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spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03354	Christs prayer expounded, a Christian directed, and a communicant prepared The first teaching to pray, the second to liue, the third to receiue the sacrament of Christs body. To which is added, a preface of prayer, a pithie prayer for Christian families. A thankes giuing for our deliuerance from treason by gunpowder, and learned Latin verses of that argument. By Robert Hill, preacher at Saint Martins in the fields.	Hill, Robert, d. 1623.	1606 (1606)	STC 13472; ESTC S119055	60,477	208

vnder the burden of them make vs good god displeased with our selues because by sin wee haue dishonored thy maiesty Stir vp our dead dul harts that we may hunger after Christ his righteousnesse and after euery drop of his precious bloud In that son of thine looke on vs thy seruants and for his merits righteousnes vouchsafe good God mercifullie and freelie to doe awaye all our offenses Wash them away in his bloud and by the puritie of his spirite clense our hearts from the pollution and impuritie of them all say vnto our soules thou art our saluation let thy spirite in our hearts crie Abba Father Teach vs O Lord thy way and we shall walk in thy trueth O knit our hearts vnto thee that we may feare thy name And because through corruption in our harts and sin in our liues our faith is feeble and our confidence small we do humbly beseech thee to strengthen our faith by the daily meditation and particular application of thy mercifull promises made vnto vs in thy son Christ that neither in the dangers of this world nor the trobles of conscience nor in the hour of death wee may fall from thee Gratious father expell out of our hearts all carnall confidence the vnderminer of our faith teach vs in the spirit of tru humility to deny our selues to rely only vpon thee the merit of christ in the mater of our saluation And because it is not enough to com vnto thee by praier to sue vnto thee for pardon but al that ar in christ must be new creatures therfore we cal vpon thee for the spirit of regeneration mortify therby the corruptions of our flesh quicken vs thereby in the inner mā By the powr of Christs deth let vs dy vnto sin by the power of his resurrectiō let vs rise to righteousnes newnes of life let the one as a corrosiue eat vp the dead flesh of vngodlines the other as a spur stir vs vp to holines Illuminatour minds that we may know thy will giue vs spiritual vnderstāding to discern good euil Sanctify our memories to tresure vp good things purify our consciences to haue peace in thee reform our wils to doe thy wil let al our affections be ordered aright Teach vs to fear thee continually whersoeuer we ar to neglect al things in regard of christ to loue thee our brethren for thy sake to be zealus of thy glory to be greeued at our other sins ioyful when we cāpleas thee Let our bodies the instruments of sin be euer heerafter clensed by thy spirit that they may bee temples for that spirit to dwel in keepe our eies from beholding vanitie our eares from harkning to variety our mouths frō speking blasphemy our hands frō committing of iniquity our bodies from the action of adultery Let our light so shine before mē that they seeing our good works may glorify thee our heauenly father Make vs to remember that as we are sons wee must depend vpon thee as we ar seruants wee must obey thee and as we are christians we ought to walk worthy of our vocatiō and calling And because we haue al som particular calling either of rule or seruice or trust or fauor make vs from the highest to the lowest Faithful in our callings to remēber that a day wil come in which we must giue an accompte vnto thee of all our actions doon in this flesh whether they be good or euill Take away from vs all oportunity of sinning make vs euer thankful that we liue so as wee want allurementes to many sinnes Cause vs to see how deformed sin is in it selfe to what confusiō it is like to bring vs Lord make vs to fly the very occasiōs of sin to resist the beginnings of al tēptation let not a night pas ouer our heads in which we examin not howe wee haue spent the day neuer let vs come into any company wherin we may not not doe or receiue som good Keep vs that we fashiō not ourselues to this world but rather imitate the fashion of the moste godly in our callings Let vs neuer count any sin to be a little one because that our sauior died for the least And because we liue