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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67627	A box of spikenard: or A little manual of sacramental instruction and devotion especially, helpful to the people of God, at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper. With some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions. The third edition, by Thomas Walmestry, Dean of Worcester.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W881; ESTC R218419	28,612	228

set free from all earthly affections and fixed upon thee and upon things that are above and give up my heart and my life wholy to serve and glorify thee my God in a holy and a heavenly conversation which is the true state of Conversion help me to confesse my sins with sorrow and to reforme with joy and to make restitution where I have done wrong as thou givest oportunity and ability and where either are wanting let not will be wanting nor thy acceptance be wanting unto my sincere desires and endeavours Help me to accuse my self that thou mayest acquit me to judge condemn my self that thou mayest absolve me help me to exercise an holy revenge upon my self that thou mayest spare me help me to endeavour a redress of all scandals that I have given to reduce those whom I have seduced or with whom I have complied in any evill way and seal unto me thy pardon in the blood of Christ by the inward testimony of thy sanctifying spirit and let the reformation of mylife be an evidence unto me of the forgiveness of my sins which is the authentick seal of thy Spirit giving the impression of thine own Image Grant me a lively saving faith to believe thy Gospel and all thy Heavenly truthes that thou hast revealed in thy holy Word and to subdue and bring down all mine own thoughts apprehensions imaginations and affections thereunto that I may trust in the Lord with all mine heart and not lean unto mine own understanding Convince me O Lord of that great article of faith that my Jesus is thy Christ and the Son of the living God which is the rock upon which thou buildest thy Church and the gates of hell shal not prevail against it that I may not believe it by relation onely from men but by revelation from thee being wrought unto a full perswasion thereof by the arguments of thy spirit by the holy Prophecies that went before of him in the Old Testament which were all fulfilled in him in the New by the wonderfull miracles which he did by the descending of the Holy Ghost upon him in the visible form of a Dove by the voice from Heaven declaring him to be thy well beloved Sonne in whom thou art well pleased which voice was sent from thy heavenly Throne after his baptisme and at his tranfiguation by the holiness of his life the excellency of his Doctrine by the wonderfull sending of his Holy Spirit upon his Disciples in the likeness of fiery tongues and those excellent and wonderfull gifts that were bestowed upon them by the dreadfull judgment that fell upon the Jews for Crucifying him and reviling the Gospell by the blood of thy victorious Martyrs who sealed thy heavenly truth by their constancy in their sufferings and cruell deaths which they chearfully under went for the Testimony thereof and by the wonderfull wayes whereby thou hast carried on and maintained thy Church and Gospell against all the wisdome and power of the world that was against it Convince my Soul O Lord of that great truth by these arguments and by the experiment of the work of thy Grace in my Soul that I may firmly believe it and rely upon it for my falvation and that I may believe infallibly that this my Saviour by his death and passion hath satisfied for my sins that he hath justified me by his righteousness and that by his mediation he prevails with thee for obtaining of spiritual blessings all mercies needful for me and for the bring home of the fruit and benefit of that redemption which he hath wrought for me unto me bring a penitent sinner Give me faith to lay hold upon the Sacramental promise that I may come with a full and assured expectati on to receive thy Sons body crucified and his blood shed upon the Cross for my sins with all the benefits of his death and passion and of that great Redemption he hath wrought for me truly and really conveyed and applied and sealed to my soul in that thy holy Ordinance Let me take thy heavenly mysteries as thine earnest to oblidge me to serve thee and as thy pledges to assure me of thy love unto me and of my Interest in thy Christ and my Jesus unto my salvation And let my Faith work by Love that in the sense of thy great goodness offered and given unto me in Christ Jesus-I may love thee and thy Christ above all and with all my heart and soul mind and strength Let me think nothing too much to do or suffer for the who didst not think it too much to give thy son thy beloved son to suffer and die for me Enflame me with holy