The Night is coming on and so doth Death Death without Death The end as of the Day so of our Life is at hand We therfore remembring this beseech Thee O Lord that the end of our Life being Christian and acceptable to Thee without Sin without Shame and if it please Thee without Pain Thou wouldst guide us in peace O Lord our Lord gathering us together under the feet of Thine Elect when Thou wilt and as Thou wilt only without Shame and Sin GRant that we may remember the days of darkness that they are many Eccles. 11.8 that we be not cast out into outer darkness S. Matth. 22.13 and 25.30 and that we may remember to prevent the Night by doing some good Judgment is at hand Grant us O Lord that we may make a good and acceptable account at the dreadful and terrible Tribunal of JESUS Christ. IN the Night I lift up my hands toward Thy sanctuarie and bless the Lord Psal. 124.2 3. The Lord hath granted His loving kindness on the Day time and in the Night season will I sing of Him and make my praier unto the God of my life Psal. 42.10 As long as I live will I magnifie Thee on this manner and lift up my hands in Thy Name Psal. 63.5 Let my praier be set forth in Thy sight as the Incense and let the lifting up of my hands be an Evening sacrifice Psal. 141.2 BLessed art Thou O Lord our God the God of our Fathers Who didst create the interchanges of the Day and Night Who givest us occasions of songs in the Night Job 35.10 Who hast delivered us from the evil of this Day Who hast not cut off like a Weaver my Life nor in this Day before Night didst make an end of me P. Isa. 38.12 LOrd as we add days to our days so we add sins to our sins Ecclus 5.5 A just man falleth seven times a day Prov-24 16 but I a wretched sinner seventie times seven times S. Mat. 18.22 wonderfully and horribly O Lord. P. Jerem. 5.30 But I turn from my wicked ways and bewailing them P. Isa. 30.15 I return to my heart P. Isa. 46.8 and turn to
Thee with all my heart Deut. 30.2 O Thou that art the God of them that repent O Savior of sinners And Evening after Evening 1 return with the utmost strength of my soul and out of the deep my soul crieth unto Thee Psal. 130.1 Lord I have sinned against Thee I have finned grievously against Thee Forgiue forgive alas alas wo worth my miserable condition I repent wo is me I repent spare me O Lord I repent wo is me I repent Help my want of Repentance Have pitie spare me O Lord Have pitie Be merciful unto me I said Lord be merciful unto me heal my soul for I have sinned against Thee Psal. 41.4 Have mercie upon me O Lord after Thy great goodness according to the multitude of Thy mercies do away mine offenses Psal. 51.1 Forgive my guilt Heal my sores Take out the stains Deliver me from shame Rescue me from the tyrannie of sin And make me not an example DEliver me O Lord from my necessities Psal. 25.16 Cleanse me from my secret faults Psal. 19.12 Keep Thy servant also from presumptuous sins Psal. 19.13 Impute not to me the wanderings of my mind Wisd. 4.12 nor my idle words S. Mat. 12.36 Stop the black and filthie inundation of unclean wicked thoughts O Lord my destruction is from myself P. Hos. 13.9 Whatsoever I have don amiss graciously pardon Deal not with us after our sins Neither reward us after our iniquities Ch. Eng. Letanie Mercifully look upon our infirmities and for the glorie of Thy most Holie Name turn from us all those evils and afflictions which to our sins and to us for them are most justly and worthily due ANd O Lord give rest to me that am wearie renew my strength to me that am tired with labor Lighten mine eies that I sleep not in death Psal. 13.3 Deliver me from the terrors of the Night and from the Pestilence that walketh in darkness Psa. 91.5 6. Grant me wholesom sleep and to pass this Night without fear Thou Keeper of Israel who dost neither slumber nor sleep Psal. 121.4 Preserve me this Night from all evil O Lord keep my soul. Ver. 7. Visiting me with the salvation of Thy children Open my understanding in the Visions of the Night H. Job 33.15 16. But if not this for I am not worthie I am not worthie Yet O Lord Thou Lover of men let my sleep be a rest as from labors so from sin Even so O Lord. And sleeping let me not dream of any thing that may Offend Thee defile myself Let not my loins be filled with illusions Psal. 38.7 but rather let my reins chasten me Ps. 16.8 Preserve me without grievous fear from the dismal sleep of sin and lay asleep in me all earthlie and wicked imaginations Give me sweet sleep free from all carnal and diabolical phancies Lord restrein the malice of my never sleeping invisible enemies and the inclinations of my sinful flesh O Thou who madest me Let the wings of Thy mercie shadow me Psal. 17.8 and 61.4 Raise me up in due time in the hour of Praier and grant that I may be earlie up Psal. 63.1 at my Praises and Worship of Thee BLess O Lord Thy Creatures Mankind All in Affliction or Prosperitie Error or Truth Sin or Grace The Universal Church The Eastern Western This among