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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02194	A treatise of the great and generall daye of iudgement necessarie for euerie Christian that wisheth good successe to his soule, at that great and terirble day. By Henrie Greenwood, Master of Arts, and preacher of the word of God. With an addition of certaine godly prayers the contents appeare in the next page.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1606 (1606)	STC 12337; ESTC S119048	37,421	106

thy seruice to thy seruaunts Blesse vs in this part of thy seruice prayer and thanksgiuing to thee and Because none are to meddle with anie part of thy seruice but thy called seruants good Lord bestow that grace vpon vs that we feele more and more our effectuall Calling before wee presume to come neer thee becaus each duty is to be done by and in the name of thy sonne we confesse that till our ingraftment into him by grace the apprehēsion of faith through thy spirit our effectuall calling doth not appeare so that if we wāt faith thy spirit we must not intrude our selues into thy sight but our attendāce is vpon the diuell and thou wilte not part seruice with him O Lord in the weaknes of faith we presume accept of vs be in the middest of vs thou hast strongly vs called to obedience in this and all other things by worde and worke it is a dept therefore to be rendered heare of vs Lord receiue it we confesse our sinns haue driuen vs far awaie they are many and great thy Curse is the due of them to our shame we confesse we haue beene warned and yet since warning against our knowledge and conscience of forgetfullnes weaknes and sometime of frowardnesse we haue of our naturall inclination as lightly esteeming thee thy law transgressed offēded Nowe Lord albeit wee can destroy our selues yet we Cannot saue our selues wee intreat thy Ritch mercy for our pardon our sauiour Iesus Christ for our ful satisfactiō Lord in that mercy pardon vs in Iesus christ be cōtented wel ple-w t vs for former conceiued displesurs forget thē in the multitude of thy cōpassions remoue thē with sin of al kinds the cause of them and so iustice being answered thy wrath appeased hel gates shut a conquest assured Let vs walke in the cōfort of this peace yea in holines assurāce of it as we haue lost all by that life rule of sin so we pray that let vs find our selues restored by the death and captiuity of sinne let our vnderstanding be lightned let our memory be sound let our wills be holy let our affection be honest let our conscience be tender and ready to euery good exhortation let our apetites be sober let vs be free from bondage to prophanenes in al our faculties in all our liues at all times and in all places let vs perseuer striue and ouercome Let vs be armed and watch let vs heare read and pray let vs meditate and study in thy loue let all sad motions and passions be examined and if ill suppressed let vs resigne al our bodies and soules holinesse vnto thy seruice Let vs not want that we ought to haue let vs not haue that we ought to wāt or that is good to be wanting Lord let vs shew mortification in al our behauiour Let the life of righteousnes appeare in all our actions inward and outward secret open Let vs Regard our callings the duties belonging to the same Let vs haue grace to finde out all the sound and peculiar Euidence of thy kingdome let vs determine to keepe thy word let vs vowe it whatsoeuer standeth in the waie O Lord be our keeper in our waies this day and for euer looke from heauen vpon thy whole Church euery member of it militant that hath neede of the prayers of thy saintes especially this part of it where we liue and aboue euery particular member Lorde let it please thee to regard our Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiesty with his Queen the noble Prince of Wales their Son with the residue of that Royall issue haue an eie deare Father to his Maiesties honorable priuy Councell to councell them and to the trusty nobility to sanctifie them and to all subordinate maiestrates of City and Cuntry to be the God of gods among them and to stir them vp to stand in the gap and to take thy part against the Diuell and his and to animate them blesse them hereunto and to guide them Let thy word haue a free passage let all lets be remooued let the piller and cloude of protection further it night and day· Let all that are able and willing to help in Macedonia be called in and countenāced let knowledge heale painfulnes a godly life appear in all thy ministers Let hearing and obedience meet in all thy people becaus few preferred by thee doe prefer thee before their chiefe ioyes O Lord turn their harts as they belōg to thee let generall consideration hee had of the beneāts thou bestowest to mooue the hearts of al high and low to put to hand to help thee against Anti-christe and the diuell and let the corrections of thy hande especially that heauy rod and stroke of the pestilence continued and greatly spread through the kingdome this foure yeares be stayed let there be an humiliation proportionable generall earnest true vnfained without delay Least thy angell haue his commission inlarged not onely to kill hundreds but thousands as not long since not onely thousands but millions O Lorde stop yet the mouth of our cheefe crying sins in the howse of Dauid in the house of Nathā in the house of Leuie in all the howses of Iudah let a search bee made good Lord for Achan for Ionas that our state may be calme and the Epha sent into Shinnar Lord help thy church in all places and in all things let Babilon fall let the Iewes come on let all them be as Meroz that haue ill will and no good will to Sion Amen Euening Prayer O Rich God infinite in all goodnesse we presume again to resort to that ouerflowing fountain Lord turn vs not awaie though we be fools like thy seruant Gedeons Armie that we cannot tell the fittest way to take in the sweetnes of thy goodnes yet accepte of our weaknes because that good minde and harte we haue thou art the author of it thou hast called and beckned vs to thee now we are come to know thy good plesure to beg from thy liberality what shall please thee thy do●e of mercy is euer open to thy saintes and thou fittest as Abraham at the dore to entertaine poore weary and heauy loaden ones and we know thou hastest to meet vs to do vs good like a good God according to thy accustomed goodnes we are therfore confidently comforted that in this that the least soule-whispering of an adopted child is as odours to thee though it be silly and as the chattering of Ezechiah O Lord we willingly confesse to thy praise that thou hast hearde our praiers offered to thee in the morning we haue through thy mercy fared well this day in soule and body not withstanding the spight of Satan the malice of our sinne the pestilent enmity of corrupt nature and the enuy of the world and the deceits of others among whom we dwell O prouident kind Lord and Father we haue