love unto all people that I may give up my self to them to serve them in love make me to own them in al their concernments to pitty them in all their miseries to be ready to relive them in all their wants to comfort them in all their distresses to counsel them in al their perplexity to pardon all their miscarriages towards me to bear their infirmities to study their good to love brotherly fellowship to delight in thy Sts. and holy ones and to walk comfortably chearfully together with them in thy holy worship and service Let not any poisoned dart of rancour or envy or malice or heart burning toward any rankle or feaster my soul But make us al up more more into the mistical body of thy Son that we may keep the unity fo the spirit in the bond of peace that we may be all one in thee as thou and thy Son Christ Jesus are one And let the Peace of God which passeth all nnderstanding rule in our hearts through Jesus Christ our Lord. Give me a thankfull sense and sweet relish of thy great mercy in that great redemption thou hast wrought for my soul by thy blesed Son That I may have an high esteem of thy love in giving thy son for me to be a sacrifice for my sins upon the Cross and in giving him unto me to be the nourishment life of my soul in the Sacrament Oh make me to receive him from thee there with a gratefull soule to return thee the devout and thankfull homage of my heart Strike me into an holy amazment at the wonders of thy great mercy toward me in him to poure out my soule in the praises of thy name to embrace thee in thy Christ and my Jesus with all the dearest affections of my heart to devote and consecrate my self unto thee to be a sacrifice of praise unto thee in the whole course of my life and conversation to rejoyce in the mercy and the loving kindenesse of my God Affect me with an awfull Reverence toward the greatnesse of thy Majesty with whō I there come to renew my Covenant toward the excellency of thy sonne whom I come to receive into my soul Toward the holiness of thy spirit by whom I come there to be

excellency and perfection The Angels are amazed at the brightnesse of thy glory The Devils tremble at the dreadfulness of thy Majesty what am I that I should approach unto thee Oh my God Thou art a holy God and of purer eyes than to behold iniquity Thou canst haveno communion with Belial thou canst have no fellowship with unrighteousnesse And I am a base wretched unholy unthankful sinner overspread from top to toe soul and body with a leprosy of sin and my very righteousnes are as filthy rags Thy Angels thou chargedst with folly and the Stars are not pure in thy sight and how shall I then appear before thee or draw near unto thee Oh my God thou art all light and I am a cloud of darknesse Thou art a wise God and I am a foolish and simple creature so blinde that I can neither bear thy light nor discover my own blindeness as I ought to do and how then shall my darkness endure the beams of thy heavenly light and not be confounded at thy unsupportable brightness Oh my God I am a poor a weak feeble worm trodden under foot and trampled bruised in the dirt and mire of corruption by mine own sins and wickednesses thou art a strong a powerfull and an Almighty God that artable with a look of thine to frown me into no thing and into hell that art able with one thought of thine to think me to destruction how then dare my weakness and nothingnesse approach unto thy Grace invisible strength and not expect to be crushed into nothing undone And yet O Lord now thou callest me I am about to come unto thee and what shall I say or doe O God how am I perplexed with severall sears if I come not when thou callest I am in danger to provoke thy wrath by dispising thy Authority if I come I may seem to be in danger to incense thine anger by offending against thy Majesty I may justly he afraid to come by reason of my sin and yet O Lord if I forbear to come this will encrease my sin And in so great a strait that I am in what can thy poor sinfull creature do Oh my God I am undone know not what to do unles thou help me To thee therefore I come O Lord desiring to receive thy heavenly Councel and advice that I may obey thy authority that I may not faile of thy mercy Othou that hast called me unto thee let thy compassion pitty my vileness let thy mercy pardon my sinfulnesse let thy grace cleanse my filthinesse let thy wisdome enlighten my darkness let thy strength support my weakness Pardon me by thy mercy that I may receive thy grace fit me by thy grace that I may receive thy mercy Let thy spirit be thy holy Harbinger to provide entertainment for thy Son and my heavenly Lord Christ Jesus in my soul that he may come and make it the Sanctuary of his holiness Adorne me O God with the wedding garment of the righteousnesse of thy Son the holiness of thy spirit that all my nakedness may be covered and my great deformities may be hid