in dangerous times wherin many ar withdrawne from the profession of thy trueth Lord giue vs harts neuer to entertain any such doctrine which cannot be warranted out of thy word nor to admit of any such teachers as goe about to withdraw vs frō obedience to our gouernors if any one fal into any sin let vs restore such an one with the spirit of meeknes cōsidering our selues that we also may be tempted We further acknowledge most gracious God that our life is a war-fare vpon earth our enemies are sinn Satan the flesh Lord helpe vs in this spitituall combat are we weak be thou strong ar we tempted with the tēptation giue an issue may we be ouercom tech vs to watch ouer our own harts waies is there any one ●…une which we are weak to resist in the act of temptation giue vs power to resist it that by this means we may haue as iust cause to praise thee in our cōquests as we haue many reasons to hūble our selues in our foyles We see also most all seeing God that none cā liue godly in this world but they must suffer persecutions either Ismaell wil reuile them with a reproachful tongue or Esau wil pursue them with a blody sword what now must we do in these days of trial whether shal we come for helpe but to thee To thee therfore must wee come O Lord our god crauing wisdom to forsee prouidence to preuent patience to beare harts to be prepared for this fierytrial that by the denial of our selues distasting the worlde liking of heauen and heauenly things wee may make a good vse euen of the least affliction Confound in euery on of vs the cursed workes of the diuel Increase in vs dayly the giftes of thy spirit Fit vs for such calings in which thou hast or wilt place vs make vs to referre the strength of our bodies the giftes of our minde our credit in this world what so euer grace thou hast alredy or wilt hereafter bestow vpon vs to the glorye of thy name the good of thy church the eternal saluacion of our own souls And howe soeuer we liue heer in this Babilon of the world lord let our conuersation be euer in heauē that whether we eat or drink or what soeuer we do else wee may heare alwayes this voice soūding in our eares arise you dead come vnto iudgment Many other things haue we to beg for our selus that our ignorāce knoweth not to aske or forgetfulnes remēbers not to ask hear vs for thē in thy beloued son And giue vs leaue now good god to pray to thee for others Ther ar no christiā peple at

made the nourishment of my body so Christes body and blood is made the nourishmente of my soul Yea I must feele the power of christe to mortify the corruption of my nature by his death to quicken mee in newnes of life by his resurrection and to giue me power to fight against my dedly aduersaries the world the flesh the deuill Is there nothing to doe for you after you haue receaued this holy sacrament Yes I must obserue these three thinges First I must giue god thanks for so great a benefyt 1 cor 11. ●6 2. I must look to receiue by it increase of faith repentance to rise from sin to receiue power against the deuill 3. If I feele this present comforte to bee thankful for it if not I must know that it is because I haue not prepared my selfe or because my faith is weak or because I liue in some secret sin wherefore I must goe to god acknowledge my fault desire paron and comfort for the same Now the Lord grant me this grace so to be partaker of his sacramental table that I may be partaker of his heuenly table through Iesus christ my lord alone blessed sauior Amen Ille non edit Corpus Christi qui non est de corpore christi August He cannot eate the body of Christ that is not of the body of christ Accede panis est non venenū mala res non est sed malus accipit Idem Come it is bread not poyson the thing is not euil but an euil person receiues it A godly praier for morning or Euening MOst high and mighty God and in thy sonne Christ Iesus our mercifull louing and gracious father thou hast commaunded vs to come vnto thee and vpon the knees of our hearts we do come vnto thee humbly entreating thee before wee begin to remoue far from vs all such impediments as vsually Satan casteth vpon this exercise and so to quicken vs vp by the spirit of supplication that in feare and reuerence of thy great name in faith and confidence of thy gratious assistan●… and in a seeking desire of the supplye of our wants wee may put vp and powre out our supplications vnto thee that as the messengers of our soules they may signifie our wants as the petitioners