vile and vain thoughts when we are alone from idle words when we are in company and from an empty carriage and unprofitable expence of time whether we be alone or in company And since thou hast appointed man to labour and the day to labour in Keep us we pray thee from idleness and neglect of our Callings from infidelity and depending on our labour and industry from discontent if we live hardly by it and from intemperance state-pride covetousness and worldly confidence if we thrive and prosper in it Let all our dealings through thy grace O God that art the God of all grace be just and equal without over-reaching and as there shall be occasion let us be charitable according to our ability without grudging And be pleased to set and keep our hearts in so good a frame that notwithstanding our worldly occasions We may be watchful to do and ready to receive any spiritual good and let our desire be to be in that company that will give occasion of both with the shunning not only of wicked but unprofitable Society Enable us we humbly pray thee to adorn our Profession by providing for honest things not only in the sight of the Lord but in the sight of men Let thy fear O God who art great and terrible be upon our hearts and before our eyes all the day long that so we may presume to do nothing which it will or should grieve us to think upon at night Let there be cause rather to bless thee in the Evening as for thy goodness toward us so for some goodness in us and that the day hath not passed without using our Talents so as to bring in some advantage to our great Lord mean-while being here before thee to confess how good thou art every way unto us we would not go out of thy presence without praising thee our most merciful God for ordaining such peace for us as that we may with safety both abide at home and go abroad about all our occasions It is of thy great goodness that we are not forced to go in by-ways for fear of violent men but the high-wayes are freely occupyed and we have cause to rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord towards the Inhabitants of his Villages who now dwell without fear in such undefenced places In special we bless thee our gracious God for that Government whereby we enjoy this peace and liberty humbly beseeching thee to settle still amongst us and ever to preserve over us a religious and righteous and rightful Magistracy for our present tranquillity and felicity And ever to establish amongst us an able and faithful Ministry for the saving of our souls and our everlasting happiness in the day of the Lord Jesus for whom we bless thee in whom we enjoy and joy in thee and to whom with thee O Father and the Holy Spirit we acknowledged to be due and desire from our souls to give all Glory Majesty Dominion and Power now and evermore Amen A Family-Prayer for the Evening O Most holy and most glorious Lord God we poor and polluted creatures acknowledge our selves altogether unworthy to be admitted into thy presence so much as to confess our sins yet since thou art pleased to offer thy self unto us in Jesus Christ under the name of a Father assuring us that If we confess our sins thou art faithful and just to forgive us our sins we are therefore bold in him to come before thee confessing O Father that whereas at first we were made very good and very like God Now through our own fault and fall every one of us is shapen in Iniquity and in sin did our mother conceive us And besides this corruption of nature enough of it self to condemn us Against Thee Against thee only for there is but one Law-giver have we sinned in the whole course of our lives Justly O Lord mayest thou draw up an heavy charge against us for our sins of omission upon which our Saviour will pass his last Sentence for we cannot but acknowledge that we have left made light of and like leaking vessels let slip many Sermons Our fruits after much seed sowen have been so few that we deserve our stripes should be many unto which this other evil is added that we have often sleighted the Lords Supper either by not caring to receive it or by neglecting to prepare for it We have idled away also or profaned many Sabbaths at least we have gone heavily under the service of that day which we should call a delight And whereas heart-searching is exceeding needful for the well-ordering of our hearts and lives we confess that many examinations of our hearts and wayes for which thou hast hearkened we have neglected yea though this duty of Prayer by our selves and in our Families be so needful so beneficial and such an al-sanctifying service yet for a long time either we have been very careless and mindless of it or else careless and heartless in it But besides all these omissions and neglects of duty we do further confess that we have committed much evil and been guilty of much Rebellion against thy Majesty yielding ordinarily unto Satans temptations who never ceaseth to put fair colours upon the forbidden fruit rushing often into evil company