from thine eyes Purge away all the polutions of my heart life that thou mayest not be offended at me nor in ty displeasure cast me out Fill me with heavenly desires toward my Lord Jesus with holy meditations of the wonders of thy love with holy devotions to the excellency of thy glory Send a beam of thy light from heaven into my heart that I may be illuminated thereby to the right understanding of those great mercies thou offerest unto me vailed with the cloud of thy divine mysteries and that I may understand my Saviours heavenly language in the Sacrament both in the mysterious signs what he speaks in them in the mysterious words what he speaks of them That I may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent which is eternal life That I may know the power of his sufferings And that I may be able to comprehend what 's the breadth and the length and the depth and the height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge That I may know them so as to be enflamed by them Oh let thy heavenly beams be contracted upon my heart and shine upon it through the burning glass of thy love in this Sacrament That all the light may burne and that all my knowledg of thee and of thy misteries may be turned into love unto thee for they only know thee indeed that love thee For if any man love God he knoweth God or rather is known of him And as thy holy Prophet when he was exalted into a sight of thy Majesty was there by stricken down into an humble sense of his own vileness and iniquity as with a flash of thy heavenly lightening bringing with it a thunder bolt of humiliation that broke his heart as it were in pieces and made that lamentation of his gush out at a breach of his wounded soul Woe is me for I am undone for I am a man of uncleane lips and dwell among a people of uncleane lips for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts So let the sight of thy Glory cast me down into a sense of mine own vileness and iniquity strike an holy terrour into my soul and lay me in the dust at the apprehension of my sins send a thunderbolt of grace from heaven and dash my heart in pieces with contrition for mine offences that I may be undone in my self that so I may be made up again in thee smite the rock of my hard heart with the rod of thy holy fear that the water of repentance may flow out even that pretious heart wate of penitent tears and Godly sorrow for all my transgressions Make me to sow in tears that I may reap in joy and let the apprehension of thy love to me and the heat of my love to thee and my Jesus imprint he impression of his wounds upon my soul that they may wound me first and then heal me and let that love affect me with a perfect hatred against sin and against my self for sin for my sin against thee my great my glorious my gratious God my Maker my Saviour and the God of all my mercies against those sins of mine that have been the Traitors and Murderers of my Dear Saviour and let the sense of thy pardon of my great and manifold sins would me yet the more for them make me to mourn more for pardoned sin than for sin as exposing unto judgement Oh let thy mercy soften me more than thy wrath and make me out of love with all things that engage or move me into sin out of love with the world with the flesh and with my self with my own corrupt and sinfull heart and inclinations that have been so often the factours and the snares of Sathan to my soul that so I may be

establisht in my union and Communion with Christ and his Church And enable me to discerne the body of the Lord Jesus put me into an holy extasy of heavenly longing after Christ And whilst he descendeth unto me in that holy reflection let me ascend unto him in heavenly devotion Let not my soul be satisfied with any thing but my Jesus Give me thy Christ O God take what thou wilt from me give me my Jesus and do what thou wilt unto me for in him I shall be sure of thy tender love let that love do what it will Thou bidst me love thee do what I will I say unto thee love me and do what thou wilt wound me chasten me kill me so that thou love me I aske nothing of thee but thy Christ and thy Love Oh my God I am undone I am lost for ever I am a fire-brand of hel it had been better for me that I had been a Toad a Serpent a Worm a dead clod of clay that I had never lived that I had never been conceived or born if thou shouldst with-hold my Jesus from me But if I have him I have thee and heaven and Angells and the world and life and all Oh my God give me my Jesus and give thy self unto me in him make me to give my self unto thee in him And oh make room for thy Christ in my Soule turn out the world and the flesh sin turn me out of my self that there may be room for my Jesus that my heart may be as a large upper-room furnished for my heavenly Saviour to keep his Passeover in my Soul Let it be a large room for my great Jesus let my heart contain