of mercy they may sue for our pardon and as proclaimers of thy grace they may declare our thankfulnes for all those mercies which we haue receiued and al those iudgements which we haue escaped O Lord our God we do here in thy prefence blessed are we that we may come to thy presence acknowledge and confes that wee are of our selues most wofull wicked and cursed creatures The corruption of our natures the iniquities of our liues doe generallie beare witnes against vs. But more particularly we confesse that our hearts are full of infidelity by reason whereof we do not as wee ought either depend vpon thy prouidence for the things of this life or beleeue thy promises for the life to come Dost thou visit vs we are impatient dost thou deny vs our desires in this world we are neuer contented with our estate Wee are full of doubt for the life to come and full of distrust for the things of this life We are glued too much to this wicked world and as though we said in our harts there is no god our mindes are greatly estranged from thee And alas miserable wretches that we are we delite in doing our own willes it is not meate and drinke to vs to do thy will In the pride of our hearts wee exalte our selues aboue thee and our brethren and boaste our selues as though we had receued nothing from thee We put away from vs the euill day and liue as though we should neuer die We walke on in the hardnesse of our heartes and by reason of the abundance of vainglory we rather seeke praise of men then thy glorye Our soules are so filled with loue to our selues that wee preferre our owne pleasure peace and liberty before thy maiesty or the loue of our brethren yea hypocrisie is so rooted in our soules that we content our selues with a profession of piety and labor not for the power of Gdlinesse And as for our liues they abound with actuall transgressions againste euery one of thy ten commandements hauing broken the same ten thousand times we Lord haue liued in contempt of thy prouidence committing Idolatry with thy creatures taking thy glorious name in vaine and prophaninge of thy moste holy sabaths we euen we who sho●… haue been vpright haue disregarded our betters enuied our brethren defiled our soules with vnchast desires labored to be rich by vnlawfull meanes disgraced our neighbors Iduged after that which was none of ours Wee haue herd thy worde O Lorde but wee haue not beleeued it wee haue knowen thy words but haue not practised it We haue come to thine hous without reuerence approached to thy table without repentance and practised many sinnes without remorse Do wee any good we please our selues too much doe we any euill we feare thee too little we are weary of praying when wee talke with thee wee are carelesse in hearing when thou speakest to vs. If we reade thy sacred and holy worde it is not sweet vnto vs as the hony combe but we delight more euen in vngodlye bookes Yea O Lorde the pampering of our bellies the pride of our apparell the negligence in our calling the mispending of our time our vaine conference at tables our wandring eies our wanton lusts our ambitious mindes our couetous desires our vngodlye speeches our lasciuious eares our censuring of our brethren our sin in recreations our vnwillingnes to labor our vnfaithfulnes in life our forgetfulnes of death and our abuse of thy mercies especialy in Christ do testify against vs that wee haue sinned against heauen and against thee and are no more worthy to be called thy children Are we ashamed at this and reclaimed from it no Lorde we are not ashamed But howsoeuer it hath pleased thee to vse many meanes as partly by thy word partly by thy spirit and partly by thy mercies partly by thy iudgments to the end we might be reclaimed from our crooked waies yet we haue contemned thy word the ministery of saluation grieued thy spirit the earnest of our inheritance abused thy mercies the pledges of thy loue forgotten thy iudgments the messengers of thy wrath Enter not into iudgement with vs thy seruants O lord for then shal no flesh liuing be iustified in thy sight Be mercifull vnto vs in forgiuing sins past be gratious vnto vs in preuenting sinnes to come Correct vs O Lord but with mercy not in thy iudgement for then shal we be consumed and brought to nought Open our blind eies that wee may come to a particular knowledge of our particular sinns especially such as we ar most giuen vnto Soften our hard and stony harts that we may sigh and grone