and partaking with them in the unfruitful works of darkness and when we have been alone sadly and securely satisfying the lusts of our evil and distempered hearts especially in the evils more pleasing and sutable to our sinful natures In regard of all which and all other our many and great transgressions we deserve O most just God to be deprived of all thy blessings and to be laden with thy judgements as we have laden thee with our sins But whilest we are displeased with our selves for them and it is in our hearts desire not only to confess them but forsake them and turn to thee from them We beseech thee O Father of Mercies in the Name and for the merits of Jesus Christ to be merciful to us sinners laying every one of our sins for we are not able our selves to bear the least of them upon that Lamb of God on whom the Lord hath laid the Iniquity of us all freeing us also of thy free grace from all those evils which are either on us or due unto us for the same And that we may be hereof assured Give us we pray thee that most excellent grace of Faith without which the Word of Promise and of Pardon cannot profit that thereby receiving the forgiveness of our sins our spirits may rejoyce in God our Saviour which since we cannot do but in the Publicans way who said God be merciful to me a sinner that is in a way of repentance therefore do thou O Lord work and if any thing of godly sorrow be already wrought do thou more and more work so
thee our Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work Give us we beseech thee that Knowledge which is the Light of the Soul that Faith which is the Life of the Soul that Love which is the Heat and holy Fire of the Soul that Holiness and Meekness which is the Beauty and Ornament of the Soul and that Hope which is the Anchor of the Soul And thus prepare us for that glorious place whither our Fore-runner is for us entred and who hath given us assurance that where He is there shall also his servant be Nor do we pray for our selves only but as in duty we are bound for thy whole Church Thy Church is thy Treasure Lord where thy peculiar treasure is there let thine heart and peculiar favour be also Cast thine Eye of compassion on those therein that are under any special affliction Yea Look O thou All-seeing and All-pitying God into all corners of the World and shew thy self the God that comforteth those that are cast down In special manner Let the Eyes of the Lord our God be alwayes on this Land and the adjoyning Kingdoms from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year Make our gracious King a glorious Defender of the Faith Worship Wayes and Servants of Jesus Christ Let the Spirit of wisdom and the fear of the Lord rest on those Eminent Persons of his Majesties Privy Council ennoble with grace the whole Nobility Give a Spirit of Government and of Godliness to all in Authority that under his Majesty and his Magistracy we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty Let thy Ministers O Lord be clothed with righteousness and so let thy Saints shout for joy As for our selves and others that live under the light Give us grace we beseech thee to live as lights in the world holding forth the Word of Life in our life that so thy faithful Labourers may rejoyce in the day of Christ that they have not run in vain nor laboured in vain Bless we pray thee all our Friends and all we ought to pray for whether Friends or Enemies especially bless those belonging to us with spiritual blessings in heavenly things yea minister to them and us and all thine all those good things of any kind which we have or should have asked either for our selves or them And now O Lord with humble thanks for the mercies of this day we commend our selves and all we have into thy gracious hands intreating thee to preserve us from the sins and sorrows of the night and to grant us that safe and quiet rest whereby our bodies may be restored and our spirits revived for the service of the day following And that for Christs sake thine only Son and our alone Mediator and Advocate In whose Name therefore and in the confidence of whose Intercession we come unto thee and to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God we render as is most due all Honour Obedience and Thanksgiving now and evermore Amen I shall only add two short Prayers for Children whereby they may be trained up to this necessary duty that so they may get much acquaintance with God by beginning betimes if they live longer and may not be without all acquaintance with God and Godliness if they die sooner A Prayer for Children for the Morning MOst high and holy God who hast set thy glory above the Heavens and yet out of the mouths of little Children yea of Sucklings hast ordained strong and powerful praise I bless and magnifie thy Name which is so excellent for that out of thine unspeakable love thou hast given to thy children and to their children Jesus Christ and together with him all things that I am born in thy Church that thou