brought thee for it the best Lamb of our flock euen all hearty praise and thanks purpose of better seruice that we can and this dipped and drenshed in heartmelting and in Iesus Christs merit and reconcilement we beseeche thee testifie thy acceptance by addition of mercy in detraction and multiplication of it and let vs obteine the tast feeling of this this nighte following and all our life time repent thee not go forward with vs for Christs sake regard not the outstartings of soule or body against thy mind in thy presence but let thy righte hand of infinite compassion cast them as a milstone into the deepes of our Christs satisfaction and attonemente and let our euidence be alwais kept by grace from dimnesse or blurres of our weaknes that our saluations enemies may not so much as dare to dispute with vs about our pardon and election O Lord let thy spirit watch within vs let thy ministring spirits attend without and about vs being poore heyrs of saluation What Sathan hath purposed confound it what sin hath deserued preuent it what thy mercifull maiesty sees to be good let vs haue it for Christes sake let our sleepe be quiet and not excessiue let our health be continued hold thy hand ouer vs let no commission bee granted against vs let euery thing bee set in order because our date is vncertain the place of our ende vnknown if our lease of life last till morning in that shall appeere to vs that thou wilt bestow another day of grace vppon vs. O Lord wee promise before thy Maiesty that wee will by thy grace striue to the vttermost period of our strength to serue thee Lord remember vs let vs see a besome made put in a strong hand for the wicked and wickednes and let vs see still the vine planted by thy own hand to flourish and all the walls of it to stand and not to fall nor the leaste breache to be made let it not be said that the Fore shall with going vpon it cursh it O Lord to this end preserue our captain the Kings maiesty and all about him for euer and keep his heart in thy hand the hearts of all Christian Kings gouernors people that a ioyfull succes may be seen to thy true religion church among vs in all the world and so with humble thanks we cease To thee be all honor and glory for euermore Amen Amen A thanksgiuing for our late deliuerance O Lord it is good to giue praises vnto thy name prayse is comly but thou art so infinite in deseets that our praises are all short yet being true and new according to fresh and admirable benefits receiued they are as incense to thee but when praises are not rendered in the due place it prouoketh thee to fury yea to sweare that we shal perish for all them hereafter and in wrath thou wilt say that which perisheth let it perish I will neuer put to hand to helpe O Lord iustly mayst thou say so to vs for we haue him wōderfuly preserued by thee as Israel in Pihahiroth as Dauid in the Prophets schoole as Daniell in the Lions denne wee haue seene the axe lie at the roote of our greatest Cedars as thou woldest haue them no couering for vs any longer but let the sunne and stars to pearce with vs as by withering Ionas Gourd O Lord often hast thou bewrayd the malice of the popish crue the venō of all that brood that for the time we haue been swallowed vp with thy goodnes in the soul rauishment we haue promised but after not paying our vows for sinne thou hast bin wors combred with vs then before good Lord vpon our confession grant vs remissiō mercifull acceptation if thou studest true thankfulnes but in ten or a few Lord receiue it and regard not the rest let the righteous deliuer the rest so take all glory that can be giuen thee from al the brāds that haue bin pulled out of the fire let al addresse thēselues to bring presents to thee that art to be feares so let our king be kept with his thine A praier comprehending the matter of the last iudgement O Blessed Christ Iesus hasten to the last worke of thy mediation to iudgement yea the last iudgement and because that cannot bee till thou haste sealed all thy elect with the seale of Gods iron O Lord hasten that worke and to this end powr thy spirit plentifully vpon ministers and people worke euery good worke that may further the building of thy Church let all Christian Kings cast their crownes before the Lamb and bee willing to lick the dust of thy saints seet let them be deuoured with a zeale of thy glory let thy word spreade into more countries and nations let Babilon fall let it be a cage of vncleane birds let not the noyse of a mil be heard any more in her Let the Iewes be graffed in again as thou hast promised euen all thy elect among them let prayers be made for them Lord heare thou in heauen the place of thy habitation and let all thyne haue grace to thinke of the last trumpet sounded to wake the dead Let vs remēber the chāge of heauen earth that fire shall consume them Let vs Resolue here is no place of any lōg abode Lord let vs not defer put of our repentance for thou wilt come wilte not carry and as a theef wilt thou steal vpon the reprobates when they are either ●leeping or beating their fellows O Lord let it please thee that we may take heede of the company and conuersation of the vngodly or of any neuer so neerely vnited vnto vs in the flesh Becaus lord thou knowest that then two shal be in a bed one taken and another refused and that thou hast saide that it shall be then a blessed state to be found dooing our duties blessed christ that shalt come in glory to iudge both quick dead at thy appearance and in thy comming thy seat is said to be great to containe such a personage of Maiesty no greatnes shall appeare to be comparable to thine and as thou art greate so thy throne is white for euery one shall haue iustice of thee O Lord let vs take mercy while the date of it lasteth for then the da●e of it will be out Iustice without partiality must take place O Lord arme vs in the time of mercy that wee may stand in the day of Iustice when the wicked that now ●augh shal too late weep whē the heauen earth in their present but shall run away neuer be foūd again in the fashiō O good lord what wretches are wee then to stand vpon merit when as the sun is not clear in thy sight especially considering no Euasion can be made from thy presence without chāge which shall be to late our merciful christ our greatnes now if we be foūd ill will not profit