Us. Prelats Clergie Laitie The Governments of the Earth Christian About us Our The King Queen Prince Counsellers Judges Magistrates Officers People Husbandmen Merchants Artificers even to the Laborers Poor All whom Kindred Good turns Ministring in carnal things Charge formerly now Moral friendship Charitie Neighbourhood My Promise Their Desire Want of their own leisure Compassion on them being in extremitie Worthie Acts Good Works Scandal given to Want of any else to pray for them commends to my praiers LOrd into thy hands I commend myself My Spirit Soul Bodie Thou hast created them redeemed them O Lord Thou God of truth And together with myself all mine and all that belongs unto me Thou O Lord hast graciously given them unto Thy servant Gen. 33. 5. Preserve my lying down and my rising up Psal. 139. 1. from this time forth for evermore Psal. 121. 8. Grant that I may remember Thee upon my bed Psal. 63. 7. and search out my spirit Psal. 77. 6. that I may rise again and still be with Thee Psal. 139. 18. I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is Thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safetie Psal. 4. 9. Praiers for the Holy Communion Before the Receiving of the Blessed Sacrament O Lord I am not fit nor worthie that Thou shouldst come under the filthie roof of the house of my soul. S. Matth. 8.8 because it is wholy desolate and ruinous neither hast Thou with me a fit place where to lay Thy head S. Mat. 8.20 But as Thou didst vouchsafe to be laid in a Stable and Manger of unreasonable Beasts S. Luke 2.7 As Thou didst not disdeign to be entertain'd even in the house of Simon the Leper S. Matth. 26.6 As Thou didst not reject the Harlot a sinner like unto me coming unto Thee and touching Thee As Thou didst not abhorr her foul and prophane mouth S. Luke 7. 37 38. Nor yet the Thief on the Cross confessing Thee S. Luke 23.43 Even so vouchsafe to admitt me also an over-worn miserable and out of measure sinful creature to the receiving and communicating of the most pure most auspitious quickning and saving Mysteries of Thy most Holie Bodie and Pretious Blood S. Chrysost. Liturgie ATtend O Lord our God from Thy holie habitation and from the glorious Throne of Thy Kingdom and come and sanctifie us O Thou who sittest on high with the Father and art here invisibly present with us come and sanctifie these gifts here presented and those also by and for whom and the end wherto they are brought hither S. Chrysost. and S. Basil's Liturgie And grant us to partake of them In Faith that need not be ashamed Love without dissimulation Rom. 12.9 For the Keeping of the Commandments Stirring up of all spiritual fruits Healing of Soul and Bodie For a Symbol of our Communion Act. 2.42 Memorial of Thy Dispensation S. Luke 22.19 For the Shewing forth of Thy Death 1 Corinth 11.26 Cōmunion of Thy Bodie and Bloud 1 Cor. 10.16 Participation of Thy Spirit 1 Corinth 12.13 Remission of our sins S. Mat. 26.28 For an Amulet against all evil 1 Cor. 5.7 For the Quieting of our Conscience S. Mat. 11.28 For the Blotting out of our Debts Col. 2.14 Acts 3.19 Purging of our Spots Heb. 9.14 Healing of the Infirmities of our Souls 1 S. Pet. 2. 24. Renewing of our Covenant Psal. 50.5 Viands of our Spiritual Life S. Job 6.27 Increas of strengthning Grace Heb. 13. 9. soul-ravishing Comfort Psal. 104.15 Enforcing of our Repentance I Corin 11.29 Inlight'ning of our Understanding S. Luke 24.31 Exercise of our Humilitie S. John 13.11 For A Seal of our Faith 2 Cor. 1.22
The Fulness of Wisdom S. John 6.35 A Sufficient Accompt of our Oblations 1 Cor. 16.1 For the Armour of Patience 1 S. Pet. 4.1 For the stirring up of our Thankfulness Psal. 116.11 For Confidence in Praier Psal. 116.12 Mutual Inhabitation S. John 6.56 A Pledg of our Resurrection S. Joh. 6.54 An acceptable Apologie at the Bar of Judgment 1 Cor. 11.29 A Testament of our Inheritance S. Luke 22.20 A Type of Perfection S. Joh. 17.23 That we with all Thy Saints who from the begining have pleased Thee may be partakers of Thy most pure and eternal good things which Thou hast prepared O Lord for them that love Thee in whom Thou art glorified for ever O Lamb of God who takest away the sin of the world S. John 1.29 Take away mine also who am a notorious sinner WEe therfore O Lord in the presence of Thy Holie Mysteries Being mindful of The saving Passions of Thy Christ His life-giving Cross pretious Death three daies Burial Resurrection from the dead Ascension into Heaven Session at the Right hand of Thee the Father glorious and dreadful Return humbly beseech Thee that we receiving a part of Thy Holie Mysteries with a pure testimonie of our Conscience may be united to the Holie Bodie and Blood of Thy Christ. Let me so receive these Mysteries that I may be worthie to be ingraffed into Thy Bodie which is the Church That I may become one of Thy Members and Thou my Head That I may remain with Thee and Thou with me That now not I in myself but Thou in me and I in Thee May for ever continue in an indissoluble bond of Love Wash out the stains of my old fresh sins Never let any sinful spot abide where so pure Sacraments have ent'red Through this Sacred Mysterie which I here call to mind Burie me already dead to this world with Thee in Thy Grave And receiving this Sacrament not unworthily let us procure Christs dwelling in our hearts Epbes. 