hast so provided for my bringing up that I may know of a child the holy Scriptures which are able to make me wise unto Salvation that by thee I have been holden up from the womb who have been no way able to look to my self And in particular for that thou hast kept me in safety this last night and raised me up comfortably this morning O Lord I confess I am a transgressor from the womb for who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one And though I have lived but a while in the world yet I have sinned much so that it were just with thee suddenly to seize upon me and to take me out of this world before I am prepared for a better But Lord look upon me not as I am in my self but in Jesus Christ and in and through him pardon me who am so sinful Teach me who am so ignorant Sanctifie me who am so corrupt Make me to remember thee my Creator in the dayes of my youth Help me to hide thy Word in mine heart that I may not sin against thee but may thereby even while I am young clense and amend my wayes Order my steps in thy Word that no iniquity may have dominion over me And that I may not be wanting in any duty that thou requirest of me Grant me thy grace O God that I may be subject and obedient to my Parents and Governours tractable to my Teachers diligent in my business humble and gentle in my behaviour fearful to learn of any that which is evil and careful to learn of all that which is good Be pleased O Lord to strengthen and perfect my natural parts but especially vouchsafe that as I grow in years so I may grow in grace Protect and bless me I beseech thee this day throughout that in the evening I may praise thee for thy great goodness in Christ Jesus To whom with thee O Father and God the Holy Ghost be rendred all Glory Dominion and Service now and evermore Amen A Prayer for Children for the Evening O Most wise and gracious God I acknowledge my self a simple and sinful Creature I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother conceive me That foolishness which is bound in the heart of a child is fast bound in mine and that corruption which abides in all abounds in me which sadly shews it self in my backwardness and unwillingness in better things and my self-will and earnestness to walk in the wayes of mine heart and in the sight of mine eyes though for all such things thou wilt bring me to judgement Notwithstanding all this Be pleas'd O blessed Father to look upon me in thy Christ as thy child Unto me and into me let every good and saving gift come down from the Father of lights Give me so much understanding as to know my sin and judge my self for it so much repentance as to feel my sin and abhor my self for it and so much faith as to flie to Christ for pardon and power against
it Lord Refuse not to give me that pardon Lord deny not to give me that power Give me grace to know thee the God of my Fathers and to serve thee with a perfect heart and a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts If I seek him he will be found of me but if I forsake him he will cast me off for ever Bless O God all thy people especially those whom thou hast made neer unto me more especially my Parents and those that have the care of me Make them wise and willing to do me good and me humble and careful to receive it I praise thee O thou that art the Keeper of Israel for keeping me this day Be pleas'd O Lord who doest neither slumber nor sleep this night to watch over me and to raise me with health and strength to do thee service the day following And all this for Jesus Christs sake thine only Son and my alone Saviour in whose Name I call upon thee as he hath taught me Our Father which art in Heaven c. FINIS Some Books printed and sold by Edward Thomas ut the Adam and Eve in Little-Brittain ALl the printed Works of illiam Pryane Esq Bencher of Lincolns-Inne being One Hundred and sixty several Treatises Guilliam's Herauldry Festivous Notes on Don Quixot Folio Phioravants Three Pieces in Quarto A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets in Quarto Bakers Arithmetick in Octavo Private Devotions by D. Valentine in twenty fours A Little Handful of Cordial Comforts by Rich. Standsast Master of Arts the third Edition in Twelves Railing Reboked or A Defence of the Minister's of the Nation against the Quakers by William Thomas Minister of the Gospel of Ubley in Quarto A Vindication of the Scripture and Ministry by William Thomas Minister of Ubley in Quarto Practical Husbandry Improved by G. Platts in Quarto Satan Inthroned in his Chair of Pestilence wherein the whole business of James Nayler his coming into Bristol and his Examination is related by Ralph Farmer Minister of the Gospel in Quarto Also the Life of James Nayler with his Parents Birth Education Actions and Blasphemies is exactly set forth by William Deacon in Quarto Hypocrisie Unmasked or the Definition and Characters of the Natural Moral Civil Praying Hypocrite and how they differ from the sincere Christian by Mr. S. Crook late Rector of