many oportunities to meete together we beseech thee to blesse vs and our méeting at this time and all thy good creatures prouided for vs and graunt that we may vse them soberlie as in thy presence and receiue them thankfully as from thine hand to the glory of thy name the good of our bodies and the future saluation of our soules through Christ our Lord and alone blessed Sauiour Amen Grace before meate ALmighty Lord God and our mercifull Father we beséech thy Maiesty to bée good vnto vs in the pardon and forgiuenesse of our sinne past by the assistance of thy good and holy Spirit to preuent all them that are to come to watch ouer vs as thou hast done by thy special prouidence to direct vs continually by thy holy word to blesse vs in the vse of all thy good creatures that nowe we shall receiue from thy bountifull hand giuing strength to them to nourish vs and giuing hearts vnto vs to bée thankefull vnto thée for the same And graunt that whether wée eate or drinke or whatsoeuer wée doe else wée may doe all to the glory of thy most holy name through Christ thy Sonne and our onely Sauiour Amen Grace after meate VVE beséech thy Maiestie eternall God and gracious Father to make vs truly and vnfainedly thankful vnto thée for all those mercies that we haue receiued and for all those iudgements that we haue escaped both temporall concerning this life and eternall concerning that life to come for thy gracious prouidence this day past for our comfortable peaceable chearfull méeting together in thy feare at this time and for all thy good creatures bestowed vpon vs for the comforting refreshing of these féeble and weake bodies of ours Now we humbly intreate thée that as thou hast fed them with that food which is conuenient necessary for the same so it would please thée to féed our soules with that food which perisheth not but endureth to eternall euerlasting saluation so as we may séeke so to passe through these thinges temporall that finally wee loose not things eternall Blesse with vs thine vniuersall Church our Kings and Quéenes Maiesty the Prince their Realmes O Lord continue thy truth peace among vs with the pardon and forgiuenesse of all our sins this day at this time and heretofore committed against thée through Christ our Lord and blessed Sauiour Amen Another after meat O Lord of eternall glory who half elected vs in the loue of a Father redeemed vs by the obedience of thy Sonne sanctified vs by the operation of thy spirit preserued vs hitherto by thy gratious prouidence instructed vs many times by thy good holy word and now at this present and often heretofore most graciously and bountifully refreshed comforted vs with thy good creatures with the mutuall societie comfort one of another hast bestowed many other good blessings and benefits vpon vs as health of body peace of conscience and abundance of thy good creatures which thou hast denied to many of thy seruants deare children which deserue the same as well as our selues thy maiesties name bee blessed and praised of vs and thy whole church both now and for euermore Amen Serenissimo Regi Iacobo Franciscj Bertj Carmen gratulatorium PApa quid effrendis quid frendis Roma superbā Quod nunc te faciat dic mihi nunc quid habes Bella quid Arma Minae quid Bellarmine tonasti Quid nostros sic tu mordicus ore premis Quid parsone canis tu personale Britanne Siccine relligio fulta cruore tua Sanguine placari diuos animisque litandum Anglorum stulti creditis vnde fides Vana fides falsa fides hac luditur arte Nescia plebs vera religione f●ui Sperastis sine spe sed spem deusipse fefellit Etquam sperastis non fuit atra dies Non fuit atra dies quam fex haec vestra papalis Stuxerat in vestrum concidit illa caput Nil ficti factique dei nil lignea virgo Et nil sanctorum saxea turba valet Non ea nostra voco vis haec Romana valete Nil mihi vobiscum ludite vos alios Ludite vos alios non hijs deludimur Angli Relligio vestra est san guinolenta nimis Aspicite ô ciues et vos generosa propago Dicite non veros credilis esse lupos Credimus et mentes si non dementia fallat Hic iterum talis non metuenda dies Sume animum gladiumque tibi viresque Iacobe Pugnabit pro te qui titus ipse deus Sume animos gladios nostras accipe vires Quod magis est nostram sume Iacobe fidem Same animos animasque simul tesospite nostrum Quicquid erit nostrum non erit omne tuum Omne tuum pia vota preces adiungimus istis Qua possis multo fortior esse fidem His fortis satis esse potes his vtere pennis Ne te decipiat Roma cruenta caue FINIS