3. 17. and be made a Temple of Thy Holie Spirit 1 Cor. 6. 19. Even so O Lord. And make not any one of us guiltie of these Thy dreadful and beavenlie Mysteries nor weak in Soul or Bodie by our unworthie partaking of the same 1 Corin. 11.27 29 30. But grant that to our utmost and last gasp we may worthily receive the hope of these Thy Mysteries To our Sanctification Illumination Strength'ning To the eas of the burthen of our many sins As a Preservative against all the assaults of the Devil As a Deleterie Impediment of our evil Customs For the Mortification of our lusts Keeping of Thy Commandments Increas of Thy Divine Grace and Possession of Thy Kingdom After the Receiving of the Blessed Sacrament IT is good for me to hold me fast by God and to put my trust in the God of my salvation We have now O Christ our God finished perfected according to our abilitie the Mysterie of Thy Dispensation For we have had the Memorial of Thy Death seen the Type of Thy Resurrection been filled with Thy endless Life enjoied Thy never failing Dainties Wherof vouchsafe to make us all partakers in the world to come THe good Lord pardon everie one that prepareth his heart to seek the Lord God of his Fathers though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuarie 2 Chron. 30. 18 19. FINIS See Bishop Andrews's Eighth Sermon of Repentance and Fasting * S. Chrysost. Liturgie * S. Chrysost. Liturgie * S. Chrysost. Liturgie * S. Chrysost. Liturgie * S. Chrysost. Liturgie †Philip. 4 8. * S. Chrysost. Liturgie These Praiers thus marked are not in the Greek but in the Latin MS. In the Latin not in the Greek MS.
therefore ye be without correction whereof all are partakers then are ye baftards and not sons Moreover we have had the Fathers of our bodies who corrected us and yet we gave them reverence should we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits that we might live For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure but he chasteneth us for our profit that we might be partakers of His holiness Now no chastening for the present seemeth joyous but grievous yet afterwards it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousness to them who are thereby exercised Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down and the weak knees Heb. 12.5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. And ye now are in sorrow but I will see you again and your hearts shal rejoice and your joy shal none be able to take from you S. John 16. 22. For a little while have I forsaken thee but with great compassion will I gather thee For a moment in mine anger I hid my face from thee but with everlasting mercie will I have compassion on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer P. Isa. 54.7 8. Modicam videbitis me S. John 16. 16. Blessed is the man whom Thou chastisest O Lord and teachest him in Thy Law That Thou maist give him rest in the days of evil Psal. 94. 12 13. But when we are judged we are chastened of Thee that we should not be condemned with the world I Cor. 11. 32. They that sow in tears shal reap in joy Psal. 126. 6. The Lord hath chastened and corrected me but he hath not given me over unto death Psal. 118. 18. My brethren count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers afflictions Knowing that the trial of your faith bringeth forth patience And let patience have her perfect work that ye may be complete intire lacking nothing S. Jam. 1. 2 3 4. Blessed are they that mourn for they shal be comforted S. Mat. 5. 4. When I am weak then am I strong 2 Corinth 12. 10. Thou Lord upholdest all such as are falling and liftest up those that be down Psal. 145. 14. Thou healest the broken in heart and givest medicine to heal their sicknes Psal. 147. 3. My flesh and my heart faileth but be Thou the strength of my heart and my portion for ever Psal. 73. 25. As mine outward man doth wear and decay so let mine inward man renew daily O let this light affliction which will quickly be over cause unto me a far more excellent and eternal weight of glorie 2 Cor. 4. 16 17. Several duties recommended to the sick Praier PRay unto the Lord if haply this may be forgiven thee Acts. 8. 22. For this cause shal everie one that is godlie make his praier unto Thee Psal. 32. 6. Almes Blessed is the man that considereth the poor and needie Psalm 41. 1. By mercie and truth are sins cleansed and forgiven Prov. 16. 6. Break off thine unrighteousness by mercie to the poor P. Dan. 4. 24. They shewed the garments which she had wrought with her own hands Acts 9. 39. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I. Except ye Repent ye shal all likewise perish S. Luke 13. 