Wrington in Sommersetshire The Way step by step to Sound and Saving Conversion by Robert Purnell in Octavo Smith's Sermons in Quarto Farnaby's Phrases in Twelves on Juvenal in Twelves Francis Spira in Twelves Bulke ey on the Covenant in Quarto Palmerin de Oliva in Quarto Christian and Conjugal Counsel applyed to the Marryed Estate by William Thomas Minister of Ubsey in Twelves Wadsworth Exhortation to a Holy Life in Twelves Common Prayers of all Sorts The true Christ fasly applyed discovered 1 How far his Person 2. The expectation of receiving Christ in the Spirit 3. The operation of Christ received 4. The Predestination And 5. His Merits and Free grace are not truly apprehended from whence some conclude to cast off all Ordinances pretend and expect to Prophesie and work Miracles all which with twenty more false Applications of the true Christ are discovered by W. Kaye Minister at Stokesley a 1 Pet. 1. 12 13 14. 1. b Deut. 3â— 46 47. 2. c Act. 20. 20. 3 d Gen. 42. 1. 4 e Sabbatwn non ocii sed spiritualis actionis materia est Chrysost Conc. 1. de Lazaro f Joh. 6. 27. g Ames 8. 5 6 7. 5. 6. h Ezek. 36. 3â— 7. 8. 1 1. i L. Chancellor Elleswâ—re k 2 Chr. 15. 3. l Luk. 13. 7 8 9. 2. m Isa 28 10. n Heb. 6. 13. o 2 Cor. 12. 21. p Eph. 4. 31. q Eph. 4. 27. r 1 Cor. 4. 14. 3. Å¿ Joh 15. 5. 2 Cor. 12. 11. t 2 Cor. 12. 15. u Gen. 32. 26. x Isa 8. 20. y 1 Tim. 6. 3. Tit. 1. 1. z Isa 66. 7. 8. a Gal. 4. 19. b Eccl. 12 1. c Luk 13. 4. d 1 Thess 4. 14. 17. e Heb. 6. 9. f Isa 46. 8. g Rom 6. 23. h Eccl. 12. 11. i Mat. 11. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Luk. 4. 18. k Matth. 5. 3. l Luk. 16. 24. m 2 Chr. 36. 12. n Job 23. 12. o Luk. 10. 39 41. with Luk. 10. 16. p Eph. 4. 28. q 2 Tim. 2 7. r 2 Cor. 1. 14. Phil. 2. 16. Å¿ Act 20. 32. 1. a Eph. 2. 20. b 2 Tim. 3 15. c Tit. 1. 1. d Prov. 1. 10 11. e 2 Tim. 3. 17. f Concione 3. De Lazaro g 2 Tim. 2. 15. 2. h 1 Cor. 15. 11. 3. i Job 33. 6. k 1 Cor. 1. 21. 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. l Mat. 21. 37. m Mark 6. 3 4 5. n 2 Chron. 36. 15. o Matth 28. 20. p Ephes 4. 12 13 14. q 1 King 18. 37. r Luk. 12. 42. s Ephes 4. 13. t 1 Cor. 13. 11. 4. u 1 Cor. 2. 14. 1. 2. 3. x Rev. 1. 10. y Act. 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 1 z 1 Cor. 14. 37. 4. 1. a 1 Tim. 2. 4. b Mat. 15. 14. c 2 Tim. 3. 15. d Deut. 6. 6 7. Josh 24. 15. Act. 10. 1 2. e Act. 20. 20. f Prov. 27. 16. g 2 Cor. 2. 14. 2 h Ezek. 36. 37. i Gen. 47. 11. k Psal 81. 10. l Jam. 4. 2. m Jer. 1. 6. n Zech. 12. 10. o 2 Tim. 2. 19. p Acts and Mon. Vol. 3. p. 351. so p. 594. A Prayer to be said at the stake by those that God shall account Worthy to suffer q Numb 6. 23. Hos 14 2 1 Chron. 16. 7 Luke 11. 2. Mat. 26. 44. 3. r Act. 17. 11. Å¿ Prov. 17. 9. t Dr. Preston u Psal 92. title x Job 1. 21. y See this and more in Beza his argument of the 91 Psalm prefixed before his Paraphrase upon it t Primr u Sicut hodiè concionum au litum cujus finis est pietas mulli pro ipsa pietate habent c. Scult Bockstad in Epist ad Rom. cap. 10. v. 5. a 1 Tim. 1. 15. b 1 Tim. 4. 8. c 2 Cor. 7. 1. d 1 Tim. 6. 3. Tit. 1. 1. e Psal 43 11. 1 Sam 12. 23 f Gen 18. 19. 2 Tim. 2. 2. g Deut. 6. 7. h What is said of Prayer is true of all the rest Every one that is godly will pray Psal 32. 6. Augustines observation Ad Fratres in Eremo Serm. 56. 2 Cor. 4. 16. a 1 Tim. 4. 6. 1. b Deut. 17. 18 19. Object Answ 1. Answ 2. c Deut. 17. 19 20. d Psal 33. 8. e Deut. 5. 32 33. f 1 Sam. 28. 22. g Deut. 31. 11 12 13. h Deut. 17. 20. i 1 King 19. 7. Answ 3. k Deut. 17. 2. l 1 Tim. 4. 13. 2. m Tit. 1. 9. Object Answ n Heb. 3. 13. Col. 3. 16. o Heb. 5. 12. p Jude v. 3. q Act 18. 26. r Osiand Epitom
Though we receive Christ really and truly yet not corporally and carnally but spiritually We take not his flesh and bloud into our mouths and stomacks as we do the Bread and Wine but into our souls by faith through the Spirit of God whereby we dwell in him and he in us And thus we may receive him though he be in Heaven and we here for Faith goes as it were from Earth to Heaven and there fastens on him and the Spirit on the other side descends down from the head still to supply us with more and more of that fulness which is in Jesus Christ for us 16. Quest Declare more particularly those benefits of the death of Christ which we receive in this Sacrament Answ They are principally and plainly these Forgiveness of sin Strength to do God service And to overcome our spiritual Enemies the Devil the World and the flesh And nourishment for our souls to eternal life 17. Quest How doth it appear that forgiveness of sin is to be expected and enjoyed in the holy use of this Sacrament Answ Because I see the Wine on the Lords Table which shews that if I receive as I ought I receive the Bloud of Christ which is shed for me and for many for the remission of sins 18. Quest What is there that sheweth that we receive strength also to do God service Answ That both the Bread and Wine may put us in mind of for even as Bread strengthens mans heart