him for whom the whole world is too little extend the grasp of my affections O God make me unsatiable in an holy covetousnesse after Christ and the more I taste of him the more I enjoy him the more make meto desire him And let my heart be an upper-room not an Earthly but an Heavenly minde For the entertainment of my heavenly Jesus for he can dwell no where but in an heavenly place Yea let his presence in my heart turn my heart into heaven for it is his presence that maketh heaven and this is the heaven of heavens it self Oh let all earthly things be vile unto me now that I look for my heavenly Jesus Give me an holy pride an holy ambition greatness of spirit that I may look upon all the things of this world as unworthy of my thoughts since my Jesus is pleased to think upon me to call for my heart and to come unto me Oh let my soul be a well furnisht room furnisht with all the furniture of heavenly love and of all thy heavenly Graces for the entertainment of my Glorious Jesus Yet withall give me an humble heart that I may put no trust at all in my self or in any thing that is in me or that can be or hath been perform'd by me But cast me down into an holy despair of my self and of all righteousnesse Wisdome Strength or Worthinesse or comfort in my self that I may trample my self as filthy sinfull dung under my feet before thee and cast my self down at the feet of thy mercy relying only upon thy goodness thy Christ for my acceptance and for my salvation Help me O God in the examination and in the reformation of my sinns Help me in the triall and in the exercise of thy graces that knowledg may be saving faith found and repentance true and love unfained and thankfullnesse sincere and reverence awfull and desire enflamed my soul truly humbled That thou mayest exalt me in the greatness of thy mercy and feed my soul with the riches of thy goodness and the delicates of thy heavenly joyes that I may returne refreshed with thy favour and enlightened beutified with thy truth holiness like Moses out of the Mount and strengthened with the might of thy strength from the holy table of thy Son Through the same thy dear Son and our blessed Saviour our Jesus Christ Amen A Prayer when the Bread and Wine is brought to the Table OH most Glorious God we praise thee we blesse thee we glorify thy sacred name here prostrate in our souls and bodys before thee we desire to present unto thee the homage of our thankfull hearts for thy great and wonderfull mercy that thou hast been pleased to shew unto us miserable sinners that lay in the Jaws of hell under the sentence of condemnation to eternal death for our sins in sending thy dearly beloved and only begotten Son Christ Jesus to become man for us and to offer up his precious Body and Blood upon the Crosse to be a Sacrifice unto thee for our sins where by he hath made an eternal 〈…〉 to practise it diligently to the benefit of my Soul and to the glory and honour of thy holy Name Prepare my heart for all holy approaches unto thy holy Table for the time to come Make me frequent and humble sincere and fervent in prayer Help we to follow and imitate all good patterns and holy examples which thou settest before me in thy Son and in thy Saints and preserve me from the contagion of all evill society Make me an ensample of all vertue unto others make me daily and hourely to grow in grace and forgetting those things that are behinde to presse toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus making it my great and onely businesse to serve thee my God and to set forward my self and others unto salvation Help me to give all diligence to make my Calling and Election sure and to pass my so journing here in feare Keep me within the bounds of that Calling to which thou hast called me that I may walk quietly obediently industriously chearefully and conscionably therein and as much as in me lieth live peaceably with all men Suffer me not to give offence or scandal unto any by the uncharitable or imprudent use of that liberty thou hast given me but grant unto me and all that have now received with me and to all that name the name of the Lord Jesus that we may depart from iniquity and walke in love and meeknesse in all humility and righteousness and holinesse before thee That we may be blamelesse and harmlesse as the children of God without rebuke in the midst of this untoward and perverse generation Help me and all of us to profit under all thy dispensations to be patient and confident in adversity to be humble and temperate and thankful and merciful in prosperity and in whatsoever state we are therewith to be content Make us holy to thee obedient to Magistrates all those whom thou hast set over us regardfull of thy Ministers esteeming them very highly for their workes sake conscionably respectfull to all our relations Make us just and loving and peaceable and comfortable towards one another