5. II. Without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6. III. If I have all Faith and no Love it profiteth me nothing I Cor. 13. 2. IV. We are saved by Hope Rom. 8. 24. V. Hope thou in the Lord and be doing good Psal. 37. 3. And they shal come forth that have done good to the resurrection of life S. John 5. 29. Make you friends of the unrighteous Mammon that when you must hence they may receive you into everlasting Tabernacles S. Luke 16. 9. Zacheus stood forth and said unto the Lord Behold Lord the half of my goods I give to the poor and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation I restore him four-fold S. Luke 19. 8. Propositions and Inferences to be made to the sick Concerning the Wisdome and Providence of God in the ordering of all afflictions in general and this in special 1 YOu are persuaded that no sickness or cross cometh by chance to any 2. But you beleeve that it is God who sendeth them without whose providence they fall not on us 3. You acknowledge God to be most wise and to suffer nothing to befall us but when it is expedient it so should 4. Therefore God having sent this His visitation to you at this time than it is expedieent for you thus to be sick Say I know O Lord that Thy judgments are just and that Thou of very faithfulness hast caused me to be troubled Psal. 119. 75. Concerning the fatherlie Affection and Love of God 1 YOu know and confess that God to all but to Christian men especially carrieth the affection of a Father toward His children 2. You know also that a Father whether he make much of his child or whether he chasten him continueth Father in both and loveth him in the one no less then in the other 3. Think the same of God as touching your self that while He gave you good days He loved you and that now He sendeth you some evil He loveth you also and would not have sent this evil but to be a cause unto you of a greater good that being called home thereby you might be at peace with Him Say Before I was troubled I went wrong but now sbal I learn Thy Word Psalm 119.67 Concerning the Patience and Thankfulness required in the sick YOu are not only to take it patiently I beld my peace and opened not my mouth because it was Thy doing Psal. 39.9 It is the Lord let Him doe what seemeth good in His eyes I Sam. 3.18 2. But even to give Him thanks for it as for a wholesom medicin The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away as it pleased the Lord so is it come to pass Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Job 1.21 I will take this cup of salvation and give thanks to the Name of the Lord. Psal. 116.12 3. Especially for that we in the time of our health forgetting Him yet He is so merciful that He giveth us not over with the world but for all we have of grieved His Holie Spirit and fallen from grace He visteth us again and offereth it afresh unto us 4. That if His will had not been to shew mercie by this chaftisement He could would have suddenly taken you away with a quick destruction and not given you this time to bethink yourself and to seek and sue to Him for grace Say When I am judged I am chastened of the Lord that I might not be condemned with the world I Corinth 11.32 Gods very punishment is a part of His mercie Psal. 89.32 It is a great mercie of the Lord that we are not suddenly consumed Lament 3.22 For giving you a time and space Revel 2.21 O tarrie thou the Lords leasure be strong and He shal comfort thine heart
forgive Consider and do it O Lord. Defer not for Thine own sake O my God Ch. 9. V. 5 7 9 16 17 18 19. P. Jonas O Lord in following vanities I have forsaken mine own mercie For which I am cast out of the fight of Thine eies Yet I remember Thee O Lord yet will I look yet again toward Thy Holie Temple O Lord hear and have mercie Ch. 2. v. 8. 4. Prodigal child Father I have sinned against heaven and against Thee I am no more worthie to be called Thy son But forgive me and make me one of the meanest of Thy hired servants S. Luke 15.18 19. God be merciful to me a sinner S. Luke 18.13 JESU Master have mercie upon us S. Luke 17.13 Have mercie on me O Lord Thou son of David S. Mat. 15.22 O Lord help me v. 25 O Lord even the little whelps eat of the crumbs of Thy table Ver. 27. S. Paul O Lord I am carnal and sold under fin And in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good Rom. 7.14 18. The good thing I do not which I would The evil that I would not that do I. V. 15. Though I consent to the Law according to the inner man V. 22. Yet I feel another law in my nature rebelling against the Law of my mind and leading me captive to the Law of sin V. 23. O wretched man that I am who shal deliver me from this bodie of death Ver. 24. But this is a true saying and by all means worthie to be received That JESUS Christ came into the world to save sinners wherof I am chief 1 Tim. 1.15 S. Peter We have spent the time past of our life aster the lusts of the heathen walking in wantoness lust surfeting