and Wine makes it glad and both make a man fit and able for his ordinary business so doth the grace of Christ reached forth in this Ordinance strengthen the soul for the performance of every part of Gods service for his flesh is meat indeed and his blood drink indeed and therefore doth what meat and drink do in a spiritual and soul-sustaining way 19. Quest How appeareth it that strength is received here against spiritual Enemies Answ We may easily conceive it because we find that Bread and Wine and such ordinary food do not only enable a servant and any other man to labour but a souldier also to fight who otherwise would soon faint whence we may collect that there is such a vertue in the Body and Blood of Christ received by faith as not only to make us able to do God service ' but also to fight with and get victory over all the Enemies of our Salvation whom by the strength of Christ we overcome 20. Quest How is it made plain that we receive at the Lords Table that food which nourisheth our souls to eternal life Answ Because Bread and Wine and such ordinary food maintain the life of the body for many years together As therefore this perishing food maintains a perishing life so the meat which the Son of Man gives unto us in the Word and Sacrament nourisheth the soul to eternal life for it is not a food that perisheth but which indureth in us unto everlasting life Joh. 6. 27. 21. Quest What reason have we to gather from the signs in the Sacrament that these several benefits are in it and by it as by an Ordinance of God bestowed upon us Answer Because God sets such familiar signs before our eyes for this purpose that we who are otherwise weak to conceive of heavenly things may collect and gather what in this blessed Sacrament is done for the Soul by what we know by experience this our ordinary food doth for the Body Christ speaks and that in his Sacrament-Institutions earthly things to lead us and that in our own way to the understanding of things heavenly Joh. 3. 12. 22. Quest Open this a little more fully Answ It will be yet more clear by considering that as John the Baptist was a Prophet and more then a Prophet so the Sacraments are signs and more then signs that is they are appointed of God to be a means of conveying those heavenly things which they do represent unto us and of putting us into actual possession thereof 1 Cor. 10. 16. 12. 13. yet not by any power in themselves but only by the working of the Holy Ghost and the blessing of Christ on his own Institution Act. 8. 13. with ver 21. 23. Quest Thus much for what we do receive in the Sacrament Declare now how we ought to receive it Answ These five things Knowledge Desire Repentance Faith and Charity are things needful for a right and worthy receiving 24. Quest What is that we ought to know when we come to Communicate in this Sacrament Answ It is needful for us to know in general two things First our selves and our own estate that is that we are all by nature and in our selves vile and wretched creatures deserving nothing but death and damnation Secondly That there is no way to be saved but only by Christ and that therefore we come to the Word and Sacrament to receive him because we cannot be saved without him 25. Quest In what manner must we know this Answ We must know both these not sleightly but feelingly We should know our sin with such feeling and sorrow as a wounded man knows his wound who knows it as we say with a witness And we should know Christ with such feeling desire and joy as the wounded man knows the Surgion by whom he is to be cured whom he knows with another kind of knowledge then he doth an ordinary man In these two to wit the feeling knowledge of sin as the worst thing and of Christ as the best and only desirable thing consists the substance of saving Religion 26. Quest Is there nothing else to be known Answ Yes we should more particularly know in some measure the nature of a Sacrament and be able to discern what we have to do withall in the Lords Supper to wit not only with Bread and Wine but with the Body and Blood of Christ that we may not dishonour him nor indanger our selves by an unworthy medling with it 27. Quest What is the next thing required in a worthy Receiver Answ That which is the mark and fruit of the former knowledge and which shews the necessity of it that is Desire or an holy hungring and thirsting after that Bread and that Cup For None are invited but the thirsty None can be thirsty but the knowing and None can know the gift of God but they will thirst and seek after it and in that way there is a promise they shall have it Joh. 4. 10. 28. Quest What else is required of us when we come to the Lords Table Answ Another and a special thing is Repentance For every sinner coming to the Lords Supper in his sin pollutes unto himself the Lords holy Table and provokes the Lord to abhor and plague him by that Sacrament-service wherein he expects he should approve and bless him 1 Cor. 11. 29 30 31 32. 29. Quest By what means