uncleaness and other excesses 1 S. Pet. 4.3 But Thou hast redeemed us O Lord by the pretious blood of Christ the undefiled Lamb. 1 S. Pet. 1.1 18 19. Have mercie upon us in that Name besides which Thou hast given none under heaven wherby we must be saved Acts 4.12 S. John If we say we have no fin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us 1 S. John 1.8 If our heart condemn us not God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things 1 S. John 3.20 But we confess our sins and confessing them we have an Advocate with the Father JESUS Christ the Righteous and He is the propitiation for our sins 2 S. John 1.2 S. James In many things we sin all Ch. 3. V. 2. But Lord let Thy mercie triumph over Thy Justice Ch. 2. V. 13. A Confession of sins according to the branches of the Decalogue I. I Have touching Thee O Lord been full of roving imaginations and evil thoughts I have not studied to seek and know Thee as I ought Knowing Thee I have not glorified Thee nor given thanks to Thee accordingly I have doubted of Thy promises and not trusted to Thy help I have made flesh mine arm and hoped for prosperitie from man rather then from Thee I have not performed the dutie of Invocation with that reverence I ought I have not been thankful specially not for Thy chastisements II. I have not worshiped Thee in spirit and truth I have drawn neer to Thee with my lips but my heart hath been far from Thee I have been more careful of the outward ceremonial part of Thy worship then of the inward and spiritual III. I have not with due regard taken Thy Name into my mouth I have with rash oaths and eager execrations oft abused it I have not given occasion to others to sanctifie Thy Name but have caused it to be evil spoken of through mine evil dealing I have not duely regarded and reverenced those things wheron Thy Name is imprinted IV. I have not to Thy Sabbath or Sanctuarie brought that care which I should I have not spared to absent my self from Thy Holie Assemblies without sufficient cause I have not spent the days assign'd to Holie exercises upon them chiefly but have in them too much intended mine own private business I have been content in them with the use of the Means alone without any practise at all V. I have not so reverently spoken nor so dutifully carried myself toward some whom Thou hast placed over me as was meet I should I have not so carefully prayed for them as was requisite I have not opposed to them who unreverently in terms used them Chiefly those who have had me in government touching my soul. VI. I have not wished or provided for the good of my neighbor as I should but rather maligned been angrie and quareled with them and sought revenge upon everie light injurie I have not had that compassion on the poor that I should nor ministred to their necessities I have not defended them against the wrongs of others as I might I have not rejoiced in the good success of my neighbor but envied his welfare VII I have not possessed my vessell in holiness and honor nor preserved it from pollution as the Temple of God should be I have suffered my phancie to wander licentiously Mine ears and tongue I have not kept as I should I have not eschued the occasions of lust nor made the covenant with mine eies that I should I have not brought under my bodie nor kept it in subjection with such abstinence as I should I have more studiously and with more cost intended my flesh then my spirit VIII I have not reckoned godliness gain nor been content with my estate but wished an higher I have not been so exact in paying and dealing with those I have dealt withall as in justice I was bound I have by undue means interverted to my use that which was not mine I have not of that whereof I had more then enough been willing to part with to the relief of the needie IX I have not been so studious of speaking the truth as I should I have been desirous to seem and to be reputed more then I was I have not had that care of the good name of my brother I was bound I have not so hated flatterie as I should I have not so stood for and defended the truth as was meet I should X. I have been full of wandering desires wicked affections unlawful concupiscences evil suspitions and surmises and inordinate lusts touching my neighbor and that which is his The Triumph of Mercie in many Gradual Expressions and Remembrances propounded to us in the Holie Scriptures GOD In his Mercie is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Corin. 10.1 Gen. 18.32 Takes all in the better part If it will admit any good sense so he construes it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 10.1 Meek not irritable not easily stirred up or provoked 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wisd. 11.24 Sees and sees not makes as if He did not see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 17.30 Overlooks looks beyond our sins looks not at them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. Micha 7.18 Passeth by or over them